CALAIS

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[The Channel Tunnel Company.] Three printed items: circular letter from William Low, engineer [addressed to Rev. E. J. Shepherd]; separate list of subscribers; and lithographic map with cross section and 'Section of Double Tunnel shewing Driftways'.

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[William Low, Engineer with the Channel Tunnel Company.] [Rev. Edward John Shepherd (1805-1874) of Luddesdown]
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Circular Letter: Roseneath, Grove Park, Wrexham, [25] March 1872. List of Subscribers:without place or date, but accompanying the circular. Map, undated, and by ';A. Macgregor, (late Maclure & Co.) Liverpool.'
£450.00

The three items in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. All three items are excessively scarce, with no copies of any of them located on either COPAC or WorldCat. ONE (circular letter): 3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Date number '25' and Shepherd's name added in manuscript.

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Engraving by Lewis, after Cooke, of 'CALAIS PIER'.

Author: 
Edward William Cooke (1811-80), marine painter; Charles George Lewis (1808-80), engraver
Publication details: 
Without date or place.
£265.00

On India paper roughly three and a half inches by six and a half wide, mounted on a thick piece of wove paper ten inches by fourteen and a half. Cooke's name is engraved on the illustration, and printed on the mount are the title, Lewis's name and a double ruled border. Good clear impression. The mount is a tad grubby, with foxing to the extremities. Atmospheric representation of a populated pier snaking to the left, with a number of sailing ships and a row boat taking advantage of the low tide nearby. No reference found.

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