SURTEES, Robert Smith

The Folio Society edition of all eight of Surtees' famous comic sporting novels: Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities; Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour; Handley Cross; Mr Facey Romford's Hounds; Plain or Ringlets; Ask Mama; Hawbuck Grange; and Hillingdon Hall

London, The Folio Society, 1949 to 1956 (facsimiles of the first editions, all first thus).

Octavo, eight volumes, with 12 plates per volume (by John Leech, Hablot Knight Browne - aka 'Phiz' - and Henry Alken), all hand-coloured for this series by M. Johnson.

Red buckram lettered in gilt on contrasting-coloured panels on the spines; two spines a little sunned; endpapers of three volumes a little foxed or offset; boards of the first volume a little bowed; minimal signs of age and use; a very good set.

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