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Description

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Author: Surtees, Robert Smith
Title: Set of five Sporting Novels by Surtees
Place Published: London
Publisher:Bradbury, Agnew, & Co.
Date Published: [1899]
Description:

5 vols. Includes:

"Ask Mamma" or, the Richest Commoner in England. With 13 hand-colored steel-engraved plates.
Handley Cross or Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt. With 17 hand-colored steel-engraved plates.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. With 13 hand-colored steel-engraved plates.
Hawbuck Grange: or, the Sporting Adventures of Thomas Scott, Esquire. With 8 hand-colored steel-engraved plates.
Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds. With 24 hand-colored steel-engraved plates.

Illustrated by John Leech, with wood engravings in addition to the hand-colored steel-engraved plates. (Royal octavo) 24.5x16 cm (9¾x6¼"), early 20th century three-quarter gilt-ruled red levant morocco, spines tooled and lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt.

Handsome set of these sporting classics, with John Leech's inimitable illustrations. Surtees (1805-1864) founded, with R. Ackermann the younger, the New Sporting Magazine in 1831, to which he contributed his comic sketches of Mr. Jorrock, whose adventures to some extent suggested the original idea of Pickwick Papers.

Condition

Joints and spine ridges lightly rubbed; front joint of Mr. Sponge starting; gentle shelfwear; hand-painted plates have highlights in clear lacquer, which has occasionally crackled. Very good.

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Handsome set of Surtees' sporting books

Name: Handsome set of Surtees' sporting books
SKU: 110737110
Price: 150 USD
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