Henry Alken: Signed (20 results)

Card Covers. Condition: Good. 35 X 46 cm. 35 coloured miniature pictures, each of a different scene in the life of a young gentleman. Also colour portrait of Alken surrounded by facsimile book wrappers and pasted-in illustration of a scroll. Brown card covers. Spine chipped, covers chipped and torn at edges. Alken drew his inspiration from the highest social and sporting circles. Preface by C.F.G.R. Schwerdt. No. 289 of 400 copies, signed by the editor.…

37pp. Essay by Guy Paget. Intro and commentary by Bernard Darwin. A series of 35 small colour illus. '.the whole illustrative of modern character in a series of many hundreds of moving figures'. Boards, cloth spine. Boards scuffed and soiled, corners bumped with some paper loss. Spine faded. Little shaken. Outer pages little fingered. 44x29cms.…

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Edition. Large oblong folio. 35cm by 46cm. pp [20]. Paperback. Original publisher's tan card covers, lettered black. Alken's panoramic views were originally published in 1820 on rollers or mounted as a series of drawings. This is his most detailed work, 35 little pictures, each of a different subject. Four hundred copies printed: this is one of the 250 copies printed for Great Britain, with a further 150 copies for sale by Ernest R. Gee, New York. Signed by the editor, Schwerdt. Fine. Signedes.…

35x45 cm. Printed stiff brown wrappers with title seal pasted down on front cover. Good to very good condition with wear, small chips and tears at extremities, small chip at bottom outside corners of wrappers. This was a limited edition of four hundred copies, with nos. 1-250 for Great Britain, nos. 251-400 for sale by Ernest R. Gee, New York, and all plates have been destroyed. This copy is No. 252, one of the 150 copies designated for sale in the United States. Signed on the limitation page by C.F.G.R. Schwerdt who wrote the preface. This is a reporduction of the original illustrations of Henry Thomas Aiken (1784-1851) published by S. and F. Fuller in 1820. …

Card Covers. Condition: Fine. First Edition thus. First Paperback Edition of Alken's most detailed work, the forerunner of Nimrod's The Life of a Sportsman. Oblong folio (348 x 445mm): 10pp, including title-page vignette, colored portrait of Alken and facsimiles of 11 wrappers on one plate, and photographic illustration of the scroll case, followed by 35 colored aquatint scenes (miniature adaptations of plates in National Field Sports), depicting incidents in the life of a squire's son, mounted on five stiff-card leaves. Original publisher's mottled tan card covers lettered in black. Signed by the editor, C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, on limitation leaf. A pristine example in the original publisher's stiff card decorated envelope, lightly nicked. Originally published in scroll form, in 1820, the Panorama is extremely scarce; in the preface Schwerdt states: "apart from the writer's own copy, only one other complete specimen has come to his notice during the forty-five years that he has been collecting." Four hundred copies of this edition were published: this is no. 4 of 250 copies printed for Great Britain, with a further 150 copies for sale by Ernest R. Gee, in New York. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Signed.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. A lavishly illustrated limited edition study on the sporting paintings of Henry Alken, a signed work complete with plates in colour and monochrome. The first limited edition, limited to 250 copies, this copy numbered 182.Signed by Theodore Cook to the limitation page. Cook was the editor of 'The Field', and wrote the introduction to this volume.An ode to the life and work of Henry Alken.Henry Thomas Alken was a painter who is best remembered today for his many paintings of sporting subjects and coaching scenes.This wonderful work includes many examples of Alken's prolific paintings career.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, eight colour plates, and forty-eight monochrome plates.Collated, complete.Written by Walter Shaw Sparrow. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Cloth is a little discoloured with some marks, as is usual with a light colour cloth. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. Henry Alken (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

