ANTIQUE PRINTS OF ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS AT
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[London : for T. Osborne & J. Shipton; and J. Hodges, 1756]. A handsome antique print – a plain and elegant view of St. Martin in the Fields, completed to the designs of James Gibbs in 1726. Originally engraved by Benjamin Cole for the part-work edition of William Maitland’s “History of London” (London : 1753-1756).
Copper line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 372 x 220mm (approx. 14-5/8” x 8-5/8”). Some faint specks, a couple of tiny spots, and very minor creasing, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 38/094.

£100

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London : Richard Phillips, 1804. An attractive and unusual antique print – a muffin-man cries his wares and rings his bell as he passes the steps and pillars of St. Martin in the Fields – hot penny-loaves for breakfast and tea in summer – muffins and crumpets in winter. Engraved from an original study by William Marshall Craig, water-colour painter to Queen Charlotte. Originally produced for Phillips’ part-work “Modern London : Being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis” (1804), and here in the earlier state with the more elaborate border.
Etching, line and stipple engraving on paper. Original hand colour. Engraved surface (including quadruple-rule outer border) 133 x 103mm (approx. 5-1/4” x 4”). A few faint flecks and spots to outer margins, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 89/037.

£40

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[London : 1878 (or later)]. An attractive antique print giving a view of the bustling early nineteenth-century thoroughfare. Originally produced for the part-work “Old and New London” (London : 1873-1878).
Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour. Engraved surface 207 x 142mm (approx. 8-1/8” x 5-5/8”). Text on verso. In very good state. A guaranteed genuine antique print.

£30

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[London : E. T. Brain & Co., 1847]. An attractive antique print – a view of St. Martin in the Fields from the corner of Duncannon Street and the Strand – the old St. Martin’s School beyond. An engraving from the workshop of A. H. Payne, originally produced for Payne’s “Illustrated London, or a Series of Views in the British Metropolis and its Vicinity” (London : 1846-1847).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 104 x 138mm (approx. 4” x 5-1/2”). A few tiny specks, but otherwise in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 207/017.

£30

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[London : Jones & Co., 1829]. A handsome antique print – a view along what is now the north side of Trafalgar Square to St. Martin in the Fields, with the old King’s Mews (on the site of the National Gallery) to the left and the portico of the College of Physicians to the right. The street teems with carriages and pedestrians. Engraved by Henry Winsor Bond (1804-1881) from an original pencil drawing (now in Westminster Public Library) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, the master recorder of nineteenth-century London. From Shepherd’s series “Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century” (London : 1827-1830).
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 106 x 150mm (approx. 4-1/8” x 5-7/8”). A couple of tiny specks, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 154/124.

£30

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[London : W. S. Orr, 1838]. An attractive antique print of the east side of Trafalgar Square, with some Dickensian figures in the foreground (probably drawn by Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882), who is known to have worked on this series of prints), with St. Martin in the Fields and the old Morley’s Hotel. Engraved by John Woods (fl.1835-1855) and originally produced for Woods’ “History of London : Illustrated by Views in London and Westminster”, first published in parts 1837-1838.
Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 174 x 101mm (approx. 6-7/8” x 4”). A few tiny specks to blank margins, but overall in very good and clean state. A guaranteed genuine antique print. Adams 188/014.

£30

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