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Price: US$44.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gr.8°, 3 Bl., 326 S.,43 Text-Holzschnitte, Goldschnitt,gr.8°, illustr. goldgepr. Ln., Kupfertitel und Kupfertafeln fehlen, tw. leicht fleckig
Seller: Gablitzer Antiquariat, Gablitz, Austria
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Quarto. Original red cloth, with gilt fox vignette on front. [6], 326, [4] pp, color title page 6 full page hand-colored plates, and 43 woodcuts. Wear, minor soiling to boards. Loss to head of spine. Shaken, front flyleaf detached. Text block mostly uncut. Marginal tanning, foxing. Plate margins tanned. Provenance: Robert Cleveland's book plate on verso. Tooley 470
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$102.40 + shipping
Description: 250mm x 160mm (10" x 6"). 326pp. G : in Good condition without dust jacket as issued. Covers marked. Spine frayed at ends. Small wear mark on front cover. Inner hinges cracked though binding is intact. Plates browned though the colours are still bright. Plate 4 has been trimmed on bottom margin. Light foxing on some of the text. Some of the tissue guards on the plates are torn
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. 24 by 15 cm. [6], 326, [4] pp. Seven hand-colored plates, and 43 woodcuts throughout text. Tooley 470. Preface dated October 1846, marking this as the first issue. Condition: Text block slightly cocked -- front board overhangs rear. Spine sunned. Corners bumped slightly. Rear joint slighly cracked, and fraying of cloth along rear joint. Within, scattered foxing, at times, heavy-ish. Plates, though, are bright. Blindstamped, gilt-stamped cloth
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Robert Smith Surtees. The Analysis of the Hunting Field. Rudolph Ackermann, 1846.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Analysis of the Hunting Field By Robert Smith Surtees. 1846/7 First edition, second Issue Printed in London for Rudolph Ackermann.The Volume is in Very Good Condition Bound in pebbled red cloth, with gilt stamp-work on the front board and spine, blind rules, and with leaf edges gilt. Externally the boards and spine are lightly scuffed and moderately stained, with repairs to the tail of the spine. Internally the leaves are generally clean and amply margined, with some moderate foxing on occasion, with moderate toning on occasion. The volume has been expertly re-cased with new endpapers. The Volume is Complete in All Respects With All colour plates and coloured additional engraved title, final advertisements, as well as the additional 1846 cancel preface from the first issue. The volume is paginated as follows: [2], [v]-vi, [1]-326, [4]. The volume collates as follows: [A]-2S4, 2T5. The volume measures about 25 cm. By 16.5 cm. By 3 cm. Each leaf measures about 240 mm. By 150 mm. Tooley, English Books with Coloured Prints, p375. " There are two issues, First issue in green cloth with both titles and the preface dated 1846. Second issue in red cloth, with the preface dated 1846 but usually 1847. Some copies have both the prefaces, the cancel of 1846 and the 1847. Issued with gilt edges and ungilted edges, the former being superior." (Our Copy). Robert Smith Surtees was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. In 1825 he began contributing to the Sporting Magazine, before launching out on his own with the New Sporting Magazine in 1831, contributing the comic papers which appeared as Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities in 1838. Jorrocks, the sporting cockney grocer, with his vulgarity and good-natured artfulness, was a great success with the public, and Surtees produced more Jorrocks novels in the same vein, notably Handley Cross and Hillingdon Hall, where the description of the house is very reminiscent of Hamsterley. Another hero, Soapey Sponge, appears in Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, possibly Surtees best work. All Surtees' novels were composed at Hamsterley Hall, where he wrote standing up at a desk, like Victor Hugo.In 1835, Surtees abandoned his legal practice and after inheriting Hamsterley Hall in 1838, devoted himself to hunting and shooting, meanwhile writing anonymously for his own pleasure. He was a friend and admirer of the great hunting man Ralph Lambton, who had his headquarters at Sedgefield County Durham, the 'Melton of the North'. Surtees became Lord High Sheriff of Durham in 1856. He died in Brighton in 1864, and was buried in Ebchester church. Though Surtees did not set his novels in any readily identifiable locality, he uses North East place-names like Sheepwash, Howell (How) Burn, and Winford Rig. His memorable Geordie James Pigg, in Handley Cross, is based on Joe Kirk, a Slaley huntsman. The famous incident, illustrated by Leech, when Pigg jumps into the melon frame was inspired by a similar episode involving Kirk in Corbridge. As a creator of comic personalities, Surtees is still readable today. Thackeray envied him his powers of observation, while William Morris considered him "a master of life" and ranked him with Dickens. The novels are engaging and vigorous, and abound with sharp social observation, with a keener eye than Dickens for the natural world. Perhaps Surtees most resembles the Dickens of Pickwick Papers, which was originally intended as mere supporting matter for a series of sporting illustrations to rival Jorrocks. Visit our website for More Images and/or Binding Spins.
Seller: Third Floor Rare Books, Carp, ON, Canada
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Description: A complete set of six superbly hand painted aquatints after Henry Alken plus the magnificent illustrated title page from a Souvenir of the Season 1845-46. All seven in 13½"x11" Ivory bevel edge mounts, ready for framing.
