Grosvenor Prints

[Mrs. Bonfoy.]
J. Reynolds pint. J. McArdell fecit.
Published'd according to Act of Parliament [n.d., c.1755].
Mezzotint. 375 x 275mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides, into plate at bottom, bottom left inscription area rebuilt, marks over inscription line, small crease.
The published state ot this portrait of Lady Ann Bonfoy (1729-1810), unusually still untitled. The daughter of Richard Eliot of Port Eliot, Cornwall, Anne married to a captain in the Royal Navy, Hugh Bonfoy (c1720-1762) in November 1751. They had one daughter together before he died in 1762, also Ann, who married the First Earl of Ely. The elder Ann was Lady of the Bedchamber to the daughters of George III. Reynolds had painted a group portrait of the Eliot family in 1746, before his departure for Italy. This was one of the first of his portrait to be engraved in mezzotint.
CS 23, Goodwin 44, Hamilton p.84. The oil is in the Box Gallery, Plymouth.
[Ref: 63536] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Richard Parkes Bonington.]
[Charles Damour.]
[n.d., c.1852.]
Aquatint. Sheet: 130 x 100mm (5 x 4''). Trimmed and laid on album sheet with the collector's stamp of Alfred Beurdeley.
A portrait of Romantic landscape painter Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828). Frontispiece to 'Oeuvres inédités de Bonington' 1852.
[Ref: 48674] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

R. P. Bonington.
Drawn on Stone by J. D. Harding from a Picture by Margaret Carpenter.
Published, Aug. 1st, 1829, by J. Carpenter & Son, Old Bond Street. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Fine & rare lithograph on india. 280 x 215mm (11 x 8½"). Laid on album paper at edges.
Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 1828), English Romantic landscape painter. His bust to front, with short dark hair, dark jacket over white shirt; after Carpenter; frontispiece to the series; finished state. Lettered below image with facsimile of sitter's autograph.
[Ref: 63201] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[The Siege of Bonn.] Die Eroberung der Vestung Bonn.
Georg Phil. Rugendas. Abraham Drentwett Ornam: del. Ioh: August Corvinus Sculpsit.
Cum Gratia et Privileg: Sac: Caes: Majest: Ieremias Woldd excudit, Aug: Vind: [n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet: 420 x 380mm (16½ x 15"). Trimmed, vertical crease.
A scene showing the Siege of Bonn in 1703 in which the allies laid siege to Bonn which was held by the French. The scene is decorated with a ornate border, with a plan of the battle above. A plate from 'Repraesentatio belli ob successionem in Regno Hispanico...' published by Wolff.
[Ref: 42971] £340.00

Gentil-homme jouant de la Harpe. En agitant mes doigt, fur ce graue Instrument, Du seul pincer Je puis...
N.Bonnart sculp. et ex. cum privil. Rue St Jacques à l'Aigle
[n.d. c.1800]
Rare & fine engraving 265 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"), with very large margins.
Man seated on an ornate chair in fashionable costume playing a harp.
[Ref: 63084] £390.00

