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Specimen of Anastatic Printing.
[n.d. c.1850.]
Etching, facsimile. 209 x 140mm. 8¼ x 5½". Folds as to put in pocket.
Anastatic printing was a form of facsimile reproduction invented and developed in Germany in the early 1840s, patented in England in 1844. Any illustration or text based on oil-based ink could be reproduced. The document to be copied was sponged with dilute nitric acid which saturated all parts except here the ink lay, the acid being repelled from those areas by the oily nature of the ink. The original was then placed face down on a polished zinc plate and passed under the roller of a press, the pressure of which caused the acid to bite into the plate except in the inked areas. The plate was then moistened with gum and water which adhered to the bitten parts but was repelled from the oily parts. The result was a relief printing plate, with the areas to be printed raised, the areas not to be printed eaten away. It had been intended to reproduce old and rare works, but had the major failing that it sometimes destroyed the original without producing a copy!
[Ref: 27869] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d. c.1850.]
Etching, facsimile. 209 x 140mm. 8¼ x 5½". Folds as to put in pocket.
Anastatic printing was a form of facsimile reproduction invented and developed in Germany in the early 1840s, patented in England in 1844. Any illustration or text based on oil-based ink could be reproduced. The document to be copied was sponged with dilute nitric acid which saturated all parts except here the ink lay, the acid being repelled from those areas by the oily nature of the ink. The original was then placed face down on a polished zinc plate and passed under the roller of a press, the pressure of which caused the acid to bite into the plate except in the inked areas. The plate was then moistened with gum and water which adhered to the bitten parts but was repelled from the oily parts. The result was a relief printing plate, with the areas to be printed raised, the areas not to be printed eaten away. It had been intended to reproduce old and rare works, but had the major failing that it sometimes destroyed the original without producing a copy!
[Ref: 27869] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
A true & exact Representation of the Art of Casting & Preparing Letters for Printing.
Engrav'd for the Universal Magazine 1750. for J.Hinton at the King's Arms in St Pauls Churchyard. London.
Engraving. 205 x 250mm.
[Ref: 7136] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
Engrav'd for the Universal Magazine 1750. for J.Hinton at the King's Arms in St Pauls Churchyard. London.
Engraving. 205 x 250mm.
[Ref: 7136] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
The Printing Press. Composing Stick. The Letter Case for the Roman.
W.H. Toms sculp.
Printed for J.Hinton at the King's Arms, St Pauls Churchyard. 1747.
Engraving. 165 x 125mm.
[Ref: 6993] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
W.H. Toms sculp.
Printed for J.Hinton at the King's Arms, St Pauls Churchyard. 1747.
Engraving. 165 x 125mm.
[Ref: 6993] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
![[Ivanhoe] H. Alken's Scraps for Transfering.](jpegs/58447.jpg)
[Ivanhoe] H. Alken's Scraps for Transfering. Plate 3. The Black Knight and Wamba. The Clerk of Copmanhurst & the Black Knight. Ivanhoe. Reginald Front de Boeuf.
Pub.d Feb.y 1832 by R. Ackermann, Jun.r Eclipse Sporting Gall.y 191, Regent St. & may be had also of R. Ackermann, 96 Strand. the greatest variety of Prints for Transfering on White Wood, Table Tops, Screens, Card Racks, &c. &c.
Rare aquatint with fine hand colour. 255 x 385mm (10 x 15¼") very large margins. Slight soiling of paper.
A rare sheet with four scenes from Sir Walter Scott's 'Ivanhoe', designed to be transferred onto other surfaces.
[Ref: 58447] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d Feb.y 1832 by R. Ackermann, Jun.r Eclipse Sporting Gall.y 191, Regent St. & may be had also of R. Ackermann, 96 Strand. the greatest variety of Prints for Transfering on White Wood, Table Tops, Screens, Card Racks, &c. &c.
Rare aquatint with fine hand colour. 255 x 385mm (10 x 15¼") very large margins. Slight soiling of paper.
A rare sheet with four scenes from Sir Walter Scott's 'Ivanhoe', designed to be transferred onto other surfaces.
[Ref: 58447] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Lithographic Press.
R. Ackermann's Lithog.s [c.1820].
Lithograph, sheet 225 x 280mm (8¾ x 11").
Press used for making lithographs (of which this print is itself an example). To make a lithograph, an image is created on a slab of porous limestone, which is then imprinted on sheets of paper using a process based on the antipathy of grease and water to distinguish between inked and non-inked areas. Rudolf Ackermann, publisher of this print, was one of the first publishers to use lithography on a large commercial scale.
[Ref: 43371] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
R. Ackermann's Lithog.s [c.1820].
Lithograph, sheet 225 x 280mm (8¾ x 11").
Press used for making lithographs (of which this print is itself an example). To make a lithograph, an image is created on a slab of porous limestone, which is then imprinted on sheets of paper using a process based on the antipathy of grease and water to distinguish between inked and non-inked areas. Rudolf Ackermann, publisher of this print, was one of the first publishers to use lithography on a large commercial scale.
