Grosvenor Prints CATALOGUE for the ABA FAIR 2008
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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 FOR THE ABA FAIR 2008 Arts 1 – 5 Books & Ephemera 6 – 119 Decorative 120 – 155 Dogs 156 – 161 Historical, Social & Political 162 – 166 London 167 – 209 Modern Etchings 210 – 226 Natural History 227 – 233 Naval & Military 234 – 269 Portraits 270 – 448 Satire 449 – 602 Science, Trades & Industry 603 – 640 Sports & Pastimes 641 – 660 Foreign Topography 661 – 814 UK Topography 805 - 846 Registered in England No. 1305630 Registered Office: 2, Castle Business Village, Station Road, Hampton, Middlesex. TW12 2BX. Rainbrook Ltd. Directors: N.C. Talbot. T.D.M. Rayment. C.E. Ellis. E&OE VAT No. 217 6907 49 GROSVENOR PRINTS Catalogue of new stock released in conjunction with the ABA Fair 2008. In shop from noon 3rd June, 2008 and at Olympia opening 5th June. Established by Nigel Talbot in 1976, we have built up the United Kingdom’s largest stock of prints from the 17th to early 20th centuries. Well known for our topographical views, portraits, sporting and decorative subjects, we pride ourselves on being able to cater for almost every taste, no matter how obscure. We hope you enjoy this catalogue put together for this years’ Antiquarian Book Fair. Our largest ever catalogue contains over 800 items, many rare, interesting and unique images. We have also been lucky to purchase a very large stock of theatrical prints from the Estate of Alec Clunes, a well known actor, dealer and collector from the 1950’s and 60’s. Most of these items are uncatalogued, so a visit to the gallery would be recommended. Please browse our new dynamic website of over 4,000 illustrated items (www.grosvenorprints.com) where the catalogue will be fully illustrated in sections by downloading a printable “pdf” file or simply search by stock number online. Better still, come and visit our Covent Garden shop, situated in the heart of London’s West End. We look forward to welcoming you. Finally, I would like to dedicate this 2008 ABA Catalogue to Freddie Strasser and Francois Girand who in the early days of Grosvenor Prints freely gave advice, financial support and convivial company. This catalogue will be illustrated in full on our website www.grosvenorprints.com THE ARTS This is traditionally said to be a portrait of the street entertainer and ballad singer James Laroche (1696 - 1713; 1. Les Quatre Mendians. No. 1. £140 fl.). It is probably a plate republished by John Smith, and L.F. C.N. A Paris, chez Bance Ainé, Rue S.t Denis, No was perhaps first issued by Isaac Beckett. After the Dutch 175. Coloured engraving. 175 x 220mm. Four beggars, painter Egbert van Heemskerck (1645 - 1704). with a violin & cello. A fine impression with full margins. Russell: undescribed. Stock no: 6929 Chaloner Smith: undescribed. Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes. 2. [Pianos] Piano! 2 __"Peti....tefleue... ...deschamps Stock no: 7791 / Toujoue. ...toujoue....cachee...." .Masques Et Visages. £75 BOOKS & EPHEMERA Par Garvani. Imp. Lemercier a Paris. Libraire Nouvelle 15 Boult des Italiens [n.d., c.1860]. Lithograph, sheet 265 x 6. [Four sheets relating to Monaco: two concert 260mm. Occasional foxing. A vibrant rendering of a programmes for the Casino de Monaco; an admission pianist from the book first published in 1857, 'Masques Et ticket for one of those concerts; & a programme for a Visages' by Paul Garvani. pigeon shoot.] £230 Stock no: 7421 [Three dated 1874.] Three laid on album paper. Stock no: 7000 3. Arlequin - Rich 1753. £60 London, Published 7 August 1818, by Robert Wilkinson, 7. Funeral of Viscount Palmerston. Admission 125, Fenchurch Street. Etching, 272 x 214mm. Some Ticket for Choir. Westminster Abbey, Friday, October foxing and staining. A harlequin, very similar to a 27th, 1865. The Ceremony commences at One o'Clock representation of actor Evaristo Gherardi as 'Arlequin', precisely. ["South Door" added in ink mss.] £80 with club in left hand, in an 1696 etching published by Letterpress on black-bordered card, with wax seal. Henry Jean Mariette. Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes. John Temple (1784-1865), 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Stock no: 7822 served twice as Prime Minister. He was in government office almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 4. Hr. Raimund und Dlle. Dielen Valentin als Rosa 1865, beginning his parliamentary career as a Tory and in dem Original= Faubermahrchen der Verschrvender. concluding it as a Liberal. £45 Against his wishes he was buried at Westminster Abbey, Schoeller. del. And Geiger sc. Zu haben im Bureau der the third non-royal to be granted a state funeral. Theaterzeitung, Wollzeil No. 780. 