ALKEN, Henry

Ackermann's Sporting Scraps

London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1850. One of the Rarest of all Henry Alken's Albums ALKEN, Henry. [Ackermann's Sporting Scraps]. London: Rudolph Ackermann, February 20th. 1850 - March 13th. 1861. First edition. Oblong quarto (8 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches; 214 x 273 mm.). Thirty-six superb hand colored aquatint plates, heightened with gum arabic, by J.Harris after H. Alken, W.J. Shayer, and W.A. Knell. Bound ca. 1900 by J. Larkins in full tan calf, covers with triple-gilt borders and corner fleurons. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, purple coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Small neat repair to lower edge of front cover. A few plates with light marginal foxing, Steeple Chase Scraps plate 2 a little foxed. A very good copy of an exceedingly rare book. Fine impressions of the Henry Alken plates. Twenty-eight out of the thirty-six being by him. It includes the best plates from Ackermann's famous publications.. A fine collection of skillfully rendered sporting scenes, splendidly characteristic of the humor and unrivaled talent of Henry Alken (1785-1851) who drew twenty-eight of the thirty-six plates. These small format aquatints are quite scarce, especially with such fine hand-coloring, and are only mentioned very infrequently in the relevant literature. Excessively Rare. According to OCLC there is just one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: The Huntington Library (CA, USA). The note from OCLC reads "Title from label on inside front cover./ Plates colored by hand./ The plates are mostly in groups of four and cover the following subjects: hunting, racing, coaching, coursing, shooting, steeple-chase, Indian sporting, fishing, deer stalking, stag-hunting, and yachting./ Four plates on coaching by W.J. Shayer; four on yachting by W.A. Knell; remainder by Alken./ Engraved by J. Harris." The plates: R. Ackermann's Hunting Scraps (dated March 13th. 1861) 1. Drawing Cover 2. Gone Away 3. Full Cry 4. The Death R. Ackermann's Racing Scraps (dated April 27th. 1850) 1. Training 2. Preparing to Start 3. Started 4. The Race Ackermann's Coaching Scraps (dated March 20th. and April 20th. 1854) 1. The Wet Morning 2. Springing 'em 3. The Rivals 4. The Time Keeper R. Ackermann's Steeple Chase Scraps (dated February 20th. 1850) 1. Getting away - Now for the front 2. The Brook 3. The Stone wall and double fence 4. The last Struggle R. Ackermann's Indian Sporting Scraps (dated April 9th. 1850) 1. Beating for a Boar 2. Raising the Boar from his lair 3. Charging the Boar 4. The wounded Boar Charging R. Ackermann's Shooting Scraps (dated June 10th. 1850) 1. Going out 2. The Point 3. The Shot 4. Down Charge R. Ackermann's Coursing Scraps (dated June 12th. 1850) 1. Going Out 2. Soho 3. The Course 4. The Death R. Ackermann's Fishing Scraps (dated July 15th. 1850) Trout Fishing R. Ackermann's Deer-Stalking Scraps (dated July 12th. 1850) Taking the Stag R. Ackermann's Stag Hunting Scraps (dated July 12th. 1850) Taking the Stag R. Ackermann's Shooting Scraps (dated July 15th. 1850) Flacker Shooting R. Ackermann's Yachting Scraps (dated April 20th. 1850) 1. Running off the wind 2. The Sapphire 3. Yachts on a wind 4. The Bianca Schooner Yacht Bobins III, 1168; Siltzer, pp. 65-67; Not in Abbey, Dixon, Snelgrove/Mellon or Tooley. .