Seller: John L. Capes (Books) Established 1969, STAITHES, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Alken, Henry. First edition in book form, Mixed issue, with titles dated 1846. Preface dated 1847 and plates Nov 19th. Illustrated by Henry Alken, with hand-colored title page, frontispiece and five other colored plates, and 43 wood engravings in the text. vi, [iv], 326, [4, ads] pp. 1 vols. 4to. Tooley 470, Schwerdt II, p. 232-33; Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 359 Bound in three quarters crimson morocco, t.e.g., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Fine, plates a little toned and trimmed closely in gutter Illustrated by Henry Alken, with hand-colored title page, frontispiece and five other colored plates, and 43 wood engravings in the text. vi, [iv], 326, [4, ads] pp. 1 vols. 4to First edition in book form, Mixed issue, with titles dated 1846. Preface dated 1847 and plates Nov 19th.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Description: First edition, published at 31s 6d. First issue with both titles & preface dated 1846 and issued in green cloth. 'Surtees books hold a place of their own in English sporting literature of the 19th century.'- Schwerdt. pp. [viii],326,[4]. Four pages of publisher's adverts at rear. With a frontispiece, additional title-page & five plates, all in aquatint & all with very fine hand colouring, (later issues have inferior colouring) after Henry Alken & engraved by J. Harris plus 43 wood-engravings on the letterpress. 20th C full green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the spine & boards with sporting motifs, dentelles richly gilt, aeg. The original green gilt cloth covers, front & rear and the spine, bound at the back. Neat modern bookplate to front endpaper. VG. [Schwerdt II, 232; Tooley 470; Ford 229; Hardie 320; Slater 4]
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first issue. [6], 326, [4] pp. A very handsome book, near fine condition. Illustrations by Henry Thomas Aiken. Six colour aquatint plates and coloured additional engraved title page (dated November 19, 1846); 43 wood engraved text illustrations by Cook. Plates engraved by J. Harris. 6 x 9-1/2 inches, full dark green Morocco, 5 raised bands on the spine, title and author's names stamped in gilt on the spine, all edges gilt. 2 leaves of publisher's advertisements at the end; also bound in is the original cloth cover from the upper board. Stamped on the bottom of the front pastedown in gilt: "BOUND FOR CHAS. J. SAWYER. LTD. LONDON. Charles J. Sawyer Bookseller (1876-1931), whose archives are at the Grolier Club in New York, was a London-based bookseller firm specializing in the finest books. With publisher F.J. Harvey Darton, Sawyer co-wrote English Books 1475-1900, an illustrated guide to English book collecting. Contents: The master: month, October -- Adjourned debate: the master at Cottonwool's -- The master (continued) -- The master (concluded) -- The huntsman -- The huntsman (continued) -- The whipper-in -- The whipper-in (concluded) -- The earth-stopper - The groom -- The groom (continued) -- The groom (concluded) -- Peter Pigskin -- The farmer -- Elijah Bullwaist, the blacksmith -- The squire -- Lord Evergreen, with some thoughts on tuft hunting -- Captain Shabbyhounde, the steeple-chaser -- Captain Shabbyhounde (concluded) -- Lady foxhunters: Sir Rasper Smashgate and Miss Cottonwool -- Colonel Codshead, or, The close of the season. Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) was an English Victorian novelist of the chase and the creator of Mr. Jorrocks, one of the great comic characters of English literature.Full title: The Analysis of the Hunting Field; Being a Series of Sketches of the Principal Characters That Compose One. The Whole Forming a Slight Souvenir of the Season 1845-46On consignment with LDRB.
Seller: Lord Durham Rare Books (IOBA), St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Price: US$480.00 + shipping
Description: 326pp + 4pp ads. Red cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine. Illustrated title and frontispiece, five inserted color plates and forty-three illustrations on wood by Henry Alken, engraved by Cook and Co. Housed in a custom chemise and red quarter morocco slipcase. With the bookplate of Reuben Jay Flick to front pastedown endpaper. Cloth is soiled, light scattered foxing throughout, spine a bit dulled. Small bookstore labels to pastedown endpapers, previous owner's name on front endpapers. About very good in a fine slipcase. ; Octavo.
