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1. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery, from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert, Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

Creator:: Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:: [1819?]
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, [60] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

Creator:: Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, [60] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The complete writings of William Blake : with all the variant readings / edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:: MCMLVII [1957]
Physical Description:: xv, [3], 936, [2] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The printer's address to the Queen, and Her Majesty's answer.

Date:: [1820]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 34 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The Wesleyan-Methodist missions in Jamaica and Honduras delineated : containing a description of the principle stations, together with a consecutive account of the rise and progress of the work of God at each : illustrated by a map and thirty-three lithographic views, executed from drawings taken on the spot / by the Rev. Peter Samuel ; twenty years a missionary in Jamaica.

Creator:: Samuel, Peter
Date:: MDCCCL [1850]
Physical Description:: x, [1], 10-320 p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The inhabitants, customs, idolatries &c. of Abbeokuta, (West Africa) : in six illustrations with letter-press descriptions / by the Revd. H. Townsend.

Creator:: Townsend, Henry, 1815–1886
Date:: [188-?]
Physical Description:: [12] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. ... Ordonnance du roi, du 6 décembre 1829 : sur l'exercice et les évolutions de la cavalerie.

Creator:: France. Sovereign (1824–1830 : Charles X)
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: xxiii, 390, [3] p. ; 35 cm.+ 1 atlas ( 7 p., 130 plates (8 folded) 16 p. of music ; ill., music ; 35 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Particulars and recommendations of the stadium, or British National Arena : for manly and defensive exercises, equestrian, chivalric, and aquatic games, and skilful and amusing pastimes : at the residence of the late Lord Cremorne : on a space of twenty-four acres, extending from the King's Road, Chelsea, to the Thames, and distant less that 2 1/2 miles from Piccadilly.

Creator:: Beaufain, Charles Random de Bérenger, baron de
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: 36 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

9. Talpa, or, The chronicles of a clay farm : an agricultural fragment / by C.W.H.

Creator:: Hoskyns, Chandos Wren, 1812–1876
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: viii, 237, [3], 4 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

10. Scenes on the road.

Creator:: Newhouse, Charles B., ca. 1805–1877
Date:: [1835]
Physical Description:: [18] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 29 x 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Greek marine views : from sketches taken by an officer, during a three years cruize in the Mediterranean / arranged by W.J. Huggins, marine painter ; and engraved by Edward Duncan.

Creator:: Huggins, William John, 1781–1845
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: 3 leaves, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A hand-book of Mr. Albert Smith's ascent of Mont Blanc : illustrated by Mr. William Beverley : with twenty-five outline engravings of the views : first represented at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, Monday Evening, March 15, 1852.

Creator:: Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
Date:: [1854?]
Physical Description:: [30] pages : illustrations ; 12 x 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The history of the British plantations in America : with a chronological account of the most remarkable things, which happen'd to the first adventurers in their several discoveries of that new world : Part I. Containing The history of Virginia; with remarks on the trade and commerce of that colony / by Sir William Keith, Bart.

Creator:: Keith, William, Sir, 1680–1749
Date:: MDCCXXXVIII [1738]
Physical Description:: [8], 187, [1] pages, ([2] folded leaves of plates) : maps ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A treatise on the æropleustic art, or, Navigation in the air : by means of kites, or buoyant sails : with a description of the charvolant, or kite carriage : and containing numerous most amusing and interesting anecdotes connected with several extraordinary excursions both by sea and land : with characteristic illustrations, drawn on stone by Rose Gilbert ; from designs by David Cox, jun.

Creator:: Pocock, George
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 54 p., [7] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. [Le beau monde].

Date:: 1823?]
Physical Description:: [19] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A synoptical compend of British botany : (from the class Monandria to polygamia inclusive) arranged after the Linnean system : and containing the essential characters of the genera, the specific characters, English names, places of growth, soil and situation, colour of the flowers, times of flowering, duration, and references to figures / by John Galpine.

Creator:: Galpine, John, 1769–1806
Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: viii, [194] p. in various pagings : ill ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The Prince Consort's farms : an agricultural memoir / by John Chalmers Morton, editor of 'The Cyclopedia of Agriculture,' etc., honorary member of The Royal Agricultural Society of Holland.

Creator:: Morton, John Chalmers, 1821–1888
Date:: 1863
Physical Description:: [12], 276 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The training of a craftsman / written by Fred Miller ; illustrated by many workers in the art crafts.

