NATURAL HISTORY & SPORT
ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain. Titles and text in French and English. London: Howlett and Brimmer for Thomas M'Lean, 1823.
细节
ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain. Titles and text in French and English. London: Howlett and Brimmer for Thomas M'Lean, 1823.
2° (473 x 312mm.). Hand-coloured aquatint additional title, frontispiece (detached) and 49 plates by I.Clark after Henry Alken (some soiling, marginal in the main, some spotting of text). Contemporary red English straight-grained morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, g.e. (joints split, upper cover detached).
Originally published in 1821, this issue collates as the first with the exception of the inclusion of two printed titles. 'Alken's most important work.': Tooley 42.
2° (473 x 312mm.). Hand-coloured aquatint additional title, frontispiece (detached) and 49 plates by I.Clark after Henry Alken (some soiling, marginal in the main, some spotting of text). Contemporary red English straight-grained morocco, tooled in gilt and blind, g.e. (joints split, upper cover detached).
Originally published in 1821, this issue collates as the first with the exception of the inclusion of two printed titles. 'Alken's most important work.': Tooley 42.