TEXT: ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain. London: Thomas McLean, 1820-1821. 2° (475 x 315mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Clark after Alken, parallel text in English and French. (Light creasemark to frontispiece and title, light dust-soiling and occasional spotting of plate margins, a few isolated spots and some faint offsetting to images.) Contemporary blue straight-grained morocco, sides panelled in gilt and blind, gilt spine compartments, two decorated with a stag, the rest with title and arabesques, gilt edges (joints neatly restored, covers lightly scuffed). Provenance: Fitz Eugene Dixon (bookplate; his sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 6 January 1937, lot 26, $1,825 [£365]) -- Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (bookplate; his sale, Christie's London, 26-27 January 2006, lot 611).