First Edition. Very good large-format paperback copy in printed wrappers, with edges and rear joint showing several small tears. Initial and final leaves faintly foxed, with the frontispiece lightly offset to the facing colophon. Rear leaves shadow-stained at the margins. Plates remain otherwise strong and clean. A well-preserved example overall. Physical description; [20] pages : illustrations (some mounted colour) ; 35 x 46 cm. Notes; Mounted col. ill. on t.p. Preface" signed: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt. Copy 2 has dust jacket with title: The progress of human life. Four hundred copies only of this book have been printed: nos. 1-250 for Great Britain, nos. 251-400 for sale by Ernest R. Gee, New York, and all plates have been destroyed." Nos. 272, 273. Signed by the editor. Subjects; Alken, Henry Thomas, 1785-1851. Sports in art. Hunting in art. Aquatint, English, 19th century. English wit and humour, pictorial. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First. Two volumes, octavo (published in 1821 and 1822). [2: title, verso blank], [iii]-x, [3]-656; [2: title, verso blank], [i]-ix, [1: blank], [3]-668 pp. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece and pictorial hand-colored title in each volume, plus 30 hand-colored aquatint plates in the text. Later full crimson morocco, triple-ruled in gilt; spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt; gilt turn-ins; all edges gilt. Spine extremities and bands rubbed. Occasional mild toning and smudges. Complete with all 28 text plates called for in the Directions to the Binder, along with an additional two plates, "Tom and Bob Catching a Charley Napping" (Abbey no. 34) and "St. George's Day, Presentation at the Levee" (Abbey no. 31). A very good or better set, in a handsome signed binding by Riviere and Son. First edition (later issue) of this imitation of Pierce Egan's Life in London (1821). While sometimes attributed to Egan, the work was possibly written by John Badcock. "Out of the sixty-five imitations of it which Egan stated that he had reckoned, the most important was Real Life in London. which was published in sixpenny numbers in 1821, with excellent illustrations by Heath, Alken, Dighton, Rowlandson and others. Real Life in London is a pleasanter book than its prototype. Some have held that Egan wrote it; but the author had a purer style, a cleaner mind and a wider knowledge of London than Egan" (The Cambridge History of English and American Literature). "From a bibliographical point of view, one of the most complicated and bewildering books ever published, rivaling Pickwick in the tangle of variant states that exist both in text and plates. The work had a tremendous success, probably out-rivaling in popularity its prototype. A difficult feature of the book is that two printers. printed copies, textually the same page by page, with only minor variations in the settings, and this, coupled with the fact that during the eight or nine years it was being reprinted, makes the whole vast output all 'first editions' but with innumerable states and variants that continually overlap one with the other" (Abbey). "Originally published in 56 parts, on completion the work was issued in boards. Later copies were bound in publisher's cloth. A book full of contrarities and difficulties for the bibliographer, there being innumerable variations of the plates. The difficulties are further increased by many copies in modern bindings having been completed or made up of different issues giving combinations that are not true variations" (Tooley). Printers: R. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street (vol. 1); A. Applegath Stamford-street (vol. 2). Second volume title and imprint: Real Life in London; or, The Further Rambles and Adventures [etc.] - Printed for Jones & Co. 3, Warwick Square. 1822. References: Abbey, Life 280 (1821-22 first edition); J. H. Slater, Illustrated Sporting Books (1899), p. 96; Tooley 198 (1821-22 first edition).…

