analysis hunting field being series di alken (40 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. H. Alken (illustratore). 1st thus (1989). 326pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt title and decoration to upper board and spine, blind decoration to lower board; in publisher's clear acetate wrapper. NEAR FINE copy; in VG+ wrapper.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. No Jacket. Alken, H. (illustratore). In red cloth. Paper label title on spine. Light foxing to page edges. Bookplate to front pastedown.

Gebundene Ausgabe, Leinen. Condizione: Gut. 323 Seiten: zahlr. Ill. Buch gut erhalten, Einband berieben, Ecken bestoßen, Buch im Gesamten altersbedingt nachgedunkelt, Schnitt beschmutzt, Seitenwerk vollständig und textsauber. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 380.

Hard. Condizione: Fine in very good mylar dust j. With coloured plates and illustrations in the text by H. Alken. (illustratore). First printing thus. Facsimile of first. Fine in very good mylar dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. ALKEN, H. (illustratore). New Edition, xii + 323pp, title printed in black and red, very well-illustrated with seven colour plates by Alken and other illustrations within the text, 12mo, hardcover, bound in red cloth, paper label on spine, gift inscription within, some foxing, very good condition, Methuen and Co., London, 1904.

hardback, small 8vo, 323pp, 6 colour plates and numerous woodcut illustrations, owner's name and bookplate, light foxing on text pages throughout, red cloth, spine rubbed, title label browned, with a spare tipped-in, Good condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Very Good condition. Alken, Henry (illustratore). New Edition. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1904. Printed paper spine label is chipped. Occasional foxing. Light fraying at head of spine else Very Good condition. Inner hinges are sound. Illustrated with 7 full-color plates and numerous b/w vignettes by Henry Alken. "Probably one of the finest colored title pages ever designed." -- A. Edward Newton. Reprint of this famous book on hounds and fox-hunting, first published in book-form by Rudolph Ackerman in England in 1846 (with prefaces dated 1846 and 1847). These papers appeared a season earlier in the periodical, Bell's Life in London. The author, Robert Smith Surtees (1803-1864), a close friend of William Thackeray and John Leech, is not identified in this 1904 American Edition. "It is well known that he never wrote under his own name and, at the time of his death, a critic in The Times Literary Supplement wrote: 'It is hard to think that any modern author of equal merit is so unknown as a personality, so hidden behind his books, as Robert Smith Surtees.'" - Higginson (p. 58). Not in Hand. See Higginson/Smith 432. See Tooley 470 and Hardie 187. Top edge gilt. Original maroon cloth. Full title: "The Analysis of the Hunting Field : Being a Series of Sketches of the Principle Characters that Compose One, The Whole Forming a Slight Souvenir of the Season 1845 - 6." . "New Edition". Hardcover. Near Very Good condition. Illus. by Alken, Henry . 12mo. 323pp .

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. H. Alken (illustratore). (C3) hard back in green cloth binding with gilt titles and gilt decorations to front cover; shelf wear visible to corners and spine, which are rubbed of and a bit dented; staining to the cover especially the front; text is clean and hinges hold relatively tight given the age; some slight foxing to page edges, but overall text and illustrations are not affected; beautiful edition.**(Please note that shipping prices may differ from quotes given on website due to weight or destination for delivery. Pictures upon request.)**.

