A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. STERNE (Laurence).

ALMOST AS GOOD AS NEW

With Six Engravings on Copper by J. E. Laboureur.

Cockerel woodcut device on the title and six plates.

8vo. [233 x 149 x 20 mm]. 151, [3] pp. Bound in the publisher's red cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, plain endleaves, top edge gilt, the others uncut. In the original salmon pink dust-wrapper, with the title-page reproduced on the front. In a red cloth chemise and quarter red goatskin slipcase with cloth sides, the backstrip lettered in gilt. (Backstrip of the slipcase lightly marked and rubbed).
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928

Printed by Robert Gibbings and completed on April 14th 1928. The edition was limited to 500 copies, of which 250 were for the UK and 250 for the USA. This is no.147. It is almost as good as new, having been protected by the chemise and slipcase from its early days.

Stock no. ebc7914