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Lot 447
Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$500 -
800
Price Realized
$585
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Lot Description
[Sporting] Alken, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain
London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean, 1825. First edition thus. Royal 8vo. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 50 hand-colored aquatint plates after Alken, with tissue guards. Full green morocco, stamped in blind and in gilt, joints rubbed, extremities lightly worn, spine browned; all edges gilt; yellow endpapers; green morocco book-plate of Valentine Hollingsworth on front paste-down; offsetting from plates, scattered light foxing. Tooley 43; Mellon 111
Published four years after Alken's 1821 edition of the same title, this royal octavo edition features new plates.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.

