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London : J. Britton, 1828. A pleasing antique print – St. Nicholas on Westgate Street in Gloucester. Engraved by John le Keux (1783-1846) from an original study by William Henry Bartlett, with the figures added by the portrait painter William Henry Brooke (1772-1860). Originally produced for John Britton’s “Picturesque Antiquities of the English Cities” (London : 1829-1830). The plate is dedicated to the Rev. Robert Halifax, "a patron of antiquarian literature".
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 235 x 140mm (approx. 9-3/8” x 5-1/2”). A couple of tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£50

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[London : Virtue & Co., ca.1880]. A charming antique print – a view across the river to the cathedral. Engraved by the Scottish engraver William Mossman (fl.1838-1864) from an original study by the well-known William Henry Bartlett. Originally produced for the part-work series “Scotland Illustrated” (London : 1835-1838).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 135 x 181mm (approx. 5-1/4” x 7-1/8”). A couple of tiny specks, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£40

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London : Longman & Co., 1830. An atmospheric antique print – the busy courtyard of the coaching inn on Northgate Street with its celebrated mediaeval gallery. Engraved by John le Keux (1783-1846) from an original study by William Henry Bartlett. Originally produced for John Britton’s “Picturesque Antiquities of the English Cities” (London : 1829-1830). The plate is dedicated to the local lawyer Benjamin Bonnor (1793-1851).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 156 x 196mm (approx. 6-1/8” x 7-3/4”). A couple of tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£50

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London : J. Britton, 1828. A pleasant antique print – a view of the bridge at Gloucester. Engraved from an earlier 1796 sketch by the late John Carter F.S.A. Originally produced for John Britton’s “Picturesque Antiquities of the English Cities” (London : 1828-1830).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 156 x 208mm (approx. 6-1/8” x 7-7/8”). A couple of tiny specks to margins, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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[London : J. Cooke, 1779]. A handsome eighteenth century engraved prospect of Gloucester- a view from the river across to the cathedral, etc., – originally produced for the Cooke part-work publication “The Modern Universal British Traveller” (London : 1779).
Copper line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 184 x 280mm (approx. 7-1/4” x 11"). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£150

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1865. A pleasant amateur watercolour sketch of a seventeenth-century farmhouse at Southam. Captioned below the image in pencil and dated April 14, 1865.
Watercolour on paper, laid down on a backing sheet. Image area 180 x 267mm (approx. 7-1/8” x 10-1/2”). A touch dusty; a few faint marks; backing sheet a little worn and soiled, but overall in very good state.

