ANTIQUE PRINTS OF HIGH HOLBORN AT
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[London : Richard Phillips, 1804]. An attractive and unusual antique print - the sand-man and his barrow outside the church of St. Giles in the Fields. The sand was sold for cleaning kitchen utensils and strewing on the floor to protect the floorboards - "a carpet of small expense and easy to be renewed". White sand cost five farthings a peck, but red sand was twice as much. 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) 116 x 80mm (approx. 4-5/8" x 3-1/8"). Outer blank margins rather spotted, but the image in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 89/049 - not listing this variant.

£40

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[London : 1837]. An antique print - the galleried yard of the celebrated old coaching inn - coaches unload, packages for York await loading. The inn was located between High Holborn and Eagle Street. One of a series of London views that appeared in the popular old "Penny Magazine" in 1837 under the general title "A Looking Glass for London".
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 112 x 146mm (approx. 4-3/8" x 5-3/4"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. A pleasant antique print of the detached group of buildings that used to stand on Holborn at the foot of the Gray's Inn Road - the highway bustling with traffic and an archway on the left leading into Staple's Inn. Engraved by Joseph Swain (1820-1909) from an original sketch 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 143 x 208mm (approx. 5-5/8" x 8-1/8"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : Jones & Co., 1831]. An attractive antique print - a view looking westward down Broad Street (the former name for the western end of High Holborn as it approaches High Street St. Giles), with the spire of St. Giles in the Fields in the background - an animated street scene with carriages, groups of pedestrians and some itinerant street-vendors. Engraved by William Woolnoth (fl.1805-1850) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. 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 104 x 151mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 6"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/117.

£30

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London : Jones & Co., 1830. A charming antique print - Middle Row (the detached group of buildings that used to stand on Holborn) as seen from the west - the highway thronging with traffic - the foot of Gray's Inn Road to the left. Engraved by Thomas Barber (fl.1818-1840) from a study (now in the Guildhall Library) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of 19th century London, and originally produced for Shepherd's series "London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century" (London 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 103 x 150mm (approx. 4-1/4" x 6"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/066.

£25

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[London : Jones & Co., 1832]. A pleasant small antique print - the old church of Holy Trinity, designed by Francis Bedford and built in 1829-1831. The modern Holy Trinity Kingsway stands on the same site. Drawn and engraved by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. Originally produced for Shepherd's partwork series "London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 116 x 70mm (approx. 4-5/8" x 2-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/188.

£20

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London : Jones & Co., 1830. A charming antique print of the old inn of chancery tucked away behind the Tudor shops on Holborn, engraved by H.W.Bond (fl.1827-1851) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of 19th century London. 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 106 x 151mm (approx. 4-1/4" x 6"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/094.

£25

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[London : J. Johnston, 1820]. An attractive and unusual antique print, the naive and pedantic fictional character, Doctor Syntax, encounters ruffians and pickpockets near St. Giles in the Fields. Attributed to various artists, of whom the most likely is perhaps Charles Williams (fl.1797-1830). Originally produced for the partwork "The Tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis" (1820).
Aquatint on paper, with original hand colour. Engraved surface 121 x 190mm (approx. 4-3/4" x 7-1/2"). Some very faint discolouration to outer blank margins, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£40

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