Grosvenor Prints

Abba Gregorius Aethiops Amharensis Aet LII [parallel text in Amharic]
G.B. v. Sand pinx. Elias Ch. Heiss sculp. Aug. Vind. 1691.
Very rare mezzotint. Sheet 225 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed close to image, surface abrasions. Damaged.
Abba Gregorius (1595-1658), Ethiopian priest and lexicographer. Gregorius travelled to Rome where he met the German scholar Hiob Ludolf and instructed him in the history and culture of Ethiopia, later spending time in Germany at Ludolf's invitation. The two men co-authored books on the Amharic language and Ludolf wrote a 'History of Ethiopia' indebted to what he learnt from Gregorius. Mezzotint by Elias Christoph Heiss (1660-1731), Augsburg-based mezzotinter specialising in portraits.
Possibly a pair to the portrait of Ludolf by Heiss after Sand, for which see ref.30232.
[Ref: 64416] £290.00 (£348.00 incl.VAT)

M.r Addison.
G. Kneller Baron.t pinx. 1716. G. Vertue Sculp 1721.
Engraving. 230 x 165mm (9 x 6½"), with large margins.
Half-length portrait in oval of Joseph Addison (1672-1719), politican, essayist and poet, founder of 'The Spectator' magazine. Published as the frontispiece to 'The Works of Joseph Addison', although this example was never bound.
Alexander 324. Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 64089] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Joseph] Addison.
G.Kneller pinxit. F.Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d., c.1779.]
Engraving. Sheet 170 x 100mm (6¾ x 4"). Trimmed.
Portrait of Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), British writer and politician. He was the eldest son of Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.
De V 746 IV of IV.
[Ref: 68241] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

W. Harrison Ainsworth [facsimile signature.]
A d'Orsay fecit 21. Novr. 1844 [facsimile.] C. Graf, Lith to Her Majesty.
Lithograph. Image 200 x 153mm. 7¾ x 6". Sheet 373 x 259mm. 14¾ x 10¼".
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882), author of popular historical romances. He initially studied law but left it for literature, publishing his first novel anonymously in 1826. His first success came with Rookwood (1834), featuring the highwayman Dick Turpin, which led many reviewers to hail him as the successor to Sir Walter Scott. Jack Sheppard (1839), the story of an eighteenth-century burgular, was equally successful, but its supposed glamorisation of crime proved controversial. From then on Ainsworth switched to historical novels based on places rather than criminals, including The Tower of London (1840),Old St. Paul's, A Tale of the Plague and the Fire (1841), and The Lancashire Witches (1849).
[Ref: 12768] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Guilielmus Alabaster Anno Aetatis Suae Luxi Studii Arcanae Theologiae 33.
Corn: Iohns: pinxit. Iohn Payne sculpsit:
[n.d. c.1633.]
Engraving. Collector's stamp of Alfred Morrison (1821-1897) on reverse. Sheet size: 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½"). Trimmed inside plate.
Portrait of William Alabaster, the divine; head and shoulders in an oval. Used as the frontispiece to his 'Ecce sponsus venit' of 1633. William Alabaster (1567-1640) was an English poet, playwright, and religious writer. He became a Roman Catholic convert in Spain when on a diplomatic mission as chaplain. His religious beliefs led him to be imprisoned several times; eventually he gave up Catholicism, and was favoured by James I. He received a prebend in St Paul's Cathedral, London.
Ex Collection: Alfred Morrison (1821-1897) NPG: D26774.
[Ref: 40024] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Grant Allen]
Wil R [William Rothenstein] 97.
[Published by Grant Richards, 1898.]
Rare lithograph. Printed area 270 x 170mm (10½ x 6¾").
A pencil-like sketch of Canadian science writer Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (1848-99), who helped promote Darwinism before turning to science fiction, writing 'The British Barbarians' (1898) about an alien visitor to England. Allen was an influence on H.G. Wells, who quoted him in 'The Time Machine'.
[Ref: 69159] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Ames.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5").
Portrait of Joseph Ames (1689 - 1759), English bibliographer and antiquary. He purportedly wrote an account of printing in England from 1471 to 1600 entitled Typographical Antiquities (1749). It is uncertain whether he was by occupation a ship's chandler, a pattern-maker, a plane iron maker or an ironmonger.
[Ref: 68240] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

