Grosvenor Prints

Edmund Spenser. From the Original Picture at Bretby Park. To the Countess of Chesterfield I dedicate this Engraving of the 'Poet of Poets' very respectfully and gratefully Alexander B. Grosart. Private Plate engraved for Rev. A.B. Grosart. Blackburn. No. of Impressions: 18 Artists Proofs 32 Lettered 50 Prints.
Engraved by W.J. Alais.
Printed by McQueen [n.d. c.1830].
Mixed method engraving. 365 x 295mm (14¼ x 11½").
A bust portrait in oval of poet Edmund Spenser (1552? - 1599).
[Ref: 40] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[E]dmund Spencer [sic].
[G. Vertue.]
[1727.]
Engraving on laid paper, proof before lettering to pedestal/lower margin, rare. Image 345 x 220mm, 13½ x 8¾". Trimmed to plate. Puncture through image upper right, slight tear. Proof before dedication to John Guise and other text added.
Portrait of Edmund Spenser (1552? - 1599), poet. In oval frame surrounded by architecture and masonry by George Vertue (1683 - 1756).
See Alexander 488 (proof not described by Alexander).
[Ref: 24902] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Master of the house.
H.Sperling Pinx.
Copyright and published by J. Casper Berlin. 1903.
Photogravure. 290 x 395mm.
[Ref: 5694] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Spetchley Park, Worcestershire. The Seat of Robert Berkeley Esq.re.
Piringer.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Aquatint 335 x 420mm (13¼ x 16½"). Trimmed to plate top and bottom, wear to edges.
A Palladian house built in 1811 by Robert Berkeley (1764-1845), designed by the Catholic architect John Tasker. The contents have been sold by Sotheby's in 2019/20.
See Items Ref: 54731, 54963, 54965, 54967.
[Ref: 56383] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Marchand de pain d'Epice. v'la le croquet le pain f'epice.
Carle Vernet. S. lith de Delpech.
[Paris, n.d., c.1820.]
Coloured lithograph with very large margins. Printed area 300 x 140mm (11¾ x 5½").
A man selling spiced bread, a number of toys hanging above his table. One of a series, 'Cris de Paris', depicting Parisian street vendors, lithographed by François Séraphin Delpech (1778-1825) after Antoine Charles Horace (Carle) Vernet (1758-1836).
[Ref: 33237] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Domestick Amusement. The Lovely Spinner.
Heillmann pinx.t. J. Watson fecit.
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill, & Carington Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard, London. [n.d., c.1760.]
Mezzotint with etching. Fine impression. Platemark: 355 x 255mm (14 x 10").
A young woman spinning thread, sitting directed to right, looking toward the viewer, wearing a frilled cap, and dark apron with long sleeves and ruffles at the elbow. A fireplace with a work-bag hanging from a chair in front of it is seen on the right.
Chaloner Smith: 160; Goodwin:191. Ex collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 40337] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Spinner.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Hand-coloured engraving. 102 x 63mm (4 x 2½"). Cut and laid on album scrap.
A woman sitting at a spinning-wheel, spinning yarn, from "The Book of Trades or Library of Useful Arts".
[Ref: 25543] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

A Spining Party, 1846.
Forster & Co. Lith. [c.1846.]
Sepia tinted lithograph, sheet 105 x 160mm. 4¼ x 6¼".
Women in a humble cottage interior spinning thread at their wheels; also men, one playing bagpipes?, another smoking? by the fire at centre.
[Ref: 15435] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

