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The National Sports of Great Britain. Fifty Engravings with Descriptions by Alken, Henry - 1903

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The National Sports of Great Britain. Fifty Engravings with Descriptions by Alken, Henry - 1903

The National Sports of Great Britain. Fifty Engravings with Descriptions

by Alken, Henry

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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. A new edition. Red cloth with paper spine label. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Contents clean and the binding is tight and square. Paper spine label darkened and chipped at one side, corners of boards bumped and a few faint water spots to the front board. Overall a good clean copy. Coloured illustrations.
  • Bookseller Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA CA (CA)
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  • Book Condition Used - Good
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  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher D. Appleton and Company
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1903
  • Keywords sport

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The National Sports of Great Britain. Fifty Engravings with Descriptions.

by ALKEN, Henry

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1825. Thomas M'Lean. London. 1825. First edition. Large 4to. Plain tan cloth backstrip, frayed and worn at extermities, marbled boards which are rubbed. 49 plates out of 50 - lacking the Dog Fighting plate and description. All other plates present. Occasional light foxing not affecting plates themselves. Ownership inscriptions to front endpapers. A clean and sound copy.
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The National Sports of Great Britain. Fifty Engravings with Descriptions.

by Alken, Henry

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  • Hardcover
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Used - Very Good
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Hardcover
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London: Thomas M'Lean, 1825. Hardback, recently rebound in full-leather. Decorative gilt spine. Marbled end-papers. Edges gilt. Unpaginated. Fifty Engravings with Descriptions. Tissue guard to frontispiece only - a little offsetting to contents from other engravings. An excellent copy in an attractive binding. (bs53). Hard Cover. Very Good.
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The National Sports of Great Britain, ... Fifty Engravings, with Descriptions

by Alken, Henry

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Used - Full olive levant gilt by Riviere and Son, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g. Bookplate of William Morley Pegge; Schwerdt bookplate. Some lig
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First edition in the royal octavo format with new plates
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London: Thomas M'Lean, 1825. First edition in the royal octavo format with new plates. 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by H. Alken. Printed title, preface, leaf with printed list of plates; each plate with letterpress text leaf. 1 vols. 8vo. Full olive levant gilt by Riviere and Son, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g. Bookplate of William Morley Pegge; Schwerdt bookplate. Some light traces of foxing in first and last leaves, not affecting plates. Fine copy. Cloth folding box. Alken, Henry. First edition in the royal octavo format with new plates. 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by H. Alken. Printed title, preface, leaf with printed list of plates; each plate with letterpress text leaf. 1 vols. 8vo. Schwerdt Copy. "This book differs from the folio edition ... Alken himself seems ot have drawn in colours and engraved the plates, which like most of his book illustrations are particularly pleasing on account of their small size" (Schwerdt). The "Fox Hunters Toast" plate (no. 19) is bound as a frontispiece; the… Read More
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