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Published by Bradbury & Evans, 1858
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Bound in contemporary 1/2 leather over worn boards. Loss to most of the pasteboard paper. ix. 412 pages Color frontis, 12 color plates. Wood engravings. First book edition. TOoley, English books with coloured plates, p. 376. Field, p. 204. THe plates were hand colored after directions by Leech.
Published by Methuen & Co, London, 1912
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. 12mo; Reprint of edition published by Bradbury and Evans, London, 1854; G; Hardcover; Spine, red with gold print; Boards in red cloth with gold print, tattering to spine caps, hinges, and corners, toning to spine, shelfwear; Text block has gilt top edge, name in ink on front pastedown, cracked front hinge, intermittent spine breaks, ink notation on p. 113, foxing to plates and adjacent pages, occasional foxing elsewise; xiv, 720 pages, "with seventeen coloured illustrations and one hundred woodcuts". 1350857. FP New Rockville Stock.
Published by George Bayntun, Bath
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library copy, with usual stamps and labels. Cracked hinge. Edgeworn pages, in worn boards, with some damage to spine. Photograph available on request.
Published by Bradbury and Evans, London, 1865
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Full Leather. Condition: Very Good binding. A copy of Robert Smith Surtees' Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds. Collates complete against the index, with a color frontispiece and 23 additional color plates. Bookplate tipped in over a previous bookplate on the front pastedown; additional bookplate on the first flyleaf; sunning to the spine. Polished calf with contrasting morocco labels; double rules with stops at the perimeters of the boards; dentelles; silk ribbon marker bound in; top edge gilt. Original cloth binding bound in at the rear. Very Good binding.
Published by Bradbury and Evans, London, 1858
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Full Leather. Condition: Very Good binding. A copy of Robert Smith Surtees' Ask Mamma. Collates complete against the index, with a color frontispiece, and twelve additional color plates. Bookplate pasted over a previous bookplate on the front pastedown; additional bookplate on the first flyleaf; sunning to the spine. Polished calf with contrasting morocco labels; double rules with stops at the perimeters of the boards; dentelles; top edge gilt. Original cloth binding bound in at the rear. Very Good binding.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Subscribers edition. Hardcover. Publishers tooled red cloth. Gilt spine and cover. Good binding and cover. Bookplate. Minimal shelfwear. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.
Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. London: Bradbury, Agnew and Co. XII-412 p., fig., pl. en coul. Half-bound in dark red calf-skin leather. Corners bound. 5 raised bands. 6 compartments. Gilt decorative flourishes on spine. Gilt borders. Light red boards. Tight binding and solid boards. Minor shelf wear. Slight bumping to corners. Rubbing to boards. Slight scuffing to spine. Marbled endpapers. Clean, unmarked pages. Profusely illustrated. A scarce early edition in very good condition. Chipping to top of spine. Ships daily.
Published by London: Bradbury & Evans, 1860
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Inscription from previous owner. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Scattered foxing throughout. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; x pages, 1 leaf, 408 pages, 13 col'd plates (including frontispiece) illustrations 8vo. Subjects; Wit and humor. English fiction, 19th century. Fox hunting. Etchings. Specimens. 1 Kg.
Published by London: Bradbury & Evans, 1860
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Inscription from previous owner. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Scattered foxing throughout. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; x pages, 1 leaf, 408 pages, 13 col'd plates (including frontispiece) illustrations 8vo. Subjects; Wit and humor. English fiction, 19th century. Fox hunting. Etchings. Specimens. 1 Kg.
Condition: Good. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. Early edition. 8vo. x,408pp. Illus. by John Leech. Good book. Mild shelfwear. Signatures C-D very loose. Some fore page edges frayed. (fiction, fox hunting) Inquire if you need further information.
Published by Bradbury and Evans, 1854
Seller: Half Moon Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Leather Bound. Condition: Good. Leather covers and spines show some rubbing, scuffing and edge wear. Pages show some light browning.
Published by Bradbury Agnew & Co, London, 1890
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bradbury Agnew & Co, London January 1890 Binding: Hardcover SET OF 6 SUBSRCIPTION EDITIONS WORKS PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS FROM THE PLATES OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION ISSUED BY BRADBURY AGNEW AND CO CIRCA 1890. INCLUDES MR ROMFORDS HOUNDS, PLAIN OR RINGLETS , HAWBUCK GRANGE, ASK MAMMA, HANDLEY CROSS , AND MR SPONGES SPORTING TOUR, WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS. $NRP.
Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. London: Bradbury, Agnew and Co. VIII-408 p., fig., pl. en coul. 8vo. Half-bound in dark red calf-skin leather. Corners bound. 5 raised bands. 6 compartments. Gilt decorative flourishes on spine. Gilt borders. Light red boards. Tight binding and solid boards. Minor shelf wear/rubbing. Marbled endpapers. Clean, unmarked pages. Profusely illustrated. A scarce early edition in very good condition. Ships daily.
Published by Printed for Subscribers [1920], London, 1920
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Illustrated by John Leech. Limited Edition of 50 copies, specially colored. Octavo. Contemporary full morocco leather by Bayntun, gilt decorated covers and spine, 5 raised bands to spine. Covers rehinged. All edges gilt. Early novel by English editor and sporting writer. With 17 beautifully colored plates. Very good, covers rehinged; imprints left by two red silk page markers which are nearly detached but present.
Published by Printed for Subscribers [1920], London, 1920
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Illustrated by John Leech, H. K. Browne, &c. Limited Edition, No. 4 of 50 copies, specially colored. Octavo. Contemporary full leather by Bayntun, gilt decorated covers and spine, 5 raised bands to spine. Front cover rehinged. All edges gilt. Late novel by English editor and sporting writer. With 24 beautifully colored plates. Very good, front cover rehinged; chip to marbled front free endpaper.
Published by London, Bradbury & Evans, 1853., 1853
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo, pp. [6], [ix]-x, [2], 408; with 13 hand-coloured steel-engraved plates and numerous woodcut illustrations in text; lightly toned, occasional spots; a good copy in mid 19th-century half red calf with pebble-grained cloth sides, spine gilt in compartments with gilt green morocco lettering-piece in one, gilt venatic centre-pieces in others, non-pareil marbled edges and endpapers; rubbed with a few small scuffs, neatly rebacked in red tissue; 19th-century ink ownership inscription of 'Nath. Baker' to p. 25, early 20th-century armorial bookplate of Kington Baker to upper pastedown.First edition of Surtees's most successful novel, and his first collaboration with John Leech. Though never acknowledging his career as a sporting author, Surtees was a significant contributor to the Sporting Magazine, in 1830 replacing Nimrod as hunting correspondent and the following year establishing with Rudolph Ackermann a rival New Sporting Magazine, where he assumed the role of editor in addition to that of hunting correspondent. By the time of his first novels, in the 1840s, he had inherited Hamsterley Hall and was able to devote himself to farming, hunting, and writing. Issued in serial parts, here bound together, Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour had been published in an earlier version in the New Monthly Magazine (1849-1851), under the title Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour. With Surtees's characteristic engagingly vulgar hero and rollicking style accompanied by Leech's humorously sketched illustrations, the novel proved enormously popular, becoming the first of several collaborations between the two. The present copy is from the library of Kington Baker, a collector whose seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Japanese porcelain is held by the British Museum. Mellon 187.
Published by London
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Mixed Edition. Together six octavo volumes (8 5/8 x 5 7/16 inches; 219 x 137 mm.). All first editions in book form except for Handley Cross and Hillingdon Hall, which are the first illustrated editions (first published in three volumes, without illustrations, in 1843 & 1845). Uniformly bound ca. 1920 in full red crushed levant morocco by Riviere & Son (stamp-signed on front turn-ins). Covers triple-ruled in gilt, spines with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-ruled board edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt, others uncut, dark blue coated endpapers. All with the original gilt decorated cloth covers bound in at end. Each volume with the armorial bookplate of Herman Frasch Whiton and his ink signature on a front blank. Several joints show varying degrees of cracking - still a very handsome set. The first five titles originally published in parts. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour with thirteen hand-colored engraved plates and eighty-four wood engravings; Handley Cross with seventeen hand-colored engraved plates and eighty-four wood engravings; Ask Mamma with thirteen hand-colored engraved plates and sixty-nine wood engravings; Plain or Ringlets? with thirteen hand-colored engraved plates and forty-four wood engravings; Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds with twenty-four hand-colored engraved plates and wood-engraved title vignette; [and] Hillingdon Hall or, The Cockney Squire with twelve hand-colored engraved plates and wood-engraved title vignette. Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) "founded, with R. Ackermann the younger, the New Sporting Magazine in 1831, to which he contributed his comic sketches of Mr Jorrocks, the sporting Cockney grocer, later collected as Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities (1838). Jorrocks, whose adventures to some extent suggested the original idea of Pickwick Papers, reappears in Handley Cross (1843; expanded and illustrated by Leech, 1854). His second great character, Mr Soapey Sponge, appears in Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853); another celebrated character was Mr Facey Romford, who appears in his last novel, Mr Facey Romford's Hounds (1865). His eight long novels deal mainly with the characteristic aspects of English fox-hunting society, but his vivid caricatures, the absurd scenes he describes, the convincing dialect and often repeated catch-phrases, distinguish him from other writers of this genre. The illustration of his novels by Leech, Alken, and â Phiz' (H.K. Browne) also contributed to their success" (The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature). Hardie211-213. Schwerdt II, 233-238. Tooley 476, 473, 472, 477, 475, & 474.
