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ALKEN, Henry. Hunting Recollections. London: R. Ackermann, 1 January 1829.
Oblong 4° (358 x 420mm). 6 hand-coloured etched plates, window-mounted in an album. (Without the letterpress leaf, some light browning and dust soiling of plate margins, one or two closed marginal tears.) Mid 20th-century quarter pigskin and green buckram, front cover with green morocco gilt title label. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (purchased from his collection 15 March 1939).
THE SCHWERDT SET WITH LARGE, 'WELL-COLOURED' PLATES. Each plate has the series title ‘Hunting Recollections’ engraved above the subject. The 'recollections' are actually the hunting witticisms which are recorded below each plate. One Leicestershire huntsman urging his horse up an incredibly steep bank lined by a boundary fence assumes he must have reached a far distant county: ‘Essex to wit.’ The happy reflection of the Meltonian soaring over a fence in the final plate is: ‘By the Lord Harry my Chestnut Horse can almost fly.’ Mellon/Snelgrove 31; Schwerdt III, p. 4 (this copy): 'this set is particularly well coloured'; cf. Siltzer p. 72 (reissue of 1836).
Oblong 4° (358 x 420mm). 6 hand-coloured etched plates, window-mounted in an album. (Without the letterpress leaf, some light browning and dust soiling of plate margins, one or two closed marginal tears.) Mid 20th-century quarter pigskin and green buckram, front cover with green morocco gilt title label. Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (purchased from his collection 15 March 1939).
THE SCHWERDT SET WITH LARGE, 'WELL-COLOURED' PLATES. Each plate has the series title ‘Hunting Recollections’ engraved above the subject. The 'recollections' are actually the hunting witticisms which are recorded below each plate. One Leicestershire huntsman urging his horse up an incredibly steep bank lined by a boundary fence assumes he must have reached a far distant county: ‘Essex to wit.’ The happy reflection of the Meltonian soaring over a fence in the final plate is: ‘By the Lord Harry my Chestnut Horse can almost fly.’ Mellon/Snelgrove 31; Schwerdt III, p. 4 (this copy): 'this set is particularly well coloured'; cf. Siltzer p. 72 (reissue of 1836).
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