SURTEES, JORROCKS’S JAUNTS AND JOLLITIES, Color Plates, Equestrian Sporting Fiction

Robert Smith Surtees. Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities. London: George Routledge and Sons and L.C. Gent; New York: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. Octavo. Publisher’s pictorial red cloth stamped in black and gilt. Illustrated with sixteen colored plates after Henry Alken. Includes frontispiece and engraved title page.

Moderately worn; cloth soiled, stained, and faded; fraying and small tears at spine ends and corners; outer joints rubbed; front pastedown with bookplate and marginal paper loss; gutter tape repairs to early leaves; scattered foxing.