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Sporting Novels: Handley Cross or Mr. Jorrock's Hunt, Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, Hawbuck Grange, Plain or Ringlets, Ask Mamma, Mr Facey Romford's Hounds (six volumes)

Sporting Novels: Handley Cross or Mr. Jorrock's Hunt, Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, Hawbuck Grange, Plain or Ringlets, Ask Mamma, Mr Facey Romford's Hounds (six volumes)

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Sporting Novels: Handley Cross or Mr. Jorrock's Hunt, Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, Hawbuck Grange, Plain or Ringlets, Ask Mamma, Mr Facey Romford's Hounds (six volumes)

by Robert Smith Surtees

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London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1880. Hardcover. Good. Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne); John Leech. Six volumes of Surtees' popular humorous hunting themed novels. Featuring 88 hand coloured steel engraved plates by John Leech and Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) plus hand-coloured title pages and dozens of b/w wood engravings within the text. No date but c.1880. 8vo. (230x160mm) Half leather with marbled boards, matching marbling to end-papers. Top edge gilt. One label to spine missing, others faded, some replaced. Light foxing to fore-edges but contents bright and clean, bindings nice and tight. Good.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Sporting Novels: Handley Cross or Mr. Jorrock's Hunt, Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, Hawbuck Grange, Plain or Ringlets, Ask Mamma, Mr Facey Romford's Hounds (six volumes)
Author
Robert Smith Surtees
Illustrator
Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne); John Leech
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
Bradbury, Agnew & Co.
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1880
Keywords
fiction, hunt, fox hunting, horses, coursing, riding, equestrian, comedy, illustrated, color
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Tight
Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Marbled boards
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Top Edge Gilt
Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...

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