ANTIQUE PRINTS OF ST. GILES CRIPPLEGATE AT
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London : C. Tilt, 1838. An attractive antique print - an exterior of the church from the churchyard - a couple stroll amid the tombstones. 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 152 x 98mm (approx. 6-1/2" x 3-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 189/044.

£30

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[London : 1772]. A fine eighteenth-century print of St. Giles Cripplegate and the churchyard. Engraved by Benjamin Cole (fl.1723-1767) and originally produced for the part-work edition of William Maitland's "History of London" (London : 1753-1756) - and here in a slightly later impression dating from 1772.
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 181 x 243mm (approx. 7-1/8" x 9-5/8"). Cropped close to neatlines, just a touch dusty, but a very good sharp impression in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 38/058B.

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[London : Leadenhall Press, 1891]. A pleasant antique print - a vignette view of the Victorian City - the tower of St. Giles without Cripplegate dominating the adjacent streets. 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 150 x 96mm (approx. 5-7/8" x 3-3/4"). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£20

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[London : John Tallis & Co., 1852]. A charming small antique print - a view Fore Street and St. Giles without Cripplegate - the City Wine Vaults to the left. An engraving from the workshop of A. H. Payne, originally produced for his "Illustrated London, or a Series of Views in the British Metropolis and its Vicinity" (London : 1846-1847), and here in a slightly later impression.
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 65 x 85mm (approx. 2-5/8" x 3-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 207/085A.

£25

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[London : J. Booth, ca.1814]. A handsome antique print - an early nineteenth-century view of St. Giles Cripplegate and the churchyard. Engraved by W. Preston and Pearson himself from an original drawing (dated 1813 and 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 216 x 205mm (approx. 8-1/2" x 8-1/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 129/049.

£75

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[London : Jones & Co., 1831]. A charming small antique print - a view down Fore Street to the church - a flock of sheep heading towards the viewer. Engraved by James Tingle (1801-1858) from an original study (now in the Museum of London) 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 101 x 67mm (approx 4" x 2-5/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/105.

£25

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London : Jones & Co., 1830. A charming antique print of the church now rebuilt in the centre of the Barbican development, the burial place of John Foxe, Martin Frobisher, John Milton and John Speed. A busy street scene, with a local shopkeeper advertising "Great Reduction in Gin". Engraved by Josiah Henshall (1801?-1869) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. From Shepherd's part-work series "London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 114 x 147mm (approx. 4-1/2" x 5-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/074.

£30

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London : N. Smith, 1792. An unusual antique print of the best-preserved part of London Wall as it stood in the late eighteenth century. Below the print are several lines of explanatory text. Engraved by John Thomas "Antiquity" Smith, draughtsman, etcher, author, scholar and later Keeper of Prints at the British Museum, and published by his father, Nathaniel Smith the "antient printseller", as part of their "Antiquities of London and Environs" series (1791-1800).
Etching and engraving on paper. Engraved surface 218 x 172mm (approx. 8-5/8" x 6-3/4"). A few faint marks; very faint crease to lower corner, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 70/003.

£40

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