1908 Hunts with Jorrocks from Handley Cross

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Illustrated with twenty-five tipped-in colour plates. Collated complete. A collection of the fictional hunts of Surtees' beloved character Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer, from the novel Handley Cross. Including: Mr. Jorrocks's Journal, A Quiet Bye, Pinch-Me-Near Forest, The Shortest Day, and Pomponius Ego, amongst others. Written by Robert Smith Surtees, an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. Illustrated by George Denholm Armour, a British painter and illustrator who made hundreds of illustrations for The Graphic, Punch and Country Life, most connected with horses and riding.