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Dorking : by & for Mrs. R.B.Ede, [1848]. A most attractive antique print - the Italianate eighteenth-century house at Roehampton from the gardens - a gardener with brush and basket hard at work. The building now forms part of Roehampton University. Engraved by Thomas Abiel Prior (1809-1866) from an original study by the gifted Thomas Allom. Originally produced for the part-work "History of Surrey" (London : 1840-1848).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 130 x 171mm (approx. 5-1/8" x 6-3/4"). Just a touch dusty in lower margin, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£40

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[London : 1860]. A charming small antique print - the exterior of the gothic house at Roehampton - "the fine seat of the late Lord Justice Sir J. Knight Bruce, has been converted into a private lunatic asylum" (James Thorne, 1876). The building is nowadays known as the Priory Hospital. Originally produced for Thomas Dugdale's part-work survey published as "The Curiosities of Great Britain" or "England Delineated" in various formats between 1838 and 1860.
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 77 x 110mm (approx. 3" x 4-3/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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[London : Cassell & Co.], 1886. A charming antique print of the centre of Roehampton, with the King's Head, etc. Engraved from an original study by William Caxton Keene and originally produced for the part-work "Greater London : A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places" published between 1882 and 1884.
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 103 x 142mm (approx. 4" x 5-5/8"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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London : Jones & Co., [1831]. A pleasant antique print - a view of the early eighteenth-century listed house from the grounds. The house is now the headquarters of the South West London Community NHS Trust. Engraved by Thomas Jeavons (1794-1867) from an original study by John Preston Neale. Originally produced for the partwork series "Views of the Seats, Mansions, Castles, etc. of Noblemen and Gentlemen" (London : 1829-1831).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 101 x 130mm (approx. 4" x 5-1/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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