[Francis de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguieres] Franciscus de Lesdiguieres Comes Stabuli [...]
[1660]
Engraving with accompanying letterpress sheet, each 470 x 350mm (18½ x 13¾"), with very large margins. Foxed.
Francis de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguieres (1543-1626), one of the greatest generals of his age. A protestant who came of age during the French Wars of Religion, Lesdiguieres distinguished himself both in France and in the ongoing wars in Italy. From 'Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres Francois qui sont Peints dans la Galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu' (1660). The book reproduces the portraits of great men hanging in Richelieu's 'Galerie des hommes illustres' by Simon Vouet and Philippe de Champaigne (although only four of the original paintings survive). The final 'illustrious figure' was Richelieu himself.
[Ref: 39898] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Bishop Bonner.
[n..d, c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 80 x 155mm (7 x 10"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
A half-length satirical portrait in oval of Edmund Bonner (c. 1500-1569), Bishop of London 1539-49 and 1553-59, raising a willow switch above his head. This image is a detail from a scene of him punishing a heretic from 'Foxe's Book of Martyrs' (1563). Bonner originally supported Henry VIII's schism from Rome but, in the reign of Edward VI, opposed the king's role as head of the Church, for which he was removed from office and imprisoned in the Marshalsea, a prison in Southwark. He was restored by Mary I and began persecuting Protestants, earning the nickname 'Bloody Bonner'. Elizabeth sent him back to the Marshalsea in 1560, where he remained until he died.
Not recorded in Clayton, perhaps a connection to James Gillray.
[Ref: 68197] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Le Bonnet Vert. From the original Picture. Painted by D. Teniers Jun.r in the Possession of Jeremiah Harman Esq.r Drawn by T.W. Strutt and Engraved with permission by R.t Cooper.
London. Published Novr. 1. 1813, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, J. White, Cadell and Davies, and P.W. Tomkins,. No.54 New Bond Street.
Etching and stipple on india. Sheet 420 x 318mm (16½ x 14½"). Slight foxing
Tavern interior with three men sitting on the left, the nearest lighting his pipe, a cap hanging on the back of his chair, another leaning back in his chair and exhaling smoke, the third between them, leaning forward as he smokes; a group playing cards in front of the hearth in right background; after David Teniers the Younger.
[Ref: 52388] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Bonnet. This eminent naturalist was born at Geneva in 1720, in a family originally from France; but, disliking dry grammatical studies, his father provided him with a domestic tutor...Public honours were rendered to his remains by his fellow citizens, and his funeral eulogy was pronounced by his illustrious friend and kinsman M. de Saussure.
Holl sculp.t
[n.d. c.1800.]
Stipple with letterpress text underneath portrait. Sheet 246 x 152mm (9¾ x 6").
Charles Bonnet (1720-1793) the Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer, born at Geneva.
Wellcome: 556 (not in).
[Ref: 28751] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Charles Bonnet (Botaniste, Zoologiste et Philosophe), Membre Correspondant de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris. Né à Genève le 13 Mars 1720, Mort le 20 Mai 1792.
Dessiné et Gravé d’après J. Juel par Ambroise Tardieu.
[n.d. c.1830.]
Stipple. 214 x 152mm (8½ x 6"). Cut top & bottom.
Charles Bonnet (1720-1793) the Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer. In 1760 he described a condition, now referred to as Charles Bonnet Syndrome, in which vivid, complete visual hallucinations occur in psychologically normal people.
W: 356-2.
[Ref: 29587] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)

Bono Eventui.
Fran. Bartolozzi sculp.
[Padova, 1752.]
Etching and engraving, very fine. 140 x 108mm. 5½ x 4¼". Large margins, very slight foxing.
A nude man placing an object on a pedestal. From: "Della Letteratura Italiana, de M. Foscarini, Padova, 1752. Cinq médailles entourées de cadres formés de dauphins, rubans, branches d'arbres, etc".
De Vesme: 1454 II of II..
[Ref: 20602] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Reinerus Bontius Medicinæ Professor.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Sheet 130 x 90mm, 5 x 3½". Trimmed and laid on album paper.
Reinius Bontius (1576-1623), professor of medicine at Leiden University.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 16266] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

This Book Belongs to [ *** ]. If thou art borrowed by a friend [...]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Bookplate, letterpress with wood-engraved border, 75 x 45mm (3 x 1¾"). Laid on album paper, some staining.
[Ref: 62423] £30.00 (£36.00 incl.VAT)

Bookbinder.
London, Published by Tabart & Co Oct. 23. 1804.
Engraving, with 3 sheets of letterpress. Sheet: 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½''). Slight foxing.
A scene in a bookbinder's workshop showing him at his desk.
[Ref: 51151] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

New Book Club. Rules. Allowed for Reading, 10 [ink] Days. Fine for keeping a Book beyond the Time, Twopence per Day. Sixpence Fine for omitting to date. No Member is allowed to lend a Book belonging to the Society. [List of names.] Not to be detained by the last Reader beyong the Time.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Letterpress, pen and ink, rare. 186 x 114mm (7¼ x 14½").
A piece of ephemera; a list of readers belonging to a private book club. Beside each name the reader has dated for 'received' and 'sent away'. In ink at the top, it is noted 'Banbury' with Cape of Good Hope.
[Ref: 30400] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Some Caricatures of Book-Collectors. An Essay.
By A.N.L. Munby.
Printed for private circulation by William H. Robinson Ltd. 16 Pall Mall, London, S.W. 1. Christmas 1948.
Very rare 8vo, soft covers; pp. 31, with 8 illustrated labels. Slightly creased cover.
A selection of caricatures of book collectors.
[Ref: 59851] £70.00

