Grosvenor Prints

[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)

Cloudesleio Shovel Equiti Aurato &c Copiarum Navalium Magnae Britanniae Praefecto.
F. Boucher invenit et delin. N. Tardieu Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. Plate: 650 x 410mm (25¾ x 16''). Central horizontal crease as normal. Small margins. Creasing in bottom right corner.
An allegorical monument to British naval commander Sir Cloudesley Shovell (1650-1707) who saw action in the Third Anglo-Dutch War and the War of Spanish Succession. From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 50888] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Regiones et villæ rusticæ ducatus potissimum Brabantiæ, Ducatus Potiossimum Brabantiæ, a Cornelio Curtio in Pictorum gratiam artificiose depictæ:
A Joanne Gallæo excuæ & in lucem editæ. Anterpiæ, Pars Prima [n.d., c.1650.]
Etched titlepage. Sheet 125 x 200mm (5 x 8"). On 17th century watermarked paper. Trimmed to printed border, mounted in album paper.
The title page of 'The Small Landscapes', a series first published by Philips Galle (grandfather of Jan, publisher of this example) in 1601,
[Ref: 60214] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

The Achievement of Our Soveraigne King James as he Nowe Beareth With the Armes of Severall kings that have aunciently raigned within his nowe Dominions.
Jodocus Hondius Flander cælavit Anno Domini 1614.
[London: Sudbury & Humble, c.1614.]
Coloured engraving. 380 x 245mm.
The dedication to James I from Speed's important atlas, 'The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', containing a large Royal Crest and 24 smaller armorials around the edges.
[Ref: 5691] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Etchings & Aquatintas by the Rev.d J.G. Spurgeon A.M. 1799
Etching, sheet 75 x 120mm (3 x 4¾"). Trimmed to image; glued to backing sheet.
Rocky landscape; frontispiece to a set of prints by amateur printmaker John Grove Spurgeon (1747-1829), also a magistrate and rector of Clopton and Oulton in Suffolk.
[Ref: 38658] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece] Itinerarium Curiosum: Centuria Prima. / Or, An Account of the Antiquities and remarkable Curiosities in Nature or Art, observed in Travels through Great Britain. Illustrated with One hundred Folio Prints in Copper. By William Stukeley, MD. CML. & SRS [...]
MDCCXXV [1725]
Engraved title-page, sheet 325 x 185mm (12¾ x 7¼").
Title-page to William Stukeley's 'Itinerarium Curiosum', his second major work. Stukeley regularly attended meetings of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries, where he presented papers and 'curious' objects resulting from his trips around Britain. It was such discoveries that were discussed in this book.
[Ref: 31954] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to Thomas Reinesius' 'Syntagma inscriptionum antiquarum cumprimis Romae veteris'.]
Johann Jacob de Sandrart Pingebat et Sculpebat.
[Liepzig: Heirs of Johann Fritsch, & Frankfurt: Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, 1732.]
Engraving. Printed area 340 x 190mm, 7½". Trimmed, some creasing.
Allegorical frontispiece, with a medallion portrait of Reinesius held aloft by putti. Thomas Reinesius [1587-1667], a German doctor and writer, compiled this collection of classical inscriptions.
[Ref: 13420] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Tapisseries du Roy, ou sont Representées les Quatre Saisons.
I Bailly in. Le Clerc Sculp.
[n.d., c.1668.]
Engraving. 420 x 295mm (16½ x 11½"). Thread margins.
A decorative frontispiece to a set of engravings of the Four Seasons, with vignettes of the Seasons in a triumphal array.
[Ref: 55353] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Tapisseries du Roy, ou sont Representées les Quatre Elemens.
I Bailly in. Le Clerc Sculp.
[n.d., c.1668.]
Engraving. 420 x 295mm (16½ x 11½"). Thread margins. Slight loss left corner.
A decorative frontispiece to a set of engravings of the Four Elements, with vignettes of the Elemetns in a triumphal array.
[Ref: 55354] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Tapisseries du Roy, ou sont Representez les Quatre Elemens et les Quatre Saisons de L'Année.
I Bailly in.
[n.d., c.1668.]
Engraving. 415 x 285mm (16¼ x 11¼"). Trimmed to plate.
A decorative frontispiece to a set of engravings of the Four Elements and Four Seasons. It takes the form of a monument, with the Four Elements in a triumphal array above and the Four Seasons on the plinth below.
[Ref: 55352] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Devises Pour les Tapisseries des Quatre Elemens.
[n.d., c.1668.]
Engraving. 415 x 285mm (16¼ x 11¼"). Thread margins.
A decorative frontispiece to a set of engravings of the Four Elements, with vignettes of the Elements in a triumphal array.
[Ref: 55355] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Le Theatre Italien de Gherardi. Tom III.
[London, Jacob Tonson, 1714?]
Engraved titlepage. Sheet 145 x 85mm (5¾ x 3¼"). Trimmed within plate, mounted on album paper.
The decorative titlepage to volume three (of eight) of 'Le Theatre Italien de Gherardi'. It shows an orchestra of putti playing a violin, cello, lute, flute and piano. On the plinth is written an early modern usage of 'E pluribus unum', now famous as a motto of the United States of America. Evaristo Gherardi (1663-1700) an Italian actor and playwright, compiled this collection of anonymous plays between 1694 and 1700, when he was assassinated. This 8vo version went through several editions, including by Adrian Braakman in Amsterdam in 1701 and Tonson & les Libraires François in London in 1714.
[Ref: 53646] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

