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ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851)

Lot 12
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 992958
Lot 12 | ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851)
Estimate value
£ 2 000 – 3 000
ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851)

Sporting Sketches. London: S. & J. Fuller, 1817 [-1818], [plates watermarked 1817-20].

An early work, exceptionally rare with this number of plates. The wrapper announces that ‘this work will be completed in six monthly numbers, each number containing six plates.’ This is one of presumably very few copies, including the Gloucester copy, containing an extra 12 plates (Spitz himself thought there might be ‘at the most two’). The plates are full of activity, some containing one, others two scenes, and some up to a dozen sporting vignettes. Hunting, shooting and fishing feature most strongly among the sports, but there are also independent studies of horses and dogs. All the bibliographies call for 36 plates. Bobins IV, 1369; Mellon/Snelgrove 92; Schwerdt I, p.26; Siltzer p.69.



Oblong folio (260 x 400mm). Hand-coloured etched title and 48 hand-coloured plates (title rather dust soiled, light offsetting, spotting affecting about one third of the plates, a few margins dusty near end). Mid 20th-century red half morocco, smooth gilt spine, original parts wrapper laid down on front cover (front wrapper marginally soiled); clamshell box with matching red morocco spine, both spines with brown morocco labels. Provenance: Walter Hill of Chicago (pencil inscription to rear free endpaper; in 1930 sold to:) — Joel Spitz (bookplate to front pastedown, Trail Tree bookplate to rear free endpaper and interior of clamshell box; sold in these rooms, 27 May 2015, lot 175).





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