THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENT

First edition with these illustrations. Limited edition. Signed by the illustrator. Two volumes. Charmante-Gwebe cloth printed and blocked with a design by Tom Phillips. Title blocked in gold foil on spine. Top edge gilt. Type set in Founder's Caslon and printed on Abbey Pure paper. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine further plates by Tom Phillips printed on Veltique paper. Limitation page printed letterpress by Hand & Eye on Hahnemühle Bugra Bütten paper and tipped-in by hand. Ribbon page marker. Tipped-in marbled paper at page 173 by Jemma Lewis. Together with the commentary volume bound in dark red cloth stamped in blind to the upper and lower boards, title in gold to the spine. Preface by Patrick Wildgust, curator at Shandy Hall. Housed in the original red cloth slipcase, blocked in dark red foil on one side after a design by Tom Phillips. A fine copy.

Issued in a limited edition of 750 copies, this example is numbered 251 and signed by Tom Phillips in black ink. A beautifully produced and illustrated edition of Sterne's comic masterpiece.