Handley Cross
Subtitle: or, Mr. Jorrocks's hunt
By: by the author of "Mr. Sponge's sporting tour," "Ask Mamma," "Plain or ringlets?" etc., etc ; with illustrations by John Leech.
Contributors: Leech, John, 1817-1864.
Edition: [Subscription edition].
Publisher: printed for subscribers from the plates of the original edition, issued by Bradbury, Agnew & Co
Published: 1888
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Fox hunting.
Other titles: Mr. Jorrock's hunt.
Notes: Apparently the 1888 undated edition. First published in 3 volumes in 1843, London, H. Coburn, under title: Handley Cross; or, The spa hunt. Expanded, with illustrations, as Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrock's hunt, London, Bradbury and Evans in 1854; Cf. NCBEL, III, col. 967; English books with coloured plates, by R. V. Tooley, p. 376-378, and NUC, pre-1956, v. 577, p. 172-173, for first edition.

With 17 plates, hand color steel engravings, as listed in Tooley.

"The Whitefriars Press, Ltd., London and Tonbridge."--p.578.

Colored plates accompanied by protective sheet.

Head-pieces, initials.

On spine: Subscription edition.

Colored title vignette.

Reference: Grolier Club. "Catalogue of an exhibition of works by John Leech, 1817-1864." New York : Grolier club, 1914 207.