Description: Folio Society Hardcover The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman LIMITED EDITION by Laurence Sterne AS NEW UNREAD condition in DECORATIVE SLIPCASE 2020 Limited Edition of 750 hand-numbered copies Signed by the Artist This is # 673 of 750 Illustrated by Tom Phillips RA Preface by Patrick Wildgust Editorial material by Melvyn New The ultimate edition of this comic masterpiece newly illustrated and signed by Tom Phillips RA One of the greatest works of imagination in English literature — this hilarious fictional autobiography of a hapless anti-hero tore up the rules of novel-writing when the novel had scarcely been invented. The Folio Society’s unique limited edition has been designed, illustrated and signed by an equally extraordinary artist — Tom Phillips RA. Rising to the challenge presented by such an experimental work, Phillips has packed his instantly-recognizable collages with verbal and visual puns, to form the perfect pictorial counterpart to Laurence Sterne’s comic masterpiece. PRODUCTION DETAILS: Limited Edition of 750 hand-numbered copies signed by Tom Phillips Limitation page printed letterpress by Hand & Eye on Hahnemühle Bugra Bütten paper and tipped-in by hand Bound in Charmante-Gwebe cloth printed and blocked with a design by Tom Phillips Title blocked in gold foil on spine 512 pages set in Founder’s Caslon and printed on Abbey Pure paper 10 illustrations by Tom Phillips, including frontispiece, printed on Veltique paper Marbled page by Jemma Lewis tipped-in by hand Gilded top edges Ribbon marker Commentary: Preface by Patrick Wildgust, curator at Shandy Hall Editorial material by Melvyn New Bound in Iris cloth blind-blocked with a design by Tom Phillips Title blocked in gold foil on spine 180 pages Slipcase: Cloth-covered slipcase with top and bottom lips Blocked in dark red foil on one side with a design by Tom Phillips Lined in Art Vellum paper 10.5 x 7.75 inches THE TEXT AND COMMENTARY The main volume presents the full text of Tristram Shandy, as established by Melvyn and Joan New in their authoritative Florida Edition of The Works of Laurence Sterne. To allow for easy cross-referencing, a separate commentary volume contains the indispensable introduction and notes by Melvyn New, a carefully updated bibliography and an invaluable glossary of technical terms for military fortifications. Also included is a playful new preface by Patrick Wildgust, tireless promoter of Laurence Sterne and resident curator of Shandy Hall, the parsonage where Sterne wrote the bulk of Tristram Shandy. It gives a rare first-hand insight into Tom Phillips’ carefully-constructed illustrations. LAURENCE STERNE’S COMIC MASTERPIECE Tristram Shandy is a book that defies classification, as Sterne drew on, and even plagiarized his literary heroes – Montaigne, Rabelais, Burton, Swift and Cervantes – to create something uniquely his own. It sets out as an attempt by its title character to give a meaningful account of his life, and his efforts to overcome its inauspicious beginnings – but Tristram finds himself constantly thwarted by the irrepressible urge to make digressions focussing on an array of eccentric characters, including his wildly opinionated father, Walter Shandy, his mild-mannered Uncle Toby, a wounded ex-soldier obsessed with creating scale-models of military sieges, the predatory Widow Wadman, and Sterne’s own literary alter-ego, Parson Yorick. Everything about Tristram Shandy is unusual: its stream-of-consciousness, conversational style; its bizarre chronology, with sentences that start in one volume and are completed in another, and the whole tale ending several years before Tristram has even been born; its encyclopedic range, from moments of high sentiment to the bawdy humor of its laugh-out-loud set-pieces. But most striking of all is Tristram’s own idiosyncratic presence as author and narrator, as he suggests that readers should skip over pages, attempts to sell the dedication to the highest bidder, opportunistically inserts a preface while his main characters are asleep, and claims to have torn out a whole chapter because it was too well-written and would have overshadowed the rest of his book. It is hardly surprising that Tristram Shandy’s inventive style and distinctive authorial voice have been championed and imitated by writers as varied as Thomas Mann and James Joyce, Salman Rushdie and Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx and Virginia Woolf. - FREE shipping - Will ship the same or next business day after payment - Books will be bubble wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box with packing material surrounding them I recently acquired a large and interesting collection of Folio Society titles in AS NEW UNREAD condition from a collector who purchased most of them new and sealed, and displayed them in a smoke free, climate controlled home. I will be listing these as time permits so please check back often for new listings. Please let me know if you have questions.
Price: 545 USD
Location: Brooten, Minnesota
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Fine Binding
Language: English
Illustrator: Tom Phillips
Special Attributes: Illustrated, Limited Edition, Decorative Slipcase, 2020 Limited Edition of 750 hand-numbered copies, Signed by the Artist, 180 Page Commentary Volume, 10 illustrations by Tom Phillips, Marbled page by Jemma Lewis tipped-in by hand, Gilded top edges, Ribbon marker, Cloth-covered slipcase with top and bottom lips
Signed: Yes
Author: Laurence Sterne
Publisher: Folio Society
Topic: Classics
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Character Family: Tristram Shandy
Year Printed: 2020
