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Belvoir Castle

Antique copper line engraved print by  J Ryland and Benjamin Ralph, engraver. (fl) 1763-1775. first published in 1764. originally produced for "England Illustrated, or, a Compendium of the Natural History, Geography, Topography, and Antiquities Ecclesiastical and Civil, of England and Wales" .Published in London by  R. & J. Dodsley, 1764 : 1764.. Engraved surface minimum 90 x 125mm £8 unmounted  vignette in text page




Ashby de la Zouch Castle

Antique copper line engraved print by  J Ryland and Benjamin Ralph, engraver. (fl) 1763-1775. first published in 1764. originally produced for "England Illustrated, or, a Compendium of the Natural History, Geography, Topography, and Antiquities Ecclesiastical and Civil, of England and Wales" .Published in London by  R. & J. Dodsley, 1764 : 1764.. Engraved surface minimum 90 x 125mm £8 unmounted  vignette in text page also a second close cropped but tinted copy ask if image is needed



Ashby de la Zouche Castle

. Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12 . . 2 copies



Belvoir Castle

. Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12 . 2 copies


Ashby de la Zouche Castle pl 1

Engraver GODFREY By Hooper... Antique copper line engraved print By Hooper and Newton for Francis GROSE (c.1731 . .1791) for THE ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES , first published in 1772/3. Image 26 x22 cm £12 . .x3



Ashby de la Zouche Castle

By Walker after Throsby, dated 1790... from .Francis S Throsby, J. Select Views in Leicestershire, from Original Drawings £15


Donington Hall

From a series of small steel engravings, uncoloured written by Neale. Drawn by  John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists. Published, as PROOFS by subscription between 1812 and 1825 in six large volumes printed upon Onion Skin paper then mounted and cased within the larger volume. NOT the later reprints from the same plates which are printed directly onto the paper.Size of Plate : 12 x 16.5 cm Paper size : 24.5 x 30.5 cm unmounted and not including the history £15 proof copy no history pages. . .3 copies




Coleorton  Hall

From a series of small steel engravings, uncoloured written by Neale. Drawn by  John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists. Published, as PROOFS by subscription between 1812 and 1825 in six large volumes printed upon Onion Skin paper then mounted and cased within the larger volume. NOT the later reprints from the same plates which are printed directly onto the paper.Size of Plate : 12 x 16.5 cm Paper size : 24.5 x 30.5 cm unmounted and not including the history £15 proof copy no history pages. . . .3 copies



Belton House

From a series of small steel engravings, uncoloured written by Neale. Drawn by  John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists. Published, as PROOFS by subscription between 1812 and 1825 in six large volumes printed upon Onion Skin paper then mounted and cased within the larger volume. NOT the later reprints from the same plates which are printed directly onto the paper.Size of Plate : 12 x 16.5 cm Paper size : 24.5 x 30.5 cm unmounted and not including the history £15 proof copy no history pages. . . .2 copies




Denton House

From a series of small steel engravings, uncoloured written by Neale. Drawn by  John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists. Published, as PROOFS by subscription between 1812 and 1825 in six large volumes printed upon Onion Skin paper then mounted and cased within the larger volume. NOT the later reprints from the same plates which are printed directly onto the paper.Size of Plate : 12 x 16.5 cm Paper size : 24.5 x 30.5 cm unmounted and not including the history £15 proof copy no history pages. .

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Grimsthorpe Castle


Gopsall

From a series of small steel engravings, uncoloured written by Neale. Drawn by  John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists. Published, as PROOFS by subscription between 1812 and 1825 in six large volumes printed upon Onion Skin paper then mounted and cased within the larger volume. NOT the later reprints from the same plates which are printed directly onto the paper.Size of Plate : 12 x 16.5 cm Paper size : 24.5 x 30.5 cm unmounted and not including the history  £10 proof copy no history pages. some foxing to borders


Ashby de la Zouche Castle pl 2

Engraver GODFREY By Hooper... Antique copper line engraved print By Hooper and Newton for Francis GROSE (c.1731 . .1791) for THE ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES , first published in 1772/3. Image 26 x22 cm £12 . . x3



Cole Orton Hall

from Neale From' Views of Seats' written by & drawn by John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists.1830 £8 . . 2 copies


Carlton Curlieu Hall

from Neale From' Views of Seats' written by & drawn by John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists.1830 £8 . .



Baggrave Hall

from Neale From' Views of Seats' written by & drawn by John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists.1830 £8 . . 3 copies one tinted state if pref

Donington Park

. Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12 . 3 copies


Oadby Village

. Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12 £12/ £5 repaired edge . 2 copies

also available as a cleaned , perfect and laid to archival museum board copy so state pref please £12 . 2 copies


Beau Manor

Tinted lithographs, from Burke's "Visitation of Seats", 1853, 5in x 7in £8 unmounted.



