HENRY ALKEN. By Walter Shaw Sparrow. With eighty plates in colour and sixty-four subjects in half-tone. Being the first volume of the series The Sport of Our Fathers. With an introduction by Sir Theodore Cook, Editor of The Field.

1927 1st edition. 4to (232 x 292mm). Ppxxiv,55. Colour and b/w plates of paintings and illustrations by Henry Alken. Red cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt. 21s. 0d.

"This book contains the largest and most varied collection of reproductions from Henry Alken's original drawings and paintings which has ever been published, together with several of the best examples of contemporary engravings from the same artist. It forms part of a series in which the works of Ben Marshall, Stubbs, Ferneley, Wootton, Herring, and others will gradually be published in the same form, and all the best collections in England will be represented". Chapters include: Henry Alken himself; Henry Alken himself (continued); Henry Alken and composition; H.A. on jumping and pace; H.A. on jumping and pace (continued); The Alkens and their birthplace.