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Grosvenor Prints is now closed for Christmas!

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      Christmas 1882. The Sunday Schools. St John's Parish, Detroit, Michigan. [1882] Pamphlet, 4pp, 240 x 160mm (9½ x 6¼"), printed in green. The programme for a Christmas service, with the lyrics of ten carols. American interest. [Ref: 63756 ]   £60.00   Season's Greetings!  Grosvenor Prints is now closed until 10am 2nd January 2025. If you would like anything reserving over the festive period, please place an order and follow up with an email. Orders automatically reserve the prints and you won't be charged. We'll reply in chronological order when we reopen, so please be patient with us.   We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!   The New Christmas Pantomime. HB. Sketches N.o 846. H.B. printed at 70. St Martins Lane. Published Dec.r 22.nd 1845, by Tho.s M.cLean, 26 Haymarket. Lithograph, sheet 305 x 4...

Christmas Catalogue 142!

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  Cover image: [Charles Edward Stuart.] Routed, oer Hills the young Adventurer flies, / And in a cottage sinks to this Disguise. / Fled his gay Hopes, defeated his fond Scheme, / His throne is vanish'd like a golden Dream. / By manly Thoughts He'd charm His Woes to rest: / In vain! Culloden still distracts His Breast. J. Williams Fecit. Mezzotint, 18th century watermark. 230 x 325mm (9 x 12¾"), with large margins. A few faint creases. Bit rubbed. Portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender (1720-1788), disguised as a woman, three-quarter length in an oval directed to right, looking towards the viewer with head turned to left, holding the frilled edge of a cap in front of him, wearing a lace-trimmed fichu and cap. J. Williams is named on the print as engraver and it is the only known work so inscribed. Sharp: 218. CS: 1. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. [R...