Fat Beasts & 23 Fat Sheep. A Catalogue of Agriculture Prints

‘Fat Beasts and 23 Fat Sheep’ A Catalogue of Agriculture Prints.

Throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth century, advances in agricultural methods and techniques were reflected in contemporary prints. The rising popularity in selective breeding techniques at this time led to a variety of new breeds of pigs, sheep and cattle, and subsequently a rise in events where they could be exhibited. This shift in livestock becoming individual ‘stars’ in their own right can be seen in numerous prints in this catalogue. Perhaps the best example of this is the Durham Ox, one of the most famous animal exhibits of the nineteenth century. Between 1801 and 1807, the ox was exhibited all over Britain, attracting enormous crowds. His owner John Day claimed that in one year alone subscriptions for a print of the ox ‘amounted to two thousand and upwards, from whence the Public opinion of this beautiful Animal may well be ascertained.’ His popularity at the time can be seen in the numerous portrait prints published, the various blue and white earthernware commemorative plates produced, and the proliferation of British public houses named after him. It also seems fitting, in view of this catalogue, that the Durham Ox’s career should have ended, after he dislocated his hip, in Oxford, in 1807.

This catalogue is dedicated to the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd (1941 – 2012), without whose extensive knowledge and collection it could not have been compiled.

Caricatures & Drolls

1. Interesting Subject for Discussion, between Two Learned Natural Theologians.

Lithograph H.B. [John Doyle] Published by T. Mc.Lean, 26, Haymarket 22,,nd June 1836. / A. Ducote’s Lithogy. 70 St. Martins Lane.

Image 268 x 364 mm, Sheet 288 x 420 mm unmounted No. 441 from John Doyle’s Political Sketches by H.B. series.

Chaloner Smith 405a ii/ii Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd [29359] £350

A satirical representation of Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798 - 1857) and Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778 - 1868), both Whig politicians.

Condition: Crease to upper left corner of sheet.

Small tear to upper margin of sheet not affecting image. Rectangular blindstamp, with eye-shaped section in centre, of the publisher ‘T. Mc.Lean’ at bottom right corner [29881] £80 2. Rural Life [Boy Shearing a Sheep] Mezzotint John Faber the Younger after Philippe Mercier Printed for John Bowles, at No.13 in Cornhill. [c.1768] Image 287 x 223 mm, Plate 326 x 225 mm, Sheet 473 x 291 mm unmounted From the Rural Life series of mezzotints by John Faber the Younger.

3. Cottage Beauty.

Mezzotint Anonymous London Printed for Robert Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 17th. April 1788.

Image 326 x 245 mm, Plate 352 x 251 mm unmounted A young woman in rustic dress holds chicken-feed in her apron whilst scattering it with her left hand.

Second state. Reissued by Robert Sayer, the plate reworked, with the stone behind the figure’s left foot being moved, and the publication line altered.

Chaloner Smith undescribed, Lennox-Boyd ii/iv, Sayer/Laurie & Whittle Small Mezzotints 180 Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.

Condition: Framing tape on edges of verso, repaired tears to top margin, water stain to bottom margin, margins tones.

[29705] £200

4. The Fair Sheperdess.

Mezzotint with hand colouring Anonymous London, Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett Map & Printsellers, No. 53, Fleet Street as the Act directs, 25, March, 1782 Image 329 x 250 mm, Plate 352 x 251 mm unmounted Chaloner Smith undescribed, Lennox-Boyd i/i, Russell undescribed Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: One small hole at centre bottom of image. Losses in margins not affecting the image.

[17765] £180 5. February Mezzotint Anonymous Printed for Carington Bowles, at No.69 in St. Paul’s Church Yard, and Robert Sayer, at No.53 in Fleet Street, London. Published according to Act of Parliament. January. 2. 1767.

Image 314 x 252 mm, Plate 355 x 253 mm unmounted

A fashionably dressed young woman, shown threequarters length directed to left, wearing a muff, leaning against the plinth of a classical urn and looking towards the viewer; barren trees and two men guiding a horse-drawn plough through a field in the background to right.

Chaloner Smitth 1761, Russell undescribed Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.

Condition: Trimmed to plate mark and several repairs to edges.

[17089] £400

6. The Happy Cottager.

Mezzotint with hand colour Anonymous Published 4th. April. 1794, by Robt. Sayer & Co, Fleet Street, London.

Image 287 x 251 mm, Plate 349 x 252 mm, Sheet 362 x 267 mm unmounted Inscribed beneath title with eight lines of verse.

Lennox-Boyd i/iii Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.

Condition: Some time toning and losses in margins.

[17683] £300

7. Jackey and the Cow. Mezzotint Anonymous [Published by Robert Laurie & James Whittle. c.1796.]

Image 271 x 250 mm, Plate 350 x 251 mm unmounted ‘Jacky and the Cow’ was a song from Charles Dibdin’s Christmas Gambols (1795).

Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.

Condition: trimmed within plate, and cropped below title.

[17695] £280 8. June Mezzotint Anonymous Published according to Act of Parliament. January.

2. 1767. London, Printed for Robert Sayer, at No 53 in Fleet Street, and Carington Bowles, at No 69 in St.Pauls Church Yard.

Image 315 x 249 mm, Plate 354 x 250 mm unmounted A fashionably dressed young woman, shown three-

quarters length standing to right, lifting a flower to smell it, resting her left arm on a grass ledge, with her gauzy apron looped under the elbow; a tree behind to right, haymakers and a thatched house in the background to left.

Chaloner Smith undescribed, Chaloner Smith 1761, Russell undescribed, Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.

[17092] £450

9. The Widow Costard’s Cow & Goods distrained for Taxes, are relieved by the Generosity of Johnny Pearmain.

Mezzotint Anonymous London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, Chart & Printsellers, No.53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs,

19.Oct 1782.

Image and Sheet 350 x 250 mm unmounted Chaloner Smith undescribed, Lennox-Boyd iii/iiii, Russell undescribed Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.

Condition: Trimmed within plate.

[17692] £200

11. [Shepherdess] Mezzotint John Faber after Henry Pickering Price 2 shills. Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square. [c.1750] Image 310 x 249 mm, Plate 355 x 250mm, Sheet 355 x 250mm unmounted One of two plates. These were copied by Houston, as Shepherdess, and Chloe in the Country. The scored lines visible on the print, even on the unlettered state, suggest that a cancelled plate was re-used.

Chaloner Smith 417a i/ii, Lennox-Boyd ii/iv Ex. Col.: Mrs E. Hamilton’s collection stamp on verso & Hon. Chrisopher Lennox-Boyd.

Condition: Trimmed to plate.

[26964] £325

10. The Favourite Lamb.

Mezzotint after de Loutherbourg Printed for Robert Sayer, No. 53. Fleet Street. [c.1773] Image and Plate 250 x 346 mm, Sheet 290 x 395 mm unmounted Lennox-Boyd ii/ii Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.

Condition: Plate reworked and ‘171’ added in the inscription space.

[17688] £475 12. Shepherdess Mezzotint John Faber Junior after Henry Pickering [c.1740] Image 311 x 247 mm, Plate 347 x 247 mm, Sheet 354 x 260 mm unmounted Inscription around the central title reads: As harmless as a Turtle of the Woods, / Fair as the Summer Beauty of the Fields, / As opining Flowers untainted yet w,, th. Winds / The Pride of Nature and the Joy of Sense.

A young lady, three-quarter length, seated facing front, looking away to left, wearing loops of pearls

under her breast with a cloak draped over left arm which lies on her lap, and under right elbow, which rests on a ledge, a shepherd’s crook in right hand, a lamb at her feet.

Chaloner Smith 417, Lennox-Boyd iv/iv Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed to image and remargined, light creases to top right of sheet, foxing to inscription space.

[24890] £300

13. Shepherdess Mezzotint John Faber Junior after Henry Pickering c.1750 Image 310 x 245 mm, Plate 350 x 248 mm, Sheet 363 x 266 mm unmounted One of two plates. These were copied by Houston, as Shepherdess, and Chloe in the Country. The scored lines visible on the print, even on the unlettered state, suggest that a cancelled plate was re-used.

Finished proof before letters.

Chaloner Smith 417a i/ii, Lennox-Boyd i/iv Ex. Col.: Hon. Chrisopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed inside plate to lower margin, light foxing to margins, minor crease to bottom right hand corner of image.

[26978] £375

14. [Innocence.]

Mezzotint Richard Houston after Philip Mercier [Printed for Robert Sayer.]

Image 314 x 254 mm, Plate 356 x 254 mm unmounted Proof before all letters, uncleaned plate.

Chanloner Smith 135 i/ii, Lennox-Boyd state i/ii Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.

[17682] £500

15. Summer Mezzotint

Richard Houston after Samuel Wale London, Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill. [c.1762] Image 310 x 249 mm, Plate 351 x 249 mm unmounted Chaloner Smith 152, Lennox-Boyd state ii/ii (previously issued by Bowles & Son) Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.

Condition: Trimmed to plate.

[17086] £475

Agricultural Scenes

16. Labourers Mezzotint Henry Birche [Robert Laurie and Richard Earlom] after George Stubbs and Amos Green Publish’d Mar.25 1790, by B. B. Evans, in the Poultry London.

Image 385 x 647 mm, Plate 430 x 648 mm framed Inscription beneath image reads: To Andrews Harrison Esqr, this Plate from the original Picture in his Collection / Is most respectfully Inscribed by his much obliged and obedient Servant / Benj’’n Beale Edwards.