Folio. (18 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches). Parallel titles and text in English and French, text leaves with numerical signatures from 1-50. Hand-coloured engraved additional title, 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates by I. Clark after Henry Alken. (Final two plates and text leaves with minor paper loss to blank margins). Contemporary black straight-grained morocco, the covers elaborately panelled in gilt, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others with elaborate repeat pattern built up from small tools, gilt turn ins, cream-glazed endpapers, red morocco inner hinges, gilt edges A fine copy of "Alken's most important work . It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection" (Tooley). The plates and text between them offer a thorough survey of the sports practised in Great Britain in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The subjects covered including riding, fox, stag and otter hunting, beagling, racing, falconry, various types of dogs and horses, shooting grouse, partridge, pheasant, snipe, wild-fowl, bittern, pigeon, fishing for pike, and salmon, fishing from a punt, prize-fighting, cock-fighting, badger, bear, and bull-baiting and perhaps most extraordinary of all: "owling." It is interesting to note that although both the artist and the author felt that it was necessary to record badger, bear and bull baiting they did not hold back from condemning all three sports as barbaric. This copy is a later issue. The additional title is dated 1821 (rather than 1820, as in the first issue), a letterpress title in French has been added (only the English title is present in the first and second issues) and the explanatory text leaves are signed consecutively from 1 to 50 (Podeschi records an intermediate state/issue where only some of the text leaves are numbered). The watermarks suggest a date of circa 1824. The plates, very carefully hand-coloured, are all aquatints by I. Clark, and retain all of the liveliness that is such a feature of this work. The artist Henry Thomas Alken was born into what became a sporting artistic dynasty. He studied under the miniature painter J.T. Barber and exhibited his first picture (a miniature portrait) at the Royal Academy when he was sixteen. From about 1816 onwards he "produced paintings, drawings and engravings of every type of field and other sporting activity. He is best remembered for his hunting prints, many of which he engraved himself until the late 1830s . To many, sporting art is 'Alken', and to describe his work or ability is quite unnecessary" (Charles Lane British Racing Prints pp.75-76). Litchfield 14; cf. Mellon/Podeschi 111; cf. Schwerdt I, p.19 & IV, p.4; Tooley 42.…