Creator:: Miller, Fred, decorative artist
Date:: 1898
Physical Description:: x, 249, [1], 9, [1] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. J.D. Harding's early drawing-book.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [2] p., 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A short description of Badajoz, and the surrounding country; with extracts from the London Gazette: explanatory of the picture exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester Square, representing the siege in 1812. Taken from the fort La Picurina.

Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 12 p. fold. front. 23 cm. in folder 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. To consumers of tobacco ... : be particular to ask for Briggs' Tobacco : I hereby guarantee that the tobacco sent out by is, is perfectly genuine ... and in case of seizure I hereby indemnify the parties against all forfeitures and penalties. (Signed) John Briggs, 32, Pavement, York.

Creator:: Briggs, John, active 1840
Date:: [approximately 1840?]
Physical Description:: 1 handbill ; 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The manse garden / by Nathaniel Paterson, D.D., Minister of St. Andrew's Church, Glasgow.

Creator:: Paterson, N. (Nathaniel), 1787–1871
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: x, [11]-262, 2 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Guide to figure drawing / by G.E. Hicks ; with illustrations.

Creator:: Hicks, George Elgar, 1824–1914
Date:: 1869
Physical Description:: 47 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Absurdities : in prose and verse / written and illustrated by A. Crowquill.

Creator:: Crowquill, Alfred
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: [2], x, [2], 132 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. An introductory course of fencing.

Creator:: Roland, George
Date:: [1840?]
Physical Description:: 41 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Ackermann's drawing-book of trees.

Date:: [Jany.1,1841]
Physical Description:: 48 leaves : all ill. ; 20 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Sketches of little boys : the well-behaved little boy, the covetous, the dilatory, the exact, the attentive, the inattentive, the quarrelsome, and, the good, little boy / Solomon Lovechild ...

Creator:: Lovechild, Mrs., 1743–1813
Date:: [180-?]
Physical Description:: vii, [8]-58, ii, [4] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Lectures on the history and principles of painting / by Thomas Phillips ...

Creator:: Phillips, Thomas, 1770–1845
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: xxxii, 477 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Advertisement for Pears' transparent soap.

Creator:: A. & F. Pears Limited
Date:: ca. [1879?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 39 x 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A concise account of lithography, or, The art of printing from stone : with suitable directions : Ruthven's patent lithographic press.

Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 16, [2] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A narrative of the death of Captain James Cook : to which are added some particulars, concerning his life and character, and observations respecting the introduction of the venereal disease into the Sandwich Islands / by David Samwell, surgeon of the Discovery.

Creator:: Samwell, David, 1751–1798
Date:: MDCCLXXXVI [1786]
Physical Description:: [4], 34 pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Directions for breeding game cocks : including instructions for the choice of a cock and hens to breed from : with calculations for betting, etc. ; being the result of many years of experience.

Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: 6-69 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The British imperial calendar for the year of Our Lord 1829 : being the tenth year of the reign of His present Majesty George the Fourth : or General Register of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its colonies : containing lists of both Houses of Parliament, Baronets, Orders of Knighthood, Privy Council, Official Departments of the State, the Navy and Army, the Church, the Law, National scientifice, and commercial institutions, and many other subjects of public utility : carefully corrected at the different offices and institutions.

Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: 60, 471, [1], 76, 113, [1] pages ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The science of drawing simplified, or, The elements of form demonstrated by models / by B. Waterhouse Hawkins.

Creator:: Hawkins, B. Waterhouse (Benjamin Waterhouse), 1807–1889
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: 20 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The life of a soldier : a narrative and descriptive poem : with eighteen engravings / by William Heath.

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:: MDCCCXXIII [1823]
Physical Description:: [8], 150, [2] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Journal of a voyage to Brazil and residence there, during part of the years 1821, 1822, 1823 / by Maria Graham.

Creator:: Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785–1842
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [2], vi, 335, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Costume caractéristique de France / d'après des desseins faits par un artiste dernièrement revenu du continent ; avec des descriptions appropriées.

Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: viii, [4], 37, [1] pages, [19] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. South Australia and its mines : with an historical sketch of the colony, under its several administrations, to the period of Captain Grey's departure / by Francis Dutton.

Creator:: Dutton, Francis, 1816–1877
Date:: 1846
Physical Description:: x, 361 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The Welsh interpreter : consisting of a concise vocabulary, and a collection of useful and familiar phrases, with the exact mode of pronunciation, adapted for tourists, who may wish to make themselves understood by the peasantry during their rambles through Wales / by Thomas Roberts.

