Wall Maps and Medical Posters

This June Sanders are pleased to present a mini-catalogue of printed items intended to inform, educate and entertain. The catalogue contains a series of large scale wall maps published by the Oxford University Press alongside German medical posters both intended for use in schools. In addition to these are a small collection of curiosities such as complete anatomical pop up books and jigsaw puzzle maps.

To download a copy of the catalogue please click here:

Oxford College Prints

As the worlds largest seller of Oxford related material Sanders of Oxford is the ideal place to find that much deserved graduation present.

This photogravure of Christ Church College engraved by Emery Walker after Edmund Hort New is a striking example of a souvenier that lasts a life time.

We have thousands of images depicting town and gown, from General and High Street views, Individual Colleges, Academic Dress and Oxford Maps.

With prints of the famous University city starting at just £1 we cater for all budgets enabling customers to make a gesture that doesn't break the bank.

You can easily browse through our online catalogue or pop into the shop to rummage for a bargain.

Christi Church, Oxford
Emery Walker after Edmund Hort New
Photogravure
Published by Edmund Hort New, 17 Worcester Place, Oxford, AD 1916
Image 640 x 410 mm

Edmund Hort New, known as E.H. New, was born in Evesham in 1871. He was the son of an important lawyer. He attended the Birmingham Municipal School of Art. He began painting landscape and later he devoted himself to illustration. Early in his career he worked with Ruskin and other associated Arts and Crafts artists. He latter went on to work for William Morris's Kelmscott Press. The influence of these experiences is evident in his prints - the decorative boarders, armorials, etc.

Over a period of years New did a series of prints of the Oxford Colleges based on the David Loggan's 1675 aerial perspectives. New took Loggan's format and enriched his prints with many fine details of and abut the colleges and they are valued today by many collectors because of the high level of detail and the fact that they represent the colleges in their present state.

These prints were made through a relatively new process at the time - photo engraving. Like photogravures the print is made by transferring a photo to a copper plate and then printing it. With the E.H. New prints, a contact print of New's pen and ink drawing was made and the large negative attached to a plate which was then exposed in an acid bath, the acid only biting where the negative was clear; thus, creating and engraved plate of New's drawing. The prints were available separately at shops in Oxford such as Ryman's in the early part of the 20th century. 

Jonathan Brett Giclee Prints

This contemporary Giclee print by local artist Jonathan Brett is a wonderfully quirky play on traditional Oxford life.  Trained as a photographer, Brett makes merticulously detailed drawings in pen and ink and then creates a limited number of high quality Giclee prints from the original.

We stock a range of Jonathan Brett prints relating to Oxford as well as a very limited number of original drawings.

Peloton, pictured here is one of an edition of just 25.

Peloton
Giclee print
2012
Image 100 x 440 mm, Sheet 224 x 595 mm
Signed, numbered and inscribed in pencil
1/25

Stunning Dr Hooker Mezzotint featured on the BBC!

Nature lovers may have seen this spectacular mezzotint featured recently on the BBCs Natural World episode The Himilayas.  

This extremely rare engraving documents Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker's famous expedition into the Himalayas.


A hugely important figure in the history of botanic science, and a close friend of Charles Darwin, Dr Hooker was the first European ever to collect plants from the Himalayas. He was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew for twenty years and during his exploration of the Himilayas he sent back many previously unknown species of rhododendron, some of which can be seen in Kew's Rhododendron Dell. His book The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya was followed by two volumes of Himalayan Journals and The Flora of British India.






[Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker, F.R.S. in the Rhododendron Region of the Himalaya Mountains]

William Walker after Frank Stone
Mezzotint
[c.1854]
Image 567 x 479 mm, Plate 682 x 560 mm, Sheet 780 x 610 mm

Finished proof before all letters.

Dr. Hooker seated and looking to the left, is offered gifts of Rhododendrons by the kneeling female figures surrounding him. A man stands to the right surveying the scene, whilst in the distance the Himalayas can be seen.

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 - 1911) was a British botanist. The son of Sir William Jackson Hooker, he became director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1865-1885) following the death of his father.

