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ALKEN, Henry (1785-1851, illustrator). The National Sports of Great Britain. London: Thomas McLean, 1821.
First edition, second issue of 'perhaps Alken’s best known and most comprehensive work' (Schwerdt). Whereas he was so often the humourist, he here provides a grand panorama of sports being properly conducted. Schwerdt I, p. 19, Tooley 41.
Folio (474 x 311mm). Hand-coloured aquatint additional title and 50 hand-coloured plates by J. Clark after Alken, one bound in as frontispiece, parallel text in English and French (2 plates with reinforced outer margin, some spotting and finger-soiling). Contemporary straight-grained red morocco, covers with wide roll-tool border in gilt and blind and central emblem of a stag within a cartouche of foliage and flowers, all-over gilt spine, gilt edges (rebacked preserving original backstrip, recornered, rubbed). Provenance: Boies Penrose (bookplate).
First edition, second issue of 'perhaps Alken’s best known and most comprehensive work' (Schwerdt). Whereas he was so often the humourist, he here provides a grand panorama of sports being properly conducted. Schwerdt I, p. 19, Tooley 41.
Folio (474 x 311mm). Hand-coloured aquatint additional title and 50 hand-coloured plates by J. Clark after Alken, one bound in as frontispiece, parallel text in English and French (2 plates with reinforced outer margin, some spotting and finger-soiling). Contemporary straight-grained red morocco, covers with wide roll-tool border in gilt and blind and central emblem of a stag within a cartouche of foliage and flowers, all-over gilt spine, gilt edges (rebacked preserving original backstrip, recornered, rubbed). Provenance: Boies Penrose (bookplate).
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