8vo. x, 406pp, 12pp adverts. Frontispiece, extra-engraved title and 12 hand-coloured plates by John Leech. Gilt-decorated red cloth. A crisp copy, with slight rubbing/bumping to extremities, bruising to head and foot of spine. Preserved in a cloth folding-box. With two bookplates to front endpapers.

A remarkably well-preserved first edition in book form, in the original cloth, of novelist and sporting writer Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) comic novel of Victorian society; embellished with sumptuous etchings by renowned illustrator John Leech (1817-1864).