Smith J Alken (4 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Henry Alken; J. F. Herring, Jr.; E. Corbet; W. Smith (illustrator). Extensive guide to fox hunting and the proper care of hounds, delightfully illustrated with 12 colour plates. Seventh edition.In publisher's original red cloth binding with gilt detail.With 12 hand-coloured plates by, among others, prominent artist Henry Alken, best known for his sports illustrations. Includes a frontispiece by equine artist John Frederick Herring Jr. Collated, complete.With the bookplate of John Ponsonby to the front paste down.From the knowledgable Robert T. Vyner and edited by William Charles Arlington Blew, author of Light Horses: Breeds and Management (1894). This work extensively details the particulars of caring for hounds in relation to fox-hunting. Includes chapters on the importance of the correct kennel, diseases and their cures and also on accomplished sportsmen and relevant hunting anecdotes. In original publisher's red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with slight bumping and rubbing, resulting in minor loss of cloth noticeable to the joints and spine tips. The occasional mark to both boards. Bookplate of John Ponsonby to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound with the odd unopened page. Pages relatively bright and clean with spotting heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. All Fully Illustrated and Complete with All the Origianl Hand Coloured Plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. The Ten Works are: 1- Plain or Ringlets. Bradbury & Evans, 1860; 2- Mr. Romfords Hounds. Bradbury, Agnew, no date, c1865; 3- Ask Mamma.Bradbury, Agnew, no date, c1865; 4- Jorrocks Jaunts and Jollities. Routledge, no date, c1869; 5- Hawbuyck Grange. Bradbury, Agnew, no date, c1885; 6- Mr Jorrocks Thoughts on Hunting. Blackwood, Edingurgh, 1925; 7- Hillingdon Hall. Routledge, no date, c1920; 8- Young Tom Hall. Blackwood, Edingurgh, 1926. FINE COPY WITH DUST JACKET; 9- Hunting Tours of Surtees. Blackwood, Edingurgh, 1927. FINE COPY WITH DUST JACKET; & 10- Robert Smith Surtees: Creator of JORROCKS. 1860-1927, Written by himself and E.D.CUMMING. New York, Charles Scribners Sons, 1927. Fine copy with dust jacket. GENERAL CONDITION: All volumes are complete and bound in the origianl pictorial covers; On the whole all very good copies. Covers of some are faded and occational spotting. Size: 8vo.

Card Covers. Condition: Good. Smith, J. And Emes, J.; Alken, S. [Engraver] (illustrator). First Thus. Sixteen aquatints in the original card covers, with the original label to upper cover. Worn to extremities, spine has had a brown paper tape added at some point in the past, this is now largely absent, corners slightly curled, small amounts of loss to foot of spine, label with a previous owner's name in ink. Internally some light browning, the last three aquatints have some browning to top edge just touching plate mark, but not the image, generally quite bright and clean. The final aquatint lacks the tissue guard. Book label of Charles J. Bewlay of Carleton Hall to front pastedown, with a shelf mark in ink to upper corner. The views were by J.[ohn] 'Warwick' Smith (1749-1831) and J.[ohn] Emes (d. c.1809), and engraved by S.[amuel] Alken (1756-1815), the father of Henry Alken (for Alken see Alexander, 'A Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers 1714-1820', pages 48-9). Originally published in 1795 (see Abbey Scenery 184), these are on paper with a 'Ruse & Turners 1807' watermark. Bicknell notes that these are the plates "advertised in the fifth edition (1793) and subsequent editions of [Thomas] West's 'Guide' [to the Lakes] as 'of a proper size to bind with the Guide', and are frequently found bound in copies of the 'Guide'" (Bicknell, page 59). Abbey Scenery 186; Bicknell 31; Upcott XXI Size: 4to.

Stampa antica ed originale con veduta parziale del ghiacciaio del Bosson, stampato in seppia. Riferim. Priuli Noussan n° 60 - cat Trippini 96 n° 172.