Author: SURTEES, Robert Smith; LEECH, John, illustrator
Title: Handley Cross. Or Jorrock's Hunt
Description: London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853-54. In the Original Monthly Parts With Seventeen Humorous Hand Colored Plates by John Leech SURTEES, Robert Smith. [LEECH, John, illustrator]. Handley Cross. or Jorrock's Hunt. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854. First illustrated edition, first issue with 'Illustrious Leech" in Preface. Seventeen original parts issued from March 1853 to October 1854. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm). viii, [2], 550, pp. Seventeen hand-colored steel-engraved plates, heightened with gum arabic. Seventeen hand-colored etched plates, numerous black and white woodcut illustrations. With most advertisements as called for by Tooley. Lacking "Foreign Tour" 4 pp. in part XI and "English Cyclopaedia" 2 or 4 pp. in part XV. Some of the wrappers have variant advertisements on inside wrappers. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. An excellent set, bright and fresh. Chemised and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. An original source set, not later put together, with the first owner's neat signature to the upper margin to each front wrapper: "John Lloyd Egginton," Esq. of Charborough Park and Bere Regis, Dorset, who assumed the name Egginton-Ernle-Erie-Drax by royal license upon succeeding to the property of that extinct baronetcy. One of the great pleasures of Handley Cross is the interpretation of its events by the artist John Leech. He was introduced to Surtees by William Thackeray, a great friend and admirer of Surtees' work. The first novel Leech illustrated for Surtees was Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour. Surtees had originally asked Thackeray to illustrate this work, but Thackeray declined on the grounds that he could not draw horses; instead, he recommended Leech, being 'of a sporting turn' and who 'to my mind draws a horse excellently'. Leech illustrated all of Surtees' subsequent works and the two men became friends. The illustrations follow the text closely, a result of close collaboration between the artist and writer. Although Leech was responsible for numerous book illustrations, and is lauded as the chief cartoonist of Punch, some of his best work is to be found in the pages of Surtees' novels. Provenance: Van Santvoord Merle-Smith (1889-1943) was a United States soldier, lawyer, and investment banker, who served as Third Assistant Secretary of State from 1920 to 1921, and as Executive Intelligence Officer to General Douglas MacArthur during World War II. Podeschi 188; Sadleir 3162; Schwerdt II, p. 234; Tooley 473. .
Keywords: LEECH, John, illustrator Color-Plate Books Books in Parts Hunting Nineteenth-Century Literature
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Title: Handley Cross. Or Jorrock's Hunt
Description: London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853-54. In the Original Monthly Parts With Seventeen Humorous Hand Colored Plates by John Leech SURTEES, Robert Smith. [LEECH, John, illustrator]. Handley Cross. or Jorrock's Hunt. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854. First illustrated edition, first issue with 'Illustrious Leech" in Preface. Seventeen original parts issued from March 1853 to October 1854. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm). viii, [2], 550, pp. Seventeen hand-colored steel-engraved plates, heightened with gum arabic. Seventeen hand-colored etched plates, numerous black and white woodcut illustrations. With most advertisements as called for by Tooley. Lacking "Foreign Tour" 4 pp. in part XI and "English Cyclopaedia" 2 or 4 pp. in part XV. Some of the wrappers have variant advertisements on inside wrappers. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. An excellent set, bright and fresh. Chemised and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. An original source set, not later put together, with the first owner's neat signature to the upper margin to each front wrapper: "John Lloyd Egginton," Esq. of Charborough Park and Bere Regis, Dorset, who assumed the name Egginton-Ernle-Erie-Drax by royal license upon succeeding to the property of that extinct baronetcy. One of the great pleasures of Handley Cross is the interpretation of its events by the artist John Leech. He was introduced to Surtees by William Thackeray, a great friend and admirer of Surtees' work. The first novel Leech illustrated for Surtees was Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour. Surtees had originally asked Thackeray to illustrate this work, but Thackeray declined on the grounds that he could not draw horses; instead, he recommended Leech, being 'of a sporting turn' and who 'to my mind draws a horse excellently'. Leech illustrated all of Surtees' subsequent works and the two men became friends. The illustrations follow the text closely, a result of close collaboration between the artist and writer. Although Leech was responsible for numerous book illustrations, and is lauded as the chief cartoonist of Punch, some of his best work is to be found in the pages of Surtees' novels. Provenance: Van Santvoord Merle-Smith (1889-1943) was a United States soldier, lawyer, and investment banker, who served as Third Assistant Secretary of State from 1920 to 1921, and as Executive Intelligence Officer to General Douglas MacArthur during World War II. Podeschi 188; Sadleir 3162; Schwerdt II, p. 234; Tooley 473. .
Keywords: LEECH, John, illustrator Color-Plate Books Books in Parts Hunting Nineteenth-Century Literature
Price: US$ 850.00 Seller: David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)
- Book number: 05949
- Book number: 05949
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