Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Mr. Sponge's sporting tour / by the author of "Handley Cross," "Jorrocks jaunts," &c, &c, &c. ; with illustrations by John Leech.

Accession number
PML 133655-66
Creator
Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805-1864.
Published
London : Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
Original 13/12 monthly parts, published Jan.-Dec. 1852. Title leaf and preliminaries at end of pt. 13.
"Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars"--pt. 13, t.p. verso.
Running title on p. 95 reads: Mr. Sponge's ssorting tour.
There are at least two states of pt. 8; the first having the woodcut on p. 229, the second having it on p. 230. Cf. Tooley.
Library has second state.
Advertisements on wrappers throughout.
Title vignette.
Description
13 pts. (408 p.) [13] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
original printed wrappers; in case.
Classification
Department