Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 223

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(SPORTING.) Alken, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain. 50 hand-colored aquatint plates each with letterpress captions. Folio, near contemporary full crimson pebble-grained morocco by E. Riley & Son; gilt floral ornamental border within triple gilt fillets, a few surface marks to covers, spines in compartments decoratively tooled in gilt, joints and corners slightly rubbed; inner dentelles; gilt edges; John Croft Deverell armorial bookplate on front pastedown; remnant of smaller bookplate evident above; slipcase, frayed. a wide-margined, large paper copy in fine condition. Tooley 43. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1825