Grosvenor Prints

Alveston House Academy, 10 Miles from Bristol on the Gloucester Road. Conducted by Mr W. Libert. For the Education of a select number of Young Gentlemen intended for the Universities & Professional or Mercantile Pursuits.
W. Baker Engraver Bristol.
[n.d., c.1861.]
Steel engraving on card, printed on both sides. Sheet 95 x 125mm (3¾ x 5"). A little staining.
The trade card for a school, with an illustration of the school on one side and a list of the subjects taught on the other. W. Libert was a schoolmaster in Cardiff before becoming headmaster at Alveston in 1861.
[Ref: 55196] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Allegories of the industries of English Counties] Cheshire. Kent. Norfolk. Dorsetshire.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). A little wear to edges, some surface soiling. Foxing.
Idealised scenes of women and children representing the industry of the four counties: sequentially cheese-making, hop-growing, turkey and chicken farming and butter-making. Very rare complete.
[Ref: 55238] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegories of the industries of English Counties] Northumberland. Devonshire. Herefordshire. Befordshire.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). A little wear to edges, some surface soiling. Foxing.
Idealised scenes of women and children representing the industry of the four counties: sequentially sailors, milk, apples and market gardening. Very rare complete.
[Ref: 55239] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegories of the industries of English Counties] Wiltshire. Gloucestershire. Nottinghamshire. Derbyshire.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). A little wear to edges, some surface soiling. Foxing
Idealised scenes of women and children representing the industry of the four counties: sequentially pig farming; pin-making, embroidery and hosiary. Very rare complete.
[Ref: 55237] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegories of the industries of English Counties] Hertfordshire. Sussex. Cornwall. Lancashire.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). A little wear to edges, some surface soiling. Foxing, repaired tear bottom centre.
Idealised scenes of women and children representing the industry of the four counties: sequentially corn, sheep, fishing and spinning. Very rare complete.
[Ref: 55240] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegories of the industries of English Counties] Staffordshire. Yorkshire. Northamptonshire. Oxfordshire.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). A little wear to edges, some surface soiling. Foxing, two small tears at top.
Idealised scenes of women and children representing the industry of the four counties: sequentially pottery, horses, spinning and glove-making. Very rare complete.
[Ref: 55241] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Allegories of the industries of English Counties] Buckinghamshire. Essex. Hampshire. Worcestershire.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with original hand colour. Sheet 385 x 280mm (15¼ x 11"). Tear entering image top right, some surface soiling. Foxing.
Idealised scenes of women and children representing the industry of the four counties: sequentially tatting, cows, rabbits and porcelain painting. Very rare complete.
[Ref: 55242] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[9 writing sheets with vignette rustic scenes of Crofton, West Yorkshire.]
Crofton. CC.
[n.d., c.1826.]
9 lithographs. Each sheet c. 230 x 190mm (9 x 7½"). Two sheets watermarked 'J Green & Son 1826'.
Writing sheets with scenes of rustic buildings in Crofton, West Yorkshire, school of Bronte sisters. Green & Son in Hayle Mill, Kent operated from 1815.
[Ref: 55339] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Rev.d Solomon Hirschel. Chief Rabbi of the German Jews in London.
Engraved by Ridley for the European Magazine from an Original Painting by Drummond.
London. Published by J. Asperne, No. 32 Cornhill. April 2, 1811.
Stipple. Plate: 155 x 120mm (6 x 5"), with narrow margins
A portrait of Rabbi Solomon Hirschel (1761 - 1842), head and shoulders to front, looking to right, with beard and tall fur hat, wearing bands and light patterned gown. An illustration to the European Magazine. Hirschel was the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, from 1802 to 1842. He is best remembered for his unsuccessful attempt to stop the spread of Reform Judaism in Britain by excommunicating its leaders.
[Ref: 55266] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Daniel Malden who made two surprizing Excapes out of Newgate.
Drawn by J. Clarke Painter.
Engrav'd for J. Stanton Distiller, and given Gratis to all his Customers to his Distillers Magazine [n.d., c.1736].
Engraving. Sheet 200 x 145mm (8 x 5¾"). Trimmed close to printed border, some wear to edges and inscription area. Damaged but very rare. Loss at top right.
A portrait of Daniel Malden, burglar and street robber, in handcuffs. Sentenced to hang at Newgate, he twice broke out of the condemned cell, the second time succeeding at getting out of the prison in June 1736. Captured in September, he was hung in November and dissected at Surgeons' Hall. The publisher, J. Stanton, was a distiller before the 1736 'Act for Laying a Duty upon the Retailers of Spirituous Liquors and Licensing the Retailers thereof' drove him out of business. He started publishing his 'Distillers Universal Magazine' the same year. Published every Saturday, 10 numbers are known to have been issued, but interest was not great, prompting him to issue premium prints such as this as lures.
[Ref: 55208] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Peremptory Sale, under a Deed of Assignment. Catalogue of the Stock of Berlin Wools, Patterns & other Fancy Materials for Needlework, in every variety, --- A Few Lots of Household Furniture, Shop Counters Show Cases, Fixtures, and Fittings, Removed for Convenience of Sale, To be Sold by Auction by T. Mallam & Son. at the Star Hotel, Large Room, on Friday, the 18th Day of May, 1855, at Eleven O'Clock, without the slightest reserve.
Printed by H. Cooke & Co., Oxford.
Letterpress auction poster. Sheet 565 x 440mm (22¼ x 17¼"). A few nicks and tears to edges.
A poster advertising an auction, listing the 364 lots, including Berlin tapestry. Mallams Auctioneers, North Yorkshire was founded in 1788 and still flourishes.
[Ref: 55356] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[The Watford Tunnel Collapse, 1835.] A Man that is Married. Air. _ Love Sick Looby.The Swiss Toy Girl. [WITH OLD INK MSS] This Song Belonged to James Carrick one of the Unfortunate of the Ten who was Buried in the Watford Tunnel and this was Buried with Him from the 16th July 1835 Till the 18th August 1835 and he was the Last Found.
Pitts' Printer, Toy & Marble Warehouse, 6 Great st Andrew street, Seven Dials.
Letterpress broadside song sheet. Sheet 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Some wear to old folds.
A songsheet with the lyrics to two ballads. According to the ink mss the sheet was buried with its owner in the collapse of the Watford Tunnel while it was being dug for the London & Birmingham Railway. Although the tunnel was mostly solid chalk there were areas made unstable by seams of gravel; a night crew, removing wooden struts to prepare for bricking the walls of a ventilation shaft, were buried 80 feet down under gravel, chalk and timbers. Despite working around the clock, it still took over a month to extricate the bodies.
Bodleian Ballads Online Bod12422.
[Ref: 55370] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Marine Society.] For the Service of Our Country.
S. Wale delin.t et donavit. T. Major sculp.t et donavit.
[London: Marine Society, c.1770.]
Etching, part 18th century watermark. 115 x 180mm (4½ x 7"), with large margins. Two tears, one entering plate, taped.
The trade card of the Marine Society, a charity founded in 1756 by Jonas Hanway (1712-86), to encourage young men to go and join the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War. Later the Scociety turned to the education of poor boys in preperation for their joining the navy, as depicted here. Ragged boys are being directed to Britannia outside the Marine Society's Warehouse, where they are dressed as cadets. As well as founding the Marine Society in 1756, Hanway was a vice president of the Foundling Hospital, instrumental in the establishment of the Magdalen Hospital and a commissioner for victualling the navy (experimenting with ways to alleviate scurvy amongst seamen). He is said to be the first male Londoner to carry an umbrella, facing down heckling hackney coachmen.
[Ref: 55195] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[An manuscript promissory note with the autograph of Lindley Murray, Quaker grammarian] Exch. £45 - Holdgate near York, 4th of 7th month, 1825. At sight, please pay to Wilson, Tweedy & Co., or their order, Forty five pounds, due to me from [old paper patch obscuring text] Lindley Murray.
Ink mss. promissory note. Sheet 85 x 190mm (3¼ x 7½"). Slightly trimmed, laid on album paper, old clipping pasted over edge, mounted on album paper with steel-engraved portrait with matching facsimile signature.
Lindley Murray (1745-1826), a Pennsylvania-born Quaker who, after a success law career, retired to Holdgate (near York, England) for the sake of his health (1784). There, noticing a lack of suitable lesson-books for a Friends' school for girls, he wrote 'English Grammar Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners' (1795). Published both in England and America, running through nearly 50 editions and becoming the predominant grammar schoolbook. His 'English Reader' (1799) was described by Abraham Lincoln as 'the best schoolbook ever put in the hands of an American youth'. Wilson, Tweedy & Co. were country bankers of High Ousegate, York.
[Ref: 55319] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Adam Sireh-goona Munhi Rathanal, (Formerly a High Priest of Boodhu,) Educated in England by the Revd. Adam Clarke, L.L.D.
A. Mosses del. R. Hicks sculp.
[Published by Henry Fisher, Caxton, Liverpool.1821.]
Stipple engraving. Sheet 175 x 120mm (7 x 4¾"). Cut before publication line and inside platemark.
[Ref: 55256] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

