Author

ALKEN, Henry.


Title

Illustrations to Popular Songs


Published, Date

Thomas M'lean, London 1823.


Price: £1500

 

Description

[Second issue]. Oblong 4to, (27 x 37 cm), handcoloured frontispiece, title-page with large repair (5 cms), address leaf, 42 handcoloured aquatint plates with grey borders, (repair to first plate - approx one cm) all captioned, bookplate, decorated endpapers, slight spotting to the preliminaries, bound in later full polished calf gilt, red and green morocco labels, gilt lettered, spine with raised bands, lavishly gilt decorated in compartments; a good copy. Provenance: bookplate of Glen Tanar.


Note

This copy was first issued in 1822 and the plates are all dated 1822. Contains the address leaf which is often missing according to Tooley.


References

Tooley 37.


Stock Number

83721