Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 225

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SPORTING.) Alken, Henry. Sporting Sketches. 36 etched color plates. Title-page. Oblong 4to, original stiff printed boards, soiled, disbound, covers detached, spine perished; occasional foxing and soiling to plates, chiefly marginal. first edition of this early alken work. sold as is. London: S. & J. Fuller, 1817

Additional Details

with-- Rudiments for Drawing the Horse. 16 colored etchings (of 26 called for). Title-page. Small oblong 4to, original stiff printed boards, soiled, disbound, covers detached, spine split; some soiling and short tears to plates. London: S. & J. Fuller, 1822. Sold As Is. Four additional later color reproductions on mounts by Alken, Newhouse, Pollard and Rowlandson; all with letterpress caption "From the Joel Spitz Collection." The whole laid into folding cloth portfolio, rubbed.