ANTIQUE PRINTS OF ST. GILES IN THE FIELDS AT
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[London : Richard Phillips, 1804]. An attractive and unusual antique print - the sand-man and his barrow outside the church of St. Giles in the Fields. The sand was sold for cleaning kitchen utensils and strewing on the floor to protect the floorboards - "a carpet of small expense and easy to be renewed". White sand cost five farthings a peck, but red sand was twice as much. 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, line and stipple engraving on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface (including double-rule outer border) 116 x 80mm (approx. 4-5/8" x 3-1/8"). Outer blank margins rather spotted, but the image in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 89/049 - not listing this variant.

£40

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. An antique print - one of the most notorious of the London breeding-grounds of crime and squalor. Originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 142 x 105mm (approx. 5-5/8" x 4-1/8"). 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 - a view looking westward down Broad Street (the former name for the western end of High Holborn as it approaches High Street St. Giles), with the spire of St. Giles in the Fields in the background - an animated street scene with carriages, a cantering horse, itinerant street-vendors, etc. Engraved from a study (based on an earlier sketch) by William Henry Prior. Originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 142 x 208mm (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 : J. Booth, 1811. A handsome antique print - the exterior of St. Giles in the Fields as it stood in the early nineteenth century. Engraved by William Wise (fl.1790-1818) from an original drawing by George Sidney Shepherd. 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 272 x 162mm (approx. 10-3/4" x 6-3/8"). A few tiny marks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 129/050.

SOLD

[London : J. Johnston, 1820]. An attractive and unusual antique print, the naive and pedantic fictional character, Doctor Syntax, encounters ruffians and pickpockets near St. Giles in the Fields. Attributed to various artists, of whom the most likely is perhaps Charles Williams (fl.1797-1830). Originally produced for the partwork "The Tour of Doctor Syntax through London, or the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis" (1820).
Aquatint on paper, with original hand colour. Engraved surface 121 x 190mm (approx. 4-3/4" x 7-1/2"). Some very faint discolouration to outer blank margins, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£40

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