[Ref: 43371] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Old Woman.]](jpegs/4531.jpg)
[Old Woman.]
Electrotint. 1842. [T. Sampson.]
"Electrotint", making paintings in such a manner that copper plate & Blocks can be taken from them by Voltaic Electricity. - Edward Palmer.
100 x 160mm.
A process invented by Edward Palmer and patented in 1841. An advertisment is recorded in the Times dated 1842 for the above booklet with 4 illustrated plates. This plate is not described.
[Ref: 4531] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Electrotint. 1842. [T. Sampson.]
"Electrotint", making paintings in such a manner that copper plate & Blocks can be taken from them by Voltaic Electricity. - Edward Palmer.
100 x 160mm.
A process invented by Edward Palmer and patented in 1841. An advertisment is recorded in the Times dated 1842 for the above booklet with 4 illustrated plates. This plate is not described.
[Ref: 4531] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)
Printer.
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 135 x 225mm, 5½ x 9". Trimmed, laid on album paper.
An educational image showing a pair of printers at work at their press.
[Ref: 16432] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
[n.d., c.1850.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 135 x 225mm, 5½ x 9". Trimmed, laid on album paper.
An educational image showing a pair of printers at work at their press.
[Ref: 16432] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
The Printer-Devil. (Le Diable de l'Imprimerie.]
Lith. Rigo Freres 1, Richer, 7.
Desesserts Editeur. [Paris, 1841.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½").
A boy inking a printing plate. Plate 21 from 'Les Enfans peints par eux-mêmes, sujets de composition, donnés a ses Élèves' by Alexandre de Saillet (1811-1866). Each picture was to illustrate a story about child labour written by pupils at de Saillet's boarding school.
[Ref: 36863] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Lith. Rigo Freres 1, Richer, 7.
Desesserts Editeur. [Paris, 1841.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½").
A boy inking a printing plate. Plate 21 from 'Les Enfans peints par eux-mêmes, sujets de composition, donnés a ses Élèves' by Alexandre de Saillet (1811-1866). Each picture was to illustrate a story about child labour written by pupils at de Saillet's boarding school.
[Ref: 36863] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
The Printer-Devil. (Le Diable de l'Imprimerie.]
Lith. Rigo Freres 1, Richer, 7.
Desesserts Editeur. [Paris, 1841.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Slight foxing.
A boy drying a printing plate. Plate 20 from 'Les Enfans peints par eux-mêmes, sujets de composition, donnés a ses Élèves' by Alexandre de Saillet (1811-1866). Each picture was to illustrate a story about child labour written by pupils at de Saillet's boarding school.
[Ref: 36864] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Lith. Rigo Freres 1, Richer, 7.
Desesserts Editeur. [Paris, 1841.]
Lithograph, rare. Sheet 220 x 140mm (8¾ x 5½"). Slight foxing.
A boy drying a printing plate. Plate 20 from 'Les Enfans peints par eux-mêmes, sujets de composition, donnés a ses Élèves' by Alexandre de Saillet (1811-1866). Each picture was to illustrate a story about child labour written by pupils at de Saillet's boarding school.
[Ref: 36864] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
The Printers letter Case, & composing stick.
Hulett sculp.
[n.d., c.1755.]
Etching and engraving, image 55 x 105mm. 2¼ x 4". Staining to lower paper edge.
A book illustration.
[Ref: 9671] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
Hulett sculp.
[n.d., c.1755.]
Etching and engraving, image 55 x 105mm. 2¼ x 4". Staining to lower paper edge.
A book illustration.
[Ref: 9671] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
![[Lithographer.]](jpegs/35777.jpg)
[Lithographer.]
D. Levy fec.
[n.d, c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet size: 230 x 185mm (9 x 7¼").
An interior view depicting a lithographer in his studio. He is sat at a desk in front of a large window, with his tools in front of him. He appears to be copying the image, which rests on some books, onto a large stone. There is an image of a church or cathedral on the wall behind him.
[Ref: 35777] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
D. Levy fec.
[n.d, c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet size: 230 x 185mm (9 x 7¼").
An interior view depicting a lithographer in his studio. He is sat at a desk in front of a large window, with his tools in front of him. He appears to be copying the image, which rests on some books, onto a large stone. There is an image of a church or cathedral on the wall behind him.
[Ref: 35777] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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![[Two paper puppet designs, uncut.]](jpegs/54912.jpg)
[Two paper puppet designs, uncut.]
[French, c.1780.]
Two etchings with original hand colour. Sheets 380 x 250mm (15 x 9¾") & 335 x 260mm (13¼ x 10¼"). Woman trimmed into plate at top, some creasing; man with ragged edges.
Two extremely rare paper puppet designs, The woman is in a rustic dress and hat, with arms and legs. The man is in an opulant frockcoat with sash and garland of flowers; he has a separate hat, arms and legs jointed at hip and knee.
[Ref: 54912] £950.00 view all images for this item
[French, c.1780.]
