Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds

Author: SURTEES, Robert Smith; John Leech and Halbot K. Browne (illus.)
Title: Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds
Publication: London: Bradbury and Evans, 1865
Edition: First Edition

Description: Octavo (21.5cm); deep brown half calf with black morocco sides, gilt-tooled spine, with red calf label; marbled endpapers and textblock edges; vi, 391pp, frontispiece, 23 colorplates. This book was professionally restored in 2001; rebacked while retaining the original spine and endpapers (restoration invoice with complete manifest of services laid-in). Textblock smudged and foxed intermittently. Very Good.

Author and humorist R. S. Surtees was perhaps not the most well-read writer during his day. However, his work survived the stuffy Victorian era and Surtees (albeit posthumously) eventually won critical and popular appreciation for his satires of sporting life and his vivid comic characters, especially his most famous buffoon, Jorrocks the grocer. Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, a satire of the upper-class fox-hunting scene, was originally published as a 12-part serial; like most of Surtees' work it is enhanced greatly by the addition of the marvelous color plate illustrations by cartoonists John Leech and H. K. "Phiz" Browne.

Seller ID: 47754

Subject: Great Britain, Literature Before 1900, Social History



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