ALKEN'S ILLUSTRATIONS. 



The popular appreciation which encouraged the 

 publisher's first venture, emboldened Ackermann to 

 follow up this little volume by a more ambitious 

 work, issued two years later. This second edition 

 appeared in 1837 ; the text was printed in bolder 

 type, making a more imposing-looking volume as to 

 bulk, with an engraved pictorial title-page, and em- 

 bellished with eighteen coloured illustrations. These 

 plates are also, for the most part, after original 

 drawings by Henry Aiken, etched by that competent 

 hand, and carefully finished in aquatint by E. Duncan 

 after the originals. As has been mentioned, the first- 

 named artist produced in all twenty "Mytton" designs 

 which have come into the writer's possession. Of 

 these some few were executed after suggestions by 

 T. J. Rawlins, as stated on the plates in question, 

 though to all intents and purposes the drawings thus 

 designated are characteristic examples of Aiken's 

 special art. Beyond these there were included two 

 designs by T. J. Rawlins, "A Nick, or the nearest 

 way home, with back view of Halston House," and 

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

 These plates were etched by Aiken with the others, 

 and have thus acquired a share of artistic merit, but 

 the actual designs are commonplace, stiff and poor 