Hardcover. Condizione: VG. H. Alken (illustratore). VG hardback (no dustwrapper). 1903 D Appleton & Company. Green boards with gilt title to front & spine & gilt illustration to front. 13 coloured plates & 43 drawings in text. Minor age-yellowing to page edges. A little fraying to tail of spine & slightly more to head of spine. NB.Regrettably NOT available for EU countries.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Alken, H (illustratore). vi, 326pp, [12]pp publisher's ads and list of subscribers. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt design and titles on front, gilt titles on spine, blind-embossed design on rear. Light card slipcase. 4to. Facsimile reprint of the 1846 edition. Very lightly rubbed spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Slipcase has significant wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. H. Alken (illustratore). 1923, reprint edition. Quarto. xi, 244pp. Illustrated with colour plates and text-illustrations. Original quarter brown cloth, over green papered boards, gilt titles. Some minor rubbing and marginal staining. Some light spotting/foxing internally. Overall a 'Good+' copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dustjacket as issued. First Edition. A light crack to front and rear hinge, with some short tears and fraying at spine. Occasional foxing; some overall soiling. In original maroon cloth, with gilt front and spine decorations. With titles and preface dated 1846. There are 6 hand colored plates (including frontispiece), and a hand colored title page. Plates 2, 3, and 4 are dated Nov. 19th. Robert Smith Surtees (1805 ? 1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. Henry Thomas Alken (1785 ? 1851) was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. Known as an avid sportsman, he is best remembered for his hunting prints, many of which he engraved himself. Quite scarce in any condition.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. H. Alken (illustratore). A detailed analysis of hunting from 1845-6 with full colour plates and vignettes. Written by Robert Smith Surtees. This work analyses hunting from 1845-6. It intended to educate those who were less versed in hunting. It is accompanied by illustrations by H. Alken. The articles within this work first appeared in the Bell's Life in London sporting paper printed weekly between 1824-1852. The chapters cover subjects including sporting months, etiquette and social roles. They give a sense of the challenged faced in the hunting season and what should be done to improve this. Includes 7 coloured plates showing tradition hunting scenes and 43 black and white illustrations reproduced from wood engraving by Henry Alken. These illustrations were created by Henry Alken who is best known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. Collated complete. Bound in the original publishers binding. Externally very smart. Light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Offsetting to the front pastedown. Pages bright and clean. All plates and vignettes clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

Limited unnumbered 1st edn (500). Tall 8vo (10½ x 7½ ins). Original gilt decorated green cloth, top edge gilt (casing with slight lean and light wear at corners - otherwise VG). Pp. xv + 306, illus with 13 full page coloured plates by H. Alken with captioned tissue-guards (endpapers and prelims lightly spotted; previous owner's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper).

Lge 8vo. vi, 326pp plus adverts etc. With six colour plates by Alken and 43 illustrations on wood. In maroon cloth gilt with protective plastic sleeve. Previous owner's blind stamp to ffep. A near fine copy of this collectable edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. Quarto. Original red cloth, with gilt fox vignette on front. [6], 326, [4] pp, color title page 6 full page hand-colored plates, and 43 woodcuts. Wear, minor soiling to boards. Loss to head of spine. Shaken, front flyleaf detached. Text block mostly uncut. Marginal tanning, foxing. Plate margins tanned. Provenance: Robert Cleveland's book plate on verso. Tooley 470.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Henry Alken (illustratore). Limited Edition. Limited edition of 500 unnumbered copies. Small 4to, xv + pp306 complete with 13 coloured plates and 43 illustration in the text by Henry Alken with descriptive tissue guards. Hardcover, no jacket. Binding of half maroon leather over red boards with 5 raised bands, gilt titles and tooled gilt lines to spine in very good condition with a little rubbing to edges of spine and bottom edge with some loss of leather to bottom tips of boards and a few minor marks to boards. Inside, bar the odd spot of foxing all pages and plates in excellent clean and bright condition, no aging or toning. A lovely copy of this limited edition which famously satirically explored the key characters and archetypes of fox hunting by Surtees, editor, novelist, and sporting writer who William Morris described as "a master of life". It is superbly illustrated by Henry Thomas Alken an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes.

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. H. Alken (illustratore). A wonderful facsimile copy of this work on hunting by sporting writer R. S. Surtees, with lovely colour plates. A facsimile copy of this work by Robert Smith Surtees as published by the R. S. Surtees Society.This volume is packed full of the wit and wisdom of Surtees and originally appeared in Bell's Life in London, a Sporting paper and gives an analysis of the Sporting season of 1845-6.Robert Smith Surtees was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer and is most remembered for his invented character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer.With six beautiful colour plates, originally by H. Alken.With twelve pages of adverts to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very attractive. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Fine. book.

4to. xi. 244pp. With six full page colour plates and an illustrated title plus 43 black & white wood engravings. In quarter brown cloth with grey boards and gilt titles. Some internal spotting and foxing and minor pencil annotation to margins. Partial fading to rear board but overall a very good copy of this hunting classic.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. ex library hardback with no D/J. Usual stamps/markings. 1923 publication by Edward Arnold, London. 7 colour plates all intact, a few grubby marks to boards otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from Uk. 19A*.

vi, 326 pp. Added engraved colored title page, six color engraved plates and wood-engraved text illustrations by Henry Alken. 8vo, old half red calf over marbled boards; edges marbled. First edition; second issue. Some scattered inoffensive foxing; binding rubbed at extremities; tight and sound.

