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[Sati] Bramenes cum mortuus est [...]
[Sati] Bramenes cum mortuus est [...]
AvLinschoten. Joa à Doe: fe:.
[Amsterdam: Joost Gillis Saeghman, 1596.]
Coloured engraving. 250 x 320mm (9¾ x 12½"). Edges chipped, worming in margins on left, paper slightly toned.
A depiction of Sati (or suttee), with a widow stepping onto her husband's pyre to be burned alive. From ''Itinerario: Voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien'', an account to the travels of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to the Portuguese East India.
[Ref: 62368]   £320.00  
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The School of Projects.
The School of Projects.
[by Samuel De Wilde.]
Published for the Satirist, Octr 1st 1809. by S. Tipper Leaden (St.
Etching with aquatint, Sheet 205 x 370mm (8 x 14½"). Folds as issued. Trimmed within plate. Holes in right edge where previously bound.
A satire on some of the outlandish projects being touted to investors. On the left is a model of a bridge from the Earth to the Moon, a plan devised by Ralph Dodd, who is depicted boring a hole through the Earth, a satire on his plan to dig a dry tunnel from Gravesend to Tilbury (before Brunel's Thames Tunnel). In the centre is Frederick Albert Winsor (1763-1830), pioneer of gas lighting, whose system was to be used to light both Dodd's tunnel and his proposed Strand Bridge. On the right is William Robert Henry Brown, manager of the Golden Lane Brewery, and also Chairman of the Hope Insurance Company and promoter of a Cattle Insurance Company. To his left is George Leybourne, a supporter of the cattle insurance scheme, said to have had a plan for making a sheep grow as large as an ox.
BM Satires 11439.
[Ref: 62374]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Scotch Amusements.
Scotch Amusements.
[Oxford Magazine] [n.d. c.1768]
Engraving, plate 110 x 180mm (4½ x 7"), with large margins. Time stained.
Satire on the Scots and their purported pleasures, focusing on John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792), his supposed relationship with Augusta, Princess of Wales (1719-1772), and his suggested influence on behalf of his compatriots. At the top, a Scotsman playing "Through the Wood Laddy through the Wood Laddy" on his bagpipes is heard as Bute and the Princess share an embrace on a bench in a park in Kew Gardens, which can be recognized by the pagoda in the distance. His foot is resting on the neck of a prone Britannia. A large man sitting in an armchair in the foreground, wearing a tartan waistcoat and a Scots bonnet, is reading a large book that is open to "History of ye Wars of 1715 & 1745" (i.e., the Jacobite risings). He quotes Thucydides as saying, "History is Philosophy teaching by Example." Standing next to him on a pedestal with the words "Pride" and "Ingratitude" written on it, a Scotsman rubs his back and scratches his hand against a post topped with a satyr's head that has the words "This is one of the many Posts erected for the benefit of the Thanes friends" hanging from it. Standing on the pedestal's step, a second Scot—possibly meant to be William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-1793)-says, "awa to the deel with this feulish bauble of Liberty I'll stick my Dirk in his Wem," while stabbing a picture of the liberty staff and cap. Beside him, a woman dressed in tartan blows on the fire beneath a large cauldron bearing the letters "Scots Haggis Kettle," which is filled with simmering sheep heads. A Scot is seen spooning broth from a bowl behind the cauldron and remarks, "These are brae Sheepsheads & make Muckle gued broth." "And they were all English Mens heads I woud no grudge a louse," remarks a second Scot who is seated next to the cauldron and scratches his head. An allusion to the shooting of William Allen (c.1750-1768) by Scottish guards during the St. George's Fields riots on May 10, 1768, can be seen in the background on the right, where two soldiers fire at a man who is falling back.
BM Satires 4237.
[Ref: 62328]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Scotland.
Scotland.
Drawn by R.K. Porter. Engraved by W. Barnard.
Pub.d March 12, 1800, by W. Barnard, No. 1 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy Square London.
Mezzotint, J. Whatman watermark 1800. 440 x 390mm (19¼ x 15¼"), with large margins. Crack in platemark.
