c1890 Mr. Romford's Hounds

Description

Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, hand-coloured title vignette, four monochromatic plates, twenty-three hand-coloured plates on steel, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. An entertaining novel following the adventures of trickster Facey Romford, who takes advantage of society's greed and gullibility. Written by Robert Smith Surtees, an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees, remembered for his invented character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer. Illustrated by John Leech, a British caricaturist and illustrator, and Hablot Knight Browne, a British artist and illustrator.