Grosvenor Prints

[Charles W. Alcock.] The Man of the World. ''Association Football.''
Saturday, February 8, 1890.
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 375 x 230mm (14¾ x 9"). Trimmed, creased, small splits in folds.
Charles William Alcock (1842-1907) captained England in a football international against Scotland in 1875. He also proposed the F.A. Cup in 1872 and refereed the 1875 and 1879 FA Cup Finals.
[Ref: 58846] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Foot-ball. Une erreur de ballon!!! 28
M. Marais. Imp. Bequet fr. Paris.
Jules Haeutecoeur, Paris [n.d., c.1890.]
Lithograph, printed in black, red and white, on thick coloured paper. Sheet 315 x 235mm (12¼ x 9¼"). Some surface dirt.
A satirical scene, with one player missing the oversized ball and kicking another player in the backside. One of 48(?) in the series 'Silhouettes Fantaisistes' by Maurice Marais (1852-1898) published by Hautecoeur between 1888 and 1893.
[Ref: 58848] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[A football match.]
Printed in Germany. 11445.
[n.d., c.1950.]
Colour-printed offset lithograph. Sheet 330 x 425mm (13 x 16¾").
[Ref: 39349] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Le Football.]
[Louis-Marcel Myr.] [Pencil Signature]
[n.d.c.1925]
Etching, limited edition of 50. 150 x 200mm (6 x 8") large margins.
[Ref: 53616] £170.00 (£204.00 incl.VAT)

Saturday Afternoon.
Kathleen White. [Signed in pencil.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Woodcut. Sheet: 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼''). Glued to sheet at corners.
A scene showing three boys wearing strip kicking a football around a field.
[Ref: 48080] £350.00

[Saturday Afternoon.]
[Kathleen White.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Woodcut on india paper. Sheet: 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼''). Creases.
A scene showing three boys wearing strip kicking a football around a field.
[Ref: 48488] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Football Match.]
[Kathleen White.]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Woodcut on india paper. Sheet: 270 x 210mm (10½ x 8¼''). Creases.
A scene showing a group of footballers running for the ball during a football match; the stands are filled with the faces of the spectators.
[Ref: 48489] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Foot Ball.
Rob.t Cruikshank Fecit. Eng.d by Geo. Hunt.
London, Published by Tho.s McLean, 26, Haymarket, 1827.
Aquatint, early impression. Sheet: 240 x 360mm (9½ x 14''). Trimmed, very slight foxing, corners trimmed.
A scene showing a group of soldiers in a group, playing football, some have fallen over in the rush.
Hickman p.104.
[Ref: 50625] £480.00

Famous English Football Players-1881. The ''Boys Own Paper''.
Willatt & Grover Lithos Nottingham. [56 Paternoster Row E.C.][n.d., c.1890.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet: 290 x 420mm (11½ x 16½''). Folds as normal.
A group portrait of eighteen footballers, including: C.J. Caborn; T. Marshall; J. Hunter; E. Luntley; H. McNeil; M. Lindsay; J. Sands; T. Brindle; C. Campbell; H.A. Swepstone; S.W. Widdowson; J.F. Princep, F.J. Sparks; W. Mosforth; H. Whitfield; N.C. Bailey; E.C. Bambridge; F.W. Earp.
[Ref: 49195] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Football Certificate.] Diplome de Membre Honoraire.
Paul Ordner.
[d.n., c.1950.]
Certificate. Sheet: 300 x 240mm (11¾ x 9½").
A football certificate designed by the well known sporting poster designer Paul Ordner (1901-1969) showing the moment a goalkeeper leaps to save a goal kicked by a figure on the left.
[Ref: 40940] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

El "Football" de Salon. The Drawing Room Football. Le Football de Salon.
L. Saussine, Editeur Paris. [n.d., c.1900.]
Chromolithograph, scarce. Sheet: 560 x 450mm (22 x 17¾"), large margins. Tear in margin bottom centre.
An advert for a game called the 'Drawing Room Football' by Leon Saussine a French game maker. Leon Saussine was active from 1860 until his death in 1899 after which point his sons took over the business.
[Ref: 42621] £650.00

