ANTIQUE PRINTS OF BOROUGH HIGH STREET AT
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[London : 1878 (or later)]. A charming antique print – a composite view with a medley of individual studies of the galleried courtyards of the old Southwark coaching inns – the Dog and Bear, the King’s Head, the Catherine Wheel, the Queen’s Head and the George. Originally produced for the part-work “Old and New London” (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 210 x 145mm (approx. 8-1/4” x 5-3/4”). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. An attractive antique print of the southern approach to London Bridge, the old houses of Southwark on either side of the street – a wagon heading to the bridge. From a study (based on an earlier source) by William Henry Prior. Originally produced for the part-work “Old and New London” (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 208 x 144mm (approx. 8-3/8” x 5-7/8”). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. An attractive and interesting antique print – the courtyard of the old coaching inn on Borough High Street – the site of the rebel Jack Cade’s headquarters, mentioned by Shakespeare, and the very yard in which Mr. Pickwick first encountered Sam Weller. Engraved from an original study by William Henry Prior and originally produced for the part-work “Old and New London” (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Engraved surface 137 x 138mm (approx. 5-3/8” x 5-3/8”). Text on verso. In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : Jones & Co., 1832]. An antique print – a coach and pair arrives by the eighteenth-century entrance and the forbidding wall of the Southwark Prison – “the most desirable place of incarceration in London” – which used to stand just south of Suffolk Street between Borough High Street and Southwark Bridge Road. Engraved by Thomas Garner (1789-1868) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. From Shepherd’s series “London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century” (London : 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 118 x 154mm (approx. 4-5/8” x 6-1/8”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/147.

£25

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London : Jones & Co., 1831. An antique print – an attractive view of galleried inn yard of the Talbot Inn on Borough High Street – with the Canterbury and Dover wagon being loaded. The Talbot (on the site of the old Tabard Inn, famous as the meeting place of Chaucer’s pilgrims) used to stand next to Guy’s Hospital – the name being commemorated by Talbot Yard. Engraved by James Tingle (1801-1858) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. From Shepherd’s series “London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century” (London : 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 110 x 151mm (approx. 4-3/8” x 6”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/164.

£30

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London : Jones & Co., 1831. An antique print – an attractive view of galleried inn yard of the Talbot Inn on Borough High Street – with the Canterbury and Dover wagon being loaded. The Talbot (on the site of the old Tabard Inn, famous as the meeting place of Chaucer’s pilgrims) used to stand next to Guy’s Hospital – the name commemorated in Talbot Yard. Engraved by James Tingle (1801-1858) from an original study by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. From Shepherd’s series “London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century” (London : 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 110 x 151mm (approx 4-3/8” x 6”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/164.

£25

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London : Jones & Co., 1830. An antique print – a very attractive view of the old Town Hall on its island site, flanked by the Surrey & Southwark Fire Office, the street busy with pedestrian traffic. Engraved by Richard Winkles (fl.1829-1831) from an original pencil drawing (now in the Guildhall Library) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. Originally produced for Shepherd’s part-work series “London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century” (London : 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 108 x 146mm (approx. 4-1/4” x 5-3/4”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/035.

£30

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London : Jones & Co., 1830. An antique print – a very attractive view of the old Town Hall on its island site, flanked by the Surrey & Southwark Fire Office, the street busy with pedestrian traffic. Engraved by Richard Winkles (fl.1829-1831) from an original pencil drawing (now in the Guildhall Library) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of 19th century London. Originally produced for Shepherd’s part-work series “London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century” (London 1829-1832).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 108 x 146mm (approx. 4-1/4” x 5-3/4”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 161/035.

£25

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[London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, and Love & Malcomson, 1902]. A handsome and unusual bird’s-eye view of the whole length of Borough High Street looking southwards from London Bridge – with the adjacent streets and buildings – London Bridge Station, Southwark Cathedral, Borough Market, and Guy’s Hospital in the foreground, St. George’s in the middle distance, and the Elephant and Castle on the far horizon. Designed by the architectural draughtsman Thomas Sulman, engraved by George William Ruffle (1838-1901), and originally produced for Herbert Fry’s “London” in 1880, but here in a later impression.
Wood engraving on paper, with letter-press shoulder notes. Engraved surface 206 x 120mm (approx. 8-1/8” x 4-7/8”). Trimmed a little tight; original fold, but in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique map.

£40

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London : Virtue & Co., [1881]. A very handsome prospect of Southwark and London Bridge as they stood in the mid sixteenth century. Below the image is a keyed reference to twenty of the principal buildings and features – Baynard Castle, the Steelyard, St. Thomas’s Hospital, etc. Drawn and etched by Nathaniel Whittock from a contemporary drawing by the peripatetic Flemish artist Anton van den Wyngaerde. Originally produced for the part-work “History of Surrey” (London : 1840-1848) – and here in the later reissue published 1878 and 1881.
Etching and engraving on paper. Engraved surface 194 x 331mm (approx. 7-5/8” x 13”). Original vertical fold, a few tiny marks and specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£200

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London : I. T. Hinton, 1830. A handsome antique print – the church of Holy Trinity in Trinity Church Square, built by Francis Bedford in the 1820s and now used as the Henry Wood Hall – an exterior view of the columned facade, a boy with a hoop in the foreground. Engraved by Richard Winkles (fl.1829-1831) from an original study by Nathaniel Whittock. Originally produced for the partwork series “Picturesque Beauties of the Counties of Surrey & Sussex” (London : 1829-1831).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 116 x 159mm (approx. 4-5/8” x 6-1/4”). A few tiny spots, onr tiny scuff, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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