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[Leiden : Pieter van der Aa, 1707]. An early eighteenth-century print of the Bedlam Hospital - on the site of the modern Finsbury Circus. Originally produced for Pieter van der Aa's publication "Les Délices de la Grand'Bretagne" (Leiden : 1707).
Etching and line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 130 x 156mm (approx. 5-1/8" x 6-1/8"). Old folds, paper toned with age, minor creasing to one corner, but a good sharp impression in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 20/020.

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[London : 1720]. A fine eighteenth-century map of the adjacent wards of Coleman Street and Bassishaw in the centre of the City of London. The map runs northwards from Lothbury and Old Jewry to London Wall and what were then the Lower Walks of Moorfields - now Finsbury Circus. The modern Moorgate Street was not then built, but the route it takes parallel to Coleman Street is covered and the Gate itself is shown. Originally produced by Richard Blome in the late seventeenth century, the map remained unpublished until the present version appeared with the 1720 edition of John Stow's "Survey of London".
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 355 x 291mm (approx. 14" x 11-3/8"). Old fold, faint press crease, but in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 25/036. Hyde (Ward Maps) 57/2.

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[London : R. Baldwin], 1772. An attractive eighteenth-century map of the adjacent wards of Coleman Street and Bassishaw in the centre of the City of London. The map runs northwards from Lothbury and Old Jewry to London Wall and what were then the Lower Walks of Moorfields - now Finsbury Circus. The modern Moorgate Street was not then built, but the route it takes parallel to Coleman Street is covered and the Gate itself is shown. The map (here in its later state, with the compass rose correctly orientated, etc.) is decorated with views of the churches of St. Michael Bassishaw and St. Stephen Coleman Street. Originally produced for the "London Magazine" in 1767, the present (slightly revised) version of the map was utilised in John Noorthouck's part-work "A New History of London including Westminster and Southwark" (London : 1772-1773). Other maps in this series were engraved by Thomas Bowen and this would also appear to be his work.
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 229 x 169mm (approx. 9" x 6-5/8"). A few faint marks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 51/007. Hyde (Ward Maps) 59/2.

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London : John Bowles, [1810]. A handsome antique print of the eighteenth-century Bedlam Hospital at Moorfields, which used to stand on what is now Finsbury Circus in the City of London. Fashionably dressed visitors cross the gardens in front of the elegant asylum. Originally published by Bowles in the eighteenth century, but here in a later impression on wove paper datable to the early years of the nineteenth century.
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 196 x 240mm (approx. 7-3/4" x 9-3/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 105/034.

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[London : 1756]. An attractive eighteenth century engraving of the Wren church between Old Jewry and Ironmonger Lane, the tower of which still survives. 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 243 x 190mm (approx. 9-1/2" x 7-1/2"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 38/061.

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London : 1823. An interesting antique print - the houses off Coleman Street where the poet Bloomfield lodged in a garret for a time - washing hangs on the line - two boys play at marbles in the foreground. Originally produced for the December 1823 issue of "The Gentleman's Magazine".
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 164 x 109mm (approx. 6-1/2" x 4-3/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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[London : John Tallis & Co., 1852]. A charming small antique print - the old Albion Chapel at the north-east corner of Moorgate and London Wall. An engraving from the workshop of A. H. Payne, originally produced for Payne's "Illustrated London, or a Series of Views in the British Metropolis and its Vicinity" (London : 1846-1847) - and here in a slightly later impression.
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 68 x 88mm (approx. 2-3/4" x 3-3/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 207/094B.

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[London : E. T. Brain & Co., 1847]. A charming miniature antique print offering a view of Victorian Gresham Street. Originally produced for Payne's "Illustrated London, or a Series of Views" (London : 1847).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 70 x 88mm (approx. 2-3/4" x 3-1/2"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 207/023.

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[London : John Tallis & Co., 1852]. An elegant small antique print of the north side of Finsbury Circus and the old London Institution, founded in 1806 for "the advancement of literature and the diffusion of useful knowledge" but demolished in 1936. An engraving from the workshop of A.H.Payne, originally produced for Payne's "Illustrated London, or a Series of Views in the British Metropolis and its Vicinity" (London : 1846-1847), and here in a slightly later impression.
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 67 x 85mm (approx. 2-5/8" x 3-3/8"). A few very faint marks, but in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 207/094A.

