Plain or Ringlets?
by SURTEES, Robert Smith
- Used
- Condition
- Very good.
- Seller
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Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
First edition with illustrations by John Leech: a classic of Victorian sporting literature. Surtees was an aficionado of the hunt and failed solicitor, who began writing his Sporting Magazine in 1831. Immensely popular in the Victorian era he was the progenitor of the "Sporting Novel".
With the bookplate of Thos. Fenwick Harrison.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hordern House Rare Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2509683
- Title
- Plain or Ringlets?
- Author
- SURTEES, Robert Smith
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bradbury and Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1860
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