Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, Sporting discoveries, or, The miseries of driving , [1817]
- Title(s):
- Sporting discoveries, or, The miseries of driving / by Ben Tally Ho.
- Additional Title(s):
Sporting discoveries
Miseries of driving- Published/Created:
- London : Published by S. and J. Fuller, at the Temple of Fancy, Rathbone place, [1817]
- Physical Description:
- [7] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio A 2011 53Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1262832
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Ben Tally Ho is the pseudonym of Henry Alken.
Cover title.
Alken's original drawings for the set (except the last "... the last discovery but one viz. a five and forty foot gravel pitt ...) are now in the collections of the Yale Center for British Art (Department of Prints and Drawings, B2001.2.545-550).
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 25
Van Devanter, W. Checklist for book illlustrated by Henry Alken, 72
Snelgrove, D. British sporting and animal prints, 79
Siltzer, F. Story of British sporting prints (2nd ed), 69
BAC: British Art Center copy lacks cover title. Bound in red half morocco and red cloth; gold lettering on spine. - Subject Terms:
- Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain -- 19th century.Carriages and carts -- Pictorial works -- Great Britain.English wit and humor, Pictorial.Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works.Horse sports -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.S. and J. Fuller -- Publisher.
- Form/Genre:
- Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1817.
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