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Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Paperback Edition. Large oblong folio. 35cm by 46cm. pp [20]. Paperback. Original publisher's tan card covers, lettered black. Alken's panoramic views were originally published in 1820 on rollers or mounted as a series of drawings. This is his most detailed work, 35 little pictures, each of a different subject. Four hundred copies printed: this is one of the 250 copies printed for Great Britain, with a further 150 copies for sale by Ernest R. Gee, New York. Signed by the editor, Schwerdt. Fine.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Whole Illustrative of Modern Character, In A Series of Many Hundred Moving Figures. Privately printed by the author of Hunting Hawking Shooting.( C.F.G.R. Schwerdt.) 400 copies only of this book have been printed. #1 to 250 for Great Britain #251-400 for sale by Ernest R. Gee, New York and all plates have been destroyed. Signed by Schwerdt. Tan card binding with black printed title, publisher etc on front cover. Top and bottom of spine is slightly worn. Content is fine, with all color illustration bright and sound. Unpaginated. 24pp not including front and back covers. This book is enclosed in a tan portfolid with brown shoelace ties attached with small brown leather patches. Spine and corners of the portfolio cover are rubbed and bumped.
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada
Price: US$199.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Paperback Edition of Alken's most detailed work, the forerunner of Nimrod's The Life of a Sportsman. Oblong folio (348 x 445mm): 10pp, including title-page vignette, colored portrait of Alken and facsimiles of 11 wrappers on one plate, and photographic illustration of the scroll case, followed by 35 colored aquatint scenes (miniature adaptations of plates in National Field Sports), depicting incidents in the life of a squire's son, mounted on five stiff-card leaves. Original publisher's mottled tan card covers lettered in black. Signed by the editor, C. F. G. R. Schwerdt, on limitation leaf. A pristine example in the original publisher's stiff card decorated envelope, lightly nicked. Originally published in scroll form, in 1820, the Panorama is extremely scarce; in the preface Schwerdt states: "apart from the writer's own copy, only one other complete specimen has come to his notice during the forty-five years that he has been collecting." Four hundred copies of this edition were published: this is no. 4 of 250 copies printed for Great Britain, with a further 150 copies for sale by Ernest R. Gee, in New York. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Facsimile, reduced in size but proportioned, of the original illustrations of Henry Thomas Aiken (1784-1851) published by S. and F. Fuller in 1820 on rollers or mounted as a series of drawings. Alken is known for illustrated works on British sport and social manners as 'Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities': Panorama was the forerunner of Nimrod's 'The Life of a Sportsman'. With a new preface and commentary by C.F.G.R. Schwerdt. Oblong folio, stiff printed wrappers, limited edition #124/400 copies, signed by Schwerdt. 15 colored plates - for a total of 35 pictures - mounted on 5 leaves, with descriptive letterpress facing each page. Original plates destroyed. Covers a tad solied with a few short tears and a small chip. Sheets near fine. Scarce.
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.