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Methuen & Co.. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. (sports, great britain) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

D. Appleton. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good/None. 3/4 leather- some rubbing on leather- blemish on front leather- decorative endpapers- illus. ; 1/2 tear to 2 front endpapers ; With color plates

Hardback. New.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. 18mo. New edition. Orig. red cloth. Unpaged, xiii, [160] pp. Fifty colour engravings with descriptions. Spine cocked and sunned, some light wear to spine label. Damp staining to boards, bumping to corners.

London: Methuen & Co.. Very Good. 1903. Hardcover. Clean red buckram cloth with gilt decorated spine. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Light to moderate foxing. New edition illustrated with 50 color plates. X -lib with Book plate. Pocket removed from inside of rear cover. Sports, Great Britain, Horse Racing, Fox Hunting, Shooting, Hunting , Fishing ; Ex-Libris; Color Plates; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Unpaginated pages .

London: Methuen & Co, 1903. A new edition. The illustrated pocket library of plain and coloured books. Has been rebacked with original spine cloth relaid, new spine title label, original boards, new endpapers. Appears to be one plate missing, 49 plates present. One plate is detached and another has a 3 inch tear. Otherwise text and plates clean and bright.. Cloth. Good Minus/No Jacket. 12mo.

LONDON: METHUEN & CO LTD. GOOD+. PUB 1903. HARDCOVER. 50 FULL PAGE COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS / THE ILLUSTRATED POCKET LIBRARY OF PLAIN AND COLOURED BOOKS . THIS EDITION IS BASED ON THE 1925 THOMAS M'LEAN EDITION AND IS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM "THE NATIONAL SPORTS IN FOLIO" EDITION PUBLISHED BY M'LEAN IN 1823. RED CLOTH BOARDS WITH PAPER TITLE LABEL ON THE SPINE. BOOK HAS SUFFERED SOME DAMPING AT THE SPINE HEEL THAT HAS WICKED UPWARD AND MINIMUMLY AFFECTS THE INTERIOR EDGES OF THE TEXT ABOUT 1/3 THE LENGTH OF THE SPINE, DAMP ALSO TO EXTERIOR CLOTH AT THE HEEL OF SPINE AND MODEST EXTENSION TO ADJACENT AREA, PAPER SPINE LABEL TANNED WITH BACK-UP LABEL TIPPED IN AT REAR OF TEXT, FRONT SPINE EDGE CORNERS MODERATELY WORN, AND CORNERS MODESTLY RUBBED/WORN. PICTORIAL AREA OF PLATES NOT AFFECTED BY STAINING. THE BOOK IS QUITE NICE DESPITE THE FLAWS AND SCARCE. .

D. Appleton & Company, 1903. Book. Illus. by Alken, Henry. Very Good+. Hardcover. In red cloth with paper label on spine with light chipping to top of label.. Light foxing to page edges. Previous owner bookplate to front pastedown. Fifty engravings with descriptions..

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1903. 4.5" wide by 7" tall. A very nice copy. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Mildly erotic bookplate of Albert Larson. Pages are fresh and crisp. No foxing. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Inner hinges are perfect. Attractively illustrated with 50 full-color plates by Henry Alken. Top edge gilt. Bound in the original dark red cloth, with printed paper spine label. No fading. Sharp corners. Printed by Morrison & Gibb Limited, Edinburgh. From Publisher's Note: "This Issue is founded on the Edition published by Thomas M'Lean in the year 1825. It is entirely different from the National Sports in Folio published by Thomas M'Lean in the year 1823." Among the 50 full-color plates are action scenes of: horse-racing, fox-hunting, coursing, shooting, pointers, setters, grouse shooting, partridge shooting, pheasant shooting, fowl shooting, snipe shooting, bittern shooting, punting for fowl,… Leer más