A figure representing Scotland as a young boy in a kilt, walking up a hill in the wind, holding down his tamoshanter. One of four plates representing the four nations about to be joined by the Act of Union.
[Ref: 62149]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Sculptura: or the History, and Art of Chalcography and Engraving on Copper...
Sculptura: or the History, and Art of Chalcography and Engraving on Copper... To which is annexed A new manner of Engraving, or Mezzo Tinto, communicated by His Hightness Prince Rupert to the Authour of this Treatise.
[by John Evelyn.]
London, Printed by J.C. for G. Beedle, and T. Collins, at the Middle-Temple Gate, and J. Crook in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1662.
Four leaves, 8vo: letterpress title (as above) engraved frontispiece and pp. 145-148. Mounted in album paper, old ink mss. On one sheet.
The title and frontispiece of John Evelyn's account of engraving, mounted on album paper with the four pages of 'Chap VI. Of the new way of Engraving, or Mezzo Tinto, Invented, and communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhyne, &c'. This was the first English account of mezzotint and was accompanied by the first mezzotint published in this country. Prince Rupert introduced mezzotint engraving into England (rather than invented as Evelyn states) when he returned during the Restoration of 1660. He demonstrated the technique to Evelyn and provided him with a plate ('The little executioner') for this book. The frontispiece is signed AH, the monogram of engraver Abraham Hertochs.
[Ref: 62183]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Sculpture head.]
[Sculpture head.]
H. Howard, A. delin. W. Skelton Sculpsit.
[n.d., 1809.]
Engraving with etching, printed in dark brown ink. 330 x 235mm (13 x 9¼"), with very large margins.
From 'Specimens of Antique Sculptures, Ægyptyan, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman: selected from different collections in Great Britain'
[Ref: 62404]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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The Sea Pie Illustrated by Alfred Crowquill.
The Sea Pie Illustrated by Alfred Crowquill. ''Now, Massa, Sea-Pie ready.''
P.Cruik sc.
[Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London, and to be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country. W. Eden, Printer, 11, Queen Street, Cheapside.] [n.d. c.1842]
Etching. Sheet (at most) 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed as scrap, losing publication line.
A black cook stands at a stove.
[Ref: 62247]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Set design] Scena D'Invenzione e Disegno del Cavalier Bibiena rappresentante Sala Reale.
[Set design] Scena D'Invenzione e Disegno del Cavalier Bibiena rappresentante Sala Reale.
J.G. Bibiena inven: et delin: A.O. [Ambroglio Orio] sculp.
[n.d., c.1740.]
Engraving. 355 x 500 (14 x 19¾"), very large margins. Central fold as normal. Foxing in margin.
A set design for an immense Baroque 'Royal Hall', with colonades and archways. Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (1696-1757) of Palma was 'First Theatrical Engineer' at the Viennese court of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and his daughter Maria Theresa from 1723-47, organising festivities including the Maria's wedding, and designing sets for theatrics. In 1753 he moved to the court of Frederick the Great in Berlin.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62140]   £420.00  
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[Shorthand] Phonography, or Writing by Sound, being also A New & Natural System of Short Hand.
[Shorthand] Phonography, or Writing by Sound, being also A New & Natural System of Short Hand.
[Invented & Drawn by I. Pitman, 5, Nelson Place, Bath.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Scarce etching. Sheet 170 x 200mmm (6¾ x 8"). Trimmed to border on three sides, laid on album paper. Very small hole on left centre.
A page of examples of Isaac Pitman's shorthand, first demonstrated in 1837, from Pitman's Journal.
[Ref: 62244]   £380.00  
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M.rs Siddons [letters intersperced with SH-AK-SP-E-A-R-E]
M.rs Siddons [letters intersperced with SH-AK-SP-E-A-R-E] From a Miniature in Enamel in the Publishers Possession, taken by the late H. Hone Esq.r Miniature Painter to His Majesty shortly after M.rs S's Debut. Proof.
H. Hone Esq.r Del.t advivum. G.F. Phillips Sculp.t.
Published by A. Beugo 38, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, Sept.r 28th 1825.
