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London : J. Booth, 1816. A handsome antique print - the exterior of the George Dance church on Shoreditch High Street. Engraved by W. Jenkins from an original study (now in the Guildhall Library) by John Coney. Originally produced for the part-work series "Architectura Ecclesiastica Londini; being a Series of Views" (London : 1810-1823) - "the first artistically competent and exhaustive illustration of the golden age of London church building" (Adams). Below the image are several lines of explanatory text.
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 260 x 164mm (approx. 10-1/4" x 6-3/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 129/064.

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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.

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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 (1791-1861) 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. 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.

£25

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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 (1804-1881) 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. 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 (1786-1859) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-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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[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 (1786-1859) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. From Shepherd's series "London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. 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.

£20

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