![SURTEES, Robert Smith. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. (1853 - FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 12/13 PARTS) SURTEES, Robert Smith. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. (1853 - FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 12/13 PARTS)](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-miyiditov4/images/stencil/500x659/products/1896/9902/1569.2__08608.1652206473.jpg?c=2)
AUTHOR: SURTEES, Robert Smith.
TITLE: Handley Cross; or Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt.
PUBLSIHER: London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853-54.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 17 PARTS, 17 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech, wood-engraved illustrations, part 7 with advertisement slip for The Newcomes, part 15 with only 2pp. advertisements (of 4pp.), otherwise with all inserts as called for by Schwerdt, original pictorial wrappers with advertisements, A BRIGHT AND EXCELLENT SET, preserved in a full red straight grained morocco solinder slipcase with a folding cloth chemise, spine with gilt hunting motifs, by Root & Son, (with book plates to chemise of Samuel Henry Austin and Lucius Wilmerding designed by Rockwell Kent)
REFERANCE: [Schwerdt II p.234; Tooley 473]