A Book of Beasts Drawn from Nature, by M. Oudri, & Grav'd by P.Garon .
Printed & Publish'd Aug.t 1750, by J. Rocque Land Surveyer, Charing Cross.
Etching. Sheet: 195 x 260mm (7¾ x 10¼").
The frontispiece to a drawing book of animals showing the rear of a horse, demonstrating the technique of foreshortening.
[Ref: 45929] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

In presenting ''My Book of Curs,'' the Artist hopes to cur-ry favor with his friends [...]
[by Robert Richard Scanlan.]
[n.d., 1840.]
Large 4to, lithographic title and 45 caricatures printed on chine collé on 23 sheets. Front board detached, some staining, a few tears.
A rare collection of anthropomorphic satires of dogs with human attributes.
[Ref: 59205] £750.00 view all images for this item

The Book of Trades; or, Circle of the Useful Arts.
Glasgow: Printed for Richard Griffin and Co., Thomas Tegg & Son, London; Tegg, Wise, & Tegg, Dublin; and J. & S.A. Tegg, Sydney, Australia. MDCCCXXXV [1835].
8vo (140 x 115mm. 5½ x 4½".), with original marbled board coveres and calf spine. Spine detached.
First edition with engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title page, 19 plates (including the frontispiece), and numerous woodcut illustrations. The aim of this book is to illustrate at length one or two of each class of trade and manufacture and thus explain the principles applicable to all. The author presents an account of 'those arts by which the various wants of civilised society are supplied, and of those manufactures upon which commerce depends, in such a form, as, while it instructs, will also attract the youthful mind'. The book is organised into the following chapters: arts relative to the supply of food; arts relative to providing shelter; arts relative to clothing; arts relative to traveling; arts relative to the mineral kingdom; the liberal arts.
[Ref: 22109] £350.00

Tales. Botany. G. Nicholson's Lithography.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Lithograph. Sheet 160 x 160mm (6¼ x 6¼"). Trimmed, laid on album paper.
A topographical caprice, with trees, woodland flowers and beehives, with a stack of three books titles as above. A fourth is held open by the ribbon of a medal labelled 'Ordre de Merite'.
[Ref: 38078] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Booker's Tower. Guilford. Erected 1839.
Sketched & Drawn on Stone by E.C. Duncumb. Printed by W. Clerk, 202 High Holborn.
Published by E. Andrews, 61 High St. Guilford.
Lithograph. Sheet: 280 x 225mm (11 x 9"), with very large margins.
A view of Booker's tower built by mayor of Guilford, Charles Booker in memory of his sons completed in 1839 it was used to commemorate the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. It was also used by scientist John Rand Capron in his experiments with light.
[Ref: 43664] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Unidentified bookplate.]
G. Haines Delin. W.H. Toms Sculp. 1752.
Engraved bookplate, part 18th century watermark. 160 x 115mm (6¼ x 4½") very large margins. Two tears in left margin, old ink mss. in bottom margin.
The ink manuscript describes the armorial as 'Sterne's arms', probably because of the bird above; however, although Laurence Sterne's arms is surmounted by a starling, they also include a chevron between three crosslets flory sable. Certainly these trophies appear to be too martial for a writer.
[Ref: 45252] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Bookplate] Robert Bateman Carlisle.
T. Macdonald, Sc.
Nov. 1896.
Engraved ex-libris bookplate, 80 x 105mm. 3¼ x 4¼". Wide margins.
A highly decorative antiquarian's/collector's bookplate, the name on a shield with allegorical figures holding banners either side, in clouds, in an oval. Robert Bateman catalogued the Carlisle Museum collection in 1894. Quote from the poet John Denham below image.
[Ref: 16871] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

[Bookplate] Wm. Boycott 1761.
Engraved armorial ex-libris bookplate on laid paper, 105 x 80mm. 4¼ x 3¼". Vertical and horizontal crease.
A highly decorative rococo bookplate.
[Ref: 12988] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Manchester Subscription Library. No. _ . _ Days allow'd. Forfeit _ d.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Engraved bookplate. Sheet 95 x 65mm. Trimmed to image. Ink mss "Days" & "Forfeit" added.
The bookplate depicts the inside of a library. The Manchester Subscription Library published two catalogues, the main catalogue in 1818, with an Addenda in 1831, with a list of 400 subscribers in total.
[Ref: 724] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

On the Making and Issuing of Books.
By Charles Thomas Jacobi, Manager of the Chiswick Press.
London: Made at the Chiswick Press and Issued from the Bodley Head, by Elkin Mathews, Vigo St. W. MDCCCXCI [1891].
Limited edition of 435. 8vo, Japanese vellum backed boards; pp. (xi)+70+(6), wood engraved decorations throughout. Spine worn, one gathering lose.
A guide to book publishing, including a page illustrating proofing symbols and a glossary of terms.
[Ref: 37999] £60.00 view all images for this item

A Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century British Topographical Books with Steel Engravings.
Merlyn Holloway.
Holland Press Ltd. London. 1977.
Book: 4to ( 241 x 182mm). pp v-vii + 206. Cloth binding. Dust jacket a little creased along spine and slightly dirty. Binding in tact.
A listing of steel engravings in British topographical works.
[Ref: 10130] £30.00

Long Charley the Noted Bookseller And Matcher.
[n.d. c.1800]
Hand coloured drawing. Sheet 351 x 286mm (13¾" x 11¼"). Some small tears.
[Ref: 8686] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[Bookseller] Sold as Cheap as in London, by John Hogben, Master of the Free-School, at Rye in Sussex. All sorts of Bibles and Common Prayers, Books of Divinity, History, and all other Books, both Ancient and Modern... Globes, Maps, Pictures and Copy Books... By whom Books of all Sorts, are neatly Bound, and buys Old Libraries, or Parcels of Books.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Letterpress advert, sheet 165 x 115mm (6½ x 4½"). Small tear in edge.
Besides books, etc, Hogben also sold toothpicks, spectacles and fishing rods and lines.
[Ref: 43891] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Ackermann's Library, for Work's of Art.
A. Pugin del.t. J. Bluck sculp.t.
N.o [52?] of Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub 1st April 1813 at 101, Strand, London.
Fine hand coloured aquatint. 235 x 285mm (9¼ x 11¼"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1811'. Trimmed within plate by binder, affecting publication line. Folds as normal.
Readers studying books in a library decorated with paintings and sculpture, lit by gas lamps by F C Accum. The building was one of the first to have gas illumination. After Augustus Charles Pugin (1768/69 - 1832).
[Ref: 60746] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Bookseller.
[n.d., c.1805.]
Wood engraving, with 3 sheets of letterpress. Sheet: 150 x 90mm (6 x 3½'').
A scene in a book seller's shop, showing customers at the counter.
[Ref: 51150] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Le Grand Triomfateure ou le Libraire ambulan[t]. Vn autre moins fameux Libraire, Pourra se contenter d'un pilier du Palais, Mais pour le debit que je fais Paris entier m'est necessaire.
Chez Honnart rue S. Jacques au Coq avec privil.
[n.d. c. 1670]
Engraving. 275 x 190mm (10¾ x 7½"). Wide margins on 3 sides. Repaired tear into lower left platemark and into the image.
Portrait of a stooped man, maybe Jewish, with crutches. The book seller was a recurring character of Henri Bonnart II's work; as here he is often depicted recounting his dubious adventures and ruminating on the rivalry between travelling tradesman and their settled counterparts.
[Ref: 54687] £380.00 (£456.00 incl.VAT)