Condizione: Good. First edition. 8vo. 24 by 15 cm. [6], 326, [4] pp. Seven hand-colored plates, and 43 woodcuts throughout text. Tooley 470. Preface dated October 1846, marking this as the first issue. Condition: Text block slightly cocked -- front board overhangs rear. Spine sunned. Corners bumped slightly. Rear joint slighly cracked, and fraying of cloth along rear joint. Within, scattered foxing, at times, heavy-ish. Plates, though, are bright. Blindstamped, gilt-stamped cloth.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Alken, H. (illustratore). 1st Edition. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. vi, 326pp. Complete with title and 6 further coloured plates. Illustrated by H. Alken. 1st edition 1846. 1st issue. Gilt title and small illustrations to spine and front board. Gilt edges. Spine relaid retaining orininal backstrip with small loss. Slightly darkened spine backstrip. Corners scuffed. Ownership bookplates to front end-papers. First and last few pages foxed, with a little occasional foxing thereafter. A decent copy. (r28).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good condition. New Edition. xii, 323 pages of text. Decorative red leather binding with five different hunting related gilt stamped designs on the spine, as well as raised bands with gilt decoration; minor shelfwear and minor darkening to the spine. Cloth covered boards with red leather-tipped corners; bottom corners are slightly warped and discolored which does not affect the spine. Contains six color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations. One page with a short tear to the page edge. Originally published in 1846. Early reprint edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. First Edition. Tall octavo, vi, 326 pages, [4]; G+; Faded red cloth solander case with gilt lettering; Original red cloth binding with gilt embossed lettering and graphics, housed in red cloth solander case; Boards show moderate bumping to head/tail of spine and top corners, significant bumping/curling to bottom corners, light shelfwear overall, light+ soiling overall (especially to spine), and light wear to cloth on spine and along joints; Textblock has light+ age-toning to uncut bottom- and fore-edge, moderate+ age-toning to top edge, light foxing to pages interiorly, and moderate age-toning to plate pages; Library stamp of former holder appears on front pastedown and ffep, and a former owner's name appears in ink on ffep; Includes 6 full-page color plates and numerous b/w illustrations throughout; Four pages of publisher advertisements appear at back; Solander case light shelfwear and soiling overall, and signficiant fading to cloth on outward facing edge. NOTE: Shelved in Room Netdesk Office, Case #5. 1349858. FP New Rockville Stock.

A Very Good Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good; Illustrations by Henry Alken, (illustratore). First Edition, First Printing. This is one of Surtees few non-fiction works, taken from the sporting newspaper Bell's Life in London during the fox hunting season of 1845-6. Handsomely bound by Morrell in Full crimson morocco leather; Four raised spine bands with tittle and decorations; Dentelles embellished with gilt hunting motifs; Doublures to marbled endpages. Red silk place-holder ribbon. Original cloth and spine bound-in at rear. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, toned with scattered foxing. Moderate handling wear. Darkened spot upper area near the spin eon the front board. First Edition - Methuen, 1904. Six hand-colored aquatint plates, and extra title, with forty-three woodcuts engraved by Cook and CO. 4to; 26 cm. vi-326 pages. All plates present. Provenance: Large engraved armorial bookplate of James Allen Young (coat-of-arms beneath a crested helm, rococo cartouche, and Latin motto 'Nomen juvenis non mens,' . Surtees's fox-hunting classicmore social satire than manualparades the hunt's stock characters (masters, whips, black coats, bold riders, overdressed neophytes) and the rituals of a great meet, all delivered with dry, observational wit. The book helped cement Surtees's reputation as the comic anatomist of Victorian sporting life. Background: Robert Surtees was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer. He left for London in 1825, intending to practice law in the capital, but had difficulty making his way and began contributing to the Sporting Magazine. "His Novels are pre-eminent in the annals of sport".[ Kunitz] Henry Thomas Alken was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. REF: Tooley: 470; Prideaux; Nevil: 31; Kunitz: 597; Roy Young, Catalog: 236; Higginson: 55; Smith: 433. Subjects: Fox-hunting types and etiquette; Social comedy in the hunting field; Sporting literature; Victorian satire; Fox-hunting history; Illustrated books.