Grosvenor Prints

[Insurance Advert] [Felix] Farl[ey's Bristol] Jour[nal.]
[Bristol J.M. Gutch, (late Rudhall & G]utch) at his Printing-Office No. 1[5 Small Street] Saturday, January 2, 1808.
Newspaper clipping. Sheet at most 170 x 135mm (6¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed.
With an advert for 'The British Fire Office', illustrated with a woodcut logo.
[Ref: 40931] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

[Insurance] Bristol Fire Office. New Buildings, Small Street, near the Exchange, (Established in the Year 1769).
[1822.]
News clipping, letterpress with woodcut logo. Sheet 125 x 75mm (5 x 3"). Laid on album paper.
An advert specifying the due date of renewal premiums. The directors of the company are listed.
[Ref: 40933] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

Illuminate! Illuminate! Illuminate! Crowns, Stars. Wreaths, Ties, Letters, and Devices of every description, for Gas or Variegated Lamps, on Loan from 6s. each device, and 1s. 6d. per dozen Lamps, at Walmsley's Furnishing Ironmongery Warehouses, 125, 137. 128, London Road, Southwark, London. Order Early!
Alfred Boot, Printer, Dockhead, Bermondsey.
29th May, 1856 [old ink mss.].
Scarce letterpress handbill. 85 x 190mm (3¼ x 7½"). Notches in top edge, mounted on card.
An advertisment for outdoor lights.
[Ref: 57176] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

James Pilton's Manufactory, King's Road, Chelsea, Middlesex. The Interior of the Menagerie, Displaying Ornamental Works for Country Residences, and Specimens of the Invisible Fence.
Mercier and Chervet, printers, 32, Little Bartholomew Close. [n.d. c.1809.]
Wood engraving on india. India 120 x 195mm. 4¾ x 7¾".
It was in 1809 when James Pilton's Manufactory in King's Road advertised its fences, verandahs and other ornamental metalwork.
Guildhall: q8052663.
[Ref: 16832] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

James Pilton's Manufactory, King's Road, Chelsea, Middlesex. The Interior of the Menagerie, Displaying Ornamental Works for Country Residences, and Specimens of the Invisible Fence.
Mercier and Chervet, printers, 32, Little Bartholomew Close. [n.d. c.1809.]
Wood engraving on india. India 120 x 195mm (4¾ x 7¾").
It was in 1809 when James Pilton's Manufactory in King's Road advertised its fences, verandahs and other ornamental metalwork.
Guildhall: q8052663.
[Ref: 56981] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Prospectus for January, 1869, of Messrs. Johnson Brothers & Company, Engineers and Contractors, Manufacturers of Patent Iron Fences, (the Lochrin Iron Works,) Offices: 6, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London, S.W.
Ent. Sta. Hall January, 1869.
Manufacturer's promotional pamphlet, folio (460 x 305mm, 18 x 12"), 12pp., complete (as Contents) but lacking wrappers. Letterpress illustrated with wood engravings throughout, one full-page Sheets a little browned and soiled, as normal, with folds. Extremities a little bumped and nicked in places.
A sample of the supplier's utilitarian and ornamental wrought-iron gate and fencing for holding livestock, plus accessories.
[Ref: 28002] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Sale Prospectus.] View of the Estate, Lagiewnick, in Austria. to be sold by Shares, on the 13th November, 1847. Price of a Share, £1.0.0.
[n.d., c.1847.]
Steel engraving, scarce. Sheet 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½"). Trimmed, creased.
An illustration for a prospectus.
[Ref: 45767] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Patent French Shadowless Lamp, sold by P. Cowan, Lamp Manufacturer, 45, Skinner Street, London.
[n.d., c.1870]
Broadside, 250 x 200mm. 9½ x 8½". Damage to right of sheet. Creases.
Broadside explaining the process of a patent oil lamp, with directions for use.
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester.
[Ref: 16755] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Broadside.] A Specimen.
By W. Callon and Son, Letter-founders, in Chiswel Street, London 1748.
Letterpress, 18th century watermark. Sheet: 490 x 610mm (19¼ x 24"), large margins. Central, vertical fold. Tears and creases to edges.
A large sheet of letterpress demonstrating the various typefaces and and ancient languages printed by W. Callon including Greek, Hebrew, Gothick, Estruscan and Saxon.
[Ref: 42638] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The creation of Lincoln's Inn Place] Prospectus. It is proposed to make application to Parliament in the ensuing session for leave to effect a Spacious Opening from Carey Street to Pickett Place, Strand, in the direction of Serle Street, to be called Lincoln's Inn Place, and on each side of the same to erect a regular architectural range or Fire Proof Buildings, to be used as Chambers...
[n.d., c.1825.]
Scarce letterpress. Sheet 335 x 210mm (13¼ x 8¼").
A prospectus to raise £100,000 (later £120,000) for a building project, launched at Green's Coffee House in Serle Street. The architect of the scheme was Decimus Burton.
[Ref: 61975] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

