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The Plan of Birmingham Survey'd in the Year 1731.
The Plan of Birmingham Survey'd in the Year 1731. To the Honourable Edw.d Digby & Will.m Peyto Esq:rs Members of Parliament for the County of Warwick, this Plate is humbly Dedicated by their most obed.t humble Serv:t W. Westley.
Copied from the Original Engraving and Published by Thomas Underwood, Castle St. High St. Birmingham [n.d., c.1860].
Engraved map. Printed area 400 x 490mm (15¾ x 19¼"), with large margins. Repaired tears.
A Victorian facsimiles of one the first detailed printed map of Birmingham, originally published the year that Samuel and Nathaniel Buck issued their prospect of the city. It names the streets and shows important buildings in perspective. The Corn Market next to St. Martin’s Church is now the Bull Ring. Underneath are statistics for the city: in 1700 it contained 30 streets, 100 courts and alleys, 2,504 houses and 15032 inhabitants; by 1730 there were 25 additional streets, 50 courts and alleys, 1252 houses and 8254 inhabitants, representing a doubling in size. William Westley, a local surveyor, owned land in the city's south-easst, commemorated with ‘Westley’s Row’.
[Ref: 59156]   £280.00  
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[Ceramics] W.T. Copeland, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordsihre.
[Ceramics] W.T. Copeland, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordsihre. Birmingham Exposition of Arts and Manufactures, 1849.
T. Underwood Lith. High S.t Birm.m.
[Birmingham, 1849.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾").
A display of ceramics published in the brochure of the Birmingham Exposition of Arts and Manufactures, a precursor of the Great Exhibition of 1851. William Taylor Copeland continued the business of Josiah Spode. W T Copeland & Sons operated from 1847 until 1966, when it merged with Royal Worcester. It is now part of the Portmeirion Group.
[Ref: 63038]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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[Papier mâché manufacturers] Jennens & Bettridge, Manufacturers, London & Birmingham.
[Papier mâché manufacturers] Jennens & Bettridge, Manufacturers, London & Birmingham. Birmingham Exposition of Arts and Manufactures, 1849.
T. Underwood Lith. High S.t Birm.m.
[Birmingham, 1849.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 275 x 380mm (10¾ x 15").
A display of ornate furnishings at the Birmingham Exposition of Arts and Manufactures, a precursor of the Great Exhibition of 1851, published in the exhibition brochure. Jennens and Bettridge (fl. 1815-64) produced quality papier-mâché wares, expaning from Birmingham to Belgravia, Paris and New York.
[Ref: 63036]   £85.00   (£102.00 incl.VAT)
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G.R. Collis & C.º Silversmiths, Electro-Platers, & Gilders, Church Street Workins, Birmingham, & 1, Langham Place, London.
G.R. Collis & C.º Silversmiths, Electro-Platers, & Gilders, Church Street Workins, Birmingham, & 1, Langham Place, London. Birmingham Exposition of Arts and Manufactures, 1849.
T. Underwood Lith. High S.t Birm.m.
[Birmingham, 1849.]
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾").
A selection of silver ewers, teapots, tankards and goblets, published in the brochure of the Birmingham Exposition of Arts and Manufactures, a precursor of the Great Exhibition of 1851. By the 1890s George Richmond Collis & Co were operating from Regent Street, London.
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