ANTIQUE PRINTS OF WATERLOO AT
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[London : 1720]. A most attractive early eighteenth century map of a marshy, isolated and still largely rural Lambeth, showing the curve of the Thames round from Lambeth High Street and Lambeth Palace, past the sites of the modern St. Thomas's Hospital, Waterloo, the Jubilee Gardens, Festival Hall and National Theatre, and then along Upper Ground, past the site of Blackfriars Bridge to Falcon Stairs and beyond - the site of modern Falcon Point and Tate Modern. A numbered key gives the names of forty-one landholders, streets, courts and alleys. Decorated with a baroque title-piece. Originally produced for the 1720 edition of John Stow's "Survey of London".
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 359 x 289mm (approx. 14-1/8" x 11-3/8"). Old central fold, but in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map. Adams 25/069.

£185

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Hildburghausen : [1835]. An attractive antique print - a general view of the City of London - Waterloo Bridge in the foreground - St. Paul's, the Monument, etc., on the skyline beyond. Originally produced for the Meyer family's ambitious series "Universum oder abbildung und beschreibung des sehenswerthesten ... der natur und kunst" (Hildburghausen 1833-1860).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 108 x 148mm (approx. 4-1/4" x 5-3/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. An antique print of The Cut and the "Old Vic" - the building erected as "a house of melodrama" by Rudolph Cabanel in 1816-1818, initially named the Royal Coburg Theatre and here shown as the Royal Victoria Palace. Engraved by "T. R." from an original study by the draughtsman and illustrator Percy William Justyne. Originally produced for the part-work "Old and New London" (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 105 x 142mm (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 antique print of the "Old Vic" - the building erected as "a house of melodrama" by Rudolph Cabanel in 1816-1818, initially named the Royal Coburg Theatre and then re-christened the Royal Victoria Theatre in 1833. 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 105 x 142mm (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 : Jones & Co., 1828. An attractive antique print - the classical exterior of the recently rebuilt Female Orphan Asylum on the Westminster Bridge Road. Engraved by Alexander McClatchie (fl.1828-1861) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. Originally produced for Shepherd's part-work series "London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 119 x 159mm (approx. 4-3/4" x 6-1/4"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/080.

£25

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London : Jones & Co., [1832]. A pleasant antique print of the eighteenth century church on Blackfriars Road. Engraved by Robert Acon (1792-1880) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of 19th 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 112 x 150mm (approx. 4-3/8" x 5-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/184.

£25

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London : Jones & Co., 1828. An attractive antique print of the elegant church of St. John Waterloo, built by Francis Bedford between 1823 and 1825. Engraved by John Cleghorn (fl.1821-1863) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd and originally produced for Shepherd's series "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 157 x 92mm (approx. 6-1/8" x 3-5/8"). Just a touch dusty, but overall in very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/099.

£25

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[London : Jones & Co., 1829]. A very pleasant antique print - a view of the nineteenth century (1826) Shot Mill south-west of Waterloo Bridge - a site now the home of the Hayward Gallery, the Royal Festival Hall, etc. Engraved by John James Hinchliff (1805-1875) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of 19th century London. From Shepherd's series "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 103 x 150mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 5-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/148.

£25

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London : Jones & Co., 1828. An antique print of the imposing frontage of the old Surrey Theatre, opened in 1782 as the Royal Circus and Equestrian Philharmonic Academy and rebuilt by the Italian architect of the Old Vic, Rudolph Cabanel, after a fire in 1803. Engraved by Thomas Dale (fl.1818-1828) 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. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 104 x 150mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 5-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/070.

£25

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London : Tombleson & Co., [1834]. A pleasant antique print of the John Rennie bridge built between 1811 and 1817 - described by Canova as "the noblest bridge in the world" but nonetheless demolished in 1936. An intricately engraved ornamental border surrounds the image. Engraved by Franz Abresch (fl.1832-1841) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd and originally published with the part-work series "Tombleson's Views of the Thames and Medway" (London 1833-1834).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 165 x 201mm (approx. 6-1/2" x 7-7/8"). In fine and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 178/049.

£75

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London : Jones & Co., 1827. A handsome antique print of the original Waterloo Bridge - the John Rennie design bridge built between 1811 and 1817 and described by Canova as "the noblest bridge in the world". A view from the east, the Thames busy with lighters. Engraved by William Wallis (fl.1816-1855) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of 19th century London. Originally produced for Shepherd's series "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 95 x 149mm (approx. 3-3/4" x 5-7/8"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/014.

£30

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[London : John Tallis & Co., 1852]. An antique print of a busy Blackfriars Road and the old Surrey Theatre, flanked by the Equestrian Tavern and the Surrey Coal Hole. The theatre stood just north of St. George's Circus and survived long enough to become a cinema in 1920. Originally produced for the John Tallis part-work "Tallis's Illustrated London; in Commemoration of the Great Exhibition of All Nations in 1851. Forming a Complete Guide to The British Metropolis and its Environs" (London : 1851-1852).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 93 x 133mm (approx. 3-5/8" x 5-1/4"). Almost imperceptible faint line of horizontal indentation, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 215/138.

£25

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