ALKEN, Henry. Sporting Scrap Book. London: Thomas McLean, [1824]. 8° (260 x 180mm). 50 hand-coloured plates, including the frontispiece, on strong paper with no distinct watermarks. (Offsetting on the title.) ORIGINAL PRINTED RED WRAPPERS bound into full polished calf by Riviere, spine gilt in compartments and with morocco labels, gilt border on sides, blue-green coated endpapers (corners rubbed, sides spotted, wrappers lightly soiled, small label removed from front pastedown).

ALKEN, Henry. Sporting Scrap Book. London: Thomas McLean, [1824]. 8° (260 x 180mm). 50 hand-coloured plates, including the frontispiece, on strong paper with no distinct watermarks. (Offsetting on the title.) ORIGINAL PRINTED RED WRAPPERS bound into full polished calf by Riviere, spine gilt in compartments and with morocco labels, gilt border on sides, blue-green coated endpapers (corners rubbed, sides spotted, wrappers lightly soiled, small label removed from front pastedown).

A FINELY COLOURED COPY. 'Of the fifty plates, twenty are full paged sporting scenes, well drawn and nicely coloured' (Schwerdt). Dixon 67; Mellon/Podeschi 120 (listing an additional plate); Schwerdt I, p.24.