Item Description: Jorrocks's Jaunts & Jollities; The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eating, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits of that Renowned Sporting Citizen Mr. John Jorrocks by Robert Smith Surtees. With an Introduction by Joseph Grego. With illustrations by H. Alken, Phiz, and W. Heath. Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., London. Undated. c1869. Condition: Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Lacking 5 plates (8, 10, 64, 208, & 252). 190 is present but detached. The boards are clean and tight. There is light wear to the corners and spine ends. The binding and hinges are solid and tight. The pages are clean and unmarked. Hardcover. Original green decorative cloth stamped with a gilt crossed foxtails motif on cover, gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and illustrated title page, 12 of 18 full-page color plates by Henry Alken, (lacking plates 8, 10, 64, 208, 212 & 252.) Plate 190 is present but detached;  9 black and white plates by Phiz; 1 color plate by W. Heath, all with captioned tissue guards. Large heavy volume. xxiv, 272 Pages. 7 1/4 x 10 5/8 " tall.

Contents: Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; List of Plates; Introduction; The Late Mr. R. S. Surtees, of Hamsterley; The Swell and the Surrey; The Yorkshireman and the Surrey; Surrey Shooting: Mr. Jorrocks in Trouble; Mr. Jorrocks and the Surrey Staghounds; The Turf: Mr. Jorrocks at Newmarket; A Week at Cheltenham: The Cheltenham Dandy; Aquatics: Mr. Jorrocks in Paris; The Road: English and French; Mr. Jorrocks in Paris; Sporting in France; A Ride to Brighton: on "The Age"; Mr. Jorrocks's Dinner Party; The Day After the Feast: An Episode by the Yorkshirema

Robert Smith Surtees (17 May 1805 – 16 March 1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer contributed to the Sporting Magazine. He launched out on his own with the New Sporting Magazine in 1831, contributing the comic papers which appeared as Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities in 1838. Jorrocks, the sporting cockney grocer, with his vulgarity and good-natured artfulness, was a great success with the public, and Surtees produced more Jorrocks novels in the same vein, notably Handley Cross and Hillingdon Hall, where the description of the house is very reminiscent of Hamsterley. Another hero, Soapey Sponge, appears in Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, possibly Surtees best work. All Surtees' novels were composed at Hamsterley Hall, where he wrote standing up at a desk, like Victor Hugo. The first of the Jorrocks novels, originally serialized in The New Sporting Magazine, July 1831-September, 1834. Surtees was the best-loved of Victorian hunting novelists. 

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