Surtees Robert Smith and John Leech (25 results)
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
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Condition: new. 1st The R.S. Surtees Society 2006 facsimile new condition hardcover book in fine red gilt boards In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.
"Ask Mamma"; or, The Richest Commoner in London
Surtees, R. (Robert) S. (Smith) (Introduction By Rebecca West); John Leech Color And B/W Drawings
Language: English
Published by Bradbury & Evans / The R. S. Surtees Society, London, 1983
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Blue Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Glassine Dustjacket, as I. First Edition Thus. Xii, 412 + List Of Subscribers In 1982, Ads At Front And Rear. A Bright, Clean, Unmarked, New Copy. In The Publisher's Clear Glassine Dust Jacket.
Language: English
Published by Bradbury Agnew, London, 1885
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Add to basketLeather. Condition: Very Good Condition. No Dust Jacket as Issued. //NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKS OF ANY KIND (no names or inscriptions, no bookplate, no underlining, etc) // 3/4 leather binding is lightly scuffed, but in very good condition, although the front cover is present but separated from the hinge//marbled end papers//all il…lustrations present and in fine condition//. John Leech and H. K. Browne (illustrator).
Handley Cross (Subscription Ediiton In Riviere Binding)
(Surtees, Robert Smith); Color And B/W Plates After John Leech, Hablot K. Browne, Etc.
Language: English
Published by Printed For Subscribers / Bradbury, Agnew & Co Circa 1880 / Riviere, London, 1880
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Xvi, 577 Pp. Reprint For Subscribers, Originally Issued In Red Wrappers. Red Morocco Binding By Riviere, Morocco Spine Labels, 5 Bands, Gilt Hunter's Riding Cap, Horse, Stag And Hound In Each Of Four Compartments With Elaborate Gilt Borders, Covers With Gilt Fox And Horseshoe Within Trip…le Gilt Border, All Edges Of Boards Gilt, Elaborate Gilt Turns, Marbled Endpapers, Original Wrappers Bound In At Rear With Both Covers And Spine. Near Fine, Wear At Top And Bottom Edges Of Spine Only, Binding Tight And Very Strong.
Mr. Romford's Hounds (Subscription Ediiton In Riviere Binding)
(Surtees, Robert Smith); Color And B/W Plates After John Leech, Hablot K. Browne, Etc.
Language: English
Published by Printed For Subscribers / Bradbury, Agnew & Co Circa 1880 / Riviere, London, 1880
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Xii, 405 Pp. Reprint For Subscribers, Originally Issued In Red Wrappers. Red Morocco Binding By Riviere, Morocco Spine Labels, 5 Bands, Gilt Hunter's Riding Cap, Horse, Stag And Hound In Each Of Four Compartments With Elaborate Gilt Borders, Covers With Gilt Fox And Horseshoe Within Trip…le Gilt Border, All Edges Of Boards Gilt, Elaborate Gilt Turns, Marbled Endpapers, Original Wrappers Bound In At Rear With Both Covers And Spine. Near Fine, Wear At Top And Bottom Edges Of Spine Only, Binding Tight And Very Strong.
Published by Bradbury, Evans & Co., London., 1872
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Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United KingdomSapience Bookstore
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Add to basketHard. Condition: Good. Good. Publishers cloth. Cloth fraying along top of front joint. Spine sunned. Previous owner name neatly penned to free front endpaper. Foxed. 13 hand coloured steel engravings and profuse wood engravings by John Leech. (illustrator).
Published by Bath : George Bayntun, 1926
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Add to basketJorrocks Single Volume Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked , decorated cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong With excellent plates, including a colour frontispiece. Description: x, 398 p. ;… 23 cm. Subjects: Leech, John 1817-1864. Surtees, Robert Smith 1805-1864 1 Kg.
Language: English
Published by The R.S. Surtees Society, The Folio Society., London, England, 1983
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Seller: Tony Hutchinson, Seale, United KingdomTony Hutchinson
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. All 5 volumes from the same private collection. 9 x 6 inch. All are in nice clean condition and look hardly used. Coloured plates in each. All within the original slip cases which are sound but have minor shelf wear. No names nor inscriptions. Various 1980s printing dates. Gilt titling to spine a…nd pictures to front still bright. A lovely facsimile set of these Victorian works. They weigh about 6kg packaged. No surcharge for UK shipping but additional carriage would be required for overseas shipping probably making it unviable. plates by John Leech, Phiz, W. Heath, H.Alken, and Hablot K. Browne. (illustrator).
