ANTIQUE PRINTS OF ST. ANDREW HOLBORN AT
ASH RARE BOOKS
43 HURON ROAD
LONDON SW17 8RE
UNITED KINGDOM

London : C. Tilt, 1838. A handsome antique print giving a view of the largest of Wren's parish churches. Engraved by John le Keux (1783-1846) from an original study by the painter and architect Robert William Billings. Originally produced for George Godwin's serially published "The Churches of London" (London : 1837-1839).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 166 x 99mm (approx. 6-1/2" x 3-7/8"). Just a hint of faint discolouration to blank margins, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 189/066.

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[London : 1838 (or later)]. A charming small antique print of Holborn, showing the church from the north, the top of Shoe Lane, and (to the right of the church) the imposing showrooms of Charles Meeking - purveyor of "family linens, silks, lace, haberdashery and carpets". Originally produced as an illustration for Part 3 of "Tallis's London Street Views" (London : 1838-1840) and here in a slightly later form with an additional engraved border and surtitle.
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 60 x 94mm (approx. 2-3/8" x 3-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 186/062.

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. An attractive antique print - the interior of St. Andrew Holborn. Engraved by "W.H." (perhaps the London wood-engraver William Harcourt Hooper, 1835-1912). 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 : John Cooke, 1777]. A handsome late eighteenth century antique print - an exterior view of St. Andrew Holborn set within an engraved beaded border. Originally engraved for the Cooke part-work publication, Henry Chamberlain, "A New and Compleat History and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster" (London : 1770), but here in a slightly later impression utilised for Walter Harrison, "A New and Universal History, Description and Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster" (London : 1775-1777).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 133 x 162mm (approx. 5-3/8" x 6-3/8"). Trimmed a touch close at foot, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 57/052A.

£30

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London : J. Booth, 1814. A handsome antique print - an early nineteenth-century view of the Wren church of St. Andrew Holborn and the churchyard. Engraved by S. Jenkins from original drawings (now in the British Museum) by R. Johnson. 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 214 x 213mm (approx. 8-3/8" x 8-3/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 129/012.

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[London : Leadenhall Press, 1891]. A pleasant antique print - top-hatted Victorian gentlemen, an omnibus, the great church beyond. From an original design by the painter and illustrator William Luker and 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 141 x 102mm (approx. 5-5/8" x 4"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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