London: Methuen and Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1903. Hardcover. Slight rubbing to boards. Off-setting to end papers. Some bumping to endpapers. 1/8" tear to bottom of spine. Some knocking to bottom edge of front board. Binding a little loose between two gatherings.; Unpaginated. 50 colour plates. A new edition. The illustrated pocket library of plain and coloured books. Red cloth boards. Printed paper spine label. Selected plates: Running in to a stag; Fox Hunting Swishing at a Rasper; Fox Hunter's Toast; Coursing Dead - Dead; Grouse Shooting; Snipe Shooting; Running a Badger to Bay; Fly Fishing; Bear Baiting ..."; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Methuen, London, 1903. A reprint of the edition of 1821. Additional coloured pictorial title and 50 fine coloured plates. Large folio (19 x 12 1/4 inches). Original 2-tone cloth; binding very poor and stained. Text with occasional damp-making to fore-margin, with the very occasional slight bleed from the red dye of the binding. The plates however, apart from the last, completely unaffected. The last plate "Owling" has damp mark and bleed to the upper blank margin, the image unaffected. Weight 3.960 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.

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
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unpaginated
o 50 engraved plates
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight & secure
· Size: ~7.5in X 5in (19cm x 13cm)
· Quite rare and desirable
Our… Leer más

London, Methuen & Co.,, 1903.. WITH DESCRIPTIONS IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH. A NEW EDITION. Large folio. Half-title and two title-pages (one French and one English), contents page and four pp. prefaces. Colour title-page and fifty colour plates, each with tissue-guard, and with a leaf of descriptive text to each plate. A reprint of the first edition of 1823. The plates include horse-racing, fox hunting, shooting, angling, fly-fishing, prize-fighting and dog-fighting.

D Appleton & Company, New York 1904 (first published as 'British Sports' by Thomas McLean, London 1821). 48.0 x 30.0cms, c 150pp, 50 hand-coloured illusts, very good half-leather morocco hardback with red cloth cover. Foxed endpapers. This book has finely rendered and richly coloured plates on hawking, arabian racing, hunting, stag hunting, fox hounds, beagles, fox hunting, hackney, pointers, setters, spaniels, grouse shooting, partridge shooting, pheasant shooting, snipe-shooting, water sapniels, water-hen shooting, wild-fowl shooting, flapper shooting, bittern shooting, pike fishing, fishing in a punt, salmon fishing, cock fighting, bull baiting, terriers, crab, badger catching, spearing the otter, owling. Each plate has an English and French caption. The preface presents these plates as 'a collection of new and original drawings and descriptions on most of the sporting subjects, either formerly, or at present, in vogue in Britain, immemorially distinguished and celebrated as the land of sportsmen'.

London: Methuen and Co. 1903. Large folio. (48 x 30 cm). Half-title, pictorial title, 2 title pages (French & English), contents leaf, pp.2+2 (Prefaces), and a leaf of descriptive text to accompany each illustration. Original brick red buckram spine over red cloth boards. Binding soiled, one leaf (26) with two short marginal tears. First published 1823.

1825. Thomas M'Lean. London. 1825. First edition. Large 4to. Plain tan cloth backstrip, frayed and worn at extermities, marbled boards which are rubbed. 49 plates out of 50 - lacking the Dog Fighting plate and description. All other plates present. Occasional light foxing not affecting plates themselves. Ownership inscriptions to front endpapers. A clean and sound copy.

London: Thomas M'Lean, 1825. Hardback, recently rebound in full-leather. Decorative gilt spine. Marbled end-papers. Edges gilt. Unpaginated. Fifty Engravings with Descriptions. Tissue guard to frontispiece only - a little offsetting to contents from other engravings. An excellent copy in an attractive binding. (bs53). Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: D Appleton & Co. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed, scuffed and marked. Extinct worming to preface, not impinging on text. Some foxing. Plates in VG condition. 1904. New Edition. Red half leather cover with red boards. 490mm x 310mm (19" x 12"). 100pp + plates. 50 full colour plates. 50 full-page engraved hand-coloured plates on subjects including hawking, hunting, horse-racing, shooting, fishing, baiting, and combating animals. .