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Lot 458

Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$200 - 300
Price Realized
$260
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[Sporting] Surtees, Robert S. Group of 6 Sporting Novels


1. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First edition. 8vo. x, 408, (8) pp. With hand-colored frontispiece and 13 engravings after John Leech. Red pictorial cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt, faded, extremities worn, corners bumped; yellow endpapers; splitting at gutter throughout; scattered foxing to plates and text. Tooley 476

2. Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854. First edition. 8vo. (x), 540 pp. With hand-colored frontispiece and 17 engravings after John Leech. Red pictorial cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt, faded, corners bumped; yellow endpapers; splitting at gutter throughout; scattered foxing to plates and text. in quarter red morocco clamshell box. Tooley 473

3. "Ask Mamma;" or, The Richest Commoner in England
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858. First edition. 8vo. (xii), 412 pp. With hand-colored frontispiece and 12 engravings after John Leech. Red pictorial cloth stamped in blind and in gilt, faded, front gutter split but holding; yellow endpapers; scattered foxing to plates and text; bookseller's blindstamp on front free endpaper; armorial book-plate of William Forbes Morgan on front paste-down; in brown cloth slip case. Tooley 472

4. "Plain or Ringlets?"
London: Bradbury and Evans. 1860. First edition. 8vo. (x), 406 pp. With hand-colored frontispiece and 12 engravings after John Leech. Red pictorial cloth stamped in blind and in gilt, faded; scattered foxing to text and plates; book-plate of collector Roy Norr mounted on front blank; in quarter red morocco slip case and chemise; Tooley 477

5. Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1865. First edition. 8vo. (viii) 391 pp. With hand-colored frontispiece and 23 engravings after John Leech. Red pictorial cloth stamped in blind and in gilt, faded, extremities lightly worn, rear joint split but holding; scattered light foxing; in quarter red morocco clamshell box. Tooley 475

6. Hillingdon Hall Or The Cockney Squire...
London: John C. Nimmo, 1888. First edition. 8vo. (vii), 519, 24 pp. With hand-colored frontispiece and 12 color engravings after John Leech. Red pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt, spine faded, extremities worn; front and rear boards split at gutter but holding; scattered light foxing; Tooley 474

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