Original publisher's wrapper (back) (Primary Title)
Humourous Miscellanies (Series Title)
Henry Thomas Alken, English, 1785–1851 (Artist)
Inscribed in graphite on inside of back cover: "12 / 27A" and "91".
Printed in center of page on verso: LATELY PUBLISHED / BY THOMAS M'LEAN, / No. 26, HAYMARKET. / HISTORICAL PORTRAITURE OF LEADING / EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF ALI PACHA, Vizier of / Epirus, surnamed The Lion, in a Series of Designs, Drawn / by W. Davenport, and Engraved by G. Hunt, with a / Biographical Sketch. Imperial quarto, price £ 2: 2s. / / THE NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS OF A / MAN OF FASHION. Twelve Coloured Plates, Imperial / quarto, price £ 1: 5s. / COUNTRY versus TOWN. Twelve Coloured Plates, / Imperial quarto, price £ 1 : 5s. / INVOLUNTARY THOUGHTS, by HENRY ALKEN, / price 12s. / SYMPTOMS, by HENRY ALKEN; being a Series of / entertaining Plates under this Title, elegantly coloured, and / of which an unprecedented Sale of 30,000 bespeaks the / Public estimation of the unrivalled spirit and fertility of / design, evinced throughout this novel and elegant Work, / containing 42 Engravings, uniform in style and manner to / the 'ILLUSTRATIONS TO POPULAR SONGS.' Price / £ 4 : 10s. neatly half bound. / TUTOR'S ASSISTANT, containing a Variety of / Amusing Scenes, by HENRY ALKEN, price 12s. / A highly finished coloured representation of A MAIL / COACH, by HENRY ALKEN, price 7s. 6d. / HUNTING, or SIX HOUR'S [sic] SPORT, BY THREE / REAL GOOD ONES, from the East End, without seeing / a Hound; by HENRY ALKEN, price £ 1 : 1s.
[second column]: HUMOUROUS ILLUSTRATIONS TO POPULAR / SONGS, by HENRY ALKEN; containing 43 richly co- / loured Plates of Sporting and other Subjects, executed in / the happiest style of the Artist. On imperial quarto / drawing paper, price £ 4 : 10s. neatly half bound. / COMPARATIVE MELTONIANS, AS THEY ARE, / AND AS THEY WERE. 'All alike good,--but Time makes / strange alterations.' By BEN TALLY-HO. Price £ 2 : 2s. / SCRAPS FROM THE SKETCHBOOK OF / HENRY ALKEN, containing 42 Plates, engraved by / Himself, representing Figures, Horses, Dogs, Rural Sub- / jects, &c.; on fine quarto paper, price £ 1. 5s. in boards. / SHOOTING, or ONE DAY'S SPORT OF THREE / REAL GOOD ONES, however ignorant of Sporting / Rules, by HENRY ALKEN, price £ 1 : 1s. / ALKEN'S COCKNEY'S SHOOTING SEASON / in Suffolk. Six coloured Plates, with Poetical Descrip- / tions price £ 1 : 1s. / ---------- NATIONAL SPORTS of Great Britain. / Fifty coloured Plates, with Descriptions, folio, half bound, / price £ 10 : 10s. / ---------- MOMENTS OF FANCY AND WHIM, / being an entirely New Work of highly Humourous and / Original Sketches, in the Artist's best Style. Parts 1 & 2, / price £ 1 : 1s. each Part. / ----------HUMOUROUS SPECIMENS OF / RIDING. Nos. 1, 2, and 3, price 10s. 6d. each. / / MILITARY SKETCHES, containing Characteristic / Traits of Old Stagers, Big Wigs, Staff, Martinets, Hum- / bugs, Deep Files, Duty Officers, Skulks, Good Fellows, / Paymasters, Doctors, et multis allis: with nearly 100 / coloured Portaits of Original Characters, and numerous / Biographical Accounts to each. On quarto drawing paper, / Parts 1, 2, 3, price 9s. each Part.
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