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To Papermakers... Particulars of the Spacious Manufacturing Premises, Erected within the last Five Years for the Lincolnshire Paper Company, at Helpstone, near Peterborough... Which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Fuller & Horsey, On Tuesday, June 4th, 1861, at Twelve for One o'clock precisely.
[Anon., c.1861.]
Auctioneer's sale particulars for a paper mill at Helpston, near Peterborough; letterpress leaflet, folio (365 x 240mm, 14¼ x 9½"), four pages total. Fold creases.
The principal components of the property are listed, along with conditions of sale.
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester's Light Horse.
[Ref: 16800] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Specimen of Lithography.] Sir. I Take the Liberty of soliciting your attention to the Art of Lithography of which this Letter is a Specimen.
Lithographic Printing Office, No 10, King Street, West.r, 6th March 1819.
Lithograph. Sheet 190 x 190mm (7½ x 7½"). Two small tears, panel of old ink mss.
An advert by Charles M. Willick recommending the use of lithography for imitating handwriting on circular letters.
[Ref: 42353] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Two items of Liverpool maritime insurance interest.]
[1876 & 1902.]
4pp. letterpress prospectus and a pen & ink sketch. Prospectus battered.
A prospectus for 'The Sea Insurance Company' of 1876; and a study for an invitation to the 'Liverpool Underwriter's Association Centenary Banquet', 1902; with the letterhead of the above.
[Ref: 40969] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Look to your Locks! An Exposure of the System pursued by the Venders of Locks. ... The Following Extracts from the "Times" Newspaper prove a few of the Evils of Trusting to Bad Locks, and the effects of Duplicate Keys... S. Morgan & Co. Locksmiths to their Majesties and the Government Offices generally. London. Parson's Patent Locks. These Locks are marked with the names of the Patentee, and all others are illegal. They are sold by Mess.rs Burbidge and Healy, 130, Fleet Street, London; and by the principal ironmongers in Town and Country... The Balance Tumbler Lock, of which this trial was made, is the strongest and most simple Tumbler Lock we have ever seen, and is likely to be the most Durable." Charles Payne, Adelaide Rooms. William Carpmael, Civil Engineer. J.R. Jobbins, Mechanical Draftsman, C.F. Cheffins, ditto. John Henfrey, Engineer.
London, 23rd August, 1831. Johnson & Co. Printers, 10, Brooke Street, Holborn.
Four 8vo pamphlet, printed on both sides. 229 x 140mm. 9 x 5½".
A small pamphlet on security locks and designs and the imperative nature of household and personal security.
[Ref: 22842] £140.00 view all images for this item

Sir [ink] I beg to hand you a list of the different Classes of Subscription to my Library, and shall feel honoured...to place your Name upon the Subscription List...
Library, Reading, 1850.
[Lovejoy, c.1850.]
Scarce letterpress advertisement for subscribers to Lovejoy's Library, Reading, annotated and signed in ink by proprietor George Lovejoy. Sheet 270 x 205mm, 10½ x 8". Fold creases.
George Lovejoy (1808 - 1883), bookseller of Reading, solicits funding for his new 'Subscription Circulating Library', on London Street, Reading; he also owned a post office and a stationers in the town. A form to be completed and returned, with price list for the four different categories of subscriber, and royal coat of arms.
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester's Light Horse.
[Ref: 16794] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