Stipple, proof impression printed in sepia. Sheet 245 x 180mm (9½ x 7"). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at edges.
Bust portrait in oval of Sarah Siddons (1755-1831)
[Ref: 62410]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Tho.s Simmons.
Tho.s Simmons. Murderer of Mrs Warner and Mrs Hummerstone, at Hoddeston in Hertfordshire.
[n.d., c.1808.]
Aquatint with etching. Sheet 245 x 145mm (9¾ x 5¾"). Trimmed within plate, bit dusty.
Portrait of prisoner Thomas Simmons who was executed at Hertford jail on 7th of March, 1808, for a double murder of a Quaker family home at Hoddesdon.
[Ref: 62105]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Skipping] Caught Tripping.
[Skipping] Caught Tripping.
Printed by L.H. Lefevre, Newman St.
London: Published by William Spooner, 377, Strand.
Lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 380 x 280mm (15 x 11") Slight surface soiling.
A young woman, in a dress that bares her shoulders, is tangled in her skipping rope, which reveals her calves and petticoats.
[Ref: 62341]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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[Sledges drawn by a reindeer and dogs.] N.º 11.
[Sledges drawn by a reindeer and dogs.] N.º 11.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Rare coloured lithograph. Sheet 140 x 260mm (5½ x 10¼"). Stains and marks.
Two native sledges.
[Ref: 62330]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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X. A Gentleman with his Hookah Burdar, or Pipe Bearer.
X. A Gentleman with his Hookah Burdar, or Pipe Bearer.
[by Sir Charles D'Oyly.]
London, Published & Sold by Edw.d Orme, March 1.st 1813 [but c.1824].
Aquatint. 210 x 175mm (8¼ x 7"). Small margins.
Drawn by Sir Charles D'Oyly for Captain Thomas Williamson's 'The Costume and Customs of Modern India'. The work was first published as 'The European in India' in 1813 (Abbey 435), as plate 'X'; this issue has the title (as given in the original list of plates) engraved outside the printed border.
Abbey 440.
[Ref: 62068]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Copy on an Inscription engraved upon a Gold Watch, value 30 Guineas. Presented to M.r Ralph Leconby Snowden of Greta Bridge
Copy on an Inscription engraved upon a Gold Watch, value 30 Guineas. Presented to M.r Ralph Leconby Snowden of Greta Bridge [...] for upwards of Four Years Superintendent of Police, over 32 Townships in the District of Gilling West. July 20. 1843.
[n.d., c.1843.]
Rare etching on card. Sheet 115 x 150mm (4½ x 6").
Snowden had a reputation as a dogged and precise detective. In 1845 he published 'Snowden's Police Officers, Constables Guide and Magistrates Assistant', which became a standard text for the police.
[Ref: 62242]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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The Southampton & Salisbury Canal Company's Security.
The Southampton & Salisbury Canal Company's Security.
J. Puke fe. N.º 38 Southampton Buildings London.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 55 x 60mm (2¼ x 2½"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
The logo of the Southampton & Salisbury Canal Company, founded c.1794 to build part of a canal linking Bristol and Southampton. Like many schemes of the period, it was never completed and investors lost a huge amount of money.
[Ref: 62425]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[A young blonde girl with a Cavalier King Charles spaniel.]
[A young blonde girl with a Cavalier King Charles spaniel.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph with very fine hand colour. Circular, diameter 240mm (9½"). Trimmed to printed border.
See Ref: 62324
[Ref: 62325]   £420.00  
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[Cavalier King Charles Spaniel head]
[Cavalier King Charles Spaniel head] "Prince". 2/6.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Scarce lithograph with fine hand colour. Sheet 285 x 230mm (11¼ x 9").
[Ref: 62324]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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[Radlett Camera, Oxford.] [No.46.]
[Radlett Camera, Oxford.] [No.46.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1925.]
Etching. Plate 201 x 139mm (8 x 5½"), with very large margins. Mint.
Brasenose College, Oxford, an entrance seen from the quad showing the domed-roof of the Radlett Camera building behind, now part of the Bodleian Library.
[Ref: 62261]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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[Christ Church College, Oxford.] [No.53.]
