ALKEN, Henry. ORIGINAL COPPERPLATES -- A collection of 8 metal plates (182 x 234mm) forming the complete series for Doing the Thing and the Thing Done by Ben Tally-Ho . London: S. and J. Fuller, 1818. [ With :] A larger pair of copperplates, 'One of the Right Sort' and 'One of the Wrong Sort' by and after Alken (275 x 308mm). London: S.B. Fuller, [1818?]; and two others on a ballad theme: 'A Hunting We will go' (200 x 150mm). 30 September, 1835; 'Hark! Hark ! Tantivy !' (150 x 130mm) [n.d.], both after Alken. Together 12 copperplates mounted in 6 modern calf-backed boxes, the boxes in book form with marbled sides and gilt-lettered spines. Provenance : [?]Andrew White Tuer (1838-1900, founder of the Leadenhall Press; according to a bookseller's note, the copperplates correspond to nos. 135-144 in the 1913 Leadenhall Press catalogue). A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ALKEN COPPERPLATES with a hunting theme. All but one of the plates has been steel-coated by electrolysis in order to allow more impressions to be made. Some have also been waxed to prevent rusting. Siltzer p. 58; Tooley 24. (6)
ALKEN, Henry. ORIGINAL COPPERPLATES -- A collection of 8 metal plates (182 x 234mm) forming the complete series for Doing the Thing and the Thing Done by Ben Tally-Ho . London: S. and J. Fuller, 1818. [ With :] A larger pair of copperplates, 'One of the Right Sort' and 'One of the Wrong Sort' by and after Alken (275 x 308mm). London: S.B. Fuller, [1818?]; and two others on a ballad theme: 'A Hunting We will go' (200 x 150mm). 30 September, 1835; 'Hark! Hark ! Tantivy !' (150 x 130mm) [n.d.], both after Alken. Together 12 copperplates mounted in 6 modern calf-backed boxes, the boxes in book form with marbled sides and gilt-lettered spines. Provenance : [?]Andrew White Tuer (1838-1900, founder of the Leadenhall Press; according to a bookseller's note, the copperplates correspond to nos. 135-144 in the 1913 Leadenhall Press catalogue). A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ALKEN COPPERPLATES with a hunting theme. All but one of the plates has been steel-coated by electrolysis in order to allow more impressions to be made. Some have also been waxed to prevent rusting. Siltzer p. 58; Tooley 24. (6)
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