Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. Edited

by Frank Forester by Robert Smith Surtees, Henry William Herbert, ed

$75 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian · No longer available

New York: Stringer & Townsend, 222 Broadway, 1856. 8vo, 425 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher’s catalogue. With six coloured illustrations by John Leech. Original blind-stamped publisher’s cloth, vignette of fox-hunting gilt-stamped on upper cover and in blind on lower cover, backstrip gilt-stamped with titles and sporting motifs, yellow endpapers. Somewhat shaken, backstrip worn at crown and foot, 1.5 inch split to lower hinge, board tips worn, lower cover scuffed, corner

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