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[London : Richard Phillips, 1804]. An attractive antique print - in front of St. Leonard's Shoreditch an itinerant turner cries his brooms, brushes, bowls, a sieve and even a clothes-horse. 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 and line engraving on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface (including double-rule outer border) 118 x 80mm (approx. 4-5/8" x 3-1/8"). A few small marks to outer blank margins, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 89/036 - not listing this variant.

£40

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London : Richard Phillips, 1804. An attractive and unusual antique print - an itinerant street-seller sells his rush and osier baskets in Tabernacle Street, just north of Finsbury Square. Behind him is George Whitefield's octagonal Methodist chapel, at the corner of Leonard Street. 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) 132 x 101mm (approx. 5-1/4" x 4"). A few faint marks and minor discolourations, but overall in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 89/026.

£40

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[London] : 1755. An attractive eighteenth century map of the area lying just to the north of the City of London, extending from the lower end of the Goswell Road along Old Street to Shoreditch High Street and including Chiswell Street, Upper Moorfields (the site of the present Finsbury Square), the Artillery (H.A.C.) Ground, Bunhill Fields and Hoxton Square. Originally published in 1720, the present (slightly revised) version of the map was produced for the 1754-1756 edition of John Stow's "Survey of London".
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 284 x 349mm (approx. 11-1/4" x 13-3/4"). Faint old vertical folds, but in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£200

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[London : 1720]. An attractive eighteenth-century map of the area lying just to the north of the City of London, extending from the lower end of the Goswell Road along Old Street to Shoreditch High Street and including Chiswell Street, Upper Moorfields (the site of the present Finsbury Square), the Artillery (H.A.C.) Ground, Bunhill Fields and Hoxton Square. Keyed tables identify eighty-three of the smaller courts, alleys, yards, inns, etc. Originally produced for the 1720 edition of John Stow's "Survey of London".
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 285 x 354mm (approx. 11-1/4" x 14"). Original vertical fold, very faint crease just touching one corner, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 25/051.

£200

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[London : 1720]. A most attractive early eighteenth century map of the Spitalfields area of London, extending from Norton Folgate and Shoreditch in the west across open fields to Mile End New Town and Bethnal Green and including Spitalfields Market, Fashion Street, Brick Lane, etc. Originally produced for the 1720 edition of John Stow's "Survey of London".
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 284 x 352mm (approx. 11-1/4" x 13-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£250

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London : Jones & Co., 1827. A handsome antique print of the church of St. Mary Haggerston built in an unusual neo-gothic design by John Nash in 1826-1827 - but destroyed in 1941. Engraved by William Deeble (1794?-1861) from an original study 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 157 x 91mm (approx.6-1/8" x 3-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/040.

£20

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London : Jones & Co., 1827. A charming antique print of the Hoxton parish church of St. John the Baptist, built by Francis Edwards in 1825-1826. Engraved by Henry Winsor Bond (fl.1827-1881) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of 19th century London. From Shepherd's series "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century" (London 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 151 x 92mm (approx. 6" x 3-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/028.

£25

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[London : Jones & Co., 1829]. A pleasant antique print - a coach-and-pair waits outside the George Dance church on Shoreditch High Street. Engraved by Samuel Lacey (fl.1810-1846) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of 19th century London. From Shepherd's series "London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century" (London 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 107 x 65mm (approx. 4-1/4" x 2-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/031.

£25

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