London: Thos. McLean: Repository of Wit & Humour, 1822. With Forty-Two Hand-Colored Engraved Plates Containing Approximately 200 Comical Vignettes The Bemens/Widener/Adee Copy with all Seven of the Original Printed Wrappers bound in at end. ALKEN, H[enr]y. Symptoms of Being Amused. Vol. I. London: Published by Thos. McLean: Repository of Wit &..... More
London: Thos. McLean, 1824. Henry Alken's New Scrap Book ALKEN, Henry. Henry Alken's New Scrap Book. London: Thos. McLean, 1824. First edition. Oblong quarto (7 x 10 1/2 inches; 177 x 267 mm.). Twenty hand-colored plates, interleaved with tissue guards. Plates watermarked 1822. Publisher's dark green pebbled cloth over decorative green boards..... More
London: Collected and Published by Thomas M'Lean, 1824. Excessively Rare 1824 Henry Alken Compilation from the Library of Sir Walter Gilbey ALKEN, Henry. A Collection of Sporting and Humorous Designs, Comprising A Variety of Entertaining Works, by Henry Alken, Illustrative of the Manners, Customs, Sports and Pastimes of England. [Volume II..... More
London: Thomas McLean, 1822. With Forty-Two Hand-Colored Engraved Plates Containing Approximately 200 Comical Vignettes ALKEN, H[enr]y. Symptoms of Being Amused. Vol. I. London: Published by Thos. McLean: Repository of Wit & Humour, 1822. First edition. Oblong folio (9 5/8 x 14 1/8 inches; 244 x 359 mm.). Hand-colored engraved title..... More
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1826. Rare Hand-Colored Copy Of Sporting and Military Sketches By Henry Alken With Forty-Two Hand Colored Aquatint Plates ALKEN, Henry. The Sketch Book of Henry Alken. Engraved by Himself. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1826. Second [colored]edition of Scraps from the Sketch Book of Henry Alken. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1823. Oblong..... More
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1822. "One Season Makes a Proficient; Practice Makes Perfect" But - Peter Pop and Sam Slop are A Danger to the Peace ALKEN, Henry. A Cockney's Shooting Season, in Suffolk, By Henry Alken. Containing The Remarkable Adventures that actually occurred to a young Cit on a visit to his..... More
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1824. Fishing, Hunting, Racing & Shooting, Etc., Etc. Fifty Fine Hand Colored Etched Plates by Henry Alken The Large Format Issue ALKEN, Henry. Sporting Scrap Book by Henry Alken. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1824. First edition, larger format. Oblong quarto (9 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches; 250 x 353 mm.). Printed..... More
London: S. & J. Fuller, 1821. Alken's First Published Work The Comic Foibles of Amateur Horsemen [ALKEN, Henry]. Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders, or the reverse of Sporting Phrases taken from the Work entitled Indispensable Accomplishments... [by] Ben Tally Ho, an occasional Visitor in Leicestershire. London: S. & J. Fuller, 1st Septr..... More
London: Thomas M'Lean, Repository of Wit and Humour, 1825. “True Sportsmen are We for the Game Once in View” ALKEN, Henry. Illustrations to Popular Songs. London: Published by Thomas M'Lean, 1823. First edition, third issue. Oblong folio (9 7/8 x 141/4 inches; 250 x 361 mm.). [2] leaves (containing letterpress title and..... More
![Item #05115 Scenes in the Life of Master George [and] Specimens of Riding near London. Henry ALKEN](/pictures/thumb/05115_01.jpg?v=1630372905)
London: Tho.s McLean, 1823. "Master George" and "Specimens of Riding Near London" The Fitz Eugene Dixon / Joel Spitz copy ALKEN, Henry. Alken's Progressive Sports [cover title]. Scenes in the Life of Master George [and] Specimens of Riding near London. Tho.s McLean, 1823 & 1821. Two works bound together in one volume..... More
London: Thomas M'Lean, [1821]. The Life of a Race-Horse Depicted in Six Superb Aquatint Plates by Henry Alken ALKEN, Henry. The High Mettled Racer. A Series of Six Prints from the Original Drawings by Henry Alken. London: [S. & J. Fuller, 1821]. First edition. Oblong folio (15 3/4 x 21 3/4..... More
London: S. & J. Fuller, 1825. "The Progression of the Foal to the Yearling, the Race-Horse, the Hunter, Thereafter Working Menially and Declining to a Pathetic End" As Depicted by Henry Alken in Seven Superb Hand Colored Etched Plates ALKEN, Henry. The Seven Ages of the Horse. London: S. & J. Fuller..... More
London: R. Ackermann & Co., 1829. A Lovely Series of Hand-Colored Aquatint Sporting Prints Focused on Field Sports ALKEN, Henry. A Set of Four Plates on Field Sports by Henry Alken 1829. [cover title]. London: R. Ackermann & Co., 1829. Oblong folio (12 7/8 x 19 inches; 324 x 482 mm.)..... More