Chaloner Smith undescribed, Lennox-Boyd 87.II, 231, Rubinstein 20-21, Wessely 142 Condition: Framed in original frame. Rubbing to centre of image.

[29748] £1,000

17. [Three Rabbits] & [Three Guinea Pigs] Mezzotint John Raphael Smith after George Morland Engraved by J. R. Smith, and Published 1st. Jany.

1807, by Thos. Palser, Surrey Side Westminster Bridge Image 607 x 482 mm, Plate 643 x 543 mm mounted D’Oench unrecorded, Frankau 160, 350, LennoxBoyd i/i Ex. Col. Christopher Lennox-Boyd [17524] £1,800 the pair.

18. Two Favourite Chickens Going to Market Mezzotint William Pether after William Redmore Bigg London, Published Jany. 1. 1793, by J. Brydon, at his Looking Glass, & Print Warehouse, Charing Cross, and T. Foss, No.131, Strand.

Image 483 x 615 mm, Sheet 515 x 625 mm unmounted Inscribed beneath image with title.

Two small girls, one holding a chicken and the other feeding a second, look on woefully as a young man and woman with donkeys, prepare to leave for market day. The young woman kneels beside a chicken

coop and basket of eggs, her hand outstretched towards the girls and their favourite chickens.

Chaloner Smith undescribed Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed to plate mark, not affecting image, repaired splits to edges of sheet, light creases to image and paper thinning.

[28984] £320

19. The Thatcher.

Mezzotint William Ward after George Morland London. Published Jany.1 1806, by G. Morland, No.10, Dean Street, Soho.

Image 450 x 600 mm, Plate 480 x 605 mm, Sheet 540 x 692 mm unmounted Inscribed beneath image with title.

20. Blind Mans Buff.

Mezzotint William Ward after George Morland Publish’d Decr 14th. 1788 by J. R. Smith No. 31 King Street, Covent Garden.

Image and Sheet 451 x 551 mm unmounted Inscribed beneath image with title.

Chaloner Smith undescribed, Frankau 31, LennoxBoyd iii/iii Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed to plate mark, not affecting image. Export mark on verso Zur Ausfuhr Freigegeben.

[29070] £300

The print depicts a rural scene, with a thatched inn displaying the sign of a magpie. A man on a ladder is laying fresh thatch, whilst his companion holds the end of the ladder on the ground. Another man sits on a dark horse, whilst holding a white horse with a sack over its back stamped: Morland 1795. A boy in an apron walks up carrying a full bowl, a young woman in a cape and bonnet, carrying a basket, stands to the right watching, and a pig eats cabbage leaves in the foreground.

Chaloner Smith undescribed, Frankau 293.III, Lennox-Boyd iv/iv Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Exellent clean impression with good margins on all sides.

[28985] £350

21. Cottagers Mezzotint William Ward after George Morland London Publishd Feby. 1791 by T. Simpson St Pauls Church Yard Image 440 x 552 mm, Plate 455 x 555 mm, Sheet

478 x 602 mm unmounted Inscribed beneath image with title.

This mezzotint was first published by William Ward on 27 November, 1790.

Chaloner Smith undescribed, Frankau 78, LennoxBoyd ii/iii Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Water stain in bottom left corner and overall foxing to margins.

[29068] £380

Boyd ii/iii Condition: Trimmed to plate mark, light foxing. Laid on board.

[28995] £295

22. No. 5. The Farm Yard.

Mezzotint William Ward after George Morland London Published July 1. 1795 by I. R. Smith, King Street, Covent Garden.

Image 439 x 546 mm, Plate 451 x 547 mm, Sheet 466 x 570 mm unmounted Inscribed beneath image with title.

Frankau 112, Lennox-Boyd i/ii Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Good strong impression. Diagonal crease to left corner of sheet and image.

[29069] £300 23. No.5 The Farmers Stable Mezzotint with hand colouring William Ward after George Morland London Published July 1. 1795 by I. R. Smith King Street, Covent Garden.

Image and Sheet 470 x 560 mm unmounted Inscribed beneath image with title.

Chaloner Smith undescribed, Frankau 111.I, Lennox-

24. No.5 The Farmers Stable Mezzotint William Ward after George Morland London Published July 1.1795, by I. R. Smith King Street, Covent Garden.

Image 437 x 546 mm, Plate 451 x 546 mm, Sheet 475 x 570 mm unmounted Chaloner Smith undescribed, Frankau 111.I, LennoxBoyd i/ii Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Light diagonal crease to bottom left corner of sheet and image. Small water stain to bottom left margin, not affecting image. Foxing spots and diagonal scratch to image.

[29074] £320

25. Plate 1. The Contented Waterman Mezzotint William Ward after George Morland Publish’d as the act directs Septr 19 1790 by P. Cornman Great Newport Street.

Image and Sheet 413 x 480 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: From Mr. Dibdins celebrated Song calld My Poll & my partner Joe / My Cot was snug well filld my keg / My grunter in the sty.

Chaloner Smith undescribed, Frankau 71, LennoxBoyd i/iii Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Overall time-toning and foxing to margins. Trimmed to plate mark at bottom of sheet, light water stain to bottom left corner of sheet.

[28992] £200

26. [The Farm Yard] Mezzotint William Ward after George Morland [c.1795] Image 440 x 550 mm, Sheet 465 x 580 mm unmounted Proof before letters.

Frankau 112, Lennox-Boyd i/iv Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed to plate mark at bottom of sheet, archival tissue strengthening to verso.

[29071] £400

27. [Winter] Mezzotint David Lucas after Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem [c.1830] Image 133 x 195 mm, Sheet 168 x 223 mm unmounted Engraver’s proof, before all letters.

Gooden & Fox 147, Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd [29073] £125

28. Peasants Conversing Engraving with hand colouring John Lewis Marks after George Morland London Published by J. L. Marks 17 Artillery St.t

Bishopsgate. c.1824 Image 130 x 175 mm vignette framed [29397] £80 29. The Piggery Engraving with hand colouring John Lewis Marks after George Morland London Published by J. L. Marks 17, Artillery St.t Bishopsgate. c.1824 Image 135 x 170 mm vignette framed [29398] £80

Robert Walker Macbeth after Fred Walker Etching Published Januray 1st 1887, Thos. Agnew & Sons.

London, Liverpool & Manchester and by Knoedler & Co, New York.

Image 572 x 860 mm framed Signed in pencil to the bottom right.

Issued in 500 impressions at £15/15/- and 25 presentation proofs.

This is an etching of one of Fred Walker’s last paintings.

[20860] £650

Cows & Bulls

30. Against the Wind and Open Sky Etching on vellum Herbert Dicksee Published at 8, Clare Street, Bristol by Frost & Reed, Printsellers of London, Bristol & Clifton, June 1st, 1900.

Image 245 x 548 mm, Plate 282 x 578 mm framed Signed in plate by artist before title and publication line.

[20990] £775

31. Man goeth forth to his works and to his labour until the evening

32. A Short Horned Heifer, 7 Years Old. Mezzotint William Ward after Thomas Weaver [c.1811] Image 453 x 607 mm, Sheet 493 x 613 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: Bred & fed by Mr. Robert Colling of Barmpton, near Darlington in the County of Durham.

Boalch 28, Chaloner Smith undescribed, Frankau 262 Condition: Trimmed to plate mark, repaired tear to top right of image. Laid on card. Rubbed impression [29081] £800

33. Portrait of the Short Horned Bull, Patriot.

Mezzotint William Ward after Thomas Weaver Published by Thos. Weaver Shrewsbury Feby.14.1810. framed Image 445 x 600 mm Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by Mr. Geo.Coates _Now the property of John Loft. James Conington, Thos. Marris & John Richardson Esqurs. / To the Right Honble. Charles Lord Yarborough. / Baron Yarborough of Yarborough in the County of Lincoln. President of the Agricultural Society for the Division of Lindsey in the said County. / This Plate is respectfully Inscribed by His Lordship’s much obliged & obedt.

Servt. Thos. Weaver.

Framed in it’s original frame.

Boalch 37, Frankau 217, Lennox-Boyd i/i [29162] £3,000

Pub. April 9th 1798 by G. Garrard London.

Image 454 x 607 mm, Plate 480 x 604 mm framed Boalch 24, Chaloner Smith undescribed, Frankau 158 [15706] £2,500

34. Fat Heifer Etching and mezzotint after James Ward London. Pub. Dec.r 18, 1820, by Wm. Raddon, No.1 Beaumont Place, Tottenham Court Road.

Image 222 x 297 mm, Plate 271 x 336, Sheet 295 x 367 mm framed Inscription beneath title reads: Bred & Fed by Mr. Quartly of Molland, North Devon.

Boalch 98, Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd [28979] £750

36. Devon Heifer.

Lithograph A. M. Gauci Ben George, imp. London & Paris. [c.1868] Image 304 x 490 mm, Sheet 383 x 520 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: Fed on Food Seasoned with Thorley’s Condiment. / Age, 3 Years, 2 Months, 1 Week._ Exhibitor. Rich.d Burton, Esq., Place Barton, Broadclyst, Devon._ Breeder, Geo: Gibbs, Esq., Bishop’s Lydeard, Somerset. / 1st. Prize at Bingly Hall, 1867._ & 1st. Prize at Smithfield Club Show the Same Year.

Joseph Thorley (1827 - 1876) was one of the first English manufacturers of compound feed for cattle.

Born in Hull, he moved to London to expand his business. By 1861 he had premises at Martins Villas, 17 Lower Hill, Islington; and a few years later built Thorley’s Cattle Food Mill at the newly constructed Victoria Wharf.

