Description:
First published in 1759, Laurence Sterne?s ?The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy? is widely considered a revolutionary novel, and its style is marked by digression, double entendre, and graphic devices. In ?Alas, artist Sophie Nys obsesses about one of these devices, the so-called black page, famously paired with the line, ?Alas, poor Yorick!? She compiles a remarkable collection of black pages, all gathered from more than 100 different editions of Sterne?s book. Included is a text by Peter de Voogd, the collector and owner of the library from which all the images in this publication originate, on the technical challenges that printing a black page presented for these early editions