[Christ Church College, Oxford.] [No.53.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1925.]
Etching. Plate 202 x 140mm (8 x 5½"), with very large margins. Mint.
A view of the Tom Tower, named for its bell, Great Tom, which is the main entrance to Christ Church College, Oxford. The tower with its octagonal lantern and facetted ogee dome was designed by Christopher Wren and built 1681-82.
[Ref: 62262]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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Prison Gate S.t Albans.
Prison Gate S.t Albans.
J.C.B. del.t [John Cart Burgess].
Pub.d 1816.
Rare pen lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 140 x 195mm (5½ x 7¾"). Trimmed to printed border.
A view looking through a medieval archway, after John Cart Burgess (1798-1863), painter and writer. He was the son of William Burgess and brother of Henry William Burgess and Thomas Burgess.
[Ref: 62107]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Cambridge. St. John's College. Chapel.] 61.
[Cambridge. St. John's College. Chapel.] 61. [St. John's College was founded in 1511 through the beneficence of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII., on the suppression of the Hospital of St. John the Evangelist (founded about 1200). The College was brought into existence by the exertions of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, who supervised the building and drew up the first statutes. The original Master's Lodgings and Chapel, which formerly stood on the north side, were pulled down in 1869. The new Chapel was designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, and stands on the site of what was previously a maze of rooms known as "The Labyrinth" which once housed many of the poorer scholars. It contains effigies and monuments to eminent benefactors, removed from the old Chapel, together with the fine old stalls and the piscina of early 13th century workmanship. Of the famous men associated with the College, the best known are William Cecil, Lord Burghley (who was Chancellor 1559-98) Sir John Cheke, and his pupil Roger Ascham, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Richard Green, Samuel ("Erewhon") Butler, Bishop Wilberforce and William Wordsworth.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.] Copyright. F. & M. Ltd., Bedford, Eng.
Etching. 259 x 284mm (10¼ x 11¼"), with very large margins. Mint.
[Ref: 62264]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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[St. Paul's Cathedral from the Great West Door.] [No.3]
[St. Paul's Cathedral from the Great West Door.] [No.3]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. Plate 200 x 140mm. (7¾ x 5½"), with very large margins.
St Paul's Cathedral looking towards the Great West Door.
[Ref: 62214]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[London  St. Paul's From the River.  No. 7.]
[London St. Paul's From the River. No. 7.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching with letterpress text slip. Plate 195 x 140mm. (7¾ x 5½"). Mint.
View across the Thames to St Paul's Cathedral, from the south bank; sailing craft on the river in foreground. Offered with original printed title label (with descriptive text).
[Ref: 62218]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Staple Inn Courtyard.] [No.12]
[Staple Inn Courtyard.] [No.12]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. Plate 195 x 140mm. (7¾ x 5½"), very large margins. Offered with original letterpress sheet.
The quiet courtyard that is just behind the attractive façade of Staple Inn.
[Ref: 62213]   £40.00   (£48.00 incl.VAT)
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A pair of Beauties.
A pair of Beauties.
C.B.
[n.d., c.1900.]
Etching. 130 x 105mm (5¼ x 4¼").
Two beared men sit in the stocks, pelted by eggs.
[Ref: 62119]   £70.00   (£84.00 incl.VAT)
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The Storm Rising; _ or _ the Republican Flotilla in danger.
The Storm Rising; _ or _ the Republican Flotilla in danger.
J.s. G.y inv. & f.
Pub.d Feb.y 1.st 1798, by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street.
Scarce coloured etching. 265 x 680mm (10½ x 27"). Repaired tear, laid on archival paper.
A scene on the English Channel, with a windlass being turned by Charles James Fox, Francis Russell, Richard Brinsley Sheridan and George Tierney, all Whig politicians who initially supported the French Revolution. They are winching towards England a raft with a tricolour flag inscribed 'Liberty', laden with an invasion force. Above, in the clouds, is a wind head of William Pitt the Younger, blowing huge waves to swamp the raft before it can reach shore.
BM 9167.
[Ref: 62226]   £1,800.00  
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[Execution of William Howard, 1st Viscount Strafford] Supplice du Vicount de Stafford.
