Grosvenor Prints

[Comic Bank Note.] Bank of Experience. No.55. to pay on demand for the Governor of the World the Sum of Five Pounds to any person who can find a better paper than the Paul Pry, or a greater fool than the bearer of this note.
For the Governor & Compy. Leukin Jones.
1839, Feb.y. 10.
Engraving. Sheet: 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½''). Trimmed.
A "Skit note" to advertise the weekly satirical paper "Paul Pry", the note "signed" by Leukin Jones, printer and publisher of the paper.
[Ref: 64241] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Comic Bank Note.] Bank of Fashion 1823. I promise to cut any Lady or Gentleman's hair Superior to any man in Europe, or forfeit on Demand the Sum of one hundred pounds, 1823 Oct.r 24, London, 24, Oct.r 1823.
For Self and Comp.a 46, Threadneedle St. and 13, Fleet St. J. Money.
Engraving. Sheet: 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½''). Trimmed, time-stained. Creasing top left.
A comic bank note issued by a hairdresser to persuade them to patronise his shop in Threadneedle Street.
[Ref: 64238] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Comic Bank Note.] Bank of Fashion 1823. I promise to cut any Lady or Gentleman's hair Superior to any man in Europe, or forfeit on Demand the Sum of one hundred pounds, 1823 Oct.r 24, London, 24, Oct.r 1823.
For Self and Comp.a 46, Threadneedle St. and 13, Fleet St. J. Money.
Engraving. Sheet: 120 x 190mm (4¾ x 7½''). Trimmed.
A comic bank note issued by a hairdresser to persuade them to patronise his shop in Threadneedle Street.
[Ref: 64239] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Comic Bank Note.] Bank of Economy. £50. Promise to pay on Demand the sum of fifty pounds if any Article purchased at Hulls Cheap & Fashionable Hat & Cap Warehouse. 38 South Street, Manchester Square, can be equaled at any Shop in London for the Price.
1827, August 18, London. For the Self and Comp.a. J.Hull.
Engraving. Sheet 180 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed, some small tears and creasing.
A comic fifty pound bank note issued by Hulls Cheap & Fashionable Hat & Cap Warehouse.
[Ref: 64237] £90.00 (£108.00 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)

[Brighton Brighthelmston Chain Pier Company.] Brighthelmston Suspension Pier Company, Incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1822.
1st July 1848.
Engraved billhead, watermark, . Sheet 265 x 140mm (10¼ x 5½"). Some creases, time-staining and very small tears on edge.
The Royal Suspension Chain Pier was the first major pier built in Brighton. Receipt of payment for the sum of Three Pounds to Edward Comford Esq. in ink verso.
[Ref: 64254] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[British Empire Exhibition] Wembley 1925.
[1925.]
Scarce wood-engraving on linen, printed in cerise with touches of blue and yellow. 655 x 710mm (25¾ x 28"). Some faint staining, mounted on board, '1925' faded?
A souvenir from the British Empire Exhibition of 1924-5, celebrating the Commonwealth. A central image of a Mughal palace is surrounded by roundels containing portraits of the Royal Family (George V & Queen Mary; Edward Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII; and the Duke & Duchess of York, later George VIII & Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) and views representing Australia, Canada, West Africa, India, South Africa & Hong King.
[Ref: 63924] £480.00

[Two unused invitations and three pass tickets to George IV's coronation.]
Dobbs.
[1821.]
Five etchings, printed in colours, with embossed decorations. Largest 180 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"). Four mounted on album paper.
A scarce collection of admission tickets for Westminster Abbey & Westminster Hall; and pass tickets for Westminster Abbey, Westminster Hall and the Procession. All have the name 'Dobbs' within the decoration.
[Ref: 63921] £750.00 view all images for this item

