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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 1078775, member: 8267"]As the link that [USER=7724]@Fid[/USER] provided, Thomas Henry Alken first prepared drawings for his series of "Sporting Notions", from which engravings were produced. The series appears to have first been published as a book, "The Comic Story of Men On Steeds At Unsafe Speeds", ALKEN, Henry. Sporting Notions. London: T. McLean, 1831-33.</p><p><a href="https://www.davidbrassrarebooks.com/pages/books/02047/henry-alken/sporting-notions" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.davidbrassrarebooks.com/pages/books/02047/henry-alken/sporting-notions" rel="nofollow">https://www.davidbrassrarebooks.com/pages/books/02047/henry-alken/sporting-notions</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The description of the prints is informative:</p><p>First edition. Oblong quarto (10 1/4 x 14 1/8 in; 261 x 358 mm). Thirty-six hand-colored soft-ground etchings and aquatints with tissue guards, as issued without title page, watermarked 1831-1833.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other examples of the first issue:</p><p><a href="https://www.georgeglazer.com/wpmain/product/sporting-notions-henry-alken-aquatints/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.georgeglazer.com/wpmain/product/sporting-notions-henry-alken-aquatints/" rel="nofollow">https://www.georgeglazer.com/wpmain/product/sporting-notions-henry-alken-aquatints/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Yours do appear to be hand colored engravings, but I think they are later issues. There are several differences between yours and the original edition. Yours do not have the title, "Notions" at the top of the page, or the complete credits at the bottom of the page. The colors of yours are not as bright and crisp. It would also be important to compare the size.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 1078775, member: 8267"]As the link that [USER=7724]@Fid[/USER] provided, Thomas Henry Alken first prepared drawings for his series of "Sporting Notions", from which engravings were produced. The series appears to have first been published as a book, "The Comic Story of Men On Steeds At Unsafe Speeds", ALKEN, Henry. Sporting Notions. London: T. McLean, 1831-33. [URL]https://www.davidbrassrarebooks.com/pages/books/02047/henry-alken/sporting-notions[/URL] The description of the prints is informative: First edition. Oblong quarto (10 1/4 x 14 1/8 in; 261 x 358 mm). Thirty-six hand-colored soft-ground etchings and aquatints with tissue guards, as issued without title page, watermarked 1831-1833. Other examples of the first issue: [URL]https://www.georgeglazer.com/wpmain/product/sporting-notions-henry-alken-aquatints/[/URL] Yours do appear to be hand colored engravings, but I think they are later issues. There are several differences between yours and the original edition. Yours do not have the title, "Notions" at the top of the page, or the complete credits at the bottom of the page. The colors of yours are not as bright and crisp. It would also be important to compare the size.[/QUOTE]
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