ALKEN, HENRY. The National Sports of Great Britain. London: W. Lewis for Thomas McLean 1821. Folio, contemporary green straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt- and blind-tooled floral borders, g.e., worn, upper cover detached, lower joint weak, front flyleaves and frontispiece loose, one or two short marginal tears, slight offsetting to frontispiece, occasional marginal soiling. FIRST EDITION, second issue, letterpress title and text in English and French, additional hand-colored aquatint title and 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by J. Clark after Alken. Schwerdt I, 19; Tooley 41. Bookplate of Thomas Clifton. | Christie's

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ALKEN, HENRY. The National Sports of Great Britain. London: W. Lewis for Thomas McLean 1821. Folio, contemporary green straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt- and blind-tooled floral borders, g.e., worn, upper cover detached, lower joint weak, front flyleaves and frontispiece loose, one or two short marginal tears, slight offsetting to frontispiece, occasional marginal soiling. FIRST EDITION, second issue, letterpress title and text in English and French, additional hand-colored aquatint title and 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by J. Clark after Alken. Schwerdt I, 19; Tooley 41. Bookplate of Thomas Clifton.

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ALKEN, HENRY. The National Sports of Great Britain. London: W. Lewis for Thomas McLean 1821. Folio, contemporary green straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt- and blind-tooled floral borders, g.e., worn, upper cover detached, lower joint weak, front flyleaves and frontispiece loose, one or two short marginal tears, slight offsetting to frontispiece, occasional marginal soiling. FIRST EDITION, second issue, letterpress title and text in English and French, additional hand-colored aquatint title and 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by J. Clark after Alken. Schwerdt I, 19; Tooley 41. Bookplate of Thomas Clifton.