Belvoir Castle d

from Dugdale steel engravings from Dugdale's England and Wales Delineated/Curiosities of Grat Britain published from 1835 to  about 1848. Steel engraved print. Size 8.5 x 13.5 cms £8 . .5 copies including a tinted one 




Belvoir Castle

Antique steel engraving Drawn by Thomas Allom (1804-1872). Originally produced for the part-work series of views "The counties of Chester, Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Rutland, & Lincoln Illustrated" (London 1836-1837). Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 105 x 155mm (approx. 4" x 6"). £8 . . .2 copies


South front of Belvoir Castle

Antique steel engraving Drawn by Thomas Allom (1804-1872). Originally produced for the part-work series of views "The counties of Chester, Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Rutland, & Lincoln Illustrated" (London 1836-1837). Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 105 x 155mm (approx. 4" x 6"). £8

Donnington Hall a

Antique steel engraving Drawn by Thomas Allom (1804-1872). Originally produced for the part-work series of views "The counties of Chester, Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Rutland, & Lincoln Illustrated" (London 1836-1837). Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 105 x 155mm (approx. 4" x 6"). £8. . .2 copies one tinted

 
 

Castle of Ashby de la Zouche

. Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £8 cleaned ,

Langton Hall

from Neale From' Views of Seats' written by & drawn by John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists.1830 £8 . .


Lowesby Hall 2

from Neale From' Views of Seats' written by & drawn by John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists.1830 £8 . .

Donington Hall..

From' Views of Seats' written by & drawn by John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists. Published, as PROOFS by subscription between 1812 and 1825 in six large volumes printed upon Onion Skin paper then mounted and cased within the larger volume. NOT the later reprints from the same plates which are printed directly onto the paperthis print is unmounted £20

Engraved by 1)Henshall 1822



Monuments to the earl of Rutland in Bottesford Church

Antique steel engraving Drawn by Thomas Allom (1804-1872). Originally produced for the part-work series of views "The counties of Chester, Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Rutland, & Lincoln Illustrated" (London 1836-1837). Steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 105 x 155mm (approx. 4" x 6"). £8


Belton Castle

By Walker after Throsby, dated 1790... from .Francis S Throsby, J. Select Views in Leicestershire, from Original Drawings £12


North East by East view of Belvoir Castle

By Walker after Throsby, dated 1790... from .Francis S Throsby, J. Select Views in Leicestershire, from Original Drawings £15

Staunton Harold

By Walker after Throsby, dated 1790... from .Francis S Throsby, J. Select Views in Leicestershire, from Original Drawings £12



Town of Leicester

from Dugdale steel engravings from Dugdale's England and Wales Delineated/Curiosities of Grat Britain published from 1835 to  about 1848. Steel engraved print. Size 8.5 x 13.5 cms £6 . . 3 copies tinted or plain

Leicester & the Abbey

By Walker after Throsby, dated 1790... from .Francis S Throsby, J. Select Views in Leicestershire, from Original Drawings £15



The Right Honourable Robert Sherard Earl of Harborough, Baron Harborough in England Baron of le Trim in Ireland . . . by J Nichols

Copper engraving c 1770 by James Basire: The son of a London engraver of maps, James Basire studied first under his father and then completed his engraving apprenticeship under Richard Dalton. Shortly afterwards Basire accompanied a patron to Rome in order to study the works of Raphael. Upon his return James Basire established a strong reputation for both his engraved portraits and for his architectural and antiquarian scenes. In 1760 James Basire was appointed the official engraver to the newly formed Society of Antiquaries. £45

Gopsall .

From' Views of Seats' written by & drawn by John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists. Published, as PROOFS by subscription between 1812 and 1825 in six large volumes printed upon Onion Skin paper then mounted and cased within the larger volume. NOT the later reprints from the same plates which are printed directly onto the paperthis print is unmounted £20

Engraved by 1)Henshall 1822


 

Westcotes

By Walker after Throsby, dated 1790... from .Francis S Throsby, Select views in Leicestershire, from original drawings: containing seats of the nobility and gentry, town views and ruins, accompanied with descriptive and historical relations By J. Throsby  publish'd by J. Throsby, Leicester Septr. 4th, 1789 & sold by Wm. Richardson Strand, 1789 [1791] £15 cropped edges 

Perspective View of the Town of Leicester

Engraved for The Modern Universal British Traveller; or A New Complete, and Accurate Tour through England, Wales, Scotland, and the Neighbouring Islands.[London: J. Cooke] [1779]. originally produced for the Cooke part-work publication "The Modern Universal British Traveller" (London 1779). . . 2 copies

