Alken. The National Sports of Great Britain. 1823
Auction Closed
July 28, 03:29 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Library at Spetchley Park
ALKEN, HENRY
The National Sports of Great Britain. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1823 [some plates watermarked 1824]
Folio (475 x 312mm.), English and French titles and text, additional coloured aquatint title (dated 1821), 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates, nineteenth-century red half morocco, marbled boards, first plate and additional title slightly shaved at foot, spotting, rubbed
LITERATURE:
Tooley (1954) 42
PROVENANCE:
Robert Berkeley of Spetchley, 1900, armorial bookplate