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We have the pleasure of uploading our new miscellaneous catalogue of over 290 items. Highlights include: Cover image: Puck. [n.d., c.1860.]Pen & ink sketch on folded letter sheet, side 155 x 100mm (6 x 4″), with printed version; Baskerville vellum wove watermark. Printed version trimmed from booklet cover. A grotesque, winged Puck, sitting on a toadstool. Apparently a preparatory sketch for the cover illustration of ‘Virtue’s Imperial Shakespeare’, a 40-part illustrated series published by Charles Knight, ‘with Illustrations by Cope, R.A. Leslie, R.A., Maclise, R.A. E.M. Ward. R.A. W.P. Frith, R.A. H.S. Marks, A.R.A. and others’. [Ref: 57783] £190.00 (£228.00...

Grosvenor prints has the pleasure in sending out our new catalogue, a festive miscellany of over 300 items. Highlights include:Cover image: A Tigress.Engraved by John Murphy by Permission of Mr. George Stubbs from the Picture Painted by himself and in his Possession.London, Published July 27, 1798 by J. Murphy, North side Paddington Green.Rare and extremely fine mezzotint. Sheet 490 x 620mm (19¼ x 24¼”). Framed. Thread margins. Unexamined out of frame.A superb example of the finest images produced in the history of mezzotint, depicting a a recumbent tigress, probably the Royal Tiger inStubbs’s possession when he died. The painting had...

We have the pleasure of uploading our new science themed listing; Catalogue 112 featuring: Portraits, Meteorology, Astronomy, Transport, Fireworks, Architecture and more! Highlights include: Cover image: [Hirayama Jinta] Japanese Prints of Shell Effects. [n.d., c.1877.]Six very scarce Japanese woodblocks, printed in colours. Each sheet c. 220 x 150mm (8¾ x 6″), laid on card in pairs, with a typed English title label (as above). A little wear. Six rare Japanese Ukiyo-e prints promoting shell-effect fireworks by Hirayama Jinta (1840-1900), each titled in Japanese. In 1877 Hirayama Jinta founded a firework manufactory famous for its innovations in bringing new colours to...