[SURTEES, ROBERT SMITH] | [The Works]. London : Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [and others], [ca. 1892]

[SURTEES, ROBERT SMITH]

[The Works]. London : Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [and others], [ca. 1892]

8 works in 8 volumes, octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.). Numerous hand-colored plates after John Leech, Henry Alken, and others, 1 hand-colored additional title, 6 hand-colored title vignettes, uncolored illustrations in Handley Cross. 20th-century red half morocco over cloth-covered boards, bound for Henry Sotheran of Sackville Street, second and fourth gilt-lettered, first with a fox's mask, third with a whip and horseshoe, fifth with a hound's head, the sixth with a horse's heads, each tooled and ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers.

A handsome set from the pen of the 19th-century's best-known sporting author



Surtees' was arguably a match for Dickens in the field of social observation, whilst surpassing him as an observer of the natural world: with warmth and humor Surtees captured an era and a way of life that reached its zenith during Queen Victoria's reign. The present set included the following titles: Hillingdon Hall, Handley Cross, Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities, Hawbuck Grange, "Plain or Ringlets?", Mr. Romford's Hounds, Ask Mamma, and Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour.