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The Melange of Humour;

by [ALKEN Henry Thomas] 1784-1851. [EGERTON Daniel Thomas] 1800?-1847

$20,081 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

London: Finch-Lane, Cornhill: Printed by W. Lewis. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. ALKEN Henry Thomas. EGERTON Daniel Thomas. etc. First collected edition of this acclaimed series of humorous situations with Fifty Hand Coloured Plates Caricaturing the English Lifestyle of the 1820s. c1835, Folio, letterpress title and fifty hand coloured plates (including frontispiece). Most plates with tissue guards, plates watermarked 1835, 1824, and 1822. In contemporary half black roan, ruled in gilt, over brown pebble grain cloth boards. Spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, with three wide raised bands, all edges gilt, front cover expertly and almost invisibly repaired, corners and board edges slightly rubbed, occasional light soiling and browning to margins, a few plates with tiny marginal tears, tissue guard to title worn & tipped to title. The collection comprises: Six hand-coloured plates after Henry Alken (London: Published by Thos. McLean, Repository of Wit & Humour, 1823): Learning to drive Tandem; Learning to drive A Dennett; A Horse! A Horse! my Kingdom for a Horse!; Give me another Horse-bind up my wounds-The lights burn blue-; The Prospect of Hunting....all Right; and The Reality of Hunting......all Wrong. Six hand-coloured aquatint plates [A Day's Journal of a Sponge] (London: Published by W. Egerton, 1824) captioned: Was 'stirring with the lark,' bent on fixing myself for a month's sponge on a friend.; Feeling one of those pangs 'wh

  • Publisher: Printed by W. Lewis
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: hardcover

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