J. Ames F.R.S. & F.S.A. J. Ames [facsimile signature.]
J.Price.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Etching. 150 x 100mm, 6 c 4".
Joseph Ames (1689-1759), author of an account of printing in England from 1471-1600, 'Typographical Antiquities' (1749), and 'English Printers from 1471 to 1700".
[Ref: 19014] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Ames, F.R.S. & F.S.A.
R. Page sc.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Engraving with letterpress text, sheet 165 x 95mm, 6½ x 3¾".
Joseph Ames (1689-1759), author of an account of printing in England from 1471-1600, 'Typographical Antiquities' (1749), and 'English Printers from 1471 to 1700".
[Ref: 19015] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

[H. C. Andersen.]
CH Jeens [signed in plate.]
[British, n.d. c.1870.]
Engraving on india paper, proof before title, rare. Plate 225 x 150mm. 9 x 6".
Bust portrait of Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875), Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories.
[Ref: 28000] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[...] Hans Christian Andersen [facsimile signature]. Portrait Gallery of Hogg's Instructor.
F. Croll.
[Edinburgh, 1851.]
Stipple engraving with facsimile text. Sheet 245 x 165mm (9¾ x 6½").
Bust portrait of Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875), Danish author, fairy tale writer and poet, noted for his children's stories.
[Ref: 53311] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Christopher Anstey Esquire. Aetat 52.
T. Lawrence R.A. del.t. W. Bond sculp.t.
Published March 1st 1807, by Cadell and Davies, Strand.
Stipple. Sheet size: 300 x 225mm (11¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed within platemark.
A half-length seated portrait of English poet and author Christopher Anstey (1724 - 1805), at his desk, writing. He is best known for his famous rhymed letters, 'The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family', 1766. The work had immediate success, and was enthusiastically praised for its original kind of humour by Walpole and Gray. Anstey was buried at St. Swithin's Church in Bath but has a white marble memorial tablet in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. The frontispiece portrait of 'The Poetical Works of the Late Christopher Anstey, Esq.'.
[Ref: 67852] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Christopher Anstey Esquire. Aetat 52.
T. Lawrence R.A. del.t. W. Bond sculp.t.
Published March 1st 1807, by Cadell and Davies, Strand.
Stipple. Sheet size: 300 x 225mm (11¾ x 8¾"). Trimmed inside platemark at lower and right edges. Glued to backing sheet in corners.
A half-length seated portrait of English poet and author Christopher Anstey (1724 - 1805), at his desk, writing. He is best known for his famous rhymed letters, 'The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family', 1766. The work had immediate success, and was enthusiastically praised for its original kind of humour by Walpole and Gray. Anstey was buried at St. Swithin's Church in Bath but has a white marble memorial tablet in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. The frontispiece portrait of 'The Poetical Works of the Late Christopher Anstey, Esq.'.
[Ref: 32204] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Christopher Anstey]
Engraved by J. Hibbert Jun.r [after Thomas Lawrence].
[n.d., c.1794.]
Stipple. 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5"), watermarked 1794. Old ink mss. title. Small margins. Very small pinhole left centre.
English poet and author Christopher Anstey (1724-1805), sitting at his desk, writing. Resident at 4 Royal Crescent, Bath, he penned 'The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family', an immediate success. Although he is buried at St. Swithin's Church in Bath, he has a white marble memorial tablet in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.
[Ref: 59810] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Embossed Tableaux. Ariosto.
Dobbs, Bailey & Co. [n.d., c.1845.]
Embossed card with printed sepia in border. Sheet 255 x 275mm, 10 x 10¾". Spotted.
An embossed bust of Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), Italian poet best known for his epic poem 'Orlando Furioso', which first appeared in 1516 but which he continued to work on throughout his life.
[Ref: 16705] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Sarah Austin] Mrs Austin.
Painted by H.P. Taylor, R.A. _ Drawn on Stone by Weld Taylor.
Published by Weld Taylor, 15 G.t Portland St Aug.st 1835.
Lithograph on chine collé, backing paper printed with title. Printed area 370 x 280mm (14½ x 11"). Tears in backing paper.
Sarah Austin (née Taylor) (1793-1867), translator of of German literature and editor of the 'Memoirs of Sydney Smith' (1855) and 'Letters from Egypt' (1865) by Lady Duff-Gordon (Austin's own daughter, Lucie). Her husband, John Austin (1790-1859), was an influential writer on law, especially with his ' The Province of Jurisprudence Determined' (1832). The couple were good friends with both Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.
[Ref: 48445] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Cap.t Ayscough. From an Original Sketch by Dance, in the Collection of Sir William Musgrave Bar.t.
S. Haring sculp.
Pub.d Dec.r 1 1794, by E. & S. Harding, Pall Mall.
Stipple. 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½") very large margins.
A posthumously-published sketch portrait of George Edward Ayscough (d.1779), dramatist and guards officer, nephew of the first Lord Lyttelton. In 1776 he produced a version of Voltaire's ‘Semiramis' at Drury Lane, which his brother officers attended in great force, securing its success. However Isaac Reed's '' Biographia dramatica'' (1782) described Ayscough as ‘a fool of fashion' and ‘a parasite of Lord Lyttelton'; 'Seniranis' is condemned as contemptible. Ayscough also editored the ''Miscellaneous Works'' of Lord Lyttelton, published 1774.
[Ref: 48996] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

