SURTEES, R.S. "Ask Mamma" Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. [no date c.1870].
8vo., sometime handsomely bound in half red morocco over marbled paper boards, spine with gillt centre tools, raised bands richly gilt, top edges gilt; pp. xii + 412,with 13 hand coloured plates by Leech; a little foxing to a edges, otherwise a most attractive volume.
Later edition. The mamma in question is Mrs Pringle, a socially ambitious widow who aims to guide her son Fine Billy into polite country society only to see him derailed by the pleasures of field sports and young ladies.
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