Untitled historic item (004097)

210pp plus frontispiece and eleven further tissue-guarded plate illustrations in photogravure, by the GOUPIL process, and 220 sketches from designs by Maurice Leloir. No. 123 of an edition limited to 550 copies. Illustrated paper covers, in original glassine wrapper. Red ribbon markers bound in. Title page printed in black and red. In its original green-cloth covered, decorated folding box-casing with decorated lining and two interior silk ribbon ties. Endpapers spotted with further occasional, faint spotting, not affecting illustrations, throughout. Folio. Paper wrapper a little toned and compressed, a little crumbled at spine ends. Glassine wrapper fragile, heavily browned and cracked in places but complete. Box casing is worn, showing some signs of past water damage on base, and crumbling on cloth wraps, lining a little discoloured at edges, worn and rubbed at edges and corners, cracked on spine folds and frayed at spine ends, small indentation on lower edge, marks on verse and exterior silk tie absent, remnant of paper label on spine. Among the many illustrated editions of this title, Cross notes but three, including Leloir's, New York, 1884 (See Cross, 1925, The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne, p. 272 [II])