Illustrator Henry Alken (26 results)
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Published by Methuen, London, 1913, New Issue,, 1913
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Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United KingdomBRIMSTONES
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Add to basketCondition: Good. hardback, small 8vo, viii,240pp, 15 colour plates, edges browned, owner's name on endpaper, text clean and sound, red cloth, gilt titles, spine faded, , Good condition / no dustwrapper.
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Published by Methuen, London, 1904, New edition,, 1904
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Add to baskethardback, small 8vo, 323pp, 6 colour plates and numerous woodcut illustrations, owner's name and bookplate, light foxing on text pages throughout, red cloth, spine rubbed, title label browned, with a spare tipped-in, Good condition.
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Published by Methuen, London, 1903, New edition,, 1903
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Add to baskethardback, small 8vo, 396pp, illustrated, 36 colour plates, owner's bookplate, edges browned and moderate foxing on text pages throughout, plates not affected, red cloth, spine rubbed, title label browned, with a spare tipped-in, Good condition.
Published by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London; Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931
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Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.Riverby Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fair. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Title page dated 1931. 220 pages. Limited edition. Number 482 of 976 copies, of which 950 were for sale. Red cloth over boards. Title on tan pastedown with black and tan lettering, located at head of spine. In fair condition. Boards slightly warped. Binding is secure. Cover…s are significantly faded. Spine is toned. Title is faded and pastedown is torn around the edges. Corners and head & foot of spine are bumped. Pages are toned. Deckle edges. Small stain in the corners of limited edition page and frontispiece. Otherwise, pages are clean. Bright illustrations throughout. Overall, a good reading copy.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode / Charles Scribners Sons, 1931
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Seller: Fine Press Bookshop, Stoney Creek, ON, CanadaFine Press Bookshop
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 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. Book.
Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co Ltd, 1914
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Seller: Stone Soup Books, Camden, ME, U.S.A.Stone Soup Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. 1914 Kegan Paul, red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, spine is faded to rust color, front inner hinge weak, illustrated with 36 color plates with tissue guards, all plates present, pages are clean and unmarked, 401 pages.
Jorrocks's Jaunts & Jollities: The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eating, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits of That Renowned Sporting Citizen, Mr. John Jorrocks
R.S. Surtees,Joseph Grego (Introduction),Henry Thomas Alken (Illustrator),W. Heath (Illustrator)
Language: English
Published by Kegan Paul, London, 1843
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Seller: Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. Original green gilt blindstamped cloth. All color plates and tissue guards present. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co, of Edinburgh with the 1843 date following the preface to the Second Edition. The plate captioned 'Mr. Jorrock's surprise on seeing the Paris Diligence' by Henry Alken appe…ars only in this edition. A very well preserved, clean and tight copy with no markings or bumping.
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Published by George Routledge, London, 1869
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Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.Sequitur Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Bound in 3/4 green leather over marbled boards. Shelf wear, minor rubbing. Front gutter weakened. viii, 291 pages, [16] leaves of color plates : illustrations ; 26 cm. Armorial bookplate by Reginald Arthur Tatton.
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The Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire . . .; Reprinted (with considerable Additions) from the New Sporting Magazine
Nimrod, Pseudonym for Charles James Apperley; illustrator: Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins
Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, London, 1900
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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB
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Add to basketCloth. Blind and Gilt-Stamped. Condition: Very Good. N.d., circa 1900. 4to. 27 by 19 cm. xxvi, 234 pp. 20 color plates. While a significantly later edition, the slightly larger format and the quality of the production do lend distinction to this particular reprint. The top of the front board (a neat band coinciding with a blinds…tamped ruled line) is now partially broken off, meaning it flaps slightly when pressed. Also a minor side ding, a short closed tear along front joint, etc. Endpapers heavily foxed. Otherwise a clean and tight copy, and overall quite handsome. Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins (illustrator).
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Published by John Murray, London, 1837
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Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerSoft cover. 1st Edition. Illustrated by Henry Alken. First English Edition. Octavo. Contemporary quarter leather with gilt paneled spine and five raised bands. Marbled boards. Work on fox hunting by Charles James Apperley (1777Ð1843), English sportsman and sporting writer, better known as Nimrod, the pseudonym under which he fir…st contributed a series of articles to The Sporting Magazine around 1821. Very good, wear to spine edges; heavy foxing to frontis and title page, light foxing to plates. 19th century bookplate on front pastedown.
