Author: SURTEES, ROBERT SMITH (1805-1864)
Title: Young Tom Hall : his heartaches & horses / Robert Smith Surtees ; with illus. by G. Denholm Armour
Description: Nunney : R.S. Surtees Society 1987. First Edition Reprinted. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 358p. 4 plates : ill. facsims. ports. ; 22cm. Notes: Facs. reprint of ed. originally pubilshed. Edinburgh: Blackwood. 1926. Summary: Young Tom Hall: His Heartaches and Horses. was originally published anonymously in New Monthly Magazine until 1852. when a notice appeared explicitly naming Surtees. It was withdrawn and never completed as serial or as book. until E.D. Cuming. Surtee's biographer. rescued fifty chapters from the files of Ainsworth's magazine. to be published in 1926 by Blackwood and Sons of Edinburgh. The set pieces are as brilliant as any that Surtees did elsewhere. his sartorial descriptions the best guide to the clothes. transport. food. furniture. and fun enjoyed in England between the first and second Reform Bills. Other names: Armour. George Denholm (1864-1949) R.S. Surtees Society. Genre: Fiction. ISBN: 0948560053. Weight in Kg appr.:

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