Published by Bath : George Bayntun, 1926
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Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.MW Books
Contact seller5-star sellerJorrocks Single Volume Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked , decorated cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong With excellent plates, including a colour frontispiece. Description: x, 398 p. ;… 23 cm. Subjects: Leech, John 1817-1864. Surtees, Robert Smith 1805-1864 1 Kg.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Bradbury and Evans, London, 1865
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- First Edition
Seller: BiblioFile, Cadole, FLINT, United KingdomBiblioFile
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION - SUPERBLY BOUND IN FULL CRUSHED MOROCCO BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE LONDON : vi, 1 unnumbered page, 391 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; pages all edged in gilt Bound from at least three issues of parts. Secure and tight, binding fresh and clean, t…ogether with the colour plates. The pages are excellent, with only occasional fox spot noted to margins. Super copy. NB: The outlay for a binding of such quality would undoubtedly exceed my asking price. NB: IF REQUIRED PLEASE DO REQUEST ADDITIONAL IMAGES. with illustrations by John Leech and Hablot K. Browne. (illustrator).
More imagesThe "Jorrocks" Edition [of the Novels of Robert Smith Surtees, comprising] : Ask Mamma, Handley Cross, Hawbuck Grange, Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, Plain Or Ringlets?. In six volumes
SURTEES (ROBERT SMITH) [1805-1864]. Leech (John) and Maud (W.T.), illustrators.
Language: English
Published by Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., and George Bayntum, London, and Bath, 1926
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Seller: James Hawkes, LONDON, United KingdomJames Hawkes
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Complete in six volumes. Ask Mamma, Handley Cross, and Hawbuck Grange, published London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., no date but c.1890-1900; Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, and Plain Or Ringlets?, Bath: George Bayntum, 1926. Each volume with a coloured frontispiece, and black… and white plates & textual vignettes. §The illustrations to Hawbuck Grange are by W.T. Maud; those of the other five volumes are by John Leech. Uniformly bound in original blue cloth, gilt lettering, red, black and gilt decoration. Free endpapers of Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour browned, together with short ink presentation inscription, dated 1944. Bold ink ownership inscription to half-title of Ask Mamma, dated 1904. Name unobrusively erased from verso of frontispiece of Handley Cross. Letter 'A' stamped to verso of front free endpaper of Hawbuck Grange, early and not unattractive. Spines of four volumes a little darkened, but not unattractively so and not enough to much marr the uniform appearance of the set; the huntman's jacket at the foot of Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a different shade to that of the other volumes. Two small light marks towards centre of spine of Hawbuck Grange. A very good set. (**PLEASE READ CAREFULLY** - Heavy/overweight item weighing 5.5 kg packed, therefore additional postage will be required - please ask for a prior shipping quote). John Leech, W.T. Maud. (illustrator).
Published by Bradbury and Evans., London., 1853
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Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United KingdomSapience Bookstore
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Add to basketHard. Condition: Good. First printing. Good. Bound in contemporaneous green half calf and marbled boards. Gilt lettered calf tile to spine. Covers bear light wear, particularly to edges. Rear joint cracked. Front joint cracked to top 1/3. Neatly penned ownership inscription in contemporaneous hand to free front endpaper. A littl…e foxed to outermost leaves. Many of the figures within the wood engravings have been neatly coloured by hand. One line in the wood engravings illustration contents has had a line drawn through it and the text neatly replaced with a hand-written correction. 408pp. 14 hand coloured steel engravings and profuse wood engravings by John Leech. (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Bradbury, Agnew and Co., London, 1904
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Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Good. Two volumes of the sporting novels of Robert Smith Surtees. Containing: Mr Romford's Hounds Hawbuck Grange; or, the Sporting Adventures of Thomas Scott, Esq. Illustrated with thirty-one coloured plates and many more illustrations in the text by John Leech and 'Phiz'. Surtees launched out on his own with t…he New Sporting Magazine in 1831, contributing the comic papers which appeared as Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities in 1838. Jorrocks, the sporting cockney grocer, with his vulgarity and good-natured artfulness, was a great success with the public, and Surtees produced more Jorrocks novels in the same vein, notably Handley Cross and Hillingdon Hall, where the description of the house is very reminiscent of Hamsterley. Another hero, Soapey Sponge, appears in Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, possibly Surtees best work. All Surtees' novels were composed at Hamsterley Hall, where he wrote standing up at a desk, like Victor Hugo. In decorative red and gilt cloth bindings. Externally, sound, though with some fading, marks and bumping. Internally, firmly bound. Two hinges are strained. Ink signatures to the front free-endpaper of Mr Romford's Hounds. Pages are bright, though with some foxing. Good. John Leech and 'Phiz' (illustrator). book.
