A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. A Train of the First Class of Carriages, with the Mail.
Drawn by J. Shaw, Liverpool. Aquat.a by S.G. Hughes.
[n.d., 1860] But later.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 295 x 630mm (11½ x 24¾").
A profiles of the 'Jupiter' locomotive and its carriages, built by Robert Stephenson and Company. Based on the print published by Ackermann in 1833, copying the artist and engraver's inscriptions.
[Ref: 58741] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn by J. Shaw, Liverpool. Aquat.a by S.G. Hughes.
[n.d., 1860] But later.
Coloured aquatint. Sheet 295 x 630mm (11½ x 24¾").
A profiles of the 'Jupiter' locomotive and its carriages, built by Robert Stephenson and Company. Based on the print published by Ackermann in 1833, copying the artist and engraver's inscriptions.
[Ref: 58741] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
The Motor Car. Words by Richard Morton, Adapted to the Meolody of ''Funiculi Funicula'' by L. Denza. Sung with Great Success by John F. Sheridan.
Ricordi's Copyright 1897.
Pamphlet; pp. (8), cover with chromolithographic portrait. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Cover detatched, some soiling.
The words and music of a comic song about an attempt to drive a motor car from Camberwell to Brighton, ending with the car exploding. The cover depicts John Francis Sheridan (1843-1908), an Irish-American comic actor, dressed as a Chinaman, carrying a pole with two scenes from the song. He ended his career in Australia, dying in a hotel in Newcastle. Very rare & early Motor Car item, Brighton interest.
[Ref: 58854] £490.00
Ricordi's Copyright 1897.
Pamphlet; pp. (8), cover with chromolithographic portrait. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10"). Cover detatched, some soiling.
The words and music of a comic song about an attempt to drive a motor car from Camberwell to Brighton, ending with the car exploding. The cover depicts John Francis Sheridan (1843-1908), an Irish-American comic actor, dressed as a Chinaman, carrying a pole with two scenes from the song. He ended his career in Australia, dying in a hotel in Newcastle. Very rare & early Motor Car item, Brighton interest.
[Ref: 58854] £490.00
Steamed Out, or the Starving Stage-Coachman and Boys.
George Cruikshank.
[London: David Bogue, 1847.]
Etching. Sheet 105 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate.
A portly but broken-down coach driver, heading an assortment of thin post boys and others, begs from a well-dressed family at a window. Behind a locomotive crosses a viaduct. Railway interest. From 'The Comic Almanack'.
[Ref: 58728] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
George Cruikshank.
[London: David Bogue, 1847.]
Etching. Sheet 105 x 165mm (4¼ x 6½"). Trimmed within plate.
A portly but broken-down coach driver, heading an assortment of thin post boys and others, begs from a well-dressed family at a window. Behind a locomotive crosses a viaduct. Railway interest. From 'The Comic Almanack'.
[Ref: 58728] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)