Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities

First collected in 1838, these comic sporting sketches follow John Jorrocks, a loud Cockney grocer who hunts, races, and travels with more zeal than skill. Episodes take him from Surrey meets and Newmarket to a Channel crossing and a French adventure, always among horses, hounds, inns, and men who live by the calendar of sport. The humour lies in slang, mishap, and the collision of City money with county ritual. There is no single intrigue: the book is a string of outings that introduce the figure Surtees later carried into longer hunting novels. It is social comedy of the field, not a reform tract.

Bound in red artificial leather decorated in gold. Pale yellow endleaves. Gold slipcase.