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    • Author/Creator:Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851.
    • Title:The beauties and defects in the figure of the horse, comparatively delineated by H. Alken in a series of coloured plates.
    • Published/Created:London, S. and J. Fuller [1816]
    • Physical Description:1 p. ℓ., 2, [18] p. 18 col. pl. 27 cm.
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: Sporting 33
      • Status:No information available 
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
       
    • Local Notes:BEIN 2014 +18: Autograph of F. Colvile.
      BAC: British Art Center copy: Original printed greyish-brown boards; printed in black on the front and back covers (pictorial printing on both covers is the same that is printed on the title-page). Spine height: 10 1/2 inches. In brown cloth slip-case; dark brown leather label with gold lettering on spine. Title-page, uncolored etching on title-page, 18 plates of hand-colored softground etchings. Printed on plate paper by the intaglio technique. Spine height: 11 3/4 inches.
    • Notes:Engr. t.-p.
    • Format:Book
    • Subjects:Horses.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Colvile, F.--Autograph.