ALKEN, Henry. Sporting Scrap Book. London: Thomas McLean, 1824 [watermarked Whatman 1823-1824]. Oblong 2° (245 x 355mm). 49 hand-coloured soft-ground etched plates, including the frontispiece. (Light offsetting on the title, occasional light spotting and light staining in the margins.) Full red morocco by Riviere and Son, spine gilt in compartments, the sides with a gilt French fillet.

ALKEN, Henry. Sporting Scrap Book. London: Thomas McLean, 1824 [watermarked Whatman 1823-1824]. Oblong 2° (245 x 355mm). 49 hand-coloured soft-ground etched plates, including the frontispiece. (Light offsetting on the title, occasional light spotting and light staining in the margins.) Full red morocco by Riviere and Son, spine gilt in compartments, the sides with a gilt French fillet.

THE SCARCER FOLIO ISSUE. ABPC records just one example of the folio issue in over 35 years: the Schwerdt copy (sold, Sotheby's, 14 May 1979, lot 274), to which can also be added the Gloucester copy (sold, Christie's, 27 January 2006, part lot 616). Like the Schwerdt and Gloucester copies, this copy issued without 'The Hunters', which appears as plate 35 in the octavo edition. Schwerdt I, p. 25.