[Rarebooks] FS: 6 volume set of Surtees's Sporting Works Illustrated by John Leech beautifully bound by Morrell in 3/4 red morocco, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:    Was $1750   Now  $1250:

(LEECH, John) SURTEES, Robert Smith. [THE SPORTING WORKS] HAWBUCK 
GRANGE, OR THE SPORTING ADVENTURES OF THOMAS SCOTT, ESQ.; ASK MAMMA, OR 
THE RICHEST COMMONER IN ENGLAND; HANDLEY CROSS, OR MR. JORROCK'S HUNT; 
PLAIN OR RINGLET; FACEY ROMFORD'S HOUNDS; and SPONGES SPORTING TOUR. 
London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., n.d [@1890s]. Six octavo (5-7/8" x 9") 
volumes beautifully bound by Morrell in 3/4 red morocco and red cloth 
boards with gilt-ruled borders, gilt lettering and equestrian 
decorations on the spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Comprising 
HAWBUCK GRANGE, OR THE SPORTING ADVENTURES OF THOMAS SCOTT, ESQ.; ASK 
MAMMA, OR THE RICHEST COMMONER IN ENGLAND; HANDLEY CROSS, OR MR. 
JORROCK'S HUNT; PLAIN OR RINGLET; FACEY ROMFORD'S HOUNDS; and SPONGES 
SPORTING TOUR. Illustrated with six hand-colored title pages, 87 
hand-colored full- page steel engravings, and 400 woodcut full page and 
text illustrations, most by John Leech. (HAWBUCK GRANGE is illustrated 
by H. K. "Phiz" Browne and W. T. Maud.) Occasional minor rubbing along 
joints. A Fine, handsome set. (#012747)        $1,250.00

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