ASK MAMMA or The Richest Commoner in England

Published by Methuen & Co., London, 1904

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The Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books. ***New edition. With note to the fore stating 'This Issue is founded on the Edition published by Bradbury and Evans in the year 1858.' Illustrated with sixty-nine black and white woodcuts by John Leech and thirteen coloured plates including coloured frontispiece, as called for. ***Very good in dark red cloth-covered boards with black titles on a paper label to spine. An extra spare paper spine label (clean with no foxing still tipped into the rear). Contemporaneous owner's name and date in sepia fountain pen to top of front free endpaper: 'H. E. Maynard, 1910'. Very small surface split to outer cloth at top of spine. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Spine slightly discoloured. Spine tight. Sporadic foxing to prelims and pages. ***176mm x118mm. 525 pages. ***Ask Mamma is a Victorian novel, profusely illustrated with sixty-nine woodcuts by John Leech and thirteen coloured plates. It is about the romantic adventures and dalliances of two generations of the Pringle family, fox-hunting and local society. ***It may be a recommendation to the lover of light literature to be told that the following story does not involve the complication of plot. It is a mere continuous narrative of an almost every-day exaggeration interspersed with sporting scenes and excellent illustrations by Leech', written March 31, 1858 (Quote from the preface to the fore by the author). ***Robert Smith Surtees (17 May 1805 ¿ 16 March 1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, more familiarly known as R. S. Surtees. ***First impression of this new edition, complete with all thirteen coloured plates and sixty-nine black and white woodcuts throughout the text. A nice edition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

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Bibliographic details

Title
ASK MAMMA or The Richest Commoner in England
Author
R. S. Surtees [Author of Handley Cross, Sponge's Sporting Tour etc., etc.]
Publisher
Methuen & Co., London
Publication year
1904
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
No Jacket, as Issued
Binding
Hardcover
Illustrator
John Leech
Edition
New Edition
Printing
First Impression
Seller catalogs
Antiquarian, Illustrated Books, Literature

Orlando Booksellers

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