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[BINDING -- CUNEO FINE BINDING STUDIO]. STERNE, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. L & NY: John Lane Bodley Head Limited et al, 1928. Presumably bound by Leonard Mounteney at the Cuneo Fine Binding Studio.
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[BINDING -- CUNEO FINE BINDING STUDIO]. STERNE, Laurence (1713-1768). The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. London and New York: John Lane Bodley Head Limited and Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928. 

8vo. Illustrated plates and in-text illustrations with hand-coloring after John Austen. Half brown morocco with cover corners square over decorative paper, spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands gilt-lettered in 3, the remaining two in varying sizes with red, pink and green morocco floral onlays gilt, edges gilt, top edge gauffered with hand-painted floral design, floral-patterned brocade doublures, yellow watered silk endleaves.

Presumably bound by Leonard Mounteney at the Cuneo Fine Binding Studio.  Mounteney, an extra finisher at Riviere in London, emigrated to America in 1924 to work at the hand bindery at Donnelley in Chicago. Two years later, he left to establish the Fine Binding Studio at rival Cuneo Press in Chicago; after about 25 years, he was succeeded by his assistant, George Baer.

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