Lot 113: HODGES, Walter Parry (1760-1845) and Henry ALKEN. [ The Beaufort Hunt ]. A Series of Eight Plates of Fox Hunting from the original drawings by W.P. Hodges... engraved by Henry Alken . London: Thomas McLean, 1 July 1833 [watermarked J. Whatman

HODGES, Walter Parry (1760-1845) and Henry ALKEN. [The Beaufort Hunt]. A Series of Eight Plates of Fox Hunting from the original drawings by W.P. Hodges... engraved by Henry Alken. London: Thomas McLean, 1 July 1833 [watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1823-1833]. Large 2° (666 x 494mm). Lithographic title printed on pink paper with large vignette of a fox, lithographic dedication leaf, 8 hand-coloured aquatints, each captioned 'Proof Impression', together with a ninth supplementary hand-coloured aquatint plate entitled 'Consequences'. (Dedication and plate 4 a trifle spotted, the last plate with a few very short marginal tears and the whole dry-mounted onto modern paper, occasional very light browning.) Modern red half morocco and red cloth, spine gilt.

FULL SET OF THIS GREAT SERIES. Published as a set of eight in 1833 with the ninth issued a year later, the Beaufort Hunt was a work of collaboration between Alken as a professional artist and Hodges as a Dorset amateur. It was eulogized on publication, and has always been regarded as one of the period's finest series of fox-hunting prints. Melon/Snelgrove Hodges 1; Schwerdt I, p. 244 & IV, p. 136; Siltzer p. 158; Tooley 265: 'extremely rare'; Wilder p. 129, plate 52.