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MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE JOHN MYTTON, ESQ. of Halston, Shropshire, formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High Sheriff for the Counties of Salop and Merioneth, and Major of the North Shropshire Yeomanry Calvary ; With notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits
NIMROD [pseudonym of Charles James Apperley] ; & Henry Alken (illustrator)
Published by Downey & Co., London, 1899
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Seller: Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, U.S.A.Antiquarian Bookshop
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good-. New Edition. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 238 pages; Beautifully illustrated with engraved titlepage and twenty full page colour plates by Henry Alken with captioned tissue guards. Contents near fine - clean and tight in contemporary binding of three-quarter dark brown morocco over pale green & cream mar…bled boards with marbled endpapers. Five raised bands at spine with gilt lettering and decorative gilt devices depicting foxhunting horns and whips. Leather chipped at head of spine; hinges secure, but leather cracking along edges of spine. A still attractive volume; requires careful handling. Charles James Apperley (1777â"1843), English sportsman and sporting writer, who published under the pseudonym "Nimrod." Apperley attended Rugby School, then served with the Ancient British Light Dragoons in Ireland. He settled in Warwickshire, where he devoted himself to fox-hunting. Facing financial difficulties, Apperley began to contribute a series of articles to The Sporting Magazine under the pseudonym of "Nimrod", covering horse races, hunt meets and other sporting events. His amusing articles filled with characterizations of the people he knew or met at such events contributed to doubling 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 the one offerred here Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton, both of which were illustrated with coloured engravings by Henry Thomas Alken (1785 â"1851). Alken, also an avid sportsman, was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. His earliest productions were published anonymously under the signature of "Ben Tallyho", but from 1816 until about 1831, he produced under his own name many sets of etchings of sporting subjects mostly coloured and sometimes humorous in character.
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Published by Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1846
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Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.Second Story Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. First Edition. Tall octavo, vi, 326 pages, [4]; G+; Faded red cloth solander case with gilt lettering; Original red cloth binding with gilt embossed lettering and graphics, housed in red cloth solander case; Boards show moderate bumping to head/tail of spine and top corners, significant bumping/curling to bottom corne…rs, light shelfwear overall, light+ soiling overall (especially to spine), and light wear to cloth on spine and along joints; Textblock has light+ age-toning to uncut bottom- and fore-edge, moderate+ age-toning to top edge, light foxing to pages interiorly, and moderate age-toning to plate pages; Library stamp of former holder appears on front pastedown and ffep, and a former owner's name appears in ink on ffep; Includes 6 full-page color plates and numerous b/w illustrations throughout; Four pages of publisher advertisements appear at back; Solander case light shelfwear and soiling overall, and signficiant fading to cloth on outward facing edge. NOTE: Shelved in Room Netdesk Office, Case #5. 1349858. FP New Rockville Stock.
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The Chace, the Turf, and the Road.
[APPERLEY, Charles James.] 'NIMROD', and Henry ALKEN (illustrator).
Published by London, A. Spottiswoode for John Murray, 1837., 1837
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- First Edition
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United KingdomBernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB
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Add to basketFirst Edition. 8vo, pp. [2], xx, 301, [1], with stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait after D. Maclise and 13 woodcut plates, each with tissue guard; title slightly dust-stained; a very good copy in early twentieth-century half red morocco with buckram sides, borders filleted in gilt, spine tooled in gilt and lettered directly,… top-edge gilt, marbled endpapers, red ribbon place-marker, sewn on 4 sunken cords; rubbed and lightly bumped at extremities, upper joint split, head-cap chipped.First edition of a series of articles first published in the Quarterly Review, illustrated by Henry Alken. A sporting writer who 'may even be said to have created the role of gentleman hunting correspondent' (ODNB), Charles James Apperley (17781843) published widely on hunting and horsemanship, from 1822 under the pseudonym 'Nimrod'. In the course of his work he travelled widely to partake in hunts, reportedly driving the coaches on which he was a passenger and riding his own horses in race meetings. When his generous salary from the Sporting Magazine was stopped in 1828, however, his fame did not support him and he fled to Calais to avoid debt in 1831, remaining there for the next decade. Mellon 152. Language: English.