Two etchings with original hand colour. Sheets 380 x 250mm (15 x 9¾") & 335 x 260mm (13¼ x 10¼"). Woman trimmed into plate at top, some creasing; man with ragged edges.
Two extremely rare paper puppet designs, The woman is in a rustic dress and hat, with arms and legs. The man is in an opulant frockcoat with sash and garland of flowers; he has a separate hat, arms and legs jointed at hip and knee.
[Ref: 54912] £950.00 view all images for this item
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)
[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)
![North West View of St Paul's Cathedral [pencil].](jpegs/53095.jpg)
North West View of St Paul's Cathedral [pencil].
Drawn & Etched by J. Buckler 1813 [pencil].
An extremely rare engraving, a working proof before letters and aquatinting. 525 x 665mm (20¾ x 26¼"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1810', with large margins.
The engraved outline of the north and west sides of St Paul's Cathedral, before the addition of aquatint tone. Despite the pencil inscription, the engraver was George Robert Lewis, who was credited in the 1814 published state; In 1800 John Buckler (1770-1851), an estate manager and bailiff for Magdalene College, Oxford, began working on a series of engravings of all the cathedrals in the country. St Paul's was one of the last of the series.
[Ref: 53095] £480.00
Drawn & Etched by J. Buckler 1813 [pencil].
An extremely rare engraving, a working proof before letters and aquatinting. 525 x 665mm (20¾ x 26¼"), watermarked 'J Whatman 1810', with large margins.
The engraved outline of the north and west sides of St Paul's Cathedral, before the addition of aquatint tone. Despite the pencil inscription, the engraver was George Robert Lewis, who was credited in the 1814 published state; In 1800 John Buckler (1770-1851), an estate manager and bailiff for Magdalene College, Oxford, began working on a series of engravings of all the cathedrals in the country. St Paul's was one of the last of the series.
[Ref: 53095] £480.00
![[Three drawings of the coffin of Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of Charles I]](jpegs/42310.jpg)
[Three drawings of the coffin of Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of Charles I]
Three drawings, one pen and ink with hand colouring (285 x 215mm, 11¼ x 8½") and the other pencil and watercolour (280 x 465mm, 11 x 18¼"); watermark I. Taylor.
Three drawings of the coffin of Elizabeth Stuart (1635-50), second daughter of Charles I and Henrietta Maria. One shows the coffin from above and from the side (with section of the vault in which it was placed, and its length indicated); the other is a brass rubbing of the inscription on the top: 'Elizabeth 2d. Daughter of ye Late King Charles Deced Sept. 8th. MDCL.'. After the execution of Charles I, Elizabeth and her younger brother Henry went to live in Penshurst in Kent, but after Elizabeth's brother Charles (the future Charles II) landed in Scotland to assume the throne, parliament resolved to transport Elizabeth and Henry 'out of the limits of the Commonwealth'. They were temporarily lodged in Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight (despite Elizabeth's protestations that her health made transporting her inadvisable), where she died soon after arriving. She was buried in a small vault near the communion table in St Thomas's Church at Newport.
[Ref: 42310] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
Three drawings, one pen and ink with hand colouring (285 x 215mm, 11¼ x 8½") and the other pencil and watercolour (280 x 465mm, 11 x 18¼"); watermark I. Taylor.
Three drawings of the coffin of Elizabeth Stuart (1635-50), second daughter of Charles I and Henrietta Maria. One shows the coffin from above and from the side (with section of the vault in which it was placed, and its length indicated); the other is a brass rubbing of the inscription on the top: 'Elizabeth 2d. Daughter of ye Late King Charles Deced Sept. 8th. MDCL.'. After the execution of Charles I, Elizabeth and her younger brother Henry went to live in Penshurst in Kent, but after Elizabeth's brother Charles (the future Charles II) landed in Scotland to assume the throne, parliament resolved to transport Elizabeth and Henry 'out of the limits of the Commonwealth'. They were temporarily lodged in Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight (despite Elizabeth's protestations that her health made transporting her inadvisable), where she died soon after arriving. She was buried in a small vault near the communion table in St Thomas's Church at Newport.
[Ref: 42310] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item
A Watch-Paper for Antiquaries. This whimsical device is the representation of curious Key Stone in Chichester Cathedral...
April 24, 1809. Drawn and Engraved by King Drawing Master Chichester, of whom may be had Two Prints done by him from the historical paintings in the Cathedral.
Rare etching. 90 x 65mm (3½ x 2½").
A circular key stone with six faces, each sharing their eyes with the face to the left and right. By Thomas Aylward King (1775-1845), an artist and engraver of Chichester.
See Ref: 58677 & 58675
[Ref: 58221] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
April 24, 1809. Drawn and Engraved by King Drawing Master Chichester, of whom may be had Two Prints done by him from the historical paintings in the Cathedral.
Rare etching. 90 x 65mm (3½ x 2½").
A circular key stone with six faces, each sharing their eyes with the face to the left and right. By Thomas Aylward King (1775-1845), an artist and engraver of Chichester.
See Ref: 58677 & 58675
[Ref: 58221] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)