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4. The Grand NationalJubilee, 1814. Hand-colouredetching, text including titleand date throughout image,inscribed, signed and datedby a Henry Hollinshed in inkon centre of image, 44.8 x34.7cm (image). Stains, foxing,discolouration, creases, slighttears, tipped to old backing. $660Text continues “August 1st, 1814.A correct view of the revolvingTemple of Concord as it appear’din the Green Park on the night ofthe Grand Jubilee. The balloonascending with Mr Sadler Jun’r.Besieging the Castle. Sham fight on the Serpentine. Jubilee fair inHyde Park. The bridge and pagoda erected in commemoration of thepeace. Printed and publish’d by Langley & Belch, 173 Borough, London.”Inscription includes “Our present time should be dealt out with great caresince we cannot secure a moment to come, nor recall one that is past…Christmas, 1814.”7. [Story Of A Dance], c1840s. Pen andink, captions throughout image, 21.6 x 36.4cm.Old folds, creases, tears and foxing overall,pinholes to edges, tape verso. $880Captions above the stick figure drawings evokevarious scenes and stages of a formal dance,beginning with “A brilliant assembly. An introduction.How d’you do? Vastly glad to see you. What abeautiful dress. Who’s that, a fine creature, faith!Waiting to be asked to dance…” and progressing tovarious dances, conversations, and departure.8. [Child With A GuardianAngel], c1850s. Pinprick drawing,28 x 20.2cm. Foxing, stains to rightedge, crease to lower right corner,tipped to original backing. $9905. After Françoise Boucher(French, 1703-1770). PanneauxDu Boudoir De La MarquiseDe Pompadour Au Chateau DeCrécy, c1820. Five lithographs,each with text including panelnumber, artist’s name and titleabove and below image, sizesfrom 34.7 x 11.4cm to 35.4 x14.3cm. Slight foxing overall,some with minor tears to edges,mounted together. $1,100Text in French includes “Lith. ParHaguental & Fagonde. Imp. d’Aubert& Cie.” Depicts scenes of children infive images reduced to one sevenththe size of the original panels inMadame de Pompadour’s bedroom.9. Will-O’-The-Wisp, c1850s. Hand-colouredmezzo tint and etching with gum arabic highlights,titled in plate below image, 11.5 x 14.2cm (image).Minor soiling to margins, paper remnants verso. $660In folklore will-o’-the-wisp are atmospheric ghostlights seen by travellers at night, especially over bogs,swamps or marshes.6. Isaac Shaw (Brit., active 1830s). A NewAnd Complete Work Of The Liverpool AndManchester Railway, 1831. Soft-cover letterpressbook including four engravings on chine collé, 22pages, title, engraver and date on cover and titlepages, 39.8 x 28.5cm. Slight foxing and soiling tocover and most pages, wear to edges and spine, . $1,100Text on cover continues “Comprising the mostinteresting views on the line of railway andevery object of public interest connected withit. Part 1, India Proofs, 8s, 6d. From drawingstaken on the spot, expressly for this work, andengraved by I. Shaw, Late of Soho Square,London. Liverpool: published by I. Shaw, PostOffice Place; and Grundy & Fox, Exchange St,Manchester. MDCCCXXXI. Printed by W.R.Knipe, 110 St James’ Street, Liverpool.”Shaw’s highly detailed panoramic printsintroduced the railway to the general publicwho had never seen a train or any tracks.Images included the variety of cargo anddifferent classes of travel including the moreaffluent passengers in their own carriage,placed on a wagon ready to be harnessed tohorses on arrival at their destination.3