To The King. I Humbly beg leave to lay at Your Majesty's feet the folllowing Dissertation.... May it please Your Majesty, Your Majesty's dutiful servant and faithful subject, William Chambers.
[n.d., 1772.]
Titlepage, engraved dedication with stipple engraved and etched vignette, 235 x 175mm. 9¼ x 7".
From 'A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening', W. Griffin, London, 1772. The book represented an unfortunate literary venture by the architect Sir William Chambers (1726 - 1796), in which he endeavoured to prove the superiority of the Chinese system of landscape gardening over that practised in Europe. His preface is animated with irritation against Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, whose design for Lord Clive's villa at Claremont had been preferred to his. The ‘Dissertation’ itself, with its absurd depreciation of nature, its bombastic style, and its ridiculous descriptions (mainly borrowed from other works) of the gardens of the emperor of China, was sufficient to account for the satires which it called into life. The most important of these was ‘An Heroic Epistle to Sir W. C.,’ followed by ‘An Heroic Postscript’ to this epistle, in both of which the satire was keen and the verses pointed. These lively pieces were published anonymously, and their authorship was for some time a matter for conjecture. There is now no doubt that they were by William Mason, the poet, the first book of whose ‘English Garden’ was published in 1772. Chambers commenced to exhibit with the Society of Artists (in Spring Gardens) in 1761, and was one of the first members and the first treasurer of the Royal Academy when established in 1768. In 1775 he was appointed architect of Somerset House at a salary of 2,000l. a year. With image above of two sides of a coin depicting George III as a Roman emperor and the facade of the Royal Academy. After Cipriani, engraved by Bartolozzi.
British Library system number: 000655477.
[Ref: 9314] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Joanni Churchill Duci dse Marlborough, Forti Felici, Invicto.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. Lau: Cars Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 640 x 415mm, 25¼ x 16¼". Tears to margins, stained.
An allegorical monument to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), famed for his military triumphs in the Nine Years' War (1688-97) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14). From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10619] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Guillelmo Comiti Cowper &c. Magnæ Britanniæ Cancellario.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. Beauvais Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 640 x 415mm, 25¼ x 16¼". Tears to margins, creased.
An allegorical monument to William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, (c.1665-1723), Lord Chancellor of England, who conducted the negotiations that led to the Act of Union in 1707. From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10617] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Carolo Sackville Comiti de Dorset et Middlesex & c. sui termporis Mœcenati.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. M.Aubert Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 640 x 415mm, 25¼ x 16¼". Tears to margins, creased.
An allegorical monument to Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (1638-1706), with a winged horse, putti and a pair of leopards. From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10616] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

