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[London : Cassell & Co., 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 : 1878 (or later)]. An interesting antique print - the historic house long in use as a mental asylum. Engraved from a study by William Henry Prior and originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 95 x 145mm (approx. 3-3/4" x 5-3/4"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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London : J. Booth, 1818. A handsome antique print - a view from the churchyard of the old eighteenth-century parish church, designed by George Dance. Engraved by William Angus (1752-1821) from an original study (now in the Guildhall Library) by George Sidney Shepherd. 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 203 x 229mm (approx. 8" x 9"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 129/088.

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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 (1791-1861) 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. 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.

£25

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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.

£25

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