Creator:: Roberts, Thomas, 1765–1841
Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: 147 p. : ill. ; 9 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Journal of a residence and travels in Colombia during the years 1823 and 1824 / by Capt. Charles Stuart Cochrane ...

Creator:: Cochrane, Charles Stuart
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Sketches of characters in common life / by Edmund Patten.

Creator:: Patten, Edmund
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: [4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Drawing for schools : containing expositions of the method of teaching drawing in schools ; a full explanation of the practice of model drawing after the method of Dupuis, as first practised at the Battersea Training College ; the principles and practice of outline and perspective drawing : together with numerous illustrations and drawing exercises / by Thomas Tate, F.R.A.S., of Kneller Training College, Twickenham; late mathematical professor and lecturer on chemistry in the National Society's Training College, Battersea. Author of "The principles of the differential and integral calculus;" " A treatise on the strength of materials;" "The principles of geometry and mensuration," etc. etc.

Creator:: Tate, Thomas, 1807–1888
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: [4], 45, [3] p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschaft Stetten, Landen und Völckern chronicwürdiger Thaaten beschreibung : hierinn wirt auch die Gelegenheit der gantzen Europe, item ein kurtzuergriffne Chronica Germanie oder Teütschlands, insonders aber ein fleyssige History und ordenliche Beschreybung Galliæ oder Franckreychs fürgestellt, darauff denn obgedachte der Eydgnoschafft Beschreybung volget ... : jetz neüwlich zum anderen Mal in den Truck gäben an vilen Orten gebesseret, gemeeret, mit einer angehenckten Chronologey kurtzuer zeichneter Geschichten vom 1548, Jar biss auff diss Gegenwirtig 1586 / Jar durch Johan Rudolph Stumpffen ...

Creator:: Stumpf, Johannes, 1500–1576?
Date:: 1586
Physical Description:: [9], DCCXXXII, [22] leaves : ill., coats of arms, ports, maps ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Travels in various parts of Peru, including a year's residence in Potosi, by Edmond Temple...

Creator:: Temple, Edmond
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: 2 v. front., illus., plates, map. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The sketcher's manual, or, The whole art of picture making reduced to the simplest principles : by which amateurs may instruct themselves without the aid of a master / by Frank Howard.

Creator:: Howard, Frank, 1805–1866
Date:: 1846
Physical Description:: xvi, 79, [1] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The wife, or, Women as they are : a domestic drama.

Creator:: Knowles, James Sheridan, 1784–1862
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: ix, 84 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

47. The official illustrated guide to the London and South-Western, North and South Devon, Cornwall, and West Cornwall railway : including descriptions of some of the most important manufactories in the towns on the lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with 280 engravings and map.

Creator:: Measom, George S
Date:: [1864]
Physical Description:: lii, 475, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Potting, enamelling, and glass staining : the valuable receipts of the late Mr. Thomas Lakin, with proper and necessary directions for their preparation and use in the manufacture of porcelain earthenware, and iron stone china, together with the most recent and valuable improvements in the admired art of glass staining and painting.

Creator:: Lakin, Thomas
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 86 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The voyage of the Jamestown on her errand of mercy .

Creator:: Forbes, R. B. (Robert Bennet), 1804–1889
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: ix, [2], 8-27, [3], cliv pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Modern horsemanship : a new method of teaching riding and training by means of pictures from the life / by Edward L. Anderson, author of 'A System of School Training for Horses,' 'The Gallop,' etc.

Creator:: Anderson, Edward L. (Edward Lowell), 1842–1916
Date:: MDCCCLXXXVI [1886]
Physical Description:: xiii, [3], 168, 20 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Cassell's sixpenny drawing copies. Series A. : Floral & vegetable forms.

Date:: [1872]
Physical Description:: [12] pt. : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. A plain and easy account of the British ferns : together with their classification, arrangement of genera, structure, and functions ; and a glossary of technical and other terms / edited by Mrs. Lankester ; with illustrations.

Creator:: Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900
Date:: [1859]
Physical Description:: [5], viii-xv, [1], 108, [4] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The shooter's guide, or, Complete sportsman's companion : containing a compendious view of the game laws : a description of the various kinds of dogs : and the best mode of breeding, rearing, and training them : with an account of the diseases to which they are liable, and the best methods of cure : to which are added, directions for grouse, partridge, pheasant, woodcock, snipe, hare, and wild duck shooting : particular instructions for the young sportsman : and much miscellaneous information on the choice of guns, gunpowder, shot, &c. &c. / by B. Thomas.

