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[London] : 1754 [but 1772]. An attractive antique map of the western fringe of the City of London, running from Barbican (now Beech Street) down to Newgate, via Aldersgate Street and St. Martin's le Grand, with Noble Street and Foster Lane to the east, and Little Britain to the west. The map is decorated with a rococo cartouche, the arms of the then alderman (William Benn), views of the churches of St. Anne & St. Agnes and St. Botolph Aldersgate, and a compass rose. Engraved by Benjamin Cole and originally produced for the part-work edition of William Maitland's "History of London" (London: 1753-1756) - with the present impression dated to 1772.
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 242 x 377mm (approx. 9-3/8" x 14-7/8"). Two short marginal nicks, just touching the engraved surface, but in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 38/010. Hyde (Ward Maps) 3.

£125

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[London : Leadenhall Press, 1891]. An attractive and unusual late Victorian print - a view looking south down a crowded Aldersgate towards St. Paul's, taken from a rooftop. From an original design by the painter and illustrator William Luker and engraved in Paris by Ch. Guillaume & Cie. for the Leadenhall Press publication "London City" (1891).
Hand touched and finished half-tone process block. Later hand colour. Image area 219 x 159mm (approx. 8-5/8" x 6-1/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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London : T. Hughes, 1806. A neatly-worked antique print - nineteenth-century Aldersgate Street - with Shaftesbury House (originally Thanet House, built in 1644 by Inigo Jones, and here in its final incarnation as the first London general dispensary). Engraved by J. Simpkins from an original design by the London draughtsman, engraver, printer and printseller, T. Prattent (fl.1790-1819), who had premises in Cloth Fair. Originally produced for B. Lambert, "The History and Survey of London and its Environs from the Earliest Period" (London : 1805-1806).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 97 x 146mm (approx. 3-3/4" x 5-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 96/029.

£25

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London : Jones & Co., 1831. A handsome antique print of nineteenth century Aldersgate Street - with Shaftesbury House (originally Thanet House, built in 1644 by Inigo Jones, and here in its final incarnation as the first London general dispensary), with the shops of John Smith & Son, tea-dealers, at number 36, C. Nunn & Co., linen-drapers at 35, and Spooner & White, cheesemongers at 36. Engraved by Major Samuel Barenger (fl.1807-1831) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth century London. From Shepherd's series "London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century" (London 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 103 x 145mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 5-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/116.

£25

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