[Execution of William Howard, 1st Viscount Strafford] Supplice du Vicount de Stafford.
[n.d., c.1680.]
Etching. pt. 17th century watermark; Sheet 120 x 155mm (4¾ x 6"). Trimmed, mounted in album paper.
A scene depicting the execution of William Howard (1614-80), 1st Viscount Strafford, after being falsely implicated in ''Popish Plot'' by Titus Oates. His head is being held up for the crowd to see. The scene is taken from an engraving of the execution of Charles I; Strafford was executed on Tower Hill, not before Mansion house as here.
[Ref: 62304]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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David Teniers Antuerpianus Sereniss.is Leopoldo Archiduci, & Ioanni Austriaco Belgy Gubernatoribus Pictor familiaris, & Vtriq a Cubiculis, A.o M.D.C.LIX Ætat: 49.
David Teniers Antuerpianus Sereniss.is Leopoldo Archiduci, & Ioanni Austriaco Belgy Gubernatoribus Pictor familiaris, & Vtriq a Cubiculis, A.o M.D.C.LIX Ætat: 49. Herous faciles aditus in limina Regum...
Petrus Thÿs pinx. Lucas Vosterm: Iun: Sculpsit.
Abraham Teniers excudit [n.d., 1659].
Engraving. Sheet 340 x 235mm (13½ x 9¼''). Trimmed within plate, mounted in album paper at sides.
A portrait of the artist David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690), published as the frontispiece to 'Theatrum Pictorium'. An example of the second state of four, the first published state.
[Ref: 62190]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Games With The Ball - Tennis.
Games With The Ball - Tennis. The Court at Lord's.
R.S. Groom, Wilkinson & Co., Litho, St. Paul's Press. 3, 4 & 5, Queen's Head Passage, Paternoster Row, London, E.C.
London: Henry Lea & Co., 125, Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph. Sheet 225 x 295mm. (9 x 11½").
A game in progress inside the real tennis court at Lord's. At the request of MCC members a tennis court was built in 1839, soon becoming the venue for major championship and exhibition games. From 'The Book of Field Sports and Library of Veterinary Knowledge' by Henry Downes Miles.
[Ref: 62120]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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[A terrier's head]
[A terrier's head] "Duke" [pencil].
[n.d., c.1830.]
Scarce lithograph with very fine hand colour. Sheet 285 x 230mm (11¼ x 9").
See Ref: 62324
[Ref: 62323]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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The Siege of Namur by Captn. Shandy & Corporal Trim.
The Siege of Namur by Captn. Shandy & Corporal Trim. - What an honest triumph in my Uncle Toby's Eyes as he march'd to / the Ramparts with the Gazette in his hand & Trim with a pickax / ready to execute the Contents: what intense pleasure in his Eyes, / as he stood over the Corporal! Heaven! Earth! Sea!
H.W.Bunbury del. 1772 J.Bretherton f.
Publish'd as the Act directs 26. Jan. 1773. By J.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street.
Etching. Sheet 396 x 270mm (15 ½ x 10½). Trimmed within plate.
One of series of illustrations from 'Tristam Shandy'.
BM Satire 5213.
[Ref: 62231]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Theatre Royal Cheltenham [...] Boxing Night, December 26th, 1882 [...] Grand Christmas Comic Pantomime entitled Robinson Crusoe.
Theatre Royal Cheltenham [...] Boxing Night, December 26th, 1882 [...] Grand Christmas Comic Pantomime entitled Robinson Crusoe.
Shenton, Printer, Wichcomb Street, Cheltenham [1882].
Letterpress playbill with wood-engraved border. 4pp, sheet 245 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"), folded once. Splits at horizonal fold.
[Ref: 62205]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[Theatre set] Interno della Cittá di Babilonia.
[Theatre set] Interno della Cittá di Babilonia.
A.Basoli inv e dip. L. Martinelli dis. L. e F. Basoli inc.
[Italy, 1821.]
Scarce aquatint with line engraving, printed in brown. 315 x 3905mm (12½ x 15½").
