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[Dublin : for John Archer, 1791]. An elegant antique print of seventeenth-century London – the city in flames, Londoners scrambling to save their possessions. Engraved by William Esdall (fl.1775-1795) and originally produced for the Dublin edition of Thomas Pennant’s “Some Account of London” (1791) – a close copy of the engraving by Peter Mazell in the London edition.
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 120 x 211mm (approx. 4-3/4” x 8-1/4”). Tiny hole in upper blank margin, not affecting image; a few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£40

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London : Thomas Kelly, 1816. A handsome and unusual view – a prospect of the City of London taken from the as yet unopened Strand Bridge (soon to be renamed Waterloo Bridge) – Blackfriars Bridge in the foreground, St. Paul’s and a shot-tower prominent on the skyline.
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 166 x 215mm (approx. 6-1/2” x 8-1/2”). A few tiny marks and spots, but overall in very good and clean state.

£50

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[London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co., C. Tilt & the Proprietors, 1838]. A charming antique print – a vignette view across London from the gallery of the old Shot Tower on the South Bank – Waterloo Bridge in the foreground, St. Paul’s dominating the skyline. Engraved by William Henshall (1774-1843) from an original study by the landscape painter Charles Marshall. Originally produced for the part-work “Select Illustrated Topography of Thirty Miles Round London” (London : 1837-1838).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 140 x 117mm (approx. 5-1/2” x 4-3/8”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 190/001.

£50

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[London : 1838 (or later)]. A charming antique print – a view looking south across St. James’s Park to Whitehall and Westminster. Engraved by John Charles Varrall (1794-1855) from an original study by the landscape painter Charles Marshall. Originally produced for the part-work “Select Illustrated Topography of Thirty Miles Round London” (London : 1837-1838).
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 190/025.

£40

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[London : 1838 (or later)]. A charming antique print – a view looking south across St. James’s Park to Whitehall and Westminster. Engraved by John Charles Varrall (1794-1855) from an original study by the landscape painter Charles Marshall. Originally produced for the part-work “Select Illustrated Topography of Thirty Miles Round London” (London : 1837-1838).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 114 x 147mm (approx. 4-1/2” x 5-3/4”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 190/025.

£30

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[London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co., C. Tilt & the Proprietors, 1838]. A charming antique print – a view across still open country to Westminster Abbey – St. Paul’s on the horizon beyond. Engraved by John Charles Varrall (1794-1855) from an original study by the landscape painter Charles Marshall. Originally produced for the part-work “Select Illustrated Topography of Thirty Miles Round London” (London : 1837-1838).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 115 x 145mm (approx. 4-1/2” x 6”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 190/024.

£40

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[London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co., C. Tilt & the Proprietors, 1838]. A charming antique print – a view across still open country to Westminster Abbey – St. Paul’s on the horizon beyond. Engraved by John Charles Varrall (1794-1855) from an original study by the landscape painter Charles Marshall. Originally produced for the part-work “Select Illustrated Topography of Thirty Miles Round London” (London : 1837-1838).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 115 x 145mm (approx. 4-1/2” x 6”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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[Hildburghausen : J. Meyer, 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 105 x 149mm (approx. 4-1/8” x 5-5/8”). A few tiny specks to blank margins, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£50

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[London : E. T. Brain & Co., 1847]. A fine antique print giving a sweeping view of the City of London, with London Bridge and the Monument in the foreground and St. Paul’s dominating the skyline. An engraving from the workshop of A. H. Payne, originally produced for Payne’s “Illustrated London, or a Series of Views in the British Metropolis and its Vicinity” (1846-1847).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 91 x 138mm (approx. 3-5/8” x 5-1/2”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 207/065.

£50

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London : T. Hughes, 1805. A striking antique print – the City of London in flames – a view from the Thames. Engraved by S. Owen (fl.1796-1838) from a study (based on an earlier source) by the London draughtsman, engraver, printer and printseller, Thomas Prattent, who had premises in Cloth Fair. Originally produced for B. Lambert, “The History and Survey of London and its Environs from the Earliest Period” (London : 1805-1806).
Etching and line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 101 x 157mm (approx. 4” x 6-1/4”). A touch of dustiness to outer margins, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 96/006.

£30

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[London : A. Fullarton & Co., 1859]. An attractive panoramic view of the City of London, looking north across London Bridge to St. Paul’s, the shipping on the river, the spires of the City churches, the Monument and the Tower of London. Drawn and engraved by William Bell Scott, the Scottish art historian, poet, engraver and painter of the Pre-Raphaelite school.
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 112 x 180mm (approx. 4-1/2” x 7-1/8”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£75

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London : Jones & Co., 1827. A delightful antique print – a sweeping view of London from the South Bank of the Thames – St. Paul’s and Blackfriars Bridge prominent, the City of London beyond. Engraved by William Wallis (fl.1816-1855) from an original drawing 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 103 x 153mm (approx. 4-1/8” x 6”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/001.

£75

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[London: W. H. Allen, 1895]. A handsome and unusual bird’s-eye view of the central London portion of the Thames – from the Tower of London to the Houses of Parliament, with the eight bridges between. Designed by the architectural draughtsman Thomas Sulman, engraved by George William Ruffle (1838-1901), and originally produced for Herbert Fry’s “London” in 1880, but here in a slightly later impression.
Wood engraving on paper, with letter-press shoulder notes. Engraved surface 208 x 120mm (approx. 8-1/4” x 4-3/4”). Old central fold, a few tiny marks and specks, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£50

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