The works of Laurence Stern, A.M. ...
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)
Category
Books
Date
1769
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3102095
Summary
Bibliographic description
5v., plate : ill., port. ; 12mo. Shelf mark label: Case K Shelf 5.(altered to read Case C Shelf 1.) [i.e.: a Lyme Park book]. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate: Lyme. Signed J.F. Badeley fecit 1904. [i.e.: Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee 'Badeley' no. 119).. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sheep; sewn onto five raised supports; spine labels [wanting on vols. 4 and 5]: Stern's works. Nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest stamped on spine [i.e. a Legh family book].
Makers and roles
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) John Hall-Stevenson (1718-1785)