x, 398 pp. Hand-colored frontispiece, woodcut plates and vignettes by John Leech. "Robert Smith Surtees (17 May 1805 – 16 March 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."
