Analysis Hunting Field Being Series by Surtees Robert Smith (44 results)

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Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Type: Book No Jacket.All 7 plates present.

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hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Spine,cover and edges shows wear. Unopened leaves.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Somerset, R.S. Surtees Society, 1989 (facsimile edition)/ 1846. Octavo, [xi], vi, 338 pages with 43 illustrations plus 7 'highly coloured' plates by H. Alken. Gilt-pictorial maroon synthetic cloth slightly bumped at the extremities; an excellent copy in the good slipcase (rubbed and bumped).

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Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1923). (1846) 1923 new edition. 4to (202 x 262mm). Ppxii,244. Colour plates and b/w illustrations by Henry Alken, rough-cut edges. Brown cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Browning to edges and end-papers but a very good copy in slightly rubbed and frayed dust-wrapper. ~. .

Cloth. Condition: Fine. H. Alken (illustrator). A wonderful facsimile copy of this work on hunting by sporting writer R. S. Surtees, with lovely colour plates. A facsimile copy of this work by Robert Smith Surtees as published by the R. S. Surtees Society.This volume is packed full of the wit and wisdom of Surtees and originally appeared in Bell's Life in London, a Sporting paper and gives an analysis of the Sporting season of 1845-6.Robert Smith Surtees was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer and is most remembered for his invented character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer.With six beautiful colour plates, originally by H. Alken.With twelve pages of adverts to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very attractive. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Fine. book.

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Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days 470.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Henry Alken (illustrator). Limited Edition. Limited edition of 500 unnumbered copies. Small 4to, xv + pp306 complete with 13 coloured plates and 43 illustration in the text by Henry Alken with descriptive tissue guards. Hardcover, no jacket. Binding of half maroon leather over red boards with 5 raised bands, gilt titles and tooled gilt lines to spine in very good condition with a little rubbing to edges of spine and bottom edge with some loss of leather to bottom tips of boards and a few minor marks to boards. Inside, bar the odd spot of foxing all pages and plates in excellent clean and bright condition, no aging or toning. A lovely copy of this limited edition which famously satirically explored the key characters and archetypes of fox hunting by Surtees, editor, novelist, and sporting writer who William Morris described as "a master of life". It is superbly illustrated by Henry Thomas Alken an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, handsomely bound in twentieth century full red morocco by Bayntun of Bath raised bands to spine, boards ruled gilt with sporting motifs to compartments of spine and to the corners of the boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. A faint water stain to the head of the printed title page, some marginal browning and dust spotting, a tightly bound copy. Hand coloured additional title with six further hand-coloured plates, b&w illustrations to the text, 326pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition 1846 hardcover in a fine leather, signed binding by Zaehnsdorf in full crimson crushed morocco, raised bands on spine, gilt stamped panels, gilt dentelles, t.e.g. Tips and spine ends are not rubbed or bumped, no names, tears or soil. "An impressive example of this work, the colored frontis, of which is probably the nicest copy we've had in near 30 yrs of bookselling. Wonderfully illustrated with full page hand colored plates, with the second title page described as: "The colored frontis, of which is probably one of the finest colored title pages ever designed" (Newton). Also notable are the detailed hunt scenes drawn around the first letter of the first word of each chapter.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Revised Edition. This Issue, (Founded On The Original Edition, Published By Rudolph Ackerman In The Year 1846) Was Published 1923. Publisher's Original Green Cloth Hardcover Boards W/Worn But Legible Gilt Spine Titles And Fox Mask On Frt Cover, Brown Cloth Spine Displays Well For A 98 Year Old Book. Book Is Straight And Solid, Has Rubbed Tips With Boards Showing. Former Owner's Tidy Gift Dedication On Fep, Else, No Tears Or Soil Within. A Bit Of Foxing Present On The Age-Toned Endpapers But The 244 Page Text Is Clean And Not Brittle. Wonderfully Illustrated With Full Page, Glossy Plates In Full Color After H. Alken And "The Two Tissue-Guarded Colored Frontis's, Of Which Is Probably One Of The Finest Colored Title Pages Ever Designed" (Newton). Also Notable Are The Detailed Hunt Scenes Drawn Around The First Letter Of The First Word Of Each Chapter.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Gd. condition - Foxhunting , . Red cloth with gilt decoration on spine and front board. With protective mylar cover. * Reprint of the original edition from 1846 . Illustrated with numerous line drawings throughout the text and 7 full page colour plates including a frontispiece . (TH4).