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Published by London Routledge n.d. but circa, 1900
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Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United KingdomShapero Rare Books
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Add to basket8vo, xii, 234pp., additional engraved title and 18 hand-coloured plates after Alken and Rawlins, contemporary red morocco gilt by McDonald, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered direct in second and fourth, others with sporting motifs, raised bands, top edge gilt, a very good copy.
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Published by Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1843
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Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Second edition. 358 pages. 21 x 14.2 cm. First edition with colored plates -- 15 hand-colored aquatint plates, including the engraved title vignette. Each plate marked, drawn and etched by H. Alken (except the title which does not bear his name).TOOLEY 471. "First appeared in Vols. I-VII of New Sporting Magazine and t…hen in book form in 1838 with 12 plates by Phiz. and again in 1839." Bright, sharp and clean -- text and plates. Lacks adverts. Marbled portion of covers lightly rubbed, red leather spine label printed in gilt, spine panels richly gilt. Three quarter dark green calf, marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers and edges. Very good. Alken, Henry (illustrator).
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The Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire . . .; Reprinted (with considerable Additions) from the New Sporting Magazine
Nimrod, Pseudonym for Charles James Apperley; illustrator: Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins
Published by Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1837
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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 4to. 24.5 by 15.5 cm. ix, [3], 206, [2], 8 pp. (Final 8 pages are publisher's catalogue list, with first of those pages numbered 1837, followed by "2".) With18 magnificent hand-colored, aquatint plates by Alken. Original publisher's green pebbled cloth stamped in gilt on front and spine. Custom… green slipcase, with morocco spine, raised bands, with five raised bands, gilt lettering and ruling, and a green cloth chemise. First state of the binding with the date at foot of spine. This edition contains 6 plates more than first edition, and also has three replacement plates, for a total of 9 new plates. The title page is also engraved. Tooley 67. Abbey Life 385. Schwerdt I 38. Decorative bookplate of John Schiff, well-known bibliophile and financier -- grandson of Jacob Schiff. Condition: Light stains on cover, and some fading of gilt decoration. FEP has square-ish abrasion, almost certainly vestige of bookplate of Schiff's father, Mortimer Schiff. Scattered light foxing and some dusty soiling, the latter mostly erasable. Slipcase's spine with a few pinpoint abrasions. Ribbon pull of chemise mostly perished. Cloth. Quarter Morocco Slipcase. Cloth Chemise. Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins (illustrator).
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The Chace [sic], The Turf and The Road.
[APPERLEY, Charles James] NIMROD (pseud.); ALKEN, Henry (illustrator).
Published by London John Murray, 1837
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- First Edition
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Add to basketFirst edition in book form; 8vo; 13 hand-coloured engraved plates after Alken, hand-coloured engraved portrait frontispiece by E. Finden after D. Maclise, frontispiece part-detached with a couple of repaired short closed tears to fore-edge, bookplate to front pastedown, mild toning; 19th century calf gilt by A. Wallis, spine in…6 panelled compartments, gilt lettered to second on red morocco ground, others richly gilt, raised bands, slight wear to joints, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; a very good copy. First edition in book form of this collection of articles pertaining to horse riding, hunting, horse-drawn vehicles and chases, originally serialised in the Quarterly Review. Charles James Apperley (1777-1843),was an English sportsman and sporting writer, better known by his pseudonym Nimrod, under which he published his works on the chase and on the turf. Siltzer, p.73; Schwerdt I, p.36.
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The Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire . . .; Reprinted from the New Sporting Magazine
Nimrod, Pseudonym for Charles James Apperley; illustrator: Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins
Published by Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1835
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- First Edition
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB
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Add to basketCondition: Near Fine. First Edition. Beautifully bound copy, in full red crushed morocco, with quintessential gilt sporting devices enlivening the binding, and lush silk moire endpapers. Plus a sturdy slipcase with morocco trim. 8vo. 20.5 by 14 cm. iv, [2], 110 pp. . With a dozen hand-colored aquatint plates. Minimal wear to the… binding, thanks to slipcase, which has a few insignificant rub spots but obviously absorbed whatever wear comes from handling. The interior of the book has typical offsetting of the plates, some light occasional soiling, but generally a clean copy. Cloth. Full morocco pull-off case. Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins (illustrator).
