A fellow Sterne fan! Also, Mike Lesk, who wrote uucp at Bell Labs, is a committed Tristram Shandy aficionado with a first edition. The funereal page is great. Back in the 80s Mike talked about font emulating for old letterpress and how one could introduce pleasing asymmetries into the output.

Is there also a printed in "damn the cat ran over my page" moment?

McDowell & Sterne booksellers in York were I believe descendants/related. As was a lecturer of English at York University.