ALKEN'S ILLUSTRATIONS. 



The remaining " additional plates " which made 

 their first appearance in the 1S37 edition are as 

 follows : — 



" I wonder whether he's a good timber jumper ! " 



A hell of a row in a Hell ! Mytton shows fight. 



Mytton swims the Severn at Uppington Ferry. " He that calls 



himself a sportsman, let him follow me." 

 How to cross a country comfortably after dinner. 

 " A Squire trap, by Jove ! A little more and I should have 



done it !" 

 " Now for the honour of Shropshire ! " The Shavington Day ; 



a trial of rival packs, and consequently of rival horsemen. 



There are, moreover, the two designs by Rawlins, 

 already particularised : — 



A Nick, or the nearest way home. (With back view of Halston 



House.) 

 Heron shooting — " A cooler after a big drink ! " 



Making up the sum of eighteen plates (1837 

 edition). 



So much concerning the rare and costly first and 

 second editions of 1835 "^^^ '^^2>7- ^ ^^ asked to 

 set down the history of the original drawings, now 

 for the first time reproduced in facsimile, of the 

 actual aquarel/es. 



Speaking of my own early impressions, these 

 Aiken pictures struck my boyhood's fancy as truly 

 wonderful designs, and in their nature sprighdy be- 

 yond belief. It was in the "late Fifties" that, as a 



