Sales catalogue 584: Maggs Bros

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/128
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 584: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PE HENRY ALKEN SCRAPS FROM THE SKETCH BOOK OF HENRY ALKEN. 42 finely coloured plates, containing numerous Hunting, Racing, Driving, Shooting, and other Sporting Sketches. Small folio. Straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e. London, 1822. £36 SPORTING NOTIONS. By H. Alken. | The complete set of 36 remarkably fine coloured aquatint plates. Small folio. Half morocco, g.e. London, M’Lean (1831). £63 This series of plates was issued without a title. THE LIFE OF A SPORTSMAN, by Nimrod (C. J. Apperley). With 36 finely coloured plates by Henry Alken. First IssuE oF THE First EDITION. Royal Svo. Fine copy in crimson levant morocco extra, gilt back, g.e. (Size 91%4 x 57 inches). London, Ackermann, 1842. £140 MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE JOHN MYTTON, ESQ. OF HALSTON, SHROPSHIRE. With notices of his Hunting, Shoot- ing, Driving, Racing, and Extravagant Exploits, by Nimrod (C. J. Apperley). With 12 full-page coloured plates by H. Alken. First Epition. Post 8vo. Original cloth. London, 1835. | £150 This, the First Edition, contains 2 plates, which were not reproduced in the later editions.
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