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$506.89 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: CLASSIC FIRST EDITION. First Issue. Illustrated with 6 most attractive strongly Hand-coloured Plates, Hand -coloured Title and Forty- three illustrations on wood. Superb Demy 8vo bound in FULL GILT-TOOLED MOROCCO. 326pps. A.e.gilt. Some mild foxing. Marbled endpapers. (Tooley 470)
Seller: HALEWOOD AND SONS ABA ILAB Est. 1867., PRESTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. 24 by 15 cm. [6], 326, [4] pp. Seven hand-colored plates, including frontis and additional title, and 43 woodcuts throughout text. Color plates printed by J. Harris after Alken. Tooley 470. Preface dated October 1846, marking this as the first issue. With lovely later slipcase of quarter red morocco, red cloth boards, silk moire chemise. Condition: light wear, most distinct in corners, of the pebbled cloth cover. Gilt on boards and spine remains bright. Very light occasional fox marks. Mostly clean in this regard. Frontis plate and additional title (with color illustration) more heavily toned than rest, with some moderate rippling of the paper of the color plates. Age toning sometimes along edges of the paper throughout. Chemise with edge threads loosening. Slipcase has trivial edgewear. Blindstamped, gilt-stamped cloth. Quarter morocco slipcase, with silk moire chemise
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 326 pages. 25.5 x 17 cm. First issue, six hand-colored plates by Alken, all with tissue guards, additional pictorial vignette title, and forty-three illustrations on wood engraved by Cook. GORDON RAY p.36, said of Alken, "He worked in color aquatint in a style akin to that of Rowlandson and the early George Cruikshank, passing from the broader caricature in his early books to a more sober recording of the passing scene in his later." TOOLEY calls the red cloth a later binding, but notes copies in red do conform to the first issue text. Bookplates front and back cover pastedowns, minor spotting and toning to margins, backstrip extremities rubbed. Orig. red publisher's cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: "It was, perhaps, the best hunting season of modern times" (Preface) [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. [SURTEES, Robert Smith]. The Analysis of the Hunting Field, Being a Series of Sketches of the Principal Characters That Compose One. The Whole Forming a Slight Souvenir of the Season 1845-6. With Numerous Illustrations, by H. Alken. London: Published by Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. First edition, mixed issue, with the earliest state of plates 4 & 5 (dated Nov. 9th) but with the Preface dated 1847. Large octavo (9 3/4 x 6 inches; 246 x 152 mm). [8], 326, [4, publisher's catalogue] pp. Seven hand-colored aquatint plates by J. Harris after H. Alken, including frontispiece and pictorial title, forty-three woodcuts. Some light, mainly marginal spotting throughout. Publisher's green ribbed cloth, covers decoratively bordered in blind, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt, rear cover similarly stamped in blind, spine decoratively stamped in gilt, yellow coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Top of spine and inner hinges repaired, lower joint worn, spine sunned. Engraved 'sporting' bookplate of Van Santvoord Merle-Smith on front paste-down. A good copy. "This work first appeared in Bell's Life and the first edition in book form. at 31s. 6d. There are two issues. First issue in green cloth with both titles and the preface dated 1846. Second issue in red cloth, with the preface dated occasionally 1846 but usually 1847. There are early states of some of the plates with imprint dated Nov. 9th not Nov. 19th" (Tooley). The Plates: 1. Frontispiece - The Meet. 2. Engraved title. 3. Getting Away. 4. Full Cry. 5. The Check. 6. The Leap. 7. Whoo-hoo-o-o-p. Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer. Thackeray envied him his powers of observation, while William Morris considered him 'a master of life' and ranked him with Dickens. In The Analysis of the Hunting Field, Surtees offers wry, fatherly advice in this satiric romp through the key archetypes of the fox hunt. As Lord Denham says in his introduction, "this should be required reading for anyone connected with hunting. From the right sort of Master to the wrong sort, from the hunting nobleman to the whip and from the blacksmith to the braggart with horses to sell we find the people 'pon the âorses are much the same as today." "More people are flattered into virtue than were ever bullied out of vice" (Surtees, Analysis of the Hunting Field). Bobins IV, 1320; Podeschi 177; Schwerdt II p.232; Siltzer, p. 73; Tooley 470.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: 326 pages. Six hand-colored plates by Alken, with additional pictorial vignette title, and forty-three illustrations on wood engraved by Cook. GORDON RAY p.36, said of Alken, "He worked in color aquatint in a style akin to that of Rowlandson and the early George Cruikshank, passing from the broader caricature in his early books to a more sober recording of the passing scene in his later." Moderate foxing to first few text leaves, light to moderate toning beyond, plates clean, four pages of adverts at rear. Orig. green cloth with pictorial front cover in gilt, sharp and bright. Front cover design replicated on back cover in blind. Aeg. Near fine in custom cloth slipcase
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 6 hand colored plates plus colored vignette title by H(enry) Alken. 43 wood engraved text illustrations by Cook. Tall 8vo, full crimson morocco, elaborately decorated front and back in gilt with images of hounds, foxes and stylized foliage, red silk doublures, g.t. & gilt dentelles by Riviere; original red cloth cover & spine bound in; 4 pages of ads First issue, with plates dated November 1846; 2 armorial bookplates
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1411.59 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A first edition of this hunting work by Robert Smith Surtees. First edition first issue with illustrated title dated 1846. With seven hand coloured aquatint plates by Alken including the frontispiece and illustrated title page. Henry Thomas Alken was an English painted and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. Robert Smith Surtees was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer. He is best known for Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jolities and Mr Sponge's Sporting tour, and his other comedic novels. This is one of his few non fiction works, taken from the sporting newspaper Bell's life in London during the fox hunting season of 1845-6. In a crushed morocco binding by Root and Son. Gilt hunting tools and fox detailing. Original cloth bindings bound in. Externally, in lovely condition. Booksellers label to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright with occasional scattered spotting. Externally: FINE. Internally: VERY GOOD INDEED. Overall: NEAR FINE. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom