Jorrock's Jaunts And Jollities, Folio Society by SURTEES (R.S.); Illustrator-Henry Alken - 1949-01-01

Methuen, London, 1913, New Issue,. 1913. Hardcover. hardback, small 8vo, viii,240pp, 15 colour plates, edges browned, owner's name on endpaper, text clean and sound, red cloth, gilt titles, spine faded, , Good condition / no dustwrapper .

Eyre & Spottiswoode / Charles Scribners Sons, 1931. Book. Good. Hardcover. No jacket. One volume only. Facsimile printing of the original of 1845-6. Limited numbered edition - hand-numbered 226 of 976 copies first printing. Clean sound copy with unmarked text. some spine sunning/fading, and a few light markings to the covers. Clean unmarked internals. Makes a very nice reading copy, priced accordingly with secure boxed packaging. j3 .

London: Downey, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Binding shot, spine perished. xxi, 238 pages color plates 28 cm.

London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall octavo, vi, 326 pages, [4]; G+; Faded red cloth solander case with gilt lettering; Original red cloth binding with gilt embossed lettering and graphics, housed in red cloth solander case; Boards show moderate bumping to head/tail of spine and top corners, significant bumping/curling to bottom corners, light shelfwear overall, light+ soiling overall (especially to spine), and light wear to cloth on spine and along joints; Textblock has light+ age-toning to uncut bottom- and fore-edge, moderate+ age-toning to top edge, light foxing to pages interiorly, and moderate age-toning to plate pages; Library stamp of former holder appears on front pastedown and ffep, and a former owner's name appears in ink on ffep; Includes 6 full-page color plates and numerous b/w illustrations throughout; Four pages of publisher advertisements appear at back; Solander case light shelfwear and soiling overall, and signficiant fading to cloth on outward facing… Read More

London: Published by Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. It was, perhaps, the best hunting season of modern times" (Preface) [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. [SURTEES, Robert Smith]. The Analysis of the Hunting Field, Being a Series of Sketches of the Principal Characters That Compose One. The Whole Forming a Slight Souvenir of the Season 1845-6. With Numerous Illustrations, by H. Alken. London: Published by Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. First edition, mixed issue, with the earliest state of plates 4 & 5 (dated Nov. 9th) but with the Preface dated 1847. Large octavo (9 3/4 x 6 inches; 246 x 152 mm). [8], 326, [4, publisher's catalogue] pp. Seven hand-colored aquatint plates by J. Harris after H. Alken, including frontispiece and pictorial title, forty-three woodcuts. Some light, mainly marginal spotting throughout. Publisher's green ribbed cloth, covers decoratively bordered in blind, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt, rear cover similarly stamped in blind, spine decoratively stamped in gilt, yellow coated… Read More