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Holiday Opening dates!

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      Robin.   Printed & Sold by W.Belch, 258 Hight S.t Borough London. £85 Stock Ref: 42624 For more Christmas prints click here     It has been a difficult year for everyone, here's hoping next year will be more joyful! We are thankfully still allowed to be open under the Tier 3 rules however we are closing for a well deserved break from 2pm on 23rd December and opening again 10am 4th January 2021. Just to let you know anything posted via Royal Mail for overseas shipping from now onwards is not guaranteed to get there in time for Christmas and we won't be posting anything for UK delivery after this Friday . For more details click here: https://www.royalmail.com/christmas/last-posting-dates FedEx last posting dates differ so please email us for enquiries and prices. We are happy to hold off on posting until the New Year and appreciate any orders made for shipping then.   Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Nigel, Henrietta, Sasha and Jenny!   Pleasing Past

Part Two of our special 100th Catalogue is out now!

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      The Royal Charlotte Auricula. Printed for Carington Bowles, N.o 69 in St Pauls Church Yard, London. £1800 Stock Ref: 54818 For more Natural History click here   Welcome to Part Two! It includes: Views Overseas including Americana and Australiana , George Stubb s , Books , Satire and some Fine Art items .   A few highlights:     Cortège du Grand Mogol à Delhi. Lith par de Rudder lith d'après le dessin du Prince A. Soltykoff. Paris Imp. par Auguste Bry, G.de Medaille d'Or de S.M. l'Empereur de Russie. £2300 Stock Ref: 55155 For more Soltykoff 's click here       Defeat of the British Army, 12,000 strong under the Command of Sir Edward Packenham... Dessine par H.the Laclotte. Grave par PL Debucourt. [c.1817.] £6500 Stock Ref: 55078 For more military prints click here     A New Book of Chinese Designs... By Mess.rs Edwards & Darly. Published & Sold by the Authors, the first House on the right hand in Northumberland Court, in the Strand,

Part One of our special 100th Catalogue is out now!

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    John Rennie. Chantrey R.A. Sc.t. Reynolds Eng.r. [n.d. c. 1820] Mezzotint. 505 x 355mm (20 x 14"). Framed. Unexamined out of frame. An engraving of Sir Francis Chantrey's bust of civil engineer John Rennie (1761-1821), set in an arched alcove, now in the National Portrait Gallery. Rennie is most famous for his Waterloo Bridge (1811-7). Chantrey (1781-1841) was the leading portrait sculptor in Regency England, His subjects included George III (now in the Guildhall), George IV (equestrian statue in Trafalgar Square) and George Washington (Massachusetts State House). Whitman: 245. [Ref: 54622 ]   £360.00     We are back open!     We have split our special Catalogue 100 as originally it was going to be 100 items, however we have too many lovely things to share with you! Welcome to Part One! This selection, of over two hundred items, contains: some fine Portraits , Views UK , Mod