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A Few Ideas; Being Hints to All Would-Be Meltonians. London: Thomas M’Lean, [1826].
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ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851)
A Few Ideas; Being Hints to All Would-Be Meltonians. London: Thomas M’Lean, [1826].
Rare clean copy in original wrappers, enlarged second issue with plates dated 1826. Alken presents expressive scenes of both comic and tragic disaster on the hunting field. The wrappers are original to the first issue, in which only 6 plates were issued, but this present copy includes an additional 6 plates that were supplementary to the reissue in 1826. The adapted Shakespearean motto on the cover warns ‘All is not gold that glitters; neither does keeping horses at Melton, and mounting the scarlet, make the real Meltonian.’ Bobins III, 1173; Mellon/Snellgrove 24 (first issue of six plates); Schwerdt I, p.13; Siltzer p.72 (first issue of six plates); Tooley 26.
Folio (365 x 267mm). 12 aquatint plates, coloured by a contemporary hand (bound out of order, very light marginal finger-soiling). Bound using the original printed wrappers of the first issue dating 1825, front cover with printed title, motto, imprint and Etruscan border (repaired, with modern tissue guards, upper wrapper chipped and stained at edges, lower cover slightly stained); housed in modern dark grey clamshell box, with red label to spine, longitudinally lettered in gilt.
A Few Ideas; Being Hints to All Would-Be Meltonians. London: Thomas M’Lean, [1826].
Rare clean copy in original wrappers, enlarged second issue with plates dated 1826. Alken presents expressive scenes of both comic and tragic disaster on the hunting field. The wrappers are original to the first issue, in which only 6 plates were issued, but this present copy includes an additional 6 plates that were supplementary to the reissue in 1826. The adapted Shakespearean motto on the cover warns ‘All is not gold that glitters; neither does keeping horses at Melton, and mounting the scarlet, make the real Meltonian.’ Bobins III, 1173; Mellon/Snellgrove 24 (first issue of six plates); Schwerdt I, p.13; Siltzer p.72 (first issue of six plates); Tooley 26.
Folio (365 x 267mm). 12 aquatint plates, coloured by a contemporary hand (bound out of order, very light marginal finger-soiling). Bound using the original printed wrappers of the first issue dating 1825, front cover with printed title, motto, imprint and Etruscan border (repaired, with modern tissue guards, upper wrapper chipped and stained at edges, lower cover slightly stained); housed in modern dark grey clamshell box, with red label to spine, longitudinally lettered in gilt.
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