The national sports of Great Britain. / By Henry Alken. With descriptions, in English and French.
Henry Thomas Alken (London 1785 - London 1851)
Category
Books
Date
1821
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3147261
Summary
Bibliographic description
[108] p., [52] leaves of plates . col. ill., map (fold.) ; fol. Pencil note on rear free endpaper: "1st issue". Booksellers' codes in pencil on front and rear endpapers. Provenance: Nineteenth-century anonymous crest bookpalte with motto: 'Virtutis præmium honor'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ink-stamp on verso of front free endpaper: 'H. Sotheran & Co. 37, Piccadilly - London.' Binding: Nineteenth-century full green morocco; gilt roll and fillets to form a border; double gilt fillet on board edges; six raised bands; spine gilt (floral tools), lettered direct: 'National sports' and 'Alken'; gilt fillets and rolls (including elaborate floral pattern) on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front pastdown: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'.
Makers and roles
Henry Thomas Alken (London 1785 - London 1851), artist John Lawrence (1753-1839), author