3 volumes, folio. 21 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches. 329 exquisitely hand-coloured aquatint plates or soft-ground etchings by Henry Alken (various sizes, 4 folding), all mounted or inlaid within gilt-ruled borders, as issued, and interleaved throughout, general title to each volume, some section titles. Publisher's contemporary green straight grain morocco, ornately gilt with a pictorial sporting motif to covers signed "Knights sc" in gilt, within a diamond border stamped in blind and gilt. Each volume housed in a cloth slipcase. An exquisitely hand-coloured set of this very rare collection of Alken's major works. Included in the compilation are many important plates of shooting, coaching, racing, bull-baiting, owling, and hawking all finely hand-coloured. This example with more plates than any other example known. A remarkable copy that collects Alken's most important work in three volumes from the publisher McLean with more plates included than any recorded known example. "This binding covers one of the collections of plates by Alken which were issued by McLean in 1824; they have nearly all been broken up and are extremely scarce. See de Ricci, The Book Collector's Guide, Philadelphia and New York, 1921, p.16 [.] The binding is very typical of the period, its chief interest consisting in the central ornament composed of sporting paraphernalia and signed 'Knights sc'. The engraver is mentioned in an advertisement of Gosden's Silver Buttons as a partner with Colnaghi and Molteno. The ornament is usually found on copies of Alken's National Sports of Great Britain, 1820, 1821, or 1823" -- G.D. Hobson Each volume has a separate title page. The set comprises: Volume 1: Printed title, dated 1821. Contents: Fox-hunting, 1 plate; Shooting, 4 plates (folding); Coaching, 2 plates; British Sports, colored title and 50 plates; Moments of Fancy, colored title and 13 plates. Volume 2: Printed title. Contents: Fox-hunting, 2 plates; Symptoms of Being Amused, colored title and set of 41 plates; Involuntary Thoughts, 8 plates; Hunting, or Six Hours Sport, printed title and set of 6 plates; Shooting, or One Day's Sport of Three Real Good Ones, printed title and set of 6 plates; 6 miscellaneous plates; Tutor's Assistant, 6 plates; Specimens of Riding Near London, set of 18 plates; Comparative Meltonians, 6 plates; 12 miscellaneous plates. Volume 3: Printed title. Contents: Fox-hunting, 1 plate; Illustrations to Popular Songs, printed title, colored title, and set of 43 plates; Scraps from the Sketch Book of Henry Alken, printed title and 42 plates; 6 additional plates including Earth Stopper, Game Keepers, Huntsman & Whipper In, Post Lads, Poachers, and Fox Hunter; Illustrations to Byron, 3 plates; National Sports, 30 plates; A Touch at the Fine Arts, set of 12 plates; Scenes in the Life of Master George, 11 plates. G.D. Hobson, English Bindings in the Library of J.R. Abbey, 1940, 113, describing a similar set bound in red straight-grained morocco; de Ricci, The Book Collector's Guide, p.16 (3 sets known). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. London: John Murray, 1837. First Edition [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. NIMROD (pseud. of Charles J. Apperley). The Chace, The Turf, and the Road. With Illustrations by Henry Alken, and a Portrait by D. Maclise. First edition in book form, originally serially published in the Quarterly Review. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/8 in; 223 x 135 mm). xx, 301pp, [1, printer's slug], [18, separately numbered publisher's catalogues] pp. Thirteen partially hand-coloured plates, some in aquatint, with tissue guards, and plain, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece. Elegant half leather binding, green cloth boards, gilt titles and decoration. Gilt decorated spine. The signed page has been laid onto another page or rebacked. Plates heavily oxidised. Charles James Apperley (1777-1843), English sportsman and sporting writer, better known as Nimrod, the pseudonym under which he published his works on the chase and on the turf. A devoted fox-hunter, around 1821 Apperley began to contribute a series of articles to The Sporting Magazine, under the pseudonym of "Nimrod," that covered horse races, hunt meets and other sporting events. His references to the personalities of the people he knew or met at such events helped to double the circulation of the magazine within a few years. Mr. Pittman, the proprietor of The Sporting Magazine, gave Nimrod a handsome salary and defrayed all the expenses of his tours. He also gave Nimrod a stud of hunters. After Pittman's death, the proprietors of the magazine sued Apperley for the money that had been advanced. To avoid imprisonment, Apperley moved to Calais in 1830, where he supported himself by writing. Apperley is best known for his two books, The Life of a Sportsman, and Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton, both of which were illustrated with colored engravings by Henry Thomas Alken. Apperley eventually returned to England and died in Upper Belgrave Place, London, on 19 May 1843. The Plates: 1. Preparing to Start. 2. Getting Well Off. 3. The Race - Epsom. 4. The Melton Hunt. 5. Getting Away. 6. A Queerish Place. 7. A Pull Up. 8. The Lane. 9. Whissendine Brook. 10. The Death. 11. It's The Comet, &c. 12. The Regulator. 13. The Quicksilver Mail. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles and decoration, raised bands. Joints good condition minor wear. Corners good condition. Boards good condition green cloth. Page edges good condition top edge gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition good and solid. Paste downs good condition marbled. End papers good condition marbled. Title good condition heavily oxidised (foxed). Pages good condition some foxing, heavy to plates. Binding good condition attractive. See photos Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1837. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Landscape folio (25 x 34.4 cm). Engr. title page, 7 hand-coloured engraved plates by Alken, plate 5 with J. Whatman 1819 mark. Later red hard-grained half morocco, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, rebacked preserving spine. First edition, early issue. The first of Alken's works to have a title page, "lacking from a great many copies" (Dixon). Signed Ben Tally Ho, the title good-humouredly explains that the plates are a reply to Robert Frankland's "Indispensable Accomplishments", a set of six Leicestershire hunting prints published in June 1811. Where Frankland blames the horse for any failures, Alken aims to show how a perfectly good horse can be handicapped by an "unqualified" or untrained rider. - Light browning to sky areas and plate margins. Provenance: Alfred N. Beadleston (bookplate). - Dixon 4 (two plates watermarked 1819). Mellon/Snelgrove 3. Schwerdt I, 20 (1813 watermark). Siltzer 69 & 74. Tooley, Coloured Plates 44.…

No. 158 of 250 copies on hand made paper, signed by Sir Theodore on the limitation page. With 8 color plates and 64 in black and white. xxiv, 55 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Biscotti, Six Centuries of Foxhunting, p. 34JC-NY/sportW8 Original white linen, spine darkened, spine and covers a little soiled, internally fine With 8 color plates and 64 in black and white. xxiv, 55 pp. 1 vols. 4to No. 158 of 250 copies on hand made paper, signed by Sir Theodore on the limitation page. Signed. …

