c1885 "Hawbuck Grange:" Or, The Sporting Adventures of Thomas Scott, Esq.

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Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Pleasing Copy

Robert Smith Surtees was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer best known for his contributions to the first English sporting periodical to devote itself to every type of sport, 'The Sporting Magazine'. Surtees launched his own sporting magazine entitled the 'New Sporting Magazine' in 1831, contributing the comic papers which appeared as 'Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities' in 1838. Jorrocks, the eponymous, vulgar and artful sporting cockney grocer was a great success with the public and is often considered as one of the great comic characters of English Literature. Surtees produced several works in the same vein as his 'Jorrocks novels' including this text 'Hawbuck Grange', which similarly details the trials and tribulations of the sporting field in Victorian times. This copy is undated, dated using Copac. In a handsome half crushed morocco binding with marbled paper boards and endpapers. Collated, complete with eigh beautiful coloured plates by by Phiz, or Hablot Knight Browne, a well-known artist and illustrator renowned for his illustrations in the works of Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth.