Grosvenor Prints

A Speech, Made To Kinge James, At His Comeinge To Hoghton Tower, By Two conceaved to be the Household Gods. July, 1617. The first attyr'd in a Purple Taffatu' Mantle;/ In one Hand, a Palm Tree Branch;/ On his Head a Garland of the same;/ And in the other Hand a Dogge. [Poetic declamtions by the two characters follow in two columns below.]
[n.d., c.1820.]
Printed broadside, entirely letterpress, in decorative border. Sheet 315 x 200mm. Glued to scrap sheet, horizontal and vertical centre creases where previously folded.
A gushing speech of welcome to King James I by the household gods of Hoghton Tower. Hoghton is a fortified manor house to the east of Preston in Lancashire. It has been the ancestral home of the De Hoghton family since the time of William the Conqueror. Richard Hoghton earned the favour of James I, who made him a Baronet in 1611 and visited Hoghton in 1617. Sir Richard, who was hoping to convince the king to relieve him of money-losing alum mines, laid out the red carpet for James' visit - literally. Red carpeting was laid for the entire length of the half mile avenue leading to the house. The king must have been impressed by the lavish welcome, and the feasting which followed, for he did buy the mines. An amusing but unsubstantiated tale has it that at the feast in the banqueting hall given in James' honour the king was so moved by the excellent loin of beef he was served that he took his sword and knighted it 'Sir Loin', giving us the term 'sirloin'. Richard's good fortune did not last long; only a few years later he was imprisoned in Fleet Prison for debt. Richard's son, Sir Gilbert, fought for Charles I in the Civil War, and Hoghton Tower was besieged by Parliamentary troops in 1643. Eventually the defenders capitulated, but when the Roundheads entered the house the powder magazine in the tower between the two courtyards exploded with terrifying force, killing over 100 Parliamentary men. A rare and quirky broadside.
[Ref: 7731] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

An Open Letter from Henry M. Stanley. [...] my good friends in America should be put on their guard, and bear in mind that my authorized work will be called 'In Darkest Africa.' in two volumes, and will only be published by Messrs Charles Scribner's Sons.
[n.d., c.1890.]
1pp. letterpress. Sheet 210 x 140mm (8¼ x 5½"). Edges toned.
A 'Notice to the American Public' repudiating the claims by the Historical Publishing Company' that their 'Heroes of the Dark Continent' was in any way an authorised edition of Stanley's account of his travels in Africa.
[Ref: 30239] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Stanza by a Non-admitted Sudbury Freeman; Respectfully Dedicated to Lieutenant-Colonel Addison.
Fulcher, Printer, Sudbury.
[1832].
Scarce letterpress broadside. Sheet 280 x 225mm (11 x 9"). Some loss of text at fold, pasted on a portrait of Lord Grey.
A broadside complaining about the difficulties of getting included on the Register of Electors at the time of Reform Bill.
[Ref: 37382] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Final List of Subscribers to the Fund for the Relief of the Family of the late Sergeant-Major Barber. The Fund collected by the within Subscription List being now closed, it is right that the result should be communicated to the Subscribers.
St. Neots, 24th June, 1869.
Rare letterpress broadsheet, list of names with individual contributions to the fund, folded, sheet 385 x 240mm. 15¼ x 9½". Fold creases etc.
This copy of the list belonged to Alfred Towgood, who is named as one of the three Trustees. It seems the soldier who died served under him, and Towgood was one of the architects of a relief fund for the soldier's family.
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester's Light Horse.
[Ref: 16620] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

This Day was published, by Subscription, [Price 10s.6d. in Colours, or 5s.6d. Plain] An Engraving, From an Original Drawing, taked and coloured on the Spot, by W.Fowler, From the curious Roman Pavement in Prior Crawden's beautiful Chapel, in the College at Ely.
M.Watson, Printer, Angel-Inn-Yard, Market Hill, Cambridge.
Winterton, Lincolnshire, May 20, 1801.
Letterpress advert. Sheet 255 x 200mm, 10 x 8".
Fowler published the 'Mosaic Pavements of Great Britain', 1804.
[Ref: 9219] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

To be Published by Subscription, under the Patronage of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, An Engraving Accurately Copied and Reduced from the Sepulchral Brass by William Fowler... Description of the Monumental Brass of Alan Flemyng, in Newark Church...
Sept. 1823. Printed by M.Hage, Newark.
Letterpress broadsheet. Sheet 550 x 330mm. Left edge chipped, some creasing.
The engraving was to be 13½ by 20 inches, proofs costing 10s.6d. Fleming died in 1361.
[Ref: 7154] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

