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Lot 129
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
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[BINDINGS] -- [SPORTING NOVELS]. SURTEES, Robert Smith (1803-1864). [SPORTING NOVELS]. SURTEES, Robert Smith (1803-1864).
Mr. Romford’s Hounds. - Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour. - Ask Mamma. - Plain or Ringlets. - Handley Cross. - Hillingdon Hall. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., n.d. [ca 1890].
6 volumes, 8vo (216 x 142 mm). Hand-colored engraved frontispieces and title-pages, engraved plates, numerous in-text woodcut illustrations by John Leech, H.K. Browne and W. T. Maud. Uniformly bound in 20th-century half red morocco gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, the rest with central fox, horse, hound, horseshoe or riding crop tools gilt, top edges gilt, stamp-signed by Bayntun (some light rubbing, minor wear to spine ends).
6 volumes, 8vo (216 x 142 mm). Hand-colored engraved frontispieces and title-pages, engraved plates, numerous in-text woodcut illustrations by John Leech, H.K. Browne and W. T. Maud. Uniformly bound in 20th-century half red morocco gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, the rest with central fox, horse, hound, horseshoe or riding crop tools gilt, top edges gilt, stamp-signed by Bayntun (some light rubbing, minor wear to spine ends).
Later editions of Surtees's sporting novels first published in the 1850s.
