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SURTEES, Robert Smith (1803-1864). [Sporting Novels]. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [c.1880].
6 volumes, 8° (224 x 135mm). Hand-coloured engraved title-vignettes and 86 (of 87) hand-coloured engraved plates after Leech, Brown and others, all heightened with gum arabic, wood-engraved plates, illustrations in the text. (Lacks a plate in Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour.) Early 20th-century red half calf gilt, hunting tools in compartments of spines; and 9 others by Surtees (2 uniformly bound): Surtees' Young Tom Hall, (Edinburgh and London, 1926), Frederick Watson's Robert Smith Surtees, a Critical Study, (London, 1933), Surtees and Cuming's Robert Smith Surtees, (Edinburgh and London, 1924), a mixed 5 vol. set of the Sporting Novels, 1853-60, cloth; and an 1888 Nimmo editon of Hilingdon Hall. (15)
6 volumes, 8° (224 x 135mm). Hand-coloured engraved title-vignettes and 86 (of 87) hand-coloured engraved plates after Leech, Brown and others, all heightened with gum arabic, wood-engraved plates, illustrations in the text. (Lacks a plate in Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour.) Early 20th-century red half calf gilt, hunting tools in compartments of spines; and 9 others by Surtees (2 uniformly bound): Surtees' Young Tom Hall, (Edinburgh and London, 1926), Frederick Watson's Robert Smith Surtees, a Critical Study, (London, 1933), Surtees and Cuming's Robert Smith Surtees, (Edinburgh and London, 1924), a mixed 5 vol. set of the Sporting Novels, 1853-60, cloth; and an 1888 Nimmo editon of Hilingdon Hall. (15)
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