[6 vols. of 11] Handley Cross or Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt, Volume I; "Plain or Ringlets, Volume I;" Hawbuck Grange Or the Sporting Adventures of Thomas Scott, Esquire; "Ask Momma" Or the Richest Commoner in England, Volume I; Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, Volume I; Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, Volume I.
Surtees, Robert Smith [Illustrated by John Leech and Harlot K. Browne]
Published by Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, London, 1900
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Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: vg to vg-. Later printing. These 6 volumes are part of a limited edition but the limitation not stated. Each volume with an added engraved woodcut title. Illustrated with a total of 48 (of 72 in the complete set) hand-colored, steel engraved plates (suitable for framing), each with a tissue guard. 40 are by… John Leech and 8 by Harlot K. Browne. All the hand-colored plates are bright and clean. Plus there are approximately 240 text woodcuts by Leech, Browne and W. T. Maud. Plus approximately 120 illustrated ads bound in at rear of 5 of the 6 volumes The six volumes, printed at the Whitefriars Press, are uniformly bound in red cloth with elaborately gilt decorated spines. T.e.g. Spines are somewhat darkened and with very minor fraying at extremities.
Published by Bradbury and Evans., London., 1853
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Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United KingdomSapience Bookstore
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Add to basketHard. Condition: Good. First printing in book form. Good. Publishers first state cloth. Cloth rubbed and fraying at corners and edges. Gilt embossing rubbed. Previous owner name neatly penned to free front endpaper and title page corner. A little foxed and thumbed. One plate pulling loose. 13 hand coloured steel engravings and p…rofuse wood engravings by John Leech. (illustrator).
More imagesMr. Sponge's Sporting Tour; Mr. Romford's Hounds; Hawbuck Grange; Handley Cross; "Ask Mamma"; & "Plain or Ringlets" [6 volumes]
Surtees, Robert Smith Illustrated by John Leech, H.K. Browne and W.T. Maud
Published by Published by George Bayntun, Bath, 1926
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Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United KingdomKeoghs Books
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Add to basket, 6 uniform volumes, each with colour frontispiece, plus 104 black & white full page engravings throughout the set, and engravings in the text Jorrocks Edition , Handley Cross with previous owners inscription to front free end paper, corners a little bumped, a nice set, books in very good condition , blue cloth with colour illus…trations and gilt titles , Octavo, 20.7 x 15cm Hardback ISBN.
More imagesPublished by Bradbury and Evans, London, 1865
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Add to basketLeather. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A stunning first edition copy of Mr Facey Romford's Hounds, with beautiful hand coloured illustrations. Robert Smith Surtees was an English novelist most widely remembered for his invested character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good natured cockney grocer.This is a wonderfully illustrat…ed copy of Mr. Facey Romford's Hound, with twenty-four hand coloured illustrations by John Leech and Halbot K. Browne.John Leech was a caricaturist and illustrator best know for illustrating Punch magazine.Collated, complete. In half calf binding with cloth covered boards. Externally, smart. The boards are a little marked. There is a bookplate to the front pastedown. Front hinge is starting and weak. Internally, firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages. The pages are occasionally a little spotted. Very Good. John Leech and Hablot K. Browne (illustrator). book.
More imagesHandley Cross; Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour; Hawbuck Grange; Ask Mamma; Plain or Ringlets; & Mr. Romford's Hounds [The Complete Works in 6 Volumes]
Surtees, Robert Smith illustrated by John Leech, H. K. Browne and W. T. Maud
Published by Published by Bradbury, Agnew & Co [1880], London, 1880
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Add to basket, 6 uniform volumes by Surtees, complete with 87 hand-coloured plates in total, plus black & white illustration throughout New edition , leather at spines slightly dulled but gilt remains bright, nice clean and tight bindings, light foxing to some pages margins but text clean, plates nice and clean, a nice looking set, in very g…ood condition , half red calf with marbled paper to sides, raised bands, gilt titles and designs on spine, top edge gilt Octavo, 23 x 15 cm Hardback ISBN.
More imagesPublished by The R.S. Surtees Society, London
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Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United KingdomSt Marys Books And Prints
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Add to basketHard Back. Reprint. A beautifully bound set of five facsimile sporting novels of Robert Smith Surtees Each beautifully illustrated by John Leech HAlken Phiz W Heath and Hablot K Brownenbsp All in the original individual gold coloured slip cases Published by The RS Surtees Society between 1981 and 1984 Each volume is bound in red… with gold coloured pictorial to the front titles and vignette to the spine All in good condition with the pages appearing unread with no marks or inscriptions Slip cases show a little wear although in overall good condition A gorgeous setnbsp. John Leech, H.Alken, Phiz, W. Heath and Hablot K. Browne (illustrator). book.