East Street Chapel, St. Neots. Sunday Evening Lectures Will be delivered upon the following Subjects:-- 1878... [Four October/ November dates with lecture titles follow.]
D.R. Tomson, Printer, St. Neots. [1878.]
Letterpress broadside advertisement, very rare, sheet 285 x 225mm. 11¼ x 8¾". Folds, some staining. Chip and tear from upper edge.
Advertising an upcoming series of lectures with a strong religious theme, for the moral nourishment and improvement of local residents.
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester's Light Horse.
[Ref: 16467] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Sunday School Jubilee to be Celebrated on Thursday Sepr. 8th. 1831. In Commemoration of the Founding of Sunday Schools by R. Raikes Esqr.
Sold at the Sunday School Union Depository No.20, Quay Side Newcastle upon Tyne. [c.1831.]
Letterpress broadside handbill/frontispiece? with steel engraved portrait of Robert Raikes by W. Collard. Sheet 130 x 90mm, 5 x 3½".
Robert Raikes (1735 - 1811) was a journalist and promoter of Sunday Schools. A philanthropist and businessman, Raikes campaigned for prison reform and devoted himself to establishing Sunday Schools. In 1780, he founded the first formal, free Sunday School in Gloucester. As editor and owner of the Gloucester Journal he was able to use his own newspaper to promote the idea that Sunday Schools could prevent juvenile delinquency, religious ignorance and unemployment by teaching children to read and write.
[Ref: 16769] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Legend of the Devil's Dyke.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Letterpress broadside on yellow paper, sheet 245 x 155mm. 9¾ x 6". Some creasing. Tatty extremities.
A local legend telling how the 'Devil's Dyke', a V-shaped valley on the South Downs Way in Sussex, was created by the furious digging of a hellish visitor to a local inn, the 'Jolly Shepherd' in Poynings. See 12321 for related item.
[Ref: 12214] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

A Table of the Breeds of Neat Cattle, Sheep, and Swine.
Letterpress broadside, very scarce. Printed area 500 x 380mm (19¾ x 15"). Stretched over back of mounted print, edges folded over; some staining.
The names, characteristics, advantages & disadvantages and locations of different breeds of cattle, horned and hornless sheep, and pigs. .
[Ref: 30250] £480.00

A Table of the Antiquity of States, Kingdoms, and Empires, And also of some remarkable Towns and Cities. [&] A Compendium of the Four Dispositions which influence the Human Frame, translated from the works of Dr. Boerner.
[Anon., n.d., c.1820.]
Two letterpress tables, broadside handbills with contemporary watercolour, glued to either side of card 165 x 130mm, 6½ x 5". Margins slightly trimmed?
Two rare pieces of popular educational ephemera. The Compendium is a table for analizing the habits and disposition of certain types of people.
[Ref: 16809] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Cheap Trip. Election of the Lord Mayor of Tarleton. The Directors of the Preston and Longton Grand Junction Railway Company Beg to inform the Public, that there will be A Special Train On Monday next, (calling at Longton,) For the Purpose of accomodating persons desirous of witnessing the august Ceremony of Electing A Lord Mayor for the Ancient Borough of Tarleton.
April 20, 1850. George Bobins, Printer, Old Market Place, Tarleton.
Scarce letterpress broadside. Sheet 325 x 210mm (12¾ x 8¼"). Surface soiling, folded, laid on album paper.
[Ref: 40950] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Thomas Dyke Acland's speech and reaction to it.]
[British, c.1835.]
Three letterpress broadsides. Some staining and folds, as normal. Generally good.
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Bt (1787-1871), philanthropist, was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 9th Baronet. He inherited the family estates when his father died in 1794. While he was at Oxford he helped to found Grillion's Club (1812), which attracted many eminent politicians. Acland was MP for Devonshire from 1812 to 1818 and again from 1820 to 1831. He then sat for North Devon for twenty years from 1837. His family had extensive properties on what is now the Holnicote Estate and particularly the village of Selworthy. Two sheets are signed in ink.
[Ref: 26254] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Bookbinding from All parts of the World shown by James and Mary Lee Tregaskis at their House, the sign of the "Caxton Head" 232, High Holborn, London.
[London: Tregaskis, c.1895.]
Illustrated printed broadside handbill/flyer (possibly fragment), vignette of an etching of the interior of the Caxton Head; sheet 125 x 200mm. 5 x 8".
Advertisement printed by booksellers James & Mary Lee Tregaskis for an international bookbinding exhibition at their London premises.
[Ref: 16968] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Supplement to Woolmer's Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. [Queen Victoria's Coronation]
Saturday, June 30, 1838.
Letterpress. Sheet 655 x 475mm (25¾ x 18¾"). Surface dirt. Creased where folded. Nicks to edges.
Letterpress with images of the order of the procession and the interrior of Westminster Abbey when her Majesty was Assuming the Crown. Woolmer’s Exeter and Plymouth Gazette was published in Exeter in 1827 by Woolmer and Thacker. A weekly publication of 4 pages, priced at 7d. As a Conservative publication, it enjoyed the patronage of the gentry and clergy, advocating mainly agricultural interests and supporting the Established Church. It circulated generally through Devon, Cornwall and parts of Dorset and Somerset.
[Ref: 60460] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Walwyn’s Original Abstract of the New Taxes for the Year 1817 Including the New Stamp, Soap, and Excise Duties, Assessments, &c. &c. Warranted Correct. Publish’d Seven-Teen Years.
London. Printed by and for R. and R. Walwyn & Co. (the Original Proprietors,) No.20, Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-Road.---Price One Shilling (as usual) Entered at Stationer's Hall N.B. This Original Table has been Establish Seventeen Years on Pasteboard Two Shilling.s
Letterpress, scarce; sheet. 660 x 490mm (26 x 19¼"). Laid on tissue, repaired tear through centre.
In the 1800s Britain saw the private publication of summaries of taxation rates for the use of solicitors, accountants, and the general public. Its similarity to a newspaper was clearly intentional. 'Walwyn's Original' was adorned with the royal coat of arms and its five columns dealt with new excise licences and new soap duty, house duty, pleasure horses and horse duty, new stamp duties and stage-coach duty.
[Ref: 28682] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

