Mr. Sponge's sporting tour / by the author of "Handley Cross," "Ask Mamma," "Plain or ringlets?" "Mr. Ronford's hounds" ; with illustrations by John Leech.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805-1864.

Contributor:

Leech, John, 1817-1864.

Bradbury, Agnew and Co., printer.

Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fox hunting.

Genre:

Fine bindings.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Rodebaugh, Grace H., Estate of (donor) (RBC copy)

Armstrong, F. Wallis (bookplate) (Fairman Rogers copy)

Armstrong, F. Wallis, Jr., Mrs. (donor) (Fairman Rogers copy)

Physical Description:

x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 408 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [1852]

Notes:

Publication date from preface.

Local Notes:

RBC copy: bound in three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards; gold-tooled borders and hunting motifs on spine panels; gilded top-edge.

RBC copy: newspaper article about R.S. Surtees from the times Book Review, April 28, 1957, and a copy of the Rules for the Association of the Rosary Crusade for the Souls in Purgatory laid in.

Fairman Rogers copy with original covers bound in at end.

OCLC:

2938627