Handley Cross; Or, Mr. Jorrock's Hunt.

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The first illustrated edition, the original being published in 1843 without illustrations. Octavo (21 x 14cm). 'A famous classic of the hunting-field, the work of an experienced and enthusiastic fox-hunter who in his insatiable love of farce, broad cariacature, and the high-flavoured vocabulary of stable and turf, was a minor Dickens, or at least the genuine offspring of the sporting miscellanists whose work was crowned and transcended by the Pickwick Papers'- Baker & Packman. pp. x,550. With a frontispiece and 16 plates on steel, all hand coloured, and 99 illustrations on the letterpress, including illustrated initials, all by John Leech. Bound in full crushed red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, the spine richly gilt with raised bands, the boards with triple border, the dentelles extravagantly gilt-tooled, with marbled endpapers, aeg. 20th C bookplate of Harry H. Blum. VG. [Sadleir 3162a; Wolff 6633a; CBEL IV, 1403; Baker & Packman 456; Tooley 473; Podeschi 188; Field 186]. N° de ref. del artículo 11160

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