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The Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire . . .; Reprinted (with considerable Additions) from the New Sporting Magazine
Nimrod, Pseudonym for Charles James Apperley; illustrator: Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins
Published by Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1837
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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 4to. 24.5 by 15.5 cm. xii, 206, [10] pp. (Final 8 pages are publisher's catalogue list.) With18 magnificent hand-colored, aquatint plates by Alken. Original publisher's green pebbled cloth stamped in gilt on front and spine. Custom full red morocco pull off case, with five raised bands, gilt le…ttering and ruling, the latter on both the spine and the boards. First state of the binding with the date at foot of spine. This edition contains 6 plates more than first edition, and also has three replacement plates, for a total of 9 new plates. The title page is also engraved. Tooley 67. Abbey Life 385. Schwerdt I 38. Condition: cloth binding soiled, with restoration by spine extremities yet still some roughness (blistering, rub spots) to spine generally. Scattered light foxing and soiling within. FFEP has long inscription, and the leaf is detached. The custom case has light wear but overall is near fine. Cloth. Full morocco pull-off case. Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins (illustrator).
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Published by London: John Murray, 1837
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- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. London: John Murray, 1837. 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. First edition in book form, originally serially published in the Qua…rterly Review. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/8 in; 223 x 135 mm). xx, 301pp, [1, printer's slug], [18, separately numbered publisher's catalogues] pp. Thirteen partially hand-coloured plates, some in aquatint, with tissue guards, and plain, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece. Elegant half leather binding, green cloth boards, gilt titles and decoration. Gilt decorated spine. The signed page has been laid onto another page or rebacked. Plates heavily oxidised. 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. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles and decoration, raised bands. Joints good condition minor wear. Corners good condition. Boards good condition green cloth. Page edges good condition top edge gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition good and solid. Paste downs good condition marbled. End papers good condition marbled. Title good condition heavily oxidised (foxed). Pages good condition some foxing, heavy to plates. Binding good condition attractive. See photos Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1837. Inscribed by Author(s).
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The Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire . . .; Reprinted (with considerable Additions) from the New Sporting Magazine
Nimrod, Pseudonym for Charles James Apperley; illustrator: Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins
Published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, London
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB
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Add to basketThree Quarters Morocco. Condition: Very Good Minus. N.d., circa 1900. 4to. 26 by 17 cm. xxvi, 234 pp. 20 color plates. Condition: leather rubbed, and somewhat raw along edges. Corner chip to leather on rear board. Slight drabness to leather besides. Interior: light foxing to prelims and fore-edge. Otherwise, clean and tight. Hen…ry Alken and T. J. Rawlins (illustrator).
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Published by John Murray 1837, London, 1837
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Add to basketFull Diced Calf. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. First edition in book form. xvii, 301 pp. Contemporary green diced calf. Raised bands to spine with gilt panels and red leather title label. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Rubbing to spine and boards marked. Heavy spotting to frontis & title-page, also affecting o…ther plates. Frontis portrait engraving by D. Maclise. Thirteen full-page engravings by Henry Alken. First published in Quarterly Review. Binding firm. 8vo. Illustrated. ALKEN, Henry (illustrator) (illustrator).
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The Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire . . .; Reprinted (with considerable Additions) from the New Sporting Magazine
Nimrod, Pseudonym for Charles James Apperley; illustrator: Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins
Published by Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1851
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good Plus. Third edition. 4to. 24.5 by 15.5 cm. ix, [1], 218, 8 pp. (Final 8 pages are publisher's catalogue list.) With18 magnificent hand-colored, aquatint plates by Alken. Full red calf binding by Bayntun. With original publisher's green pebbled cloth, stamped in gilt on front and spine, bound in. Modern custo…m slipcase and chemise, both with morocco trim and spine title label. Slipcase with plain paper pastedown, the chemise, with a marbled paper pastedown. This edition contains 6 plates more than first edition, and also has three replacement plates, for a total of 9 new plates. The title page is also engraved. Condition: spine sunned. Light rubbing of joints. Light scattered foxing, but overall, the interior reads clean. Slight soiling on the slipcase. Full Calf. Slipcase and chemise. Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins (illustrator).
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Published by London: Jones and Co. and J.J. Marks, 1821, 1821
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Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. High and Low Life in Dublin ALKEN, Henry, illustrator. [EGAN, Pierce, imitation of]. Real Life in Ireland; or, The Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, and Sprees, Bulls, Blunders, Bodderation and Blarney, of Brian Boru, Esq., and his elegant friend Sir Shawn O'Dogherty. Exhibiting a Real Picture of Characters,… Manners, &c. in High and Low Life, in Dublin and Various Parts of Ireland. Embellished with Humorous Coloured Engravings, From Original Designs by the most eminent Artists. By a Real Paddy. London: Jones and Co. and J.J. Marks, 1821. First edition. Tall octavo (8 3/4 x 5 11/16 in; 226 x 142 mm). vii, [1, blank], 6-296 pp. Frontispiece and eighteen hand-colored plates by and after William Heath, Henry Alken, and others (all bound together before text). Original quarter green cloth over blue paper boards with printed spine label, rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Some rubbing and light soiling to boards, spine label a little chipped, some soiling to plate margins not affecting image. A very good copy of a scarcely seen book. "Though not so good it is more rare than [Egan's] Life in London" (Tooley). "Real Life in Ireland was initially shunned by educated readers and even a quick glance at the language and misdeeds of the central characters, Brian Boru and Sir Shawn O'Doherty, reveal that such a publication may once have been able to cause and give offence. However, Real Life in Ireland is more akin to the works of Flann O'Brien and although written nearly 200 years ago is very readable and very funny. "Opening with the discharge of Shawn O'Dogherty from college in Dublin with a small fortune to spend, he is joined from the country by his friend Brian Boru, who along the way is regaled by the stories of Peg O'Shambles, a one-time cockle picker from Ringsend in Dublin, who has fallen on hard times due to her alcoholic husband's misdeeds. Accompanied by many humorous cartoons of Brian Boru's adventures, the characters travel from Belfast to make merry in Dublin. While the characters in Real Life in Ireland might be fictitious the places, events and the Hiberno-Irish featured throughout are not. Although a comparison with James Joyce's travels through Dublin is perhaps hardly appropriate, Real Life in Ireland provides a clear account of Dublin and its inhabitants, as well as the major sights and attractions of its suburbs. Perhaps unintentionally, Real Life in Ireland has left an account of the 'real' trials and tribulations of Ireland in the 1820s. For example, the new harbour at Dalkey is rightly criticised as a waste of money and time the long awaited visit of George IV lamented, but not much regretted." "All-in-all.Real Life in Ireland make[s] for a highly entertaining and extremely funny read and has much to recommend it to a modern readership that might be unfamiliar with its kind" (Eneclann). Abbey, Life 282. Tooley 201.
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Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire
ALKEN, Henry, illustrator -- [APPERLEY, Charles James]; NIMROD; APPERLEY, C.J.
Published by London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837, 1837
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Contact seller5-star seller"A Most Valuable and Important Book" Second and Enlarged Edition With Additional Text and Six Extra Hand-Colored Plates [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. NIMROD (pseud. of C.J. Apperley). Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire, Formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High sheriff for the Counties of Salup & Me…rioneth, and Major of the North Stropshire Yeomanry Cavalry. With Notices of His Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits By Nimrod. With Numerous Illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. Second and enlarged edition, with additions to the text, six extra hand-colored plates and with three new plates replacing three from the first edition. Octavo (9 1/2 x 5 3/4 in; 241 x 146 mm). ix, [3], 206, [1, printer's slug], [1] pp. Additional engraved title in aquatint and eighteen hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece, with tissue guards. Publisher's original pictorially gilt green cloth, expertly recased. All edges gilt. With the ownership stamp of William K. Dick of Islip, Long Island (NY) to front pastedown endpaper. Some rubbing, a few bubbles to upper board cloth, soiling to endpapers. Hinges starting yet remain firm. Withal, a very good copy. Housed in a full crimson hard-grained morocco pull-off case by the Scroll Club Bindery of New York City. "A most valuable and important book for the sporting life of the period, aptly described by Newton as 'a biography of a man that reads like a work of fiction'" (Tooley). "This is not a work of fiction, for John Mytton, a rather inglorious character for a biography, was a hard-living, hard-drinking country squire of Halston, Shropshire, capable of the utmost physical endurance, and ready to accept any wager to walk, shoot or ride against any man. Many of his feats are recorded and graphically delineated, including the climax of his folly in setting his nightshirt on fire to cure a hiccough (Martin Hardie). The Plates: 1. Well done, Neck or Nothing. 