[Honoré de Balzac.]
P. Hayrick sc.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. 125 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"), with very large margins.
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist.
[Ref: 52554] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti] Joseph Baretti. Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy.
Sir J. Reynolds pinx.t. J. Hardy sculp.t.
Pub.d March 6th 1794 by W. Richardson Castle S.t Leicester Square.
Stipple. 270 x 195mm (10½ x 7¾"). Narrow margins, top left corner lost.
A half-length seated portait of Turinese writer Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti (1719-89), reading a book held close to his face. After leaving Italy after facing censorship, he moved to London where he was welcomed by the literati: when he was tried for murder in 1769, character witnesses included Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke and David Garrick. He was acquitted and soon after became Secretary to the Royal Academy of Arts, as referenced here.
Hamilton p.5. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 67964] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti] Joseph Baretti. Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy.
Sir J. Reynolds pinx.t. J. Hardy sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1794.]
Stipple, scratched letters, printed in brown. Sheet 270 x 185mm (10½ x 7¼"). Trimmed to image on three sides
A half-length seated portait of Turinese writer Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti (1719-89), reading a book held close to his face. After leaving Italy after facing censorship, he moved to London where he was welcomed by the literati: when he was tried for murder in 1769, character witnesses included Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke and David Garrick. He was acquitted and soon after became Secretary to the Royal Academy of Arts, as referenced here.
Hamilton p.5.
[Ref: 67965] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

J.M. Barrie.
Supplement to The Bookman, Christmas, 1905.
Photo by G.C. Beresford, Yeoman's Row. W. The Cranford Press, Wealdstone.
Photogravure. Sheet: 330 x 210mm (12½ x 8¼'').
A portrait of Scottish novelist James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), best known for writing 'Peter Pan'.
[Ref: 48958] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

J. M. Barrie. Supplement to The Bookman Christmas, 1920.
Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn.
[1920.]
Photogravure. Sheet: 315 x 200mm (12.5 x 8"). Tear in left edge.
A portrait of Scottish novelist James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), best known for writing 'Peter Pan'.
[Ref: 45811] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

The true Effigies of Bricius Bauderon D.r. of Physick Aetatis suae 78. [You see his Shadow and his outwards Looks...]
[n.d., c.1657.]
Engraving. 130 x 85mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper. Small mark on lower right.
Portrait of French physician Brice Bauderon, half-length, turned to right, looking towards the viewer, holding a flower in his left hand. Bauderon was born in Paray-le-Monial in Charolais in 1540 and died in Mâcon in 1623. He was the father of Gratien Bauderon (1583-1615).
[Ref: 64136] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

