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Lot 84

[SURTEES (ROBERT)]
[Sporting Novels:] 6 vol.; and 2 others (8)

14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£1,000 - £1,500

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[SURTEES (ROBERT)]

[Sporting Novels:] Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, first issue, 13 hand-coloured plates, 1853; Handley Cross; or Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt, first illustrated edition, 17 hand-coloured plates, 1854; "Ask Mamma", 13 hand-coloured plates, 1858; "Plain or Ringlets?" hand-coloured engraved title and 12 plates, 1860; Mr Facey Romford's Hounds, 24 hand-coloured plates, 1865, together 5 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, illustrated by John Leech, uniformly bound in red calf by Tout, sides with double gilt line borders, spines gilt in 6 compartments decorated with oval fox, hound and horse emblems, and green and purple morocco labels, inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g.; Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities... illustrations by Henry Alken, second edition, hand-coloured additional engraved title with vignettes and 14 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Alken, red morocco gilt by Riviere, sides with triple gilt line borders, gilt panelled spine with floral tools and raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g., [Schwerdt II p.236; Tooley 471], Rudolph Ackermann, 1843--EGAN (PIERCE) Sporting Anecdotes... new edition, considerably enlarged and improved, engraved frontispiece 2 engraved portraits and 3 hand-coloured plates by Robert Cruikshank and others (one folding of a boxing match), wood-engraved illustrations, red morocco gilt by Riviere, g.e., joints rubbed [Cohn 268; Schwerdt I p.159; Tooley 202], 1825--SCROPE (WILLIAM) The Art of Deer-Stalking, additional engraved title and frontispiece, 11 lithographed plates, crushed brown half morocco gilt by Bayntun, John Murray, 1839, 8vo (8)

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