OW Papers For Water-Colour [/] Pen and Ink [/] Fine Art Printing. O.W Writing Paper. Mediums for Oil Painting. Guaranteed Pure By The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours.
[Robert Walker Macbeth.] Made for the Company by John Bell & Co. London.
Issued Jan.y 15th 1897 by the OW Paper & Arts Company. Limited 100. Gt. Russell Street, London. W.C. Copyright registered.
Etching with large margins Printed on gold paper in brown ink. Platemark: 200 x 300mm (8 x 11¾"). Fine impression. Light creasing in margins.
An advertisement for the 'OW Paper & Arts Company', designed by Scottish painter, etcher and watercolourist, Robert Walker Macbeth RA (1848 - 1910). A female figure in the centre of the image stands before two large letters, 'OW', from which she hangs a painting. She holds outstretched, an artist's palette and paintbrushes with her right hand. She is wearing a flowing gown and laurel wreath on her head.
[Ref: 35620] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

[Magic Lantern] City of London Grand Hydro-Oxygen Microscopic Exhibition, No. 4, Charlotte Row, Opposite the Private Entrance to the Mansion House.
J. Brimmer, Printer, 59a Greek Street, Soho [n.d., c.1830].
Broadside, letterpress and wood-engraving. Sheet 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼), printed on both sides. Slight staining, old ink mss. on reverse "commencing every hour".
An advert for a show with a 'Oxyhydrogen Microscope', a magic lantern capable of projecting images from microscope slides using limelight, illustrated with an image of a cheese mite. Altrick, shows of London, pg. 370-1, "never indeed until the advert of the monster mile panorama at the end of the next decade was the in-fighting livelier than it was among rival microscopes".
[Ref: 60770] £490.00 view all images for this item

[Mail Coach.] Messageries Françaises. Lefer, Gaillard, Pénicaut & C.e. Rue Montmatre, 174. A Paris. Place de la Comédie, 4. A Bordeaux.
Gustave Chariol sc.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Letterpress. Sheet: 80 x 115mm (3 x 4½'').
A handbill for a French mail coach from Paris to Bordeaux. Illustrated with an engraving of a coach drawn by five horses.
[Ref: 49579] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

A List of the Published Works of Mr. Thomas Malton, Sen. and of Mr. James Malton. To be had in London of Mr. J. Malton [...]
[after 1796]
Letterpress, 3pp., ink changes on 1st sheet to prices; 305 x 240mm (12 x 9½"). Very rare.
Prospectus for various works by the architectural draughtsman and writer on geometry Thomas Malton (1726-1801) and his son James (d.1803). Includes Thomas Malton's 'The Royal Road to Geometry' (1774) and 'A complete treatise on perspective in theory and practice' (1775) and James Malton's twenty-five views of Dublin.
Bonar-Law, 'The Irish Prints of James Malton', repr. pg: 111.
[Ref: 39593] £350.00 view all images for this item

[Publisher's prospectus] Messrs, Hackson Beg leave to announce to the Public, that they have commenced publishing by Subscription, A Series of Views of the Most Remarkable Ancient and other Buildings of Manchester; Particularly those which have already been taken down, or are now in a state of demolition, for the Improvement of the Town. The Work to be completed in four numbers, each containing five Views; Price to Subscribers, 10s. each number; on India Paper, 12s. 6d. Subscribers' names received at D. & P. Jacksons' Repository of Arts, No 1 Spring-Gardens; Mr Bolongaro, Old Millgate; Messrs. Zanetti and Agnew, and Mr Merone, Markset-street...
[n.d., c.1820.]
Letterpress prospectus, pp.4. 255 x 200mm (10 x 8"), paper watermarked 1822 Stitch holes in left edge.
[Ref: 57907] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Mawe & Tatlow Museum, Mont Pellier Walk, Cheltenham
[Anon, c.1820]
Engraving, sheet 60 x 80mm (2¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed around image. Rare.
Promotional material for Cheltenham's first purpose-built geological 'museum', established by the mineralogist and traveller John Mawe (1766-1829) and his son-in-law Anthony Tatlow (1789-1828). Mawe had successfully opened a similar establishment in London, on the Strand, and decided to expand to Cheltenham, and then to Matlock Bath in his native county of Derbyshire. After the deaths of its founders, the museum was sold on and its contents auctioned off, before the building was demolished in 1843 to make way for the Montpellier Exchange.
[Ref: 40812] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Messageries Générales & Berlines du Mont-Blanc. (Service Réunis) Système Inversable. Only diligence authorised to take Coock’s tickets. Sans changement de voiture. Diligences. Entre. Genève. Sallanches. St. Gervai-Les-Bains et Chamonix. Services à grande vitesse coincident à l’arrivée à Genève avec les trains pour la France, l’Italie, la Suisse et les bateaux à vapeur….[also in English to Right.]
[n.d. c.1800.]
Lithograph. 342 x 495mm. 13½ x 19½". Damaged. Loss of bottom half.
It was in 1870 that records were made regarding the three main companies transporting their clients to Chamonix via Sallanches.
[Ref: 15296] £480.00

