Alken. A Cockney's Shooting Season. 1822
Auction Closed
July 28, 03:29 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Library at Spetchley Park
ALKEN, HENRY
A Cockney's Shooting Season in Suffolk. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1822
FIRST EDITION, folio (365 x 253mm.), 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates, later paper bound in as tissue-guards, with the letterpress title and 7ff. text, nineteenth century red half morocco, new endpapers, spotting, a few marginal repairs, rubbed
A GOOD COPY.
LITERATURE:
Abbey, Life 384
PROVENANCE:
Robert Berkeley of Spetchley, 1900, armorial bookplate