Cata Alogue E 68
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
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 68 February Listing Item 369: The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan All items listed are illustrated on 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 Stock: 43657 4. [Wax and Candle Invoice.] Bo.t of W. & J. Barton, Wax & Tallow Chandlers, No. 26 Bishopsgate with opposite Threadneedle Street. [1834.] Engraved invoice with manuscript; pt watermark (18)32. Sheet: 125 x 200mmm (5 x 8"). Folds and creasing. £75 An invoice for candles and sooap from chandlers W. & J. Barton based in Bishopsgate. Stock: 43660 5. [Horses] R. Thwaiites, Ripon. To the 1. Design Adopted by the Council for the following places on Pleasure with a Pair of Univerity of London. Horses and Waiting [...] William Wilkins, M.A. R.A. Arch.t 1826. Printed by C. Smith & Greaves sc Birmingham [c.1820] Hullmandel. Engraving, sheet 65 x 100mm (2½ x 4"). Trimmed. Lithograph. Sheet 260 x 320mm (10¼ x 12½"). mss ''D' £60 added top right, some soiling. £190 Billhead for a man based in Ripon, Yorkshire, with The designs by William Wilkins RA (1778-1839) for horses for hire. With unicorn vignette and list of the main building of what is now University College distances to nearby towns. London. Work was started in 1827 but funds ran out iin Stock: 43236 1829; his design was not completed until 1985, 150 years after the foundations were laid. 6. [Hosier Invoice.] G. Gibbon, Hosier, Wilkins was also a classical scholar and archaeologist, Glover & Shirt Maker to the King and Royal who tour of the Mediterranean influenced his designs. Family 19, Coventry Streeet, opposite the Between 1832 and 1838 he designed the National Haymarket. Gallery in Trafalgar Square; in 1837 he became [n.d., c.1830.] Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy, Engraved invoice with manuscript. Sheet: 195 x succeding Sir John Soane. 225mm (7¾ x 9"). Tears, follds and creasing. £75 Stock: 43300 An invoice for a variety of cllothing items including gloves, shirts and hose issued by D. Gibbon. 2. Promoli & Hausburg Liverpool Stock: 43661 Printed by Maclure Macdonald & Macgregor 1, Brunswick St. Liverpool [n.d., c.1860s]. 7. William Darwent, Royal Hotel, Engraving with hand-colouring, sheet 250 x 325mm Dewsbury. (9¾ x 12¾"). £160 Yale sc Liverpool [c.1830] The factory, warehouse and retail outlet of Promoli & Engraving, sheet 80 x 85mm (3 x 3¼"). Trimmed. £40 Hausburg in the Old Post Office Buildings, Church Billhead for the Royal Hotel in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, Street, Liverpool. The company described itself in its with the royal coat of arms. advertising as "Jewellers Watchmakers Manufacturers Stock: 43243 of Desks Dressing Cases Lamps Chandeliers etc". A display of mantelpiece clocks and chandeliers can be 8. Samuel Draper, Bllue Lion Hotel & seen in the many windows; figures and carriages in the Commercial Inn. Market Place, Grantham. street in front of the imposing building. For Wine & Brandy Merchaant.Good Stables. uncoloured impression see ref. 20664. Stock: 43606 Comfortable and Well aiir'd Beds [...] Smith & Greaves, sc Birmingham [c.1830] 3. To the Worths and Independent Electors Engraving, sheet 115 x 95mm (4½ x 3¾"). £50 of the City of London... I have the honour to Billhead for a hotel in Grantham, Lincolnshire, with vignette of the building. be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble Stock: 43241 Servant William Ward. London, December 30, 1834. 9. Will.m Black, Bell & Swan. Hotel Letterpress. Sheet: 165 x 150mm (6½ x 6"). £70 Posting House. Melton. A handbill advertising financier and cricketer William [Engraver's name illlegible, c.1829] Ward's (1787-1849) standing for Parliament as MP for Engraving, sheet 70 x 100mm (2¾ x 4"). Trimmed. the City of London in the 1835 general election, he haad £45 served as MP for the City between 1826-1831. Ward Billhead for William Black, pproprietor of a hotel in was a successsful cricket player playing from 1810 until Melton, Leicestershire. 1845, Ward also saved Lord cricket ground from being Stock: 43228 sold by Thomas Lord in 1825 paying £5000 for the pitch. 10. Tho.s Fieldhouse, and Royal Sussex Hotel, Commercial Inn & Posting House 16. Margaret Sykes, George Hotel, Excise Newport, Salop. Neat Post-Chaises, Good Office Wakefield. Neat Wines and Spirits. Horses & careful Drivers Hearse and [c.1830] Mourning Coaches [...] Engraving, sheet 75 x 85mm (3 x 3¼"). £50 Powell & Wakeman, Birm.m [c.1820] Billhead for a hotel in Wakeffield, Yorkshire, with Engraving, sheet 120 x 90mm (4¾ x 3½"). £50 George and the Dragon vigneette. Billhead for the Royal Sussex Hotel in Newport, Stock: 43234 Shropshire, with lion vignette and list of distances to popular locations. 