35. To the Right Hon.ble Lord Somerville President of the Board of Agriculture This Plate of a Holderness Cow is respectfull dedicated by His Lordships Obliged humble Servt. George Garrard Mezzotint William Ward after George Garrard

The Royal Smithfield Club, originally titled the Smithfield Cattle and Sheep Society, was formed in 1798 following a meeting at Smithfield Market, London, held under the presidency of Francis, the fifth Duke of Bedford. The society’s aim was to organise and stage fatstock classes for a national show. Founders of the Society wanted to emphasise the principle of early maturity of animals for the meat trade and the overall improvement in quality of

animals for this trade. The first show was staged in December 1799 at Wootton’s Livery Stables (Dolphin Yard), Smithfield, with annual shows then held at other London sites until 1862 when it moved to the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington.

Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Repaired tears to top, centre and right of image, pencil border added to margins [28997] £400

37. “Kate” Norfolk-Polled Heifer Lithograph with hand colouring A. M. Gauci Printed by J. King & Co Limited, Queen St. London, E. C. [c.1868] Image 310 x 490 mm framed A rare hand coloured lithograph in it’s original frame Condition: Light creases to left and right of image.

[29111] £700

38. Short Horn Steer.

Lithograph A. M. Gauci [c.1866] Image 332 x 510 mm, Sheet 417 x 570 mm unmounted A very scarce print advertising Thorley’s Condiment.

Inscription beneath title reads: Fed on Food Seasoned with Thorley’s Condiment. / at 3 Years & 4 Months old, bred & fed by G. S. Foljambe Esqr Osberton Hall, Worksop, dead weight 142 Stn. 6lbs (14lbs to the Stn.) / Sold at Xmas 1865, to Messrs.

Cooper & Howard, Sheffield, for 100 Guineas.

Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Small scuff marks across left hand side fo image, small tear to bottom margin just into inscription, dirt build up to top margin, not affecting image.

[29015] £500 39. Portrait of a Shorthorned Bull Lithograph Maxim Gauci after J. H. Carter J. Graf, Printer to Her Majesty [c. 1836] Image 436 x 560 mm, Sheet 601 x 725 mm unmounted A rare print of Sir Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar (1792 - 1875) presenting a Shorthorned bull to King William IV (1765 - 1837) and his bailiff John Engall, with Tredegar House in the background.

Maxim Gauci (1776 - 1854) was a lithographer based at 10a Charles Street, London in the 1830s.

Born in Malta, Gauci settled in London in 1809.

Best-known for natural history subjects, the lithographic plates for James Bateman’s Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala (1837 - 43), were the largest ever produced. He was the father of the lithographer William Gauci (active 1826 - 1854) and the painter and lithographer Paul Gauci (active 1834 - 1866).

J. H. Carter was an artist active in London and Torquay, Devon between 1839 and 1856.

Image on following page.

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by Sir Charles Morgan Bar.t of Tredegar in the County of Monmouth, & presented by him to His Majesty William IV. April 1836. / This Picture was painted by Permission of The King, & represents His Majesty, Sir Cha.s Morgan & John Engall, Bailiff to their Majesties George III, George IV & William IV. Boalch 57 Condition: Acid burn from previous mount, not affectings image. Professionally repaired tears to top and bottom of sheet.

[30227] ÂŁ2,000

unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: Fed by the Earl of Liverpool, and Slaughtered January 18th. 1839.

Aged 4 Years. / Weight. Carcase, 1639 lbs.- Rough Fat 257 lbs.- Hide 110 lbs.Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Repair tear to left margin just into image.

Small loss in centre of bottom margin, not affecting image.

[28991] £300

40. Lord Somerville’s Devon Ox. Etching and aquatint after James Ward London. Pub. Dec.r 18, 1820, by Wm. Raddon, No.1 Beaumont Place, Tottenham Court Road.

Image 214 x 290 mm, Plate 273 x 338 mm, Sheet 280 x 350 mm unmounted Inscribed beneath image with title.

Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Trimmed to plate mark, not affecting image.

[28983] £700

41. Durham Ox. Lithograph with tint stone and hand painted white highlights Alfred Ducôte after L. Hotes A Ducote Lithog.r 70. St. Martin’s Lane. c.1840 Image 301 x 408 mm, Sheet 380 x 535 mm

42. The Prize Heifer, Flower, at one year and four months old.

Lithograph with hand colouring C. Moody after B. Hubbard Boston: Published by Thos. Moses, York Street, Main Ridge. [c.1846] Image 375 x 525 mm, Sheet 510 x 615 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by Mr. Thomas Moses, of Stenigot, near Louth, Lincolnshire: / Herd Book, Vol 6, Page 377. / Got by Belvedere, the 4th.

Herd Book, 3130; dam by Son of Quaternion, 1351; gr.dam by Ivanhoe, 1131; gr.g.dam by Cossack, 925; gr.g.g.’dam by Waddingworth, 668. / Flower was Winner of the following Prizes (open to All England) the first Prize as She-Calf (when four months old).

Exhibited in a class of 6, at the North Lincolnshire Meeting, at Castor, in 1843._ At the North Lincolnshire Meeting at / Horncastle, 1844, first Prize, & a Sweepstakes, as the best Yearling Heifer in a class of 9. Also at Lincoln, same year, second Prize, in a class of 7. In 1845, at the Sleaford Meeting, the first Prize as a two years old Heifer, & at Gainsborough, the Second / Prize same year in a class of 7._ And

the First Prize, as a three years old, at the North Lincolnshire Meeting, at Market Rasen, in 1846, in a class of 6. / Flower was sold at Mr. Moses’s Sale, in 1846, for 57 guineas; a Yearling Bull - (Frederick, the first Calf), for 42 gs., & a Bull-Calf (the second), six weeks old, for 17gs. This extraordinary animal, when one year & four months old weighed 80 St. 2Lbs. (14 Lbs to the St. / Dedicated by Permission to the Rev.d Basil Beridge, / By his most obedient humble Servant / Thomas Moses.

Boalch 77 Condition: Large repaired tears to bottom lefter corner of sheet, just affecting inscription space but not affecting the image. Stain to top margin not affecting image. Spotting below inscription.

[29016] £550

43. The Short-Horned Breed.

Lithograph with hand colouring Fairland after William Nicholson and William Shiels London, Published February 1842, by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, Paternoster Row. Image 225 x 340 mm framed From On the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands: Comprehending the natural and economical history of species and varieties; the description of the properties of external form; and observations on the the principles and practice of breeding by David Low (London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1842).

Inscription beneath title reads: Bull, Hecatomb, bred by the Right Honourable Earl Spencer; - by Kirby, dam by Monarch, grandam by St. Albany &c / Professor Low’s Illustrations of the Breeds of the Domestic Animals.

Boalch L24 [29110] £360

44. A Devonshire Bull.

Etching George Garrard Pub: by G. Garrard, London July 18.th 1799.

Image 195 x 375 mm, Plate 330 x 485 mm mounted Boalch G1 [28988] £200

45. A Devonshire Bull.

Etching with original hand colouring George Garrard Pub: by G. Garrard, London July 18.th 1799.

Image 170 x 372 mm, Plate 323 x 477 mm, Sheet 399 x 508 mm unmounted From Engravings from the Works of George Garrard, and Some Examples from that Celebrated Painter Sawrey Gilpin: with a few etchings from their own

hands. (London: George Smeeton, 1816).

Condition: Trimmed to plate mark on left margin of sheet.

[29358] £295

46. A Devonshire Cow. Etching with original hand colouring George Garrard Pub: by G. Garrard, London, July 18.th 1799.

Image 155 x 320 mm, Plate 323 x 473 mm, Sheet 385 x 525 mm unmounted. Boalch G2 Condition: Trimmed to plate mark on left margin of sheet.

[29357] £295

47. A Devonshire Ox. Etching with original hand colouring George Garrard Pub: by G. Garrard, London, July 18.th 1799.

Image 215 x 400 mm, Plate 340 x 455 mm, Sheet 406 x 419 mm

unmounted. Boalch G3 Condition: Some small stains on at top and bottom of sheet, not affecting image.

[29356] £295

48. A Devonshire Ox Etching George Garrard Pub: by G. Garrard, London, July 18.th 1799.

Image 215 x 400 mm, Sheet 392 x 560 mm unmounted. Boalch G3 Condition: Overall foxing on sheet. Trimmed to plate mark on lower margin.

[29749] £210

49. Highland Bull, From the Stock at Woburn Abbey.

Etching George Garrard London. Published by G. Garrard, Jany 1. 1810 No.4 Queens Buildings Knightsbridge.

Image 180 x 305 mm, Plate 280 x 325 mm mounted

Boalch G43 [28989] £200

Inscription below title reads: By Scrip (2604) Dam. Modesty. by Magnet, (2241.) / Bred by Sir Cha.s R. Tempest, Bar.t of Broughton Hall, Skipton, Yorkshire, / Bought when a Yearling and Fed by Wm. C. Maxwell, Esq,,re of Everingham Park, Pocklington, Yorkshire. / Winner of the IXth Clafs Premium of 20. Sovereigns with Silver, Medal to the Breeder, and Gold Medal as the Best Beast exhibited at the Smithfield Club Show, Xmas 1842.

Boalch 72 [29112] £700

50. Native Irish or Kerry Bull, from the Rocks of Kilarny & Bantry Bay. Etching George Garrard Published March 1. 1814 by G. Garrard 23 Old Bond Street.

