HODGES, Walter Parry (1760-1845) and Henry ALKEN. Yellowham Wood, County of Dorset [and:] The Cock-Tails done. London: Thomas McLean, 1 November 1834. A pair of hand-coloured aquatint plates by H. Alken and R.G. Reeve after Hodges (454 x 568mm), window-mounted in oblong 2° album (557 x 5687mm), modern letterpress title added. (Hairline tear along bottom of platemarks, first plate a little spotted in sky area.) Red half morocco by Aquarius, gilt-lettered spine and cover label.
HODGES, Walter Parry (1760-1845) and Henry ALKEN. Yellowham Wood, County of Dorset [and:] The Cock-Tails done. London: Thomas McLean, 1 November 1834. A pair of hand-coloured aquatint plates by H. Alken and R.G. Reeve after Hodges (454 x 568mm), window-mounted in oblong 2° album (557 x 5687mm), modern letterpress title added. (Hairline tear along bottom of platemarks, first plate a little spotted in sky area.) Red half morocco by Aquarius, gilt-lettered spine and cover label.

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HODGES, Walter Parry (1760-1845) and Henry ALKEN. Yellowham Wood, County of Dorset [and:] The Cock-Tails done. London: Thomas McLean, 1 November 1834. A pair of hand-coloured aquatint plates by H. Alken and R.G. Reeve after Hodges (454 x 568mm), window-mounted in oblong 2° album (557 x 5687mm), modern letterpress title added. (Hairline tear along bottom of platemarks, first plate a little spotted in sky area.) Red half morocco by Aquarius, gilt-lettered spine and cover label.

A PAIR OF IMPRESSIVELY LARGE, WELL-COLOURED PLATES depicting a Dorset hunt. 'Yellowham Wood' shows the meet, 'Cock-Tails done' the more active scene after 'Fifty Minutes in the Vale of Blackmore and Twenty on the Hills without a Check'. VERY RARE. Mellon/Snelgrove, Hodges 2; Schwerdt III, p. 5; Siltzer p. 159.

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