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Temple of the Muses. An interior view of the extensive Library of Lackington, Allen & Co. Finsbury Square, London where above Half a Million Volumes are constantly on Sale.
[German, c.1810.]
Etching. 220 x 175mm (8¾ x 7"). Crease on right, small margins and backed onto card at margins.
An advertisement for the first ‘cash bookseller', probably from the periodical 'London und Paris'. James Lackington (1746 - 1815) rose from selling meat pies at ten and taking an apprenticeship to a shoemaker at 14. In 1773 he went to London to make his fortune and set up as a very humble bookseller and shoemaker. By 1775 he had established his cheap circulating library, helped by his second wife, Dorcas Turton, following their marriage in 1776. In 1789, he moved to The Temple of the Muses in Finsbury Square, purpose built by George Dance, taking Robert Allen into partnership in 1793.
See James Lackington's portrait, ref 10495.
[Ref: 64247] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
[German, c.1810.]
Etching. 220 x 175mm (8¾ x 7"). Crease on right, small margins and backed onto card at margins.
An advertisement for the first ‘cash bookseller', probably from the periodical 'London und Paris'. James Lackington (1746 - 1815) rose from selling meat pies at ten and taking an apprenticeship to a shoemaker at 14. In 1773 he went to London to make his fortune and set up as a very humble bookseller and shoemaker. By 1775 he had established his cheap circulating library, helped by his second wife, Dorcas Turton, following their marriage in 1776. In 1789, he moved to The Temple of the Muses in Finsbury Square, purpose built by George Dance, taking Robert Allen into partnership in 1793.
See James Lackington's portrait, ref 10495.
[Ref: 64247] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
The Cov: Garden Morning Frolick. Gaillardise du Commun Jardin.
Invented & Engrav'd by L. P. Boitard.
Invented & Engrav'd by L. P. Boitard Publish'd According to Act of Parliam.t. Octr. 9. 1747 Price Six Pence. Sold by C. Moseley Engraver & Printseller in Round Court in ye Strand.
Scarce engraving. 240 x 325mm (9½ x 12¾"). Narrow margins, notch in bottom edge, stains in top corners, laid on card at margins.
A scene of three drunken revellers in the centre of Covent Garden. In a sedan chair carried by two exhausted chairmen is Betty Careless (c.1704-1739), a brothel-keeper. Seated on the chair's roof is Captain 'Mad' Montague, said to be the brother of the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Behind, carrying an artichoke presumably stolen from a street vendor, is Marcellus Laroon III, painter and army officer. Before the chair is Laurence Casey (known as Little Cazey), the personal linkboy of Careless. Henry Fielding, novellist and magistrate at Bow Street, complained that Montague, Laroon and Casey were 'the three most troublesome and difficult to manage of all my Bow Street visitors'. Casey was transported to America in 1750. This state has Moseley's inscription added.
BM Satire 2877.
[Ref: 64201] £480.00
Invented & Engrav'd by L. P. Boitard.
Invented & Engrav'd by L. P. Boitard Publish'd According to Act of Parliam.t. Octr. 9. 1747 Price Six Pence. Sold by C. Moseley Engraver & Printseller in Round Court in ye Strand.
Scarce engraving. 240 x 325mm (9½ x 12¾"). Narrow margins, notch in bottom edge, stains in top corners, laid on card at margins.
A scene of three drunken revellers in the centre of Covent Garden. In a sedan chair carried by two exhausted chairmen is Betty Careless (c.1704-1739), a brothel-keeper. Seated on the chair's roof is Captain 'Mad' Montague, said to be the brother of the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Behind, carrying an artichoke presumably stolen from a street vendor, is Marcellus Laroon III, painter and army officer. Before the chair is Laurence Casey (known as Little Cazey), the personal linkboy of Careless. Henry Fielding, novellist and magistrate at Bow Street, complained that Montague, Laroon and Casey were 'the three most troublesome and difficult to manage of all my Bow Street visitors'. Casey was transported to America in 1750. This state has Moseley's inscription added.
BM Satire 2877.
[Ref: 64201] £480.00
Covent Garden Piazza.
P. Sandby delin. Edw.d. Rooker Sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs Feb.ry. 20 1768, by Edw.d Rooker Queens Court Queen Street Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Etching. 420 x 560mm (16½ x 22"). Thread margin at bottom, small repaired tears, mounted on card.
Covent Garden seen from the south east side of the colonnade, with figures including a woman selling goods on the right, a pair of shoe-shiners, a beggar, a boy with a hoop and two boys playing marbles in the foreground to left. A sedan chair sits unoccupied. An early example, published by the engraver. Later editions were published by John Boydell.
[Ref: 63940] £450.00
P. Sandby delin. Edw.d. Rooker Sculp.
Publish'd as the Act directs Feb.ry. 20 1768, by Edw.d Rooker Queens Court Queen Street Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Etching. 420 x 560mm (16½ x 22"). Thread margin at bottom, small repaired tears, mounted on card.
Covent Garden seen from the south east side of the colonnade, with figures including a woman selling goods on the right, a pair of shoe-shiners, a beggar, a boy with a hoop and two boys playing marbles in the foreground to left. A sedan chair sits unoccupied. An early example, published by the engraver. Later editions were published by John Boydell.
[Ref: 63940] £450.00
![[A Bird's Eye View of Smithfield Market taken from the Bear & Ragged Staff.]](jpegs/64153.jpg)
[A Bird's Eye View of Smithfield Market taken from the Bear & Ragged Staff.]
Pugin & Rowlandson delt. Bluck sculpt.
[London published 1st Jany. 1811, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101, Strand.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 370 x 505mm (14½ x 19¾"). Trimmed close to image on all sides.