Image 180 x 380 mm mounted Boalch G49 [28990] £200

51. The Everingham Short Horned Prize Cow Aquatint with hand colouring J. Harris after William Henry Davis London: Published March 1st. 1848, by Messrs.

Fores, at their Sporting & Fine Print Repository & Frame Manufactory, 41, Piccadilly, Corner of Sackville St.t.

Image 395 x 550 mm, Plate 470 x 605 mm framed From the series: Fores’s Portraits of Prize Cattle.

52. Rhyneburgh & Cruib / Two West Highland Oxen, The Property of Colin Campbell Esq.r or Jura.

Lithograph Maclure & Macdonald after Alexander Forbes Maclure & Macdonald lithog.rs Glasgow. [c.1840] Image 360 x 480 mm mounted Inscription beneath title reads: When three year olds they gained the first premium at the Highland & Agricultural Society’s Great Show / at Glasgow in 1838, and as four year olds the same at Inverness in 1839.

[29252] £600

53. The American Mammoth Ox, - Brother Jonathan.

Lithograph Fairland after Herbert Clayton Desvignes [c. 1839] Image 428 x 557 mm, Sheet 523 x 590 mm unmounted A rare print of Brother Jonathan, an American ox displayed in London in 1839.

Inscription beneath title reads: Weighing 4,000 Pounds, or 500 Stone, - of Beautiful Proportions. / This astonishing Animal was Six Years old on the 15th. May 1839: Colour, Dapple Bay; was bred by the Honourable Isaac Hubbard, in the town of Claremont, New Hampshire, New / England, and imported to England under a heavy Bond to Her Majesty’s Customs to reship Brother Jonathan to America in six months, this beautiful Creature was exhibited at the Egyptian / Hall, Piccadilly, London, seven weeks, during which time 22,368 persons visited him including most every branch of the Royal Family, and the leading Agricultural Noblemen and Gentlemen, / He has been purchased by some Gentlemen for the purpose of exhibiting him thro the Agricultural districts, to shew the laudable rivalry in our Transaclantic Bretheren - / Her Majesty’s Government have been pleased to extend the Bond.

Inscribed with proportions and measurements either side of title.

Lennox - Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Overall foxing to sheet, professionally repaired tear to left edge of sheet.

[30222] £1,500

54. The Durham Ox Stipple and etching printed in colours with hand colouring John Whessell after John Boultbee Publish’d March 20, 1802 by John Day. Image 445 x 590 mm framed Inscription beneath title reads: To the Right Honorable Lord Somerville, / this print, is with great respect humbly dedicated, by his Lordship’s / most obedt. humble servant John Day. / This wonderful Animal is now the property of Mr. John Day of Harmston, near Lincoln, and was March 20, 1802, six years old. / Dimensions: Hight at the shoulders...5 Feet - 6 In. / Length from the Nose to the setting on of the Tail...11 Feet / Girth...11 Feet - 1 In. / Breadth across the Back in three places / Across the Hips...3 Feet - 1 In. / Across the middle of the Back...3 Feet 1 In. / Across the Shoulders squared on each side...3 Feet - 1 In. / Breadth of the first Rib...9 1/4 In. / Girth of the fore Leg below the Knee...9 1/4 In. / From the Breast to the Ground...1 Feet.

- 6 In. / Breadth between the fore Legs...1 Feet - 5 In. / Subscriptions taken for this Print in the first Year, amounted to two thousand and upwards, from whence the Public / opinion of this beautiful Animal may well be ascertained. / This Ox is still in a growing and improving state, and weighs according to the computation of the best judges 30 Score / pr. Quarter, which is 300 Stone 8 lb to the Stone, or 171 Stone 14lb to the Stone.

The Durham Ox, a castrated Shorthorn bull, was one of the most famous animal exhibits of the nineteenth century. Born in 1796, the ox was owned by the influential Shorthorn cattle breeder Charles Colling (1751 - 1836) of Ketton Hall, Brafferton. The grandson of Colling’s celebrated bull Hubback, the animal was originally exhibited in Darlington as the Ketton Ox in 1799, and was depicted with this name in a print engraved

by Robert Pollard after George Cuit in 1801. The same year, John Day of Harmston, near Lincoln, bought the animal for £250 and renamed him the Durham Ox. From 1801 - 07, Day and his wife travelled Britain exhibiting the ox at each stop for a day or many months, depending on the size of the town or city. Their longest stop was in London, where the Durham Ox was exhibited between December 1801 and December 1802 at Jenk’s Salerooms, Smithfield and Tattersall’s Bloodstock Auctions, Hyde Park Corner. It is recorded that the ox attracted such large crowds in London that on a single day takings totalled £97. His popularity at the time can be seen in the numerous prints dedicated to him, the various blue and white earthernware commemorative plates produced, and the proliferation of British public houses named after him. The Durham Ox’s career came to an end when on 19 February 1807, in Oxford, he dislocated his hip whilst exiting his carriage. Efforts to help him recover were of no avail and on 15 April he was slaughtered by the butchers Pinfold and Sims who had premises in Holywell Street, Oxford, and Evans of Wootan. The carcass was estimated to have weighed 34 hundredweight. In the same year, Day published An Account of the Late Extraordinary Durham Ox (London: S. W. Fores, 1807), which featured a detailed record of the animal’s display.

Boalch 27 [30406] £1,500

talking to two gentlemen beside his bull, another man standing behind it at right.

Inscribed beneath image with title.

John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer (1782 - 1845) was a leading Reform politician. Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1830 and 1834, Spencer was involved in the passing of the Great Reform Bill (1832) and the Factory Act (1833). Spencer was a notable cattle-breeder and the first president of the Royal Agricultural Society. He lived at Wiseton Hall, Nottinghamshire.

Boalch 179 [29253] £400 55. A Group of Cattle Mezzotint Thomas Lupton after Aelbert Cuyp London. Published June 1st. 1824, by W. B. Cooke, 9, Soho Square Image 180 x 244 mm, Plate 222 x 290 mm, Sheet 320 x 456 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: From a picture in the possession of T. Tomkison, Esqr.

Lennox-Boyd ii/iii Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd [29072] £120

57. 1st Prize (Class 4) Oxford Sat Stock Show 1903.

1st Prize Carcass Competition Oxford Market 1903.

Photograph Anonymous [c.1903] Image 314 x 258 mm, Sheet 384 x 449 mm mounted Handwritten text on mount reads: “Sir Ronald” / Fed

by George Abbott Esq. Cholsey / Purchased by Robt.

R. Alden & Son, The Market, Oxford.

56. A Scene at Wiseton Aquatint William Henry Simmons after Richard Ansdell [Thomas Agnew, 1844, but later impression] Image 495 x 630 mm, Sheet 675 x 805 unmounted Lord Spencer standing with a greyhound in a field

Robert Rhodes Alden (1840-1927) founded R. R. Alden’s Butcher’s Shop in the Covered Market, Oxford. He had eleven children including Leonard Henry Alden, Mayor of Oxford between 1936 and 1937.

Cattle markets were held monthly in Gloucester Green, Oxford between December 1834 and March 1932. The Jackson’s Oxford Journal of

6th December 1834 states: ‘The Committee appointed to propose the necessary arrangements for holding a MONTHLY MARKET for the sale of Fat and Store CATTLE will meet in the Council Chamber of this City on Saturday 6th December at Twelve o’clock; to which meeting they invite all person interested in establishing the Market, who may be able to assist the Committee in suggesting the necessary regulations. The First Market will be holden on Wednesday next the 10th instant, in Gloucester Green.’ On Wednesday 6th April, 1932, the cattle market moved to Oxpens Road, to make way for the city’s bus station.

Condition: Photo mounted on board which is discoloured where frame previously sat. Minor damage and repairs to photo.

[20185] £60

Horses

59. [Shire Horse] Lithograph printed in colour Anonymous [c.1840] Image and Sheet 325 x 410 mm unmounted Imposing Shire horse in profile, with building and landscape in background.

Condition: Laid on board, scuff to top right of image [29113] £120

58. Anatomical Model of the Cow. Offset lithograph Vinton & Company Vinton & Company Ltd., 8 Breams Buildings, Chancery Lane, London. England. [c. 1940] Image 156 x 230 mm unmounted Below title reads the inscription: Comprising Five Plate, With Key, Showing Outward Conformation, Skeleton, Arteries & Veins, Muscles, & Models of the Internal Organs in Position.

From the Live Stock Handbook Series. The Stockbreeders Library.

Condition: Pages of text loose but complete, pop up complete with only very minor damage in the form of minor creases and one small tear.

[28596] £95

60. The Farriers Shop Mezzotint William Say after James Ward London Published May 20.1836, by the Engraver, No.92, Norton Street, Marylebone.

Image 460 x 605 mm, Plate 485 x 610 mm, Sheet 558 x 683 mm

unmounted Lennox-Boyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Laid on board.

[29076] £475

Pigs & Boars

380 x 525 mm unmounted Inscription within image reads: Etch’d by G. Morland, 1796. / Proof.

A rare study of four pigs, one lying to the left, with three heads above.

Buckley 124 [28986] £180

61. Siamese Breed Lithograph with hand colouring Fairland after William Nicholson and William Shiels Published June, 1840, by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, London.

Image 205 x 300 mm framed From On the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands: Comprehending the natural and economical history of species and varieties; the description of the properties of external form; and observations on the the principles and practice of breeding by David Low (London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1842).

Inscription beneath title reads: Sow, 3 Years old, imported from Singapore by Messrs. Dugdale, Manchester:_The litter by a half-bred Chinese Male.

Boalch L49 [29108] £350 62. [Study of Four Pigs] Etching George Morland Pub: Jan.1.1807, by J. Stephens, No.9, Warwick Street, Golden Square.

Image 255 x 350 mm, Plate 295 x 382 mm, Sheet

63. Neapolitan Breed, Boar and Sow. Steel engraving after William Nicholson and William Shiels [c.1853] Image 92 x 170 mm, Sheet 136 x 212 mm mounted Inscription beneath title reads: The Property of the Right Hon. Earl Spencer, imported from Naples by the Hon. Captain Spencer. / Copyright by permission from Professor Law’s description of breeds of Domesticated Animals.

Boalch L52 [28947] £50

Prize of £40, at the Meeting of the English Agricultural Society at Oxford, July, 1839. Boalch F382 [28970] £55

64. A Boar.

Steel engraving Henry Beckwith after William Henry Davis London Published by Joseph Rogerson 24 Norfolk Street Strand Sept. 1844.

Image 100 x 170 mm, Plate 140 x 210 mm, Sheet 153 x 238 mm mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (September, 1844).

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred and fed by Will. m Fisher Hobbs, Esq of Marks Hall, Coggleshall, Essex, for which a / Prize of £10 was awarded at the Meeting of the R.A.S. of E. at Derby, 1843.

Boalch F360 [28930] £55

66. From the Original Picture, by G. Morland, in the possession of J. R. Smith.

Mezzotint John Raphael Smith after George Morland Engraved by I. R. Smith, and Published 1st. Jany.

1807, by Thos. Palser, Surrey Side, Westminster Bridge.

Image 485 x 602 mm, Plate 553 x 655 mm, Sheet 590 x 840 mm unmounted Inscribed beneath image with title.

A boy looking into a pig-sty, leaning with both elbows on the rough wooden boards watches three pigs sitting in the straw on the right, one eating a cabbage leaf.

65. A Boar.

Steel engraving James Westley after William Henry Davies London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk Street, Strand, 1840.

Image 95 x 200 mm, Plate 140 x 220 mm, Sheet 152 x 240 mm mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (March, 1840).

Inscription beneath title reads: The Property of Mr. I. Lefevre, Heckfield House, Hants, which obtained the

This mezzotint is after one of the thirty-six paintings George Morland exhibited at John Raphael Smith’s shop in King Street, Covent Garden. Smith also exhibited the original painting in the Morland Gallery alongside Feeding the Pigs. D’Oench rejects the attribution of this print to John Raphael Smith.

Chaloner Smith undescribed, Frankau 75, LennoxBoyd i/i Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd Condition: Excellent impression, good margins on all sides, slightly frayed at edges of sheet, paper split along plate mark.

[29067] £500

Poultry Plates from From W. B. Tegetmeier’s The Poultry Book: Comprising the breeding and management of profitable and ornamental poultry, their qualities and characteristics; to which is added “The Standard of Excellence in Exhibition Birds,” authorized by the Poultry Club. (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867).

67. Buff Cochin Cock.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 192 x 145 mm, Sheet 270 x 181 mm mounted [29171] £30

68. Black East Indian, Or Buenos Ayres Ducks.

Rouen Ducks.

Chromolithograph

Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 147 x 193 mm, Sheet 182 x 270 mm mounted [29166] £30

69. Black-Breasted Red Game.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 198 x 146 mm, Sheet 268 x 180 mm mounted [29184] £30 70. Buff Cochin Cock.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 192 x 145 mm, Sheet 270 x 181 mm mounted [29171] £30

71. Buff Cochin Hen. Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 192 x 140 mm, Sheet 270 x 181 mm mounted [29172] £30

73. Coloured Dorkings.

Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 197 x 145 mm, Sheet 267 x 180 mm mounted [29179] £30

72. Cinnamon Cochin Hen. Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 192 x 145 mm, Sheet 270 x 181 mm mounted [29170] £30

74. Creve Coeur.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 192 x 145 mm, Sheet 270 x 181 mm mounted [29173] £30

75. Dark Brahmas.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 195 x 153 mm, Sheet 267 x 180 mm mounted [29182] £30

76. Duck Winged Game.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 145 x 200 mm, Sheet 180 x 270 mm mounted [29185] £30

77. Gold and Silver Laced Bantams.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 147 x 193 mm, Sheet 180 x 267 mm mounted [29192] £30 78. Golden-Pencilled Hamburghs.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 148 x 193 mm, Sheet 180 x 267 mm mounted [29186] £30

79. Golden-Pencilled Hamburghs.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 142 x 197 mm, Sheet 180 x 267 mm

mounted [29187] £30

80. Golden-Spangled Polish.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 190 x 146 mm, Sheet 267 x 183 mm mounted [29189] £30

81. Houdans.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir

London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 195 x 145 mm, Sheet 267 x 180 mm mounted [29190] £30

82. La Fleche.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 195 x 145 mm, Sheet 267 x 180 mm mounted [29191] £30

83. Light Brahmas.

Chromolithograph

Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 197 x 142 mm, Sheet 270 x 181 mm mounted [29176] £30

84. Malay Cock.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 194 x 146 mm, Sheet 268 x 179 mm mounted [29178] £30

85. Partridge Cochin.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 195 x 147 mm, Sheet 270 x 181 mm mounted [29174] £30

86. Silver Polish.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 195 x 143 mm, Sheet 267 x 178 mm mounted [29181] £30

87. Spanish.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 195 x 143 mm, Sheet 267 x 176 mm mounted [29183] £30

88. Toulouse Geese.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 195 x 147 mm, Sheet 268 x 180 mm mounted [29164] £30

89. Turkey.

Chromolithograph

Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 193 x 145 mm, Sheet 267 x 180 mm mounted [29194] £30

90. White and Game Bantams.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 193 x 142 mm, Sheet 267 x 180 mm mounted [29193] £30

91. White Aylesbury Ducks.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 147 x 195 mm, Sheet 180 x 270 mm

mounted [29165] £30

92. White Cochin Cock.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 192 x 145 mm, Sheet 270 x 181 mm mounted [29175] £30

93. White Crested Black Polish.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 140 x 193 mm, Sheet 178 x 267 mm unmounted [29188] £30

94. White Dorking.

Chromolithograph Leighton Brothers after Harrison William Weir London: George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1867.

Image 195 x 150 mm, Sheet 267 x 180 mm mounted [29180] £30

Sheep & Rams

95. The Favourite Sheep Stipple engraving printed in colours Anonymous London. Pub.15th. May 1815, by Burgis & Barfoot 32 Southampton Street Strand.

Image 125 x 190 mm, Sheet 203 x 250 mm unmounted A female in classical dress adorns a sheep with a floral garland whilst a lamb suckles underneath.

Condition: Mark to ‘A’ in title. Overall foxing.

[29163] £120

96. A South Down Ram Lithograph William Henry Davis Printed by C. Hullmandel. [c.1840] Image 473 x 610 mm, Sheet 555 x 1000 mm unmounted An extremely rare print of the Suffolk farmer Thomas Crisp (1782 - 1862) and his prize-winning Southdown ram.

Inscription beneath title reads: Aged 3 Years, bred by Mr Thomas Crisp, Gedgrave Hall, Suffolk, for which a Prize of 30 Sovereigns was awarded at the Annual Meeting of the R.A.S. at Cambridge July 15th, 1840.

Note in Thomas Crisp’s hand reads: Prize of 30 Sovs / to Mr. Crisp / of Gedgrave, Suffolk / Clafs VII / No. 178, / South Down Ram / Bred by Mr. Crisp / Age 3 Years.

Condition: Large repaired tear running from top centre through right side of image.

[30221] £1,800

97. The Old Lincoln Breed.

Lithograph with hand colouring Fairland after William Nicholson and William Shiels Published, June, 1841, by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, London.

Image 240 x 335 mm framed From On the Domesticated Animals of the British Islands: Comprehending the natural and economical history of species and varieties; the description of the properties of external form; and observations on the the principles and practice of breeding by David Low (London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1842).

Inscription beneath title reads: Ram, bred by Mr. Jex, St. Jermains, near Lynne, County of Norfolk. / Professor Low’s Illustrations of the Breeds of the Domestic Animals.

Boalch L42 [29109] £360

98. Portrait of a Shorn Ewe of the New Leicestershire Stock.

Mezzotint printed in colour James Ward Published Feb.8th.1800, by J. Coles, No.87 West Smithfield.

Image and Sheet 293 x 350 mm framed Inscription beneath image reads: Painted and Engraved by James Ward on a Scale of 2 In.&1/2 to the Foot. / Fed by his Grace the Duke of Bedford, & produc’d at the Grand Shew of Cattle in Smithfield, on Saturday 14 Dec.1799.

Boalch 146, Frankau 64, Lennox-Boyd iv/iv Condition: Trimmed to plate mark, not affecting image.

[7793] £1,400

99. Cheviot Ewe. Steel engraving Anonymous [c.1875 - 1889] Image 95 x 175 mm, Sheet 131 x 213 mm mounted From Thomas Spencer Baynes and W. Robertson Smith (ed.) Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Scholar’s Edition, 9th ed., (Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1875 - 1889).

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by and the Property of Mr. Thomas Elliot, Hyndhope, Roxburghshire.

[28948] £40

mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (November, 1845).

