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Title: Set of six Sporting Novels by Surtees in eleven volumes finely bound Author: Surtees, Robert Smith Place: London Publisher: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. Date: [1899] Description: Includes: “Ask Mamma” or, the Richest Commoner in England. 2 volumes. With 13 hand-colored steel-engraved plates. Handley Cross or Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt. 2 volumes. With 13 hand-colored steel-engraved plates. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. 2 volumes. With 13 hand-colored steel-engraved plates. Hawbuck Grange: or, the Sporting Adventures of Thomas Scott Esquire. With 8 hand-colored steel-engraved plates. Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds. 2 volumes. With 24 hand-colored steel-engraved plates. (Vol. II front cover dampstained.) "Plain or Ringlets?" 2 volumes. With 12 hand-colored steel-engraved plates. (Vol. II front cover dampstained.) Together, 6 works in 11 volumes. Illustrated by John Leech with wood engravings in addition to the hand-colored steel-engraved plates. (Royal octavo) 24.5x16 cm (9¾x6¼"), early 20th century three-quarter gilt-ruled red levant morocco & cloth, spines tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Handsome set of these sporting classics, with John Leech's inimitable illustrations. Surtees (1805-1864) founded, with R. Ackermann the younger, the New Sporting Magazine in 1831, to which he contributed his comic sketches of Mr. Jorrock, whose adventures to some extent suggested the original idea of Pickwick Papers. Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping and/or handling charges may apply. Lot Amendments Condition: A few minor scuffs to spines and extremities, two covers dampstained as noted; some scattered light foxing with, slight darkening to colored plates; very good. Item number: 280373a