Grosvenor Prints

Barber. London.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Etching. Sheet 45 x 65mm (1¾ x 2½"). Trimmed.
A trade label, probably for a draper.
[Ref: 61350] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[BOOKSELLER] J. Gleave Stationer Book Seller & Binder. Deansgate Manchester.
[Manchester, c.1820s.]
Stipple and engraving, printed in blue ink. Sheet 50 x 65mm (2 x 2½").
The winged putto emblem of Manchester bookseller Joseph Gleave, who had a long career, at various times located at Southern Street, Alport Street, Market Street, and finally Deansgate.
See item 16916 for a variant printing.
[Ref: 61349] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[Album sheet with three watercolours of Death's Head Moths by Albin Roberts Burt.]
[1826-7.]
Abum sheet with three watercolours and two coloured etchings. Sheet 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼").
Illustrations of the chrysalis, caterpillar and adult Death's Head Moth, with an ink mss. description signed by Albin Roberts Burt, dated 1826. On the same sheet is a table of sign-language etched by Burt and an illustration of a mosaic of the Roman villa at Bignor. Albin Roberts Burt (1783-1842), portrait-painter and engraver.
[Ref: 61402] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Warrant for the Beheading of Charles I]
Suptibus Societat. Antiquariæ Lond. 1750.
Engraving. 660 x 445mm. (26 x 17 ½") Cut within platemark on bottom edge. Multiple repaired tears, mostly confined to margins. Repaired fold down centre in both directions. Laid on archival paper.
Facsimile of death warrant for Charles I, in memorial frame surmounted by royal monogram. King Charles I (1600 - 1649) was declared guilty on charges of high treason and "other high crimes" at a public session of the High Court of Justice on Saturday 27 January 1649 and sentenced to death. Fifty-nine of the Commissioners signed the warrant (their seals adjacent to signatures). Charles Stuart was beheaded on Tuesday, 30 January 1649. The warrant records the year 1648, because from the 12th century to 1752, the civil or legal year in England began on 25 March. The execution took place at Whitehall on a scaffold in front of the Banqueting House. Published by Society of Antiquaries of London. The Parliamentary Archives holds the original of Charles I's death warrant.
[Ref: 61516] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

T. Yarnold, Chemist, Druggist, & Dentist. Medical Hall, High Street, Chepstow.
Jay sc. Bristol
[n.d., c.1850.]
Etched trade card. Sheet 60 x 90mm (2½ x 3½").
The card advertises Thoms Yarnold' 'Genuine Patent Medicines & Havannah Cigars', 'Fine Arated Lemonade', 'Horse and Cattle Medicines' and 'French Leeches Fresh Every Week'.
[Ref: 61353] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Insurance certificate] County Fire Office. Insituted at Midsummer, 1807. Policy No. [33365]
[Policy 2nd September 1815.]
Insurance certificate, wood-engraving and letterpress, filled in with ink mss. Watermark J. Whatman 1814, Sheet 475 x 330mm (18¾ x 13"), with tax blind stamp Folds.
An insurance policy for a farmhouse, barns, stables and hay stacks of a farm in Tuxford, Nottinghamshire.
[Ref: 61359] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Established, 1740. Joseph Hide, Family Draper. Market Place, Kingston-on-Thames. Decorators. Plate Glass Factors and Gilders. Cabinet Makers.
Waterlow & Sons, London Wall, London.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Engraved trade card, printed on both sides. Sheet 110 x 150mm (4¼ x 6"). Glue stains on reverse.
The same company ran an undertakers from the same premises.
[Ref: 61346] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

East London Water Works. Share. N.º 43. Transfer. N.º 24. A Memorial of the above Transfer was registered pursuant to Act of Parliament on the 30th Day of November 1807.
Scarce engraving on vellum with old ink mss. Sheet 270 x 335mm (10¾ x 13¼"). With pasted label with tax blind stamp and two wax seals. Some wear and staining, taped stain, collector's label pasted on reverse.
A certificate of share transfer, recording the sale of a £100 share in the East London Water Works from James Boote to John Buck of Batson's Coffee House, for £77 10/-. The East London Waterworks Company was founded in 1806 (the year before this transfer) and was absorbed by the Metropolitan Water Board in 1904. Their prime source was the River Lea.
[Ref: 61541] £480.00

