Handley Cross Or Mr Jorrockss Hunt By The Author Of Mr Sponges Sporting Tour Jorrockss Jaunts Etc

by Robert S Surtees

$250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854. First edition in book form. 8vo. viii, 2 , 550 pp. Hand-colored plates. Angling book collector John G. Heckscher's copy, with his bookplates on front endpapers. Later three-quarter purple leather joints rubbed, corner's bumped , marbled boards and endpapers, spine richly gilt with title and ornaments between raised bands, t.e.g. Very good. Item #46435

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