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1. Tutors assistant / Hy. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all col. ill. ; 28 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Moments of fancy and whim / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 14 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 29 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Qualified horses and unqualified riders, or, The reverse of sporting phrases taken from the work entitled Indispensable accomplishments ... / Ben Tally Ho.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 28 x 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Sporting sketches : consisting of subjects relating to sports of the field, as horses, dogs, live and dead game, wild fowl, fox hunting, shooting, coursing, fishing, &c. &c. &c. : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1817-1818]
Physical Description:: 8 pt. : all ill. (engravings) ; 31 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Throwing off, not so easy / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; fifty engravings, with descriptions.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: vi p., [53] p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A cockney's shooting season, in Suffolk / by Henry Alken ; containing the remarkable adventures that actually occurred to a young cit on a visit to his friends in that county.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 16 p., [6] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; with descriptions in English and French.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [4], 2, 2, [100] p., [51] leaves of plates col. ill.; 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A few ideas, caught on Easter Monday.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A panorama of the progress of human life : fashionably displayed, illustrating "Shakespeare's ages" and exhibiting the manners, costume, character and field sports of the English people ... / published by S. and J. Fuller.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1930
Physical Description:: 9, [3] p., [5] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 35 x 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Doing the thing and the thing done : in a series of sporting plates / by Ben Tally-Ho ; author of "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of driving," and "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of hunting," &c. &c.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1818]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : all ill., 28 x 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Involuntary thoughts.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823-1824
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Illustrations to popular songs / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, [43] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Panorama of Epsom Race Course / H. Alken lith.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: May 31st, 1854
Physical Description:: 1 prints on 4 joined sheets : hand-colored lithograph ; sheets end-to-end 21 x 221 cm, rolled to 21 x 17 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A check, 12 o'clock, tipping for the swine / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Illustrations for landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be Meltonians.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1825 [i.e.1826]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. 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.

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

19. Specimens of riding near London / drawn from life by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [3] pt. : all ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be whips.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. [Additional illustrations for Nimrod's The life of a sportsman].

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: 4 prints : hand-colored aquatints ; sheets 15 x 22 cm, in mats 19 x 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [42] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The beauties and defects in the figure of the horse, comparatively delineated by H. Alken in a series of coloured plates.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1816]
Physical Description:: 1 p. ℓ., 2, [18] p. 18 col. pl. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Sporting notions / by H. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1831-1833]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : all col ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Indispensable accomplishments, or, Hints to city gentleman : four plates, exquisitely coloured.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: IV leaves of plates : all ill. 30 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1819]
Physical Description:: [2] pt. : all ill. ; 28 x 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A touch at the fine arts : illustrated by twelve plates, with descriptions / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [16] leaves, 12 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. John Jorrocks, Esqre. [graphic] : M.S.H. &c. &c. &c. &c. : "a citizen of credit and renown" / drawn & etched by H. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: 1 print : aquatint ; 23 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. [Sporting dogs].

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: [6] prints : soft-ground etchings ; plate marks 13 x 20 cm, on sheets 14 x 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. 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.

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

31. Going home, apology for damage done / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; with descriptions in English and French.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [2], 2, 2, [100] p., [51] leaves of plates. col. ill.; 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. How to qualify for a Meltonian : addressed to all would-be Meltonians.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [3] leaves, 6 leaves of plates : col ill. ; 25 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Going to hunt, an easy job / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The Quorn Hunt : in a series of eight plates, beautifully coloured / from drawings by Henry Alken ; illustrating Nimrod's celebrated article on "English fox-hunting" in the Quarterly review.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1835]
Physical Description:: 8 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 66 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. H. Alken's panorama of a fox hunt : shewing a large scope of the Leicestershire, Rutlandshire and Lincolnshire counties : with all sorts of riders, good, bad, & indifferent.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: Jany. 1st [1828]
Physical Description:: 1 print on 6 joined sheets : soft-ground etching ; sheets end-to-end 10 x 323 cm, rolled (in wooden case) to 16 x 4 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Fores's steeple chase scenes : illustrative of the sport : a series of six plates / from original drawings by H. Alken, sen.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1848]
Physical Description:: [2] p., 6 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 40 x 57 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. A steeplechase.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 6 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 43 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The art and practice of etching; with directions for other methods of light and entertaining engraving. By Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: 58 p., 1 leaf. 8 plates (incl. front.) 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Studies of the horse, and other animals, landscape-figures, &c. / by H. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1841]
Physical Description:: 29 prints in 1 volume : soft-ground etchings, lithographs ; sheet 18 x 26 cm, in volume 20 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Four subjects of horses / drawn by Alken and engraved by Sutherland.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [4] plates : chiefly ill ; 36 x 53 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Symptoms of being amused. Vol. 1 / by Hy. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 1 unnumbered leaf, 42 unnumbered leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 27 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The grand steeple chace over Leicestershire on the 12th of March, 1829 / in a series of eight plates, beautifully coloured from the original paintings by Mr. Henry Alken ; giving portraits of the riders and horses that started on that celebrated day ; with remarks by that distinguished writer, Nimrod, who acted as umpired on the occasion.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: [2] p., VIII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 46 x 61 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Sporting discoveries, or, The miseries of driving / by Ben Tally Ho.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1817]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A collection of interesting subjects of marine views, military parade, hunting, coursing, racing &c. &c. / by Thomas McLane, 26 Haymarket.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: ca. 1828?]
Physical Description:: [56] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. In full cry, hard work / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Sporting discoveries, or, The miseries of shooting / in a series of seven plates ... by Ben Tally-Ho.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1816]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Grand Leicestershire steeple chase, on the 12th of March, 1829.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: 8 prints : aquatint engraving ; 41 x 52 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The night riders of Nacton : a series of four plates, beautifully coloured / from original drawings by Henry Alken ; shewing the rise, progress, and downfalling of "The first steeple chase on record" ; from an authentic account published in the "Sporting Review," No. 1, for January, 1839.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: [2] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 49 x 62 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