Copy of an Inventory and Valuation Of all the Live and Dead Stock belonging to the late W.m Picken Esq.r deceased on the Farm at Whitemoor; as taken by the undersigned, on the tenth, eleventh, & seventeenth Days of April, in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand, eight hundred and nine.
[1809].
4pp. ink mss., with appraiser's blind stamp and ink tax stamp, unique, very large watermark 1805. Folds with splits.
A valuation of livestock (draught horse, cows, sheep and pigs) and deadstock (wagons, farm tools and manure) for a farm in an area now part of Nottingham.
[Ref: 61360] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

F. Irish, Carver, Gilder, &c. 35, Windmill Street. Tottenham Court.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Etched trade card. Sheet 40 x 60mm (1½ x 2¼"). Trimmed, crease top right.
[Ref: 61352] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Extrait du Procès-Verbal de l'Assemblée Génerale du Duché de Bouillon. Du 18 Février 1791.
A Evreux, de l'Imprimerie de J.J.L. Ancelle, Imprimeur de son Altesse Sérénissime Monsigneur le Duc Régnant de Bouillon. 1791.
4to pamphlet, stitched. pp. (32). Front and back sheets soiled, some spotting.
A transcript of a general assembly in the Sovereign Duchy of Bouillon in 1791, in which Duke Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne reaffirmed his independence from Revolutionary France. In 1794 the French Revolutionary Army invaded the Duchy, deposing the new duke Jacques Léopold de La Tour d'Auvergne, absorbing Bouillon into France. In 1815 Bouillon became part of the Duchy of Luxembourg and is now part of Belgium
[Ref: 61347] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

A Chronicle of Events; Or, A complete Narrative of the Transactions of some celebrated Characters, residing in a Village near the City of Gotham.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Letterpress broadside. Sheet 490 x 410mm (19¼ x 16"). Edges ragged, folds, stains.
An account of a publican taking advantage of his handmaiden and the lengths he went to avoid responsibility for her pregnancy.
[Ref: 61477] £390.00

John G. Lowe, Costumier, Silk Mercer & Mangle Maker. Importer of French Millinery. 13, 14, 15 & 16 S.t Mary Street, Weymouth.
Waterlow & Sons, London Wall, London.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Engraved trade card. Sheet 75 x 115mm (3 x 4½"). Glue stains on reverse.
[Ref: 61345] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[A Musical Assembly] Drawn by J. Farrer from the Original Picture by Hogarth.
Etched by G.Cruikshank [after Marcellus Laroon the Younger].
[n.d., 1819.]
Etching. Sheet 175 x 235mm (7 x 9¼"). Trimmed within plate, laid on album paper with letterpress title and description underneath.
The keyplate of a painting once believed to be by William Hogarth but is now attributed to Marcellus Laroon the Younger. It shows a fashionable salon during a 'musical assembly', with a key of 24 personages of whom only 12 are identified, with the central figure, '15', named as Lord Castlemain and '16' as Frederick, Prince of Wales (father of George III), with other members of the Royal Family. The letterpress describes how Hogarth painted the scene for Castlemain's house at Wanstead but was still in the painter's possession when he died. The painting, now in the Tate (T13316), is now attributed to Laroon (1679-1772) and the main figure identified as Charles Mordaunt (1658-1735), 3rd Earl of Peterborough, at a soirée at his house in Fulham. The only other identification the Tate suggests is the woman next to Mordaunt (14 here), ''possibly Anastasia Robinson, a distinguished singer then at the outset of her operatic career'', whom Mordaunt secretly married in 1722.
Reid 844.
[Ref: 61444] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