Plate mark and good margins. £25


View of Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire

Engraved for The Modern Universal British Traveller; or A New Complete, and Accurate Tour through England, Wales, Scotland, and the Neighbouring Islands.[London: J. Cooke] [1779]. originally produced for the Cooke part-work publication "The Modern Universal British Traveller" (London 1779). . . 2 copies

Plate mark and good margins. £25


Whatton Hall

from Neale From' Views of Seats' written by & drawn by John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists.1830 £8 . . 2 copies



Lydiate Church

Copper engraving by M Griffiths c 1801 £12


Sharnford Church & parsonage House
From the The Gentleman's Magazine .The Gentleman's Magazine was a monthly magazine published in London in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century. The magazine began publication with the January 1731 issue. Over time the magazine had various subtitles, including "monthly intelligencer" and "historical review" £15 unmounted RARE  .  will be cleaned first 1813 




South View of Bardon Hill and Hall
From the The Gentleman's Magazine .The Gentleman's Magazine was a monthly magazine published in London in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century. The magazine began publication with the January 1731 issue. Over time the magazine had various subtitles, including "monthly intelligencer" and "historical review" £15 unmounted RARE  .  will be cleaned first



Blackfordby S W
From the The Gentleman's Magazine .The Gentleman's Magazine was a monthly magazine published in London in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century. The magazine began publication with the January 1731 issue. Over time the magazine had various subtitles, including "monthly intelligencer" and "historical review" £15 unmounted RARE  .  will be cleaned first 1813 




Swithland Hall

published in Francis Orpen Morris's, A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen & Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Mounted..., in 1884. The straightforward but thoroughly attractive plates were drawn by Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) and printed from colored woodblocks by the Baxter process by Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) of Driffield, Yorkshire unmounted £15 . . 3  copies

 


Wistow Hall

from Neale From' Views of Seats' written by & drawn by John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists.1830 £8 . . 2 copies


Gopsall

from Neale From' Views of Seats' written by & drawn by John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists.1830 £8 . .

Muston from SE

Wood engraving  by Basire dated 1789 oddlarge plate appr 16 x 8 inches  Very rare £25




St Mary's Church Leicester

. Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John Britton (1771. .1857), English antiquary and topographer and E. W. Brayley. The friends wrote most of Beauties of England and Wales (18 vol., in 25, 1801 . .15) image 11 x 16cm images printed close to edge of page unmounted £12


Stanford Hall, the Seat of the late Sir Thomas CATC, Bart.

By Walker after Throsby, dated 1790... from .Francis S Throsby, Select views in Leicestershire, from original drawings: containing seats of the nobility and gentry, town views and ruins, accompanied with descriptive and historical relations By J. Throsby  publish'd by J. Throsby, Leicester Septr. 4th, 1789 & sold by Wm. Richardson Strand, 1789 [1791] £15 cropped edges




Leicester

from COPPERPLATE MAGAZINE by John WALKER, engraver and printseller, 16, Rosomon Street, Clerkenwell 1795-1802. Exhibited Royal Academy 1796-1800. Landscape engraver and draughtsman. He finished many of his father's plates. Published as"The Copper Plate Magazine, or Monthly Cabinet of Picturesque Prints" many drawn earlier but published 1792..1803  Engraved surface 13 x 17 cm .  £30 rare . .1st state by Walker    published by Harrison & Co drawn 1786


Donington Hall

from Neale From' Views of Seats' written by & drawn by John Preston Neale and engraved by various artists.1830 £8 . .tinted and mounted not as per pic




S View of Belvoir castle
Vignette by Samuel & Nathaniel Buck from "Buck's Views" as they were called are 428 views of the ruins of all noted abbeys, castles, together with four views of seats and eighty-three large general views of the chief cities and towns of England and Wales. Published between 1724-38 on Hand-Made Laid Watermarked Paper,16 x 9 cm £12


Leicester Abbey

Engraver GODFREY By Hooper... Antique copper line engraved print By Hooper and Newton for Francis GROSE (c.1731 . .1791) for THE ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES , first published in 1772/3. Image 26 x22 cm £1o . . x3


Belvoir Castle

published in Francis Orpen Morris's, A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen & Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Mounted..., in 1884. The straightforward but thoroughly attractive plates were drawn by Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) and printed from colored woodblocks by the Baxter process by Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) of Driffield, Yorkshire unmounted £15 x 3

 



Gopsall hall

published in Francis Orpen Morris's, A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen & Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Mounted..., in 1884. The straightforward but thoroughly attractive plates were drawn by Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) and printed from colored woodblocks by the Baxter process by Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) of Driffield, Yorkshire unmounted £15






Willesley Hall

published in Francis Orpen Morris's, A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen & Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Mounted..., in 1884. The straightforward but thoroughly attractive plates were drawn by Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) and printed from colored woodblocks by the Baxter process by Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) of Driffield, Yorkshire unmounted £15




West Bridge leicester
Antique engraved print published 1816 The Antiquarian Itinerary, comprising Specimens of Architecture, monastic, castellated and domestic Author: J S Storer:copperplate and wood engravings. Image size 14 x 21cm £6 unmounted

"Leicestershire" £10

 

JOHNSTON, W. & A.K. Johnstons map of the County of "Leicestershire" with the Railways. W. & A.K. Johnston, Edin[urg]h.c 1850. .


