Auction No 421, Category: Prints

7 Lots (displaying 1 - 7)

Printers' Devices, Emblems, Head and Tailpieces, c.1650-1750, a selection laid down on old album pages; mostly 17th Century wood-engravings,

Lot: 12

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
SOLD £50
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Printers' Devices, Emblems, Head and Tailpieces, c.1650-1750, a selection laid down on old album pages; mostly 17th Century wood-engravings, some later on copper, the album pages with some foxing also affecting three of the woodcuts. One endorsed in pencil 1657, another Venice 1736. Between 4.3 x 7.2cm and 18.5 x 16.3cm. (23)

Box with many steel and copper engravings from 17th Century, mostly topographical, plus some wood engravings and few 1920s etchings.

Lot: 19

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
UNSOLD
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Box with many steel and copper engravings from 17th Century, mostly topographical, plus some wood engravings and few 1920s etchings. Mixed condition. (145)       

W.T. Fitzgerald "An Independent Tribute to the Memory of The Right Hon. William Pitt", 1806, a broadside, engraved by Edward Orme,

Lot: 59

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £105
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W.T. Fitzgerald An Independent Tribute to the Memory of The Right Hon. William Pitt, 1806, a broadside, engraved by Edward Orme, 49.5 x 35.3cm; portrait copper engraving with plate-marks visible, letterpress border and text; some light soiling especially to the upper margin which has two small tears at the periphery; lower margin has small slit from worming. A scarce broadside.

William Hamilton "St. Lucia in the West Indies taken Possession of by Admiral Barrington, Monsieur de Micoud and the Inhabitants having Capitulated

Lot: 66

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £20
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William Hamilton St. Lucia in the West Indies taken Possession of by Admiral Barrington, Monsieur de Micoud and the Inhabitants having Capitulated the 30th of December 1778, being the day after Count d'Estaign left the Island much disconcerted. Alex Hogg, 1783, copper engraving on watermarked paper of the period; some light creasing to lower margin and few minor fox marks o/w VG. Prepared for the 1783 edition of Edward Barnard's History of England. 31.5 x 21cm.

[James Caulfield] "Memoirs of the Celebrated Persons composing the Kit-Kat Club; with a prefatory account of the Origin of the Association

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £20
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[James Caulfield] Memoirs of the Celebrated Persons composing the Kit-Kat Club; with a prefatory account of the Origin of the Association: illustrated with Forty-Eight Portraits, from the Original Paintings by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Hurst, Robinson & Co, 1821; tall 4to. Complete with 48 fine steel-engraved plates, clean internally; full red leather, gilt, some wear, probably re-backed, hinging weak, strengthened with leather strips; ex-library, bookplate removed, blind-stamps to the plate margins. Repairs to two preliminary leaves.

[Walter Scott] "Six Engravings in Illustration of The Antiquary for Members of The Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland", 1867

Lot: 112

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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[Walter Scott] Six Engravings in Illustration of The Antiquary for Members of The Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, 1867, folio, original gilt cloth, together with seven companion volumes issued 1868-78, similarly bound, each with six engravings for The Lady of the Lake, Old Mortality, The Pirate, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Bride of Lammermoor, A Legend of Montrose, and The Fair Maid of Perth. Browning to first plate of Lady of the Lake o/w clean throughout with all text and tissue-guards. Front cover of Fair Maid of Perth slightly stained. (8)    

James Andrews (botanical artist, 1801-76): A selection of six botanical prints, hand-coloured lithographs, each initialled ‘J.A.' in the plate,

Lot: 115

  • Auction Date: Wed 25th Oct 2023 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £150
SOLD £100
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James Andrews (botanical artist, 1801-76): A selection of six botanical prints, hand-coloured lithographs, each initialled ‘J.A.' in the plate, the lithographs by J.R. Jobbins; in sunken card mounts; image sizes 19.2 x 12.6cm; fine. (6)