2. A Nick, or the nearest way home. 3. Wild Duck Shooting. 4. What! Never upset in a gig? 5. I wonder whether he is a good timber jumper! 6. The Meet with Lord Derby's Stag Hounds. 7. Stand and deliver. 8. Tally ho! Tally ho! 9. The Oaks Filly. 10. Light come, light go. 11. On Baronet clears nine yards of water. 12. D--n this hiccup! 13. A h-ll of a row in a hell. 14. Swims the Severn at Uppington Ferry. 15. How to cross a country comfortably after dinner. 16. Heron shooting. 17. A Squire trap, by Jove! 18. Now for the honour of Shropshire. At his death, industrialist and banker William K. Dick (1888-1953) was a director of Best Foods, Inc., president and director of the Dick Securities Corporation; and a director of Douglas Gibbons & Co., Inc.; the Eastern States Corporation; the Irving Trust Company, the National Sugar Refining Company, the Norwood and St. Lawrence Railroad, the St. Regis Paper Company, St. Regis Company, Ltd., of Canada, and the St. Regis Timber Company. His clubs included the Brook, Racquet and Tennis, Southside, National Golf Links, New York Yacht, and the Turf and Field. Tooley 67. Schwerdt 1, p. 38. Abbey, Life, 385. Martin Hardie, pp. 185-186. Prideaux, p. 326.
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Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq
ALKEN, Henry, illustrator -- [APPERLEY, Charles James] NIMROD; APPERLEY, C.J.
Published by London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1851, 1851
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Contact seller5-star seller"A Desirable Item" "A Most Valuable and Important Book" Third and Best Edition With Memoir of Nimrod [ALKEN, Henry, illustrator]. APPERLEY, C.J. Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire, Formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High sheriff for the Counties of Salup & Merioneth, and Major of the North Strops…hire Yeomanry Cavalry. With Notices of His Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits By Nimrod. With Numerous Illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins. Third Edition, With a Brief Memoir of Nimrod by the Author of "Handley Cross" [i.e. Robert S. Surtees]. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1851. Third edition, the first to contain the Memoir of Nimrod by Surtees and complete with the additional text and plates from the second edition of 1837, third issue (with extra title, title, and plates dated 1851) in 1850 issue binding (with "Ackermann" at spine foot). Octavo (9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in; 235 x 146 mm). ix, [1], 218, [8, catalog] pp. Extra engraved title with plain aquatint vignette, and eighteen hand-colored aquatint plates including frontispiece, with tissue guards. Publisher's original pictorially gilt cloth with blindstamped border to upper board, vignette blocked in blind to lower. All edges gilt. Westley's of London ticket on rear paste-down. Spine ends expertly strengthened. An excellent copy. Housed in a quarter green morocco clamshell case. "This Third Edition is a desirable item to add to any collection as it is the first to contain the Life of Nimrod. Published at 25s, 'handsomely bound in cloth' (Tooley) "A most valuable and important book for the sporting life of the period, aptly described by Newton as 'a biography of a man that reads like a work of fiction'" (Tooley). "This is not a work of fiction, for John Mytton, a rather inglorious character for a biography, was a hard-living, hard-drinking country squire of Halston, Shropshire, capable of the utmost physical endurance, and ready to accept any wager to walk, shoot or ride against any man. Many of his feats are recorded and graphically delineated, including the climax of his folly in setting his nightshirt on fire to cure a hiccough (Martin Hardie). The Plates: 1. Well done, Neck or Nothing. 2. A Nick, or the nearest way home. 3. Wild Duck Shooting. 4. What! Never upset in a gig? 5. I wonder whether he is a good timber jumper! 6. The Meet with Lord Derby's Stag Hounds. 7. Stand and deliver. 8. Tally ho! Tally ho! 9. The Oaks Filly. 10. Light come, light go. 11. On Baronet clears nine yards of water. 12. D--n this hiccup! 13. A h-ll of a row in a hell. 14. Swims the Severn at Uppington Ferry. 15. How to cross a country comfortably after dinner. 16. Heron shooting. 17. A Squire trap, by Jove! 18. Now for the honour of Stropshire. Tooley 68. Schwerdt 1, p. 39. Abbey, Life, 385 (2d ed.). Martin Hardie, pp. 185-186. Prideaux, p. 326.