Messenger and Sons. Manufacturers of Chandeliers, Tripods, and Lamps, of every description in bronze and or-molu. Birmingham and London.
W Green del. W. Radclyffe sc.
Published by Radclyffes and Co. for their History of Birmingham and its Vicinity [1836].
Engraving, sheet 170 x 130mm (6¾ x 5").
Plate from 'Birmingham and its Vicinity as a Manufacturing and Commercial District' by William Hawkes Smith (1836), which included advertisements for several prominent Birmingham businesses.
[Ref: 46931] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Mineral and Aerated Waters] Henry Schilling, Ten Years Superintendent of the Chemical Apparatus at the Royal German Spa Brighton Park. Manufacturer of Mineral Waters, Soda, Seltzer, Potash, Pullna, Magnesia, Fachingen &c. Nectar, a most delicious cooling draught, Champagne Lemonade & Carbonated Ginger Beer. No. 9 Middle Street, King's Road, Brighton.
Iebas sc Birm.m.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Engraving & letterpress showing his factory. Sheet 195 x 115mm (7¾ x 4½"), printed on both sides.
Schilling used his profits to buy property: In 1846 he bought the eastern side of Kensington Place, Brighton for £950.
[Ref: 58851] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Advert.] To be Published by Subscription, The Missionary Print, to Contain 300 Correct Likenesses.
Published by W. Williams, 2, Amen Corner.
Wood engraving. Sheet: 105 x 115mm (4¼ x 4½''). Laid on album sheet.
An advert for subscribers to contribute to a large group portrait of 300 missionaries and religious figures.
[Ref: 49070] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Montpelier Family Hotel, Adjoining Bonchurch, Ventnor, Isle of Wight. By J.A. Whiskard, Wine, Brandy, Ale & Porter Merchant, (from London). Flys, Phaetons, Pony Chaises and Saddle-horses for Hire. Families and Invalids will find this a delightful Retreat, the Situation and Climate being Strongly recommended by the Family. Wines of the most approved Vintages. - British & Foreign Spirits of the Choices Quality.
[n.d. c.1840.]
Engraving. 90 x 122mm (9½ x 4¾").
A tradecard for the Montpelier Hotel, Ventnor, Isle of Wight. The hotel was listed in 'The Pleasure Visitor's Companion in Making the Tour of the Isle of Wight' from 1843-1845 and was highlighted as being distinguished for comfort, cleanliness, civility and moderate charges.
[Ref: 52427] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Mount Ararat Lodge, Richmond, Surrey, Protestant, French & German Finishing Establishment for Young Ladies Under the Direction of Madame Philippart (successor to Miss Price) / Assisted by resident French, German & English Governesses & talented Professors [...] [parallel text in French]
Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor, Lith.rs 37 Walbrook, London. [n.d., c.1860]
Letterpress pamphlet, 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Crease through centre; scarce.
Promotional material for the ladies finishing school at Mount Ararat Lodge in Richmond, outlining terms, cost, courses offered and the ethos of the establishment, in separate French and English texts (of which the French is more detailed). The building is now demolished but its location is marked by the surviving Mount Ararat Road. We have been unable to find any reference to 'Madame Philippart' (although elsewhere she is listed as principal of 'Montague House' in Richmond), but Harriet E. Price (unmarried) is listed as governess of the property in 1851, hence our tentative dating.
[Ref: 32263] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Mousseline d. Amoy.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Rare etching, printed in gold on porcelain card. Sheet 1209 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½"). Slight staining on bottom edge, laid on album paper.
An advert for Mouselline, depicting a camel, elephant and bales.
[Ref: 62243] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Royal Victoria Drill'd Ey'd Needles.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Engraving. Sheet 110 x 145mm (4¼ x 5¾").
An advertisment featuring an oval scene of two riders, probably Victoria and Albert, surrounded by a rococo border of swags and birds.
[Ref: 52356] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

