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London : C. Tilt, 1838. An attractive antique print - the interior of the Wren church where Shelley married Mary Wollstonecraft in 1816. Engraved by John le Keux (1783-1846) from an original study by the architectural painter and draughtsman Frederick Mackenzie. Originally produced for George Godwin's serially published "The Churches of London" (London : 1837-1839).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 166 x 103mm (approx. 6-1/2" x 4-1/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 189/078.

£25

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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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London : Jones & Co., 1830. A charming antique print of Distaff Lane and the elegant eighteenth-century Hall destroyed in 1941. Engraved by John Greig (fl.1800-1843) from a pencil drawing (now in the Guildhall Library) 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 108 x 150mm (approx. 4-1/4" x 6"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/077.

£30

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[London : Jones & Co., 1831]. A pleasant antique print of the Wren church where Shelley married Mary Wollstonecraft in 1816. The church, destroyed by bombing during the Second World War, stood at the lower end of Bread Street - between Cannon Street and Queen Victoria Street. Engraved by Thomas Higham (1796-1844) from a pencil drawing (now in the GLC collection) 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. Engraved surface 117 x 72mm (approx. 4-5/8" x 2-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/119.

£20

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London : N. Smith, 1795. An unusual antique print of the Norman crypt of Gerard's or Gisor's Hall in Basing Lane - by this period simply the cellar of a hostelry, but originally the vaulted warehouse of a Norman merchant's house, associated with Sir John Gisors, Lord Mayor of London in 1245. Below the print are several lines of explanatory text. Engraved by John Thomas "Antiquity" Smith, draughtsman, etcher, author, scholar and later Keeper of Prints at the British Museum, and published by his father, Nathaniel Smith the "antient printseller", as part of their "Antiquities of London and Environs" series (1791-1800).
Etching and engraving on paper. Engraved surface 214 x 162mm (approx. 8-3/8" x 6-3/8"). A few faint marks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 70/073.

£40

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