Published by London, Bradbury & Evans, 1853., 1853
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- First Edition
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Add to basket8vo, pp. [6], [ix]-x, [2], 408; with 13 hand-coloured steel-engraved plates and numerous woodcut illustrations in text; lightly toned, occasional spots; a good copy in mid 19th-century half red calf with pebble-grained cloth sides, spine gilt in compartments with gilt green morocco lettering-piece in one, gilt venatic centre-pie…ces in others, non-pareil marbled edges and endpapers; rubbed with a few small scuffs, neatly rebacked in red tissue; 19th-century ink ownership inscription of 'Nath. Baker' to p. 25, early 20th-century armorial bookplate of Kington Baker to upper pastedown.First edition of Surtees's most successful novel, and his first collaboration with John Leech. Though never acknowledging his career as a sporting author, Surtees was a significant contributor to the Sporting Magazine, in 1830 replacing Nimrod as hunting correspondent and the following year establishing with Rudolph Ackermann a rival New Sporting Magazine, where he assumed the role of editor in addition to that of hunting correspondent. By the time of his first novels, in the 1840s, he had inherited Hamsterley Hall and was able to devote himself to farming, hunting, and writing. Issued in serial parts, here bound together, Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour had been published in an earlier version in the New Monthly Magazine (1849-1851), under the title Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour. With Surtees's characteristic engagingly vulgar hero and rollicking style accompanied by Leech's humorously sketched illustrations, the novel proved enormously popular, becoming the first of several collaborations between the two. The present copy is from the library of Kington Baker, a collector whose seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Japanese porcelain is held by the British Museum. Mellon 187.
More imagesPublished by London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1899-1900., 1899
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Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United KingdomBernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB
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Add to basketFirst Edition. [Comprising:][SURTEES, Robert Smith,] and John LEECH (illustrator). Handley Cross, or Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1899. [with:][SURTEES,] and Hablot Knight BROWNE and W.T. MAUD (illustrators). Hawbuck Grange, or the Sporting Adventures of Thomas Scott, Esquire. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & C…o., 1900. [and:][SURTEES,] and LEECH. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1899. [and:][SURTEES,] and LEECH. 'Ask Mamma', or the richest Commoner in England. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1899. [and:][SURTEES,] and LEECH. 'Plain or Ringlets?'. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1900. [and:][SURTEES,] and LEECH, BROWNE, and W.T. MAUD (illustrators). Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1900. 6 works in 11 vols, royal 8vo, with 87 hand-coloured steel-engraved plates, and 425 woodcut illustrations in text (of which a great many full-page); titles and half-titles printed in red and black, woodcut initials throughout; 2 short marginal tears in Handley Cross vol. II; publisher's red cloth, spines gilt, upper boards lettered directly in gilt, top-edges gilt, tail-edges trimmed, fore-edges uncut; end-caps lightly bumped, corners minimally rubbed, very few marks; a very good set.Limited 'Master of Foxhounds' edition, finely printed at the Whitefriars Press. Having published the first editions of several of Surtees's sporting novels, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. gathered and reprinted the six most successful as the 'Handley Cross series' as luxury sets. Publisher's advertisements at the rear of the present volumes advertise, besides the 'M.F.H. edition', a 'Country Gentleman's Library edition' and the '"Jorrocks" edition' (each comprising only six volumes), described thus: 'This inimitable series of Volumes is absolutely unique, there being nothing approaching to them in all the wide range of modern or ancient literature. Written by Mr. Surtees, a well-known country gentleman, who was passionately devoted to the healthy sport of fox-hunting, and gifted with a keen spirit of manly humour of a Rabelaisian tinge, they abound with incidents redolent of mirth and jollity. The Artist, Mr. Leech, was himself also an enthusiast in the sport, and has reflected in his illustrations, with instinctive appreciation, the rollicking abandon of the Author's stories.' Surtees's distinctively adventurous style, often coarse and colloquial, has earned admirers and critics for his works in equal measure, yet his sporting novels remain the most popular of the nineteenth century. 'His books ran counter to the currents of his age in their lack of idealism, absence of sentimentality, and almost wilful flouting of conventional moralism. His leading male characters were coarse or shady; his leading ladies dashing and far from virtuous; his outlook on society satiric to the point of cynicism. One Victorian theory was that such readership as he enjoyed was due to the humour of John Leech's illustrations, a view perpetuated in the Dictionary of National Biography. Yet, paradoxically, the qualities that in his own time prevented an appreciation of his talents as a writer, preserved his books in a later age from the oblivion which befell many of his more famous contemporaries. 'Surtees's range was limited, his style often clumsy and colloquial. Even in the better-constructed novels the plots are loose and discursive. Nevertheless, his sharp, authentic descriptions of the hunting field have retained their popularity among fox-hunters, for whom the sanitized (and in their day immeasurably better-selling) hunting novels of George Whyte-Melville have long lost their appeal. Among a wider public his mordant observations on men, women, and manners; his entertaining array of eccentrics, rakes, and rogues, his skill in the construction of lively dialogue (a matter over which he took great pains); his happy genius for unforgettable and quotable phrases; and above all, his supreme comic masterpiece, Jorrocks, have won him success.
