OF THE
Handley Cross Sporting Novels.
6 Volumes, Large Crown 8vo, with Illustrations, price 36s.
Of the Books which have attained to the position of being perennial favourites with the audience to whom they appeal—living as if no rivalry could dislodge them—a foremost place has long been held by the Handley Cross series of volumes, which are now just as much the favourite reading of those who are interested in the exploits of the hunting-field, as they have been since their first publication.
The fictitious heroes, whose doings and sayings inspire these favourite volumes, provide a nomenclature which is as much imbedded in the phraseology of sport as those of Thackeray or Dickens are in our national literature. In what hunting circles may it not be said that the names of Jorrocks and Soapey Sponge and Facey Romford are "familiar in their mouths as household words"?
The Handley Cross Sporting Novels have hitherto, by the form of their production, formed the enduring ornament of a Country Gentleman's Library, and, by reason of their price, have been somewhat beyond the attainment of that extensive and constantly enlarging section who have learned to take delight in the out-of-door amusements which brighten rural life.
Everyone whose delight in a "finest run across country that ever was seen," and whose ambition is "to be in at the finish," may now have as his abiding companions on his own book-case within reach of his easy-chair, the histories of Jorrocks and Sponge and Romford, and others of the famous creation, in a handsome and handy form; having the pages brightened by a selection from the original illustrations to give an added vividness to the exhilarating raciness of the author's humour.
The volumes are sold separately as under:—
HANDLEY CROSS;
or, Mr. Jorrock's
Hunt. With 67 Text and 12 Page
Illustrations and Coloured Frontispiece.
Price 7s. 6d.