London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. Ld. Book. Illus. by John Leech. Very Good. Three-Quarter Leather. Later Printing. Large 8vo. vii (iv), 423 pp, tissue-protected color frontis, preface to the original edition, engravings on wood, engravings on wood: full page, tissue-protected color engravings on steel, 63 chapters. no date. Printed for Subscribers from the plates of the Original Edition issued by Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. He was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family. He launched 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." Rebound in three-quarter leather. 1" square chip to top margin page 423. Last few pages foxed and age-toned. Lightly faded leather of board edges with age toned text block edges. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Three-quarter brown leather spine with green dyed leather and marble paper-covered boards with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, and marble end-papers..

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Bookseller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004518
Title: "Ask Mamma;" or, The Richest Commoner in England
Author: Surtees, R. S
Illustrator: John Leech
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: Later Printing
Publisher: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. Ld.
Place of Publication: London
Keywords: LITERATURE ENGLISH SPORTS WRITING SURTEES ROBERT JAMES (1805-1864) NOVEL
Bookseller catalogs: LITERATURE;
Size: Large 8vo

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Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Rebound: A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
Marginalia: Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Raised Band(s): Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.