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Book number: 05128

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Caricatures Hunting Sports

ALKEN, Henry

Alken's New Sketch Book

London: Published by S. and J. Fuller, 1823. Exceptionally Rare Alken Title With Forty Finely Hand-Colored Soft Ground Etchings Depicting Equitation, Hunting and Other Sports ALKEN, Henry. Alken's New Sketch Book. London: Published by S. and J. Fuller, [1823]. First edition. Oblong quarto (8 5/8 x 11 3/8 inches; 220 x 289 mm.). Printed title-page and forty finely hand colored soft-ground etched plates, heightened with gum arabic. The plates depict equitation, hunting and other sports. Thirty of the plates are single-scene illustrations, ten have multi-scene images. Contemporary quarter purple calf over marbled boards, decoratively ruled in gilt, green leather label on upper cover lettered in gilt. Smooth spine with two raised bands at top and bottom, ruled in gilt in compartments, later end-papers. Engraved bookplate of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester on font paste-down. Some rubbing to spine and corners. A near fine copy of this exceptionally rare Alken title. Very rare, Siltzer p. 71; Not located in Biscotti; Not in Dulles (Anderson Galleries NY, Dec 10-12, 1912). We know of only on other copy - and that one is not colored. According to OCLC there is just one copy in libraries and institutions, worldwide: HUV, Huntington Library, Los Angeles, CA. (not colored). Our copy (the only one we could find at auction) was sold at The Duke of Gloucester sale, Christie's, London, January 2006, lot 614 - £1,440). "Henry Alken, senior, was a genius in every respect; his style was admirable and his colouring delightful.. [he] was a first-class sportsman who drew from his own experience in field and cover and in fact in every branch of sport excepting hawking. His artistic talents alone could scarcely have produced the charm with which his drawings and prints are imbued, if he had not possessed a practical knowledge of horses and hounds going, harness and craftsmanship, while a gift for composition and a ready appreciation of a comical situation crown his remarkable qualities.. It is unfortunate that Alken's value as an artist was not fully recognised sooner, because most of his sets of coloured prints, in brilliant state and in the original wrappers, are now introuvable. Atmospheric dampness and exposure to strong light, combine to ruin framed prints within a very few years; in fact, all those which have been exposed on walls for any length of time will be found to be more or less bleached and to retain very little of their original colouring. Probably the work of no other sporting artist has been imitated so much as that of Henry Alken, senior." (Schwerdt. Hunting, Hawking, Shooting. Volume I, p. 11). Bobins V, 1624; Siltzer. The Story of British Sporting Prints, p.71; Not in Biscotti, Dulles, Schwerdt, Tooley or Widener. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 05695

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Caricatures Sports

R.S. SURTEES; ILLUSTRATOR-HENRY ALKEN

The Analysis of the Hunting Field with Title and Six Coloured Plates and Forty-Three Illustrations in Black and White by Henry Alken

Eyre & Spottiswoode / Charles Scribners Sons. 1931. Hardcover. Book, No jacket. One volume only. Facsimile printing of the original of 1845-6. Limited numbered edition - hand-numbered 226 of 976 copies first printing. Clean sound copy with unmarked text. some spine sunning/fading, and a few light markings to the covers. Clean unmarked internals. Makes a very nice reading copy, priced accordingly with secure boxed packaging. j3. Good/No Jacket.

Niagara Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 007055

Keywords: Analysis of the Hunting Field

ALKEN, Henry, illustrator; SURTEES, Robert S.

Analysis of the Hunting Field, the

London: Published by Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. It was, perhaps, the best hunting season of modern times" (Preface) [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. [SURTEES, Robert Smith]. The Analysis of the Hunting Field, Being a Series of Sketches of the Principal Characters That Compose One. The Whole Forming a Slight Souvenir of the Season 1845-6. With Numerous Illustrations, by H. Alken. London: Published by Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. First edition, mixed issue, with the earliest state of plates 4 & 5 (dated Nov. 9th) but with the Preface dated 1847. Large octavo (9 3/4 x 6 inches; 246 x 152 mm). [8], 326, [4, publisher's catalogue] pp. Seven hand-colored aquatint plates by J. Harris after H. Alken, including frontispiece and pictorial title, forty-three woodcuts. Some light, mainly marginal spotting throughout. Publisher's green ribbed cloth, covers decoratively bordered in blind, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt, rear cover similarly stamped in blind, spine decoratively stamped in gilt, yellow coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Top of spine and inner hinges repaired, lower joint worn, spine sunned. Engraved 'sporting' bookplate of Van Santvoord Merle-Smith on front paste-down. A good copy. "This work first appeared in Bell's Life and the first edition in book form.. at 31s. 6d.. There are two issues. First issue in green cloth with both titles and the preface dated 1846. Second issue in red cloth, with the preface dated occasionally 1846 but usually 1847.. There are early states of some of the plates with imprint dated Nov. 9th not Nov. 19th" (Tooley). The Plates: 1. Frontispiece - The Meet. 2. Engraved title. 3. Getting Away. 4. Full Cry. 5. The Check. 6. The Leap. 7. Whoo-hoo-o-o-p. Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer. Thackeray envied him his powers of observation, while William Morris considered him 'a master of life' and ranked him with Dickens. In The Analysis of the Hunting Field, Surtees offers wry, fatherly advice in this satiric romp through the key archetypes of the fox hunt. As Lord Denham says in his introduction, "this should be required reading for anyone connected with hunting. From the right sort of Master to the wrong sort, from the hunting nobleman to the whip and from the blacksmith to the braggart with horses to sell we find the people 'pon the ‘orses are much the same as today." "More people are flattered into virtue than were ever bullied out of vice" (Surtees, Analysis of the Hunting Field). Bobins IV, 1320; Podeschi 177; Schwerdt II p.232; Siltzer, p. 73; Tooley 470. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 05688

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: SURTEES, Robert S Caricatures Hunting Sports Horses

William Bell Scott (1811-1890) after Henry Alken (1785-1851)

[Antique print, Game] Pit-Ites (Dog fight, hondengevecht), published 1844.

