Robert Surtees
WORKS
7 Gilt Leather Binding Set
Hand Colored Plates
Signed BUMPUS Bindings

1890

Robert Smith Surtees

WORKS

Hillingdon Hall , Facey Romford's Hounds , Hawbuck Grange ,
Ask Mamma , Plain or Ringlets , Sponge's Sporting Tour ,
Handley Cross

London: Bradbury Agnew & Co, no date but circa 1890. Reprinted from the original first editions of the 1850s.

Bound by BUMPUS (likely by Riviere or Sangorski for Bumpus)

Red calf leather over cloth, gilt tooled spines, 5 raised bands, inner marbled boards, top page edges gilt and numerous engravings and beautifully hand-coloured, tissue-guarded plates on thick stock.

Hillingdon Hall: 2 blank end leaves, [8 pages of half title, title, dedication, Preface and List of Illustrations], 1-519, 2 blank end leaves with 12 hand-colored plates.

Facey Romford's Hounds: 2 blank end leaves, xii, 1-405, 2 blank end leaves with 24 hand-colored plates + hand-colored title also tissue-guarded.

Hawbuck Grange: 2 blank end leaves, [14 pages of title, contents, etc.], 1-265, 2 blank end leaves with 8 hand-colored plates + hand-colored title also tissue-guarded.

Ask Mamma: 2 blank end leaves, [14 pages of title, contents, etc.], 1-423, 2 blank end leaves with 13 hand-colored plates + hand-colored title also tissue-guarded.

Plain or Ringlets: 2 blank end leaves, x, 1-398, 2 blank end leaves with 12 hand-colored plates + hand-colored title also tissue-guarded.

Sponge's Sporting Tour: 2 blank end leaves,x, [+2 pages of title, contents, etc.], 1-450, 2 blank end leaves with 13 hand-colored plates + hand-colored title also tissue-guarded.

Handley Cross: 2 blank end leaves, xvi, 1-578, 2 blank end leaves with 17 hand-colored plates + hand-colored title also tissue-guarded.

*90+ hand-colored illustrations, as well as numerous full page engravings that are not numbered or collated above. The set is complete, tight and square.

Volumes measure 91/8 x 61/4 inches

Volumes in very good condition with minor wear, small gouges and rubbing to leather exteriors, small chip with loss to leather of the upper edge of spine of Romford's Hounds, light wear and soiling to some of the exterior cloth. Small tear to edge of leaf 507/508. See multiple photos.

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