Description

• Miniature Edition [Jones & Company, London, 1831]; 9 x 5.5cm; blank leaf, 8 pages Publisher’s ads, 2 plates [portrait, tissue guard & University Edition title page, 1825], 164 + 4 Publisher’s ad pages, blank leaf; red silk-woven boards, black paper on spine with gold titling, silk worn through in patch on spine & extremities, 15mm stain on rear board edge, all edges gilt, an excellent copy
• Part of the Jones’ Diamond Classics series, so named due to the diamond-point tooling used to produce sharp, clear text in these miniature formats.
• First published in 1768 [as Sterne faced death], this novel triggered a wave of travel writing, especially from female travellers, at the end of the eighteenth century
• Based on Sterne’s travels a few years earlier & a partial rebuke of Tobias Smollet’s Travels Through France & Italy