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London : J. Booth, 1814. A handsome antique print - St. George Hanover Square as it stood in the early nineteenth century. Engraved by Joseph Skelton (1781?-1850) from an original drawing 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 201 x 211mm (approx. 8" x 8-1/4"). A few faint marks to outer blank margins, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 129/046.

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[London : Richard Phillips, 1804]. An attractive and unusual antique print - a street-vendor cries his water-cress at a penny a bunch in Hanover Square. The large house behind him is the town-house of Lord Harewood. Engraved from an original study by William Marshall Craig (fl.1788-1828), water-colour painter to Queen Charlotte. Originally produced for Phillips' part-work "Modern London : Being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis" (London : 1804), but here in a slightly later impression with the outer ruled border, imprint and credit burnished out.
Etching, line and stipple engraving on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface (including double-rule outer border) 118 x 81mm (approx. 4-3/4" x 3-1/4"). Tiny mark in sky, blank margins rather spotted, but the image otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 89/054 - not listing this variant.

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. An attractive antique print - an animated street scene, with the eighteenth-century church of St. George, Hanover Square, on the right. Based on an earlier source and originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 144 x 106mm (approx. 5-5/8" x 4-1/8"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. An attractive antique print - old Harewood House just north of Hanover Square, with the square and the church of St. George beyond. Engraved from a study by William Henry Prior and originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 106 x 144mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 5-5/8"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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London : Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, 1810. A pleasant antique print - the exterior from the north-west - a donkey laden with panniers in the foreground. Engraved by John le Keux (1783-1846) from an original study by Frederick Mackenzie. Originally produced for the part-work "Beauties of England and Wales" (1801-1816).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 162 x 103mm (approx. 6-5/8" x 4-1/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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[London : Henry Overton, ca.1740]. A scarce and attractive antique print - Hanover Square from the south - the heights and hills of north London away to the north. Originally published as part of Overton's undated series of "Prospects of the most remarkable places in and about the Citty of London".
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 162 x 241mm (approx. 6-3/8" x 9-1/2"). Trimmed a little tight at sides; very faint vertical fold; a few very minor marks, but overall in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 26/033.

£100

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. An attractive antique print of Hanover Square as originally laid out in the early eighteenth century - with passing footmen, a sedan chair, etc. Engraved from a study by William Henry Prior and originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 144 x 209mm (approx. 5-5/8" x 8-1/4"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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[London : for the Proprietor, by J. Mead, 1842]. An attractive antique print - a fashionable marriage takes place in the elegant interior of the church. Engraved by Henry Melville (fl.1826-1844) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. Originally produced for the part-work "London Interiors : A Grand National Exhibition" (London : 1841-1844).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 193 x 126 mm (approx. 7-5/8" x 5"). A few faint marks to blank margins, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 195/012.

£40

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[London : 1831]. A very pleasant antique print - the church on St. George Street built by John James in 1721-1724 and its famous portico - the earliest on any London church. Engraved by William Deeble (1791-1861) from an original study 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. Engraved surface 112 x 80mm (approx. 4-1/2" x 3-1/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/156.

£25

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