Alken's Characteristic Sketches Of Hunting: With Caricatures Of Middlesex Sporting de Henry Thomas 1784-1851 Alken (Creator) - 2011-08-18

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

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.

London: Thomas M'Lean, 1823. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. ALKEN Henry [Thomas]. First edition (first issue?), oblong quarto, letterpress title page and six hand coloured soft ground etchings by Alken depicting 18 thoughts, quarter red morocco over marbled boards, burgundy gilt morocco cover label. The plates have been sized to the printed borders and mounted on later paper, with publishers details, titled and dated 1823-25. Tooley describes the British Museum copy with eight plates, but points out that the publishers own advertisement for this work calls for six plates only. From this we assume that there may have been two issues, the second issue with an increased number of plates (355*261 mm). (Tooley 39. Siltzer p70).

London: Repository of Wit and Humour, No 20, Haymarket.: Thomas M'Lean, 1824. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. ALKEN Henry. Alken's Amusing Satire of Artists. (3 leaves - half title, title and preface), (12 leaves descriptive text), (1 leaf adverts), printed on recto's only, with twelve hand-coloured plates. Original dull gray boards, front cover with pink printed paper label, newly re-backed to style in red straight-grain morocco, gilt, label and edges of boards a little worn, old booksellers description tipped in at front end papers, some mild foxing, generally to versos of plates. Fine impressions of these etchings, brilliantly coloured. An excellent copy in the original boards. Chemised in a quarter red morocco slip case, small mark. Alken's amusing satire of artists, an attempt to elucidate, by graphic delineation's, a variety of terms generally and perhaps exclusively made use of by artists, amateurs, connoisseurs, virtuosos and the like. This work includes… Leer más

London: Finch-Lane, Cornhill: Printed by W. Lewis. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. ALKEN Henry Thomas. EGERTON Daniel Thomas. etc. First collected edition of this acclaimed series of humorous situations with Fifty Hand Coloured Plates Caricaturing the English Lifestyle of the 1820s. c1835, Folio, letterpress title and fifty hand coloured plates (including frontispiece). Most plates with tissue guards, plates watermarked 1835, 1824, and 1822. In contemporary half black roan, ruled in gilt, over brown pebble grain cloth boards. Spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, with three wide raised bands, all edges gilt, front cover expertly and almost invisibly repaired, corners and board edges slightly rubbed, occasional light soiling and browning to margins, a few plates with tiny marginal tears, tissue guard to title worn & tipped to title. The collection comprises: Six hand-coloured plates after Henry Alken (London: Published by Thos. McLean, Repository of Wit &… Leer más