Description:
1903 HUNTING Alken ART Sports Great Britain Horses Dogs Boxing LIMITED EDITIONHenry 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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