Ask Mamma or The Richest Commoner in England; Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour; Mr Romford's Hounds; Handley Cross or Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt

A smart selection of Robert Smith Surtees' humorous sporting novels, illustrated throughout by John Leech. A set of four sporting novels by English writer and editor, Robert Smith Surtees.Bound in the publisher's original decorative cloth binding.Surtees is best known for creating Mr. Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer who features in his novels. These works offer as a terrific example of the humour of the Victorian upper-classes, primarily dealing with fox-hunting and other recreational activities.Each complete with a coloured title vignette, many in-text engravings, and a series of coloured plates as detailed below. Illustrated by John Leech, a British caricaturist best known for his work for 'Punch'.'Ask Mamma or The Richest Commoner in England' - Illustrated with a frontispiece and twelve steel engraved plates in colour. Collated, complete.'Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour' - Illustrated with thirteen steel engraved plates in colour. Collated, complete.'Mr. Romford's Hounds' - Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-three steel engraved plates in colour. Collated, complete.'Handley Cross or Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt' - Illustrated with seventeen steel engraved plates in colour. Collated, complete. In the original red decorative cloth bindings. Externally, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities, heaviest to the spines' heads and tails. Instances of darkening to the cloth. Marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the odd spot. With heavier spotting and offsetting to the endpapers. Good. …