17. White Horse Hotell & Commercial Inn, Stock: 43252 Coppergate, York. C. Harker. Post Chaise, Cabs, Gigs, etc. 11. James Veitch, Newport, Shropshire. [c.1830] Crown Hotel, Wines & Spirits of the First Engraving, platemark 75 x 855mm (3 x 3¼"). £50 Quality. Excellent & Well Air'd Beds. Good Billhead for the White Horse hotel in York, with horse Stabling and Lock-up Coach Houses [...] vignette. Baldwin sc Birmm [c.1844] Stock: 43251 Etching, sheet 80 x 115mm (3 x 4½"). £60 Billhead for JJames Veitch, a hotelier based in Newport, Shropshire. Stock: 43216 12. Charles Osburn. Commercial Hotel, Oswestry. Fine old Wines and Spirits [c.1829] Etching, sheet 40 x 80mm (1½ x 3"). Cut. £30 Billhead for Charles Osburn, proprietor of a hotel in Oswestry, Shropshire. Stock: 43225 13. S. Wild, Star Hotel. Shiffnal. [c.1820] Engraving, sheet 60 x 100mm (2¼ x 4"). £35 Billhead for a hotel in Shifnal, Shropshire, with star vignette inscribed with the motto 'Honi soit qui mal y pense'. The hotel, one of three coaching inns in the town, was situated in the home in which the chemist and physician Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) had been born. It was destroyed following a fire in 1911. Stock: 43237 18. William Burn, George Inn & Post House, Alfreton. 14. C. Woosnam, Ship Hotel, Southend. Smith & Graves Birmingham. [c.1833] Licensed to Let Post Horses. Hot and Cold Etching, sheet 105 x 90mm ((4 x 3½"). £60 Baths. Billhead for William Burn, proprietor of a commercial [c.1860] inn and posting house in Alffrreton, Derbyshire, with Engraving, sheet 75 x 100mm (3 x 4"). Stained; surface George and the Dragon vigneette and list of distances to loss. £50 nearby towns. The inn was allso called the Angel at Billhead for Charles Woosnam, wine merchant and another time (see ref. 43250)). proprietor of the Ship Hotel in Southend, Essex, with Stock: 43222 vignette of a ship. Stock: 43247 19. William Burn, Angel Commercial Inn, Alfreton. 15. R. Brooks, Talbot Commercial Hotel, J.C. Greaves & Son Birm.m [c.1835] Family, Coaching & Posting House. Etching, sheet 105 x 90mm ((4 x 3½"). £45 Stourbridge. Billhead for William Burn, proprietor of a commercial Devonshire sc. Birmingham [c.1850] inn and posting house in Alffrreton, Derbyshire, with Engraving, sheet 80 x 110mm (3 x 4¼"). Trimmed; angel vignette and list of disttances to nearbr y towns. staining. £35 The inn was also called the George Inn at another time Billhead for a hotel in Stourbridge, near Dudley in thhe (see ref. 43222`). Midlands, with "Talbot" dog vignette. The hotel was Stock: 43250 situated at Colley Gate (more precisely in Halesowen). Stock: 43239 20. William Lucas, Three Tuns. Commerciial 26. Thomas Evinson, Angel. Commercial Inn and Posting House, Atherstone. Inn & Post House. Market Place, Chesterfield. [c.1820] Superior Old Wine [...] Engraving, sheet 85 x 85mm (3¼ x 3¼"). Trimmed. Holland sc. Birm. [c.1820] £45 Engraving, sheet 70 x 90mm (2¾ x 3½"). £50 Billhead for an inn in Atherstone, Warwickshire, with Billhead for a commercial inn and coach house in vignette of three tuns. Henry Tudor is believed to have Chesterfield, with angel vignette. The Angel later stayed at the inn in 1485; a pub of the same name is moved from the Market Placce to the High Street, where still in the town to this day. it closed in 1915. Stock: 43240 Stock: 43233 21. R. East's, Commercial Inn & Posting 27. John Hall. Castle Inn. Coventry House, Bawtry. Coaches daily to all parts of [c.1850] the Kingdom. Careful Drivers & Good Horsees Engraving, sheet 70 x 90mm (2¾ x 3½"). Stained. £35 [...] Billhead for the Castle Inn in Coventry, with vignette Isbas sc. Birm.m [c.1830] of a castle. In 1824 the Castle Inn was the meeting Engraving, sheet 65 x 90mm (2½ x 3½"). Nick out of pllace of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Warwickshire top edge. £30 (Freemasons), while Charless Dickens was honoured Billhead for a commercial inn and coach house in with a celebratory dinner theere in 1858. It closed in Bawtry, Yorkshire. 1882. Stock: 43231 Stock: 43242 22. John Tomkys, Kings Arms Commercial 28. Robert Bland, Crown Inn Denbigh. Neat Inn. Bilston Post Chaises, Gigs, Cars,, and Careful Drivers. Whitefield scr Birm.m [c.1800] Lock up Coach Houses [....] Etching, sheet 85 x 90mm (3¼ x 3½"). Old ms sums [c.1830] lower left. £40 Engraving, sheet 60 x 100mm (2¼ x 4"). £45 Billhead for JJohn Tomkys, innkeeper in Bilston, near Billhead for Robert Bland, prroprietor of a commercial Wolverhampton. An 1818 commercial directory lists a inn in Denbigh, Wales. japanner (japanning is a type of finish, based on Asian Stock: 43230 lacquerwork, applied to furniture) named John Tomkys as situated on Church Street, Bilston.