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 71 ABA Listing Item 143: A rare pair of rhymed rebuses 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 1. [Ruins of Rome.] The Temple of 4. A Representation of the Carved Work on Hercules. Sibylls Temple. The Arches of an the West side of the Pedastal of the Monument Antient Rome Aqueduct. Temple of Fortuna of London. Viritis. The Antique Vase at the Villa Borgese. Sold by Iohn Bowles oppositte to Stocks, Market & at Gio: Paolo Pannini Pinx.t. J.S. Muller Sc. Publish'd Mercers Hall in Cheapside. [[n.d., c.1676.] according to Act of Parliament 1st Feb.ry 1753. A fine and rare engraving. Pllate: 440 x 525mm (17½ x London Printed for T. Bowles, John Bowles & Son, 20¾"). Trimmed and central fold. £360 Rob.t Sayer in Fleet Street. An engraving of the carving at the base of the pedestal Etching. Sheet 340 x 475mm (13¼ x 18¾"). Trimmed of the Monument of London built to commemorate the within plate, repaired tears to edges. £140 Great Fire in 1666. The carviing was done by sculptor A caprice composite of ruins from the Roman age set Caius Gabriel Cibber and shows the destruction of the in a landscape. The aqueduct resembles the Pont du city with Charles II and his brother James going to the Gard in southern France. See BM 1949,1008.192 for aid of the City of London, reeppresented by a young example with additional publisher Henry Overton. woman fallen on the floor. Shhe is being helped by Stock: 44048 allegorical figures of the citizens, manual arts, and time. A key below identifies the figures. 2. Cataalogue de la Librarie, Estampes et Stock: 44923 Estampes et autres Articles de fond de Frédéric Wilmans. Libraire, éditeur et marchand 5. In Red Jasper. In the possession of his d'estampes. Zeil, Lett. D. No. 188. Higness the Duke of Odescalchi [parallel text Francfort sur Mein, 1829. in Italian, Latin and Frennch] A very rare, unopened, letterpress booklet. 135 x WMatthews sc. [c.1800] 230mm (5¼ x 9"). Light foxing and creases. £130 Stipple engraving, platemark 60 x 70mm (2¼ x 2¾") A sales catalogue listing the items from the collection very large margins. £65 of librarian, printseller and editor Frédéric Wilmans. Representation of a curious cameo in jasperware, The collection contains manuals, dictionaries, maps, showing three conjoined heaads (one of which is an German and Swiss views, drawings and embroidery elephant) from the collection of the duke of designs and items are listed in both French and Odescalchi. Stock: 44492 German. Stock: 44674 6. [Set of four rural scenes, frontis titled 'Cottages'] London Pub.d June 28 1785 by F Jukes Howland St [all plates] Four aquatints printed in seppiia and with original stitching; platemarks all apprrox. 140 x 170mm (5½ x 6¾") large margins. First plate inscribed 'J. Sturges' in old ms. £220 Set of four aquatints published by Francis Jukes (1745- 182), one of the first British aartists to exploit the medium (which he is said to have learned from Paul Sandby). These are examples of the many picturesque landscapes (of the variety favoured by the Revd William Gilpin) which Jukes produced. Stock: 44481 7. [Landscape Gardening] 3. Rules for drawing Caricaturas: with an H. Repton Esq. del. J.C. Stadler sculpt. [c.1800] Essay on Comic Painting Aquatint, platemark approx. 505 x 345mm (20 x by Francis Grose, Esq. F.R.S. and A.S.q London: 13½"). Several tears. Damaged bottom left. £350 Printed for Samuel Bagster, in the Strand [1788] Fine image representative off landscape gardening by Book, 8vo, 24pp with four plates and frontispiece one of its pioneers, Humphry Repton (1752-1818), and portrait of Grose. With original wrappers but in poossibly published as the froonntispiece to one of his modern bindding; rare. Extensive annotation in ms and many books. Two passages of text, one from Edmund pencil sketches. £580 Burke on the Sublime, together claim that gardens are Book of instruction on drawing caricatures by the works of art rather than naturre, and can only become antiquary Francis Grose (bap.1731-d.1791), with great by availing themselves of the resources of portrait of Grose after the chalk drawing of him by deception and artifice characteristic of art. Nathaniel Dance (Scottish National Portrait Gallery).. Repton was the last great Enngglish landscape designer of Stock: 44840 the 18th century, who coined the term 'landscape gardener'. Regarded as the successor to Capability Brown, he worked at Blaise CCastle, Woburn Abbey, Stoneleigh Abbey & the centtral gardens in Russell Square, but lost out on the Prince Regent's Brighton 10. [Set of Twelve Months.] Pavilion to John Nash (although he published his [1864.] designs). Set of 12 coloured woodblock engravings. Each sheet: Stock: 44019 100 x 155mm (4 x 6"). Slightly damaged. £280 A set of comic and satirical scenes, with poetry, 8. Shakespeare Nursed by Tragedy and illustrating the twelve months with scenes from Comedy. Engraved from the Original Picture Victorian life. Painted by Geo. Romney Esq.r In the Stock: 44675 Possession of Francis Newbery, Esq.r. Painted by G. Romney Esq.r. Engraved by B. Smith. 