Robert Smith Surtees — Town and Country Papers

New York, Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. 1929. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy collecting a variety of the writings of Robert Smith Surtees, illustrated by Denholm Armour and presented in smart decorative cloth. A delightful collection of some of the less common writings of Surtees, collected from magazines.Robert Smith Surtees was an English editor and novelist, most widely known for the cockney character of Jorrocks.Edited with an introduction by E. D. Cuming. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and twenty-one monochrome plates.Collated, complete.Illustrated by George Denholm Armour.Lacking the very scarce original dust wrapper.A smart first edition. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally very smart, with just a touch of minor wear. Internally, binding is generally firm, with a slight strain to the front hinge after the front endpaper. Pages are occasionally a touch spotted. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Geo. Denholm Armour. Very Good Indeed .