The Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.

STERNE, Laurence.

$450.00

Item Number: 138940

London: Williams and Norgate, 1910.

Finely bound example of Sterne’s popular travelogue which helped establish the genre of travel writing and Sterne as the “most eminent novelist of the period” (Baugh, 1022). Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 12 tipped-in colored plates by Everard Hopkins. In very good condition.

"Sterne is generally acknowledged as an innovator of the highest originality, and has been seen as the chief begetter of a long line of writers interested in the 'stream-of-consciousness' (Drabble, 937). "Sterne designed Sentimental Journey 'To teach us to love the world and our fellow-creatures better than we do' Even Horace Walpole [who had found Tristram Shandy 'tiresome'] admitted that the new book was marked by 'great good nature and strokes of delicacy" (DNB). He predicted his Sentimental Journey would appeal especially to the women, "who will read this book in the parlour, and Tristram in the bed-chamber" (Allibone, 2243).