ANTIQUE PRINTS OF BRIDGE STREET, BLACKFRIARS AT
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[London : 1860]. A pleasant antique print – the row of buildings on the east side of the road leading to Blackfriars Bridge – the offices of the Crown Life Assurance Company given some prominence to the left. Originally produced for the publisher John Tallis’s “London Street Views” (1838 on) and reissued with Thomas Dugdale’s part-work survey published as “The Curiosities of Great Britain” or “England Delineated” in various formats between 1838 and 1860.
Steel line engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 73 x 107mm (approx. 2-7/8” x 4-1/4”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 186/002.

£25

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[London : 1860]. A pleasant antique print – the row of buildings on the east side of the road leading to Blackfriars Bridge – the offices of the Crown Life Assurance Company given some prominence to the left. Originally produced for the publisher John Tallis’s “London Street Views” (1838 on) and reissued with Thomas Dugdale’s part-work survey published as “The Curiosities of Great Britain” or “England Delineated” in various formats between 1838 and 1860.
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 73 x 107mm (approx. 2-7/8” x 4-1/4”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 186/002.

£20

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[London : for A. Churchill, J. Knapton & others, 1720]. A fine early eighteenth-century antique print – a bird’s-eye prospect of the famous old palace turned prison and workhouse which used to stand on the site of the Unilever Building. Engraved by Johannes Kip and originally produced to accompany the 1720 edition of John Stow’s “A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster” (London : 1720).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 204 x 330mm (approx. 8” x 113"). Just a faint hint of offsetting, but overall a very good and sharp impression. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£100

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[London : Leadenhall Press, 1891]. A most attractive antique print – a scene at the north-western end of New Bridge Street – a group of passengers crowd on to the omnibus heading for Camden Town from the Elephant and Castle – the bus advertising Pears soap and Van Houten’s cocoa. In the background are the premises of L. N. Fowler, publisher of “The Phrenological Magazine”. From an original design by the painter and illustrator William Luker and engraved in Paris by Ch. Guillaume & Cie. for the Leadenhall Press publication “London City” (1891).
Hand touched and finished half-tone process block. Image area 161 x 212mm (approx. 6-3/8” x 8-3/8”). Later hand colour. A few tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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[London : Leadenhall Press, 1891]. A most attractive antique print – a scene at the north-western end of New Bridge Street – a group of passengers crowd on to the omnibus heading for Camden Town from the Elephant and Castle – the bus advertising Pears soap and Van Houten’s cocoa. In the background are the premises of L. N. Fowler, publisher of "The Phrenological Magazine". From an original design by the painter and illustrator William Luker and engraved in Paris by Ch. Guillaume & Cie. for the Leadenhall Press publication “London City” (1891).
Hand touched and finished half-tone process block. Image area 161 x 212mm (approx. 6-3/8” x 8-3/8”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : Leadenhall Press, 1891]. A pleasant antique print – a view up New Bridge Street to Ludgate Circus – the road busy with horse-drawn traffic – pedestrians in hats. From an original design by the painter and illustrator William Luker and engraved in Paris by Ch. Guillaume & Cie. for the Leadenhall Press publication “London City” (1891).
Hand touched and finished half-tone process block. Later hand colour. Image area 163 x 212mm (approx. 6-3/8” x 8-1/4”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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[London : Leadenhall Press, 1891]. A pleasant antique print – a view up New Bridge Street to Ludgate Circus – the road busy with horse-drawn traffic – pedestrians in hats. From an original design by the painter and illustrator William Luker and engraved in Paris by Ch. Guillaume & Cie. for the Leadenhall Press publication “London City” (1891).
Hand touched and finished half-tone process block. Image area 163 x 212mm (approx. 6-3/8” x 8-1/4”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£25

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[London : Leadenhall Press, 1891]. An antique print – a view of the junction of New Bridge Street and Queen Victoria Street – a policeman on point duty – a heavily-laden horse-drawn omnibus rolls towards Blackfriars Bridge heading for Kennington – Blackfriars Station and the railway bridge beyond – and the dome of St. Paul’s on the skyline. From an original design by the painter and illustrator William Luker and engraved in Paris by Ch. Guillaume & Cie. for the Leadenhall Press publication “London City” (1891).
Hand touched and finished half-tone process block. Later hand colour. Image area 162 x 217mm (approx. 6-3/8” x 8-1/2”). In very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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[London : George Newnes, 1947]. An attractive pictorial map, with historical notes and vignettes, depicting the area around Ludgate Circus and New Bridge Street, extending northwards to take in part of Farringdon Street, and southwards to Blackfriars Bridge. The verso of the map bears additional notes on the Fleet River, etc., and a decorative title. Originally produced for the “Strand Magazine” – Jack Sayer produced a number of similar maps used as railway posters in the interwar years.
Coloured lithograph on paper. Printed surface 258 x 187mm (approx. 10-1/8” x 7-3/8”. Original horizontal fold; a couple of small staple holes to fold, but otherwise in very good and clean state.

£40

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