Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1843. Item #06229
With the Exceptionally Rare Hand Colored "Suppressed Portrait of John Jorrocks
SURTEES, Robert Smith. BROWNE, Hablot Knight, aka. PHIZ, illustrator. Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities. Being the Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eating, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits of that Renowned Sporting Citizen, Mr. John Jorrocks, of St. Botolph Lane, and Great Coram Street. With fifteen coloured illustrations by Henry Alken. Second edition. London: Rudolph Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 1843.
Second edition, first issue, i.e. first edition with colored plates. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 216 x 133 mm.). vi, [2], [1]-358, [1, printer’s imprint], [1, blank]. Hand-colored engraved vignette title and fourteen hand-colored aquatint plates. Plates watermarked 1832.
Publisher's green blind-stamped fine diaper-grain cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. All edges gilt. Pale yellow coated endpapers, the rear endpaper with the small printed label "Bound by Westley's & Co London". Advertisements for R. Ackermann’s Sporting Library affixed to front and rear pastedowns. Chemised in a fine full red morocco pull-off case, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. A fine copy.
Together with the exceptionally rare hand colored portrait of Henry Alken chemised in a red cloth portfolio, front flap lettered in gilt "Henry Alken/Suppressed Portrait/of/John Jorrocks/1843". On the verso of the plate written in pencil "Mr. Jorrocks at Home/Henry Alken/The suppressed Portrait of/John Jorrock. Esq M.S.H/by Henry Alken London 1843".
"The Suzannet copy had an additional plate bound in as frontispiece viz. John Jorrocks Esqre. M.S.H. & c. A Citizen of Credit and Renown. Drawn and Etched by H. Alken. London Published by R. Ackermann at his Eclipse Sporting Gallery 191 Regent Street 1843. This plate was for some reason withdrawn and does not form part of the work." (Tooley, pp. 375-376).
We have been able to locate just one example which had the "suppressed plate" (unsold at Alde's Auctions, Paris, in 2011.
"Rare first edition of this famous book with the plates by Phiz (H.K. Browne). It first appeared, without illustrations, in the form of short stories distributed through Vol. I to Vol. VII of the "New Sporting Magazine." The stories were much altered before being issued in book form." (Schwerdt II, p.236).
Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities first appeared in Volumes I-VII of New Sporting Magazine and then in book form in 1838 with twelve plates by Phiz, and again in 1839.
Mellon/Podeschi 173. Schwerdt II, p. 236. Tooley 471.
Price: $3,500.00