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Etching , after J.B. Le Prince [1734-1781], signed in plate, trimmed within platemark.

Text: 2pp., foolscap 8vo (35 x 20.5cm.). Engraving: 12 x 16cm with corners clipped. Both items in fair condition, on aged paper. The text is cropped at the head, through a royal crest, and has rounded corners at the head and trimmed corners at the foot. The engraving has traces of grey paper mount on reverse. The text has lithograph illustrations of two side-views of four-wheel carriages with the drag applied, beneath the cropped crest and above the title 'WRIGHT'S PATENT DRAG.' Text consists of around 60 lines in copperplate. After explaining 'the great benefit obtained by unskidding the wheel before reaching the bottom of a hill', it gives 'Directions for use', referring to the accompanying engraving. 'It can be applied without regard to the pace in case of accident and may be accomplished by a child ten years of age.' Text ends with four testimonials: first, from George Rendall, William Lambert (Coachman) and John Whittington (Coach Builder), proprietors of 'the Rocket Coach running daily from Newport to this place [Ryde] and Ventnor'; second, from the 'Mining Journal Railway & Commercial Gazette'; third, from the 'United Service Gazette; fourth, from the 'Sporting Review' ('Much trouble is saved, and no little time consequently gained when Carriages are descending hills, by the adoption of Wright's Patent Drag; an invention which we pronounce to be "all Wright and no mistake!"'). The engraving is a side-view of a four-wheel carriage, with royal crest and 'VR' [for 'Victoria Regina') on the side. Captioned at foot: 'WRIGHT'S PATENT DRAG.' From the archive of William Silk (b.1824), coachbuilder, of the firm Silk & Sons, Long Acre, London. Scarce: no copies traced on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.…

0. S.l.s.d., original engraving, portrait of William Morice, 210 x 160 mm, with engraved caption placed above the portrait (oval portrait within a rectangular frame)., mounted on a large thick 19th century paper leaf .

0. S.l.s.d., original engraving, portrait of George Savile, 215 x 165 mm, with engraved caption placed above the portrait , this caption cropped , oval portrait within a rectangular frame, mounted on a large thick 19th century paper leaf .

0. S.l.s.d., original copper engraving, portrait of Titus Oates, 225 x 145 mm, with engraved caption underneath, mounted on a large thick 19th century paper leaf .

0. S.l.s.d., original engraving, portrait of William Lenthal, 155 x 118 mm, with engraved caption underneath. The engraving has been carefully cut out along the profile of the face, mounted on a large thick 19th century paper leaf .

0. S.l.s.d., original engraving, portrait of Joseph Addison, 210 x 160 mm, with engraved caption placed above the portrait , this caption cropped , oval portrait within a rectangular frame, mounted on a large thick 19th century paper leaf .

0. S.l.s.d., original copper engraving, portrait of Richard Boyle, 188 x 140 mm, with engraved caption underneath, mounted on a large thick 19th century paper leaf . Cropped along the engraved borderlines.

0. S.l.s.d. original copper engraving, portrait of Robert Plot, 220 x 145 mm, engraved caption underneath. Mounted on a large thick 19th century paper leaf .

0. S.l. s.d. , original engraving, portrait of Charles Monck, 260 x 176 mm, mounted on a large thick 19th century paper leaf . Cropped at the lower margin.

0. S.l.s.d., original engraving, portrait of Edouard Seymour, 265 x 170 mm, with engraved caption with only the name underneath, mounted on a large thick 19th century paper leaf . The duke is represented on a picture which is placed against a column in a landscape. The top of the column bears his sculptured coat of arms. Edouard Seymour (1500 -1552), first duke of Somerset, executed in 1552. Lower margin slightly cropped into the engraved caption.…

0. S.l. s.d. , original engraving, portrait of John Somers, 305 x 212 mm, mounted on a large thick 19th century paper leaf . Upper and lower part of engraving cropped. The sitter is represented at a faily young age. (Not in National Portrait Gallery).

0. S.l.s.d., original engraving, portrait of Robert Shirley, oval 170 x 155 on leaf 255 x 190 mm, with engraved caption and coat of arms underneath, mounted on a large thick 19th century paper leaf . Engraved date of death (Nov. 27 1756) corrected with pencil in 1656. Engraving a bit dustsoiled. Sir Robert Shirley, fourth baronet (1629 - 1656) died in the Tower while imprisoned for supporting the Royalist cause in the civil war.…

0. S.l.s.d. original copper engraving, portrait of Laurence Echard, 260 x 182 mm, engraved caption and coat of arms underneath. Mounted on a large thick 19th-century paper leaf . Laurence Echard (circa 1670 - 1730), apart from being known as archdeacon of Stowe, is also remembered as the historian who wrote ''the History of England''.…