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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

1903 HUNTING Alken ART Sports Great Britain Horses Dogs Boxing LIMITED EDITION

Henry Thomas Alken was a prolific 19th-century English artist known for his caricature paintings of sporting and hunting scenes. Many of Alken's famous illustrations were published in a collection entitled 'National Sports of Great Britain'. This work is filled with color engravings of Alken's art – fox hunting, horse riding, hunting dogs, and many others.
This 1903 edition was published in New York; however, it was limited to 50 copies – an extremely limited print run and a very rare edition indeed!

Item number: #11783
Price: $599
ALKEN, Henry Thomas
The national sports of Great Britain : fifty engravings with descriptions
New York : D. Appleton, 1903. Limited Edition

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o
unpaginated
o 50 engraved plates
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight & secure
· Size: ~7.5in X 5in (19cm x 13cm)
· Quite rare and desirable
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London: Thomas McLean, 1821. Folio. (18 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches). English and French titles (recto and verso of the same leaf), English and French text throughout. Additional hand-coloured engraved title, 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates by I. Clark after Henry Alken. 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, raised bands forming eight compartments, lettered in second compartment, the others with an elaborate repeating stag decoration in gilt, gilt edges. First edition of Alken's most important work, offering a spirited discussion of outdoor amusements, with hand coloured aquating engravings of horse racing, angling, shooting, fox hunting, and 'owling', as well as bare-knuckled prize fighting and cock fighting. 'It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection' (Tooley). The plates and text offer a thorough survey of the sports practised in Great Britain in the first… Read More

London, Thomas M'Lean, 1820-1821. . First edition, first issue; folio (46.7 x 30.4 cm); aquatint additional title & 50 aquatint plates after Henry Alken, title and plates with contemporary hand-colour, occasional light offsetting and spotting; late 19th-century green half morocco, ruled and tooled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, extremities rubbed. The Schwerdt-Jeanson copy of the rare first edition, first issue with the additional title dated 1820. One of the great 19th-century colour-plate works. Illustrated with 50 fine aquatints of exceptional quality, it is probably Alken's finest work. 'Perhaps Alken's best known and most comprehensive work' (Schwerdt, I, p.19), The National Sports of Great Britain contains illustrations of horse racing, angling, shooting, fox hunting, and coursing, as well as prize fighting and cock fighting.'the size and beauty of the plates make this the cornerstone of any Alken collection' (Tooley). Bobins II, 746; Litchfield 14; Mellon/Podeschi 111;… Read More