[Young Woman Spinning.]
J. H. Benwell inv.t. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
London Published Jan. 20th 1784 by J. Walker Carver No.148 Strand.
Stipple, proof before title. Plate: 275 x 200mm (10¾ x 8'') very large margins. Publication line faint.
A scene showing a country girl sitting outside at her spinning wheel with her cat asleep next to her.
[Ref: 48984] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Ambrogio Spinola] Ambroise Spinola Marquis de Seste Duc de San Severin, General de L'Armée du Roy d'Espaigne.
Balthasar Moncornet excu. [n.d., c.1660.]
Engraving. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"), very large margins.
A half-length portrait of Marquis Ambrogio Spinola (1569-1630), Genoese condottiero, almost half-length, facing front, wearing armour breast-plate, ruff and Order of the Golden Fleece. He served Spain in the several wars in Flanders, gaining fame for the capture of Breda (1624) but spending all of the vast fortune of his family funding the wars.
[Ref: 56400] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Spirit] Le Genie. S 1.
Huquier ex.
A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R. [n.d. c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching. 160 x 110mm (6¼ x 4¼"), with very large margins.
A rococo design, with musical instruments, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59571] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Spirited Subjects No.4. Vell wot are you flaring up about? Vy yer only a couple o'Shampains arter all!
[London: W Spooner, n.d. c.1835.]
Lithograph with fine hand-colour. 255 x 222mm (10 x 8¾"). Cut.
Two snooty champagne flutes, with cigar and cane, in conversation with a humble jug; an illustrated pun, the vessels given human characteristics and faces. From a series of humorous anthropomorphic prints relating to alcohol by William Spooner.
[Ref: 52355] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Spirited Subjects No 1. I say, Old Rummer, stand up or some of us will get cracked directly.
London W Spooner 259 Regent St: [n.d., c.1835.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 275 x 220mm. 10¾ x 8¾".
Three different types of drinking glass, given human characteristics and faces, walk arm-in-arm uncertainly as if drunk; an illustrated pun, with a corked wine bottle behind. From a series of humorous anthropomorphic prints relating to alcohol by William Spooner.
[Ref: 16257] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Spirited Subjects No 4. Vell wot are you flaring up about? Vy yer only a couple o'Shampains arter all!
London W Spooner 259 Regent Street Oxford St. [n.d., c.1835.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 270 x 220mm. 10½ x 8¾".
Two snooty champagne flutes, with cigar and cane, in conversation with a humble jug; an illustrated pun, the vessels given human characteristics and faces. From a series of humorous anthropomorphic prints relating to alcohol by William Spooner.
[Ref: 16258] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Spirited Subjects No5. Screw as I am, I could pretty soon draw your Cork, old Belly-wengence!
[Heath]
[London: W Spooner, n.d. c.1835.]
Scarce lithograph with fine hand-colour. Sheet 265 x 225mm (10½ x 9"). Trimmed, losing publication line.
A corkscrew with human face and legs squares up to a similar bottle labelled 'Gooseberry'. From a series of humorous anthropomorphic prints relating to alcohol by William Spooner.
See Ref: 52355
[Ref: 60625] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The Spiritual Barometer A scale of the progress of Sin and Grace. Glory. Indifference. Perdition.
from Miss Rowling - Hampton Wick 4/3/[18]57
Ink mss., with pen and ink 'barometer' diagram to left, ink ruled border; sheet 225 x 150mm. 9 x 6". Fold creases.
A young lady appears to have copied one of the many popular morality prints of the time on the theme of degrees of progress of sin and piety. A note to the user at bottom advises 'The Reader must peruse this from the middle upwards or downwards until he perceive the degree at which he now stands, and let him be careful of the first advances of sin...' 'Family Worship only on Sunday Evenings' to 'Disease and Death' is but a few degrees of descent from Indifference.
[Ref: 16855] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Spital Fields Phæton.
Pub. accord. to Act by M.Darly 39 Strand Jan.y 5. 1773.
Etching, 175 x 270mm, 7 x 10½".
A large man in a carriage. A one-legged man rides the horse and a footman stands at the back. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
[Ref: 14558] £320.00

An Ice-Field in Spitzbergen.
[n.d. c.1793; but early 19th century issue.]
Engraving. Plate 140 x 190mm. 5½ x 7½".
An Ice-field in Spitsbergen, an island of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. It was first used as a whaling base in the 17th and 18th centuries, after which it was abandoned. Men on the ice throwing spears at a polar bear who is attacking them; a large ship on the ice behind.
[Ref: 22688] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Explanation of the North Coast of Spitzbergen, exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester Square.
[London: Henry Aston Barker, n.d., 1819.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 265 x 450mm (10½ x 17¾"). Tears, repairs to folds, spotting.
A keyplate from the brochure for a panorama exhibited 1819-20 in Barkers's Panorama in Leicester Square, painted by Henry Aston Barker after drawings by Lieutenant Frederick William Beechey. It was the first panoramic image of the Arctic. Beechey (1796-1856, son of painter Sir William Beechey, later Rear Admiral and President of the Royal Society), was part of John Franklin and David Buchan's 1818 expedition to Spitzbergen (Svalbad). This scene shows the Dorothea and Trent at anchor, with the crew making repairs to storm damage. In the foreground of the lower half are Franklin and Buchan.
See: Ref: 56281, 58762 & 53539
[Ref: 59116] £380.00

Splendid Jem, once a dashing hero in the Metropolis, recognized by Tom amongst the Convicts, in the Dock Yard at Chatham.
Drawn & Eng.d by Rob.t Cruikshank.
[n.d. c.1821.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. 145 x 220mm (5¾ x 8¾").
Jem, one of a gang of convicts kept on hulks on the River Medway prior to gaol transportation, lifts his cap to Tom. Australian interest. From Pierce Egan's "Life in London".
[Ref: 55724] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

[Fashion comparison.]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Fine coloured engraving. Sheet 170 x 105mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Trimmed into plate on left, into image on right.
The figures of a man and a woman, both split down the middle, the left side with older faces and fashion styles, the right younger and more ostentatiously.
[Ref: 53272] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Splugen.
CR Knight Delt. Dickinson & Son Lith.
[London: Dickinson & Son, 1846.]
Tinted lithograph with colour added by hand, image 285 x 400mm. 11¼ x 15¾". Tatty extremities.
Fine view along the river Rhine at Splügen in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. From Captain Charles Raleigh Knight's 'Scenery of the Rhine' (16 plates)
Abbey Travel 220, 17.
[Ref: 22309] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Louis Spohr [facsimile signature] [Facsimile of score.]
[n.d. c.1848.]
Lithograph. 275 x 202mm. 10¾ x 8". Cut.
Louis Spohr (1784-1859), a German composer, violinist and conductor onsidered a 'forgotten master' having once having been as famous as Beethoven. In the later 19th century he was still popular enough for Gilbert and Sullivan to mention him in the same breath as Bach and Beethoven. The manuscript facsimile is the beginning of Spohr's String Sextet in C Major, op.140, composed in 1848 in the Romantic style.
[Ref: 19962] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Louis Spohr.
London: Published by W. Pinnock, 267, Strand, Jany.1824.
Engraving. 285 x 222mm. 11¼ x 8¼". Trimmed and rubbed.
Louis Spohr (1784-1859), a German composer, violinist and conductor known as the 'forgotten master' for once having been as famous as Beethoven. His influence was key in the development of German music drama with his greatest triumph in the oratorio. In the later 19th century he was still popular enough for Gilbert and Sullivan to mention him in the same breath as Bach and Beethoven.
From the Collection of J.S. Bumpus.
[Ref: 17261] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Louis Spohr.
F. Shimon 1827. gem: u. gez. Gedr, v. J. Lacroix.
München bey Hermann & Barth [n.d., c.1830].
Lithograph. Printed area 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼"), with large margins.
Louis Spohr (1784-1859), a German composer, violinist and conductor known as the 'forgotten master' for once having been as famous as Beethoven. His influence was key in the development of German music drama with his greatest triumph in the oratorio. In the later 19th century he was still popular enough for Gilbert and Sullivan to mention him in the same breath as Bach and Beethoven.
[Ref: 52617] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Louis Spohr. Kurfürstlich Hessischer Hofkapellmeister under Doctor der Musik.
A. Hatsfield lith.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph. Sheet 195 x 155mm (7¾ x 6"). Trimmed.
Louis Spohr (1784-1859), a German composer, violinist and conductor known as the 'forgotten master' for once having been as famous as Beethoven. His influence was key in the development of German music drama with his greatest triumph in the oratorio. In the later 19th century he was still popular enough for Gilbert and Sullivan to mention him in the same breath as Bach and Beethoven. In June 1820 a baton was first used to conduct an orchestra in England by Ludwig Spohr.
[Ref: 51188] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