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. An attractive antique print of the old Bedlam Hospital at Moorfields, with the walks and gardens of what is now Finsbury Circus in the City of London. Engraved from a study by William Henry Prior. Originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 139 x 218mm (approx. 5-1/2" x 8-5/8"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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London : Jones & Co., 1828. A pleasing antique print of the old Albion Chapel at the north-east corner of Moorgate and London Wall. Engraved by Thomas Barber (fl.1818-1846) from an original drawing (now in the Guildhall Library) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of 19th century London. Originally produced for Shepherd's series "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 99 x 149mm (approx. 4" x 5-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/121.

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London : Jones & Co., 1827. A pleasant antique print showing the corner of Finsbury Circus and the chapel that formerly stood on the south side of East Street. Engraved by Thomas Barber (fl.1818-1840) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. Originally produced for Shepherd's series "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1827-1830).
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 100 x 148mm (approx. 4" x 5-3/4"). A handful of tiny marks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/047.

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London : Jones & Co., 1827. A charming antique print of the north side of Finsbury Circus and the old London Institution, founded in 1806 for "the advancement of literature and the diffusion of useful knowledge", but demolished in 1936. Engraved by William Deeble (1794?-1861) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. Originally produced for Shepherd's part-work series "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 102 x 150mm (approx. 4" x 5-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/034.

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[London : Jones & Co., 1829]. A handsome antique print of the nineteenth-century Moorfields Eye Hospital - then under its earlier name and at the corner of Blomfield Street and Eldon Street. Engraved by Robert Acon (1792-1880) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. 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 100 x 146mm (approx. 4" x 5-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/136.

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[London : 1860]. A handsome antique print of the old Gresham College on Gresham Street, built by George Smith in 1842-1843. Engraved by James Tingle (1801-1858) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. Originally produced for Thomas Dugdale's part-work survey published as "The Curiosities of Great Britain" or "England Delineated" in various formats between 1838 and 1860.
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 120 x 110mm (approx. 4-3/4" x 4-3/8"). Very minor marking to right blank margin, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 186/066.

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London : Jones & Co., 1828. A pleasant antique print - an exterior view of the chapel that used to stand on the south side of South Place, Eldon Street, off Moorgate. Engraved by Frederick James Havell (1801-1840) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. Originally produced for Shepherd's series "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 97 x 149mm (approx. 3-7/8" x 5-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/115.

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[London : 1842]. An attractive antique print of the interior of the old Roman Catholic church of St. Mary Moorfields, built by John Newman in 1820. Behind the altar can be seen Agostino Aglio's panorama of the crucifixion - a giant design the church was built to display to its best advantage. The church, which formerly stood on the corner of Blomfield Street and East Street, close by Finsbury Circus, was replaced in 1902 by the church in Eldon Street of the same name. The present church retains Newman's cluster of corinthian columns around the altar clearly seen in this print, which depicts the celebration of the Christmas High Mass. Engraved by Henry Melville (fl.1826-1844) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd and originally produced for the part-work "London Interiors : A Grand National Exhibition" (London : 1841-1844).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 157 x 177mm (approx. 6-1/8" x 7"). A couple of tiny marks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 195/015. Hyde (Panoramania) 59.

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London : Jones & Co., 1827. A pleasant antique print of the old Roman Catholic church of St Mary Moorfields, built by John Newman in 1820. The church, which formerly stood on the corner of Blomfield Street and East Street, close by Finsbury Circus, was replaced in 1902 by the church in Eldon Street of the same name. Engraved by Thomas Barber (fl.1818-1840) from an original drawing by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. Originally produced for Shepherd's series "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1827-1830).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 104 x 150mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 5-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/046.

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London : Jones & Co., 1830. A charming antique print - a view of the Wren church between Old Jewry and Ironmonger Lane, the tower of which still survives. Engraved by William Watkins (fl.1828-1848) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. 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 112 x 151mm (approx. 4-3/8" x 5-7/8"). A couple of tiny marks to outer blank margins, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/064.

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