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ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851)

Lot 20
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 2 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 992854
Lot 20 | ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851)
Estimate value
£ 2 000 – 3 000
ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851)

A Cockney’s Shooting Season in Suffolk. London: Thomas M’Lean, 1822.

‘Rarely found in original state' (Dixon). This complete suite of prints is offered in its original wrappers alongside its seldom seen accompanying letterpress. Schwerdt notes that the rarity of the suite is in part due to the fact that the plates were often removed from the publication and framed. The wrappers record the original publication cost of one guinea for these finely coloured plates showing the two Londoners, Peter Pop and Sam Slop, filling the rural solitude with ill-aimed blasts from their guns. Abbey Life 384; Bobins II, 754; Dixon 43; Mellon/Snelgrove p. 21; Schwerdt I, pp.12-13; Siltzer, p.71; Tooley 22; Van Devanter 16.



Small folio (375 x 270mm). 7 leaves of letterpress, 6 hand-coloured etchings (light marginal finger soiling and spotting, the plates themselves clean). Original brown printed wrappers, upper wrapper with title, lower wrapper with publisher’s ads (wrapper sometime later strengthened with brown paper back-strip, joint heavily split at head and foot of spine, extremities rubbed with some surface loss to rear wrapper, stab holes to margins of wrappers and plates present, with some plates loose from stitching); housed in modern green cloth folder with paper label to upper cover. Provenance: Moncure Biddle (armorial bookplate) — Schwerdt (bookplate) — evidence of inscription on wrappers (erased).





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Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
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