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by His Grace, the Duke of Bedford, at Oakley, West Farm, near Bedford, which obtained the / 1st Prize £20 & Silver Medal for Shearlings and the Gold Medal as the best long Wooled Sheep at Smithfield Show, December 1844. Boalch F289 Condition: Trimmed to platemark, not affecting image.

[28973] £40

100. Southdown Rams.

Steel engraving Edward H. Hacker after Henry Strafford London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk Street, Strand, 1848.

Image 100 x 160 mm, Sheet 150 x 236 mm mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (January, 1848).

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by and the Property of Mr. Jonas Webb, of Babraham, Cambridgeshire, for which the First and Second Prizes / were awarded at the R.A.S. of England Meeting at Northampton, July, 1847. Boalch F316 Condition: Trimmed to platemark, not affecting image.

[28961] £45

101. Three New Leicester Wethers, at 20 Months old.

Steel engraving Edward H. Hacker after Henry Strafford London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk Street, Strand, 1845.

Image 95 x 145 mm, Sheet 150 x 251 mm

102. Cheviot Ewes.

Steel engraving Edward H. Hacker after William Henry Davis London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24 Norfolk Street, Strand, 1848.

Image 103 x 144 mm, Sheet 153 x 242 mm mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (October 1848).

Inscription beneath title reads: The Property of Mr. Elliott of Hindthorpe, near Jedburgh, N.B. for which the First Prize was / awarded at the Meeting of the R.A.S. of England, held at Newcastle, July, 1846.

Boalch F276 Condition: Trimmed to platemark, not affecting image.

[28956] £45 103. Black Faced Ram and Ewes.

Steel engraving Henry Beckwith after Henry Strafford London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk Street, Strand, 1850.

Image 115 x 205 mm, Sheet 160 x 238 mm mounted

From The Farmer’s Magazine (August, 1850).

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by Mr. David Foyer, Knowhead, Stirlingshire, which obtained the First Prizes in their respective Classes / at the Highland Society’s Meeting held at Edinburgh, 1848.

Boalch F277 Condition: Trimmed to platemark. Small holes in centre of lower margin, not affecting image.

[28960] £45

104. Leicester Rams.

Steel engraving Henry Beckwith after Henry Strafford London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk Street, Strand, 1849.

Image and Sheet 156 x 242 mm mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (July, 1849).

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by and the Property of John Borton, Esq. of Barton-le-street, near Malton, Yorkshire, which obtained the First Prizes of £30 each in the 1st and 2nd Classes at the Meeting of the R.A.S. of England, at York, in 1848.Boalch F293 Condition: Trimmed to platemark. Some small holes in inscription, not affecting image.

[28938] £45

105. Leicester Rams.

Steel engraving Henry Beckwith after Henry Strafford 1848 Image 105 x 180 mm, Sheet 150 x 235 mm mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (June, 1848).

Inscription beneath title reads: The Property of J. E. Pawlett, Esq. of Beeston, near Biggleswade, Beds, for which the First & Second Prize were / awarded at the Meeting of the R.A.S. of E. held at Northampton, July, 1847. Boalch F292 Condition: Trimmed to platemark, not affecting image.

[28962] £45

106. Leicester Rams.

Steel engraving Henry Beckwith after Henry Strafford London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk Street, Strand, 1849.

Image 120 x 195 mm, Sheet 150 x 239 mm mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (July, 1849).

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by and the Property of John Borton, Esq. of Barton-le-street near

Malton, Yorkshire, which obtained the First / Prizes of £30, each, in the 1st & 2nd Classes at the Meeting of the R.A.S. of England, at York, in 1848.

Boalch F293 Condition: Trimmed to platemark, not affecting image. Small tear to ‘S’ in ‘Street’ of publication line.

[28963] £45

107. Merino Rams Steel engraving Henry Beckwith after Henry Strafford London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk Street, Strand, 1848.

Image 105 x 150 mm, Plate 138 x 213 mm, Sheet 146 x 238 mm mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (March, 1848).

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by and the Property of T. B. Sturgeon, Esq; Grays, Essex.

Boalch F343 Condition: Repaired tear in bottom right of sheet, not affecting image.

[28936] £40

108. New Oxford Rams Steel engraving

Henry Beckwith after Henry Strafford London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk Street, Strand, 1848.

Image 95 x 160 mm, Sheet 156 x 235 mm mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (c.1848).

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by Mr. C. Large, Broadwell, near Lechlade, which obtained the First Prizes of £40 & £30 for / the best Long Wooled Rams exhibited at the Meeting of the R.A.S. of England, held at Northampton, July, 1847.

Boalch F341 [28965] £40

109. A Pen of Short Wooled Sheep (Southdown) Steel engraving Henry Beckwith after Henry Strafford London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk Street, Strand, 1848.

Image 105 x 195 mm, Sheet 155 x 242 mm mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (c.1848).

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by & the Property of His Grace the Duke of Richmond which obtained the First Prize and Gold Medal, at the Show of the Smithfield Club, Dec.r 1847.

Boalch F317 Condition: Trimmed to platemark. Small blue mark in right margin, not affecting image.

[28967] £45 110. [Three Sheep] Steel engraving Henry Beckwith after Henry Strafford [c.1845] Image and Sheet 156 x 242 mm mounted Condition: Trimmed to platemark, not affecting image.

Street, Strand, 1849.

Image 115 x 195 mm, Plate 150 x 225 mm, Sheet 155 x 240 mm mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (September, 1849).

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by and the Property of Mr. W.m Sainsbury, of West Lavington, near Devizes, Wilts, which obtained / the First Prize of £30 in Class 2, at the Meeting of the R.A.S. of E. at York, July 1848.

Boalch F318 [28932] £45 [28953] £45 111. Three Southdown Rams.

Steel engraving Henry Beckwith after Henry Strafford London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk Street, Strand, Dec.r.1.1841.

Image 95 x 205 mm, Sheet 146 x 235 mm mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (c.1841).

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by and the Property of Jonas Webb, Esq.r of Babraham, Cambridgeshire to which Prizes were awarded at the Meeting of the R.A.S. at Liverpool, July, 1841.

Boalch F315 [28966] £45

112. South Down Ram, (in two positions).

Steel engraving Henry Beckwith after William Henry Davis London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk

113. South Down Ram, (in two positions).

Steel engraving Henry Beckwith after William Henry Davis London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk Street, Strand, 1849.

Image and Sheet 148 x 239 mm mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (September, 1849).

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by and the Property of Mr. W.m Sainsbury, of West Lavington, near Devizes, Wilts, which obtained / the First Prize of £30 in Class 2, at the Meeting of the R.A.S. of E. at York, July 1848.

Boalch F318 Condition: Trimmed to platemark, not affecting image.

[28934] £45 114. South Down Ram, (in two positions).

Steel engraving Henry Beckwith after William Henry Davis London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk Street, Strand, 1849.

Image and Sheet 158 x 240 mm

mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (September, 1849).

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by and the Property of Mr. W.m Sainsbury, of West Lavington, near Devizes, Wilts, which obtained / the First Prize of £30 in Class 2, at the Meeting of the R.A.S. of E. at York, July 1848.

Boalch F318 Condition: Trimmed to platemark. Small brown stains across image and sheet.

[28935] £40

From The Farmer’s Magazine (October, 1850).

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred and Fed by Mr. Samuel Webb, of Babraham, near Cambridge, which obtained the first Prize of £20, / and the Gold & silver Medals, at the Smithfield Cattle Club Show, Dec. r 1848. Boalch F319 Condition: Trimmed to platemark, not affecting image.

[28972] £45 115. South Down Wethers Steel engraving J. B. Hunt after Henry Strafford London, Published by Joseph Rogerson & Co. 246, Strand, 1861.

Image 110 x 190 mm, Sheet 156 x 240 mm mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (c.1851) Inscription beneath title reads: Bred & fed by Mr. John Williams of Buckland near Farringdon, for which the First Prize of £20 and Gold / & Silver Medals were awarded at the Smithfield Club Cattle Show, Dec.r 1850. Boalch F321 Condition: Trimmed to platemark, not affecting image.

[28971] £45 116. Three South Down Wethers.

Steel engraving John Scott after Henry Strafford London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk Street, Strand, 1850.

Image 120 x 195 mm, Sheet 148 x 242 mm mounted

117. Southdown Rams Steel engraving John Scott after William Henry Davis London, Published by Joseph Rogerson, 24, Norfolk Street, Strand, 1851.

Image 115 x 190 mm, Sheet 155 x 238 mm mounted From The Farmer’s Magazine (c.1851).

Inscription beneath title reads: The Property of William Sainsbury, Esq. of West Lavington, Wilts, for which the First and Second Prizes were / awarded at the Meeting of the R.A.S. of England, held at Exeter, July, 1850. Boalch F320

Condition: Trimmed to platemark, not affecting image.

[28964] £40

118. Goats.

Engraving with original hand colouring Samuel Howitt Pub. by W. Darton & J. Harvey, Sept.r. 1st. 1808.

Image 95 x 163 mm, Plate 112 x 185 mm, Sheet 162 x 245 mm mounted From Rev. William Bingley’s Memoirs of British quadrupeds: illustrative principally of their habits of life, instincts, sagacity, and uses to mankind. Arranged according to the system of Linnaeus (London: Darton & Harvey, 1809).

Inscribed beneath image with title and above with: No. 39.

Condition: Slight time-toning to image area of sheet.

[29330] £50

119. Heath Sheep.

Engraving with original hand colouring Samuel Howitt Pub. by W. Darton & J. Harvey, Sept.r. 1st. 1808.