First edition, early issue. The first of Alken's works to have a title-page, "lacking from a great many copies" (Dixon). Signed Ben Tally Ho, the title explains with good humour that the plates are a reply to Robert Frankland's Indispensable accomplishments, a set of 6 Leicestershire hunting prints published in June 1811. Where Frankland blames the horse for any failures, Alken aims to show how a perfectly good horse can be handicapped by an "unqualified" or untrained rider.Light browning to sky areas and plate margins, with the bookplate of Alfred N. Beadleston.l Dixon 4 (noting 2 plates watermarked 1819); Mellon 3; Schwerdt I, 20 (1813 watermark); Siltzer 69 & 74; Tooley, Some English books with coloured plates 44 (dating it 1819). Later red hard-grained half morocco, spine and front board lettered in gold. Re-backed preserving the original spine. With engraved title-page, 7 hand-coloured engraved plates by Alken, including plate 5 with a J. Whatman 1819 watermark.…

First Edition. The Unique Copy with Henry Alken's Original Design for the Title-Page Together with Alken's Hand-Colored Etched Proof Documenting the Creation of One of the Great Sporting Pictorial Titles NEWHOUSE, C[harles] B. [&] ALKEN, Henry. The Roadsters' Album. London: Messrs. Fores, January 2, 1845. Second edition. Folio (14 7/8 x 10 1/2 inches; 379 x 268 mm.). Hand-colored aquatint pictorial title-page by Henry Alken, sixteen magnificent hand-colored aquatints by C. B. Newhouse, and eight pages of publisher's advertisements. Each plate printed on fine artboard and captioned with Newhouse's name and the Fores imprint. Recently bound in an elegant period style in full dark green morocco, covers ruled in gilt with decorative corner-pieces surrounding a central blind-stamped panel, spine richly gilt in compartments, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. A handsome copy. An apparently unique copy, accompanied by Henry Alken's original signed pencil and watercolor drawing for the celebrated pictorial title-page, together with the original etched proof, hand-colored by Alken himself and inscribed on the verso: "To go with the original drawing / The Etched outline coloured by Alken Senr." Few opportunities exist to follow so completely the creative process of a major sporting artist. Here, the evolution of the title-page can be traced from Alken's original watercolor design, through the etched proof personally colored by the artist, to the finished published aquatint that introduces the book. Together they form a unique record of nineteenth-century sporting book illustration in its successive stages of conception, engraving, and publication. Originally published in 1836 under the title Incidents in Travelling, the work was reissued by the celebrated sporting print publishers Messrs. Fores in 1845 as The Roadsters' Album, distinguished by the addition of Alken's exuberant pictorial title-page. Charles B. Newhouse devoted almost his entire artistic career to coaching scenes, road travel, and sporting subjects, and nowhere is his talent more fully displayed than in this delightful series of sixteen aquatints depicting the hazards, mishaps, humor, and excitement of travel on the great coaching roads of England. The plates capture every aspect of coaching life: overturned vehicles, broken drags, forgotten passengers, overloaded mails, dangerous river crossings, snowstorms, sleepy gatekeepers, Gretna Green elopements, and desperate races against competing coaches. Each composition combines lively observation with remarkable technical assurance, preserving in vivid contemporary color the final flowering of the coaching age just before the railway transformed travel forever. Messrs. Fores occupied a pre-eminent position among nineteenth-century sporting publishers, specializing in the finest coaching, racing, hunting, and equestrian prints of the period. The addition of Henry Alken's elaborate title-page was entirely appropriate, for no artist was more closely associated with the golden age of British sporting illustration. Richly populated with coaches, horses, coachmen, guards, and travelers, the title-page serves as a visual overture to the entire work and ranks among the most attractive pictorial titles produced for any English sporting book. The accompanying original drawing elevates the present copy into an altogether different category. Original designs by Henry Alken prepared for published books are exceptionally uncommon; the survival of the corresponding etched proof, personally colored by the artist and explicitly identified as such, appears to be without parallel. Together they provide a rare insight into Alken's working methods and transform the volume into a unique archive of the artist's creative process. No other copy has been recorded containing Alken's original artwork and working proof, making the present example not merely the finest copy of the book known, but one of the most important survivals relating to Henry Alken's p. Signed. …

