Original antique steel engraving.

Original antique woodcuts.

Antique copper engraving

Antique copper engraving

Antique Chromolithograph. Some spotting in the margins.

Antique Chromolithograph.

Original antique steel engraving.

Original antique steel engraving.

Antique steel engraving

Antique hand coloured copper engraving. Image 16 x 11 on a large sheet

Antique line engraving

Antique line engraving. Crease across bottom margin corner; short closed marginal tear

Antique hand coloured copper engraving. Image 16 x 11 on a large sheet

Antique copper engraving

Antique copper engraving

Antique steel engraving

Antique copper engraving

Antique copper engraving

Antique steel engraving

Antique steel engraving. Mark in right margin (see image)

Antique steel engraving

Original antique steel engraving.

Original antique steel engraving.

Antique woodcut

Antique copper engraving

Antique line engraving

Original antique steel engraving.

Original antique steel engraving.

An antique steel line engraving on paper. Later coloured by hand. In very good and clean state.

Antique uncoloured line engraving, with text sheet.

Antique copper engraving.

A stylish antique print - a view of the headland. Steel line engraving on paper. In very good and clean state. Later coloured by hand.

Antique copper plate engraving, well over 200 years old. These prints are a little foxed and dusty around the outer margins and may have a little spotting elsewhere but just to the extent of looking their age.

Antique wood engraving printed on a leaf from this guidebook

Good condition with just light creasing. A fine small view with the Mersey filled with shipping including a small steam boat and with the Wirral in the distance. Alongside the land are vast numbers of ships and I notice four windmills. Very unusual engraving from the end of the Georgian era.

An antique line engraving. Later coloured by hand.

RARE. All Saints was, opened in 1798 and was sold to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845 and reopened as St. Joseph's. A new church was built on Great Nelson Street to replace it which opened in 1848. This plate is from a drawing by I. Pen.

Original antique steel engraving.

RARE. Corn Exchange on the south side of Brunswick Street. It was opened in 1808 and had the advantage over the previous exchange in Mark Lane that being completely covered in those who frequent it are secured from the inclemencies of the weather!

RARE. Custom House at the end of the Old Dock. The old docks were built after an Act of Parliament was passed in 1710. The inhabitants and merchants made a large basin or wet dock, at the east end of the town. The custom house was at the east end and on the quays are shops, houses and warehouses. A guide of 1810 comments: many of which have a very old and a very inelegant appearance. In the vicinity of this dock, the streets are in general low and wet, but the rent of the houses high, and they are numerously inhabited. There was a wet dock - where ships were continuously afloat- and a dry dock-which at low tide drained of water and allowed ships to be accessed easily. Numerous vessels used the old docks such as ships from Ireland, the Mediterranean, West Indies and Africa. Faint water stain in left margin. Paper watermarked HS 1807.

RARE. The first dispensary to assist the poor was opened in 1778 and this one in Church Street in 1781. By the 1820s there were two dispensaries (the other in St James' Street) with a paid Apothecary, three surgeons, three physicians and a stipendiary house surgeon who attend six days a week providing their services gratuitously to over 26,000 persons in a year. Stain in left margin, see images.

RARE. The Royalist Army camped in the area during the English Civil War Siege of Liverpool and the capture of the castle in June 1644. Prince Rupert took up his headquarters in a cottage in Rupert Lane (hard by the barracks of much later date). The cottage stood for 200 years after Rupert's occupancy and was demolished in 1845. Meanwhile, Everton had begun rapidly to lose its sylvan beauties. Paper watermarked HS 1804. This plate was engraved by H. Hole.

RARE. The first stone was laid on the thirtieth of June, 1803, and the masonry completed in March, 1807. To give the greatest degree of beauty possible to this noble design, stone of a very fine quality has been obtained from the quarries of the Earl of Sefton, in Toxteth-park, near Liverpool; and a sum of eighty thousand pounds has been raised by subscription, in shares of one hundred pounds each. The area of the Liverpool Exchange-buildings, is more than twice the area of the London Exchange; that of the one is 197 feet, from north to south, and 178 feet from east to west; that of the other is 144 feet by 117; the former contains 35,066 square feet; the latter only 16,848 square feet.

RARE. Dates from 1800 and situated in Bold Street where the Royal Arch Lodge No. 20 is held. Bought by Liverpool Savings Bank in 1818. In the last few years the interior has been renovated but an impressive cast-iron staircase stretching some 40 feet into the upstairs rooms was observed in situ and the staircase bears a star motif possibly from its days as the Masonic Lodge. Stain in left margin, see images.

RARE. As described in Smith's Strangers Guide to Liverpool in the year 1843: Bootle is a village about three miles distant, much frequented during summer months for sea bathing. The principal objects of attraction are the Church, which has two towers, the Water-works, and the Land-marks on the sands. The bathing and indeed a bathing machine can be seen in this engraving. Engraved by Branston.

RARE. Thirteen years had elapsed since an attempt was made to afford relief to those persons who were labouring under the complicated misfortunes of poverty and blindness, by forming an institution where they might be cheered by conversation, and where, by being engaged in different occupations, their minds might be relieved from the fatigue of inactivity. The object was attained without difficulty; but after the experience of a few years, and when the establishment had, in a greater degree, engaged the public attention, the committee gradually extended their views with respect to the objects under their care; and endeavoured to convert the institution from an Asylum, where the present ease and comfort of the blind were principally considered, into a School, where they might be instructed in some useful art or trade, by which they might be enabled, altogether, or in part, to procure for themselves a comfortable livelihood. Since the opening of the new building, in the spring of 1800, the number of pupils in the school has been above seventy. They are all of them usefully employed; and they exhibit a picture of cheerfulness and comfort, which can perhaps scarcely be paralleled by an equal number of individuals, of any description whatever, collected under the same roof. Note: Spotting; see images. Paper watermarked HS 1806.

RARE. St. Peter's Church was erected in 1700. Church Street used to be cut off from Lord Street by salt water and, until the Pool was closed in 1709, Church Street and the country beyond could only be reached by crossing over the Pool by the bridge at the foot of Lord Street. Church Street remained unpaved until 1760, and was not flagged until 1816, although there were constant complaints of its muddy state, whilst one writer depicts it as a quagmire, for there was a cattle market held there once a week. Faint water stain in left margin. Paper watermarked HS 1806.

Original antique steel engraving.