Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805-1864
Title:
"Plain or ringlets?" / by the author of "Handley Cross", "Sponge's sporting tour", "Ask Mama", etc. etc. ; with illustrations by John Leech.
Published / Created:
London : Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie street, 1860.
Physical Description:
3 p.l., [v]-viii, [2], 406 p. : illus., 12 col. pl. ; 23 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sporting 2191
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Jn18 390: Original 13 parts in 12, uncut, as issued.

BAC: British Art Center copy: First edition. Parts I-XIII. Octavo. 13 parts in 12 original parts. Original greyish-pinkish-pale red wrappers; printed in black on front and back outsides and insides, pictorial printing on outsides of front wrappers. Reddish-brown quarter morocco, and light red cloth slip-case; gold lettering on spine. Title-page, errata note, 13 plates of hand-colored etchings, 54 wood-engravings in text, 1 wood-engraving on title-page. Illustrations by John Leech. Spine height: 9 1/2 inches.

Added t. p., illustrated in colors.
Contributors:
Leech, John, 1817–1864.