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[ALKEN, Henry. Coaching in Snow. London: R. Havell, 12 January 1837].
2° (442 x 312mm). 4 (of 6?) hand-coloured engraved plates, two window-mounted, all tipped into in an album and interleaved. (Mainly marginal light soiling, margins to plate of the Birmingham Mail slightly bubbled and creased, plate of the Liverpool Mail lightly browned.) Mid 20th-century red and white patterened boards backed in green buckram, front cover with black morocco gilt title label reading: ‘A Series of Coaching Snow Scenes,’ green buckram slipcase. Provenance: the prints purchased separately between 1937 and 1942.
RARE COACHING SCENES, showing horse teams labouring, vehicles overturned and alarmed passengers peering out at the snow in the extreme weather of December 1836. Although these four prints have the same imprint date, the series was apparently not united under a common title; one has been used for convenience. Snelgrove and Seltzer both list a total of five prints separately issued in 1837. The four present here are the Birmingham Coach, the Devonport Coach, the Holyhead and Chester Mails, and the Liverpool Mail; they differ slightly in size. Snelgrove lists a fifth plate entitled ‘The Bruce passing the Peveril Coach’, Seltzer also lists a fifth plate but its subject is the ‘Brighton Mail.' Mellon/Snelgrove 82-86; Seltzer p. 63.
2° (442 x 312mm). 4 (of 6?) hand-coloured engraved plates, two window-mounted, all tipped into in an album and interleaved. (Mainly marginal light soiling, margins to plate of the Birmingham Mail slightly bubbled and creased, plate of the Liverpool Mail lightly browned.) Mid 20th-century red and white patterened boards backed in green buckram, front cover with black morocco gilt title label reading: ‘A Series of Coaching Snow Scenes,’ green buckram slipcase. Provenance: the prints purchased separately between 1937 and 1942.
RARE COACHING SCENES, showing horse teams labouring, vehicles overturned and alarmed passengers peering out at the snow in the extreme weather of December 1836. Although these four prints have the same imprint date, the series was apparently not united under a common title; one has been used for convenience. Snelgrove and Seltzer both list a total of five prints separately issued in 1837. The four present here are the Birmingham Coach, the Devonport Coach, the Holyhead and Chester Mails, and the Liverpool Mail; they differ slightly in size. Snelgrove lists a fifth plate entitled ‘The Bruce passing the Peveril Coach’, Seltzer also lists a fifth plate but its subject is the ‘Brighton Mail.' Mellon/Snelgrove 82-86; Seltzer p. 63.
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