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London : Richard Phillips, 1804. An attractive and uncommon antique print - the gingerbread-man outside the Pantheon on Oxford Street, originally built in 1772 as a "winter Ranelagh" - an indoor pleasure resort. This particular gingerbread-man was a familiar figure, his flat cakes of gingerbread at one halfpenny each "well made, well baked, and kept extremely hot". This was a winter delicacy - in the summer season he sold Banbury Cakes. 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).
Line and stipple engraving on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface (including quadruple-rule outer border) 131 x 101mm (approx. 5-1/4" x 4"). A couple of tiny marks to borders, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 89/038.

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[London : Richard Phillips, 1804]. An attractive and unusual antique print - a street-crier with his ass sells brick-dust in Portman Square. The dust, which cost a penny a quart, was used for cleaning knives. The large house at the centre in the background is the town-house of the Duke of Athol, flanked by Montague House (of Blue Stocking Club fame) and the residence of Hamilton Nesbitt, where Lord Elgin's antiquities were at that time housed. 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) 117 x 81mm (approx. 4-5/8" x 3-1/4"). A few faint marks to outer blank margins, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 89/028 - not listing this variant.

£50

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London : Richard Phillips, 1804. An attractive and uncommon antique print - an itinerant apple-seller with her barrow cries her wares in Stratford Place off Oxford Street. The apples were sold by the pennyworth in summer and could be had roasted on charcoal in the winter. 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).
Etching and line engraving on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface (including quadruple-rule outer border) 133 x 101mm (approx. 5-1/4" x 4"). A couple of tiny marks to borders, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£50

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[London : 1837]. An antique print - Oxford Street looking west past the Pantheon (the site of the modern Marks & Spencer building) - a procession of girls in aprons follows a beadle. 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 99 x 149mm (approx. 3-7/8" x 5-7/8"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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[London : Jones & Co., 1831]. An attractive antique print - a view of a lively Oxford Street and the Pantheon, originally built in 1772 as a "winter Ranelagh" - an indoor pleasure resort described as "the most beautiful edifice in England" (but nonetheless demolished by Marks & Spencer in 1937 to make way for their Oxford Street store). Engraved by John James Hinchliff (1805-1875) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. 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 106 x 157mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 6-1/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/181.

£30

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[London : W.H.Allen, 1891]. A handsome and unusual bird's-eye view of the whole length of Oxford Street looking eastwards from Marble Arch - with the adjacent streets and buildings - Park Lane and Portman Square in the foreground, Oxford Circus in the middle distance, and the Charing Cross Road beyond. Designed by the architectural draughtsman Thomas Sulman (fl.1855-1900), engraved by William Michael Roberts Quick (1838-1927), and originally produced for Herbert Fry's "London: Illustrated by Twenty Bird's Eye Views of the Principal Streets" (London, 1891).
Wood engraving on paper, with letter-press shoulder notes. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 211 x 121mm (approx. 8-1/4" x 4-3/4"). Two slight nicks to margins, minor wear to original horizontal fold, but overall in good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. A pleasant antique print - the Marble Arch at the head of Oxford Street, the site circled by horse-drawn traffic. From an original sketch by Frank Watkins (fl.1859-1894). Originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 106 x 145mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 5-3/4"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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