SURTEES, Robert Smith (1805-1864). Hillingdon Hall; or The Cockney Squire. London: Henry Colburn, 1845.

SURTEES, Robert Smith (1805-1864). Hillingdon Hall; or The Cockney Squire. London: Henry Colburn, 1845.

3 volumes. 12° (199 x 120mm, 183 x 120mm). (Some spotting and staining, volume I, pp.76, 77 soiled at margins.) Original green cloth (worn at spine, a little stained), green half morocco case. Provenance: Inscribed volume II, p.97 with printer's note 'W.W. Author's proof read back' -- Rebecca Lightup, 18 Minories (pencil inscription on fly-leaf). Exhibited: Grolier Club (1950s exhibition label loosely inserted: 'The corrected page proofs in three volumes, original green publishers cloth, bound for Surtees, who retained this copy in his library for his own personal use'.)

CORRECTED PAGE PROOFS OF THE FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Proof copy with three word changes (II, p.116; III, p.198) and punctuation altered throughout, apparently by the author. This is the third work in which Surtees' most famous character, Jorrocks, the sporting Cockney grocer (whose advertures suggested the Pickwick Papers) appears. Sadleir 3163.