Add this copy of Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds to cart. $157.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1865 by Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street.
Publisher:
Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street
Published:
1865
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
15277516726
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. First edition. Octavo. pp. [i-v (first leaf is blank)] vi [vii-viii], [1] 2-391 [392 (blank)]. With 24 hand-colored plates by John Leech and Hablot Browne (including the frontispiece). Bound in red half morocco and cloth over boards, gilt spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Darkening to the boards, two one-inch tears to the spine back at the joints, else a very good copy with some light foxing and soiling to the endleaves. All 24 plates are neatly hand-colored.
Add this copy of Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds to cart. $382.00, like new condition, Sold by Argonaut Book Shop rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1876 by Bradbury, Agnew, & Co..
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Fine. Book Octavo (8¾x5¾ inches). Pp. vi, [2], 391. Illustrated with hand-colored steel-engraved title vignette and 24 hand-colored steel engraved plates by John Leech and H. K. Brown. Newer three-quarter crimson morocco, marbled sides, gilt-lettered spine. Spine slightly faded, list of illustrations leaf with light damage to bottom blank border. Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. After 1838, Surtees devoted himself to hunting and shooting novels with comic personalities. His novels are engaging and vigorous, and abound with sharp social observation. Most of Surtees's later novels, were illustrated by John Leech. They included 'Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853); 'Ask Mamma' (1858); 'Plain or Ringlets? ' (1860) and 'Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds', originally issued posthumously in 12 parts in 1865. In this novel Facey is a trickster who takes advantage of society's greed and gullibility. This brisk novel is the sequel to 'Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour'.
