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Author: Laurence Sterne. Jonathan Swift. 
Title: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (Laurence Sterne), [bound with] Also, a Tale of a Tub, Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind (Jonathan Swift).
Publisher: London, J.C. Nimmo and Bain, 1882. Limited edition to 150 copies, this one being #86.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8.5 " X 5.5 ". 
Pages: 394+(4 catalogue) pages.
Binding: Attractive and fine binding signed by ASPREY & Co., finely bound in dark green morocco leather, the covers tooled in gilt with a single fillet border. The spine divided into six panels with raised bands and single gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with a gilt single fillet, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. (Hinges fine). Under a protective removable mylar cover. An elegant and beautiful binding by Asprey!
Content: Fine content (bright, clean, and tight - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the wonderful 5 etchings and portrait by Edmond Hédouin.

The book: Very attractively bound by Asprey bindery. Rare edition illustrated of A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy -- a novel by Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death. In 1765, Sterne traveled through France and Italy as far south as Naples, and after returning determined to describe his travels from a sentimental point of view. The novel can be seen as an epilogue to the possibly unfinished work The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and also as an answer to Tobias Smollett's decidedly unsentimental Travels Through France and Italy. Sterne had met Smollett during his travels in Europe and strongly objected to his spleen, acerbity, and quarrelsomeness. He modeled the character of Smelfungus on him.

The author: Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768), an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published sermons and memoirs, and indulged in local politics.