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'In an extensive online biography of the photographer Valentine Blanchard (1831-1901) Bill Jay states: "The culmination of Valentine Blanchard's achievements during the early 1860's was his illustrations for Annals of Christ's Hospital
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special photography by David Lavender
he did not die on the cross
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman by Laurence Sterne Policewoman faint stamp to bottom foreThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman by Laurence Sterne The Folio Society, 1970, b w illustrations, b w frontispiece, hardcover in slipcase Near Fine Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, previous owners inscription to front endpaper, slipcase shows minor edge and shelf wear 'No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction writing in which the invented world is as much