Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

by Robert Smith Surtees

$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. Hand colored frontispiece, 12 hand colored steel engravings, and numerous woodcut illustrations by John Leech. 1 vols. 8vo. Original tan pictorial cloth, gilt, some cover wear, shaken, else internally near fine. Cloth wrapper. Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 361. Item #10560 Surtees’ classic sendup of the English propertied classes, through the lens of the hunting field. The

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