THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN With an Introduction by Christopher Morley

2 volumes. LIMITED EDITION, one of only 1500 hand-numbered copies SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, T. M. Cleland. Illustrated throughout with two-tone engraving-style illustrations of T. M. Cleland. 8vo, publisher's original textured navy blue cloth, the spines with paper labels printed in black, top edges speckled blue, in the original slipcase. xi, 401; 790 [1] A pristine set, the books are as mint inside and out. The slipcase only with some cracking to the paper along the joints and other light mellowing.

Edizione: a beautifully produced limited edition of this fine and important work; a cornerstone of english literature and the stream-of-consciousness novel. <br> "tristram shandy became the prototype of the english picaresque novel, yet it is a unique book - a riot of words, in which the reader will find himself, at one time or another, bemused by whole lines of dashes, entire paragraphs of asterisks, pages left bland, pages covered with ink, one-sentence chapters, deliberately misplaced chapters and unfinished sentences. there are wittily lewd passages, there is stream-of-consciousness technique, there is malicious satire-and in spite of its hodgepodge construction, tristram shandy is an incomparable and irresistible work." - an earlier publisher.