JOHANNOT (Tony) & STERNE (Laurence). Voyage sentimental. - Lot 76

JOHANNOT (Tony) & STERNE (Laurence). Voyage sentimental. New translation. Preceded by an Essay on the life and works of Sterne by M. J. Janin. Illustrated edition by Messrs. Tony Johannot and Jacque. Paris, Ernest Bourdin, s.d. [1841]. Large in-8, XLIV-312 pp. in publisher's midnight-blue percaline, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title, large romantic gilt iron on covers, initials E. P. in center of first cover, gilt edges (period binding). First edition illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Sterne, 11 wood-engraved hors-texte compositions by Tony Johannot, printed on Chine appliqué avant lettre, and 170 in-text vignettes. Minor imperfections, marginal foxing mainly on the out-of-text plates, otherwise a good copy (Carteret, III, p. 568).