Hawbuck Grange, or, The Sporting Adventures of Thomas Scott, Esq
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, [1899]. [Later Edition]. Hardcover. A not quite Very Good copy of this later edition, bound in brown leather with the spine lined, lettered, and decorated in gilt and each board lined and decorated in gilt, complete with eight (8) illustrations by Phiz and with a prior seller's note loosely laid in and stating, among other things, that this 1899 first edition was issued in both dated and undated copies. The boards are worn and show general wear and tide marks, the leaves some some scattered tide marks, a few marginal chips, and a repair to the upper outer corner of the leave hosting pp 121/122. Each pastedown bears a bookplate with the one to the front pastedown shows a Latin motto above which is a deer above which a knight and the rear bookplate, also illustrated, bears the name of book collector William Crampton. As the R. S. Surtees Society states: “It’s odd if a foxhunter gets into a crowd of sportsmen, within half a hundred miles of home, without being recognised….and on this premise Tom Scott tours through pack after pack in the North of England.....Hopeless with women, exasperated by the packs with whom he hunts, obsessed with hunting and little use in the conversational line Tom Scott should be a crashing bore. But he’s not. In fact he’s welcome wherever he shows his face on this rollocking tour – because he’s the happiest combination Surtees knows: a gentleman and a sportsman. This book contains as fine a hare-hunt as you will read in all literature, some shrewd and telling observations on the after dinner foxhunter, and an almost irresistible invitation to make like a dogfox and ‘travel’.."
An about Very Good copy. Very good. Item #3649
Price: $30.00