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[London : for T. Osborne & J. Shipton ..., 1756]. An attractive antique print of the old almshouses at Mile End - the attached school moved to Woodford Green in 1886. Originally engraved by Benjamin Cole (fl.1723-1767) for the part-work edition of William Maitland's "History of London" (London : 1753-1756).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 172 x 235mm (approx. 6-3/4" x 9-1/4"). Trimmed to neatlines, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 38/076B.

£30

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[London : for J. Wilkie & others, 1772]. An eighteenth-century print of the facade of the recently built (in fact not yet finished) Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. Engraved by Benjamin Cole (fl.1723-1767) and originally produced for the part-work edition of William Maitland's "History of London" (London : 1753-1756) - and here in a slightly later impression dating from 1772.
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 95 x 231mm (approx. 3-3/4" x 9-1/8"). Cropped into neatlines, one tiny hole, but in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 38/083B.

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[London : John Cooke, 1777]. An attractive antique print - a view of the almshouses at Mile End built by Trinity House for "decayed masters and commanders of ships" in 1796 - the view set within a beaded border. Originally engraved for the Cooke part-work publication, Henry Chamberlain, "A New and Compleat History and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster" (London : 1770), but here in a slightly later impression utilised for Walter Harrison, "A New and Universal History, Description and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster" (London : 1775-1777).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 122 x 175mm (approx. 4-7/8" x 7"). Trimmed a touch close at head, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 57/072B.

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London : Jones & Co., 1828. A pleasant antique print engraved by James Tingle (1801-1858) from an original study (now in the GLC Collection) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. From Shepherd's series "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 96 x 146mm (approx. 3-7/8" x 5-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/067.

£30

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