Leech John Halbot Browne (2 results)

HardBack. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st Edition Thus, Published for the Subscribers of The Surtees Society 1982, the volume in hand is based upon the 1865 True 1st Edition. Thick Royal 8vo. 405pp, with List of Subscribers and advanced notice of the 8 other volumes of Surtees fiction which we also have for sale. Profuse illustrations, with many full page coloured plate illustrations based on steel engravings, and several black and white vignettes by John Leech and Halbot K.Browne Dickens illustrator Phizincluding frontispiece. Volume appears unopened and unread, very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind, clean crisp corners and edges, well held in joints and hinges. Beautifully bound in triple blind ruled and illustrated, bright gilt lettered and embossed, full racing green cloth, featuring gilt embossed romantic and riding scenes to spine and upper board. Housed and protected in such good condition in transparent removable dustwrapper as issued. Dickens Pickwick Papers originated as a rival to the immensely popular Jorrocks; Thackeray envied Surtees his powers of observation, and William Morris considered him a master of life and ranked him with Dickens. The volume in hand is a great addition to the library of reader, scholar and collector alike. Please check our listings for 8 other volumes of Surtees fiction, and 2 nonfiction, bought from the same collector.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. xvi, 578; xii, 405 pp., with 41 engraved & hand-coloured plates, and many other illus. in text. 2 vols. Original quarter maroon morocco, marbled boards, t.e.g.