A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Sterne, Lawrence - 1892

Paul Elek, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1948. No Edition Remarks. 156 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over grey cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and black and white illustrations throughout. Heavy tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Slight dog-eared pages throughout and distinctive tanning to text block edges. Binding is also loose. Boards have moderate sunning and visible bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible sunning to spine as well. Unclipped jacket with major edge wear and rubbing. There is visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and moderate sunning to spine. Splitting to joints and major foxing to interior as well.

Pan Books Ltd, 1946. (New Introduction) 1st Thus edition (. vg++. vg++ early unnumbered 1946 Pan 1st edition paperback condition. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

New York: Williams, Belasco and Meyers, 1930 192 pages, bottom title page corner torn otherwise clean. Erotic illustrations.

Peter Davies, London, 1927, (edition of 2000) sm 4to, greenish cl., Just G; cvs stained and soiled, Rubbed along hinges, Spine label about 1/2 chipped away. crns bumped, owner's name. Conts VG. Illus by Vera Willoughby.. Hardcover.

1902 edition. Unit Library - London.. Unit Library edition Vol 2 in this series. Original red cloth, gilt spine titles. Classical archway/urn design on front board also in gilt. Endpapers slightly foxed otherwise VG (spine a touch faded). No dustwrapper. .

Williams, Belasco and Meyers, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine blue cloth hardcover (no jacket if issued) with gilt letter and decoration to cover and spine shows some light shelf and trace wear, else tight and clean. 192 pages with a few illustrations by the noted Mahlon Blaine. Still an attractive copy of this edition of the important 18th century novel.

Edinburgh: T. MacCliesh, 1805. Hardcover. Good. 3 x 6 in. Half calf with marbled paper boards. Contains the Engraved frontis and title pg. Condition is GOOD ; front board is detached. Covers toned and worn. Text bright and unmarked, water stains to plain title pg and first few pgs. Trav. Stax.

NY: S. King. Fair. 1824. Disbound. Frontispiece and end-papers nearly detached, minor foxing. ; 32mo; 130 pages; Out of binding, [1], 130., frontispiece shows the captive in his cell. **American Imprint #24-18090. .

London: Williams & Norgate, 1910. Book. Illus. by Everard Hopkins. Very Good. Hardcover. not known. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Tight firm copy with signature of previous owner in ink on ffp with date 1950. All colour illustrations intact. Some foxing throughout. Blue cloth hard cover with gold gilt titles to spine and front. Gold embossed design of horses and carriage to front. Some edge wear and rubbing - but overall in very good condition..

Paris: Theophilus Barrois, 1783. Original Wraps. Good. xx, 205 p. 16 cm. Paper covers, presumably original. Handwritten pink spine label. Spine head chipped, front cover nearly detached, tear in front cover near spine. Bottom front corner chipped off front cover and first few pages. Rough text block edge and dog-ears. First published in 1768, just before the author's death, this novel reflects Laurence Sterne's travels through France and Italy as far south as Naples. After returning, he was determined to describe his travels in the form of fiction. The novel can be seen as an epilogue to his better-known work "Tristram Shandy" and as an answer to Tobias Smollett's decidedly unsentimental "Travels through France and Italy." This novel was extremely popular and influential and helped establish travel writing as the dominant genre of the second half of the 18th century.