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First edition of Sporting Discoveries or the Miseries of Shooting by Henry Alken, with 7 satirical hand-coloured plates.
First edition of Sporting Discoveries or the Miseries of Shooting by Henry Alken, with 7 satirical hand-coloured plates.
First edition of Sporting Discoveries or the Miseries of Shooting by Henry Alken, with 7 satirical hand-coloured plates.
First edition of Sporting Discoveries or the Miseries of Shooting by Henry Alken, with 7 satirical hand-coloured plates.
First edition of Sporting Discoveries or the Miseries of Shooting by Henry Alken, with 7 satirical hand-coloured plates.

ALKEN, Henry.

Sporting Discoveries, or The Miseries of Shooting...

London, S. and J. Fuller, 1816.

£5,000.00
£5,000.00

Sporting Discoveries,

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One of Alken's rarest works. No title as issued. Each plate captioned with descriptive text. A companion piece to Sporting Discoveries - Miseries of Hunting. 'A well drawn and finely coloured set of plates' (Schwerdt).

First edition; landscape folio (25 x 34.5 cm); 7 hand-coloured plates, watermarked 1815, paper title label pasted to blank, armorial bookplate to front pastedown, very light spotting, slight offsetting to reverse of plates, crease to lower corner of first plate; later full red morocco, boards tolled in gilt with title lettered in gilt to upper board, spine lettered in gilt in six compartments, gilt inner dentelles, corners a little bumped, otherwise a fine copy.

Schwerdt I, p. 23.

Stock code 114136

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First edition of Sporting Discoveries or the Miseries of Shooting by Henry Alken, with 7 satirical hand-coloured plates.

Sporting Discoveries,

£5,000.00
£5,000.00

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