L'Enfant Gâté.
Gravé par Maloeuvre sous la direction de J.P. Lebas D'après le Tableau de J.B. Greuze. Du Cabinet Praslin.
A Paris chez Alibert Rue Fromenteau No.16' ~ Et chez Dallenne, Editeur d'Estampes Rue des Bons Enfants No.27 et Guichet du Carrousel No.4.
Etching, 19th century impression. 515 x 380mm (20¼ x 15"). Tear through title, repairs in both left and right edges entering platemark.
'The Spoiled Child': a small boy feeds a dog with a spoonful of soup, while his mother watches him indulgently.
[Ref: 45237] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Veduta della Rocca, Ponte, Aquedotti, e Monteluco de Spoleto.
Giov.i Catena utresse fal vero.
[Spoleto? c.1840.]
Etching with large margins. 195 x 290mm (7¾ x 11½"). Margins creased.
A view of Spoleto, with the Rocca Albornoziana fortress, and the aqueduct, with a twenty-five point key underneath. Giovanni Catena was a local artist.
[Ref: 31837] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

G Spontini, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal de la Legion d'Honneur et de l'Ordre Royal d'Hesse Darmstadt, Compositeur Dramatique [...]
AP. Vincent del. Bourgeois de la Richardiere sculp.
Déposé à la Direction
Aquatint, sheet 310 x 220mm (12¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed.
Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851), Italian composer who dominated serious grand opera of the early 19th century in Paris and later in Berlin. Portrait bust surrounded by the names of Spontini's operas in medals. Aquatint engraving after a miniature by Antoine-Paul Vincent.
[Ref: 43105] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini.] G. Spontini.
Se vend chez Quenedey rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs No15 à Paris / Dép. à la Bib. Imp.
Dess: au Physionotrace et Gravé par Quenedey rue neuve des petits champs No15 à Paris 1810.
Aquatint. Sheet 240 x 155mm (9½ x 6"). Trimmed slightly into plate.
Portrait of Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini (1774 - 1851) was an Italian opera composer and conductor from the classical era. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in French opera, and composed over twenty works.
[Ref: 63307] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

'Would you like it curled, Sir?' "Eh-Eh-Eh- why, yes certainly! A-a-a most infernal hard Brush, yours!"
Printed by W.Kohler, 22 Denmark Street, Soho.
London: Published by William Spooner, 377, Strand.
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 290 x 160mm.
[Ref: 6863] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Spooner's Magic Prints. No.2. Which, when gently heated before a Fire, will undergo a complete transformation [...]
[London: W. Spooner, n.d, c.1835.]
Hand coloured lithograph, sheet 145 x 170mm. 5¾ x 6¾". Good colour; margins a little trimmed.
A windmill in an apparently snow-covered landscape which, as the inscription explains, will transform into a summer scene when viewed in front of strong light. This is due to the application of certain pigments in the colouring, which may still be activated. From a series by the innovative publisher of games, satires and puzzles William Spooner (1833 - 1847; fl.).
[Ref: 27049] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Spooner's Protean Views No.4. Destruction of a Swiss Village by an Avalanche. The Village is seen by Moonlight, the inhabitants, by the lights gleaming from the casements & reflected on the Lake are not yet retired to their beds. The Morning dawn brings to the destruction of the Night an Avalanche has buried in its fall the village leaving but the Spire of the Church and the Turret of the castle to mark its situation.
London, W. Spooner, 377 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued. Sheet: 225 x 285mm (9 x 11¼'').
A scene which changes when held to the light.
[Ref: 48067] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Spooner's Protean Views, No. 7. The Rival Heroes or a Fight for the Championship. Between the two gamest Birds in Europe. ''When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of War.''
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand. June 18 1836.
Coloured lithograph, 145 x 195mm (5¾ x 7¾"), trimmed and laid on card, stamped "Crayon Papers fast colours Creswick", with title label, backed with tissue, as issued.
A transformation print: when held up to a light source the two fighting cocks acquire the heads of Wellington and Napoleon.
[Ref: 55132] £350.00 view all images for this item

