The National Sports of Great Britain. Fifty Engravings, with Descriptions
by Alken, Henry
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
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 faded and/or darkened in spots. Within, mostly occasional foxing or smudges, sometimes more, but even when a page is more afflicted, we believe it doesn't disconcert, and generally it is the blank pages that happen to have the worst of it. It is also our assessment that plates and text are mostly clean, and most importantly, the plates are across the board very attractive, with rich and bright color and uncompromised.
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- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007890
- Title
- The National Sports of Great Britain. Fifty Engravings, with Descriptions
- Author
- Alken, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Full Contemporary Straight-Grained Morocco
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition thus
- Publisher
- Thomas McLean
- Place of Publication
- Haymarket, London
- Date Published
- 1825
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About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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