Gesamtgröße 62 cm x 45 cm. Größe der Darstellung 50 cm x 38 cm In der Platte signiert. Hinter Glas gerahmt mit Holzrahmen (Rahmen mit kleinen Läsuren)--- 1790 Gramm.

Gesamtgröße 62 cm x 45 cm. Größe der Darstellung 50 cm x 30 cm In der Platte signiert. Hinter Glas gerahmt mit Holzrahmen (Rahmen mit kleinen Läsuren)--- - Die Aquatinta-Technik wurde zwischen 1765 und 1768 von Jean Baptiste Leprince erfunden und wird vielfach mit der Radierung kombiniert - 1790 Gramm.…

Condition: Gut. Alken, Henry Thomas. ? ?Breaking Cover (Fuchsjagd).1841. Radierung / Aquatinta, in Schwarz, alt aquarelliert, auf hellgelbem Kupferdruck. ? Originale Künstlergrafik, von Henry Thomas Alken. ? 18,6 x 27,1 cm (Darstellung / Einfassungslinie), 22,9 x 30,4 cm (Platte), 29 x 37 cm (Blatt).In der Platte links unten signiert: ?Drawn & Etch.d by Alkin (!)? Mittig Titel sowie Verlegeradresse: ?London. 1841. Published by I.W. Laird 1. Leadenhall Street.? ? Guter Zustand.Henry Thomas Alken (1785 London - 1851 London). Englischer Maler und Aquatintastecher. Bevorzugte jagdliche und sportliche Sujets. Die erste Ausbildung erfuhr er bei seinem Vater Samuel Alken. Studierte dann bei dem Miniaturmaler John Thomas Barber Beaumont. 1801 stellte er ein Miniaturporträt von Miss Gubbins in der Royal Academy aus. Früh verlegte er sich auf sportliche Themen, wobei er oft als "Ben Tally-O" signierte.…

Condition: Gut. Alken, Henry Thomas. ? ?Unkenneling (Fuchsjagd).1841. Radierung / Aquatinta, in Schwarz, alt aquarelliert, auf hellgelbem Kupferdruck. ? Originale Künstlergrafik, von Henry Thomas Alken. ? 18,6 x 27,3 cm (Darstellung / Einfassungslinie), 22,8 x 30,6 cm (Platte), 29 x 37 cm (Blatt).In der Platte links unten signiert: ?Drawn & Etch.d by Alkin (!)? Mittig Titel sowie Verlegeradresse: ?London. 1841. Published by I.W. Laird 1. Leadenhall Street.? ? Guter Zustand.Henry Thomas Alken (1785 London - 1851 London). Englischer Maler und Aquatintastecher. Bevorzugte jagdliche und sportliche Sujets. Die erste Ausbildung erfuhr er bei seinem Vater Samuel Alken. Studierte dann bei dem Miniaturmaler John Thomas Barber Beaumont. 1801 stellte er ein Miniaturporträt von Miss Gubbins in der Royal Academy aus. Früh verlegte er sich auf sportliche Themen, wobei er oft als "Ben Tally-O" signierte.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Etching by Henry Thomas Alken (British 1785-1850/51). Titled "His Reverance Swims Like a Cork" below image. Aquatint on heavy paper - handcolored. Signed "Drawn and Etched by H. Alken" at lower left. Image 11" wide x 7 1/2" tall. Paper size 13 3/4" wide x 10" tall. Framed and matted 15" wide x 12" tall. Very good condition. Signed by Author(s). …