Illustrations of Sterne: with Other Essays and Verses (2 vols. in 1)

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Second edition, with additional matter, of the first serious study of Sterne and his sources. One of the new pieces is the poem "The Bibliomania, an Epistle to Richard Heber, Esq., " first published in a shorter version in 1809. "What wild desires, what restless torments seize/ The hapless man, who feels the book-disease ..."(p. 199). Show more