Creator:: Johnson, Thomas Burgeland, -1840
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [5], viii-x, 304 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A collection of designs for modern embellishments : suitable to parlours, dining & drawing rooms, chimney pieces, varandas, frizes &c. : on 25 plates / by C.A. Busby, architect.

Creator:: Busby, C. A. (Charles Augustin), 1786–1834
Date:: [not before 1819]
Physical Description:: 25 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Manufacturers of Roman and Parian cement, plaster of paris, and anticorrosian paint : at Nine Elms, near Vauxhall, London, S. and Medina Mill, near Cowes, Isle of Wight.

Creator:: Francis Brothers, & Pott
Date:: 14th February, 1859
Physical Description:: 1 trade card ; 8 x 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Sciography, or, Radial projection of shadows / by R. Campbell Puckett.

Creator:: Puckett, R. Campbell (Robert Campbell)
Date:: 1871
Physical Description:: xiv, 52 p., [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Doing the thing and the thing done : in a series of sporting plates / by Ben Tally-Ho ; author of "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of driving," and "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of hunting," &c. &c.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1818]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : all ill., 28 x 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The post and the paddock : with recollections of George IV, Sam Chifney and other turf celebrites / by the Druid.

Creator:: Dixon, Henry Hall, 1822–1870
Date:: 1862
Physical Description:: [8], 376, xxxii pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. The experiences of an amateur artist / by C. M. W.

Creator:: Webber, Catherine Mary, 1831–1900
Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: 34 leaves : all ill. ; 10 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Heads, after various artists / on stone by E. Morton ; each part containing four subjects.

Creator:: Morton, Edward, 19th cent.
Date:: [1840?]
Physical Description:: v. : all ill. ; 20 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Specimen of material used in the new ventilating hat : as exhibited, class 6, no. 58 / Gaimes, Sanders & Nicol, 22 Birchin Lane, Cornhill, & 111 Strand, London.

Creator:: Gaimes, Sanders & Nicol
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 1 trade card : illustrations ; 9 x 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. A voyage round the world by way of the great South Sea : perform'd in the years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24 guns and 100 men, (under His Majesty's commission to cruize on the Spaniards in the late war with the Spanish crown) till she was cast away on the island of Juan Fernandes, in May 1720 : and afterwards continu'd in the Recovery, the Jesus Maria and Sacra Familia, &c. / by Capt. George Shelvocke, Commander of the Speedwell, Recovery, &c. in this expedition.

Creator:: Shelvocke, George
Date:: MDCCXXVI [1726]
Physical Description:: [8], xxxii, [4], 468 pages, [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. The official illustrated guide to the Northern Railway of France, with six days in Paris / by George Measom ... ; embellished with one hundred engravings and map.

Creator:: Measom, George S
Date:: [1858]
Physical Description:: x, [1], 164, 110, [8] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. A collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc., in the Church of St. Nicholas, Newcastle on Tyne, and chapelries of Gosforth & Cramlington, Northumberland; to which is prefixed, a historical account of the Church of St. Nicholas ...

Creator:: Richardson, Moses Aaron, 1793–1871
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1. ill., plates, coats of arms. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Poems : legendary, incidental and humorous / by John F.M. Dovaston ...

Creator:: Dovaston, John Freeman Milward, 1782–1854
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [8], 460, [8] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. [Specimens of illustrated works] / published by Messrs. Longman, Brown, & Co., London.

Creator:: Longman (Firm)
Date:: [1849?]
Physical Description:: [170] p. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The life of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Creator:: Hewetson, William B
Date:: [1812?]
Physical Description:: 46 parts (545 p.) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. History and present state of Brislington House near Bristol : an asylum for the cure & reception of insane persons, established by Edward Long Fox, M.D. A.D. 1804 : and now conducted by Francis & Charles Fox, M.D.D.

Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 10 p. , [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Rambles in Germany, France, Italy, and Russia in search of sport / by the Hon. Ferdinand St. John.

Creator:: St. John, Ferdinand
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: vii, 244, [4] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Liston's characters : six coloured engravings.

Date:: 1826
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Plans and views of ornamental domestic buildings : executed in the castellated and other styles / by R. Lugar, architect.

