Tristram Shandy

First published in volumes from 1759 to 1767 as The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, this comic novel pretends to be an autobiography that cannot get its hero born for hundreds of pages. Tristram's Uncle Toby, wounded at Namur, re-fights sieges on a bowling green; his father Walter theorises; the midwife, the parson Yorick, and Widow Wadman interrupt. Digressions, black and marbled pages, and addresses to the reader are part of the story. The book is a satire of learned wit and family life, not a linear coming-of-age novel.

Bound in cream cloth with a reverse repeat pattern in green-brown by Lawrence. Pale brown leather spine-label. Pale brown endleaves. Grey-green or brown slipcase.