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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

Creator Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851

Associated People Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851

1. A panorama of the progress of human life : fashionably displayed, illustrating Shakespeare's ages and giving at the same time the manners, costume, amusements, and field sports of the English people : the whole illustrative of modern character in a series of many hundreds of moving figures / with an essay by Guy Paget and an introduction and commentary by Bernard Darwin.

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Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1948]
Physical Description:: 36 p. : col. ill. ; 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Panorama of the Progress of Human Life, fashionably display'd : illustrating Shakespears Ages and giving at the same time the manners, costume, amusements, and the field sports of the English people, the whole illustrative of modern characters in a series of many hundreds of moving figures.

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Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: April 20, 1820
Physical Description:: 1 print on 3 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 7 x 457 cm, rolled to 10 x 15 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Sporting scrap book / by Henry Alken, containing fifty plates, designed and engraved by himself.

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Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: 50 prints, 1 leaf of letterpress in 1 volume : soft-ground etchings ; plate marks 15 x 22 cm, on sheets 19 x 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts