1860 Plain or Ringlets [With] Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour [With] Mr Romford's Hounds

Description

Colour Plates, Fine Binding, First Edition, Illustrated

All volumes are undated and are therefore dated using the British Library and Oxford Libraries listings on Copac. 'Plain or Ringlets' is dated 1860 and is a first edition in book form, 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' is a first edition second state, with the woodcut to page 230 rather than 229 (Tooley) and 'Mr Romford's Hounds' is a first edition from 1865. With prior owner's stamp to the front endpapers, George C Williams, Llanrumney Hall Cardiff. Prior owner's inscription to the verso of front endpaper to 'Mr Romford's Hounds' and Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour'. 'Herbert B Cory July 1893'. 'Mr Sponge Declares Himself' plate is bound in as a frontispiece to 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour'. With thirteen hand-coloured plates to 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour', twelve hand-coloured plates to 'Plain or Ringlets', a frontispiece and twenty three plates to 'Mr Romford's Hounds. Collated, the volumes contain all plates. Robert Surtees Smith was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer. He launched his own Sporting Magazine titled the 'New Sporting Magazine' in which he wrote numerous comic papers. Thackeray envied Surtees for his powers of social observation.