HANDLEY CROSS • R.S. Surtees Society 1983 • 1854 Reprint for Subscribers • FINE

Description: HADLEY CROSS or MR. JORROCKS HUNT ••• The Author of Mr Jorrocks' Sporting Tour, Jorrocks' Juants, Etc., Etc. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN LEECH The R. S. Surtees Society London 1984 The R. S. Surtees Society, London. Limited Edition for Subscribers, 1984. Fine Condition, in Near Fine Slipcase. Gilt Faux Leather Binding. An historic series of picaresque comic tales by Robert Smith Surtees, originally published as individual stories in his New Sporting Magazine between 1831 and 1834 and collected in book form in 1838. The ebullient Jorrocks is a vulgar Cockney grocer, a city man who loves the sporting life in the country. He is surrounded by a variety of eccentric characters as comic as he is. The adventures of Jorrocks continued in two novels: Handley Cross (1843; expanded edition, 1854) and Hillingdon Hall, or Mr. Jorrock' Hunt. (1845). An enlarged and extended version of Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities was published posthumously in 1869. Tight, Clean, and Unmarked. Size: 6¼” x 9¼” tall, [xvi] + 550 pages, followed by list of subscribers, and The R. S. Surtees Society publications. Weight: 4 Lbs., Box Shipped. Something Old, Something New Something Curious Just for You. Check it out! SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! We Combine Shipping "Books for Every Mind and Every Mood" ________________________________________________________________ Unlike large Book Warehouses that acquire used book donations and ship via 3rd party cut-rate shipping companies. We are a small independent bookseller that purchases our stock from collections and estates. Our stock is handpicked for quality, scarcity, and Interest. We do not ship in quantities that would allow cut-rate shipping, nor do we combine book cost with shipping and call it it free shipping. We keep our prices low, ship promptly

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