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Grosvenor Prints 19 Shelton Street Covent Garden London WC2H 9JN Tel: 020 7836 1979 Fax: 020 7379 6695 E-mail: [email protected] www.grosvenorprints.com Dealers in Antique Prints & Books Catalogue 54 London International Antiquarian Book Fair Item 193: Months of the Year in Flowers For other images from this list please see our web site www.grosvenorprints.com Registered in England No. 1305630 Registered Office: 2, Castle Business Villlage, Station Roaad, Hampton, Middlesex. TW12 2BX. Rainbrook Ltd. Directors: N.C. Talbot. T.D.M. Rayment. C.E. Elliis. E&OE VAT No. 217 6907 49 1. Six Etchings by William Crotch from 3. Miscellaneous Skettches from Nature. Sketches by Mr. O'Neill, of the Ruins of the Drawn and Lithographed by Mrs Arthur Shirley. Late Fire at Christ Church, Oxford. To which London 1857. Printed by Netthercraft & Durlacher, 18, is prefixed some account of the fire, and the Brewer St, Golden Sq. buildings injured by it. Oblong folio, original illustrated wrappers, 6 tinted Published and Sold by Robert Bliss, Bookseller, lithographs. Very large margins, uncut. Plates spotted. Oxford. Printed by N. Bliss, 1809. £580 Folio, wrapppers with original front wrapper pasted on; Five portraits of horses and 'The Death'. An extremely pp. 8 including letterpress title with etched vignette, rare publication, probably inttended to be part of a etched map, 7 etchings, numbered 1-6, plate 4 in two series. However we have been unable to find any states. Plate six damaged. Wrappers repaired. £450 biiographical details for Mrs SShirley. Stock: 37193 A fire of March 3rd 1809, fortunately a calm night, which destroyed the apartments of a number of dons. Dr White, the canon of Christchurch, lost a valuable 4. A Key to the Politiical Sketches of H.B. library of oriental works. Nos 1 - 200, Arranged as Published, up to June, Stock: 37172 1832. Price 2s. Each Plate. Published Solely by Thomass McLean, 26, Haymarket, London. Where complete setts and keys may be had. 8vo pamphlet, partially unopened. Ink ownership stamps on front and back, ink mss note on front. £140 A pamphlet listing the titles of the first 200 caricatures drawn by John Doyle (1797 -- 1868) under the psseudonym 'H.B', with a key to the personages satirised. Eventually the index reached at least 600. Stock: 37178 5. The Political Housse that Jack Built. 'A straw-thrown up to show which way the wind blows.' With Thirteen Cuts. Twenty-Fourth Edition. [Illustrations by George Cruiikshank.] London: Printed byy and for William Hone, Ludgate Hill. 1819. One Shilling. 2. The Trials of Arthur Thistlewood, and 8vo pamplet, disbound and mounted on album paper; Other, for High Treason, at the Old Bailey ppp. 20, 11 wood engravings by George Crur ikshank. Sessions-House, commencing On Saturday, thhe £160 15th, and ending on Thursday, the 27th of William Hone's wildly popullar radical pamphlet, April, 1820. Taken in Short Hand, Accordingg attacking the authoritarian nature of the British to the Method Invented by John Byrom, Esq. government, satirising lawyers, the church, the monarchy and the army. The cover illustration shows F.R.S. Illustrated by Back and Front Views of the Duke of Wellington addiinng his sword to the Scales the Premisees in Cato Street, Edgeware Road, of Justice, trying to get the Establishment to outweigh a London; and by several Original Portraits of writing quill, captioned 'The Pen and the Sword'. the principal Conspiritors and Witnesses Throughout Hone quotes from William Cowper's 'The connected with these Proccedings. With An Task'. Appendix containing circumstantial details of First published in December 1819, this 24th edition the Execution and decapitation of Thistlewoodd, was published before the end of the year. It is Tidd, Ings, Davidson, and Brunt. estimated that 100,000 copiees were printed in two London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, years. Paternoster Row, and J. Asperne, Cornhill. 1820. 1819 was the year of the Peterloo Massacre and the Small 4to, original boards rebacked, later title label on subsequent legislation known as the Six Acts, which spine; pp. iv + 200; 9 plates. Inner hinges strained. made mass meetings illegal and toughened the laws Some foxing. £520 against seditious publicationss. Hone was adept at Interesting advert for Byrom's short hand. The trial of defending himself against sedditious libel and the Cato Street conspirators, who planned to murder bllasphemy charges: having been acquitted three times Prime Minister Lord Liverpool and his entire cabinett in in 1817 he was virtually untouchable by the courts. 