Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities.

London: Rudolph Ackermann,, 1843. Second edition, "the most valuable on account of Alken's superb illustrations" (Schwerdt). First published in 1838. A series of picaresque comic tales, originally published as individual stories in Surtees' New Sporting Magazine between 1831 and 1834 and collected in book form in 1838. The plates are replete with detail and brilliantly coloured, as can be seen clearly in this well-preserved copy. Octavo. Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece with tissue guard, hand-coloured aquatint title, with 13 hand-coloured aquatint plates with tissue guards, 8 pp. advertisements. Original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and blind. Housed in a custom red crushed morocco box and silk chemise, short closed tear to fore edge. "Suppressed plate of Jorrocks" in matching chemise. Spine a little sunned, front inner hinge split but holding. An excellent copy.