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London : C. Tilt, 1838. A handsome antique print - an exterior view of the old church and the shops below at the corner of Lime Street. Engraved by John Henry le Keux (1812-1896) from an original study by the painter and architect Robert William Billings. Originally produced for George Godwin's serially published "The Churches of London" (London : 1837-1839).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 163 x 103mm (approx. 6-1/2" x 4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 189/058.

£25

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[London : John Tallis & Co., 1852]. A charming small antique print - the old Wren church at the corner of Fenchurch Street and Lime Street - with the premises of William Newman, the bookseller, at 160 Fenchurch Street, shown with some prominence in the foreground. 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 69 x 85mm (approx. 2-5/8" x 3-3/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 207/085B.

£20

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London : J. Booth, 1813. A handsome antique print - a lively view of Fenchurch Street, the corner of Lime Street, and the old Wren church of St. Dionis Backchurch, demolished in 1878. Engraved by William Wise (fl.1790-1818) from an original drawing (now in the British Museum) 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 274 x 182mm (approx. 10-3/4" x 7-1/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 129/036.

£75

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[London : Jones & Co., 1830]. A delightful antique print - an animated view of Fenchurch Street and the corner of Lime Street, with a coach and pair, fashionably dressed pedestrians, and a clutch of window-shoppers outside the premises of Thomas Ayres, Goldsmith and Jeweller, below the old Wren church of St. Dionis Backchurch, demolished in 1878. The pulpit, woodwork, font and plate from the church survive in the Victorian church of St.Dionis in Parsons Green. Engraved by James Baylis Allen (1803-1876) from an original drawing (now in the Museum of London) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. From Shepherd's part-work series "London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 114 x 146mm (approx. 4-1/2" x 5-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/048.

£30

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