Illustration of a dogfight in a pit.The inscription reads: 'Pit-Ites. But no Tories. A scene of 20 years since / London Published Feb. 1844 for R. Ackerman's New Sporting Magazine at 191 Regent st.t'. Engraving on paper; total: 140 x 226 mm; some rubbing and some staining, otherwise in good condition.

Antiquariaat Arine van der SteurProfessional seller

Book number: PR120787

Keywords: Animals|Games|Sport|United Kingdom

Alken, Henry (1785 - 1851

Arab Horseman and a Standing Arab with a Sword

London: Thomas McLean, 1820. Handcolored etching, 19.4 x 25.5 cm. sheet size. Later published in Sketch-Book of Henry Alken. Engraved by Himself. Containing Forty-Two Plates. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1823. Part of left margin missing. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 51-1891

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: horses

Alken, Henry (1785-1851)

The Arabian [Horse]. First Edition

London: T. McLean, 1820. Aquatint printed in colors, engraved by I. Clark. 6 x 8.5 inches image on 11.5 x 18.5 inches sheet size. Siltzer, The Story of British Sporting Prints, p. 70. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 51-1854

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: horses

Alken, Henry (1785 - 1851

Arabs with Horses and Camels

London: S. & I. Fuller,1823. Etching, 24 x 30 cm. sheet size. Soiled.Similar to prints published in Sketch-Book of Henry Alken. Engraved by Himself. Containing Forty-Two Plates. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1823. .

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Book number: 51-1892

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: horses

ALKEN, Henry.

The beauties and defects in the figure of the horse.London, S. & J. Fuller, [1816]. 4to. With an engraved title-page with a circular vignette and 18 hand-coloured etched plates. Original boards. Untrimmed.

Engraved title-page plus 2, [18] pp. plus 18 plates.First edition. An uncut copy, in its original pictorial boards, of the first book published under Alken's name. He mentions his "habit of riding young and violent horses with fox-hounds", and of having a mare that caused him "four or five falls a day upon an average, and all in consequence of her violent bucking leaps."With the bookplate of Prince Henry, Duke of Goucester.l Huth 85; Mellon 73; Mennessier de la Lance 14; Schwerdt I, 12; Tooley, Some English books with coloured plates 20.

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: F6LD9NGD6WH5

Keywords: [439A0DC5CB7B] HORSES, HUNTING, SPORT & GAMES|[439A0DC5CB7B] HORSES, HUNTING, SPORT & GAMES -> [7459DDD4492B] Horses & Horsemanship|

ALKEN Henry

'Breaking Cover' [original hand-coloured aquatint].

Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket,, 1824. Aquatint measuring 4.0 x 14.0 ins (approx. 10.0 x 35.5 cms), COLOURED BY HAND, etched by Henry Alken, aquatinted by T. Sutherland; unmounted, a trifle dust-soiled else in very good state. One of several hunting scenes by Alken with this title; this is the uncommon 'panorama' format showing considerable distance and perspective. An attractive image ideal for framing and display

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 15270

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: prints, aquatints, foxhunting, hunting, hounds, foxhounds, hunts, field sports, sporting, henry alken, thomas sutherland, henry alken, sports, pastimes, field sports, 'breaking, cover', original, hand-coloured, aquatint