"Leicestershire map

"by Thomas Moule

. . published by G.Virtue around 1845 showing the railway line. Fine line engraving with decorative border, heraldic shields and vignettes of Belvoir Castle, Ulverscroft Abbey, Donington Castle and fox hunting scenes. Steel engraved map with recent hand colour. Size 19.5x28.5cms/7.5"x10.5". £15 old damageThomas Moule (1784-1851) was a scholar and writer on heraldry and antiquities who worked in London as a bookseller and later on worked in the Lord Chamberlain's department.The County Maps for which he is best known were first published in the 1830's in the reign of William IV and re-issued in 1841 in the reign of Victoria. The original steel plates were used for all issues, but they were amended in the later edition to show the railways.

Leicestershire map

= Lewis

 

Engraved by J & C Walker after a map by R.Creighton, published in Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England. Vol. I-IV. London, 1831/1837 .to 1848. Steel engraved map .image 26 x 20 cm £15


Leicestershire map

1837  Robert Creighton,engr. J.& C. Walker for Lewis, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of England. Vol. I-IV. London: S. Lewis and Company, 1831.image 26 x 20 cm app . with polling stations etc £12..


Cary...A MAP OF Leicestershire FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES.1805Hand- coloured engraved map The large size allows for a remarkable amount of detail to be shown, with careful identification of parishes, gentlemen's seats, heaths and commons, marshes, navigable canals, dikes, turnpikes, by-roads, tramways, and even Roman walls. .In 1805 Stockdale had published the New British Atlas, with 43 maps by John Cary. Although it did not appear until 1809,  15 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches. ...large 1805 ..large £60 
 



Cary..2.A MAP OF Leicestershire FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES.1805A  Hand- coloured engraved map The large size allows for a remarkable amount of detail to be shown, with careful identification of parishes, gentlemen's seats, heaths and commons, marshes, navigable canals, dikes, turnpikes, by-roads, tramways, and even Roman walls. .In 1805 Stockdale had published the New British Atlas, with 43 maps by John Cary. Although it did not appear until 1809,  15 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches. ...large 1805 ..large £60

Cary...A MAP OFLeicestershire FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES.1789

engraved and published by John Cary.Copper engraved map with contemporary outline colour, Single-page UK county map of Leicestershire. Compass star. Scale of Statute Miles. Original hand colour. Engraved on copper by John Cary. Accompanied by descriptive text. Cary (John), sixteen uncoloured engraved maps from Camden's Britannia, [1789], £55



Leicestershire map

Lewis 1

1837  Robert Creighton, ngr. J.& C. Walker for Lewis, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of England. Vol. I-IV. London: S. Lewis and Company, 1831.image 26 x 20 cm app . £15 (2)..

Leicestershire by Murray

T L Murray A detailed engraved map of the county with list of hundreds, explanation and scale. Publisher's imprint dated 1830. 14 x 17 3/4 inches. Original hand colouring. Good condition. From An Atlas of the English Counties. Engraved by Hoare and Reeves and published in 1830. Murray was a surveyor and cartographer and maps were based on trigonometric surveys of the Board of Ordnance. Steel engraved map with old hand colour wash. Size 35.5x45cms/14"x17.8" lge £45



Leicestershire map

Lewis 3

1837  Robert Creighton, ngr. J.& C. Walker for Lewis, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of England. Vol. I-IV. London: S. Lewis and Company, 1831.image 26 x 20 cm app . £15 (2)..

Leicestershire

Richard Blome, 1715

A GENERAL MAPP OF Leicestershire With its Hundreds of ..... An engraved county map with panel displaying the title and list of hundreds., 16 x 23 cm. Hand coloured. From England Exactly Described or a Guide to Travellers in a Compleat Sett of Maps of All the Counties of England.Nice copy laid to old/original paper in its past which helps to mount these notoriously narrow margined maps, printed with virtually no blank margins at the top and bottom.. Published by Thomas Taylor at the Golden Lion in Fleet Street, London. £45


LEICESTERSHIRE by Wallis 1810

\Attractive miniature county map. Original colour. From Wallis's New Pocket Edition of the English Counties, 1810 £60

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