Catalogue 151 is here!

 

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Robert Burns. Born MDCCLIX. Died MDCCXCVI.
RB Parkes [pencil signature] [after Alexander Naysmyth.]
London, Published June 5.th 1888, by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. 13 & 14, Pall Mall East.
Mezzotint, printed on chine collé, limited edition of 150 signed by the engraver, PSA blindstamp. 515 x 410mm (20¼ x 16¼"), with large margins. 
Alexander Nasmyth's famous portrait, which was painted so that it could be engraved for the 1787 second edition of 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect'. His oil is now in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (PG 1063). Engraved by Robert Bowyer Parkes (1830-1904) 
Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. PSA p.42. 
[Ref: 66396]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT) 

 

We hope you had a refreshing holiday season. Welcome to our first listing of 2026!
 
 
A few highlights:
 

 
Charter of Liberties. Cardinal Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, producing to the Barons and the rest of the Assembly at S.t Edmund's Bury, the Charter granted by Henry the 1st, in which that Monarch pledged himself to abolish the arbitrary Laws of the Normans then in force... Engraved from the Original Picture in the Gallery of the University of Oxford.
Painted by W. Martin. Engraved by W. Ward. London. Pub.d Dec.r 16, 1795 by W. Martin, Hamilton Street, Piccadilly.]
£1250
Stock Ref: 67816
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[Harriet Hague] Harriot and Sophia, Daughters of Charles Hague, Professor of Music in the University of Cambridge. To Miss Sharp of Clare Hall, Herts, The kind friend and Patroness of the lost Harriot & her surviving Sister This Print is respectfully inscribed. Harriot Hague died Feb.y 3.th 1816 aged 23.
Engraved by W. Sayer, Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester [after George Henry Harlow.] Published Dec.r 4.th 1816 by the Proprietor and Sold by Harraden & Son, Printseller, Cambridge.
£490
Stock Ref: 67814
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 Tesselated Pavement Found in Dyer Street Cirencester Sep: Ad. MDCCCXLIX. with Part of the Under Structure. [&] Tesselated Pavement Found in Dyer Street Cirencester August 1849.
Drawn on Stone & Printed by J. Beauchamp, Cirencester. [&] Drawn on Stone, Printed & Published by J. Beauchamp, Park S.t Cirencester. [n.d., c.1849]
£520
Stock Ref: 67939
See also Refs:  67940, 67941 & 67824. 
 

 

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