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[London : Richard Phillips, 1804]. An attractive antique print - outside a wine-merchant's premises in Soho Square a young woman with a baby in a sling holds a bundle of rushes. Her partner would be at work mending the rush-chairs of the local residents. 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) 119 x 83mm (approx. 4-3/4" x 3-1/4"). A few small marks to outer blank margins, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 89/031 - not listing this variant.

£40

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. An attractive and interesting antique print - in fact, despite the caption, the Lion Brewery on Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) rather than in Golden Square. The employees diet of beer saved them from the consequences of the cholera outbreak of 1854. Engraved from a study by William Henry Prior and 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 5-5/8"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. An attractive antique print of Soho Square as originally laid out in the early eighteenth century - with passing carriages, etc. Engraved by "W. H." from an earlier source - of the several wood engravers with these initials working in London in the 1870s, perhaps the most likely is William Harcourt Hooper. Originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 142 x 210mm (approx 5-5/8" x 8-1/4"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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London : H. Setchel & Son, 1810. A handsome antique print - a view of St. Anne Soho as it stood in the early nineteenth century. Engraved by W. Preston from an original drawing (now in the British Museum) by William Pearson (fl.1798-1813). 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 261 x 161mm (approx. 10-1/4" x 6-1/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 129/017.

£75

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. A pleasant antique print - a view of the square some fifty years after its completion - a sedan chair and a carriage await. Engraved from an original study (based on earlier sources) by William Henry Prior - and originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 143 x 210mm (approx. 5-5/8" x 8-1/4"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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[London : Jones & Co., 1831]. A charming small antique print of St. Anne Soho, with its curious clock. Engraved by James Tingle (1801-1858) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. 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 101 x 67mm (approx. 4" x 2-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/104.

£25

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