Laurence Sterne. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

Edited by Melvyn New and Joan New. Preface by Patrick Wildgust. Illustrated by Tom Phillips. 2 Bände (Text und Kommentar). The Folio Society, London 2020. 26 x 20 cm. 504 S. und 173 S. (Kommentar). Original-Leinengebunden mit Kopfgoldschnitt im Leinenschuber.- Nr. 102 von 750 nummerierten Exemplaren.- The ultimate edition of this comic masterpiece newly illustrated and signed by Tom Phillips.- 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-recognisable collages with verbal and visual puns, to form the perfect pictorial counterpart to Laurence Sterne’s comic masterpiece.- Tadellos erhalten.