ALKEN, Henry

British Proverbs

London: E. & C. Mc.Lean, 1824. It's Not How Long - But How Well We Live" ALKEN, Henry. British Proverbs. London: E. & C. Mc.Lean, 1824. First edition. Oblong quarto (10/1/4 x 13 3/4 inches; 261 x 350 mm.). Six amusing hand-colored soft-ground etchings, five with five and one with four scenes, depicting a total of twenty-nine proverbs. Bound ca. 1900 by Rivière & Son in full tan calf, covers decoratively bordered in gilt, spine with two raised bands, decoratively tooled in compartments, black morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Gilt board-edges and wide decorative turn-ins, dark blue coated end-papers. With the Armorial bookplate of Arthur Curtiss James and also the engraved bookplate of De Guinzbourg on the front paste-down. Joints very slightly cracked at top and bottom but still absolutely sound. A near fine copy housed in a later brown cloth slipcase. Originally issued in paper wrappers with printed title on the front cover. Very scarce, this is only the second example that we have seen in over fifty years. OCLC located just eleven copies in institutions and libraries worldwide - nine in the US, one in the UK and one in New Zealand. The Plates: 1. Life without a friend is death with a witness.. 2. Good to begin well - better to end well.. 3. He who would have a hare for breakfast must hunt overnight.. 4. The horse thinks one thing and the man that rides him another.. 5. They who Love most are least set by.. 6. All things are soon prepar'd in a well Ordered house.. Henry Thomas ALKEN (12 October 1785 - 7 April 1851) was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. His most prolific period of painting and drawing occurred between 1816 and 1831. Tooley, 21. .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 04095

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Caricatures

Henry Alken

British Sports 1821

Bath, Kingsmead Reprints, 1970. Paperback. This is a beautifully illustrated reprint of the 1821 work on British sports. Part of the Kingsmead reprint series. Complete with 16 full colour plates. By Henry Alken, the notes pained and engraver, who has been celebrated for his depictions of sporting and equestrian scenes. In this particular work showcases Alken artistic talents, which capturing a variety of British sports from the 19th century. In a stiff card binding with dustwrapper. Externally, smart with age toning to boards. Dustwrapper smart with some edgewear. Closed tear to base of front wrap. Internally, binding failed. Pages loose in binding. Complete. Fair . Ill.: Unamed. Fair .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: GEN3-A-6

Catalogue: Field Sports & Equestrian

Keywords: Kingsmead Reprints Sports British Sports Dustwrapper Sports Unamed

Alken, Henry

Carriage Horses. Scraps from the Scrap Books of Henry Alken

London: Thos. McLean, 1820. Soft ground etching. Image: 16.5 x 23 cm. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 55-0062

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: caricature animal horse

[ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]; NIMROD; APPERLEY, Charles J.

Chace, the Turf, and the Road, the

London: John Murray, 1837. Alken Off To The Races With Apperley In The Saddle First Edition [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. NIMROD (pseud. of Charles J. Apperley). The Chace, The Turf, and the Road. With Illustrations by Henry Alken, and a Portrait by D. Maclise. London: John Murray, 1837. First edition in book form, originally serially published in the Quarterly Review. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/8 in; 223 x 135 mm). xx, 301, [1, printer's slug], [18, publisher's catalogs] pp. Thirteen hand-colored plates, some in aquatint, with tissue guards, and plain, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece. Publisher's original pictorial green cloth with gilt vignette and borders blocked in blind, expertly recased. Gilt decorated spine. Spine very slightly faded, still an excellent copy. Housed in a later green cloth clamshell case. Charles James Apperley (1777-1843), English sportsman and sporting writer, better known as Nimrod, the pseudonym under which he published his works on the chase and on the turf. A devoted fox-hunter, around 1821 Apperley began to contribute a series of articles to The Sporting Magazine, under the pseudonym of "Nimrod," that covered horse races, hunt meets and other sporting events. His references to the personalities of the people he knew or met at such events helped to double the circulation of the magazine within a few years. Mr. Pittman, the proprietor of The Sporting Magazine, gave Nimrod a handsome salary and defrayed all the expenses of his tours. He also gave Nimrod a stud of hunters. After Pittman's death, the proprietors of the magazine sued Apperley for the money that had been advanced. To avoid imprisonment, Apperley moved to Calais in 1830, where he supported himself by writing. Apperley is best known for his two books, The Life of a Sportsman, and Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton, both of which were illustrated with colored engravings by Henry Thomas Alken. Apperley eventually returned to England and died in Upper Belgrave Place, London, on 19 May 1843. The Plates: 1. Preparing to Start. 2. Getting Well Off. 3. The Race - Epsom. 4. The Melton Hunt. 5. Getting Away. 6. A Queerish Place. 7. A Pull Up. 8. The Lane. 9. Whissendine Brook. 10. The Death. 11. It's The Comet, &c. 12. The Regulator. 13. The Quicksilver Mail. Podeschi 152. Siltzer. p. 73. Schwerdt I, p. 36. .

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Book number: 02542

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: NIMROD APPERLEY, Charles J. Caricatures Coaching English History Nineteenth-Century Literature

Alken, Henry

Country Squire, Horses and Dogs

London: Thomas McLean, Hay Market, 1820. Soft ground etching. Image: 15 x 20 cm. Foxing. .

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Book number: 55-0058

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: caricature animal dog horse