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London : Richard Phillips, 1804. An attractive and unusual antique print - a barrow boy sells 'hasteds' (or more usually 'hastens') outside the grim walls of Newgate Gaol. Hastens were strictly speaking the earliest variety of green pea to come into season - and those forced in hothouses to be the first of the summer commanded a premium price - but the name was also used indiscriminately by the barrow-boys to cover the cheaper and more plentiful later varieties. 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) .
Aquatint, line and stipple engraving on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface (including quadruple-rule outer border) 132 x 102mm (approx. 5-1/4" x 4"). A few trifling marks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 89/035.

£40

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. An antique print - the high-walled exterior of the celebrated old prison, as rebuilt by George Dance the Younger in 1780-1783 - and finally demolished in 1902 to make way for the Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey). Originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 105 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 : Leadenhall Press, 1891]. A Victorian print of the grim exterior of the notorious prison finally demolished in 1902 to make way for the Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey) - buses and Londoners on foot pass by. 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 158 x 219mm (approx. 6-1/8" x 8-1/2"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : 1842]. A highly attractive antique print - a lively courtroom scene in the interior of the famous Central Criminal Court of the Old Bailey. The view depicts a "hardened burglar" in the dock, a neatly dressed woman giving evidence to the judges, spectators in the gallery and many white-wigged barristers in attendance. Engraved by Henry Melville (fl.1826-1844) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd and originally produced for the part-work "London Interiors : A Grand National Exhibition" (London 1841-1844).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 142 x 177mm (approx. 5-5/8" x 7"). Trimmed tight at foot, just touching the engraved title; some dusting and marking to blank margins; minor crease to lower blank margin, but the image itself in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 195/025.

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London : Jones & Co., 1831. A antique print of the forbidding exterior of the old prison, finally demolished in 1902 to make way for the Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey). Engraved by Robert Acon (1792-1880) from an original drawing by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. 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 106 x 149mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 5-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/127.

£25

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