D.O.M.. & Piæ Memoriæ Johannes Tillotson Proventia Divina Archiepiscopi Cantuar. & c.a.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. N. de Larmessin Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 640 x 415mm, 25¼ x 16¼". Tears to margins, stained.
An allegorical monument to John Tillotson (1630-94), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 until his death. From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10621] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to 'Topographia Sueviae' ('the topography of Swabia'), wth city view of Augsburg] Topographia Sueviae dasist Beschreib und Aigentliche Abcontrafeitung [...]
[Matthäus Merian I, 1643]
Engraving, sheet 275 x 170mm (10¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed to image; creasing.
Frontispiece to the second part of 'Topographia Germaniae' (1642-1660s), a series of volumes depicting, in thirty-eight parts, the topography of Germany.
[Ref: 46386] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Town and Country Magazine] Frontispiece Vol VII. No 1.
I. Taylor f.
[1775.]
Engraving. 170 x 115mm (6¾ x 4½") very large margins.
An allegorical frontispiece for the 'Town and Country Magazine', featuring classical gods, including Apollo and Cupid, around a globe. Isaac Taylor's original artwork, a pen and ink sketch with grey wash, is in the Yale Center for British Art.
[Ref: 56786] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Vedute Delle Ville e d'Altri Luoghi Della Toscana. Giuseppe Zocchi Di An. XXVII.
G.Z. inv. e del. Gio. Gottofredo Seuter scolpi in Firenze.
Appresso Giuseppe Allegrini Stampatore in Rame Firenze 1744.
Engraving. Plate: 320 x 490mm (12½ x 19¼''), with large margins. Repaired tears into plate, creasing.
The frontispiece to Giuseppe Zochhi's (1711-1767) 'Vedute Delle Ville e d'Altri Luoghi Della Toscana' which depicted villas and views in Tuscany. Classical allegorical figures stand around a central statue and three putti support an oval portrait of Zocchi which rests at the base of the statue.
[Ref: 50903] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

The Union Song.
Drawn & Engraved by P. W. Tomkins, Engraver to Her Majesty.
Published by Him as the Act directs. Jan.y 19. 1801 at No. 49 New Bond Street.
Rare stipple engraving. Sheet size: 330 x 250mm (13 x 9¾"). Trimmed inside platemark.
A decorative title page for a song titled, 'The Union Song', which is inscribed a the bottom of the sheet. Three female figures playing instuments, including a flute and harpsicord, sitting on top of a crushed Lion and Unicorn, symbols of the United Kingdom.
[Ref: 32195] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Universal Magazine frontispiece] Mechanical Powers.
Publishd according to Act of Parliament 1750 for John Hinton at the Kings Arms in S.t Pauls-Church-Yard.
Engraving. 190 x 105mm (7½ x 4"). Trimmed into plate on right.
An allegorical plate of representing mechanics, with a man using a level and a waterwheel. The frontispiece from a volume of the Universal Magazine, an early periodical, published monthly from 1747-1814.
[Ref: 62381] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Universal Magazine frontispiece] Music the fiercest Grief can charm / And Fate's severest Rage disarm [...] Pope.
[London: John Hinton, c.1750.]
Engraving. 190 x 105mm (7½ x 4"). Trimmed into plate on right.
A young couple sit in a formal garden, listing to a man playing the flute. In the foreground is a violin. The frontispiece from a volume of the Universal Magazine, an early periodical, published monthly from 1747-1814.
[Ref: 62380] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Universal Magazine frontispiece] From Art and Science true Contentment springs, / Science points out the Cause, Art the Use of things. / Merit should be for ever placed / ln Knowledge, Judgment, Wit, and Taste.
[London: John Hinton, 1747.]
Engraving. 190 x 105mm (7½ x 4"). Trimmed into plate on right, small grease mark.
A gentleman in his library is visited by Mercury whose caduceus has the banner ''The Universal Magazine''. The frontispiece from Volume I of the Universal Magazine, an early periodical, published monthly from 1747-1814.
[Ref: 62377] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