51. Henry Alken, 1785-1851 : master of British sporting art as represented at the Usher Art Gallery, Lincoln, 1948.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1948]
Physical Description:: [7] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

52. Catalogue of an important collection of original drawings by Henry Alken ... 1785-1851 : the collection will be on exhibition at Messrs. Ellis & Smith's Galleries ... May 26th to June 24th, 1949.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1949]
Physical Description:: 19 p., [13] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. Tutors assistant / Hy. Alken.

2. Moments of fancy and whim / by Henry Alken.

3. Qualified horses and unqualified riders, or, The reverse of sporting phrases taken from the work entitled Indispensable accomplishments ... / Ben Tally Ho.

4. Sporting sketches : consisting of subjects relating to sports of the field, as horses, dogs, live and dead game, wild fowl, fox hunting, shooting, coursing, fishing, &c. &c. &c. : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

5. Throwing off, not so easy / Hy. Alken delt.

6. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; fifty engravings, with descriptions.

7. A cockney's shooting season, in Suffolk / by Henry Alken ; containing the remarkable adventures that actually occurred to a young cit on a visit to his friends in that county.

8. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; with descriptions in English and French.

9. A few ideas, caught on Easter Monday.

10. A panorama of the progress of human life : fashionably displayed, illustrating "Shakespeare's ages" and exhibiting the manners, costume, character and field sports of the English people ... / published by S. and J. Fuller.

11. Doing the thing and the thing done : in a series of sporting plates / by Ben Tally-Ho ; author of "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of driving," and "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of hunting," &c. &c.

12. Involuntary thoughts.

13. Illustrations to popular songs / by Henry Alken.

14. Panorama of Epsom Race Course / H. Alken lith.

15. A check, 12 o'clock, tipping for the swine / Hy. Alken delt.

16. Illustrations for landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

17. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be Meltonians.

19. Specimens of riding near London / drawn from life by Henry Alken.

20. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be whips.

21. [Additional illustrations for Nimrod's The life of a sportsman].

22. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

23. The beauties and defects in the figure of the horse, comparatively delineated by H. Alken in a series of coloured plates.

24. Sporting notions / by H. Alken.

25. Indispensable accomplishments, or, Hints to city gentleman : four plates, exquisitely coloured.

26. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

27. A touch at the fine arts : illustrated by twelve plates, with descriptions / by Henry Alken.

28. John Jorrocks, Esqre. [graphic] : M.S.H. &c. &c. &c. &c. : "a citizen of credit and renown" / drawn & etched by H. Alken.

29. [Sporting dogs].

30. 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.

31. Going home, apology for damage done / Hy. Alken delt.

32. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; with descriptions in English and French.

33. How to qualify for a Meltonian : addressed to all would-be Meltonians.

34. Going to hunt, an easy job / Hy. Alken delt.

35. The Quorn Hunt : in a series of eight plates, beautifully coloured / from drawings by Henry Alken ; illustrating Nimrod's celebrated article on "English fox-hunting" in the Quarterly review.

36. H. Alken's panorama of a fox hunt : shewing a large scope of the Leicestershire, Rutlandshire and Lincolnshire counties : with all sorts of riders, good, bad, & indifferent.

37. Fores's steeple chase scenes : illustrative of the sport : a series of six plates / from original drawings by H. Alken, sen.

38. A steeplechase.

39. The art and practice of etching; with directions for other methods of light and entertaining engraving. By Henry Alken.

40. Studies of the horse, and other animals, landscape-figures, &c. / by H. Alken.

41. Four subjects of horses / drawn by Alken and engraved by Sutherland.

42. Symptoms of being amused. Vol. 1 / by Hy. Alken.

44. Sporting discoveries, or, The miseries of driving / by Ben Tally Ho.

45. A collection of interesting subjects of marine views, military parade, hunting, coursing, racing &c. &c. / by Thomas McLane, 26 Haymarket.

46. In full cry, hard work / Hy. Alken delt.

47. Sporting discoveries, or, The miseries of shooting / in a series of seven plates ... by Ben Tally-Ho.

48. Grand Leicestershire steeple chase, on the 12th of March, 1829.

49. The night riders of Nacton : a series of four plates, beautifully coloured / from original drawings by Henry Alken ; shewing the rise, progress, and downfalling of "The first steeple chase on record" ; from an authentic account published in the "Sporting Review," No. 1, for January, 1839.

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

51. Henry Alken, 1785-1851 : master of British sporting art as represented at the Usher Art Gallery, Lincoln, 1948.

52. Catalogue of an important collection of original drawings by Henry Alken ... 1785-1851 : the collection will be on exhibition at Messrs. Ellis & Smith's Galleries ... May 26th to June 24th, 1949.