Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, Symptoms of being amused, 1822
- Title(s):
- Symptoms of being amused. Vol. 1 / by Hy. Alken.
- Additional Title(s):
- Symptoms
- Published/Created:
- London : Published by Thos. McLean, Repository of Wit and Humour, 1822.
- Physical Description:
- [1] leaf, [42] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 x 36 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio A 2011 57 Copy 1Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionView by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details.Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio A 2011 57 Copy 2Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionView by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details.Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio A 2011 57 Copy 3Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionView by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9947710
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Each part with printed cover title: Symptoms, by Henry Alken.
"Published in 7 numbers and on completion in 1 vol. boards for 4 guineas. Although vol. 1 appears on the title page, no other volume was completed; a second was commenced, but only reached 18 plates."--Tooley.
"Price twelve shillings."--Foot of title page.
Entirely engraved, except for "Symptoms of a preface," [1] leaf.
Twenty of Alken's original drawings for the present work are now in the collections of the Yale Center for British Art (Prints and Drawings, B2001.2.417-427 and B2001.2.567-575).
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 57
Snelgrove, D. British sporting and animal prints, p.33-34
Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 114
Siltzer, F. Story of British sporting prints (2nd ed), p. 71
BAC: British Art Center has three copies. Copy 1 is bound in original 3/4 roan with pink boards. Copy 2 is in 7 parts, in original brown printed wrappers, with publisher's advertisements. Lacks the letterpress preface. Armorial bookplates: Humphrey de Trafford; Harry Twyford Peters. Copy 3 is a compilation of works by Henry Alken issued by his publisher T. McLean with the title British sportsman's vade mecum. Plates mounted (two to a page) in a folio volume. Bound in gilt-tooled brown calf. Has bound with it: Specimens of riding near London -- Illustrations to popular song -- Moments of fancy -- Involuntry thoughts -- Tutor's assistant.
Satire on the follies and and foibles of the Regency period, with particular emphasis on sporting disasters. - Subject Terms:
- English wit and humor, Pictorial.Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Humor.McLean, Thos. -- Publisher.Peters, Harry Twyford -- Bookplate.Regency -- England.Satire, English.Sporting -- Humor.Trafford, Humphrey de -- Bookplate.
- Form/Genre:
- Armorial Bookplates (Provenance)
Publishers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 1822.
Soft-ground etchings -- Hand-colored -- 1822. - Export:
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