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Shooting, or One Day’s Sport or Three Real Good One’s. However Ignorant of Sporting Rules. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1823.
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ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851)
Shooting, or One Day’s Sport or Three Real Good One’s. However Ignorant of Sporting Rules. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1823.
Fine hand-coloured plates narrating the adventures of three cockneys, or ‘Corinthians,’ at large with guns and dogs in the deeply rural countryside. In plate one, a guard dog is seen being released from its customary chain, while a musket is rested in the legs of a squatting poodle, and a diminutive mongrel pants in expectation. Men and dogs react over-excitedly to the sight of a running hare, and having next targeted a tame herd of geese they become involved in a broil with local villagers or ‘Johnny Raws’. Remuneration is exacted for the dead geese and a featherless chicken, but since it is spent on toasts in the local pub everyone’s day ends happily. Bobins II, 757; Mellon/Snelgrove 49; Schwerdt I, p.21 & pl.13: 'a rare and amusing set, in fine colouring’; Siltzer p.71; Tooley 49.
Oblong folio (251 x 360mm). 6 aquatint plates, coloured by a contemporary hand, each with the short title 'One Day's Sport of Three Real Good Ones' at the upper margin and a caption at lower (without the letterpress title and 7pp. of text, evidence of plates removed from backing with some associated light browning mainly confined to versoes and minor expert paper repairs). Modern green half morocco. Provenance: Thomas Molyneux (ink inscriptions dated 9 January 1826 on verso of plates).
Shooting, or One Day’s Sport or Three Real Good One’s. However Ignorant of Sporting Rules. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1823.
Fine hand-coloured plates narrating the adventures of three cockneys, or ‘Corinthians,’ at large with guns and dogs in the deeply rural countryside. In plate one, a guard dog is seen being released from its customary chain, while a musket is rested in the legs of a squatting poodle, and a diminutive mongrel pants in expectation. Men and dogs react over-excitedly to the sight of a running hare, and having next targeted a tame herd of geese they become involved in a broil with local villagers or ‘Johnny Raws’. Remuneration is exacted for the dead geese and a featherless chicken, but since it is spent on toasts in the local pub everyone’s day ends happily. Bobins II, 757; Mellon/Snelgrove 49; Schwerdt I, p.21 & pl.13: 'a rare and amusing set, in fine colouring’; Siltzer p.71; Tooley 49.
Oblong folio (251 x 360mm). 6 aquatint plates, coloured by a contemporary hand, each with the short title 'One Day's Sport of Three Real Good Ones' at the upper margin and a caption at lower (without the letterpress title and 7pp. of text, evidence of plates removed from backing with some associated light browning mainly confined to versoes and minor expert paper repairs). Modern green half morocco. Provenance: Thomas Molyneux (ink inscriptions dated 9 January 1826 on verso of plates).
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