Farnham Itinerant page engraved by Fitler from an original drawing by E.F. Burne

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  1. JegJegeren
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    This is a rare page from John Walker's The Itinerant collection that has a text misprint error. Most places where an s would be typed there is an f insted. I'm sure it's an original from 1802 but need help determining a value due to the odd nature of the error and the rarity of the article itself. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also there is info about The Itinerant on the BritishMuseum website.

    Thank You,
    JegJegeren

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    Posted 3 months ago #
  2. designKing
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    the s's are not misprinted, that is just an old fashioned s!!

    those old texts are nearly always written like that.

    is the print seperate from the writing? or on the same sheet?

    anyway it doesn't matter much - you have an old copper plate engraving of Farnham which is a small town in England, in the county of Surrey - which you already know of course as that's what the text says.

    It is hard to know wether the colouring is original or added later, it certainly is hand coloured - as anything from this period would be - they didn't have colour printing at that time.

    the margins of the engraving look like they are quite badly foxed - those brown marks.

    Posted 3 months ago #
  3. JeremySewell
    Antique Print Expert

    The Itinerant by John Walker was a book published around 1800 which had a load of engraved views of places around britain.

    ... like all views (or prints of places), the more famous and popular the place the more valuable they are as more people are interested. thus views of london are sought after by a great many people so are easier to sell and at a higher place than places no-one knows about.

    I'd say this particular item, being Farnham in Surrey, is reasonably well known, I'd say a retail price for this print if you were to buy it in a shop would be around £40 maximum.

    Posted 3 months ago #

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Summary of: Farnham Itinerant page engraved by Fitler from an original drawing by E.F. Burne

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