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ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain. London: Thomas McLean, 1821.
2° (469 x 300mm). Hand-coloured aquatint additional title and 50 hand-coloured plates by J. Clark after Alken, one bound in as frontispiece, parallel text in English and French. (Some offsetting onto plates, occasional isolated spots at margins, plate ‘Sporting Meeting in the Highlands’ with repairs at bottom margin.) Contemporary straight-grained red morocco, covers with wide roll-tool border in gilt and blind and central emblem of a stag within a cartouche of foliage and flowers, all-over gilt spine, gilt edges (scuff marks to covers, joints rubbed and slightly split, corners bumped). Provenance: Lord Gray (armorial bookplate) – purchased from Dawson, Los Angeles, 15 January 1943.
FIRST EDITION, second issue of 'perhaps Alken’s best known and most comprehensive work' (Schwerdt). Whereas he was so often the humourist, he here provides a grand panorama of sports being properly conducted. The engraved areas are actually of two sizes, a more compact 154 x 226mm. and a large scale size of 194 x 296mm. More plates are devoted to shooting than to fox-hunting, and fishing has a representation of three plates. 1819-1820 watermarks. Mellon/Podeschi 111; Schwerdt I, p. 19 & IV, p. 4; Siltzer p. 70; Tooley 41.
2° (469 x 300mm). Hand-coloured aquatint additional title and 50 hand-coloured plates by J. Clark after Alken, one bound in as frontispiece, parallel text in English and French. (Some offsetting onto plates, occasional isolated spots at margins, plate ‘Sporting Meeting in the Highlands’ with repairs at bottom margin.) Contemporary straight-grained red morocco, covers with wide roll-tool border in gilt and blind and central emblem of a stag within a cartouche of foliage and flowers, all-over gilt spine, gilt edges (scuff marks to covers, joints rubbed and slightly split, corners bumped). Provenance: Lord Gray (armorial bookplate) – purchased from Dawson, Los Angeles, 15 January 1943.
FIRST EDITION, second issue of 'perhaps Alken’s best known and most comprehensive work' (Schwerdt). Whereas he was so often the humourist, he here provides a grand panorama of sports being properly conducted. The engraved areas are actually of two sizes, a more compact 154 x 226mm. and a large scale size of 194 x 296mm. More plates are devoted to shooting than to fox-hunting, and fishing has a representation of three plates. 1819-1820 watermarks. Mellon/Podeschi 111; Schwerdt I, p. 19 & IV, p. 4; Siltzer p. 70; Tooley 41.
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