8vo. viii, 391pp, [1]. Frontispiece and 23 hand-coloured plates by John Leech and Hablot K. Browne. A choice copy. With the bookplate of Robert Stephen Benson to FEP, and some slight marking to endpapers, else fine. Preserved in a cloth folding-box.

A remarkably well-preserved first edition, in the original cloth, of novelist and sporting writer Robert Smith Surtees' (1805-1864) final work. Neither Surtees nor illustrator John Leech (1817-1864) would live to see the book through press; Halbot Knight Browne (1815-1882), better known by his pseudonym 'Phiz', completed the illustrations.