Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
£75.00
PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Bradbury and Evans, London.
BINDING
Leather bound with marbled overlays.
BOOK CONDITION
Fragile but intact. Leather on spine is very worn. Front hinge split and binding a little weak. However, printed pages good and largely unmarked, and the coloured illustratrations are lovely and bright.
DUST JACKET
No.
EDITION
First edition, 1853.
DESCRIPTION
Illustrated by John Leech. Thirteen full page plates of humorous coloured steel engravings and over 80 smaller wood engravings throughout the text. 408 pp.
SYNOPSIS
Amusing sporting tales of the (mis)adventures of Mr. Sponge and a large cast of characters.