New Illustrated Trade Circular Borders. These Borders supply a much felt want, and enable suitable Illustrated Circulars of an artistic character for any ordinary trade to be issued at a low cost. Stock size is Royal 4to (12 in. by 9½ in.), but any szie can be supplied to order on short notice. All the designs are copyright. Price with any circular printed in :- 250 copies, 30s. 500 " 42s. 1,000 copies, 63s. 2,000 " 105s. Larger Quantities still Cheaper.
C.L.-545. Copyright. [n.d. c.1880.]
A rare photo engraving. 285 x 215mm. 11¼ x 8½". Trimmed and laid on scrap sheet.
An advertisement for illustrated circular borders, here depicting five scenes; school attendance, rowing, digging at the beach, Scottish dress for children, and a school cricket game.
[Ref: 18926] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

We beg to call your attention to our Patent Copper Wire Cord, which is now extensively used for Window Sash Line, Hothouses, Lightening Conductors, Picture Cord, Clock Cord, Tent Ropes, Clothes Lines, and many other purposes... Also to our Patent Wire Strand.... R.S. Newall & Co. Office 130 Strand, London, October, 1849.
[London, 1849.]
Broadsheet advertisement, promotional four-page leaflet (forth page blank), letterpress with coat of arms. Page 245 x 205mm, 9¾ x 8". Tatty extremities; folds.
A scarce and interesting piece of industrial ephemera, consisting largely of a series of 'Testimonials' from satisfied customers. Engineer Robert Stirling Newall (1812 - 1889) invented wire-ropes in 1840. His company developed the machinery and techniques for laying underwater telegraph cables beneath the oceans. A keen astronomer, Newall was also responsible for a series of drawings of the Sun made between 1848 and 1852.
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester's Light Horse.
[Ref: 16461] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Golden Five Stores, Chepstow, H. Thomas & Son's Fifth Annual Show of Oriental Novelties and Art Goods is now open, and consists of - INDIA. - Benares Brass Work [...] JAPAN. - Satsuma, Awata, Kaga [...] CHINA. - Splash Mats, Baskets, Mud Figures, etc. EGYPT. - Native Water Botles [sic]. The Show-Room is now open, and your inspection invited. A large stock of Bon-bons, Fancy Fruits, Chocolates, etc., for the Christmas Trade.
[n.d., c.1910.]
Wood engraving on crepe paper, printed in two colours. 430 x 320mm (17 x 12½"). Creases.
A rare advert for an array of orientalist goods, decorated with Japanese figures and designs at Thomas's shop at 5 Mary Street, Chepstow. The 'Golden 5' referred to the large wooden numeral, painted gold, that hung above the shop, now in Chepstow Museum.
[Ref: 37516] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

British Engravings, published by Edward Orme, His Majesty's Printseller, No. 59 Bond-Street, London.
[n.d., c.1805.]
Letterpress, 485 x 610mm, pasted on recto of the front wrapper of Williamson's "Oriental Field Sports". Text slightly trimmed lower right.
Orme's catalogue of prints, including 'Transparent Prints, Invented by Edward Orme', portraits, 'Books of Prints' and 'Drawing Books'. A final note note: 'Total Price of the Whole Collection, coloured, which will form fourteen handsome Folio Volumes £210: 11: 3'. Extremely scarce.
[Ref: 4489] £850.00 view all images for this item

[Advert.] Ackermann & Co. London. Earthen Palettes_8 Sizes.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet: 290 x 380mm (11½ x 15"). Creasing in corners. Tear in lower edge.
An advert for a range of painting palettes in eight sizes. Ackermann started selling paints and by 1840 the range had extended to whole range of artist supplies.
[Ref: 46441] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

