(SPORTING) Alken Henry A Cockneys Shooting Season in Suffolk

Sale 2295 - Lot 217

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(SPORTING.) Alken, Henry. A Cockney's Shooting Season, in Suffolk. 6 hand-colored aquatint plates; title-page and 14 pages of text (often lacking). Small folio, original printed wrappers with contemporary ledger sheet mounted face down on rectos, binding threads lacking with contents loose (remnants of threads at end), scattered minor toning and light offsetting from plates onto facing pages; custom red buckram portfolio with bookplate. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1822

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first edition of this scarce printing in original wrappers. An amusing tale of a society Londoner who tries his hand at shooting with his country friends only to wreak havoc on himself and others. Tooley 22; Schwerdt I, p.12; Abbey Life, 382.