ANTIQUE PRINTS OF CANDLEWICK WARD AT
ASH RARE BOOKS
43 HURON ROAD
LONDON SW17 8RE
UNITED KINGDOM

[London : R. Baldwin, 1768]. An attractive antique map of the wards of Langbourn and Candlewick in the heart of the City of London, taking in Lombard Street, Fenchurch Street, Cannon Street, Eastcheap, Gracechurch Street, the Monument, Exchange Alley, etc. The map is decorated with a neatly-worked title-piece and views of four of the local churches, All Hallows Lombard Street, All Hallows Staining (the image is in fact of St. Olave Hart Street), St. Clement Eastcheap and St. Mary Woolnoth. Originally produced for the “London Magazine” in December 1768. Other maps in this series were engraved by Thomas Bowen and this would also appear to be his work.
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 180 x 235mm (approx. 7-1/8” x 9-1/4”). Faint old vertical folds, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Hyde (Ward Maps) 43/1.

£100

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London : J. Booth, 1812. A handsome antique print – Clements Lane and the Wren church of St. Clement Eastcheap. Engraved by Joseph Skelton (1783-1871) from an original drawing (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 213 x 197mm (approx. 8-3/8” x 7-3/4”). A few tiny marks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 129/035.

£75

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London : J. Booth, 1812. A handsome antique print – the exterior of the Wren church demolished in 1831 to make way for the King William Street approach to the new London Bridge. Engraved by Joseph Skelton (1783-1871) from an original drawing (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 257 x 165mm (approx. 10-1/8” x 6-1/2”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 129/092.

£75

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[London : The Builder, 1852]. A handsome antique print – the tower of the old church in Martin Lane rebuilt as a campanile in the mid nineteenth century. Originally produced for “The Builder” in 1852.
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 265 x 167mm (approx. 10-3/8” x 6-5/8”). A few tiny specks and creases, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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[London : Leadenhall Press, 1891]. A pleasant vignetted Victorian print showing the statue of William IV and the adjacent buildings at the junction of King William Street, Cannon Street and Eastcheap, looking down toward London Bridge. From an original design by the painter and illustrator William Luker and engraved in Paris by Ch. Guillaume & Cie. for the Leadenhall Press publication “London City” (1891).
Hand touched and finished half-tone process block. Later hand colour. Image area 135 x 84mm (approx. 5-1/4” x 3-1/4”). Text on verso. In very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£20

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[London : Jones & Co., 1831]. A charming antique print – a pleasant view looking north up Martin Lane, with the old church of St. Martin Orgar – a church particularly associated with the French Huguenots in the latter part of its history. Engraved by James Baylis Allen (1803-1876) from an original pencil drawing (now in the Guildhall Library) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. Originally produced for Shepherd’s part-work series “London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century” (London : 1829-1832) – a work discreetly advertised on the wall of the church-yard.
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 112 x 73mm (approx. 4-3/8” x 2-7/8”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/108.

£20

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