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Lot 127
Sale 322 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Aug 6, 2014
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$400 -
600
Price Realized
$250
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Lot Description
ALKEN, HENRY
Henry Alken's Scrap Book. London: McLean, 1824. Oblong 8vo, original quarter green cloth over decorative boards, paper title label to front cover, pale yellow endpapers. With 20 engraved color plates. One of the rarer scrapbooks by Alken, depicting heads of people and animals, hunting scenes, and dog and cock fights. Wear to boards; spine deteriorating; marginal foxing and light offsetting from plates.