Published by London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1899-1900., 1899
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition. [Comprising:][SURTEES, Robert Smith,] and John LEECH (illustrator). Handley Cross, or Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1899. [ with:][SURTEES,] and Hablot Knight BROWNE and W.T. MAUD (illustrators). Hawbuck Grange, or the Sporting Adventures of Thomas Scott, Esquire. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1900. [and:][SURTEES,] and LEECH. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1899. [and:][SURTEES,] and LEECH. 'Ask Mamma', or the richest Commoner in England. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1899. [and:][SURTEES,] and LEECH. 'Plain or Ringlets?'. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1900. [and:][SURTEES,] and LEECH, BROWNE, and W.T. MAUD (illustrators). Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1900. 6 works in 11 vols, royal 8vo, with 87 hand-coloured steel-engraved plates, and 425 woodcut illustrations in text (of which a great many full-page); titles and half-titles printed in red and black, woodcut initials throughout; 2 short marginal tears in Handley Cross vol. II; publisher's red cloth, spines gilt, upper boards lettered directly in gilt, top-edges gilt, tail-edges trimmed, fore-edges uncut; end-caps lightly bumped, corners minimally rubbed, very few marks; a very good set.Limited 'Master of Foxhounds' edition, finely printed at the Whitefriars Press. Having published the first editions of several of Surtees's sporting novels, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. gathered and reprinted the six most successful as the 'Handley Cross series' as luxury sets. Publisher's advertisements at the rear of the present volumes advertise, besides the 'M.F.H. edition', a 'Country Gentleman's Library edition' and the '"Jorrocks" edition' (each comprising only six volumes), described thus: 'This inimitable series of Volumes is absolutely unique, there being nothing approaching to them in all the wide range of modern or ancient literature. Written by Mr. Surtees, a well-known country gentleman, who was passionately devoted to the healthy sport of fox-hunting, and gifted with a keen spirit of manly humour of a Rabelaisian tinge, they abound with incidents redolent of mirth and jollity. The Artist, Mr. Leech, was himself also an enthusiast in the sport, and has reflected in his illustrations, with instinctive appreciation, the rollicking abandon of the Author's stories.' Surtees's distinctively adventurous style, often coarse and colloquial, has earned admirers and critics for his works in equal measure, yet his sporting novels remain the most popular of the nineteenth century. 'His books ran counter to the currents of his age in their lack of idealism, absence of sentimentality, and almost wilful flouting of conventional moralism. His leading male characters were coarse or shady; his leading ladies dashing and far from virtuous; his outlook on society satiric to the point of cynicism. One Victorian theory was that such readership as he enjoyed was due to the humour of John Leech's illustrations, a view perpetuated in the Dictionary of National Biography. Yet, paradoxically, the qualities that in his own time prevented an appreciation of his talents as a writer, preserved his books in a later age from the oblivion which befell many of his more famous contemporaries. 'Surtees's range was limited, his style often clumsy and colloquial. Even in the better-constructed novels the plots are loose and discursive. Nevertheless, his sharp, authentic descriptions of the hunting field have retained their popularity among fox-hunters, for whom the sanitized (and in their day immeasurably better-selling) hunting novels of George Whyte-Melville have long lost their appeal. Among a wider public his mordant observations on men, women, and manners; his entertaining array of eccentrics, rakes, and rogues, his skill in the construction of lively dialogue (a matter over which he took great pains); his happy genius for unforgettable and quotable phrases; and above all, his supreme comic masterpiece, Jorrocks, have won him successive generations of devoted followers. Although his proper place among Victorian novelists is not easy to determine, his power as a creative artist was recognized, among professional writers, by Thackeray, Kipling, Arnold Bennett, and Siegfried Sassoon, and earned the tributes of laymen as distinguished and diverse as William Morris, Lord Rosebery, and Theodore Roosevelt.' (ODNB). Language: English.
