National Sports of Great Britain by Alken, Henry featuring 50 illustrated colored plates and text offer a thorough survey of the sports practised in Great Britain in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Subjects covered include riding, fox, stag and otter hunting, beagling, racing, falconry, various types of dogs and horses, shooting grouse, partridge, pheasant, snipe, wild-fowl, bittern, pigeon, fishing for pike, and salmon, prize-fighting, cock-fighting, badger hunting, and perhaps most extraordinary of all: 'owling. From about 1816 onwards he produced paintings, drawings and engravings of every type of field and other sporting activity. 'He is best remembered for his hunting prints, many of which he engraved himself until the late 1830s. Book is in good condition throughout. Please refer to pictures as reference.