ANTIQUE PRINTS OF DOCKLANDS AT
ASH RARE BOOKS
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UNITED KINGDOM

[London] : 1755. A most attractive early eighteenth century map of Stepney parish and the East End hamlets of Bethnal Green, Bow, Bromley, Limehouse, Mile End, Poplar, Ratcliffe, Spitalfields, Wapping and the Isle of Dogs. A keyed table gives the names of over 100 streets, courts, walks and alleys. Altough seemingly rather earlier both in style and content, the map was first published with the 1754-1756 edition of John Stow's "Survey of London".
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 354 x 284mm (approx. 14" x 11-1/4"). Faint old folds, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 37/080.

£400

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[London : 1850]. A charming small antique print, showing the shipping and warehouses at what is now Canary Wharf. Taken from a study by Thomas Jarvis (fl.1841-1850) and originally produced for the part-work publication "The Land We Live In" (London 1847-1851).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 59 x 109mm (approx. 2-3/8" x 4-1/4"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state.

£25

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London : Vernor, Hood & Sharpe; and W. Cooke, 1811. A most attractive antique print - a delicate etching of the shipping and warehouses at what is now Canary Wharf - with a highly geared landing gantry in the foreground. Etched by William Bernard Cooke (1778-1855) from an original study by Samuel Owen and originally produced for Owen's first series of Thames views - "The Thames" (London 1809-1811).
Etching and line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 130 x 193mm (approx. 5-1/8" x 7-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 106/067.

£50

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London : Richard Phillips, 1804. An unusual antique print - a view from behind the Ranger's House and Greenwich Hospital across the Thames and the Isle of Dogs to the recently-completed warehouses of the West India Docks. A man-of-war sails up-river, and the church of St. Anne at Limehouse can be seen to the left. Engraved by Thomas Reeve (fl.1794-1809) from an original study by Edward Pugh, and originally produced for Phillips' part-work "Modern London : Being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis" (London : 1804).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 142 x 185mm (approx. 5-5/8" x 7-1/4"). A few faint marks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 89/003.

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[London : Jones & Co., 1831]. A charming antique print - ships, warehouses, lighters and small craft - and what is now the North Section of the Docks (between West India Quay and Canary Wharf). 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 part-work series "London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 109 x 154mm (approx. 4-1/4" x 6-1/8"). A couple of tiny marks to lower margin, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/149.

£40

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[London : W.S.Orr, 1837 (but later)]. A fine antique print of what is now the North Section of the Docks (between West India Quay and Canary Wharf). Tall-masted ships, smaller craft and the warehouses beyond. Engraved by John Woods (fl.1835-1855) from a composite study by Francis William Topham and Robert Garland (d.1863). Originally produced for Wood's "History of London : Illustrated by Views", published in parts 1837-1838 and subsequently reissued in various guises between 1838 and 1862.
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 119 x 152mm (approx. 4-5/8" x 6"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print Adams 188/003.

£40

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[London : Cassell & Co., 1883]. A most attractive antique print - the docks (now known as Canary Wharf) in their hey-day, the water crowded with ships and lighters. Based on a study by the marine painter Joseph Robert Wells (fl.1872-1893) and originally produced for the part-work "Greater London : A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places" published between 1882 and 1884.
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 144 x 210mm (approx. 5-5/8" x 8-1/4"). Paper just faintly tanned, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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