2l. Stock [Vienna, n.d., Stock no: 7001 c.1840s.] Coloured etching, 221 x 151mm. Two well known Austrian actors in a scene from a play about a 8. Admit one Person at the West Door of the carpenter, from a theatrical series by Johann Christian Cathedral, on Thursday, the 4th of June 1835, when a Schoeller (1782 - 1851). This painter and drughtsman was Sermon will be preached by The Right Reverend born in Alsace, trained in Munich, and from 1815 worked Robert James, Lord Bishop of Worcester. £60 in Vienna. He made numerous caricature designs. Wood engraved scrap. Image 105 x 180mm. Trimmed and Inscribed 'Costume Bilder zur Theaterzeitung. No. 16.' laid on album paper. Robert James Carr (1774-1841). Carr above image. was the prelate who attended George IV during his last Stock no: 7784 illness. Stock no: 7002 9. Ceremony of Opening. The Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences, On Wednesday, 29th March, 1871, by Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. Balcony. Block N - Seat 871. £140 Sheet 100 x 125mm, laid on album paper with postcard of the Royal Albert Hall. After a welcoming speech by Edward, the Prince of Wales, Queen Victoria was too overcome to speak, so the Prince had to announce that "The Queen declares this Hall is now open". A concert followed, when the Hall's acoustic problems became immediately apparent. Because of the notorious echo it was said that the hall was the only place where a British composer could be sure of hearing his work twice. Stock no: 7009 10. To the Police. Pass the Carriage. Thanksgiving 5. O Rare Show £490 Day. State Visit to St. Paul's. Tuesday, 27th day of HKerk pinx. I. Smith ex: [n.d., c.1690.] Mezzotint, 304 x February, 1872. E.Y.W. Henderson [signature] The 225mm. Light foxing. A male entertainer displays an open Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. Balcony. hinged cabinet, depicting a variety of scenes in panels, and Block N - Seat 871. £75 which is resting on a stool. A group of six children observe Two passes, 90 x 125mm & 85mm in diameter. Laid on the show; in the background part of a fireplace is visible. album paper. An eye witness, Sir Wemyss Reid (1842-85) wrote: "The announcement that the Queen proposed to Eglinton's personal guests, was stranded without attend St. Paul's Cathedral in state to return thanks for the transportation.] They had to walk miles through the rain recovery of her eldest son [later King Edward VII] touched and the mud to nearby villages, where only the first people the heart of the nation afresh, and evoked the first great found any food, drink, accommodation or transport. popular demonstration of loyalty that had been witnessed Amongst the participants was the future Napoleon III of since the early days of the reign. I was present in the France. Cathedral at that solemn and stately service on the 27th Stock no: 7177 February, 1872, the precursor of the still more stately service held at Westminster on the 21st June, 1887. Except 14. Anglesey Volunteer Song. £95 on the occasion of the Jubilee of the last-mentioned year, Amlwch, Printed by Tho. Cowburne [n.d., c.1800.] and of that of 1897, London has never witnessed a more Letterpress broadsheet, 270 x 170mm. Some wear. Sung to remarkable outburst of loyal enthusiasm. At night the the tune of "The Vicar of Bray" whole town was illuminated, St. Paul's Cathedral being Stock no: 7194 lighted up after the fashion of St. Peter's at Rome on Easter Day. The crowds which filled the streets were enormous, and as the London police had not then acquired the art of marshalling vast multitudes, there was terrible crushing, and several lives were lost. Three persons were suffocated at Temple Bar, which was already marked for removal. I myself had the narrowest escape from death on Ludgate Hill, where the multitude was packed in one dense, immovable mass for hours. The people in the houses on the hill passed down water in buckets to the fainting crowd, and now and then some woman or child was positively hauled out of it by ropes, and thus placed in safety. It was not a sight that could ever be forgotten, and it impressed forcibly upon one's mind the strength of the hold which the monarch has upon the hearts of the people of this country". Stock no: 7010 15. [Ballet] Lydia Lopokova. A Book of Camera 11. [Programmes] Banda Cittadina in Caffè del Portraits Together with a Portrait on Sanguine by Giardino Reale. Programma dei pezzi Musicalli... £130 Glyn Philpot. £130 [1874.] 155 x 105mm, stuck in album sheet. Scrap sheet London: C.W.Beaumont. 75 Charing Cross Road, 1922. with two Concert Progammes & five Italian & French De Luxe edition, no 79 of 80 printed on Japanese vellum, hotel letterheads, collected by Mr Ponsonby.