Sterne, Laurence. Tristram Shandi's Life and Opinions. 9 parts in 4 volumes. Translated by Johann Joachim Christoph Bode. With 2 gest. Frontispieces. Hamburg, Bohn, 1776. 8°. Half-leather bindings of the time with gilt spine titles, volume numbers and rich floral gilt on spine (minimally rubbed and scuffed, volumes 3 and 4 upper capital slightly torn, slightly dusty). Goedeke IV/1, 586, 12th - Second improved edition. - Copy without the often missing 12 engravings by Chodowiecki, but with the so-called black leaf (Part I, pp. 65/66) as well as one of the two marbled plates (Part III, pp. 149/150; the leaf intended for the second color printing in Part IX pp. 55/56 is vacant). - Minimally browned, isolated tiny foxing spots. - Bookplate Dr. Adolf Hoffmann on mirror.

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