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ALKEN, Henry. Shooting, or One Day's Sport of Three Real Good Ones, however ignorant of sporting rules . London: Thomas McLean, 1823. Oblong 2° (308 x 398mm. with mounts). 6 hand-coloured etched plates, window-mounted in an album. (Without the letterpress title and 7pp. of text.) Blue half morocco by the Lakeside Press, Chicago, spine compartments with raised bands and gilt lettering, original printed wrapper laid down on upper cover (bands a little rubbed, wrapper lightly soiled), blue cloth slipcase. CHOICE EXAMPLE of this visual narrative about three cockneys or ‘Corinthians’ at large with guns and dogs in the deeply rural countryside. In plate one, a guard dog is seen being released from its customary chain, while a musket is rested in the legs of a squatting poodle, and a diminutive mongrel pants in expectation. Men and dogs react over-excitedly to the sight of a running hare, and having next targeted a tame herd of geese they become involved in a broil with local villagers or ‘Johnny Raws’. Remuneration is exacted for the dead geese and a featherless chicken, but since it is spent on toasts in the local pub everyone’s day ends happilly . Each plate carries the short title 'One Day's Sport of Three Real Good Ones' at the upper margin and a caption at lower. Mellon/Snelgrove 49; Schwerdt I, p. 21 & plt. 13: 'a rare and amusing set, in fine colouring’; Siltzer p. 71; Tooley 49.
ALKEN, Henry. Shooting, or One Day's Sport of Three Real Good Ones, however ignorant of sporting rules . London: Thomas McLean, 1823.
ALKEN, Henry. Shooting, or One Day's Sport of Three Real Good Ones, however ignorant of sporting rules . London: Thomas McLean, 1823. Oblong 2° (308 x 398mm. with mounts). 6 hand-coloured etched plates, window-mounted in an album. (Without the letterpress title and 7pp. of text.) Blue half morocco by the Lakeside Press, Chicago, spine compartments with raised bands and gilt lettering, original printed wrapper laid down on upper cover (bands a little rubbed, wrapper lightly soiled), blue cloth slipcase. CHOICE EXAMPLE of this visual narrative about three cockneys or ‘Corinthians’ at large with guns and dogs in the deeply rural countryside. In plate one, a guard dog is seen being released from its customary chain, while a musket is rested in the legs of a squatting poodle, and a diminutive mongrel pants in expectation. Men and dogs react over-excitedly to the sight of a running hare, and having next targeted a tame herd of geese they become involved in a broil with local villagers or ‘Johnny Raws’. Remuneration is exacted for the dead geese and a featherless chicken, but since it is spent on toasts in the local pub everyone’s day ends happilly . Each plate carries the short title 'One Day's Sport of Three Real Good Ones' at the upper margin and a caption at lower. Mellon/Snelgrove 49; Schwerdt I, p. 21 & plt. 13: 'a rare and amusing set, in fine colouring’; Siltzer p. 71; Tooley 49.