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Some images from Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees (1805 – 1864) and illustrated by John Leech (New York, Stringer and Townsend, 1856). Surtee used the pseudonym Frank Forester for some editions, but in this case the book was anonymous.
Title: Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour
City: London
Date: 1856
Total items: 5
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: W with two horses and riders]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Surtees-MrSpongesSportingTour/wm/big/129-inital-letter-w-q75-194x200.jpg "[picture: W with two horses and riders]")
![[picture: Initial letter T with upturned book and horse-rider on quill pen]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Surtees-MrSpongesSportingTour/wm/big/227-initial-letter-T-q85-290x200.jpg "[picture: Initial letter T with upturned book and horse-rider on quill pen]")
Initial letter T with upturned book and horse-rider on quill pen
In this vignetted decorative initial a man wears a top hat and rides a “horse” made from a quill (feather) pen towards an upturned book, laying with the pages partly open and the spine uppermost as if set down by a careless reader, with a giant capital letter “T” in the background. Perhaps the rider is imagined by the reader, or by the writer. [...] [more...]
[$]![[picture: A Day With Puffington's Hounds]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Surtees-MrSpongesSportingTour/wm/big/226-A-Day-With-Puffingtons-Hounds-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: A Day With Puffington's Hounds]")
A Day With Puffington’s Hounds
A happy hunter beams as he holds up a dead rabbit. The rabbit doesn’t look happy. Men in red coats, white trousers and riding hats, horses, dogs. [more...]
[$]![[picture: Letter T with Book]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Surtees-MrSpongesSportingTour/wm/big/227-initial-letter-T-with-book-q85-166x200.jpg "[picture: Letter T with Book]")
![[picture: One of Multum in Parvo's “going” days.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Surtees-MrSpongesSportingTour/wm/big/103-One-of-Multom-In-Parvos-going-days-q75-319x200.jpg "[picture: One of Multum in Parvo's “going” days.]")
One of Multum in Parvo’s “going” days.
Parvo here is a rather strong-willed horse...We see the horse leaping past the hunting-dogs. The man riding the horse is a “toff” or country gentleman of the [...] [more...]
[$]Some images from Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees (1805 – 1864) and illustrated by John Leech (New York, Stringer and Townsend, 1856). Surtee used the pseudonym Frank Forester for some editions, but in this case the book was anonymous.
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