[Rarebooks] FS: Alken: EPSOM NATIONAL DERBY DAY

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Alken, Henry Thomas. EPSOM NATIONAL DERBY DAY: OPEN TO ALL NATIONS. 
1851. [London]:  Ackermann & Co., 96 Stand, [1851]. 1 sheet. 12 x 240 
cm. folded to 12 x 30 cm. Brown cloth with large hand colored label 
(hardback). First edition. Panoramic view on 4 double leaves joined 
and folded Japanese fashion and colored by hand and done as a parody 
of Alken's own 'The race and the road.' W. S. Sparrow suggest this 
could be by either Henry Thomas Alken, or his son, Henry Gordon 
Alken, as it is signed only H.  Alken. Scarce. None in OCLC while 
RLIN shows 3 copies only at Harvard, Yale, and Huntington. Not in the 
BL. Fair only. Boards rubbed with small scuff at lower fore-corner, 
panels a bit soiled  with some edge tears, most panels with paper 
loss (but not cloth backing) as follows: small chip to lower edge of 
panel 1, scuffing and some loss of paper to top edge of panel 3, 
1/2x1 1/2 loss to top edge of panel 5, loss of 1 inch along top edge 
of panel 6 with larger chip, loss of last half of panel 8, cloth 
backing stained, still some nice, bright, hand-colored caricatures 
with a grand if somewhat damaged sweep.    [27381] $250.00

Regards,

Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
P.O. Box 122
East Jewett, NY 12424.
Phone: 518-589-0555.
Email: books at kaaterskillbooks.com
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