ANTIQUE PRINTS OF BOND STREET AT
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[London : Richard Phillips, 1804]. A most attractive and unusual antique print - an itinerant seller of gaily-coloured band-boxes, manufactured by himself and his family, the cheaper ones made from paste-board, the more expensive from deal and furnished with locks and keys. Behind him is the well-known children's bookshop of Benjamin Tabart at 157 New Bond Street (on the corner of Grafton Street). Engraved from an original study by William Marshall Craig (fl.1788-1828), water-colour painter to Queen Charlotte. Originally produced for Phillips' part-work "Modern London : Being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis" (London : 1804), but here in a slightly later impression with the outer ruled border, imprint and credit burnished out.
Etching, line and stipple engraving on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface (including double-rule outer border) 119 x 82mm (approx. 4-3/4" x 3-1/4"). A couple of tiny spots to outer blank margins, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 89/025.

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London : H. Humphrey, 1796 [but later]. At the corner of Bond Street and Little Maddox Street, John Montagu, Fifth Earl of Sandwich (1744-1814) presses a favour on a knowing looking itinerant carrot-seller, whose attire perhaps belies her occupation. The scene is set in front of the shop at 42 New Bond Street of the bookseller, Robert Faulder (1747-1815). The books and pamphlets in the window provide a not so oblique commentary on the Earl's lifestyle - "Rules of the Order of St. Francis" (i.e. the Hellfire Club), "Life of Servant Maids", "Doe Hunting : An Ode by an Old Buck Hound", "The Beauties of Bond Street", etc. Originally published in 1796, but here in the later state published in "The Works of James Gillray, from the Original Plates" (London : Henry G. Bohn, 1849-1851).
Etching on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface 352 x 254mm (approx. 13-7/8" x 10"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£125

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. An antique print of nineteenth-century Bond Street - looking south from the corner of Clifford Street, with the old Long's Hotel (which used to stand on that corner) prominent. Engraved by Joseph Swain (1820-1909) from an original 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 105 x 144mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 5-3/4"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. A handsome antique print of the Royal Instution on Albemarle Street. Engraved from an original study by Frank Watkins (fl.1859-1894) and originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 105 x 145mm (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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