ALKEN, Henry and James BARENGER (1780-1831), illustrators. The Sporting Repository, containing Horse-Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Archery, Trotting and Tandem Matches, Cocking, Pedestrianism and Pugilism. London: for Thomas McLean, 1822. Volume I, nos 1-6 [all published], 8° (231 x 145mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 18 hand-coloured plates by G. and T. Hunt after H. Alken and J. Barenger. Extra-illustrated with an original pen, ink and watercolour design for ‘Tandem Driving’ by Henry Alken (Some offsetting, affecting title and text more than plates, X4 torn at margin.) Contemporary straight-grained red half morocco, smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt; clamshell box backed in red morocco. Provenance : P. Groot Voltheim (stamp on title verso) -- purchased from Karl Hierseman, Leipzig, 1 June 1931. FINE, GEM-LIKE PLATES WITH A RELATED WATERCOLOUR BY ALKEN. Fourteen of the plates are after Alken. The plate ‘Tandem Driving’ shows a total of four coaches, one at the forefront of the picture and three others standing by a shop window. The preparatory ‘trial sketch', preserved in this volume, shows only the one coach at the forefront with no others behind, and and no pedestrians passing by. Schwerdt II p. 212: ‘The first and only edition of a rare and valuable magazine’.
ALKEN, Henry and James BARENGER (1780-1831), illustrators. The Sporting Repository, containing Horse-Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Archery, Trotting and Tandem Matches, Cocking, Pedestrianism and Pugilism. London: for Thomas McLean, 1822. Volume I, nos 1-6 [all published], 8° (231 x 145mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 18 hand-coloured plates by G. and T. Hunt after H. Alken and J. Barenger. Extra-illustrated with an original pen, ink and watercolour design for ‘Tandem Driving’ by Henry Alken (Some offsetting, affecting title and text more than plates, X4 torn at margin.) Contemporary straight-grained red half morocco, smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt; clamshell box backed in red morocco. Provenance : P. Groot Voltheim (stamp on title verso) -- purchased from Karl Hierseman, Leipzig, 1 June 1931. FINE, GEM-LIKE PLATES WITH A RELATED WATERCOLOUR BY ALKEN. Fourteen of the plates are after Alken. The plate ‘Tandem Driving’ shows a total of four coaches, one at the forefront of the picture and three others standing by a shop window. The preparatory ‘trial sketch', preserved in this volume, shows only the one coach at the forefront with no others behind, and and no pedestrians passing by. Schwerdt II p. 212: ‘The first and only edition of a rare and valuable magazine’.
ALKEN, Henry and James BARENGER (1780-1831), illustrators. The Sporting Repository, containing Horse-Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Archery, Trotting and Tandem Matches, Cocking, Pedestrianism and Pugilism. London: for Thomas McLean, 1822. Volume I, nos 1-6 [all published], 8° (231 x 145mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 18 hand-coloured plates by G. and T. Hunt after H. Alken and J. Barenger. Extra-illustrated with an original pen, ink and watercolour design for ‘Tandem Driving’ by Henry Alken (Some offsetting, affecting title and text more than plates, X4 torn at margin.) Contemporary straight-grained red half morocco, smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt; clamshell box backed in red morocco. Provenance : P. Groot Voltheim (stamp on title verso) -- purchased from Karl Hierseman, Leipzig, 1 June 1931. FINE, GEM-LIKE PLATES WITH A RELATED WATERCOLOUR BY ALKEN. Fourteen of the plates are after Alken. The plate ‘Tandem Driving’ shows a total of four coaches, one at the forefront of the picture and three others standing by a shop window. The preparatory ‘trial sketch', preserved in this volume, shows only the one coach at the forefront with no others behind, and and no pedestrians passing by. Schwerdt II p. 212: ‘The first and only edition of a rare and valuable magazine’.
ALKEN, Henry and James BARENGER (1780-1831), illustrators. The Sporting Repository, containing Horse-Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Archery, Trotting and Tandem Matches, Cocking, Pedestrianism and Pugilism. London: for Thomas McLean, 1822. Volume I, nos 1-6 [all published], 8° (231 x 145mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 18 hand-coloured plates by G. and T. Hunt after H. Alken and J. Barenger. Extra-illustrated with an original pen, ink and watercolour design for ‘Tandem Driving’ by Henry Alken (Some offsetting, affecting title and text more than plates, X4 torn at margin.) Contemporary straight-grained red half morocco, smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt; clamshell box backed in red morocco. Provenance : P. Groot Voltheim (stamp on title verso) -- purchased from Karl Hierseman, Leipzig, 1 June 1931. FINE, GEM-LIKE PLATES WITH A RELATED WATERCOLOUR BY ALKEN. Fourteen of the plates are after Alken. The plate ‘Tandem Driving’ shows a total of four coaches, one at the forefront of the picture and three others standing by a shop window. The preparatory ‘trial sketch', preserved in this volume, shows only the one coach at the forefront with no others behind, and and no pedestrians passing by. Schwerdt II p. 212: ‘The first and only edition of a rare and valuable magazine’.
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