Image 85 x 157 mm, Plate 113 x 183 mm, Sheet 165 x 238 mm mounted From Rev. William Bingley’s Memoirs of British quadrupeds: illustrative principally of their habits of life, instincts, sagacity, and uses to mankind. Arranged according to the system of Linnaeus (London: Darton & Harvey, 1809).

Inscribed beneath image with title and above with: No. 40. var. 13.

[29335] £50

120. Herdwick Sheep Engraving with original hand colouring Samuel Howitt Pub. by W. Darton & J. Harvey, Sept.r. 1. 1808.

Image 85 x 140 mm, Plate 115 x 177 mm, Sheet 165 x 240 mm mounted From Rev. William Bingley’s Memoirs of British quadrupeds: illustrative principally of their habits of life, instincts, sagacity, and uses to mankind. Arranged according to the system of Linnaeus (London: Darton & Harvey, 1809).

Inscribed beneath image with title and above with: No. 40. var. 6.

[29334] £50 121. Leicester Ewe Steel engraving William Forrest after James Stewart [c.1850] Image 95 x 170 mm, Sheet 135 x 215 mm mounted From Thomas Spencer Baynes and W. Robertson Smith (ed.) Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Scholar’s Edition, 9th ed., (Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1875 - 1889).

the horse entries [...] multiplied tenfold.’ The accompanying catalogue had also grown to 500 pages, and each of the 406 stands offered up to 180 different farming implements.

To the right of the image stands can be seen for Sutton & Son, Reading; Wheeler & Son; and Driffiths & Co. [29691] £30

Inscription beneath title reads: Bred by and the Property of Mr. George Thomson, Haymount, Roxburghshire.

Condition: Small tear to left margin of sheet, not affecting image.

[28974] £40

Agricultural Society

122. The Royal Agricultural Society at Oxford: General View of the Show-Yard.

Woodcut Anonymous The Illustrated London News, July 23, 1870.

Image 237 x 342 mm, Sheet 271 x 400 mm unmounted A full-page print of the Royal Agricultural Show at Oxford from The Illustrated London News, with a corresponding article on verso.

The Oxford show of 1870 took place thirty-one years after the society’s first meeting there in 1839.

The newspaper described how by 1870, the show’s ground had expanded to ‘over seventy acres. Ninetyfour entries of cattle [...] increased [...] to 435, and

123. English Agricultural Society’s Show Yard.

First Meeting at Oxford, July 17th 1839. / English Agricultural Society’s Dinner, in Queen’s College Quadrangle, Oxford, July 17th. 1839.

Lithograph T. Picken & G. Scharf after W. A. Delamotte Published by J & R Dewe, Broad Street, Oxford; and Sold by R.Ackermann, Eclipse Sporting Gallery. 191 Regent St.; and T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London. [c.1839] Image 194 x 302 mm mounted Boalch 194, 195 [20638] £240 the pair.

124. Key-Plate to The Painting of the Country Meeting of the Agricultural Society of England.

Etching Samuel William Reynolds the Younger after Richard Ansdell Published by Thomas Agnew, Repository of Arts, Exchange Street, Manchester. [c.1842] Image 175 x 610 mm, Sheet 250 x 620 mm unmounted A key-plate to Richard Ansdell’s ‘The Meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, Bristol, 1842’, which is currently displayed in the Society’s Council Chamber in the Arthur Rank Centre, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire.

Whitman 541 Condition: Vertical fold in centre. All over creasing to sheet. Stain to top centre of sheet [29447] £90

125. Samuel Wiley Esquire, of Brandsby, Yorkshire.

Mezzotint and engraving James Andrews after William Hay York, Published May 1st 1856, by Robert Gunter, Stonegate.

Image 655 x 467 mm, Plate 755 x 550 mm, Sheet 830 x 630 mm framed Very rare large portrait of the famed breeder of Shorthorn cattle and Leicester sheep, Samuel Wiley.

Framed in it’s original frame.

Boalch 216, O’Donoghue unrecorded Condition: Excelent impression on laid paper, repaired tears to left and right margins, splitting to laid paper in title space.

[29080] £1,200

Broadsides and Ephemera

Portraits

126. Aynho Station, G. W. R. / 387th Sale. [Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous T. W. Pankhurst, Commercial Printer, ‘Advertiser’ Office, Bicester. [c.1891] Sheet 380 x 255 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: A Catalogue of / 348 Fat Sheep / 10 Capital Store Ewes, / 5 Fat Lambs, / Fat Calf, Downcalving Heifer / And / 12 Fat Oxen / Heifers & Cows / Which Will Be Sold By Auction,

By Messrs. / Paxton & Holiday / On Tuesday Next,

June 16th, 1891.

Jonas Paxton (d.1886) was born in Potsgrove, Bedfordshire, and began working as an auctioneer in Bicester in 1838; his first sale appearing in Jackson’s Oxford Journal on 17 November that year. He later went into partnership with other auctioneers including his son, Thomas. The firm was known as Messrs.

Jonas Paxton, Son, and Castle, and then Messrs.

Paxton, Son, and Holiday. He retired in 1883. A supporter of the Bicester Agricultural and Horticultural Society, and of the Oxfordshire Agricultural Association; Paxton was prominent in securing a railway line between Bletchley, Bicester, and Oxford.

[29097] £45

128. Aynho Station, G. W. R. / 769th Sale. [Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous T. W. Pankhurst, Printer, Bicester. [c.1907] Sheet 371 x 250 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: A Catalogue of / 17 Fat Oxen / Heifers & Cows, and / 203 Fat Sheep / Which Will Be Sold By Auction, By Messrs. / Paxton & Holiday / On Tuesday Next, May 7th, 1907.

[29088] £45

127. Aynho Station, G. W. R. / 388th Sale. [Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous T. W. Pankhurst, Commercial Printer, ‘Advertiser’ Office, Bicester. [c.1891] Sheet 382 x 255 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: A Catalogue Of / 261 Fat Sheep / 26 Fat Lambs, / 3 Fat Calves, Store Pigs, / And / 31 Fat Oxen, Heifers & Cows / Which Will Be Sold By Auction, By Messrs. / Paxton & Holiday / On Monday Next, July 6th, 1891.

Condition: repaired tear to centre of sheet [29099] £45

129. Aynho Station, G. W. R. / 770th Sale. [Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous T. W. Pankhurst, Printer, Bicester. [c.1907] Sheet 378 x 252 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: A Catalogue of / 11 Fat Oxen / Heifers & Cows, and / 166 Fat Sheep / Which Will Be Sold By Auction, By Messrs. / Paxton & Holiday / On Tuesday Next, May 21st, 1907.

[29096] £45

130. Aynho Station / G. W. R. / 773rd Sale. [Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous T. W. Pankhurst, Printer, Bicester. [c.1907] Sheet 380 x 252 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: A Catalogue of 20 Fat Oxen / Heifers & Cows, and / 158 Fat Sheep / And Lambs; also / The Crop of Grass in Sale Ground (to go off), / Which Will Be Sold By Auction, By Messrs. / Paxton & Holiday / On Tuesday Next, July 2nd, 1907. / At 11.30 o’clock.

[29087] £45

131. Aynho Station, G. W. R. / 778th Sale. [Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous T. W. Pankhurst, Printer, Bicester. [c.1907] Sheet 443 x 282 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: A Catalogue of / 114 Fat Oxen / Heifers & Cows, 4 Fat Calves, and / 387 Fat Sheep/ Which Will Be Sold By Auction,

By Messrs. / Paxton & Holiday / On Tuesday Next, Sept. 17th, 1907, / At 11.30 o’clock.

[29090] £55

132. Aynho Station / Great Western Railway. [Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous T. W. Pankhurst, Printer, Bicester. [c.1907] Sheet 366 x 252 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: The 777th Sale / of / Fat Beasts / and / 100 Fat Sheep / Will Be Held

By Messrs. / Paxton and Holiday / At The Above Station, / On Monday next, Sept. 2nd, 1907, / Commencing with the Sheep upon the arrival of the 11.25 train.

[29086] £45

Anonymous Smith and Pankhurst, Printers, Bicester. [c.1882] Sheet 380 x 253 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: A Catalogue Of Upwards Of / 150 Fat Sheep, / 33 Prime Fat Beast, / And / 21 Fat Pigs, / Which Will Be Sold By Auction,

By Messrs. / Jonas Paxton, Son, & Castle / At the above station, on Tuesday next, January 17th, 1882.

[29098] £45

133. Aynho Station, / Great Western Railway. [Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous T. W. Pankhurst, Printer, Bicester. [c.1899] Sheet 378 x 252 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: 575th Sale. / 100 Fat Sheep / 20 Ripe Fat Lambs, / 8 Fat Oxen & Heifers / And / Fat & Store Pigs, / Which Will Be Sold By Auction, By Messrs. / Paxton & Holiday / On Monday Next, April 3rd, 1899.

[29089] £45 134. Aynho Station, (Great Western Railway.) / 163rd Monthly Sale. [Sale Poster] Letterpress

135. College Farm, Deddington / One Mile from Aynho Station, G.W.R. [Sale Poster]

Letterpress Anonymous T. W. Pankhurst, Printer, Market Place, Bicester. [c.1907] Sheet 635 x 510 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: 32 Acres/ Of Excellent / Grass Keeping / On Rich Old Turf, / Till the 29th September next, / Will Be Sold By Auction By Messrs. / Paxton & Holiday / At the Unicorn Hotel, Deddington, / On Tuesday, April 23rd, 1907, at 5 for 6 o’clock in the Evening, / By direction of Mr. Joseph Hopcraft, who is retiring from business.

