Original publisher's wrapper for "Sporting Discoveries; or The Miseries of Shooting." (Primary Title)
Henry Thomas Alken, English, 1785–1851 (Artist)
Printed on front of front cover: SPORTING DISCOVERIES; / OR, / The Miseries of Shooting. / IN A SERIES OF SEVEN PLATES: / Being Hints to Young Sportsmen. / By BEN TALLY-HO, / Author of "QUALIFIED HORSES AND UNQUALIFIED RIDERS;"--" SPORTING DISCOVERIES, OR, THE MISERIES OF HUNTING;" / &c. &c. &c. / LONDON : / Published by S. and J. FULLER, at the Temple of Fancy, 34, Rathbone Place ; / And may be had of all Booksellers in the United Kingdom. / [lower left] Tyler, Printer; [center] 1820.; [lower right] Rathbone Place. Printed on inside of front cover: The following Sporting and other Works are publishing by S. & J. FULLER, Rathbone Place./ [left column]: SPORTING SKETCHES ; / Consisting of Subjects relating to the Sports of the Field; as Horses, Dogs, / Live and Dead Game, Wild Fowl, Fox Hunting, Shooting, Coursing, / Fishing, &c. &c. ; the whole illustrative of Landscape Scenery. In eight / Numbers, 7s. 6d. each, containing six plates, or complete in boards £3. / By HENRY ALKEN. / SKETCHES OF CATTLE ; / Consisting of Oxen, Bulls, Cows, Calves, Sheep, Rams, Lambs, Deer, / Fawns, Kids, Goats, Swine, Pigs, Horses, Mules, Asses, Farm Dogs, / Ducks, Geese, &c. &c.--The whole illustrative of Landscape Scenery.-- / By HENRY ALKEN.--This Work is comprised in six Numbers, six plates to a Number, price 7s. 6d. each. / BEAUTIES AND DEFECTS IN THE FIGURE OF THE HORSE ; / Comparatively delineated, in a Series of 18 coloured Engravings ; from / the pencil of Mr. HENRY ALKEN ; with References, and useful Instruct- / ions to young Purchasers, or to those who wish to pursue the Study of that / noble and useful Animal. / HOW TO QUALIFY FOR A MELTONIAN ; / Addressed to all Would-be Meltonians. / By BEN TALLY-HO. Second Edition. Price 21s. coloured. / QUALIFIED HORSES WITH UNQUALIFIED RIDERS ; / Or, the Reverse of Sporting Phrases : / From a Work intitled "Indispensable Accomplishments ;" in a Series of / coloured Plates, showing the figure which good and well-trained Hunters / are likely to make in the field, by being mounted by unqualified Riders.-- / By BEN TALLY-HO. 21s. imperial quarto. / SPORTING DISCOVERIES ; / Or, the Miseries of Driving. / In a series of seven coloured Engravings, being Hints to young and in- / experienced Drivers.--By BEN TALLY-HO. Price 21s. imperial quarto. / MILITARY DISCOVERIES ; / Or, the Miseries of Campaigning. / In a series of seven coloured Plates, being Hintsto young Officers.--By / BEN TALLY-HO. Price 21s. imperial quarto." // [column 2] "SPECIMENS OF HORSEMANSHIP, / Comparatively displayed. Views in which the different classes of Riders / and their Pursuits are portrayed. In a series of coloured plates. Price / 7s.6d. each. / SPECIMENS OF SHOOTING. / In a series of coloured Plates.--By R. B. FRANKLYN, Esq. Price 21s / INDISPENSABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS ; / or, Leicestershire Hunting. / In a series of coloured plates.--By R. B. FRANKLYN. Esq.21s. quarto. / EASTER MONDAY. / Two prints of STAG HUNTING. Size 18 inches by 14. Views near / Epping and Windsor ; Men of determined courage riding hard--up to / the Hounds ; and Gentlemen Sportsmen endeavouring to lead the Field. / --Price 15s. the pair, in colours. / GOING TO EPSOM RACES ; / A new and ingenious article of amusement, consisting of many hundreds / of moving figures ; and giving, at one view, the complete Character, / Costume, Equipage, Horsemanship, and principal Amusement of the / English People. Price 15s. coloured, or 10s. 6d. plain ; in cases. / EPSOM RACE COURSE. / Two Prints, 26 inches by 16, from pictures painted by HENRY ALKEN, / in 1818.--Plate I. represents the Course near the Winning-post ; Mr. / Thornhill's Chesnut Colt Sam, beating Lord Darlington's Grey, and Sir / John Shelley's Prince Paul ; with portraits of the other Horses. / Plate II. represents the Two-Mile Course, with Horses preparing to start. / Price 21s. each. / DERBY STAKES, 1820./ A PRINT of Mr. Thornhill Chesnut Colt Sailor, beating Mr. Udney's / Brown Colt Abjer, Lord G. H. Cavendish's Chesnut Colt by Middlethorp, / and the Duke of Grafton's Brown Colt Pindarrie, for the Derby Stakes, / May 18, 1820. Size of the Print Drawn and engraved by / H. ALKEN. Price 7s. 6d. in colours. / A START FOR THE DERBY, or, The Effects of a Windy Day.--A View on the Epsom Course, 1820. Price 5s. in Colours. Inscribed in graphite on inside of front cover, upper left: 12 / 10A.
