Catalogue Part 1.pdf - Grosvenor Prints

surrounded by military standards bearing the names of
major battles at the centre.
Numbered 'No.12' in ink upper left, priced '£1,,1,,0'
lower left.
Ref: 9261
91. The Charters Of Liberty. A.D.
1215.../ A.D. 1688.../ A.D. 1832...
Portsmouth, Aug. 8, 1832. Henry Slight. Price, Printer.
Letterpress broadside with woodcut vignette of trumpet
and lyre, 230 x 175mm. 9 x 7". Lower right corner
missing. Glue stain from verso, horizontal creases
where folded. £90
A very rare contemporary poem in praise of the Great
Reform Act (passed 7th June 1832) divided into three
eight-line stanzas, with two other great dates/moments
in the progress of English liberty singled out. The
events alluded to are the signing of Magna Charta in
1215, and the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688.
Ref: 9313
92. This Day was published, by
Subscription, [Price 10s.6d. in Colours, or
5s.6d. Plain] An Engraving, From an
Original Drawing, takedn and coloured on
the Spot, by W.Fowler, From the curious
Roman Pavement in Prior Crawden's
beautiful Chapel, in the College at Ely.
M.Watson, Printer, Angel-Inn-Yard, Market Hill,
Cambridge. Winterton, Lincolnshire, May 20, 1801.
Letterpress advert. Sheet 255 x 200mm, 10 x 8". £90
Fowler published the 'Mosaic Pavements of Great
Britain', 1804.
Ref: 9219
93. To The King. I Humbly beg leave to
lay at Your Majesty's feet the folllowing
Dissertation.... May it please Your
Majesty, Your Majesty's dutiful servant
and faithful subject, William Chambers.
[n.d., 1772.]
Titlepage, engraved dedication with stipple engraved
and etched vignette, 235 x 175mm. 9¼ x 7". £80
From 'A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening', W.
Griffin, London, 1772. The book represented an
unfortunate literary venture by the architect Sir
William Chambers (1726 - 1796), in which he
endeavoured to prove the superiority of the Chinese
system of landscape gardening over that practised in
Europe. His preface is animated with irritation against
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, whose design for Lord
Clive's villa at Claremont had been preferred to his.
The ‘Dissertation’ itself, with its absurd depreciation of
nature, its bombastic style, and its ridiculous
descriptions (mainly borrowed from other works) of
the gardens of the emperor of China, was sufficient to
account for the satires which it called into life. The
most important of these was ‘An Heroic Epistle to Sir
W. C.,’ followed by ‘An Heroic Postscript’ to this
epistle, in both of which the satire was keen and the
verses pointed. These lively pieces were published
anonymously, and their authorship was for some time a
matter for conjecture. There is now no doubt that they
were by William Mason, the poet, the first book of
whose ‘English Garden’ was published in 1772.
Chambers commenced to exhibit with the Society of
Artists (in Spring Gardens) in 1761, and was one of the
first members and the first treasurer of the Royal
Academy when established in 1768. In 1775 he was
appointed architect of Somerset House at a salary of
2,000l. a year.
With image above of two sides of a coin depicting
George III as a Roman emperor and the facade of the
Royal Academy. After Cipriani, engraved by
Bartolozzi.
British Library system number: 000655477.
Ref: 9314
94. [Various modes of travelling.]
Milton Welch Jan.y 1867.
Engraving on embossed card, 140 x 165mm. 5½ x 6½".
Mounted inside cardboard sheet with tissue flap. £120
Small engravings depicting seven modes of transport
(balloon, walking, horse-drawn carriage, ship, horse,
train, riding on the back of a tortoise]) forming a cross
shape in the centre of a sheet of embossed card. In ink
on the cardboard mount is written 'these various modes
of travelling are drawn by the left hand. J.M.'. On the
reverse is a riddle, handwritten in ink, entitled 'The
Oxford Puzzle.'
Ref: 8695
95. The Ghost. _ A Christmas Frolic. Le
Revenant.
I.M.Wright pinxt. W.Nicholls sculp. London: Pub.
Decr. 24, 18_by Thomas Rickards, 344, Strand.
Aquatint. 394 x 436mm. 15½" x 17¼". Very rare.
Some tears, staining and worm holes. £220
A witty christmas scare scene. Young boy behind a
home mad ghost figure.
Ref: 8520
96. The Art of Making Paper Flowers
and Ornaments. A Novel, and
Entertaining, and Popular Amusement.
[n.d., c.1860.]