The Recruiting Serjeant. Engrav'd for the Oxford Magazine.
[1770]
Engraving. 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼"). Three worm holes in the left edge, some ink offset.
A recruiting serjeant stands in a village tempting the villagers to enlist with promises, while two old soldiers walk by complaining about the reality of service.
BM Satire 4411.
[Ref: 55190] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Westminster Society. For Insurance on Lives and Survivorships, and Granting Annuities.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraved trade card. Sheet 90 x 130mm (3½ x 5"). Trimmed within image and laid on album paper.
Established 1792.
BM Banks,7.26.
[Ref: 55204] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Eleazar Wigan Writing Mr. At the Hand and Pen on Great Tower Hill London, MDCLXXXXV. Penna Vetat Mori.
I. Closterman Pinxit. I. Sturt Sculpsit. 96.
[1696.]
Fine engraving. 280 x 205mm (11 x 8"). Small margins.
Portrait of writing master Eleazar Wigan, used as the frontispiece of his 1696 "Practical arithmetick an introduction to ye whole art wherein the most necessary rules are fairly describ'd in the usuall hands adorn'd with great variety of flourishes perform'd by command of hand design'd to be interleav'd for ye more speedy fitting of youth for merchandise or trade".
BM: 1881,0611.333.
[Ref: 55206] £380.00

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