William Walker the Younger (1791 - 1867) was an engraver, mezzotinter and publisher. Born in Scotland and trained in Edinburgh, Walker moved to London to work for Thomas Wollnoth. In 1829 he married Elizabeth Reynolds, the daughter of Samuel William Reynolds I. They had a son who was also named William Walker. It is thought that the Alexander Walker publishing from 3 King Street is also related.

O’Donoghue (not recorded)

Ex. Col.: Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd

Jubilee Weekend

We will be open throughout the Jubilee Weekend, please see below for our revised opening hours:

Saturday 2nd - 10am- 6pm
Sunday 3rd - 11am - 5pm
Monday 4th - 11am - 5pm
Tuesday 5th - 11am - 5pm

Image:

The Tower

Helen Carstairs

Chromolithograph

London & Glasgow : Blackie & Son, 1938

Image 235 x 160 mm 

From the book, Looking Round London. First edition. Apparently her only book - a fine sequence of quirky and delightful full-page colour illustrations of London landmarks - St. Paul's, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, the parks, the zoo, the Tower, Broadcasting House, etc. - accompanied by descriptive letterpress intended for children. 

 

Prints du Jour - Victorian Decoupage

The Victorians had a love of printed scraps and these two gorgeous images are wonderful examples of some of the finer demonstrations of decoupage from the Victorian era.

Each image is a collection of scraps precisely cut out and rearranged to form unique compositions.  These one of a kind pieces have been sensitively framed in gold leaf reproduction antique mouldings and make a beautiful pair or singular piece.

Please contact the shop for more details.

01865 242590

Summer at Sanders

As we all enjoy some much deserved sunshine we are busy preparing for an event filled Summer.

The Olympia Book Fair this weekend kicks off our Summer calender, with exiting exhibitions and stock releases still to come.

We haven't forgotten the Queen's Diamond Jubilee or the Olympic games and stock a wide variety of Royal and Sporting material to mark both occasions.

If you are looking for a gift for a summer birthday or graduation then you can not help but find something quirky from our collection of over 30,000 original antique prints, including this beautiful hand coloured etching pictured left.


56. The Bramble Moth. The Orange Apricot.
Benjamin Wilkes
Etching with original hand colour
London; Benjamin Wilkes, 1824
Image 250 x 210 mm vignette, Pl. 276 x 225 mm

Little is known about Benjamin Wilkes, the author of The English Moths and Butterflies. In the preface to the work, he tells us that 'painting of History Pieces and Portraits in Oyl' was his profession, but that he often felt at a loss to understand what colours would contrast and set each other off to best advantage. Then a friend invited him to a meeting of the Aurelian Society, dedicated to the study of insects. Here, he first saw specimens of butterflies and moths which in their disposition, arrangement and contrasting colours struck him 'with amazement' and convinced him that nature would be his 'best instructor'. Over the next ten years he spent his leisure time collecting, studying and drawing caterpillars, chrysalids and flies, greatly assisted by the well known naturalist Mr Joseph Dandridge to whose collection he had free access. This publication was the culmination of this work, a perfect combination of artistic skill and specialist scientific observation.

Wilkes' first publication on the subject had appeared in 1742. Entitled Twelve new designs of English butterflies (1742), it contained no printed text but consisted solely of twelve engraved plates, depicting butterflies arranged geometrically in groups. It was published by Wilkes 'against the Horn Tavern in Fleet Street. Where any gentleman or lady may see his collection of insects'.

The English Moths and Butterflies was a much larger and more ambitious work. Its colour plates portray the complete life cycles of individual species on their host plants, while the accompanying descriptions contain details of their ecology, morphology and habitat. Although this first edition was undated, it was probably produced in 1749. Dedicated to the president, Council and fellows of the Royal Society in London, it was popular enough to warrant a further two editions. The second edition - basically a reprint of the first, with a different title-page - appeared in 1773; although the original blocks were again used for the illustrations of third edition of 1824, the type was completely reset and the text updated to incorporate the new system of Linnaean nomenclature.