11. The Five Senses London Pub Dec.r 1st 1803 by J. & J. Boydell, at the London, Darton & Hodge Holborn Hill [c.1830] Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mallm & No 90 Cheapside. Engraving, platemark 330 x 4410mm (13 x 16¼"). Stipple. 320 x 420mm (12½ x 16½"). Trimmed to Repaired tears to top and botttom edges, slight crease. plate, top right corner torn, bit messy in margins. £160 Cut to platemark. £240 The infant Shakespeare sitting on a basket covered by a Busy scene in which figures demonstrate the use of sheet beneath a tree, Tragedy holding a pipe which he each of the five senses. A rare item. plays. The smiling Comedy is Emma Hamilton, Stock: 44113 Romney's muse, wife of Sir William Hamilton and lover of Horatio Nelson. 12. Come child of misfortune-come hither. Stock: 44285 Moore. [n.d., c.1830.] Etching. Sheet: 150 x 120mm (6 x 4¾"). Trimmed and laid on an album sheet. £60 A comic scene in which a wiild looking child covers from a schoolmaster who is going to beat him. The title comes from Thomas Moore's poem 'Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded' Stock: 44688 13. The Park House School. Ipswich, Suffolk. Principal M.r J.. Kimmance. Relfe Brothers, 50 Aldersgatte Street, London. [n.d., c.1830.] Lithograph, rare. Sheet: 210 x 270mm (8¼ x 10¾"). Marks in title area. £160 A bird's-eye view of a schooll in Ipswich showing children playing in a large pllayground behind the school building. Stock: 44577 14. [Peckwater Quadrangle] The North Prospect of the New Quadrangle of Christ Church in Oxford. [engraved by Jan Kip.] [London: John Smith, c.1710.] Engraving. 480 x 595mm (19 x 23½"). Several 9. Peacee. Fair Peace! how lovely, how repaired tears. Damaged. Cuut inside platemark. £230 delightful thou!... To the Hon.ble Directors of Elevations of the buildings on three sides of the the Foundation of Lady Duits of Voorhout Quadrangle (known as 'Peckk''), the fourth side, now Baroness of Rheede, Dowager of Renswoude, Christ Church Library, shown as a floorplan only. At &c. &c. at Utrecht, This Plate is, with the time of publication the quad, designed by Henry Permission, Dedicated by their most obliged & Aldrich and built by William Townesend, was under humble servant, C. Josi. construction. From the third volume of 'Britannia Designed, Engraved & Published by C. Josi, London, Illustrata'. the 1st pf Sept.r 1802. Amsterdam Published by C. Stock: 44534 Josi. Stipple, rare. Plate: 600 x 420mm (23½ x 16½") very 15. [Peckwater Quadrangle] The South large marginns. Staining in margins. £360 Prospect of the New Quadrangle of Christ An allegorical view of Peace holding a flowering Church in Oxford. branch while the figure of Merucury and a cherub holld [engraved by Jan Kip.] [London: John Smith, c.1710.] a cornucopia showering gold. The peace refers to the Engraving. 480 x 595mm (19 x 23½") very large Peace of Amiens signed in 1802 margins. Centre fold, as issueed, some creasing. £220 Stock: 44819 Elevations of the buildings on three sides of the Quadrangle (known as 'Peckk''), the fourth shown as a floorplan only. At the time of publication the quad, 18. Southwell Bazaar. designed by Henry Aldrich and built by William S. and J. Ridge, Printers. [n.d., c.1820.] Townesend, was under construction. Christ Church Letterpress. Ink crosses out "and" in verse. Sheet 275 Library, on the south side, was built later, not as shown x 200mm (10¾ x 8"). Slight foxing. £65 here. An flyer advertising a fancy goods bazaar with a verse From the third volume of 'Britannia Illustrata'. listing the goods available. Stock: 44452 Stock: 44565 19. [Coal Merchant's Invoice.] Bo.t of James Waldie Coal & Coke Merchant, Agent by Special Appointment to Haswell Coal Co. Sunderland, Cuttlehill and Halbeath Collieries Fifeshire. Allanton Verttue Colliers Wishaw, Balquhatstone Collieriess Slamannam. John Z. Mein Sc. Edin.r. [Dated mss. 1860.] Letterpress invoice with manuscript and engraved vignettes. Sheet: 210 x 125mm (8¼ x 5"). Creases and some staining. £60 Stock: 44716 20.