ALKEN, Henry Thomas. Rudiments for Drawing the Horse. Engraved by J.C. Zeiter, from Designs by H. Alken, and J.C. Zeitter. oblong folio. (280mm x 380mm). R. Ackermann, 191, Regent Street, at the Eclipse Sporting Gallery and New Sporting Magazine Office. 1837. Three parts., 12 engraved plates. With ‘A Catalogue of Sporting and other Prints, published by Rudolph Ackermann’, on the inside front and rear wrappers, and adverts for colours, drawing papers,&c on the outside rear wrappers. Some edge chipping in places, old water-stain to the lower borders in Part 1, and some occasional minor marks. The front wrapper of Part 1 has at some stage torn in half, but is intact with just slight loss to the blank edges. Neat repairs to the tear on the reverse with archival opaque tape. Each part (designated no. 1-3 and priced "3 s." in ms.) in the original buff paper covers. Each print has imprint: London, Pubd. Jany. 1st 1837 by R. Ackermann at his Eclipse Sporting Gallery./ At foot of print no. 1-6: Etched by J.C. Zeitter, from a sketch by his father [i.e. father-in-law, H. Alken]; no. 7-12: Drawn & etched by J.C. Zeitter or Drawn & engraved by J.C. Zeitter. John Christian Zeitter, worked with Henry Thomas Alken in Ipswich, and in 1831 married his daughter Lydia Anne Alken. Very scarce, and the first copy we have offered for sale. FirstSearch records just 4 copies, V & A; New York Public Library, National Gallery of Art; State Library of Victoria. There is also a hand-coloured copy in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.