拍品 69
69
ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1825 [plates dated 1824 and with Whatman 1823 watermark]. 8° (253 x 171mm). 50 hand-coloured etched plates, signed 'Hy. Alken, Delt,' with tissue guards. (Light spotting to title, two fox-hunting plates [2 & 3] slightly stained, tiny occasional spots to plates or plate margins, guards offset, text evenly browned.) Full red morocco by Riviere, sides with triple fillets, gilt-panelled spine, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (joints a little rubbed, endpapers spotted).
ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1825 [plates dated 1824 and with Whatman 1823 watermark]. 8° (253 x 171mm). 50 hand-coloured etched plates, signed 'Hy. Alken, Delt,' with tissue guards. (Light spotting to title, two fox-hunting plates [2 & 3] slightly stained, tiny occasional spots to plates or plate margins, guards offset, text evenly browned.) Full red morocco by Riviere, sides with triple fillets, gilt-panelled spine, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (joints a little rubbed, endpapers spotted).

细节
ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1825 [plates dated 1824 and with Whatman 1823 watermark]. 8° (253 x 171mm). 50 hand-coloured etched plates, signed 'Hy. Alken, Delt,' with tissue guards. (Light spotting to title, two fox-hunting plates [2 & 3] slightly stained, tiny occasional spots to plates or plate margins, guards offset, text evenly browned.) Full red morocco by Riviere, sides with triple fillets, gilt-panelled spine, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (joints a little rubbed, endpapers spotted).

FIRST EDITION AND AN ATTRACTIVE COPY of this sporting miscellany whose brightly coloured plates include 7 on racing, 10 on fox-hunting, 6 on coursing and 12 on shooting. Mellon/Snelgrove 102; Mellon/Podeschi 121; Schwerdt I, p. 20; Siltzer p. 72; Tooley 43.