8vo., full russet oasis morocco with a single gilt fillet border on both covers, with three gilt bullets in each corner; spine with five raised bands extended in blind onto both covers, with gilt titling and gilt fillets within the compartments. Board edges gilt, inner gilt fillets, a.e.g. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Marshall Field.A beautifully bound, attractively illustrated, exact reprint of the first edition (1768), with numerous full-page illustrations and part-page vignettes on each of the many chapter titles. Sterne's work was to consist of four volumes, of which only two were finished. Thomas Heath Robinson, the elder brother of Charles and William Heath Robinson, was a prolific illustrator in a conventional and realistic vein [Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century p. 258].