Published by Bradbury & Evans, London, 1858
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First issue, in the original thirteen monthly parts, March 1857-April 1858. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. A lovely, rather astonishing set with minimal wear, confined to spine extremes and small closed tear to fore-edge of Part I. Plates clean and bright. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm) Collating. ix, [2], 412, with thirteen hand-colored engraved plates (including frontispiece) and sixty-nine wood-engravings in text, all by John Leech. Set collates per Mellon/Podeschi and Schwerdt. First issue wrapper to Part I per Wolff (with back cover ad titled "Mappin's Shilling Razor"). No Advertiser is called for in Parts XI and XII. Chemised and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. A Fine set. One of the great pleasures of Ask Mamma is the interpretation of its events by the artist John Leech. He was introduced to Surtees by William Thackeray, a great friend and admirer of Surtees' work. The first novel Leech illustrated for Surtees was Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour. Surtees had originally asked Thackeray to illustrate this work, but Thackeray declined on the grounds that he could not draw horses; instead, he recommended Leech, being "of a sporting turn" and who "to my mind draws a horse excellently." Leech illustrated all of Surtees' subsequent works and the two men became friends. The illustrations follow the text closely, a result of close collaboration between the artist and writer. Although Leech was responsible for numerous book illustrations, and is lauded as the chief cartoonist of Punch, some of his best work is to be found in the pages of Surtees' novels. Mellon/Podeschi 195. Sadleir 3161. Schwerdt II, 233. Tooley 472. Wolff 6632.
Published by Bradbury & Evans, London, 1860
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Thirteen parts bound in twelve. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 11/16 inches; 223 x 145 mm.). Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. With the bookplates of H. Bradley Martin and Fitz Eugene Dixon. Hand-colored etched vignette title and twelve hand-colored plates. Black and white wood engravings throughout. Bound without the 12-page catalogue at end of the thirteenth part. Chemised and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. First and final parts with small losses at spine foot, color plate in part five with light crease, still a very good set. One of the great pleasures of Plain or Ringlets? is the interpretation of its events by the artist John Leech. He was introduced to Surtees by William Thackeray, a great friend and admirer of Surtees' work. The first novel Leech illustrated for Surtees was Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. Surtees had originally asked Thackeray to illustrate this work, but Thackeray declined on the grounds that he could not draw horses; instead, he recommended Leech, being "of a sporting turn" and who "to my mind draws a horse excellently." Leech illustrated all of Surtees' subsequent works and the two men became friends. The illustrations follow the text closely, a result of close collaboration between the artist and writer. Although Leech was responsible for numerous book illustrations, and is lauded as the chief cartoonist of Punch, some of his best work is to be found in the pages of Surtees' novels. Podeschi 199. Tooley 477. Schwerdt Ii, p. 238. Field 212.
Published by Bradbury & Evans, London, 1865
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Third issue (with Part I's title, Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, in solid lettering), in the original twelve monthly parts, May 1864-April 1865. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm).Collating vi, [2], 391, [1], with twenty-four hand-colored steel-engraved plates, two to each volume, heightened with gum arabic. The illustrations to Parts VIII-XII are unsigned but by Hablot K. Brown aka "Phiz." The woodcut on the upper wrapper is by Hablot K. Brown. Advertisements collate per Schwerdt, save Part VI, which lacks the Note of Lever's Martin, and Part VII, lacking the slip for The Belle of the Village. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. Minimal restoration of spines to a few volumes, tiny chip to fore- edge of Part I, otherwise an excellent and quite lovely set. Chemised and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. "Although Surtees approached his publishers in July 1861 with the idea of bringing out 'Mr. Facey Romford' they preferred not to undertake the matter until Mr. Leech's services were definitely secured and there would be no questoin of such delays as had occurred in the illustrations of 'Handley Cross.' Leech promised, however, to being in January 1862, and the situation seemed sufficiently secure to set up the type, but just at this time the artist held his first exhibition of oil paintings which proved so successful and diverting that the 'Facey Romford' illustrations were again postponed. Surtees in despair at last offered the book, in August 1864, to The Field, where is was refused. In March of that year Leech finally undertook the drawings, but never lived to complete the work, which was carried on byPhiz" (Field). Field 225. Tooley 475. Schwerdt II, 237. Podeschi 207.