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[London : 1720]. A fine 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 and a cluster of City churches. Originally produced by Richard Blome in the late seventeenth century, the map remained unpublished until the present version appeared with the 1720 edition of John Stow's "Survey of London".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. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 294 x 361mm (approx. 11-5/8" x 14-1/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 25/027. Hyde (Ward Maps) 85/1 - and plate 19.

£250

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London : John Bowles, [1810]. A handsome antique print - a fine view from the east of old Fenchurch Street, with its shop signs - a coach and a wagon laden with barrels make their way through the traffic - old Ironmongers' Hall prominent on the right. Originally published by John Bowles in the mid eighteenth century, but here in a later impression on wove paper datable to the early years of the nineteenth.
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 196 x 241mm (approx. 7-3/4" x 9-1/2"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 105/016.

£100

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[London : 1757]. A striking antique print - a handsome view of the eighteenth-century hall that used to stand on the north side of Fenchurch Street (the site of the Generali building) just to the west of Billiter Street. The hall itself was demolished in the 1920s. Originally produced for the part-work edition of John Stow's "A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster" (London : 1754-1757).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 186 x 196mm (approx. 7-3/8" x 7-3/4"). Some very faint surface dust, but in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£40

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[London : Leadenhall Press, 1891]. A vignetted view of the bustling Victorian exterior of the Station from London Street. 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 165 x 112mm (approx. 6-1/2" x 4-3/8"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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[London : John Tallis & Co., 1852]. A pleasant small antique print - old Ironmongers' Hall on Fenchurch Street. 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 dating from 1852.
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 65 x 85mm (approx. 2-5/8" x 3-3/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 207/101A.

£20

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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., 1831]. An attractive antique print - a handsome view of Fenchurch Street and the eighteenth-century hall that used to stand on the north side (the site of the Generali building) just to the west of Billiter Street. The premises of Thomas Hales, brass and copper wire drawer, at no. 117 are clearly shown to the right of the hall, and the wine vaults of William Eaton (The Elephant) at no.119 to the left. The hall itself was demolished in the 1920s. Engraved by James Charles Armytage (1802-1897) from an original drawing (now in the Museum of London) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. 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 119 x 159mm (approx. 4-3/4" x 6-1/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/153.

£30

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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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