1820. Although the titlepage calls ffor 13 wood engravings, The conspirators were sentenced to be hung, drawn and two of these appear in a second article in the pamphlet, quartered; however this was commuted to hanging and 'The Clerical Magistrate', nott present here. beheading. Although the decapitation was performedd Stock: 37186 by a surgeon, it caused enough unrest that this punishment was never used again. Stock: 37177 6. The Duke's Funeral: A Poem. economy of all classes'. In many cases, the By Sir Franccis Hastings Doyle, Bart., Late Fellow off advertisements are accompanied by corresponding, All Souls' College, Oxford. London: Clarke, Beeton, & hand written letters from cusstomers ordering supplies Co., Foreign Booksellers, 148 Fleet Street. [n.d., and fixtures. c.1852. Stock: 37266 Letterpress pamphlet, 8vo, printed wrappers, pp.16, two wood engravings. With ink mss envelope (?) witth Doyle's signature pasted at rear. Lacking wrappers, pages mounted in album paper. Old ink ownership inscription on front wrapper. £160 With an interior of Chelsea Hospital during the lying- in-state, and a view of the funeral procession with the hearse. Doyle (1810-88) was Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1867 and caricatured by Spy in 1877. Stock: 37182 7. Service and Anthems to be used upon Thursday the 18th Day of November 1852, being the Day Appointed for the Public Funeral of His Grace Field Marshal The Duke 10. [Scrap Album Compiled by William of Wellington, K.G. in the Cathedral Church Eassie C.E.] of St Paul, London. [n.d., c.1870] By Authority of the Dean Of St Paul's. London: Printed Scrapbook in marbled boardss, backed in linen. by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Extremities frayed, some sheets loose. worn. £1250 Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. For An industrial scrapbook conttaining designs, Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1852. phhotographs and adverts for mmachinery and woodwork Letterpress pamphlet, 8vo, pp.16. With ink a.l.s letter and joinery tools, including annotation in manuscript. from Henry Hart Milman. Lacking wrappers, pages Stock: 37502 mounted in album paper. £180 Milman (1791-1868) was the Dean of St Paul's 11. Narrative of the British Embassy to Cathedral at the time of the funeral. China In the Years 1792,, 1793 and 1794. Stock: 37180 Containing the various Circumstances of the Embassy, with accounts of Customs and 8. Ode of the Death of the Duke of Manners of th Chinese; and a Description of Wellington. the Country, Towns, Citiies, &c. &c. By Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate. London: Edward byy Æneas Anderson. Then in the Service of his Moxon, Dovers Street Street, 1852. Excellency Earl Macartney, K.B. Ambassador from the Rare letterpress pamphlet, 8vo, printed wrappers, King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. pp.16. Wrappers and pages mounted in album paper. London: Printed for J. Debrett, Opposite Burlington- Old ink ownership inscription on front wrapper. £240 House, Picadilly. 1795. Six pages of verse composed by Tennyson two years Rare book. 4to, original, full calf gilt, marbled after he became Poet Laureate and over thirty years endpapers; pp.xxiv + 278 + ((26)(appendix, glossary before he was ennobled. and advert). Fine. Slightly scuffed at corners. £1150 Stock: 37179 A detailed account of Æneass Anderson's voyage to China in the service of Lord Macartney starting from 9. [Scrapbook of household and trade 5pm Tuesday 25th September when the ship sets sail related ephemera.] until 1794. The text includess a list of the retinue of [n.d., c.1840-50's.] Lord Macartney and a Glossaary of Chinese words. Scrapbook containing various ephemera; in pencil on Stock: 37515 frontcover Ed. Hall Archt. Overall size: 570 x 430mm (22½ x 17"). Not bound. £2500 12. [A P&O Company letter ledger.] A unique collection of 69 items including building, [May - July 1911.] construction, renovation, trades and household related Quarto binder with index leaves; 190 numbered items. material; a large number of advertisements for fixtures, Some wear. £300 fittings, decorating and building equipment, such as A volume of general correspoondence to the London 'Churchian System for Regulating Doors and offices of P&O, including: complaints about service; Windows', 'Dr. Arnott's Ventilating Chimney Valve', pllans for the Coronation Durrbar at Delhi; requests for 'The Architectural Tile Company's Patent Roofing and ships for sale and breaking; iinvestigations into butter- Facing Tiles' and 'The Patent Torrent Water Closet' piilfering; an offer of training for telegraph operators; dated 1849, describing 'the absolute necessity for the paamplets advertising the maiiden voyage of T.S.S. universal adoption of Water Colsets, in lieu of Maunganui to Australia, andd a plea from a Maltese lace Cesspools, as essential to the health, comfort and trader to have his permit to sell his wares on P&O A pair of agents' ledgers connttaining copies of the ships traversing the Suez Canal reinstated. correspondence to and from tthe Peninsular and Stock: 35794 Oriental Steam Navigation Company's superindendents in Hong Kong, each with manuscript indexes at the 13. [A P&O Company letter ledger.] No 1. beeginning, detailing the day tto day activities of the Bombay froom 18 Dec 68 to Dec 69.