Published by Bradbury, Agnew, and Co., London, 1900
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Add to basketThree Quarter Morocco Leather. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. 1899-1900. Handley Cross, illustrated by Leech 550pp 17 hand-colored full-page steel engravings; Hawbuck Grange, illustrated by Phiz 330pp 8 hand-colored full-page steel engravings; Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, illustrated by Leech 408pp 13 hand-colored full-page…steel engravings; Ask Mamma, with illustrated by Leech 412pp 13 hand-colored full-page steel engravings; Plain or Ringlets, illustrated by Leech 406pp 12 hand-colored full-page steel engravings and hand-colored title page; and Mr Romford"s Hounds, illustrated by Leech and Phiz 392pp 24 hand-colored full-page steel engravings. These six works uniformly bound by Dickers & Song, Leicester Square in 11 volumes of three quarter crimson morocco leather with red cloth boards, marbled endsheets and top edge gilt. One raised band creating two compartments Tilt lettering on spine with tooled edge at top & bottom of spine. Bottom compartment has bird, arrows, heart and horseshoe designs embossed. Illustrated by many full page and in-text engravings, and hand colored steel engravings, most by John Leech, but a handful by H.K. Browne and W.T. Maud. Overall the books are in excellent condition and would be listed as near new if it was not for the sunning. but the back quarter inch of the cloth has been sunned. Pevious owner's signature on front free endpage of each volume. A quite lovely set. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Leech, but a handful by H.K. Browne and W.T. Maud (illustrator). Hardcover.
More imagesMr. Facey Romford's Hounds
The Author of 'Handley Cross,' 'Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, etc. [Robert Smith Surtees]
Published by Bradbury and Evans 1865, London, 1858
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Add to basketFull Calf. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. vii, 391 pp. Full calf. Raised bands to spine with decorative gilt devices and maroon & brown leather title labels. Gilt turn-ins. Original cloth covers preserved at rear. Bound by Hatchards. With full-page hand-coloured plates by John Leech and Hablot K. Browne. A very nice copy.…8vo. Illustrated. Leech, John and H. K. Browne (illustrator).
More imagesMr. Facey Romford's Hounds (in parts)
Surtees, Robert Smith. John Leech and Hablot K. Brown (illustrators)
Published by Bradbury & Evans, London, 1865
- First Edition
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition. Third issue (with Part I's title, Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, in solid lettering), in the original twelve monthly parts, May 1864-April 1865. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm).Collating vi, [2], 391, [1], with twenty-four hand-colored steel-engraved plates, two to each volume, heightened with gum arabic. The… illustrations to Parts VIII-XII are unsigned but by Hablot K. Brown aka "Phiz." The woodcut on the upper wrapper is by Hablot K. Brown. Advertisements collate per Schwerdt, save Part VI, which lacks the Note of Lever's Martin, and Part VII, lacking the slip for The Belle of the Village. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. Minimal restoration of spines to a few volumes, tiny chip to fore- edge of Part I, otherwise an excellent and quite lovely set. Chemised and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. "Although Surtees approached his publishers in July 1861 with the idea of bringing out 'Mr. Facey Romford' they preferred not to undertake the matter until Mr. Leech's services were definitely secured and there would be no questoin of such delays as had occurred in the illustrations of 'Handley Cross.' Leech promised, however, to being in January 1862, and the situation seemed sufficiently secure to set up the type, but just at this time the artist held his first exhibition of oil paintings which proved so successful and diverting that the 'Facey Romford' illustrations were again postponed. Surtees in despair at last offered the book, in August 1864, to The Field, where is was refused. In March of that year Leech finally undertook the drawings, but never lived to complete the work, which was carried on byPhiz" (Field). Field 225. Tooley 475. Schwerdt II, 237. Podeschi 207.
