 Author Name: Alken, Henry
Title: Illustrations to Popular Songs
Publisher: London Thomas Mclean 1823
Illustrator: Alken
Seller ID: 505
Frontispiece and 42 plates all with original hand-coloured soft-ground etchings, borders with watercolour wash, each c.215x270mm., surface dirt, mostly marginal, title, address, and some plate versos with pencil scribblings, occasional short tears and small losses at sheet edges only affecting one illustration(the last). Some damp staining to edges of pages. Last plate detached and creased, contemporary boards, worn, poorly rebacked with cloth. Interior tight but detached from spine and boards, gilt-lettered title label to upper board, [Tooley 37], oblong folio, 1823 (plates watermarked 1822). Henry T. Alken is one of the most renowned and popular of British sporting and genre artists and engravers. He was the son of another engraver, Samuel Alken--known for his topographical as well as sporting scenes--, and father of Samuel Henry Alken, who followed in the steps of his forbearers as an engraver and artist. Alken is famous for his sporting prints (indeed on some of his early plates he used the name 'Ben Tally-Ho') as well the many humorous series he produced in the 1820s. Alken was considered to be the originator of the medium that Caldecott, Leech and Phiz would prosper. Includes Address leaf . A very worn copy but actual plates mostly untouched and in very good condition with still vivid hand-colouring. A delightful scarce work with all plates at an accessible price. please e-mail for more scans.
Hand-Colored, Hand-Coloured
Price =
1047.33 USD |
