![ALKEN, Henry. A Cockney's Shooting Season in Suffolk. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1822 [no watermark]. 2° (275 x 380mm), 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates, signed 'Henry Alken delt.' (Some soiling and staining of plate margins, heavier soiling to text, B1 with closed marginal tear.) Original printed front wrapper (new back wrapper and spine), modern cloth portfolio and case.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_04354_0034_000(alken_henry_a_cockneys_shooting_season_in_suffolk_london_thomas_mlean103610).jpg?w=1)
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ALKEN, Henry. A Cockney's Shooting Season in Suffolk. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1822 [no watermark]. 2° (275 x 380mm), 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates, signed 'Henry Alken delt.' (Some soiling and staining of plate margins, heavier soiling to text, B1 with closed marginal tear.) Original printed front wrapper (new back wrapper and spine), modern cloth portfolio and case.
IMPRESSIVELY LARGE, SUPERBLY COLOURED SHOOTING PLATES. The verse narrative that accompanies them relates the misdeeds of Peter Pop, the son of a pawnbroker, and his friend and neighbour Sam Slop, on a five-day shooting trip in Suffolk. IN ORIGINAL FRONT WRAPPER with printed title. Abbey Life 384; Dixon 43; Mellon 48; Schwerdt I, p. 12: 'pleasing book'; Siltzer p. 71; Tooley 22.
IMPRESSIVELY LARGE, SUPERBLY COLOURED SHOOTING PLATES. The verse narrative that accompanies them relates the misdeeds of Peter Pop, the son of a pawnbroker, and his friend and neighbour Sam Slop, on a five-day shooting trip in Suffolk. IN ORIGINAL FRONT WRAPPER with printed title. Abbey Life 384; Dixon 43; Mellon 48; Schwerdt I, p. 12: 'pleasing book'; Siltzer p. 71; Tooley 22.