Printed on inside of back cover: SPORTING DISCOVERIES ; / OR, / The Miseries of Hunting. / IN A SERIES OF SEVEN PLATES: / Being Hints to Young Fox-Hunters. / By BEN TALLY-HO, / Author of " QUALIFIED HORSES AND UNQUALIFIED RIDERS;"--" SPORTING DISCOVERIES, OR, THE MISERIES OF HUNTING ;" / &c. &c. &c. / LONDON : / Published by S. and J. FULLER, at the Temple of Fancy, 34, Rathbone Place ; / And may be had of all Booksellers in the United Kingdom. / [lower left]: Tyler, Printer; [center]: 1820.; [lower right] Rathbone Place.
Inscribed in graphite on inside of back cover, lower right: .aqoo.
Printed on verso of back cover: The following Works on Drawing, &c. are publishing by S. and J. FULLER./ [left column]: THE YOUNG ARTIST's COMPANION ; / OR, / Drawing-Book of Studies and Landscape Embellishments ; / Comprising a great variety of the most picturesque Objects required in the various / Compositions of Landscape Scenery ; / ARRANGED AS PROGRESSIVE LESSONS. / By DAVID COX, / Author of " A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours ; &c. &c. / This Work will be completed in Sixteen Monthly Numbers ; / Ten of them in imitation of Pencil and Chalk; and Three in Sepia, showing the / Effect of Light and Shade ; at 2s. 6d. each Number.--The Three last in Colours, / at 5s. per Number. / This new and interesting Work is particularly adapted for the purpose which it pro- / fesses, in promoting the progress of the youthful Student by a Series of Examples/ which are easily attainable, and calculated to establish a pure and correct Taste in / Landscape Composition. / Dedicated to the Marchioness of Stafford. / A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect, / IN WATER COLOURS ; / From the first Rudiments, to the finished Picture ; with Examples in Outline, Effect, / in Colouring. In a series of fifty-six Plates. By DAVID COX, Member of the So- / ciety of Oil and Water-Colour Painters, Spring Gardens.--This Work is printed on a / large wove royal paper, and is comprised in three separate Parts of Four Numbers each. / The First Part comprises Outline and Chalk Drawing.--The Second, displays and / treats upon Effect, in Indian Ink.--Colouring and Effect forms the subject of the / Third Part.--The two first Parts are published at 7s. 6d. each Number ; and the Co- / louring and Effect at 10s. 6d. ; or half bound 5l. 10s. / Progressive Lessons in Landscape, for Beginners. / By DAVID COX.--In six Monthly Numbers, 4s. each, each Number containing four / Plates ; or complete in boards 1l. 4s. / [right column]: A Series of large Chalk Engraved Heads ; / Delineating the various Passions, and the Anatomy of the Human Face. By H. / SINGLETON, Esq. and engraved in the Chalk manner by Mr. CHARLES KNIGHT.--This Work is printed in large super royal folio, in 6 Numbers, each containing four / Plates, price 7s. 6d. plain, and 15s. in colours ; or complete in boards, 2l. 5s. plain, / and 4l. 10s. coloured. / Rudiments of drawing the Human Figure : / Taken from Nature, and some of the finest specimens of the antique ; from Drawings / made by HENRY CORBOULD, Esq. and engraved in the Chalk Line by Mr. CHARLES / KNIGHT. This Work will be completed in four Numbers, 7s. 6d. each. / A Practical Essay on Flower Painting. / By EDWARD PRETTY, Drawing-Master of Rugby School. Exemplified in a series / of twenty-four Plates, containing Instructions in the Neutral Tint or Indian Ink.-- / Half-bound, gilt, and lettered, 2l. 12s. 6d. imperial 4 to, in colours. / Panorama View of the Bay of Naples, / 7 Feet 6 Inches long, in Colours, Price 15s. in Cases, and 10s. 6d. in Sheets. / THIS little Panorama Sketch of the BAY OF NAPLES is published with an idea that / it may not only be interesting to those who are unacquainted with this most delightful / View in Europe, but perhaps more so to travellers, to whom / [poem]-------"the scene recurs, / "And with it all its pleasures and its pains." COWPER. / Though many may not have had an opportunity of viewing the Bay from this position, / none can dwell without emotion on the recollection of these celebrated places in / any point of view. The young Scholar, after reference to his Map, will here find an / additional pleasure in tracing his classical authors in scenes they describe, and which / fired their imagination. / Five Feet long, price 21s. coloured, in cases. / Panorama of the Progress of Human Life, / Fashionably displayed, illustrating Shakespeare's "Ages," and exhibiting the Man- / ners, Costume, Character, and Field Sports of the English People ; the whole illustra- / tive of modern character, in a series of many hundred moving figures. By the Author / of "Going to Epsom Races. / [beneath both columns]: A large Assortment of White Wood Work for painting in imitation of Inlaid Ebony and Ivory, as Card Boxes, Work Boxes, Bellows, Tea-Caddies, &c. &c.--Tunbridge Ware Work of every description. / Pastebaord Work in the greatest variety, in all kinds of Shapes, as Card Racks, Hand Screens, Flower Ornaments, &c. &c. / [symbol of pointing hand] Drawings of Flowers, Fruits, Landscapes, Medallions, with every Description of Gold and Silver Ornaments, Borders, and every Article in the Fancy Line, in the greatest variety.
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