ANTIQUE PRINTS OF THE HORSE GUARDS AT
ASH RARE BOOKS
43 HURON ROAD
LONDON SW17 8RE
UNITED KINGDOM

[London : W. S. Orr, 1837]. A very attractive antique print – The Horse Guards from the Parade – guardsmen on horse and on foot rehearse their drills. Engraved by John Woods (fl.1835-1855) from an original study by Thomas Clark (fl.1831-1855). Originally produced for Woods’ “History of London: Illustrated by Views in London and Westminster”, first published in parts 1837-1838.
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 115 x 149mm (approx. 4-1/2” x 5-7/8”). A few faint marks and specks to blank margins, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 188/027.

£30

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[London : R. Baldwin, 1773]. An elegant eighteenth-century print of the Horse Guards, built to William Kent’s design between 1750 and 1758. Engraved by Joseph Collyer and originally produced for John Noorthouck’s part-work “New History of London” (London : 1772-1773).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 97 x 141mm (approx 3-7/8” x 5-1/2”). Trimmed a little tight at foot, a few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 51/035A.

£40

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[Dublin : for John Archer, 1791]. An elegant antique print of eighteenth-century London. 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 112 x 186mm (approx. 4-3/8” x 7-3/8”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£40

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[London : John Tallis & Co., 1852]. A charming small antique print – the Whitehall facade of the Horse Guards. 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” (London : 1846-1847) – and here in a slightly later impression.
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 65 x 87mm (approx. 2-5/8” x 3-3/8”). Slight marking to outer blank margins, but the image in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 207/020B.

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London : J. Harris, 1831. A charming and uncommon small antique print. Originally engraved by Robert Sands for the Harris publication “The Public Buildings of Westminster Described. With Twelve Engravings” (1831).
Line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 82 x 92mm (approx. 3-1/4” x 3-5/8”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£20

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[London : J. Mead, 1842]. An interesting antique print – the interior – a war-widow petitions for a place at Sandhurst for her boy. Engraved by Thomas Turnbull (fl.1827-1843) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. Originally produced for the part-work “London Interiors : A Grand National Exhibition” (London : 1841-1844).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 160 x 186mm (approx. 6-1/4” x 7-1/4”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/029.

£40

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[London : Jones & Co., 1830]. An elegant antique print - William Kent’s Whitehall facade of the Horse Guards - mounted sentries on duty, a fashionable carriage passing by. Engraved by James Tingle (1801-1858) 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 105 x 147mm (approx. 4-1/8” x 5-3/4”). A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/011.

£30

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. A pleasant antique print – the Horse Guards as it looked in the seventeenth century. Engraved by Joseph Swain from an earlier study and originally produced for the part-work “Old and New London” (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 106 x 143mm (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 : Read & Co., [1851]. A scarce and handsome antique print – The Horse Guards from the Parade – soldiers marching out – fashionably dressed visitors admire. Engraved by William Alexander le Petit (1804?-1896) from an original study by an artist identified only as "Williams" – believed to be Joseph Lionel Williams. Originally produced for the part-work series generally known as “The World’s Metropolis, or Mighty London, Illustrated by a Series of Views Beautifully Engraved on Steel” (London : 1851-1855).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 172 x 233mm (approx. 6-3/4” x 9-1/4”). One small and faint mark, but in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 213/012.

£100

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