A large & scarce colourful scene of a busy Smithfield Market.
[Ref: 64153] £420.00
Pugin & Rowlandson delt. Bluck sculpt.
[London published 1st Jany. 1811, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101, Strand.]
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 370 x 505mm (14½ x 19¾"). Trimmed close to image on all sides.
A large & scarce colourful scene of a busy Smithfield Market.
[Ref: 64153] £420.00
Smithfield ''Used Up''. One Hundred Shillings. Also, now ready, The Companion Print, Tattersall's "Quite Fresh".
S. Alken Del. Read & C.º, Litho.
London: Published Nov.r 15.th 1855, by Read & C.º, 10, Johnson's C.t, Fleet St.
Rare tinted lithograph, finished by hand. Sheet 580 x 770mm (22¾ x 30¼"). Some surface wear, laid on canvas.
A horse auction at Smithfield Market, with a broken-down horse for sale. The second of two rare plates, contrasting the sale of the young horse at upmarket Tattersall's and its disposal at Smithfield.
[Ref: 63928] £380.00
S. Alken Del. Read & C.º, Litho.
London: Published Nov.r 15.th 1855, by Read & C.º, 10, Johnson's C.t, Fleet St.
Rare tinted lithograph, finished by hand. Sheet 580 x 770mm (22¾ x 30¼"). Some surface wear, laid on canvas.
A horse auction at Smithfield Market, with a broken-down horse for sale. The second of two rare plates, contrasting the sale of the young horse at upmarket Tattersall's and its disposal at Smithfield.
[Ref: 63928] £380.00
Smithfield Market. (Death of) This print is pub.d in Commemoration of Smithfield Market & Dedicated to the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor & Corporation of the City of London. With my best wishes to the inhabitance of Copenhagen-fields & Islington. N.B. The highest Police court Clarkenwell!!!
J.L.Marks Long Lane Smithfield [n.d., c.1852].
Coloured etching. Sheet 210 x 310mm (8¼ x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate, tear repaired, laid on album paper at edges with a song sheet, 'Exibitions, or John Lumps Ramble to Somerset House'.
A chaotic scene in Smithfield cattle market, with people fighting the bulls stampeding through the crowds. A policeman is being tossed through the air. A satire on the closure of the livestock market after an Act of Parliament called for a new cattle market to be constructed at Copenhagen Fields, Islington. The song sheet, 2 holes at bottom, features Batholomew Fair, with a scene of another cattle market.
BM 1927,1126.1.5.12.
[Ref: 64204] £320.00
J.L.Marks Long Lane Smithfield [n.d., c.1852].
Coloured etching. Sheet 210 x 310mm (8¼ x 12¼"). Trimmed within plate, tear repaired, laid on album paper at edges with a song sheet, 'Exibitions, or John Lumps Ramble to Somerset House'.
A chaotic scene in Smithfield cattle market, with people fighting the bulls stampeding through the crowds. A policeman is being tossed through the air. A satire on the closure of the livestock market after an Act of Parliament called for a new cattle market to be constructed at Copenhagen Fields, Islington. The song sheet, 2 holes at bottom, features Batholomew Fair, with a scene of another cattle market.
BM 1927,1126.1.5.12.
[Ref: 64204] £320.00
Western Exchange, Old Bond Street, For the Encouragement of British Manufacturers, Artists and Dealers, and for Receiving general Property for Sale on Commission. Established Jan.y 1.st 1817.
G. Smith Del.t.
[Published April 5.th 1817 by G. Smith, Western Exchange, Old Bond Street, London.]
Scarce etching, working proof before aquatint and publication line. Sheet 295 x 400mm (11½ x 15¾"). Trimmed into image, tears taped.
The interior of the Western Exchange (also known as the Bond Street Bazaar) which occupied a passage between between Nº 10 Old Bond Street to the back of No 14 in what later became the Burlington Arcade. It was destroyed by fire in 1836.
[Ref: 64315] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
G. Smith Del.t.
[Published April 5.th 1817 by G. Smith, Western Exchange, Old Bond Street, London.]
Scarce etching, working proof before aquatint and publication line. Sheet 295 x 400mm (11½ x 15¾"). Trimmed into image, tears taped.
The interior of the Western Exchange (also known as the Bond Street Bazaar) which occupied a passage between between Nº 10 Old Bond Street to the back of No 14 in what later became the Burlington Arcade. It was destroyed by fire in 1836.
[Ref: 64315] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
The Yorkshire Irishman, or Adventures of a Potatoe Merchant. Written by Mr. G. Nicks & Sung by Mr. Emery.
Publish'd Aug.t 20 1805, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Coloured etching. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"). Laid on card at sides.
A song sheet: an Irishman selling potatoes in Covent Garden Market sings the story of how he came to be there. The song is from Thomas Dibdin's entertainment 'The Sphinx', performed 1797-8. John Emery (1777-1822) was a singer who was also a skilled painter: between 1801 and 1817 he exhibited 19 paintings (seascape and equestrian subjects) at the RA. Little is known of G. Nicks other than he composed songs for music halls.
BM Satires 10508.
[Ref: 64210] £320.00
Publish'd Aug.t 20 1805, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London.
Coloured etching. 200 x 260mm (8 x 10¼"). Laid on card at sides.
A song sheet: an Irishman selling potatoes in Covent Garden Market sings the story of how he came to be there. The song is from Thomas Dibdin's entertainment 'The Sphinx', performed 1797-8. John Emery (1777-1822) was a singer who was also a skilled painter: between 1801 and 1817 he exhibited 19 paintings (seascape and equestrian subjects) at the RA. Little is known of G. Nicks other than he composed songs for music halls.
BM Satires 10508.
[Ref: 64210] £320.00