William Beckford Esq.r. Author of Histories of France & Jamaica.
From a Shade by Miers.
Pub.d by Vernor & Hood, 31 Poultry, May 31, 1799.
Stipple, small margins. Platemark: 160 x 110mm. (6¼ x 4¼").
A silhouette portrait of William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844), English novelist, art critic, travel writer and politician. He was Member of Parliament for Wells from 1784 to 1790. He moved to Bath where he bought many of the houses on Lansdown Crescent and he eventually commissioned architect Henry Goodridge to design the spectactular folly on Lansdown Hill, known as Beckford's Tower. Most of Fonthill Abbey collapsed under the weight of its poorly-built tower in 1825.
[Ref: 31680] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Hilaire Belloc
[David] Low
Supplement to The New Statesman, April 17, 1926.
Photo-lithograph, platemark 220 x 185mm (8½ x 7").
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), poet and author, also Liberal MP for South Salford (1906-1910). Now chiefly remembered for his early comic and satirical work such as 'The Bad Child's Book of Beasts' (1896), Belloc's work increasingly engaged with historical and political issues. This caricature was made soon after the publication of 'The Cruise of the 'Nona'' (1925), which recalled a voyage around England in a small boat on the eve of war in 1914. By Sir David Low (1891-1963) for the New Statesman. New Zealand-born Low, who described caricature as the art of 'all-in portraiture', published two series of portraits as supplements to the New Statesman. The original drawing for this caricature is in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
[Ref: 34834] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Hillaire Beloc. Supplement to the New Statesman, April 17, 1926 (13).
Low.
Photo-lithograph. Sheet size: 230 x 330mm (9 x 13"). Small ink smudge in lower margin.
A portrait of Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (1870 - 1953, an Anglo-French writer and historian. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man of letters, soldier and political activist. By New Zealand born artist, Sir David Low (1891 - 1963). Unhappy with the political leadership of the British establishment David Low created his cartoon character, Colonel Blimp in 1934.
[Ref: 37144] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Rev.d James Berresford Author of the 'Miseries of Human Life' & drawn in the Printroom of the British Museum for my friend J. T. Smith - Tho.s Foster. May 19th 1823.
1823.
Engraving. 205 x 190mm (8 x 7½"). Small margins and torn to plate mark on bottom and lower half of right edges. Foxing across left and upper areas of the sheet.
Head and shoulders portrait of James Beresford (1764-1840), inclined to the right. Beresford was a writer and clergyman. He wrote under a variety of pseudonyms and 'Miseries of Human Life' was his most successful work (published under his true name), a satirical work still considered to be a 'minor classic' of the genre.
[Ref: 53851] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Lady Juliana Berners in her Costume as Prioress of Sopewell Nunnery near St Albans. The Earliest English Sportswoman and Poetess of the Chase on record.]
[Drawn from an Antique by Brooke. Engraved by Percy Roberts.]
[Published by Sherwood & Co, July 1st 1825.]
Steel engraving, trimmed as a scrap. Printed area 130 x 80mm (5¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed around decorative border, losing all inscriptions.
Juliana Berners (or Barnes or Bernes, born 1388) was a Benedictine nun credited with writing 'The Boke of Saint Albans', first printed in 1488, one of the earliest collections of treatises about field sports. She is regarded as the first female author in the English language.
[Ref: 53398] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Sr. Richard Blackmore Kt.
I.Closterman pinx. R.Williams fecit.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Very scarce and fine mezzotint, 17th century watermark. Sheet 340 x 250mm (13½ x 10"). Small margins, some foxing and creasing. Damage to upper right corner.
Portrait of Sir Richard Blackmore (1654 - 1729), English poet and physician, who is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an epic poet, but he was also a respected medical doctor and theologian.
CS: 8. W318. Not in. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 65442] £320.00

M.e. N. de Blegny. Conseiller Medecin Artiste ordinaire du Roy et de Monsieur.
J. Hainzelman adviuum fec.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. 120 x 65mm (4¾ x 2½"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper.
Portrait of Nicolas de Blégny (1652 - 1722), French essayist, historian and barber surgeon. He was appointed surgeon of Queen Maria Theresa of Spain in 1678, then physician of King Louis XIV in 1682.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 64445] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington] Woman. The Greatest Social Gift.
E.T. Parris J.B. Forrest
Engraved for this Work [c.1850]
Engraving, sheet 220 x 135mm (8½ x 5¼").
Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington (1789-1849), author. Marguerite's best-known book is her 'Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron', initially published in installments in 1832-3 before appearing in one volume eleven years later. It was based on Marguerite's daily encounters with Byron after they both settled in Genoa in 1823. Engraved after a portrait by Edmund Thomas Parris (1793-1873), whose drawings were published alongside verses by Marguerite in 1836-8.
[Ref: 41384] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

