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Full Leather. Condition: Very Good. LEATHER binding.Full Brown Calf boards with 5 raised bands, Paper title labels. 185 x 105 mm approx. Applied head and tail bands. 2 Vols Complete. Collection of 45 sermons by Laurence Sterne, Prebendary of York, published following the success of a Sermon of Yorick's in Tristram Shandy. The sermons turn chiefly upon Philanthropy and kindred virtues and proceeding more from the heart than the head - per author's preface. Vol I. 300pp Sermons I to XXI Vol II. 312pp Sermons XXII -XLV. VG (The work has recently undergone significant restoration by us. It was bought in dis-bound as two vols sewn up as one without the original printers plain boards.There was significant browning and water staining to some signatures. The book was pulled, the worst signatures washed and the pages re-sized and the signatures re-sewn on three cords as two vols. The book blocks were then cased in new book boards in full leather as above. The washed signatures are therefor brighter. It woulds perhaps have been desirable to wash all of the signatures but the process is so time consuming it would not have been commercially viable. However the work done has at least given them a new lease of life. Please see our images of the set now offered for sale.