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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Laurence [Yorick] and Eugenius Sterne
J.L. Legrand, Basil [Basle, Basel] · 1792
First Edition Thus. Very scarce Basel edition of Sterne's little masterpiece. Includes a 14pp memoir of Sterne, partly by himself and partly by a later editor (the piece is signed 'W & S'].
Also includes, in continuous pagination, Yorick's Sentimental Journey Continued by Eugenius [John Hall Stevenson]. Total pagination is xiv; 320. In contemporary half leather with gilt titles and decoration to spine, marbled paper to boards.
Lengthy inscriptions in German and Latin to end papers and faint residual underlining (partially erased) in pink pencil passim throughout text. A few brown spots to text but on the whole a very clean copy in a slightly edge-rubbed but perfectly sound binding. Fewer than half a dozen copies of this edition are known to exist, hence it is fair to describe it as rare.
Written by Dr Jeremy Parrott, who has the book in his hands. Nothing here is generated from a catalogue record.
Bibliographic detail
| Author | Sterne, Laurence [Yorick] and Eugenius |
|---|---|
| Publisher | J.L. Legrand, Basil [Basle, Basel] |
| Date | 1792 |
| Edition | First Edition Thus |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Condition | Good |
| Stock reference | ab_241316476 |