Seven Sporting Novels
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Author: Robert Smith Surtees
Binding: Hardback
Published: The R. S. Surtees Society, Wiltshire - The Folio Society, 1985
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: Slipcase: Worn
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Markings on slipcase.
This handsome set of sporting fiction presents seven of R.S. Surtees’s best-loved novels — Handley Cross, Ask Mama, Plain or Ringlets, Mr. Romford's Hounds, Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, Hillingdon Hall and Hawbuck Grange. Richly illustrated by John Leech, H.K. Browne and Phiz and issued by The R. S. Surtees Society / The Folio Society between 1985 and 1988. The collection chronicles rural England’s hunting scene and gentrified folly, follows exuberant characters and quarrelsome huntsmen, and illustrates how fox-hunting, social ambition, marriage markets and local scandal shape gentlemanly identity. Surtees’s voice instructs and mocks in equal measure, arguing that sporting ritual exposes both the bravado and the small-mindedness of his era.
Author: Robert Smith Surtees
Binding: Hardback
Published: The R. S. Surtees Society, Wiltshire - The Folio Society, 1985
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: Slipcase: Worn
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Markings on slipcase.
This handsome set of sporting fiction presents seven of R.S. Surtees’s best-loved novels — Handley Cross, Ask Mama, Plain or Ringlets, Mr. Romford's Hounds, Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, Hillingdon Hall and Hawbuck Grange. Richly illustrated by John Leech, H.K. Browne and Phiz and issued by The R. S. Surtees Society / The Folio Society between 1985 and 1988. The collection chronicles rural England’s hunting scene and gentrified folly, follows exuberant characters and quarrelsome huntsmen, and illustrates how fox-hunting, social ambition, marriage markets and local scandal shape gentlemanly identity. Surtees’s voice instructs and mocks in equal measure, arguing that sporting ritual exposes both the bravado and the small-mindedness of his era.