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South View of the Town of Bridgenorth.
Drawn by J. Farington, R.A. Engraved by W. Byrne & T. Medland.
London, Published as the Act directs 1st Jan.y 1791, by W. Byrne, No.19 Titchfield Street.
Coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. 350 x 490mm (13¾ x 19¼") very large margins. Tear taped, some spotting, faint creasing.
A view across the River Severn valley towards the town of Bridgnorth in Shropshire. The castle ruins can be seen on the hill- the result of demolition ordered by Cromwell during the Civil War.
[Ref: 60907] £250.00
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Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. To the Nobility and Gentry Proprietors of this College, this print is respectfully dedicated by their obedient Servants, S.W. Daukes & J.R. Hamilton Arch.ts.
G. Hawkins lith. Day & Haghe Lith.rs to the Queen.
[n.d., c.1845.]
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 200 x 250mm (8 x 9¾"), with large margins. Some foxing.
The Gothic Royal Agricultural College, published by the architects of the building, Samuel Whitfield Daukes (1811-80) and John R. Hamilton (dates unknown). When it opened in 1845 it was the first agricultural college in the English-speaking world; it is now the Royal Agricultural University.
[Ref: 60932] £160.00
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[Hertford Castle] East Front of the Hon.ble East India Company's College, Hertford.
Drawn & Engraved by Thomas Medland.
Publish'd 9 Feb.y 1808, by Tho.s Medland, Hertford.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 380 x 465mm (15 x 18¼"). Trimmed within plate, several tears taped.
The exterior of Hertford Castle, with scholars playing bowls. The East India Company College was founded in 1806 to train ''writers'' (administrators) for the Company. Thomas Medland (c.1765-1833) was the first drawing master. The year after this print was published the college moved to a purpose-built property, designed by William Wilkins and landscaped by Humphrey Repton, now Haileybury and Imperial Service College.
[Ref: 60903] £290.00
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North East View of Lancaster.
Drawn by J. Farington, R.A. Engraved by J. Landseer.
London, Published as the Act directs 1st Nov. 1791, by W. Byrne, No.19 Titchfield Street.
Coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. 350 x 490mm (13¾ x 19¼"), large margins. Tear taped, some spotting, faint creasing.
A view of Lancaster from across the Lune, with the castle and priory. The Lune Bridge, built 1787 by Thomas Harrison, is still in use.
[Ref: 60906] £250.00
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Newport, Isle of Wight, from Barton Vicarage, 1869 [pencil on verso].
[1869.]
Watercolour. Sheet 190 x 480mm (7½ x 19").
A panoramic view of the town.
[Ref: 60922] £190.00
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Norton Hall.
[n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph on chine collé on printed backing paper. Printed area 395 x 300mm (15¼ x 11¾"), with large margins. Some soiling of original backing paper, tear in right edge.
Norton Hall, Northamptonshire, with deer in the foreground. The house was destroyed in 1952.
[Ref: 60942] £130.00
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No 1. Warwick Castle from the Lodge Hill. To the Right Honourable George Greville Earl of Warwick &c. &c. This and the following Views of his Ancient and Magnificent Castle, are Humbly Inscribed, by his Lordships most Obedient and most Humble Servant Paul Sandby R. A. [&] No 2. The Entrance of Warwick Castle from the Lower Court. [&] No 3. Caesars Tower and Part of Warwick Castle from the Island. [&] No 4. Part of Warwick Castle from the S.E.
P. Sandby Fecit.
Publish'd Jan.y 1776. by J. Boydell Cheapside.
Set of four aquatints, printed in sepia. Each c.335 x 475mm (13¼ x 18¾"). All laid on archival paper. 1 with long crease; 2 with repaired tear and surface abrasion in inscription area; 3 with two long creases, abrasion in margins; 4 with damage to margins and unprinted area of plate. Damaged.
The full set of four views of Warwick Castle by Paul Sandby (1725-1809), dedicated to his pupil Charles Greville, who gave the secret of the aquatint method to Sandby.
[Ref: 60893] £650.00
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South View of Windsor, taken from the Great Park.
Drawn by W. Hodges, R.A. Engraved by T. Byrne & J. Schuman.
London, Published as the Act directs 1st Jan.y 1791, by W. Byrne, No.19 Titchfield Street.
Coloured engraving, 18th century watermark. 350 x 490mm (13¾ x 19¼"), large margins. Tear in margin.
A view of Windsor Castle, with deer in the foreground.
[Ref: 60908] £260.00
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Table of Computed Distances of the Towns of Yorkshire from the Metropolis, and From Each Other. Compiled fo the History, Directory, and Gazetteer of Yorkshire. _ Published by Edward Baines, Leeds.
Leeds: Printed by Edward Baines [n.d., c.1822.]
Letterpress with wood engraved border. Sheet 430 x 530mm (17 x 21), paper watermarked 'H S 1816'. Damage, mainly to left borders but affecting text lower left corner, original folds.
The table of distance lists 74 places in Yorkshire and London. Other tables lists the stops on the mail routes from York to Edinburgh and London, the route from London to Paris via Dover, and the dates of the 'Fixed and 'Mouveable Fairs of the County and Ainsty of York'. Baines was editor of the Leeds Mercury newspaper. His 'History, Directory & Gazetteer of the County of York. With Select Lists of the Merchants & Traders of London, and the Principal Commercial and Manufacturing Towns of England, and a Variety of Other Commercial Information' was first published in 1822, with a second edition the following year.
[Ref: 60902] £320.00
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