[BOOKSELLER] Henaux, Libraire. Quai Voltaire, N. 17. A Paris.
[Paris, c.1850s.]
Rare bookseller's trade card, letterpress on thick laid paper, 45 x 85mm. 1¾ x 3¼".
A French bookseller advertises his services as a dealer (offering discounts for certain works), and buyer of book collections. His widow evidently carried on the business for many years after her husband's death; the BNF has three of her catalogues in its collections dated 1861, 1862 and 1863.
[Ref: 16867] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Doctor Syntax & Bookseller.
Drawn by Rowlandson.
[n.d., c.1820].
Hand coloured etching with aquatint. Sheet: 150 x 249mm. (6 x 9¾").
The fictional 19th century clergyman 'Dr. Syntax’ at his desk in his study talking to a portly bookseller; scrolling map hanging on wall behind. From 'The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the picturesque' by William Combe. The various tours following the escapades of Dr. Syntax were a satire on William Gilpin’s series of picturesque journeys to different parts of England. By Thomas Rowlandson (1757 - 1827).
Abbey Life 269, 26.
[Ref: 30293] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Bookseller] Mess.rs Lackington Allen & Co. Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square.
For No. 4 of Ackermann's Repository of Arts & Pub. 1.st April 1809, 101, Strand London.
Aquatint with fine hand colour. Sheet 230 x 140mm (9 x 5½"), with partial Whatman watermark. Trimmed.
A scene inside a large bookshop, showing customers at a large, round counter while other customers look at books and prints. James Lackington (1746-1815) began selling books in 1774, advertising himself as the ''Cheapest Bookseller in the World''. He moved to the 'Temple of the Muses', designed for him by George Dance, c.1791; it burnt down in 1841. After he retired in 1798 the business was run by his third cousin George Lackington (1777-1844), who also owned the 'Egyptian Hall' in Piccadilly 1825-32) and a former employee, Robin Allen. A plate from the periodical, the 'Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics', published from 1809-29. It discussed day to day life in England, its illustrations influencing taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 62642] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Temple of the Muses. An interior view of the extensive Library of Lackington, Allen & Co. Finsbury Square, London where above Half a Million Volumes are constantly on Sale.
[German, c.1810.]
Etching with very large margins; 195 x 245mm (7¾ x 9¾"). Original binding folds.
An advertisement for the first ‘cash bookseller’, probably from the periodical 'London und Paris'. James Lackington (1746 - 1815) rose from selling meat pies at ten and taking an apprenticeship to a shoemaker at 14. In 1773 he went to London to make his fortune and set up as a very humble bookseller and shoemaker. By 1775 he had established his cheap circulating library, helped by his second wife, Dorcas Turton, following their marriage in 1776. In 1789, he moved to The Temple of the Muses in Finsbury Square, purpose built by George Dance, taking Robert Allen into partnership in 1793.
See James Lackington's portrait, ref 10495.
[Ref: 33716] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Temple of the Muses. An interior view of the extensive Library of Lackington, Allen & Co. Finsbury Square, London where above Half a Million Volumes are constantly on Sale.
Walker del et sculp.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Plate: 160 x 200mm (6¼ x 8''), with very large margins.
An advertisement for the first ‘cash bookseller’, probably from the periodical 'London und Paris'. James Lackington (1746 - 1815) rose from selling meat pies at ten and taking an apprenticeship to a shoemaker at 14. In 1773 he went to London to make his fortune and set up as a very humble bookseller and shoemaker. By 1775 he had established his cheap circulating library, helped by his second wife, Dorcas Turton, following their marriage in 1776. In 1789, he moved to The Temple of the Muses in Finsbury Square, purpose built by George Dance, taking Robert Allen into partnership in 1793.
See James Lackington's portrait, ref 10495.
[Ref: 50398] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Temple of the Muses. An interior view of the extensive Library of Lackington, Allen & Co. Finsbury Square, London where above Half a Million Volumes are constantly on Sale.
[German, c.1810.]
Etching. 220 x 175mm (8¾ x 7"). Crease on right, small margins and backed onto card at margins.
An advertisement for the first ‘cash bookseller', probably from the periodical 'London und Paris'. James Lackington (1746 - 1815) rose from selling meat pies at ten and taking an apprenticeship to a shoemaker at 14. In 1773 he went to London to make his fortune and set up as a very humble bookseller and shoemaker. By 1775 he had established his cheap circulating library, helped by his second wife, Dorcas Turton, following their marriage in 1776. In 1789, he moved to The Temple of the Muses in Finsbury Square, purpose built by George Dance, taking Robert Allen into partnership in 1793.
See James Lackington's portrait, ref 10495.
[Ref: 64247] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

T.J.Hankinson, Bookseller and Stationer. The Victoria Library, The Square Bournemouth. Calendar 1892.
Marcus Ward & Co Printers.
Trade card. 100 x 120mm, 4 x 4¾". Laid on album paper.
[Ref: 11845] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

B. Hill, 6, Colmore Row, Birmingham. Repository of Arts. Fancy Stationers, Bookseller & Publisher. Engraver, Copper Plate and Letter Press Printer. Books elegantly bound. Albums & scrapbooks.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Engraved trade card. Sheet 95 x 110mm, 3¾ x 4¼".
Trade card of an engraver & stationer.
[Ref: 18257] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

North West Aspect of Lackington, Allen & Co.s Tempel of the Muses, Finsbury Square._The Finest Shop in the World; being 140 feet in Front.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Etching. Sheet: 205 x 245mm (8 x 9¾''), with very large margins. Creases as normal
James Lackington (1746 - 1815) rose from selling meat pies at ten and taking an apprenticeship to a shoemaker at 14. In 1773 he went to London to make his fortune and set up as a very humble bookseller and shoemaker. By 1775 he had established his cheap circulating library, helped by his second wife, Dorcas Turton, following their marriage in 1776. In 1789, he moved to The Temple of the Muses in Finsbury Square, purpose built by George Dance, taking Robert Allen into partnership in 1793.
[Ref: 50274] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