Spooner's Protean Views, No. 21. Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, Changing to The Conflagration of Moscow.
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, 150 x 170mm (6 x 6¾"), trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued.
The scene changes when held up to a light source.
[Ref: 55130] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Spooner's Protean Views, No. 21. Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, Changing to The Conflagration of Moscow.
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, sheet 150 x 170mm Trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued.
The scene changes when held up to a light source.
[Ref: 5701] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Spooner's Protean Views, No. 24. Guildhall _ London Exhibiting the Civic Banquet to the Queen.
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, 145 x 175mm (5¾ x 7"), trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued. Tissue torn.
A transparent print: the empty hall becomes decorated with curtains and fills with tables and diners when held up to the light.
[Ref: 32164] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Spooner's Protean Views, No. 24. Guildhall _ London Exhibiting the Civic Banquet to the Queen.
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand [n.d., c.1840].
Coloured lithograph, 145 x 175mm (5¾ x 7"), trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued.
A transparent print: the empty hall becomes decorated with curtains and fills with tables and diners when held up to the light.
[Ref: 64460] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Spooner's Protean Views, N.º 26. S.t Paul's Cathedral. Shewing the Booths of the City Companies & Christ's Hospital on the Queen's Visit to Guildhall.
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand [n.d., c.1840].
Coloured lithograph. 150 x 175mm (6 x 7"), trimmed and laid on card with title label as issued, backed with tissue, as issued. Glue stains on backing card.
A transparent print: a procession appears around the exterior of St Paul's Cathedral when the print is held up to the light.
[Ref: 64464] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Spooner's Protean Views, No. 27. Westminster Abbey Fitted Up for the Coronation of Queen Victoria, Changing to the Ceremony of the Homage.
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, 180 x 350mm, trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued.
The empty Abbey fills with people when held up to a light source.
[Ref: 55134] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Spooner's Protean Views, Mount Vesuvius.
London, William Spooner, No. 337 Strand. [n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured lithograph, trimmed and laid on card with title label, backed with tissue, as issued. Total dimensions of image and title 185 x 185mm (7¼ x 7¼"). Foxing; transformation works well.
As explained in text caption, seen flat Vesuvius is shown on a tranquil summer's day, but held up to the light it can be seen erupting, with smoke billowing and lava running down its sides. One of a large series of such 'Protean Views'.
For other examples see refs. 5697, 5698 etc.
[Ref: 36958] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Mr. R.H. Spooner.
A. Chevallier Tayler 1905 [facsimile signature.]
Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd. Lith London.
Chromolithograph, 381 x 254mm (15 x 10").
Reginald Herbert Spooner (1880-1961) played for Lancashire, Marylebone and England. Educated at Marlborough College, he was Wisden cricketer of the year in 1905 and also played Rugby Union. Albert Chevallier Tayler (1862-1925), the English artist who specialised in portrait and genre painting. From 'The Empire's Cricketers'.
[Ref: 27637] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