White's Music and Musical Instrument Warehouses, Nº 3 George Street, Bath. Patent Upright, Grand and Square Piano Fortes of Superior Workmanship, with the latesat Improvements by the Marks to His Majesty, and the Prince of Wales. A Capital assortment of Piano Fortes to let on hire.
[n.d., c.1815.]
Etched trade card. Sheet 125 x 80mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed, overwritten in old ink mss with a second address at 'Nº 1 Milsom St'
John White, previously a musician himself, opened his instrument shop in George Street in 1805. By 1816 he had opened premises at the more prestigious 1 Milsom Street: the manuscript amendments here suggest the label was printed before then.
[Ref: 61351] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

King's Theatre, Richmond. By Desire and under the Patronage of Col. Wyndham, and The Officers of The Tenth Royal Hussars. On Friday, the 11th of September 1829, Will be presented, the popular Play (taken from the French of Le Jeune Mari) called The Wealthy Widow: Or, The Bride of Fifty.
E.H, Hall, Printer, Richmond [1829].
Letterpress playbill. Sheet 320 x 185mm (12½ x 7¼"). Some creasing.
A playbill for the King's Theatre (or Theatre Royal) on the south-west side of Richmond Green, built 1765 and demolished 1884. Two years after this bill Edmund Kean became manager, living next door and dying two years later.
[Ref: 57605] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Sandown Hotel. Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight. Walter Mew, Proprietor. Wine & Spirit Stores - Posting Establishment. Six Miles from Ryde.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Wood engraving on porcelain card. 90 x 120mm (3½ x 4¾").
In 1881's '' Murray's Handbook for Travellers'' Walter Mew (a mason) advertised the hotels billiard room, croquet and tennis lawns.
[Ref: 61443] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Dedication to Bell's Shakespeare] To His Royal Highness George Prince of Wales [...] Your Royal Highness's most dutiful devoted Servant John Bell.
[Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi.]
London. Printed 1.st March 1788, for J. Bell, British Library, Strand.
Stipple with engraving. Sheet 145 x 185mm (5¾ x 7¼"). Laid on album paper. Cut.
A dedication page engraved by Bartolozzi for 'The Dramatick Writings Of Will. Shakespeare', a twenty-volume edition published by John Bell, illustrated by Francesco Bartolozzi. Bell (1745-1831) specialised in literature with illustrations to encourage readership. He also was instrumental in rendering the elongated 's' in typography obsolete.
De V. 1847.
[Ref: 61355] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Table for Baits.
J. Scott del, et sculp.
Published May 1, 1801, by Bunney & Gold, 103 Shoe Lane, London.
Etching with engraving. 415 x 250mm (16¼ x 9¾"). Folds, stains, a tear just entering plate taped.
A guide for anglers, with instructions on how to catch 17 British river fish, types of worm and flies, and how to make pastes.
[Ref: 61450] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Joseph Hide. Undertaker. Market Place, Kingston-on-Thames [...] Wills & Hide, Cabinet Makers. Upholders and Bedding Manufacturers. Carpets of Every Description. Goods Warehoused.
Waterlow & Sons, London Wall, London.
[n.d., c.1880.]
Engraved trade card, printed on both sides. Sheet 110 x 150mm (4¼ x 6"). Glue stains on reverse.
Joseph Hide also ran a drapers from the same premises.
[Ref: 61348] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Wine Merchant] Brett's. 109 Drury Lane 109. Promise to supply the Bearer with pure Patent Brandy Patent Hollands and every other genune Article in the Wine and Spitit Trade at fair and reasonable princes or forfit One Thousand Pounds. 1832 Dec.r 1 London 1 Dec.r 1832. Henry Brett 109 Drury Lane.
[1832].
Etching. Sheet 135 x 215mm (5¼ x 8½"). Top edge lacking, toning, laid on album sheet.
An advert in imitation of a banknote. Henry Brett (born in 1787 in Holborn) became a wine merchant in 1829, establishing a business that continued as Henry Brett & Co. until 1883.
[Ref: 61426] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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