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good condition. Alken, Henry (illustrator). New Edition. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1904. Printed paper spine label is chipped. Occasional foxing. Light fraying at head of spine else Very Good condition. Inner hinges are sound. Illustrated with 7 full-color plates and numerous b/w vignettes by Henry Alken. "Probably one of the finest colored title pages ever designed." -- A. Edward Newton. Reprint of this famous book on hounds and fox-hunting, first published in book-form by Rudolph Ackerman in England in 1846 (with prefaces dated 1846 and 1847). These papers appeared a season earlier in the periodical, Bell's Life in London. The author, Robert Smith Surtees (1803-1864), a close friend of William Thackeray and John Leech, is not identified in this 1904 American Edition. "It is well known that he never wrote under his own name and, at the time of his death, a critic in The Times Literary Supplement wrote: 'It is hard to think that any modern author of equal merit is so unknown as a personality, so hidden behind his books, as Robert Smith Surtees.'" - Higginson (p. 58). Not in Hand. See Higginson/Smith 432. See Tooley 470 and Hardie 187. Top edge gilt. Original maroon cloth. Full title: "The Analysis of the Hunting Field : Being a Series of Sketches of the Principle Characters that Compose One, The Whole Forming a Slight Souvenir of the Season 1845 - 6." . "New Edition". Hardcover. Near Very Good condition. Illus. by Alken, Henry . 12mo. 323pp .

New Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth over boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 244p,[6]p of plates : ill.(some col.) ; 27cm. Subject; Hunting - Great Britain. Fox hunting - Anecdotes, facetiae, satire - England - 19th century. Other names; Alken, Henry Thomas (1784-1851), Surtees Society. Genre; text 1 Kg.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 382. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1903 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 382.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 358. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1904 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 358.

Condition: Used - Very Good. 1923. Quarter leather over green paper covered boards, small quarto, 244 pp., illustrated with plates and figures. Spine very slightly rolled. Some edge-wear to boards and spine. Corners bumped. Boards slightly rubbed and stratched. Minor, usual foxing to edges of text block and end papers. Internally, quite sound. Overall, very good.

Hardcover. Illustrated by Alken, Henry (illustrator). First Edition. 326pp + 4pp ads. Red cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine. Illustrated title and frontispiece, five inserted color plates and forty-three illustrations on wood by Henry Alken, engraved by Cook and Co. Housed in a custom chemise and red quarter morocco slipcase. With the bookplate of Reuben Jay Flick to front pastedown endpaper. Cloth is soiled, light scattered foxing throughout, spine a bit dulled. Small bookstore labels to pastedown endpapers, previous owner's name on front endpapers. About very good in a fine slipcase. ; Octavo.

A Very Good Hardcover. Condition: Very Good; Illustrations by Alken, Henry (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. This is one of Surtees few non-fiction works, taken from the sporting newspaper Bell's Life in London during the fox hunting season of 1845-6. Handsomely bound by Morrell in Full crimson morocco leather; Four raised spine bands with tittle and decorations; Dentelles embellished Doublures to marbled endpages. Original cloth and spine bound-in at rear. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, toned with scattered foxing. Moderate handling wear. First Edition. Seven hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece and extra title, forty-three woodcuts engraved by Cook and CO. 4to; 26 cm. vi-326 pages. Armorial Bookplate of James Allen Young. Background: Robert Surtees was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer. He left for London in 1825, intending to practice law in the capital, but had difficulty making his way and began contributing to the Sporting Magazine. "His Novels are pre-eminent in the annals of sport".[ Kunitz] Henry Thomas Alken was an English painted and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. REF: Tooley: 470; Prideaux; Nevil: 31; Kunitz: 597; Roy Young, Catalog: 236; Higginson: 55; Smith: 433.

First edition, second issue, with both prefaces. Original red cloth, restored, some wear at corners and edges, backstrip well rubbed. AEG. half-title, vi, 326, [4] pp., seven hand-colored plates by Henry Alken, including the pictorial title page. Gordon Ray, p.36, "He [Alken] worked in color aquatint in a style akin to that of Rowlandson and the early George Cruikshank, passing from the broader caricature in his early books to a more sober recording of the passing scene in his later." Tooley 470.