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[London : 1720]. A fine antique map of Portsoken Ward at the eastern edge of the City of London, taking in The Minories, Petticoat Lane, Houndsditch, Whitechapel (Aldgate High Street) and St. Botolph Aldgate. The map is decorated with a wreathed cartouche and a numbered index gives the names of over eighty of the smaller courts and alleys. Originally produced by Richard Blome in the late seventeenth century, the map remained unpublished until the present version appeared with the 1720 edition of John Stow's "Survey of London".
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 306 x 177mm (approx. 12" x 7"). Very faint old horizontal crease, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 25/019. Hyde (Ward Maps) 92/1.

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London : 1755. A fine antique map of Portsoken Ward at the eastern edge of the City of London, taking in The Minories, Petticoat Lane, Houndsditch, Whitechapel (Aldgate High Street) and St. Botolph Aldgate. The map is decorated with a handsome rococo title-piece, the arms of the then alderman (Sir William Calvert) and a compass rose. Originally engraved by Benjamin Cole for the part-work edition of William Maitland's "History of London" (London: 1753-1756).
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 369 x 228mm (approx. 14-1/2" x 9"). Some faint creasing, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 38/037. Hyde (Ward Maps) 93.

£100

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[London : Leadenhall Press 1891]. An antique print - a lively depiction of the busy market - from an original design by the painter and illustrator William Luker. 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 218 x 159mm (approx. 8-5/8" x 6-1/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : Leadenhall Press, 1891]. A lively antique print - a late Victorian depiction of the long-established street market for old clothes just off Bishopsgate - bowler-hatted men feel the fabric. From an original design by the painter and illustrator William Luker. Engraved in Paris by Ch. Guillaume & Cie. for the Leadenhall Press publication "London City" (1891).
Hand touched and finished half-tone process block. Image area 161 x 218mm (approx. 6-3/8" x 8-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. A charming Victorian antique print of the market in full spate - a lively study by C. Robinson (d.1881). Originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 143 x 215mm (approx 5-5/8" x 8-1/2"). Text on verso. A couple of small and faint marks, but in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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London : N.Smith, & J.T.Smith, 1798. A charming antique print of the old inn taken down in 1793 - an engraved caption below the image gives a historical note. The inn used to stand on the east side of the Minories a little to the north of St. Clare Street, more or less opposite the top of India Street. Engraved by John Thomas "Antiquity" Smith, draughtsman, etcher, author, scholar and later Keeper of Prints at the British Museum, and co-published with his father, Nathaniel Smith the "antient printseller", as part of their "Antiquities of London and Environs" series (1791-1800).
Etching and engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 203 x 155mm (approx. 8" x 6"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 70/066.

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