ANTIQUE PRINTS OF ALL HALLOWS BREAD STREET AT
ASH RARE BOOKS
43 HURON ROAD
LONDON SW17 8RE
UNITED KINGDOM

London : J. Booth, 1814. A handsome antique print - the exterior of the Wren church of Allhallows Bread Street, demolished in 1876. It once stood at the south-east corner of Bread Street and Watling Street. Engraved by Joseph Skelton (1785-1850) from an original study (now in the British Museum) by John Coney. Originally produced for the part-work series "Architectura Ecclesiastica Londini; being a Series of Views" (London : 1810-1823) - "the first artistically competent and exhaustive illustration of the golden age of London church building" (Adams). Below the image are several lines of explanatory text.
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 275 x 166mm (approx. 10-3/4" x 6-1/2"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 129/006.

£75

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[London : Jones & Co., 1830]. A charming antique print of the Wren church that once stood at the south-east corner of Bread Street and Watling Street (the site of Watling House). Engraved by Robert Acon (1792-1880) from a pencil drawing (now in the GLC collection) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. From Shepherd's series "London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 111 x 67mm (approx. 4-3/8" x 2-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/084.

£20

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