By Robert Smith Surtees
London   Bradbury, Agnew, & Co; John C. Nimmo
9" by 6" [9], 2-550pp; [5], 2-519pp; [5], 2-329pp; [7], 2-408pp; x, [3], 2-412pp; viii, [3], 2-406pp; vi, [3], 2-391pp
A seven volume library set collecting selected works of Victorian novelist Robert Smith Surtees.
By Robert Smith Surtees

c1888 Selected Works of Robert Smith Surtees

London   Bradbury, Agnew, & Co; John C. Nimmo
9" by 6" [9], 2-550pp; [5], 2-519pp; [5], 2-329pp; [7], 2-408pp; x, [3], 2-412pp; viii, [3], 2-406pp; vi, [3], 2-391pp
A seven volume library set collecting selected works of Victorian novelist Robert Smith Surtees.
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Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound

This seven volume library set of the selected works of Robert Smith Surtees includes: 'Handley Cross', 'Hillingdon Hall', 'Hawbuck Grange', 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour', 'Ask Mamma', 'Plain or Ringlets', and 'Mr Romford's Hounds'. Although these works were not particularly popular when they were originally published, due to the comic, satiric and unsentimental style of Surtees' writing which clashed with the Victorian ideals of moralistic literature, these colloquial and discursive novels have outlasted many other similar works of the time. Incorporating the illustrations of John Leech, the artists work was often complimented for elevating Surtees' writing, and provided Leech with an oppurtunity to do some of his best work. With a library sticker to the front pastedown of each volume: GLYNN with coat of arms 'aut viam inveniam aut faciam' (I shall either find a way or make one) and 'Dre weres agan du ny' (By the help of our God). Only the 'Hillingdon Hall' volume is dated, 1888. With colour plates in all volumes. A master of comic characters and observation, Robert Smith Surtees and his work is fondly remembered, presented here in an attractively bound library set.

Condition

Bound in half morocco and pebbled cloth boards with gilt stamped decoration to the spine. Externally, all volumes very smart, with only some shelfwear to the head and tail of the spines and extremities. Internally, all volumes generally firmly bound. Pages in all volumes are bright and clean, with only minor spotting or handling marks in places.

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