ALKEN, Henry, illustrator -- [APPERLEY, Charles James (1778-1843)]. Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton ... with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, and extravagant exploits by Nimrod ... reprinted from the New Sporting Magazine. London: W. Spiers for Rudolph Ackermann 1835.
ALKEN, Henry, illustrator -- [APPERLEY, Charles James (1778-1843)]. Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton ... with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, and extravagant exploits by Nimrod ... reprinted from the New Sporting Magazine. London: W. Spiers for Rudolph Ackermann 1835. 8° (210 x 135mm). 12 hand-coloured etched and aquatint plates, the design and etching by Henry Alken the aquatint by E. Duncan. Original brown grained cloth, blocked in gilt and blind (front free endpaper loose); brown morocco pull-off case by the Lakeside Press. Provenance : Joseph Widener (1871-1943, American art collector, founding benefactor of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and thoroughbred horse enthusiast; bookplate; acquired at his sale 28 November 1944). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM IN ORIGINAL CLOTH, WIDENER COPY . Apperley had been Mytton's neighbour in Shropshire, and both had lived together in Calais to avoid creditors. 'Apperley's task was to write the life of a man who, while he was one of the most heroic sportsmen that ever lived, was also drunken, diseased and insane, and he performed the task with admirable judgment' (see Cambridge History of English and American Literature , vol. XIV, 'The Victorian Age', pt. 2). Three of the plates in this first edition (2, 8 and 9) did not appear in the second. Abbey Life , 385 (2nd edition); Mellon/Podeschi 147; Ray 48 (3rd edition); Schwerdt I, p. 38; Tooley 66.
ALKEN, Henry, illustrator -- [APPERLEY, Charles James (1778-1843)]. Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton ... with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, and extravagant exploits by Nimrod ... reprinted from the New Sporting Magazine. London: W. Spiers for Rudolph Ackermann 1835.
ALKEN, Henry, illustrator -- [APPERLEY, Charles James (1778-1843)]. Memoirs of the Life of the late John Mytton ... with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, and extravagant exploits by Nimrod ... reprinted from the New Sporting Magazine. London: W. Spiers for Rudolph Ackermann 1835. 8° (210 x 135mm). 12 hand-coloured etched and aquatint plates, the design and etching by Henry Alken the aquatint by E. Duncan. Original brown grained cloth, blocked in gilt and blind (front free endpaper loose); brown morocco pull-off case by the Lakeside Press. Provenance : Joseph Widener (1871-1943, American art collector, founding benefactor of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and thoroughbred horse enthusiast; bookplate; acquired at his sale 28 November 1944). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM IN ORIGINAL CLOTH, WIDENER COPY . Apperley had been Mytton's neighbour in Shropshire, and both had lived together in Calais to avoid creditors. 'Apperley's task was to write the life of a man who, while he was one of the most heroic sportsmen that ever lived, was also drunken, diseased and insane, and he performed the task with admirable judgment' (see Cambridge History of English and American Literature , vol. XIV, 'The Victorian Age', pt. 2). Three of the plates in this first edition (2, 8 and 9) did not appear in the second. Abbey Life , 385 (2nd edition); Mellon/Podeschi 147; Ray 48 (3rd edition); Schwerdt I, p. 38; Tooley 66.
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