A theatre set for a play set in Babylon, looking from the interior of a temple to ziggurats Published in Antonio Basoli's 'Collezione di varie scene teatrali', 1821.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62138]   £320.00  
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[Theatre set] Fabbriche Sotteranee dell' India.
[Theatre set] Fabbriche Sotteranee dell' India.
A.Basoli inv e dip. L. Landri dis. L. e F. Basoli inc.
[Italy, 1821.]
Scarce aquatint with line engraving, printed in brown. 315 x 3905mm (12½ x 15½"), with very large margins.
A theatre set for a play set in India, with a vaulted chamber with a vast staircase leading up to a massive doorway and the sky. Published in Antonio Basoli's 'Collezione di varie scene teatrali', 1821.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62137]   £320.00  
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[Theatre set] Cittá di Tebe in Beozia.
[Theatre set] Cittá di Tebe in Beozia.
A.Basoli inv e dip. L. Basoli dis. L. e F. Basoli inc.
[Italy, 1821.]
Scarce aquatint with line engraving, printed in brown. 315 x 385mm (12½ x 15¼"), with very large margins. Creasing on right, hole in margin near bottom plate mark filled.
A theatre set for a play set in the city of Thebes in Boeotia, published in Basoli's 'Collezione di varie scene teatrali', 1821.
Ex: Collection of Edward Croft Murray
[Ref: 62135]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Theseus Finding his Fathers Sword & Sandals (vide Plutarch).
Theseus Finding his Fathers Sword & Sandals (vide Plutarch). This plate from an Original Picture by Angelica Kauffman, is dedicated to Godfrey Thornton Esq.r by his much obliged & obedient Servant Thomas Fielding.
Angelica Kauffman R.A. Pinx.t. Tho.s Fielding (Pupil of the late W. Wynne Ryland) Sculp.t.
[London. Published Jan.y 1st 1784 for the Proprietor T.Fielding No.8 Wormwood Street, and W.Palmer No 150 Strand.]
Stipple. 370 x 310mm (14½ x 12¼"). Trimmed to plate at bottom. Small margins.
Theseus discovers the sandals and sword left by his father, Aegeus, enabling him to claim his birthright. A state with the publication line removed.
[Ref: 62147]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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[Tower Bridge] [No.8]
[Tower Bridge] [No.8]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. 140 x 197mm. (5½ x 7 ¾"), with very large margins.
A View of Tower Bridge with Construction and a working Dock for the City in the background; traffic on the bridge and barges on the River Thames.
[Ref: 62216]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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[London. The Tower of London From the Thames. No.4.]
[London. The Tower of London From the Thames. No.4.]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature.]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching, plate 140 x 195mm (5½ x 7¾"), with very large margins, with accompanying descriptive letterpress label with title (as above).
The most famous view of the Tower of London.
[Ref: 62219]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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[St Martin-in-the-Fields Church] [No.13]
[St Martin-in-the-Fields Church] [No.13]
Arthur Spencer [pencil signature to the bottom left-hand side outside the image]
[n.d. c.1920.]
Etching. Plate 200 x 135mm. (8 x 5¼"), with very large margins. Offered with original letterpress sheet.
A view of the Western Door to St Martin-in-the-Fields Church on Trafalgar Square, with the front of the National Gallery on left.
[Ref: 62212]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)
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[Tristram Shandy] The Damnation of Obadiah.
[Tristram Shandy] The Damnation of Obadiah. ''May all the Angels & Archangels, Principalities and / Powers, & all the Heavenly Armies, curse & damn him - / - him - Obadiah. (Our Armies swore terribly in Flanders / quoth my Uncle Toby, but nothing to this-'') - Vide Tris. Shandy Vol. 2d.
HWBunbury delin 1772. J.Bretherton f.
Publish'd as the Act directs 30th Jan. 1773. By J.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street.
Etching. Sheet 273 x 410mm (10¾ x 16"). Trimmed within plate and laid on album paper.