To the Curious in Pens. Palmer's Royal, Portable, and other Pens, (Suited to Ladies as Well as Gentleman's Hands.) Sold Wholesale and Retail, at His Royal Pen Manufactory, East Grinstead, Sole Proprietor of the Royal Portable Pens.
Palmer, Printers, East Grinstead. [n.d., c.1810.]
Letterpress advert, 2pp, verso lists the London & country stockists. Sheet 225 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Folds and spotting.
[Ref: 52262] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Give your orders immediately for the Pictorial Times of Saturday, January 11. On this day One Shilling will procure for all persons the Largest Engraving in the World, The Grand Panorama of London from the Thames, Fourteen Feet in Length! and a Double Number of the Pictorial Times, containing 60 engravings and 72 columns of letterpress. A complete Pictorial Newspaper, filled with every variety of Intelligence, and a copious and entertaining History of Ancient and Modern London, Including an accurate Description of the Grand Panorama of the Thames. Order the Pictorial Times, a Double Number for One Shilling, and the Gigantic Print Gratis! All will go free by Post. Thirteen Postage Stamps sent to the Office 135. Fleet Street, London, will ensure the delivery of both Papers and the... [On verso]: Four small panoramas along the thames from the House of Parliament to the Tower of London, all looking towards the northside of the Thames.
[January 11, 1845.]
Letterpress and engraving. 190 x 120mm. 7½ x 4¾". Crease.
Although dated 21 December, 1844 the panorama appeared on 11 January, 1845. It was divided into four sections on a sheet measuring 31½ inches by 42½ inches, so that when joined up into a continuous strip the print would measure 5½ inches by 148½ inches.
[Ref: 14662] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

[Advert.] Panoramic Rotunda of London, Arranged in a Novel and Interesting Style, Exhibiting Every Feature of the British Metropolis, and Viewed through the medium of Magnifying Glasses, Will Realize an Appearance of Nature Hitherto Unattainable in Other Than Large and Extended Panoramic Views.
By. R. Havell, Jun.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Extremely rare letterpress. Sheet: 200 x 190mm (8 x 7½'').
An advert for an aquatint panorama of London by Robert Havell Junior.
[Ref: 51047] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Papier Pour Billets orne de petites vues des lieux plus remarquables de la Ville de Naples.
V. Marsigli sc.
Lithographie Cardinale Rue Toledo N 320. 1er Etage Naples 1834.
Stationer/printer's lithographic handbill/advertisement, printed on pink paper, decorated with garlands of leaves and flowers. Sheet 285 x 205mm. 11¼ x 8". Slightly soiled. Centrefold. Crease upper left-hand
Scarce advert for prints of local topography, as described, and illustrated writing papers with Neapolitan vignettes (titles listed). Includes price list.
[Ref: 22581] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