£50

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[London : Charles Knight, 1850]. A charming oval vignette antique print – a distant prospect of Cheltenham. Engraved by Thomas Williams (fl.1828-1862) from an original study by the well-known William Harvey and originally produced for the part-work publication “The Land We Live In” (London : 1847-1851).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 135 x 187mm (approx. 5-3/8” x 7-3/8”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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[London : W. Mackenzie, 1880]. A handsome antique print – a view of the house from across the water – deer in the foreground. A technically highly accomplished production, colour printed in eight or more overlays from separate wooden blocks by Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) from original draughts (drawn on the wood) by Frank Lydon. Originally produced for the Francis Orpen Morris part-work “County Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland” (1864-1880).
Multiple wood block engraving in colours (chromoxylograph). Engraved surface 131 x 193mm (approx. 5-1/8” x 7-5/8”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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[London : W. Mackenzie, 1880]. A handsome antique print – the famous old castle – a view from the park. A technically highly accomplished production, colour printed in eight or more overlays from separate wooden blocks by Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) from original draughts (drawn on the wood) by Frank Lydon. Originally produced for the Francis Orpen Morris part-work “County Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland” (1864-1880).
Multiple wood block engraving in colours (chromoxylograph). Engraved surface 125 x 192mm (approx. 4-7/8” x 7-1/2”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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[London : W. Mackenzie, 1880]. A handsome antique print – the nineteenth-century Toddington Manor near Tewkesbury – a view from the water. A technically highly accomplished production, colour printed in eight or more overlays from separate wooden blocks by Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) from original draughts (drawn on the wood) by Frank Lydon. Originally produced for the Francis Orpen Morris part-work “County Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland” (1864-1880).
Multiple wood block engraving in colours (chromoxylograph). Engraved surface 143 x 194mm (approx. 5-5/8” x 7-5/8”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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London : Jones & Co., 1831. A pleasant antique print – a view of the neo-gothic Adlestrop Park, where Jane Austen stayed in 1806. Engraved by Thomas Barber (fl.1818-1840) from an original study by John Preston Neale. Originally produced for the partwork series “Bath and Bristol, with the Counties of Somerset and Gloucester, Displayed in a Series of Views” (London : 1829-1831).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 106 x 128mm (approx. 4-1/4” x 5-1/8”). A couple of tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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London : J. P. Neale, 1825. A pleasant antique print – a view of the house from the lawns. Engraved by William Tombleson from an original study by John Preston Neale. Originally produced for Neale’s second series of “Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen” (London : 1824-1829).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 99 x 130mm (approx. 3-7/8” x 5-1/8”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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London : Jones & Co., 1831. A handsome antique print – Blaise Castle House at Henbury. Engraved by Henry Winsor Bond (1804-1881) from an original study by John Preston Neale. Originally produced for the partwork series “Views of the Seats, Mansions, Castles, etc. of Noblemen and Gentlemen” (London : 1829-1831).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 97 x 126mm (approx. 3-7/8” x 5”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : Jones & Co., 1830]. A charming antique print – the “large and noble mansion” of the Bathurst family seen from the grounds – a young woman reading on a grassy knoll. Engraved by Samuel Fisher (fl.1830-1855) from an original study by John Preston Neale. Originally produced for the partwork series “Bath and Bristol, with the Counties of Somerset and Gloucester, Displayed in a Series of Views” (London : 1829-1831).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 98 x 126mm (approx. 3-3/4” x 5”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : Jones & Co., 1830]. A pleasant antique print – graceful Oddington House near Stow-on-the-Wold. Engraved by Henry Winsor Bond (1804-1881) from an original study by John Preston Neale. Originally produced for the partwork series “Views of the Seats, Mansions, Castles, etc. of Noblemen and Gentlemen” (London : 1829-1831).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 96 x 135mm (approx. 3-3/4” x 5-1/4”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : Jones & Co., 1831]. An attractive antique print – the extraordinary oriental palace set in the Gloucestershire countryside – a view from the grounds. Engraved by Thomas Barber (fl.1818-1840) from an original study by John Preston Neale. Originally produced for the partwork series “Bath and Bristol, with the Counties of Somerset and Gloucester, Displayed in a Series of Views” (London : 1829-1831).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 99 x 129mm (approx. 3-7/8” x 5-1/8”). Small and faint mark to left-hand blank margin, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : W. B. Cooke, 1815]. A charming antique print – the bridge at Lechlade with the town beyond, the fifteenth-century parish church of St. Lawrence prominent. Etched by George Cooke (1781-1834) from an original study by Samuel Owen and originally produced for Owen’s second series of Thames views (1814-1822).
Etching and line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 125 x 199mm (approx. 4-7/8” x 7-3/4”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 139/003.

£40

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London : Longman & Co., 1830. A most attractive antique print – a view of Gloucester from the riverside. Engraved by John Charles Varrall (1794-1855) from an earlier painting by an artist only identified as Pierce. Originally produced for John Britton’s “Picturesque Antiquities of the English Cities” (London : 1828-1830). The plate is dedicated to the local historian George Worrall Counsel (1758-1843).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 156 x 199mm (approx. 6-1/8” x 7-3/4”). A couple of tiny specks to margins, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

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[London : Jones & Co., 1830]. A pleasant antique print – a view of the house from across the lake – deer grazing in the foreground. Engraved by William Radclyffe and originally produced for the partwork series “Bath and Bristol, with the Counties of Somerset and Gloucester, Displayed in a Series of Views” (London : 1829-1831).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 101 x 126mm (approx. 4” x 5”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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London : Jones & Co., 1830. A pleasant antique print – a view of the facade of the house – visitors admire the architecture. Engraved by William Radclyffe and originally produced for the partwork series “Bath and Bristol, with the Counties of Somerset and Gloucester, Displayed in a Series of Views” (London : 1829-1831).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 110 x 130mm (approx. 4-3/8” x 5-1/8”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : Mortimer & Haselden, 1842]. A handsome antique print – the abbey (“probably the largest and finest Romanesque tower in England” – Pevsner) and the adjacent cottages – cattle by the steam. Engraved by John James Hinchliff (1805-1875) from an original study by the painter-illustrator George Frederick Sargent (fl.1838-1864). Originally produced for William Beattie’s “The Castles and Abbeys of England” (London : 1842-1844).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 112 x 139mm (approx. 4-3/8” x 5-1/2”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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London : Tombleson & Co., [1833]. A handsome antique print of the windmill from the river, with an engraved decorative border of wheat, flour-sacks, etc. Engraved by Henry Winkles (1800-1860) from an original study by William Tombleson (fl.1824-1841). Originally published in 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 198 x 150mm (approx. 7-3/4” x 6”). Faint crease to blank upper corner, otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 178/002.

£40

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