ALKEN, Henry. Sporting Scrap Book. London: Thomas McLean, 1824. [watermarked Whatman 1823]. Oblong 2° (255 x 370mm). 49 hand-coloured soft-ground etched plates, including the frontispiece, on paper watermarked Whatman 1823. (Light offsetting on the title, occasional light spotting and light staining in the margins.) Contemporary, red half roan over pink boards, the upper side with gilt label lettered and tooled in gilt (spotting on the pastedowns, evidently bound without free endpapers, extremities rubbed, the sides lightly soiled, upper side with remnant of later label). Provenance: Frédéric de Pourtales (bookplate) -- Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (bookplate; his sale, Christie's London, 26-27 January 2006, part lot 626).