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Title(s)
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.
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Published/Created
London : Published by S. and J. Fuller, at the Temple of Fancy, Rathbone Place, [1818]
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Physical Description
[8] leaves of plates : all ill., 28 x 39 cm.
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2011 25
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status
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Full Alma Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
By Henry Thomas Alken.
Cover title.
Plates are dated 1818 (March 2 and April 5).
Alken's original watercolors for the set (except "Doing it furiously") are now in the collections of the Yale Center for British Art (Prints and Drawings, B2001.2.538-544).
British sporting and animal prints, 1658-1874, p. 11
Schwerdt, C.F.G.R. Hunting, hawking, shooting, I, p. 13
Siltzer, F. Story of British sporting prints (2nd ed) p. 69
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860 24
BAC: British Art Center copy: Stitched in original tan wrappers; printed in black. Publisher's advertisements verso of front cover and front and back of back cover. Slipcase with the armorial bookplate of Fitz Eugene Dixon. -
Subject Terms
Dixon, Fitz Eugene -- Bookplate. | Fox hunting -- England -- Pictorial works. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Pictorial works. | Hunt riding -- Pictorial works. | Hunting -- Pictorial works. | S. & J. Fuller -- Publisher.
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Form/Genre
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1818. | Armorial Bookplates (Provenance)
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