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[London : G. W. Bacon, ca.1885]. An attractive map of the East End of London, giving good detail on a scale of four inches to the mile. Centred on the Mile End Road, the area covered extends north to Cambridge Heath station, east to Bow Bridge and the West India Dock, south to show Limehouse and Shadwell, and west to include Whitechapel High Street, etc. Originally produced for Bacon's "New Atlas of London and Suburbs".
Lithograph on paper, with full original hand colour. Printed surface 206 x 282mm (approx. 8-1/8" x 11-1/8"). Very faint tanning to original fold, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

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[London : 1756]. An attractive antique print of the eighteenth century almshouses that now house the Geffrye Museum. Originally engraved by Benjamin Cole (fl.1723-1767) for the part-work edition of William Maitland's "History of London" (London: 1753-1756).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 129 x 239mm (approx. 5-1/8" x 9-3/8"). Trimmed to neatlines, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 38/095B.

£40

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[London : 1878]. A handsome antique print of the mock-gothic market in Bethnal Green designed by H. A. Darbishire and opened at the expense of Baroness Burdett-Coutts in 1869. The market was demolished in 1958 - Columbia Road and the flower market mark the site. Originally produced as an extra presentation plate for the part-work "Old and New London" (London : 1873-1878).
Line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 137 x 206mm (approx. 5-3/8" x 8-1/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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[London : John Cooke, 1777]. An attractive antique print of the eighteenth century almshouses that now house the Geffrye Museum - the view set within a beaded border. Originally engraved for the Cooke part-work publication, Henry Chamberlain, "A New and Compleat History and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster" (London 1770), but here in a slightly later impression utilised for Walter Harrison, "A New and Universal History, Description and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster" (London 1775-1777).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 122 x 175mm (approx. 4-7/8" x 7"). Trimmed a touch close at foot, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 57/072A.

£30

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London : Jones & Co., 1827. A handsome antique print of the church of St. Mary Haggerston built in an unusual neo-gothic design by John Nash in 1826-1827 - but destroyed in 1941. Engraved by William Deeble (1794?-1861) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. From Shepherd's series "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 157 x 91mm (approx.6-1/8" x 3-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/040.

£20

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. An attractive antique print of the extraordinary gothic market in Bethnal Green designed by H.A.Darbishire and opened at the expense of Baroness Burdett-Coutts in 1869. The market was demolished in 1958 - Columbia Road and the flower market mark the site. Engraved from a study by A.B.Temple (fl.1873-1878) and originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 104 x 144mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 5-5/8"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£20

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