Condition: Horizontal folds. Small amount of tearing.

[29083] £70

136. Deddington / 6 Miles from Banbury and 2 from Aynho Station, G. W. R. [Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous T. W. Pankhurst Printer, Market Place, Bicester. [c.1907] Sheet 762 x 510 mm unmounted Inscription reads: The whole of the Valuable Live and Dead / Farming Stock / Comprising The Valuable Herd of / 68 Head Of Shorthorn Dairy, Fat and Young Cattle / 13 Cart Horses / Colts & Ponies, / 45 Oxford Down & Clun Ewes, / 22 Pigs, Poultry, Four-

wheel Phaeton, Harness, / Agricultural Implements, / Timber Carriage, Dairy Utensils, and Miscellaneous Effects, / To Be Sold By Auction, By Messrs. / Paxton & Holiday / On The Premises, / On Wednesday, September 25th, 1907, at 11 o’clock, / By direction of Mr. Joseph Hopcraft, who is retiring from business.

[29103] £85

137. The Glebe Farm, / Caversfield, Near Bicester.

[Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous Smith & Pankhurst, “Advertiser” Office, Market Place, Bicester. [c.1880] Sheet 765 x 500 mm unmounted Inscription reads: 8 Head Of Cattle / 2 Cart Horses, Excellent Nag & Harness Horse / Pigs, Poultry. / Wagons, Carts, Mowing Machine, / Agricultural Implements, / Dairy & Brewing Utensils, &c., also the capital / Household Furniture, / Feather Beds, Bedding, Carpets, Linen, Glass, Electro-plated Goods, / And Miscellaneous Effects, the property of Mr. Robert Lepper, who is leaving England, / To Be Sold By Auction, By Messrs. / Jonas Paxton, Son, & Castle / On The Premises/ On Monday, July 26th, 1880, at Eleven O’Clock punctually.

[29105] £85

138. Great Milton, / Near Wheatley. [Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous E. Smith and Son, Printers, Bicester. [c.1864] Sheet 675 x 420 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: 12 Valuable / Cart Horses & Colts, / 17 Head of Fat & Store / Cattle, / 27 Sheep, 14 Pigs, / Wagons, Carts, Agricultural Implements, Milk Leads Dairy & Brewing Utensils, / 100 Sacks of Potatoes, / Rick of Meadow Hay, (to go off) / 2 Ricks of Wheat / 2 Ricks & 2 Bays of Barley, 2 Ricks of Beans, / 2 Staddles, and various Effects of Mr. Joseph Surman, who is leaving his Farm, / To be Sold by Auction, by / Mr Jonas Paxton / On the Premises, Great Milton, on Thursday, Oct. 6th, 1864, at 12 o’clock.

[29092] £85

139. Holland’s Farm, / King’s Sutton [Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous T. W. Pankhurst, Printer, Bicester. [c.1889] Sheet 511 x 380 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: 71 Acres / of Excellent / Grass Keeping / (35 Acres of which may be Mown and the Crop taken off,) / To Be Sold By Auction, By Messrs. / Paxton & Holiday / At The “Bell” Inn, King’s Sutton, / On Tuesday, April 16th, 1889, at Four o’clock in the afternoon, / By Direction of Mr. S. R. Lovell.

[29091] £55 140. Little London, Oakley, / One Mile From Brill.

[Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous Smith & Pankhurst, “Advertiser” Office, Market Place, Bicester. [1880] Sheet 635 x 510 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: A Catalogue of / 51 Head of / Dairy Cattle / 13 Horses & Colts, / 20 Tons of Old Hay / (To Go Off,) / 5 Fat Pigs, 18 Store Ditto, / 12 Milk Leads, 4 good Wagons, & a variety of useful Implements & other Effects, / Which Will Be Sold By Auction, By Messrs./ Jonas Paxton, Son, & Castle / On the Premises, on Monday September 20th, 1880, at Twelve o’clock, By direction of the

Executors of the late Mr. Richard Tirrill, who are leaving.

[29093] £80

141. Murcott, 3 1/2 Miles from Islip Station, L.& N.W. Ry., 7 from Oxford and 9 from Bicester. [Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous T. W. Pankhurst, Printer, Market Place, Bicester.

[1900]

Sheet 443 x 286 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: Particulars & Conditions of Sale of Two very Attractive & Productive Freehold / Pleasure Farms / Containing Together / 62a. Or. 33p. / Op Thereabouts, / Situate in the Parishes of Charlton-on-Otmoor and Beckley [...]

Which will be sold by Auction, by Messrs. / Paxton & Holiday / at the Golden Cross Hotel, Oxford, / In Four Lots, / On Wednesday, May 30, 1900, / At Two for Three o’clock in the Afternoon.

Condition: Folded as issued, pamphlet over four pages.

[20539] £25

142. The Rectory Farm, / Lower Heyford. [Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous E. Smith and Son, Printers, Bicester. [c.1866] Sheet 650 x 500 mm unmounted Inscription reads: A Valuable Flock Of / 422 Long Woolled Sheep / 11 Head of Cattle, / 12 Good Working Horses / Two Nag and Harness Horses, 63 Pigs, the whole of / The Agricultural Implements, Dairy Utensils, / 2 Ricks of Clover Hay, to go off, / And Miscellaneous Effects, / To Be Sold By Auction, By Messrs. / Jonas Paxton & Geo. Castle / On the Rec-

tory Farm Premises, Lower Heyford, on Tuesday, September 25th, 1866, at 11 o’clock punctually, /

By Direction of the Executors of the Late Rev. G. D. Faithful.

Condition: Old horizontal and vertical folds. Split and discoloured along top left vertical fold.

[29102] £60

143. Royal Agricultural Society’s Prize / Corn, Seed, & Manure Drills. / Patronised by His Majesty King Edward VII., Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen / Victoria, and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria / Manufactured by A. W. Gower & Son, / Britannia Works, Market Drayton, Shropshire.

Woodcut Anonymous Bennion & Co., Market Drayton. 1925.

Sheet 250 x 155 mm unmounted A four-page pamphlet advertising a selection of Royal Agriculture Society drills manufactured by Gower and Son, Shropshire. Products include: Gower & Son’s New Patent Anglo-Canadian TwoHorse Corn and Seed Drill; Gower & Son’s New Gower Two-Horse Corn and Seed Drill; Gower & Son’s Royal Plymouth Prize Two-Coulter Ridge Drill, For Turnips, Mangolds and Carrots; Gower & Son’s Turnip & Mangold Drill For Flat Work; Gower & Son’s One-Coulter Ridge Drill, With and Without Manure Apparatus; and Gower & Son’s New Patent Garden Patching, and Allotment Drill, The Best In The World.

Condition: Fold as issued. Pamphlet with four

printed pages.

[29106] £25

Anonymous Smith & Pankhurst, “Advertiser” Office, Market Place, Bicester. [c.1880] Sheet 383 x 510 mm unmounted Inscription reads: To Be Sold By Auction, By Messrs. / Jonas Paxton, Son & Castle / On the Premises, / On Monday, July 26th, 1880, at Eleven O’Clock punctually. / Catalogue. / Household Furniture. / Attic, No.1. / Lot / 1 Game bag, rabbit net, bird cage, amd sundries [...] 273 Ditto / Catalogues may be had at the Inns in the district; or of the Auctioneers, Bicester, Oxon.

[29101] £35

144. [Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous Smith and Pankhurst, Printers, Bicester. [c.1884] Sheet 315 x 505 mm unmounted Inscription reads: To Be Sold By Auction, By Messrs. / Jonas Paxton, Son & Holiday / On the Premises on Monday October 20th, 1884, at Twelve o’clock. / Catalogue. / Sheep. / 1 Ten capital Oxfordshire Down Stock Ewes [...] 73 Ditto of the Bottom Field / Catalogues may be had at the Journal Office, Oxford; Inns in the district; or of the Auctioneers, Bicester, Banbury & Deddington. / Credit will be allowed on the Hay on the usual terms.

[29100] £45

145. [Sale Poster] Letterpress

146. Stokenchurch, Oxon.[Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous T. W. Pankhurst Printer, Market Place, Bicester. [c.1891] Sheet 635 x 505 mm unmounted Inscription reads: Annual Sale of Beech Timber & Fagots / About 604 Loads / Of Excellent / Beech Timber / With The Felling Fagots; Also / 50 Fine Oak, / 3 Elm, 7 Cherry, & 17 Ash Trees, / On The Estate of H. C. Brown, Esq., of Kingston Blount, / To Be Sold By Auction, By Messrs. / Paxton & Holiday / At The King’s Arms Inn, Stokenchurch, / On

Monday, November 23rd, 1891, at Twelve o’clock.

[29104] £75

147. Tower Farm, / Souldern, / Two Miles From Aynho Station, G. W. R. [Sale Poster] Letterpress Anonymous T. W. Pankhurst, Printer, Market Place, Bicester. [c.1897] Sheet 435 x 340 mm unmounted Inscription beneath title reads: About 60 Lots of Useful / Agricultural / Implements / Self-Binder, Mowing Machines, Water Drill, Dog Cart and Miscellaneous Effects, the / property of Mr. T. W. Hunt, who is leaving, / Will be Sold By Auction, By Messrs. / Paxton & Holiday / On The Premises, / On Tuesday Next, September 21st, 1897, at 3 o’clock in the Afternoon.

[29094] £55