Tristram Shandy stands smoking, with Doctor Slop sitting with a bleeding finger wrapped in a handkerchief. Uncle Toby points at a map of Flanders which hangs on the wall over Dr. Slop's head, recounting the Siege of Bergem Op Zoom to Corporal Trim. Obediah exits, stage left. A scene from 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman', by Laurence Sterne.
BM Satire 5214.
[Ref: 62227]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Tristram Shandy.] The Overthrow of Dr. Slop.
[Tristram Shandy.] The Overthrow of Dr. Slop. ''When Obadiah & his Coach Horse turn'd the Corner rapid, furious, pop, full upon him - nothing I think in Nature can be supposed more terrible than such a rencounter. - Obadiah pull'd of his Cap twice to Dr. Slop, once when he was falling & again when he saw him seated'' - Vide Vol. 1st. Tristram Shandy".
H. Bunbury delin. J.Bretherton f.
Publish'd as the Act directs 3.d February By J.Bretherton, No. 134, New Bond Street.
Etching. Sheet 270 x 400mm (10½ x 15¾"). Trimmed within plate and laid on album paper.
The choleric physician Doctor Slop is thrown from his horse. A scene from 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman', by Laurence Sterne.
BM: 5215.
[Ref: 62230]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Tristram Shandy] The Battle of the Cataplasm.
[Tristram Shandy] The Battle of the Cataplasm. - "Susannah roving one way & looking another, set fire to Dr Slop's Wig, which being somewhat bushy & unctuous was as soon burnt as kindled / - You impudent Whore cried Slop (for what is pafsion but a wild Beast) / You impudent Hwore cried Slop getting upright with the Cataplasm in hs hand / - I never was the destruction of any body's nose said Susannah, which is more than you can say: / - Is it? cried Dr Slop, throwing the Cataplasm in her face / - Yes it is cried Susannah returning the Complement with what was lef in the pan" - Vide Tris. Shandy Vol. 4.
H.W.Bunbury delin. J.Bretherton f.
Published as the act directs 3d Feb 1773. By J.Bretherton No.134 New Bond Street.
Etching. Sheet 405 x 270mm (16 x 10¾") Trimmed within plate and laid on album paper.
One of series of illustrations to 'Tristam Shandy'.
BM Satire 5216.
[Ref: 62232]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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[Universal Magazine frontispiece] Mechanical Powers.
[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)
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[Universal Magazine frontispiece] Music the fiercest Grief can charm / And Fate's severest Rage disarm [...] Pope.
[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)
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[Universal Magazine frontispiece] From Art and Science true Contentment springs, / Science points out the Cause, Art the Use of things.
[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)
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[Universal Magazine frontispiece] To build, to plant; what ever you intend, / To rear the column, or the arch to bend,
[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)
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[Universal Magazine frontispiece] Lo! Truth unveils the baseness of Mankind, / And in her Mirrour paints the Ugly Mind [...]
[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)
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[Collection of 12 titles and frontispieces] The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure [...] Vol VIII
[Collection of 12 titles and frontispieces] The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure [...] Vol VIII [& XI, XIII, XIV, XVI, XXI, XXIII, XIV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII & XXIX.]
Published Monthly at the King's Arms in S.t Pauls Church Yard [& Newgate Street] London [John Hinton, n.d., 1751-2]
12 pairs of letterpress titles and engraved frontispieces. Sheets 205 x 255mm (8 x 10"). Ten pairs laid on album paper.
From an early periodical, published monthly from 1747-1814.
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Adiournement fait a Henry de Valois pur Assister aux Etats Tenus en Enfer.
Adiournement fait a Henry de Valois pur Assister aux Etats Tenus en Enfer.
[etched by Ernest Jaime]
[Paris: Chez Delloye, Libraire-Éditeur, 1838.]
Coloured etching. Sheet 140 x 220mm (5½ x 8½"). Trimmed close to image.
Henry III of France being led by the Devil to see Hell for himself. A copy of an earlier satire, published in Ernest Jaime's 'Musée de la caricature ou Recueil des caricatures les plus remarquables publiées en France depuis le quatorzième siècle jusqu'à nos jours, pour servir de complément à toutes les collections de mémoires'.
[Ref: 62168]   £120.00   (£144.00 incl.VAT)
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