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1927 · 54379 — E-165: Williams & Norgate. Good. 1927. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Williams and Norgate Charles Scribner's Sons 1927. Xxiv 55 pgs. Illustrated with 8 color plates and 64 half-tones. #4 of a limited edition of 250 copies. Signed by Theodore Cook on the limitation page. Bound in original cream linen covered boards with gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. Spine sunned. No ownership marks present. Boards have wear present to the extremities boards lightly soiled. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "This book contains the largest and most varied collection of reproductions from Henry Alken's original drawings and paintings which has ever been published together with several of the best examples of contemporary engravings from the same artist." the Publisher. Henry Thomas Alken 1785-1851 was a noted English sporting artist. He trained horses for the Duke of Beaufort ". Before studying under J. T. Barker Beaumont the miniaturist and he exhibited miniatures at the Royal Academy in 1801-02. He moved to Melton Mowbray in 1810 to train horses and eke out a livelihood in decorating trays with hunting scenes. His success really began when he issued prints under the name of Ben Tally Ho in 1813 and he was at his most prolific in the 1820s and 1830s. His work was less interesting after that date and he died in poverty. in 1851." E-165; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 55 pages; Signed by Editor . Williams & Norgate hardcover