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SURTEES, R. S.
John Leech (illus.)
Handley Cross or Mr Jorrocks's Hunt.
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 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 one of the great comic characters of English Literature; Surtees produced several works in the same vein as his 'Jorrocks novels,' including this text, 'Handley Cross,' whose protagonist James Pigg was based on a real person: Joe Kirk, a Slaley huntsman.
- Published
- London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co [c.1854].
- References
- Bobins III 1198; Tooley 473.
- Plates
- 18
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co [c.1854].
- Ref
- 341
An early edition, one volume with a coloured frontispiece and 17 hand-coloured steel engravings by John Leech. Many sketches on wood. A lovely copy in red buckram with bevel-edged boards decorated in black and gold to the front cover and the spine. Very slightly rubbed to the corners - else a VG+ copy of this amusing story of hunting life. Bookplate of 'Harold A. Wernher' on front pastedown. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. 2. Michael Hardey. 3. Mr. Jorrocks starting for "The cut me down Countries." 4. Mr Jorrocks enters into Handkey Cross. 5. Mr. Jorrocks (loq) - "Come hup! I say - You ugly Beast!". 6. Mr. Jorrocks's Lecture on "Unting." 7. Me Jorrocks has a Bye Day. 8. Me Jorrocks's Bath. 9. The Handley Cross Fancy Ball 10. The Kill, on The Cat & Custard Pot Day. 11. The Meet at Mr. Muleygrubs. 12. "Mind the Bull." 13. The Pomponius Ego Day. 14. Mr. Jorrocks wants twenty. 15. Sir Thomas Trout & The Bloomer. 16. Mr. Barege & The Draft. 17. Pigg in the Melon Frame. 18. Mr. Jorrocks Returns to his Family.