The Watchman's Address. To his Worthy Masters and Mistresses, For Christmas, 1825. Masters, awhile let patience reign, And listen to my simple strain; For once a year, though loath to do it, Custom compels me to turn poet, And tell to all my friends and neighbours My hardships and my nightly labours...Through Eighteen hundred twenty-four You found me punctual as before; And now we on the bounds arrive Of Eighteen hundred twenty-five, I know you’ll kindly say of me, "He’s filled his office worthily".
Baxter, Printer, Oxford.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Letterpress, very rare. 274 x 215mm (10¾ x 8½"). Creasing and paper toning.
A poem of gratitude from a night-watchman written for the people of the town (possibly Oxford, where it was printed), in 1825.
[Ref: 29017] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

What a Row! with the Tories and Whigs. Tune, -"Oh dear! what can the matter be." [...] Chorus.[/] Oh dear, we are informed by authority, [/] The Tories are likely to gain a majority, [/] So the Corn Bill & whigs will be in the minority, [/] And Great Britain will have to lament.
Birt, printer, 30 Great St. Andrew Street, Seven Dials, London.
Letterpress, very scarce. Sheet: 185 x 260mm, (7¼ x 10"). Paper tone. Glued to album sheet. Staining.
Political broadside discussing the General Election of 1841 though lyrics to be sung to the tune of 'Oh Dear! What Can the Matter Be!' Sir Robert Peel's Conservative Party took control of the House of Commons taking power from Lord Melbourne's Whig Party.
[Ref: 35127] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

What About The Church? Protestant Electors, Do Not Be Deceived! Mr. Disraeli cannot save it, Mr Gladstone cannot hurt it, except so far as it is true or false to its own principles.... John Hampton, Hereford. September 1st, 1868.
John Hampden, Hereford. September 1st, 1868.
F.T. Hawkins, Printer, 13, High Street, Hereford. [1868.]
Letterpress broadside handbill, sheet 285 x 215mm. 11¼ x 8½".
An interesting piece of popular ephemera that reflects debates around the status of the Church of England in the build up to the 1868 general election. Some were arguing that it should be disestablished. The author here, apparently independent of both Liberal and Conservative official positions on the issue, exhorts voters in Hereford to sign up to his petition to the clergy. The 1868 election was the first after passage of the Reform Act 1867, which enfranchised many male householders, thus greatly increasing the number of men who could vote in elections in the United Kingdom. It was the first election held in the United Kingdom in which more than a million votes were cast. The result saw the Liberals, led by William Ewart Gladstone, again increase their large majority over Benjamin Disraeli's Conservatives to more than 100 seats.
[Ref: 16772] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Return of the Population, Area and Expenditure, of the Parishes in the Wokingham Union, from Michaelmas, 1835, to Michaelmas, 1836, With the previous Average Expenditure and actual Reduction since the formation of the Union. [Table of 6 columns: Parish - a list of parishes in Berkshire and Wiltshire; Expenditure from Michaelmas 1835, to Michs. 1836; Average of 3 years prior to the Union; Reduction in Year ending at Michaelmas 1836; Area; Population.]
Gotelee, Printer, Wokingham.
Printed letterpress, rare. 242 x 191mm. 9½ x 7½". Vertical fold down the centre, some creasing.
A table and chart with details of expenditure across 16 parishes connected to the Wokingham Union, formed prior to the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, passed by Lord Melbourne, which forced the forming together of small parishes into unions and the building of workhouses in each for the giving of poor relief.
[Ref: 17887] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

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