[Universal Magazine frontispiece] To build, to plant; what ever you intend, / To rear the column, or the arch to bend, / To swell the terras, or to sink the grot; / In all, let nature never be forgot. / Pope.
[London: John Hinton, c.1750.]
Engraving. 190 x 105mm (7½ x 4"). Trimmed into plate on right.
An architect shows his patron his designs, standing in front of the work in progress, with masons working to one side. The frontispiece from a volume of the Universal Magazine, an early periodical, published monthly from 1747-1814.
[Ref: 62378] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Universal Magazine frontispiece] Lo! Truth unveils the baseness of Mankind, / And in her Mirrour paints the Ugly Mind [...]
[London: John Hinton, c.1750.]
Engraving. 190 x 105mm (7½ x 4"). Trimmed into plate on right.
The naked figure of truth, with helmet and flaming sword, uses her shield to reflect the faces of men. The frontispiece from a volume of the Universal Magazine, an early periodical, published monthly from 1747-1814.
[Ref: 62379] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Al Fondator di Roma io leggo in volto. Quanto di grande in quella entro è raccolto.
Caval Sebastian Conca inven. Guiseppe Vasi incise.
[n.d., c.1747.]
Etching. Plate: 290 x 200mm, (11½ x 8"); very large margins. Foxing in margins.
The frontispiece to 'Della magnificenze di Roma antica e modern, Roma', 1747 by Giuseppe Vasi (1710-1782). A scene in which a figure in armour points to a fortified building, while the figure of the river Tiber holds a spade, his arm resting on a vase.
[Ref: 40784] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Jan Vande velde Fecit.
Claes Janss Visscher Excudebat Anno 1616.
Etched titlepage. Sheet 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½"). Thread margins top and bottom, mounted on album paper.
The titlepage for one of the five parts of the series 'Sixty Landscapes' after Jan van der Velde II.
[Ref: 60217] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Frontispiece to Franz Edmund Weirotter's 'Zweite Folge von Gegenden und Bruchstuecken Alter Gebaeude']
Nach der Natur gezeichnet in Welschland und in Kupfer geaetzet von F.E. Weirotter
In Wien zu finden in der K.K. Zeichnung und Kupferstecherakademie [c.1767]
Etching, platemark 190 x 270mm (7½ x 10½"). Small loss in margins top right.
Title-page to one of several sets of volumes of etchings of Italian ruins by Austrian artist Franz Edmund Weirotter (1733-71). Weirotter visited Rome in 1763-4 where he met artist Henry Fuseli and the great writer on art Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and published his Italian views after he was appointed professor of landscape drawing at the Vienna Akademie in 1767.
[Ref: 41400] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Title page] No 3 of a Series of Views in the West Indies: Engraved from Drawings taken recently in the Islands: With Letter Press Explanations Made From Actual Observation.
Davison, Whitefriars.
London: [Smith Elder & Co, Cornhill] Fleet-Street [n.d., 1827-29.]
Rare & scarce title sheet, letterpress with wood-engraved border, label with mss. publisher details stuck on. 290 x 440mm (11½ x 17¼"). Laid on card, wear to paper surface.
The title sheet of the third (and last, of a planned eight] parts of J. Johnston's 'Views in the West Indies', a series of an engraved map and eleven aquatint views. The series was begun by Mess.rs Underwood but completed by Smith Elder & Co.
Abbey Travel 678.
[Ref: 54220] £280.00

The Revolution An Historical Play. The Protestant Religion and Liberties of England. Je maintiendrai.
Christian inv.t J.T.Smith sculp.t.
[n.d. c.1800.]
Stipple and etching with letterpress. Plate 210 x 140mm (8¼ x 5½"). Loss into plate at lower right corner.
William III on horseback, preparing to invade England.
[Ref: 52457] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

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