SURTEES, ROBERT SMITH
[Sporting Works] including Plain or ringlets?"; "Ask Mama"; Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour; Hawbuck Grange; Mr. Romford's hounds; and Handley Cross. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [1890s]. Later edition. 6 volumes, uniform three-quarters red morocco for S.T. Lauriat, Boston, spines with raised bands, compartments decorated by sporting emblems. 8 3/4 inches (22 cm), top edges gilt. Illustrated throughout with numerous hand-colored steel engravings, primarily after John Leech, but also Hablot K. Browne, and W. T. Maud. Spines a little darkened, some rubbing to joints and extremities, internally generally a clean set.
A second set of this classic of the sporting literature.