The Bookworm.
J.A. Lomax pinx W. Wright Nooth sc. [c.1880]
Engraving, platemark 200 x 235mm (8 x 9¼"), with very large margins.
Engraving after a painting by John Artur Lomax (1857-1923), Manchester-born artist who studied in Munich and later lived in London, specialising in historical scenes.
[Ref: 43366] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Song Sheet.] Boomps-a-Daisy! A New Old-Fashioned Party Dance. Introduced by Monsieur Pierre and Miss Doris Lavelle. Words & Music by Annette Mills. Full description of steps on back cover.
Copyright in all Countries, MCMXXXIX, by Lawrence Wright Music Co. Ltd. Denmark St. London, W.C.2. Phone: Temple Bar 2141/5. Cables ''Vocable London''. Telegrams ''Vocable Westcent London''. Printed in England.
Songsheet: 310 x 250mm (12 x 9¾''). Crease, manuscript dedication.
A song-sheet for a popular dance and song written by English songwriter Lawrence Wright (1888-1964).
[Ref: 50312] £35.00 (£42.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

The Booroom Slave.
H. Thomson, R.A., del.t E. Finden sculp.t
[Pub. by R. Ackermann, 1828.]
Steel engraving sheet 110 x 75mm (4 x 3"). Trimmed inside platemark, losing publication line and glued to backing sheet.
Young slave kneeling in prayer, from an 1827 painting by Henry Thomson. This print was published in the 'Forget Me Not' of 1828, where it was accompanied by a short story, 'The Booroom Slave', by the Sarah Bowditch, wife of African traveler Thomas Edward Bowditch. Bowditch's story described the plight of Inna, an African chief's daughter abducted by slave traders of Bowditch's story. The same image was subsequently used as the frontispiece for the first antislavery book published in the United States, Lydia Maria Child's 'An Appeal in Favour of That Class of Americans Called Africans'. The popularity of the image can be seen from its later use in banners in other abolitionist materials in the US. Early state before text altered.
For more information, see: Jo-Ann Morgan, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture'; William Dillon Pierson, 'Black Legacy: America's Hidden Heritage'; and particularly Jill Rappoport, 'Giving Women: Alli
[Ref: 63746] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Boors Drinking. In the Cabinet at Houghton. Picture the same size as the print.
Ostade Pinx. G. Farrington delin.t. J. B. Michel Sculpsit.
Published May 1.st 1779 by J.on Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Fine engraving. 365 x 265mm (14¼ x 10½"), with very wide margins.
A scene of four weary looking men drinking and smoking together.
[Ref: 54121] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Boors at Cards in the Cabinet at Houghton. Picture the same size as the print.
David Teniers Pinxit. Josiah Boydell delin.t J. B. Michel Sculpsit.
Published Dec.r 1st 1778 by J.on Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London.
Fine engraving. 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10¼"), with very wide margins.
A scene depicting a group of merry men engrossed in a game of cards.
[Ref: 54122] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

La Botte mal-appliquée.
J. Mich. Daenzel inv. et del.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Stipple, printed in sanguine. 165 x 260mm (7¼ x 10¼"). Thread margins, very small loss at corner.
An oval scene of a boy trying on a giant-sized boot with spur, aided by a girl.
[Ref: 65652] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Boot & Shoe Shop.
J. Green del.t J.C. Stadler sculp.t
[Pub. 1813, at R. Ackermann, 101 Strand.]
Hand-coloured aquatint. 132 x 222mm (5¼ x 8¾").
Boot and shoe shop: Women customers try on shoes and boots at Leatherhead cobblers. From 'Poetical Sketches of Scarborough', illustrated by James Green.
[Ref: 52404] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

The Boot Lace. Well Sir, If You Had Any Gallantry You Would Say Shall I Do It For You My Love.
London. Edwards Foreign Reposityory 183 Fleet Street & Rue de la Victoire_Paris.
Very scarce hand coloured lithograph. Sheet: 220 x 315mm, (8¾ x 12"). Pin hole in top edge.
A young woman stands with one foot on a stool whilst doing up her bootlaces.
[Ref: 39491] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Monro, Boot Maker. No. 3. Bear Street, Leicester Square.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraved trade card on thick paper. Sheet 8 x 5mm (3 x 2").
Decorated with the Prince of Wales's feathers and motto.
[Ref: 37042] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

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