The Flying Pen, emanating from the practice of the royal Lewisian System of Penmanship. A process invented by Mr. Lewis, whereby bad Writers are easily made good ones [...]
Nichols and son, Printers, 8 & 9 Chandos Street, Strand [n.d., c.1840]
Letterpress pamphlet, 4pp, 245 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Glued to backing sheet.
Prospectus for the penmanship courses of James Henry Lewis & Son on the Strand in London. Lewis (1786-1853) was a strenographer who at the age of 26 published 'The ready writer', a shorthand course, which was still in print (on its 97th edition) in the 1860s. Patronized by George IV, Lewis taught in London and toured the provinces. One of the last great writing masters, Lewis believed penmanship was a fine art. In addition to teaching writing itself, he also invented pens and wrote a book about the history of stenography.
[Ref: 37938] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The astonishing effects of Paul's Dr. Baillie's Pills. Look at the contrast!
[n.d. c.1839]
Engraving, sheet 50 x 85mm (2 x 3¼"). Trimmed and glued to backing card.
A newspaper advert for aperient pills. In the left image a despondent man sits looking at a long list exclaiming, "Oh! Dear me heres a Doctors bill and I not a bit better for it". Death lurches behind his chair. The right image a chubbier merrier looking man exits a chemists crying out, "Ha! Ha! Cured for a few shillings in a few days." This advert was published in the newspaper, 'The Northern Star' in their 29th June 1839 issue.
[Ref: 58567] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Advert.] Just Published, in Imperial Quarto. A Print of Pinks, Drawn from Five of the Finest Plants, After Gaining the First Prize. Drawn and Engraved by R. Havell, Jun.
London: Published by R. Havell, Jun., Printer, 79, Newman Street, Oxford Street.
Scarce letterpress: 180 x 110mm (7 x 4¼'').
An advert for a series of botanical prints.
[Ref: 51050] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Advert.] A Description of the Properties of a Fine Polianthus, By James Maddock, Florist.
[n.d., c.1800.]
A rare & scarce letterpress advert. Sheet:135 x 145mm (5¼ x 5¾''). Trimmed, folds and damage.
A pamphlet requesting a seedling of a polianthus with a promise of fifty guineas for the right plant. James Maddock, a London florist and author of 'The florist's directory; or, A treatise on the culture of flowers; to which is added a supplementary dissertation on soils, manures' 1792.
[Ref: 50978] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Design advertising Allsopps Pale Ale, with allegorical illustrations of the brewing process and profile heads representing the continents]
[Anon., c.1880]
Etching on india, very scarce; sheet 205 x 200mm (8 x 7¾"). Trimmed inside platemark on one side; taped to backing sheet at edges; tear inside platemark.
Reversed design advertising Allsopps Patent Pale Ale, with illustrations of putti 'picking', 'brewing', 'drinking' and 'exporting'. The profile heads representing the four continents atest to the global reach of the company. Samuel Allsop and Sons, brewing giants of Burton-on-Trent, exported pale ale to India fom 1822 and became a spectacularly successful Victorian firm (the world's third largest brewery in the 1870s). A label attached to the backing sheet reads 'W.T. Copeland. Seen on a change-well for a shop or public house counter', suggesting the involvement of pottery manufacturer William Taylor Copeland (1797-1868) and possibly linking the design to use on ceramics. The image could have been printed onto transfer paper and then onto ceramics, reversing the image again so it reads the right way around.
[Ref: 33744] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

William Dawson & Sons, London and Country Newspaper and Advertising Offices, 74, Cannon Street, City, London,_Established, 1809. Advertisements of every Description, Price Currents, &c. punctually forwarded Free of Postage, to any part of the United Kingdom, by the Morning and Evening Mails,_and to Gibraltar, Malta and Ionian Islands, France, Belgium, Spain, Greece, Denmark...Advertisements inserted in the London, Dublin, and Edinburgh Government Gazettes, and in all the Newspapers and Periodical Publications of the United Kingdom, the Colonies, and Foreign Countries, and the papers in which the Advertisements are inserted forwarded, if ordered....The Political Bias of each Paper is denoted by the Letter prefixed to it: C, signifies Conservative; L, Liberal; N, without Politics; those in this type (Railway) give particular or exclusive attention to Railways...We beg respectfully to suggest, that to save you trouble and the expence of postage, a reference be given in London, where payment may be received half-yearly, as the accounts become due, which is the customary mode of settlement. We shall be most happy to be favored with your Orders and Recommendations for Any of the London, Country, Colonial, or Foreign Newspapers, or for Advertisements to be inserted in Any of them. We are, Your most obedient Servants, For William Dawson & Sons.
Letterpress. 260 x 210mm. 10¼ x 8¼".
A list detailing pricing dated 14 July 1848, and the political bias for advertising in a selection of newspapers and gazetttes.
[Ref: 18352] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Printer] 1891-2. Christmas Cards and New Year Cards. A Very Large Assortment on Sale, consisting of Choice New Designs, including Hand-Painted, Ivorine, Satin, and other Novelties, From 1d. to 1/6 each. Really Good Value.
Geo, Mills, (established 1857) Manufacturing and Export Stationer, Lithographer & Printer, 3, Old Jewry, London, E.C. [1891].
Tinted lithograph of five colours. Sheet 240 x 330mm (9½ x 13"). A little staining on right edge. Small hole near the left edge.
A printer's advertisement, a rare survivor because of the tissue paper it is printed on, decorated with Japanese imagery, including samurai warriors and attendents.
[Ref: 52885] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Printer's Advert.] A Vignette Engraving of The Works of the Strand Bridge is preparing... A Pupil Wanted.- A favourable opportunity now offers itself to any youth who may wish to learn the elegant Art of Engraving.- It is necessary he should have had instruction in Drawing, or at least an inclination suited to it. A Premium expected,- Apply to W.B. Cooke, 12, York-Place, Pentonville.
Letterpress advert. Watermark 1810. Sheet: 190 x 80mm (7½ x 3"). [n.d,. c.1817.]
An advert from William B. Cooke (1778-1855) for a print of the Strand Bridge, probably 'Works of the Strand Bridge' after Edward Blore, published in 1817, as well as an advert for a pupil to learn the Art of Engraving. Cooke was based at York Place from 1817 to 1818.
[Ref: 44885] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

