A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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The Right Hon.ble Earl of St. Vincent, K.B. First Lord of the Admiralty and one of His Majesty's most Hon.ble Privy Council &c.&c.
J.Keenan Pinx.t. W.Barnard Sculp.t.
London, Publish'd August 10th, 1801, by W. Barnard, No 1 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint, plate 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with large margins. Repaired tears in margins. Horizontal crease hardly visible from front.
Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB PC RN (1735-1823), whose improvements to the Royal Navy allowed him to boast to the House of Lords in 1801: 'I do not say, my Lords, that the French will not come. I say only they will not come by sea'.
CS: 14, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 59030] £380.00
J.Keenan Pinx.t. W.Barnard Sculp.t.
London, Publish'd August 10th, 1801, by W. Barnard, No 1 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square.
Mezzotint, plate 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with large margins. Repaired tears in margins. Horizontal crease hardly visible from front.
Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB PC RN (1735-1823), whose improvements to the Royal Navy allowed him to boast to the House of Lords in 1801: 'I do not say, my Lords, that the French will not come. I say only they will not come by sea'.
CS: 14, state ii of ii.
[Ref: 59030] £380.00
J. Lackington, who a few years since began Business with five Pounds;
[K]eenan Pinx.t. Scott sculp.t.
[1792.]
Stipple. Sheet 150 x 95mm, 6 x 3¾". Trimmed.
Oval portrait James Lackington (1746-1815), bookseller credited with revolutionizing the British book trade, probably published in one of his two autobiographies. Based in 'The Temple of the Muses', Finsbury Square (the interior illustrated in Ackermann's Repository), he was famous for refusing credit at his shops, saving and reselling remaindered books at bargain prices, having an inclusive attitude to bookselling. His first catalogue of stock held 12,000 titles.
[Ref: 19004] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
[K]eenan Pinx.t. Scott sculp.t.
[1792.]
Stipple. Sheet 150 x 95mm, 6 x 3¾". Trimmed.
Oval portrait James Lackington (1746-1815), bookseller credited with revolutionizing the British book trade, probably published in one of his two autobiographies. Based in 'The Temple of the Muses', Finsbury Square (the interior illustrated in Ackermann's Repository), he was famous for refusing credit at his shops, saving and reselling remaindered books at bargain prices, having an inclusive attitude to bookselling. His first catalogue of stock held 12,000 titles.
[Ref: 19004] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)