Robert Smith Surtees — Handley Cross

London , The Folio Society, 1951. Cloth. A bright reprint of the classic tale Handley Cross, with colour illustrations. This is a later reprint by The Folio Society of the famous classic tale of the hunting field, Handley Cross, written by Robert Smith Surtees with beautiful colour plates by John Leech.Surtees was an English novelist who is most known for his invented character Jorrocks, a cockney grocer. Surtees writes with high-spirit, a certain boisterousness, and caricature. With sixteen colour plates. In the original unclipped dustwrapper.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart with a mark to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound with bright clean pages. In the original unclipped dustwrapper, the rear wrap is faded and the rear joint is worn and the spine is faded. Near Fine . Ill.: John Leech. Near Fine/Very Good.