Wrest House and Park 2
Original copperplate engraving by the  engraver and cartographer Pierre Van Der Aa (1659-1733) published for the miniature edition of 'Estates of Great Britain and Ireland'/"Les Délices De La Grand' Bretagne Et De L'irlande.". London 1707 by James Beeverell engraved plates and maps after Loggan, Kip, Slezer,etc. size to the plate mark is 14 x 16cm most unmounted Pieter van der Aa was a Leiden bookseller and publisher who published these mini versions of Kip .These look stunning block framed in sets, with  central folds as issued   for the first edition £30x 2 nick in margin on one copy to plate mark

Aspley Church

From J S Storer and J Powell Engraver GREIG for The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain. - 1816/ 1818 illustrations in this work are of a high quality but very small (Approximately 6 x 8+ cm Image size) JOHN GREIG (fl. 1807-1824) was the chief draughtsman, lithographer, engraver and landscape painter £8

 

Chicksand priory

.. Seat of George Osborn   Antique engraved print from  From a series of 84 copper engravings, uncoloured as sold  by William Watts (1752 - 1851)  from The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, in a Collection of the most interesting & Picturesque Views, January 1st, 1779, Size oblong 205 x 270 mm .Similar to Sandby whose pupil Watts had been ,  about palaces of the English nobility. Many of the prints taken from drawings by Paul and Thomas Sandby.  £30 . . x4

Remains of the Tower at Luton Bedfordshire
by Rooker(eng) and Sandby close cut. Antique  copperplate engraving of an English scene, after drawn by Paul Sandby from "A Collection of One Hundred and Fifty Select Views, in England, Scotland and Ireland", published in 1781..Printed for G. Kearsly, Fleet Street, London unmounted some minor soft creasing in margins very light age soiling

  

Luton.. Seat of the earl of Bute

Antique engraved print from  From a series of 84 copper engravings, uncoloured as sold  by William Watts (1752 - 1851)  from The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, in a Collection of the most interesting & Picturesque Views, January 1st, 1779, Size oblong 205 x 270 mm .Similar to Sandby whose pupil Watts had been ,  about palaces of the English nobility. Many of the prints taken from drawings by Paul and Thomas Sandby.  £30 . . 

 


Marston Morteyne Church
Antique engraved print published 1816 The Antiquarian Itinerary, comprising Specimens of Architecture, monastic, castellated and domestic Author: J S Storer:copperplate and wood engravings. Page  size 14 x 21cm image smaller £10

Eaton Church
Antique engraved print published 1816 The Antiquarian Itinerary, comprising Specimens of Architecture, monastic, castellated and domestic Author: J S Storer:copperplate and wood engravings. Page  size 14 x 21cm image smaller £10

Wooburn Church
Antique engraved print published 1816 The Antiquarian Itinerary, comprising Specimens of Architecture, monastic, castellated and domestic Author: J S Storer:copperplate and wood engravings. Page  size 14 x 21cm image smaller £10

 

S.W.Aspect of the Priory Church at Elstow Bedfordshire

Etched by S.Middiman, finished by W.Byrne - 1781. Published by T.Hearne & W.Byrne,(London, 1743 - 1805) March 1781. Size: 27.5 x 23cm Printed to heavy rag paper laid to heavy rag paper from " Antiquities of Great Britain" .1786 to 1807 £30 rare A4+ size £30

 
 

Luton Tower
Antique copper line engraved print  by various artists/engravers Published by Samuel Hooper London, Printed by C. Clarke,  for Francis GROSE (c.1731 . .1791)  from THE ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES , first published in 1772/3. and  Image minimum  from 18 x13 cm  unmounted .  £8 . . . 

 


Chicksand Priory

.Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John 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 . . . x 3

 

Woburn Abbey .

Antique engraved print from Beauties of England & Wales by John 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 . .. . .

 

A View of Flitwick Church