The Revd. John Bowle of Idmiston Co. Wilts. The Revd. John Bowle was lineally descended from John Bowle D.D. Bishop of Rochester..."I rejoice to see the admired Cervantes merge again from oblivion in his won language and receive additional lustre from a British pen." Dated 2nd March 1778. [Facsimile signature:] J. Bowle.
[n.d. c.1838.]
Stipple and letterpress. Plate 336 x 235mm. 13¼ x 9¼".
John Bowle was the first real editor of Don Quixote, and is a relatively unknown figure. In 1781 Bowle published a three-volume edition of Don Quixote. Bowle revered Cervantes and thought of the text as a classic work which had been considered merely comic and bawdy for too long.
[Ref: 16256] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Hugh Boyd, Esq.r
Engraved by Caroline Watson from a crayon drawing In the possession of Mrs. Boyd.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple. 132 x 95mm. 5¼ x 3¾". Small paper damage into upper edge. Trimmed.
Hugh Boyd (1746-1794) was educated at Trinity College Dublin and went on to become editor for the political paper, the Freeholder in Dublin, before moving to London where he joing the club attended by Johnson, Goldsmith and Burke. He accompanied Lord Macartney to India as his secretary and was captured and imprisoned by the French. He became Master-Attendant in Madras where he edited the Madras Courier and other Anglo-Indian journals. His miscellaneous works were published between 1798 and 1800, and there were many who believed him,(rather than Sir Philip Francis), to be the author of the 'Junius Letters', which had appeared in the Public Advertiser, London, from 1769 to 1772, attacking George III and his ministers.
[Ref: 17884] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Photographic Group of the British Poets, complete from Chaucer to Beattie.
Published by J.B. de Voto. Glasgow [n.d., c.1875.]
Photograph laid on printed backing card. 300 x 240mm (11¾ x 9½"). With wood-engraved index sheet. Some slight oxidisation.
A photographically reproduced montage of 137 writers, including Byron and Scott.
[Ref: 63296] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Charlotte Brontë.]
[After G.Richmond.] Signed in pencil, G.Sidney Hunt.
Published 1922 by The Museum Galleries, 26 Museum Street, London. W.C. Copyright.
Stipple. 330 x 225mm (13 x 9"), with large margins.
Portrait of Charlotte Nicholls (1816 - 1855), commonly known as Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet, and the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which she published under the male pseudonym Currer Bell.
[Ref: 65293] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs Brooke. Author of Lady Julia Mandeville, &c.
Catherine Read pinx. Mariano Bovi sculp.
[London: Publish'd May 1790, by Mano. Bovi, No. 81, Great Titchfield Street.]
Stipple with etching. 318 x 228mm. 12½ x 9". Cut, crease.
Frances Moore Brooke (c.1724-1789) was an English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator. It was whilst she was in Canada that she wrote her first novel in 1763, "The History of Lady Julia Mandeville".
[Ref: 20671] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Rupert Brooke 1913.
From a photograph by Sherril Schell. Emery Walker Ph.sc.
London, Published by Emery Walker Limited, 16 Clifford's Inn, Fleet St. E.C., May 1st 1916.
Photographic print, with large margins. Plate 198 x 147mm. 7¾ x 5¾".
Rupert Chawner Brooker (1887-1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War. From a photo by Sherrill Schell (1877-1694); the glass positive was given to the National Portrait Gallery by Emery Walker Ltd in 1956.
See NPG: P101(f).
[Ref: 23623] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Robert Browning.]
Barraud. 263, Oxford Street, London. & 92, Bold Street, Liverpool.
W & S. Ltd. Permanent. [Richard Bentley & Son, 1888.]
Sepia carbon print on blue card mount. 354 x 260mm. 14 x 10¼".
Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. Notable works inlcude, 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin', 'Porphyria's Lover', 'The Ring and the Book', 'Men and Women', and 'My Last Duchess'.
[Ref: 23625] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

"Society" Bijou Portraits, No.110.--Mr Robert Browning. Supplement to "Society", February 7, 1885.
From a Photograph b Alexander Bassano.
"Ink-Photo", Sprague & Co. London [1885.]
Photogravure. 330 x 210mm. 13 x 8¼". Holes along top and bottom, slight crease across title.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. Notable works inlcude, 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin', 'Porphyria's Lover', 'The Ring and the Book', 'Men and Women', and 'My Last Duchess'.
[Ref: 23624] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Browning. Poet.
[Robert Bryden after Elliot & Fry.]
[n.d., c.1901.]
Woodcut with original wrapper. Printed area: 455 x 300mm (18 x 11¾").
A portrait of Robert Browning (1812-1889), one of the foremost Victorian poets and playwrights. Almost half-length to the left, wearing a small ruff, dark coat, waistcoat and double chain across his chest; with a town in the background and a castle to the left. One of twelve woodcuts from the series 'Some Woodcuts of Men of Letters', by British sculptor and printmaker Robert Bryden (1865 - 1939). Lettered in the image with the title and the printmaker's monogram and date: 'RB 1898.'
[Ref: 35450] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Robert Browning. Born 1812; Died 1889.
Riddle & Couchman Lith, London. From a Photograph by Mr. W.H. Grove, 174, Brompton Road, S.W.
Our Poets' Corner. Plate No.13. "Masterpiece Library" October 1895.
Coloured lithograph. 381 x 279mm. 15 x 11".
Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. Notable works inlcude, 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin', 'Porphyria's Lover', 'The Ring and the Book', 'Men and Women', and 'My Last Duchess'.
[Ref: 23628] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