London: Thomas M'Lean, Repository of Wit and Humour, 1823. Newcomers to the Meltonian Hunt who Dress like Dandies and have no Thought for their Horses "A Very Rare Series, Amongst the Largest and Finest of Alken's Plates." (Tooley) ALKEN, Henry. Comparative Meltonians, As they are, and as they were… By Ben Tally-Ho..... More
London: Printed for Thomas M'lean… by Howlett & Brimmer, 1825. The Excessively Rare Large-Paper Issue of Alken's National Sports of Great Britain The Superb Fitz Eugene Dixon Copy ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain, By Henry Alken. Fifty engravings, with descriptions. London: Printed for Thomas M'lean… by Howlett & Brimmer..... More
London: J. Dickinson, 1825. Exceptionally Rare Alken Title Twelve Highly Amusing Hand Colored Plates Together with a Duplicate 'Uncolored' Copy ALKEN, Henry. Alken's Characteristic Sketches of Hunting, with Caricatures of Middlesex Sporting. London: J. Dickinson, 1825. First edition. Oblong quarto (8 3/8 x 11 inches; 212 x 280 mm.). Twelve hand-colored soft-ground..... More
London: R. Havell, 1837. Henry Alken Illustrates One of the Greatest Snowstorms of the Nineteenth Century The Complete Suite of Six Superb Hand Colored Aquatint Plates Engraved by Robert Havell ALKEN, Henry. [Coaches in Snowstorms]. London: R. Havell, 1837. First edition. Oblong folio (13 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches; 341 x 489 mm.)..... More
London: Published by Thomas M'Lean, 1823 [i.e. 1821]. Alken's Rare Satire Successfully Transplants Horse's Ass to Rider's Seat ALKEN, Henry. Specimens of Riding Near London. Drawn from Life. London: Published by Thomas M'Lean,. Repository of Wit and Humour, No. 26, Haymarket, 1823. First edition**. Oblong folio (10 1/8 x 14 3/8..... More
![Item #05096 [Thoughts While Fox Hunting]. Henry ALKEN](/pictures/thumb/05096_0001.jpg?v=1630370813)
London: Thomas McLean, 1833. "Thoughts While Fox Hunting" A Very Scarce and Highly Amusing Series of Hand Colored Lithograph Plates ALKEN, Henry. [Thoughts While Fox Hunting]. London: Thomas McLean, 1833. First [hand-colored] edition. Oblong folio (10 9 16 x 14 1/4 inches; 268 x 362 mm.). Six very fine hand colored..... More
London: S & J Fuller, 1821. "In hunting, as in life, we all push it along, And strive all we're able to lead the gay throng; But even in hunting some do and some don't, For I never heard one, who had pluck, say 'I won't'." ALKEN, Henry. Some do, and some do not;..... More
![Item #05076 Flowers From Nature [and] Symptoms of Being Amused. Volume II [and] Humorous...](/pictures/thumb/05076_1.jpg?v=1630370531)
London: Thomas McLean, 1823-25. A Contemporary Compilation of Some Extremely Scarce Suites From One of the Most Renowned and Popular of British Sporting and Genre Artists and Engravers ALKEN, Henry Thomas. Flowers From Nature by Peter Pasquin [and] Symptoms of Being Amused (second series)[and] Humourous Miscellanies [and] Tutors Assistant [and] British Proverbs..... More
![Item #05197 Six Quartiers de Paris par Henry Monnier 1828[Intérior des Boutiques de Paris]....](/pictures/thumb/05197_1.jpg?v=1629494707)
Paris: Delpech, 1828. Two of Henry Monnier's Great Albums Bound Together MONNIER, Henry. Six Quartiers de Paris par Henry Monnier. Paris: [François Séraphin] Delpech Quai Voltaire, No. 3., 1828. Seven fine hand colored lithographed plates including the hand colored pictorial title-page. All mounted on stubs and complete as issued. Bound together..... More
Paris: Delpech, 1828. One of Monnier's Great Albums Groveling Bureaucrats at Work, aka Idle MONNIER, Henry. Moeurs Administratives, Dessinées d'apres Nature par Henri Monnier. Paris: Delpech, [1828]. First edition, Series I and II complete. Folio (14 1/4 x 11 inches; 361 x 280 mm.). Complete with the hand colored engraved vignette title-page..... More
Paris: Bernard et Delarue, 1828. Twenty Fine Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates by Henry Monnier MONNIER, Henry. Paris Vivant. [Paris]: Bernard et Delarue, [1828]. First edition. Oblong quarto (8 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches; 222 x 298 mm.). Twenty hand-colored lithographed plates, all mounted on stubs. Original brown lithographed front wrapper bound in. Plates..... More
Paris: Delpech, 1827. "Such Vehicles are 'Marvelously Suitable to Represent the Pomp of Dandyism'" LAMI, Eugene. Tribulations des gens à equipages. Paris: Delpech, 1827. First (only) edition. Oblong quarto 10 15/16 x 15 inches; 278 x 381 mm.). Printed title-page and the complete suite of six fine hand-colored lithographed plates designed..... More
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