''Goal''. The Boys Own Paper.
Painted for the ''Boy's Own Paper'' by Thomas M. Hemy.
Alf. Cooke Leeds. [56 Paternoster Row E.C.][n.d., c.1890.]
Chromolithograph. Sheet: 285 x 420mm (11¼ x 16½''). Folds as normal.
A scene showing a football match watched by schoolboys from Eton sitting in the front row.
[Ref: 49193] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Rugby Union [Edward Temple Gordon.]
[''Stuff" monogram of H.C. Sepping in image lower left.] Vincent Brooks Day & Son, Lith.
Vanity Fair. Jany. 2 1892.
Chromolithograph, sheet 395 x 240mm. 15½ x 9½". Tear from lower right edge.
[Ref: 9747] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Arthur G. Guillemard [facsimile signature].
[Sporting Mirror, 1883.]
Lithograph. Sheet 205 x 130mm (8 x 5").
Head and shoulders portrait of Arthur George Guillemard (1845-1909), within borders with illustrations of Rugby football. He was fullback for England in the world's first Rugby Union international in 1871, against Scotland. After his playing career he refereed and was president of the Union 1878-82. He also travelled, writing 'Over Land and Sea: A Log of Travel Round the World in 1873-1874', which includes his account of Australia.
[Ref: 58843] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Hockey at Surbiton [titled in pencil on reverse].
[n.d., c.1910.]
Four rare pen and ink sketches of hockey; two on main sheet, two stock on. Sheet 235 x 315mm (9¼ x 12¼").
A varsity hockey match between Oxford and Cambridge. The scenes are titled in ink: 'At the Start Cambridge Come Away with a Rush'; 'McCorkell Stops an Oxford Rush'; 'Bomford Saves Finely'; & 'Sorry' (in which a Cambridge player trips an opponant with his stick). Stephen T Dadd (1879-1914) often worked for the 'Illustrated London News' published 25/2/1904.
[Ref: 58845] £320.00

[Ladies' Hockey.]
[after Stephen T. Dadd.]
[n.d., 1902.]
Photolithograph. Sheet 205 x 300mm (8 x 12"), mounted on original green backing paper, with sheet of descriptive text.
From B.F. Robinson's 'Sporting Pictures', 1902. The text insists that the ladies 'must see to it that their skirts are of sufficient shortness'. A rare early hockey match image. Stephen T Dadd (1879-1914).
[Ref: 40253] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Members of a Ladies' Hockey Club at Play. From the Picture by Lucien Davis, Exhibited at the Royal Insitute of Painters in Water Colours.
Lucien Davis.
[n.d, 1894.]
Coloured wood engraving. 365 x 465mm (14½ x 18¼"), with very large margins. Laid on card, damage at centre fold as normal.
A hockey game, with the players wearing long skirts and boaters. From 'The Graphic' newspaper.
[Ref: 56690] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Josser Football Team. Written and Sung by Mark Sheridan.
H.G. Banks. Lith.
London: Francis, Day & Hunter. 142 Charing Cross Road, Oxford Street End. New York: T.B. Harms & C.o 18 East 22.nd S.t. [n.d. c.1900.]
Very scarce music sheet, pp. 4 with chromolithograph cover. Sheets 360 x 260mm (14¼ x 10¼"). Slightly scuffed.
Printed illustrated music sheet cover for 'The Josser Football Team', written and sung by Mark Sheridan. The song tells the story of a football match. Sheridan stands in the forground, while football players fight for the ball in the background.
[Ref: 59070] £680.00

[Lacrosse.]
[Kronheim & Co., London.]
[London: Kronheim, c.1870.]
Baxter-process print. Sheet 90 x 145mm (3½ x 5¾"). Trimmed to image, mounted on album paper.
Men in street dress playing lacrosse. Joseph M Kronheim licenced the Baxter Process in 1850, altering it to use zinc plates rather than woodblocks to print the layers of colour. The company stopped using the process in 1875 because of the rise of steam-powered lithography.
[Ref: 60896] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Sua Cuique Voluptas.
[Unsigned, c.1940]
Pen and ink drawing with colour, sheet 160 x 270mm (6¼ x 10½").
Comical rugby sketches, probably a preparatory drawing for a publication.
[Ref: 47638] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Rugby] Imp-ossible!
[n.d., c.1900.]
Scarce chromolithograph on thick paper. 205 x 175mm (8 x 7"). Binding holes on left edge.
Four vignette scenes, two of football, two of Rugby, illustrating a verse in which imps complain to the Devil about their injuries playing Rugby. His response: ''go and play Football!".
[Ref: 58849] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

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