"Reggie" (Mr. R. H. Spooner.)
Spy [Sir Leslie Ward] Bemrose Dalziel Ltd., Watford & London.
Vanity Fair Supplement. [n.d. c.1906]
Chromolithograph, sheet 380 x 270mm (15 x 10½"), large margins.
Full length caricature portrait of Reginald Herbert Spooner (1880-1961) played for Lancashire, Marylebone and England. Educated at Marlborough College, he was Wisden cricketer of the year in 1905 and also played Rugby Union.
[Ref: 63667] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Bookplate.] To the youth of Great Britain, This Volume, Compiled expressly for their Instruction & Amusement is Dedicated With the Best Wishes of the Publishers.
[n.d., c.1890.]
Engraving. Sheet 105 x 85mm (4¼ x 3¼"). Cut and pasted onto album paper. Damage to upper right corner.
A bookplate for a childrens book. Surrounding the dedication is a decorative border depicting children playing various sports such as archery, cricket and fishing. Cricket interest.
[Ref: 67376] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Sport and the Horse. The Virgina Museum of Fine Arts.
Introduction by Basil Taylor.
Catalogue of the Exhibition of Paintings Assembled at the Museum in Richmond From April 1 through May 15, 1960.
Book: oblong 4to (237 x 271mm). pp. 88. Cloth binding with gilt title on cover and spine. Tatty and torn dust jacket.
An illustrated and concise catalogue of the exhibition held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60-10152.
[Ref: 10084] £45.00

Citizen's Sporting. Every mortal some favorite pleasure pursues.
M Fecit.
Pub.d April 1, 1803 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly.
Scarce coloured etching. 305 x 405mm (12 x 16"), paper watermarked 'Edmeads & Pine'. Folded, repairs to fold.
Two 'cits' causing havoc by hunting in Southwark, outside a pub with the sign of the 'The Royal Oak'.
Not in BM. See Lewis Walpole 803.04.01.05
[Ref: 54308] £320.00

Sporting Anecdotes - the Hunted Tailor. - Plate 9. The Double Fracture___Or Breaking the Sabbath, and breaking the Window. 'John Bishop a brisk looking knight of the thimble & shears, being tired of sitting cross-legged all the week resolved one Sunday upon having a day's Sporting, & while pursuing this recreation at Notting Hill, he espied a cock sparrow, chattering to his newly chosen mate on an opposite twig. The temptation to have a pop at his at all hazards, was irrisistible, & accordingly our sportsman levelled his piece, & having carefully closed both eyes pulled the trigger... Police Report, Morning Herald, Febry. 25 1834.'
H. Alken Delt.
Pubd. March, 1831. by R. Ackermann, Junr. At his Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent Street.
Coloured aquatint. 370 x 270mm.
A sporting incident in rural Notting Hill.
Siltzer page.62.
[Ref: 65] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Sporting Aquatints and Their Engravers. Vol. 1. [&] Vol. 2.
by Charles Lane.
F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited. Publishers by Appointment to the Late Queen Mary. The Tithe House, Leigh-on-Sea, England. First Published 1979.
Two vols: 4to (280 x 220). Limited to Five Hundred Copies only. Vol 1 pp. 118. Vol 2 pp. 93. Both profusely illustrated with b/w images. Slight tear and scuffing to dust jackets.
A catalogue of sporting and hunting aquatints including illustrations.
[Ref: 10081] £160.00

Sporting Art England 1700-1900. Stella A Walker.
Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publisher New York Distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc. Published 1972.
4to (300 x 230). pp. 200. 100 b/w and 23 colour illustrations. Cloth bound with gilt title on spine. With colour illustrated dust jacket. Tears and rips to the dust jacket.
A comprehensive reference book on British sporting art compiled with illustrations and subdivided into genres.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 70-187507.
[Ref: 10088] £45.00

Old English Sporting Books
Ralph Nevill. Edited by Geoffrey Holme.
Published by The Studio Limited, London MCMXXIV [1924].
Book: 4to (314 x 252mm). pp. v-xi + 24 with 107 colour and b/w images. Cloth binding with gilt title on cover and spine. Top gilt edge. This Edition is limited to one thousand five hundred copies of which this is number 144. Limited edition. Worn cover with a few markings and stains.
Catalogue of illustrated sporting prints.
[Ref: 10089] £65.00

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