John Buchan.
From a drawing by Frank E. Slater.
[n.d., c.1920.]
Sheet: 285 x 195mm (11 x 8"). Trimmed, creasing.
A portrait of Scottish novelist and historian John Buchan (1875-1940) who served as Governer General of Canada.
[Ref: 45808] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

J.S. Buckingham [facsimile signature].
[after Edwin Dalton Smith.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Stipple, printed on chine collé. 295 x 230mm (11½ x 9"), very large margins.
Half-length portrait of James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), author, journalist and traveller. He founded the Calcutta Journal in 1818; criticisms of the East India Company led to his expulsion from India in 1823, although the East India Company later gave him a pension of £500 a year as compensation. After a watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, painted in 1835 by Edwin Dalton Smith (1800-83), now in the National Portrait Gallery.
[Ref: 58263] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Effigis of Francis Bugg of Mildenhall the 60th Year of His Age 1700. I magnifie mine Office, If by any means...
F. H. van Hove. sculp.
[R. Janeway & J. Robinson 1700.]
Engraving. Sheet: 140 x 85mm (5½ x 3¼''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet.
A portrait of Francis Bugg (1740-1727) which served as frontispiece to 'The Pilgrim's Progress from Quakerism to Christianity' 1700. Francis Bugg became a Quaker while a young man but converted back to Christianity and wrote several books arguing against Quakerism.
[Ref: 49062] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[John Bunyan.]
[after Robert White.]
[n.d., c.1690.]
Etching. Sheet 135 x 75mm (5¼ x 3"). Thread margins, repaired tear top left. Bit messy.
Portrait of John Bunyan (1628-88), apparently asleep under a tree but, as he is leaning on a skull, his rest is probably eternal. A lion roars bottom left.
[Ref: 52563] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Portrait of John Bunyan Author of the Pilgrims Progress.
Engraved by W.m Sharp, from a Picture formerly in the possession of the late George Phillips Esqr.
London, Pub. Aug. 1819. by Hurst Robinson & Co./late Boydells/.90 Cheapside.
Etching. 240 x 175mm (9½ x 7")
John Bunyan (1628 - 1688), preacher and writer of 'Pilgrim's Progress'.
[Ref: 7928] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

John Bunyan Minister of The Gospel at Bedford Died at London Aug. 31. 1688. Aged 60 having Written 60 Books.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Woodcut. Sheet 125 x 75mm (5 x 3"). Trimmed within printed border on left, laid on album paper. Text verso. Stained.
A portrait of John Bunyan (1628-88), preacher and religious writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress, probably a frontispiece to one of his books.
[Ref: 52547] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

John Bunyan,
[n.d., c.1700.]
Rare woodcut. Sheet 150 x 85mm (6 x 3½"). Light time staining.
A portrait of John Bunyan (1628-88), preacher and religious writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress, probably a frontispiece to one of his books.
[Ref: 52548] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[John Bunyan.]
S.M. Litten [pencil signature].
Published 1922 by The Museum Galleries, 26, Museum Street, London, W.C. Copyright.
Mezzotint on chine collé, printed in colours, signed by the engraver, publisher's blind stamp lower left. 295 x 255mm (11½ x 10"), very large margins.
Half-length portrait of John Bunyan (1628-88), preacher and religious writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress, after Thomas Sadler. Dated 1684, it is the earliest dated portrait of Bunyan, is now in the National Portrait Gallery.
See NPG 1311.
[Ref: 57861] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Rev.d Edward Burn.
Drawn by Hancock. Engraved by A. Cardon.
London Pub June 4, 1807 by C. Richards 349 Strand. Proof.
Stipple, rare with large margins. Plate 229 x 178mm. 9 x 7". Slight foxing.
Edward Burn (1762-1837) was a polemical writer who opposed Joseph Priestley.
[Ref: 24774] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

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