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First editions of Ancient Topography of London Containing Not Only Views of Buildings, Which in Many instances No Longer Exist, and For the Most Part Were Never Before Published, but Some Account of the Places and Customs Either Unknown, or Overlooked by the London Historians and Vagabondiana, or Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers throught the Streets of London bound together in one volume. Ancient Topography of London, published at 4 Chandos Street, Covent Garden, London, 1815. Complete with 33 fine etchings by Smith from his own drawings, of buildings and interiors around London, plus frontispiece with hand-coloured heraldic devices of London guilds.Begun October 24 1810 (date of hand-coloured frontispiece) and completed in 1815 (date of title page). It was originally intended as "an additional accompaniment to Thomas Pennant's Some Account of London." Now valued for its detailed architectural drawings of Norman, medieval and Tudor buildings, many of which were already ruins or to be demolished in…
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Ancient Topography of London [bound with] Vagabondiana: Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers
by John Thomas Smith
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Antiquities of London and its Environs: Containing views of houses, monuments, statues and other curious remains of Antiquity
by John Thomas Smith
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Collection of 96 engraved plates by Smith after original drawings by members of the Society of Antiquaries. Engraved title-page and 96 plates, of which 3 tinted (One duplicated plate bound in.) Plates include portraits of King Lud, King Richard II, King James I, Sir Thomas Gresham, William Earl of Craven, historian John Stowe, famous London buildings such as Bruce Castle, Sion College, Lincoln's Inn Gate, Bloody Tower, Newgate, Savoy Prison, Lollards Prison, old Tudor houses, ruins, gravestones, etc. The engraver John Thomas Smith was Keeper of Drawings at the British Museum, and this series of prints earned him the nickname Antiquity Smith.Condition: Leather spine with five-raised bands and gilt lettering, marble boards, scuffed and worn. Engraved plates mostly clean and bright with slight spotting and foxing to a few. Damp stain to lower edge of first 15 plates outside the plate area.
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Old London Views and Maps: Many from William Thornton's New, Complete and Universal History of the City of London, 1784
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Scrapbook of copperplate engravings of London views and maps, mostly from the 18th century compiled by a Victorian lady.Title Old London Views and Maps in manuscript within an engraved border mounted on card, plus 74 views and two maps mounted on card. An interesting collection of views of famous London sites including St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Guildhall, Greys Hospital, the statue of a chained lunatic at Bedlam Hospital, a Lambeth pub circa 1830, Charles Hughes' equestrian circus and riding school in Southwark, Dulwich College, actor David Garrick's house with its Temple of Shakespeare, and many more fascinating places.Many bucolic landscapes of London suburbs along the Thames, taking in Kew, Richmond, Putney, Chelsea, Clapham, Hackney, Deptford and Gravesend. Large fold-out hand-coloured copperplate map of the city of London and county of Middlesex by Johannes Blaeu from Geographiae Volumen Quintum quo Angliae, Amsterdam, 1662, and another of London in the Anglo-Saxon era, circa 1000…
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[Some Account] of London
by Thomas Pennant
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Good copy of the rather scarce revised edition of Thomas Pennant's eccentric history of London with 54 pages of revisions and corrections.Complete with 15 copperplates by Pennant's protege Moses Griffiths, engraved by James Basire and Peter Mazell. The plates include a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I's champion Sir Henry Lee and his dog (frontispiece), vignette of crown, sceptre and sword (title page), Robert Earl of Leicester in suit of armour (98), the Palace of Whitehall (100), Old Horse Guards (103), Savoy Hospital (136), remains of Clerkenwell Church (191), St John's Gate (193), King Charles !'s porter and dwarf (218), sculpture in Pannier Alley (219), fold-out view of a crenellated wall and gate (Aldergate?) (221), Queen Elizabeth I's spy Sir Richard Clough (389), fold--out View of Part of London as it appeared in the Great Fire of 1666 (479), portrait of King Charles I (second frontis), and fold-out Map of London and Westminster in the reign of Queen Elizabeth AD 1563 (479).Pagination: frontis,…
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Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
by Joseph Strutt, William Hone
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Very good + copy of Strutt's classic study of medieval English games, sports, festival recreations and performances. First published in 1801 and reprinted many times in both quarto and octavo editions. First quarto edition with hand-coloured lithographs of the annotated edition by William Hone of 1830.Profusely illustrated with charming figures excerpted from illuminated manuscripts in the British Museum, the Bodleian, Harleian and Royal libraries, etc.Joseph Strutt (1749-1802) was an English engraver, artist, antiquary and writer famous for his work on the history of English costume and sports.William Hone (1780-1842), was an English writer, satirist and bookseller.Contains all forms of mental and physical recreation, from archery to bell-ringing, football to apple-bobbing, chess to bear-baiting, acrobatics to golf, jousting to gambling, opera to maypole dancing.With 140 b/w engravings in the text, and the same 140 illustrations reproduced on 40 finely hand-coloured, lithographed plates (frontispiece…
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Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
by Joseph Strutt, William Hone
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Very good copy of Strutt's classic study of medieval English games, sports, festival recreations and performances. With 140 hand-coloured engravings in the text.First published in quarto in 1801, this is the third edition and first in octavo, with index and notes by William Hone, published in 1830.Profusely illustrated with examples from illuminated manuscripts in the British Museum, the Bodleian, Harleian and Royal libraries, etc.Contains all forms of intellectual and physical games, from archery to bell-ringing, football to apple-bobbing, chess to bear-baiting, acrobatics to golf, jousting to gambling, opera to maypole dancing.Joseph Strutt (1749-1802) was an English engraver, artist, antiquary and writer famous for his work on the history of English costume and sports.Red library cloth binding with gilt title on spine, ink stamp on rear of title page, solid text block, interior fresh with delicate hand-colour on the engravings.
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Sports et Jeux d'Adresse: Sports and Games of Skill
by Henry Rene d'Allemagne
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Very good copy of Henry Rene d'Allemagne's classic history of sports and games of skill.With 100 lithographic and heliogravure plates (30 hand-coloured, many tinted) and 328 illustrations in the text. Games described include hoops, kite-flying, stilt-walking, spinning tops, hide-and-seek, darts, archery, carousels, bilboquet (cup and ball), the diabolo (Chinese yo-yo), tennis, golf, billiards, boules or petanque, wrestling, dancing, gymnastics, acrobatics, etc. The illustrations are facsimile heliogravures of ancient illuminated manuscripts, engravings, woodcuts and prints from the medieval era to the 19th century.Text in French.Henry-Rene d'Allemagne (1863-1950), was librarian at the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal in Paris, an archivist, historian and specialist in decorative arts. He published books on many unusual subjects such as games, ancient locksmithing, illumination, playing cards, etc.Some browning to the decorative colour pictorial boards, t.e.g., marble endpapers, interior clean and bright with…
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