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[London : 1878 (or later)]. An attractive antique print – pleasure barges on the canal at Paddington. Engraved from a study (based on an earlier source) 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 144 x 144mm (approx. 5-5/8” x 5-5/8”). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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London : Jones & Co., 1828. A highly attractive antique print of the early industrial landscape of the City Road Basin by Pickfords Wharf – warehouses, bridge, smoking chimneys, St. Luke Old Street in the distance and in the foreground a handsome Pickford’s barge. Engraved by Frederick James Havell (1801-1840) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-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 96 x 150mm (approx. 3-3/4” x 5-7/8”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/058.

£30

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London : Jones & Co., 1828. A highly attractive antique print of the early industrial landscape of the City Road Basin by Pickfords Wharf – warehouses, bridge, smoking chimneys, St. Luke Old Street in the distance and in the foreground a handsome Pickford’s barge. Engraved by Frederick James Havell (1801-1840) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. Originally produced for Shepherd’s series “Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century” (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 96 x 150mm (approx. 3-3/4” x 5-7/8”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/058.

£25

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London : Jones & Co., 1827. A highly attractive antique print of the early industrial landscape – locks, bridge, tunnel, smoking chimneys and in the foreground two handsome Pickford’s barges. Engraved by Frederick James Havell (1801-1840) from an original pencil and water-colour drawing (now in the Museum of London) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. Originally produced for Shepherd’s part-work series “Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century” (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 106 x 148mm (approx. 4-1/8” x 5-7/8”). Small printseller’s sticker on verso, but in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/024.

£30

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London : Jones & Co., 1828. A highly attractive antique print of barges manoeuvering at Limehouse Basin (the Regent's Canal Dock). Engraved by Frederick James Havell (1801-1840) from an original pencil and water-colour drawing (now in the Museum of London) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. Originally produced for Shepherd’s series “Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century” (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 102 x 152mm (approx. 4-1/8” x 6”). A few tiny specks, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/059.

£40

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[London : Jones & Co., 1828]. An antique print – a canal barge floats past the newly built gas works at Camden Town – "an immense pile of buildings ... in the road leading to Kentish Town". Originally produced for Shepherd’s series “Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century” (London : 1827-1830). Engraved by Alexander McClatchie (1804?-1888) from an original sepia wash drawing (now in the British Museum) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of 19th century London.
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 99 x 149mm (approx. 4” x 5-7/8”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/154.

£25

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London : Jones & Co., 1828. A delightful antique print – a lively canal scene, with barges, a horse on the towpath, etc. Engraved by Samuel Lacey (1786-1859) from an original pencil and watercolour drawing (now in the Museum of London) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-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 96 x 152mm (approx. 3-7/8” x 6”). A couple of faint and tiny specks, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/078.

£40

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London : Jones & Co., 1828. A delightful antique print – a lively canal scene, with barges, a horse on the towpath, etc. Engraved by Samuel Lacey (1786-1859) from an original pencil and watercolour drawing (now in the Museum of London) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. Originally produced for Shepherd’s series “Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century” (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 96 x 152mm (approx. 3-7/8” x 6”). A couple of faint and tiny specks, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/078.

£30

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London : Jones & Co., 1827. A very attractive antique print – a Pickford’s barge on the Grand Union Canal approaches the bridge (near the North Gate of the Park). Engraved by Robert Acon (1792-1880) 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 “Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century” (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 102 x 149mm (approx. 4” x 5-7/8”). Faint mark to lower margin, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/012.

£40

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London : Jones & Co., 1827. A very attractive antique print – a Pickford’s barge on the Grand Union Canal approaches the bridge (near the North Gate of the Park). Engraved by Robert Acon (1792-1880) 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 “Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century” (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 102 x 149mm (approx. 4” x 5-7/8”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/012.

£30

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[London : Jones & Co., 1829]. A pleasant antique print – the backs of the Nash houses, and a horse on the towpath drawing a barge along the old southern spur of the canal. Engraved by William Radclyffe (1783-1855) 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. Engraved surface 99 x 152mm (approx. 3-7/8” x 6”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/130.

£30

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