[Billhead.] Bot.t. of Vetch & Cooper, Grocers & Tea-Dealers. No.85, Holgate.
[London, March, 1773.]
Letterpress, 18th century watermark. Sheet 340 x 215mm (13¼ x 8½'') Trimmed. Foxing on right side, some creasing.
Account issued for John Vetch & Cooper, Grocers & Tea-Dealers.
[Ref: 64259] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Handwritten Letter from Charles Kemble to William Charles Macready.] [My dear Mr Mac Ready, You must think me a very rude fellow, not to have answered your letter sooner; but I have been trying, in vain, to find an opportunity of visiting you for a short period.]
[16th January 1829.]
Handwritten letter. Sheet 230 x 185mm (9 x 7¼"). Some creasing, cut on left edge. Backed onto album paper.
A Letter from Charles Kemble (1775-1854) Welsh actor to William Charles MacReady (1793 - 1873), English stage actor.
[Ref: 64262] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Farewell Dinner to J.P.Kemble Esq.r. on his retirement from the Stage. Admit [blank] Secretaries. Not Transferable.
Silvester sc. 27 Strand.
[n.d., c.1817.]
Etching with engraving. Sheet 270 x 190mm (10½ x 7½"), large margins. Trimmed into plate.
A blank invitation to a dinner held for actor John Philip Kemble, held at the Freemason's Tavern. 27th June, 1819, four days after his last performance, as Coriolanus at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. He spent most of his last years abroad, dying at Lausanne in 1823.
[Ref: 64261] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Bill-head.] No.t. of Longman & Broderip. No.26, Cheapside, London: Music-Engravers, Printers, Publishers, and Musical Instrument Makers. The greatest choice of Instruments, with the best Italian & Roman Strings, Wire of all sizes. Rules Books & Paper of all sorts, Crow & Raven Quills &c, Musical Publications both Ancient & Modern, with every other Article in the Musical Way, Wholesale and Retail on the most reasonable Terms.
[15 June 1781.]
Engraved billhead. Sheet 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Trimmed into plate and backed onto album paper. Some creasing.
A bill-head for Longman & Broderip, musical instrument makers, issued in 1781, for the total of £9.5..
[Ref: 64252] £490.00

[Funeral Invitation for Sir Joshua Reynolds.] The Executors & Family of Sir Joshua Reynolds return thanks for the tribute of respect paid to departed Genius & Virtue, by your attendance at the funeral of that illustrious painter & most amiable man, in St Pauls Cathedral, on Saturday, March 3.d 1792.
E.F.Burney del. F.Bartolozzi R.A. Sculps.
[1792.]
Rare engraving. Sheet 190 x 135mm (7½ x 5¼"). Trimmed into plate. Time stained.
Ticket thanking people for attending the funeral of Sir Joshua Reynolds who died in London on 23 February 1792. His body lay in state for a day at Somerset House and his funeral took place at St Paul's Cathedral.
DeV 1980 III of III
[Ref: 64260] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.] Sir, I have the honour to inform you that you were this day elected a Member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, & Commerce. The Accompanying letter from the Collectr will point our some Rules & Orders of the Society to which I beg leave to call your attention. I am Sir Aldelphi, Your very obedient Serv.t.
Engraved by H.C.Shenton from a Drawing by T.Stothard, R.A.
[n.d., c.1826.]
Engraving with letter inscription. "To Wm Williams Great St Helens" at bottom in ink. Sheet 235 x 180mm (9¼ x 7"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper. Some creasing and time-stains.
Engraving with letter insciption electing the recipient as a Member of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures, & Commerce. The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, founded in 1754, was the precursor of The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce now more usually known as the RSA. The original Society gained the Royal prefix in the Edwardian era, when the Prince of Wales was its President. Its primary aim was to stimulate industry through the awarding of prizes.
[Ref: 64257] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Admission Ticket.] Admission Ticket to the Distribution of the Rewards of the Society of Arts, &c. at the King's Theatre, Opera House, on Wednesday, the 20th of May, 1824, at half-past Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon. N.B. This Ticket will admit One Person only at the King's Entrance, Haymarket.Thos Pitt Esq N.P [in ink mss]
[n.d., c.1824.]
Engraving. Sheet 200 x 170 (8 x 6¾"). Trimmed and backed onto album paper. Some faint creasing.
Admission ticket for the Society of Arts at the King's Theatre on the 26th May, 1824. An engraving showing a woman standing on the left, taking a laurel crown from another woman who sits on a throne, wearing helmet and holding lance.
[Ref: 64256] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[David Garrick Admission Ticket.] [This Plate was given by Tho:s. Miller Esqr, to_ Bowles Esqr. as an Admission Ticket to his private and elegant Theatre.] [in ink]
J.K.Sherwin.
[n.d., c.1781.]
Proof engraving, 18th century watermark. 120 x 105mm (4¾ x 4"), large margins.
Ticket of admission to the Theatre Royal.
[Ref: 64263] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

A Postman, ha, what a guy! [/] Who prigs the Letters on the Sly; [/] Do not think I shall e'er incline [/] To have a chap like you for a Valentine.
W.S. Fortey, Steam Printers, Monmouth Ct. [n.d., c.1830.]
4 pp. with coloured wood engraving on the front. Front 255 x 190mm (10 x 7½"). Holes in top edge, some creasing and spotting.
A letterhead vinegar valentine featuring a postman with a roseate nose.
Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 64194] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

[Vinegar Valentine.] You'd like to be a Swell, I see, [/] But really it won't do; [/] The right is whay you wish to be, [/] The left, my love, is you! [/] No. 30.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Coloured wood engraving. Sheet 220 x 185mm (8¾ x 7¼").
A vinegar valentine featuring a man with two faces, one good-looking, the other grotesque. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 64195] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

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