On the First Day of January, 1812, will be Published The First Part of a Work, Entitled A New History of Engravers, who have practised the Art if its different Branches, Either in Wood, Metal, or other Substances, From its Appearance during the Fifteenth Century progressively to the present Time; With A Detailed List of Their Leading Productions, Either in respect to their peculiar Merit, or as curious Representations of various Objects, which may prove interesting to every Class of Admirers of Prints; Together with Fac-similies of the Monograms, Initials, or Cyphers, usually prefixed to their productions.
The Whole compiled from every authentic Source of Information, and materially improved by every possible Research into the Subject during the last Ten Years, By Thomas Dodd....The Compiler and Published, Mr. Dodd, 101, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross; Also by Mr Palser, Printseller, Bridge Road, Lambeth...May 1811.
Rare letterpress, three pages; 4to. 216 x 278mm (8½ x 11"). Laid on album sheet on left side.
Thomas Dodd (1771-1850) was an English auctioneer and printseller; in 1796 he took a small shop in Lambeth Marsh before moving to Covent Garden. It wasn't until 1806 that he opened an auctionroom in St Martin's Lane, where he sold some famous collections, among them being that of General Dowdeswell in Janaury 1809. Dodd acquired a wide knowledge of engravings, and began an elaborate biographical catalogue of engravers, which eventually formed thirty folio volumes of manuscript. In 1817 Dodd spent time on a dictionary of monograms, but a similar work by Brulliot was published about that time.
[Ref: 52421] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Gunmaker's Advertisement] Will.m Pritchard, N.14 Bull Ring, Birmingham / Manufacturer of Fire Arms in every Branch for Home & Foreign Markets, Percussion Guns & Pistols on the most Approved Principle.
[c.1800]
Etching, sheet 135 x 235mm (5¼ x 9¼").
Advertisement for a Birmingham gunmaker, with elaborate vignette demonstrating the usage of 'rifle guns of the most modern invention'.
Ex: Norman Blackburn
[Ref: 33081] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

International Prize Medal, 1862. Hancock's Patent Prize Medal Machine for Purifying Butter from all traces of Milk and Acid, also for cooling and making it firm in hot weather, without touching with the hand... as used in Her Majesty's Dairy, the Emperor of the French, and nearly all Courts in Europe. J. & F. Hancock, Sole Manufacturers and Patentees, Patent Invention Works, Dudley, Worcestershire.
[Anon, c.1862.]
Letterpress broadside on yellow paper, manufacturer's promotional handbill/flyer with woodcut border and royal coat of arms. Sheet 255 x 190mm, 10 x 7½".
Advertisement includes 'Directions for Use' for the prestigious [Irish and British] medal winning machine for the production of Butter "intended for Private Families, Schools, Hotels, & Ships".
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester's Light Horse.
[Ref: 16526] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[The business premises of Promoli & Hausburg, Liverpool.]
Printed by Maclure Macdonald & Macgregor 1, Brunswick St. Liverpool [n.d., c.1860s].
Scarce wood engraved promotional illustration, fragment from a periodical or broadsheet? Sheet 180 x 275, 7 x 10¾".
The factory, warehouse and retail outlet of Promoli & Hausburg was located in the Old Post Office Buildings, Church Street, Liverpool. The company described itself in its advertising as "Jewellers Watchmakers Manufacturers of Desks Dressing Cases Lamps Chandeliers etc". A display of mantelpiece clocks and chandeliers can be seen in the many windows; figures and carriages in the street in front of the imposing building.
[Ref: 20664] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

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