ASK MAMMA, OR THE RICHEST COMMONER IN ENGLAND

by Robert Smith Surtees, John Leech

$350 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co, 1858 . First book edition of this humorous tale of the romantic mis adventures of two generations of the Pringle family, an ambitious clan with a love of hunting — with Leech's beautiful hand-colored plates. Very good plus. Item #35817 Robert Smith Surtees, though somewhat obscure today, was a cutting-edge humorist of the mid-to-late 19th century. William Morris placed Surtees in

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.