R. S. Surtees — Jorrocks&Apos; Jaunts and Jollities

London, The Folio Society, 1949. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of comic tales from English editor and sporting writer, Robert Smith Surtees. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, colour vignette title, and thirteen colour plates. Collated complete. A collection of comic tales originally published as individual sporting stories in Surtees' New Sporting Magazine between 1831 and 1834 and collected in one volume in 1838. Written by Robert Smith Surtees, an English editor, novelist and sporting writer. Illustrated by Henry Thomas Alken, an English painter and engraver known as an illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. Bound in full red crushed morocco. Externally, very smart with light fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: Henry Alken. Near Fine .