First Edition, Original Cloth
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
Price: $500.00
About the item
First edition. Hand colored frontispiece, 12 hand colored steel engravings, and numerous woodcut illustrations by John Leech. 1 vols. 8vo. First Edition, Original Cloth. Original tan pictorial cloth, gilt, some cover wear, shaken, else internally near fine. Cloth wrapper. Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 361.
Item #10560
Surtees’ classic sendup of the English propertied classes, through the lens of the hunting field. The freeloading Sponge is a hilarious creation and Surtees is as keen an observer of the financial view of world (and marriage) in Victorian Britain as Dickens, and as Jane Austen was of Georgian society.
