Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds The "Jorrocks" Edition Surtees, R. S. Published by Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [1892] Condition: Good but slightly defective Hardcover

1st Jorrocks edition hardcover.  Hand-coloured, tissue-guarded frontispiece, 8 black 7 white plates and numerous woodblock vignettes. 1935 pencil ownership signature on title page. Lacks pages 249-252. 14 x 20 cm. Contemporary scarlet half calf  signed by Morrell, with 5 raised bands and gilt ruled edges, and gilt horses' heads, horseshoes & riding crops within gilt hand-tooled decorative borders in spine compartments. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Classic tale of the chase. Bradbury, Agnew & Co., from 1872, at 10 Bouverie Street, was founded in 1872 when Frederick Moule Evans (1832-1902) left Bradbury, Evans and Co., the firm he had jointly managed with William Hardwick Bradbury (1832-1892) since 1865 when their fathers, who had founded the firm in 1830 as Bradbury and Evans, retired. The Agnew art dealer family, into which both W. H. Bradbury and his sister, Edith, had married, had brought new capital into Bradbury, Evans and Co. in 1865. This injection of capital saw William Agnew (1825-1910) and his brothers Thomas (b 1827) and John Henry became partners when Bradbury, Agnew and Co. was founded. The new firm continued to publish Household Words, Once a Week, and Punch but limited their overall publication of titles to just Shakespeare, the Bible, some archaeology and fox-hunting titles and a few others such as Sylviculture , George Du Maurier, & Theophile Gautier.