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Antique Prints and Maps alongside a collection of works by contemporary print makers. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff are always on hand to assist.

Sanders of Oxford continues a long tradition of selling antique prints and maps from our historic premises on Oxford’s High Street. Our store, located in the 16th century Salutation Inn, has been host to printsellers and booksellers since the 1830s. Sanders, the most recent of these, was founded in 1927 and in its most recent incarnation seeks to preserve the old world charm of the store while remaining accessible and welcoming to collectors and enthusiasts from all walks of life. No question is too mundane or too bizarre, so please ask. As one of the longest running, and last remaining, general antique print sellers left in the world the shop contains a vast array of stock. Operating somewhere between a shop and a gallery we aim to provide a less intimidating, and more inviting, backdrop to browse our varied and extensive collection of prints and maps than our history might suggest. We sell antique prints and maps from the 15th – 20th century, covering virtually every subject and location you can think of. These sit alongside a collection of works by UK based contemporary printmakers, priced to suit every pocket. All of the prints and maps we sell are guaranteed original, with no reproductions, copies, or digital prints.

28/10/2026

With spooky season fast approaching here we present an unusual piece of macabre ephemera from our latest catalogue (link in bio).

A mid-nineteenth century entry ticket to the Paris Catacombs, an exceptional survival of printed ephemera from the early days of the monument’s opening to visits by the public. The letterpress ticket, with additional details added in manuscript, allows entry for eight persons to enter the Catacombs, under the permission of the Inspection Générale des Travaux Souterrains du Departement de la Seine. The ticket has been numbered in manuscript as ‘No. 69’ and signed in an elegant hand by the Inspector General Jean Trémery. Tremery was in post from 1831 to 1842, succeeding the famous Louis-Étienne Héricart de Thury, who was responsible in 1809 for first opening the catacombs to the public, under the supervision of the first Clerk and Curator M. Gambier. Until the advent of general admission in the 1870s, the subterranean ossuaries could only be visited by applying for a ticket in advance. This ticket is one such example.

The Paris Catacombs were originally conceived of as a means to solve two of Paris’ key municipal issues: the collapse of former stone quarries, and the overcrowding of Paris’ cemeteries. Paris’ medieval cemeteries were full to bursting, with Saints Innocents literally an open charnel-pit containing thousands of decomposing corpses of all ages. The associated smell and health issues led the Police Prefect Alexandre Lenoir to approve plans to stabilise the old Lutetian stone quarries to prevent further cave-ins, and to fill the miles of empty subterranean passages with the exhumed bones of generations of Parisians. Beginning in 1785 and taking two years to complete, nightly waggons transported bones from Paris churchyards to the Catacombs. Requests by Parisians for permission to visit their dead led to the reorganising of the Catacombs by Héricart de Thury, who, inspired by the catacombs of ancient Rome, ordered the creation of various rooms to act as chapels and places of contemplation within the ossuaries. The result, with its stacked and artistically arranged bones, gradually became one of Paris’ most notable monument

27/10/2026

A CATALOGUE of RECENT ACQUISITIONS – OUT NOW (see link in bio)

Over the past few months we have been busy cataloguing a collection of what we like to think of as classic Sanders material. We are pleased to present fifty of our most interesting recent acquisitions in this catalogue, featuring fine and decorative prints spanning a diverse range of subjects, engravers, and prices.

The catalogue features a suitably seasonal collection of Memento-Mori and the art of death, a fine collection of stipple engravings, Old Master woodcuts, unusual ephemera, and satires by Gillray.

All works are available to purchase and will be on display in the gallery from today.

24/09/2026

A few highlights from our recent trip to the

14/08/2026

Morning summer light on the shopfront this morning.

We are lucky enough to be on the south side of the High Street so the prints and maps in our window display avoid full sunshine and the shop itself remains nice and cool.

09/07/2026

Our latest mini-exhibition OXFORD in PHOTO has been very well received, and with thousands of tourists currently filling the city and snapping away you can see why Oxford was one of the most photographed cities in England if not the world in the Victorian period. With an existing market of well to do gentleman with money to spend and an existing and growing tourist trade, Oxford was one of the best places to be a photographer in the late 1800’s. Photography in the nineteenth century became a lucrative profession for many; photographs held mass appeal, especially when technology increased their accessibility. Magic lantern shows and itinerate photographers travelled the country as did the “new tourists” eager for souvenirs. Henry Taunt, the famous Victorian photographer, noted that when working for Edward Bracher, Oxford’s first commercial photographer, “ many a night I have had to sit up and mount them [stereoscopic views] to supply the demand…”.

26/06/2026

The doors are open, the fans are on, and our 16th Century building is a calm refuge from the heat. We are open until 5pm today and 10am-6pm tomorrow. We look forward to welcoming you to the shop.

20/06/2026

Happy summer solstice to all of those celebrating tomorrow morning.
If you cannot attend the celebrations at Stonehenge in person we have put together a little collection of 18th and 19th century views of the famous stone circle.

06/06/2026

All set up . We are here until 7pm today so do pop by and say hello

20/05/2026

Sanders has a long tradition of dealing in mezzotint prints and we currently have over 450 mezzotints of various subjects from portraits to biblical illustrations catalogued and available on our website, with many more here in the shop.

Featured here is a rare mid-eighteenth century mezzotint sporting portrait of the racehorse Young Driver from our most recent catalogue (link in bio).

Young Driver.
Thomas Burford
Mezzotint
Publish’d, as the Act directs, by T. Burford, May 14, 1765.
Image 252 x 343 mm, Sheet 266 x 363 mm

Young Driver, a bobtailed c**t with white socks on his hind legs, and a white star on his forehead. The horse, a winner at Epsom, Barnet, Enfield, Ascot, and Malden between 1762 and 1764, is shown in full gallop, bridled and jockeyed. Burford has depicted him with all four legs off the ground, commonly seen in early paintings of racing, in order to convey the rapid movement of the horse.

Below, the title is enclosed in a decorative baroque-framed cartouche at the centre of the inscription, which reads: ‘In the Year 62, he won the Fifty’s for 4 Years Old, at Epsom, & Barnet, in 63, the Five Years Old, at Epsom, Barnet, and Enfield, in 64, the Give & Take at Epsom, Ascot-Heath, and Malden.’

Chaloner-Smith (undescribed), Siltzer (undescribed), Lane Burford (undescribed).

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