Search Results: the national sports of great britain by alken henry

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.

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

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.

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

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 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,… Read More

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
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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Haymarket, London: Thomas McLean, 1825. First Edition thus. Full Contemporary Straight-Grained Morocco. Very Good. Large Paper copy of what might be regarded as a Second Edition but is arguably a First Edition in the sense that the plates are entirely new. Some of Alken's most impressive work, here not just depicting equestrian sports -- foxhunting, coursing, racing -- but also cock fighting, dog fighting, bull baiting, badger baiting, boxing, fly fishing, various forms of shooting, and a few plates focused on just the animals used in shooting, such as pointers and setters. Folio, 38 by 27 cm. Frontis plate, title page, blank, iii-vi, List of Plates, blank, 10-no number, with text description of Frontis plate, and so 10 probably intended to be a "1"), followed by 49 plates, each with a blank back, and each plate accompanied by a text leaf, unpaginated, with text running one to two pages of description. Condition: fairly heavily rubbed along edges and by joints. Gilt border decoration on cover… Read More

London: Thomas M'Lean, 1825. First edition in the royal octavo format with new plates. 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by H. Alken. Printed title, preface, leaf with printed list of plates; each plate with letterpress text leaf. 1 vols. 8vo. Full olive levant gilt by Riviere and Son, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g. Bookplate of William Morley Pegge; Schwerdt bookplate. Some light traces of foxing in first and last leaves, not affecting plates. Fine copy. Cloth folding box. Alken, Henry. First edition in the royal octavo format with new plates. 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by H. Alken. Printed title, preface, leaf with printed list of plates; each plate with letterpress text leaf. 1 vols. 8vo. Schwerdt Copy. "This book differs from the folio edition ... Alken himself seems ot have drawn in colours and engraved the plates, which like most of his book illustrations are particularly pleasing on account of their small size" (Schwerdt). The "Fox Hunters Toast" plate (no. 19) is bound as a frontispiece; the… Read More

London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean, 1825. He could draw Hunting and write about it because he hunted himself, as Ferneley did, or Herring" Fifty Fine Hand-Colored Etched Plates Depicting The National Sports of Great Britain ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain, by Henry Alken. Fifty Engravings with Descriptions. London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean, 1825. First Edition with these illustrations. Royal octavo (10 5/16 x 6 11/16 inches; 262 x 170 mm.). Imprint size 5 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches; 143 x 220 mm. viii, 50 leaves of text. Fifty fine hand-colored soft-ground etched plates by and after Alken, with tissue guards. Some spotting to four text leaves "The Hunter"; "Pheasant-Shooting"; "Fowl Shooting"; "A Prize-Fight" and their facing guards but not affecting plates. Plates dated 1824 and with pre-publication "J. Whatman 1823 & 1824" watermarks. The text is watermarked "1818". Contemporary half red calf over pink boards, smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt, hinges expertly and almost… Read More

London: Thomas McLean, 1821. Folio. (18 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches). English and French titles (recto and verso of the same leaf), English and French text throughout. Additional hand-coloured engraved title, 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates by I. Clark after Henry Alken. Contemporary straight-grained red morocco, covers with wide roll-tool border in gilt and blind and central emblem of a stag within a cartouche of foliage and flowers, raised bands forming eight compartments, lettered in second compartment, the others with an elaborate repeating stag decoration in gilt, gilt edges. First edition of Alken's most important work, offering a spirited discussion of outdoor amusements, with hand coloured aquating engravings of horse racing, angling, shooting, fox hunting, and 'owling', as well as bare-knuckled prize fighting and cock fighting. 'It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection' (Tooley). The plates and text offer a thorough survey of the sports practised in Great Britain in the first… Read More

London: Published by Thomas McLean... Printed by W. Lewis, 1821. Considered the Most Comprehensive and Most Famous Work by Henry Alken" (Dixon) With the Hand Colored Frontispiece dated 1820 ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain. By Henry Alken. With Descriptions, in English and French. London: Published by Thomas McLean... Printed by W. Lewis, 1821 [-1820]. First edition. Large folio (19 x 12 inches; 482 x 305 mm.). [2, title in English, verso title in French], [2, preface in English], [2, preface in French], [2, contents in English, verso contents in French], 50 leaves of text with English on recto and French on verso. Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece dated 1820 with small and inoffensive 1/8 inch wide marginal stain just extending into the image; Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece dated 1821, and fifty superb hand colored aquatint plates, each with a corresponding leaf of text with English on the recto and French on the verso. Contemporary full green straight-grain morocco gilt.… Read More