Creator:: Lugar, Robert
Date:: MDCCCXXXVI [1836]
Physical Description:: 32 p., 32 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. A new drawing book of figures : sketches from life at home and abroad / drawn on stone by George Childs ; author of "The little sketch book," " Drawing book of objects," &c.

Creator:: Childs, George
Date:: [between 1845 and 1852]
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [24] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 18 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. An historical description of the tower of London and its curiosities : giving an account 1. Of its foundation, gradual increase, and present state. 2. Of its government, customs, and privileges. 3. Of its antiquities, records, and curiosities. 4. Of the lions, and other wild beasts kept there. 5. Of the spoils of the Spanish Armada, with the history of the Spanish Invasion in 1588. 6. Of the small armory, in which are arms for 100,000 men. 7. Of the Royal Train of Artillery, comprehending a variety of cannon, mortars, &c. &c. 8. Of the horse armory; with a concise history of the Kings fitting there on horseback, in full armour, from William the Conqueror to George II. 9. Of the Jewel-Office, and the regalia used at coronations, with a full account of Colonel Blood's attempt to steal them. 10. Of the mint, and the manner of stamping money : written principally to direct the attention of strangers to what is most curious in this Repository, and to enable them afterwards to describe what they have seen.

Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: 60 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Album of photo-lithographic views of Liverpool & district.

Date:: [1886?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([12] p.) : ill. ; 21 x 372 cm, folded to 21 x 31 cm, attached to boards 23 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Entomology in sport, and Entomology in earnest / by the Honorable Mrs. W. and Lady M.

Creator:: Ward, Mary, 1827–1869
Date:: [1859]
Physical Description:: 20, 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. A treatise on the theory and practice of the art of fencing : illustrated with 12 highly finished plates / by George Roland.

Creator:: Roland, George
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: xi, 181 p., [12] plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

Date:: [1805?]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. A few ideas, caught on Easter Monday.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Zoological Society's gardens, Regent's Park. Saturday, August 21st, 1897. Admit one.

Creator:: Zoological Society of London
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: 1 admission ticket ; 70 x 80 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Rural sports / by the Rev. Wm. B. Daniel.

Creator:: Daniel, William Barker, 1753?-1833
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. A natural and civil history of California : containing an accurate description of that country, its soil, mountains, harbours, lakes, rivers, and seas : its animals, vegetables, minerals, and famous fishery for pearls : the customs of the inhabitants, their religion, government and manner of living, before their conversion to the Christian religion by the missionary Jesuits : together with accounts of the several voyages and attempts made for settling California and taking actual surveys of that country, its gulf, and coast of the south sea : illustrated with copper plates, and an accurate map of the country and the adjacent seas / translated from the original Spanish of Miguel Venegas, a Mexican Jesuit, published at Madrid 1758.

Creator:: Venegas, Miguel, 1680–1764
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, map ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Indian racing reminiscences / by M. Horace Hayes ... ; illustrated by J.K. Ferguson.

Creator:: Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842–1904.
Date:: 1883
Physical Description:: xvi, 291, [1] pages, [24] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. A practical illustration of Gilpin's day : representing the various effects on landscape scenery from morning till night, in thirty designs from nature / by the late Rev. Wm. Gilpin ... ; with instructions in, and explanation of, the improved method of colouring, and painting in water colours by John Heaviside Clark.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [4], vi, [34] p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Collins' national drawing books / designed by D. Mackinlay.

Date:: [ca. 1880]
Physical Description:: 36 pt. : ill. ; 19 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Lithographic pencil drawing or instructions for imitating aquatinta on stone / by a pupil of Mr. Senefelder the inventor of lithogrpahy.

Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [2], 10 p., 13 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Art embroidery : a treatise on the revived practice of decorative needlework / by M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister ; with nineteen plates printed in colours from designs by Thomas Crane.

Creator:: Lockwood, Mary S. (Mary Smith), 1831–1922
Date:: 1878
Physical Description:: 83 pages, XIX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

87. The infant's grammar, or, A pic-nic party of the parts of speech.

Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: 15 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The rose-bud : a Christian gift to the young.

Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: iv, 250 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col) ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Tibet, and India beyond the Ganges : containing a description of the character, manners, customs, dress, religion, amusements, &c. of the nations inhabiting those countries.

Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: xi, 352 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. On the construction and decoration of the shop fronts of London : illustrated with eighteen coloured representations exhibiting the varied styles of the present period, for the use of builders, carpenters, shopkeepers, &c. / by N. Whittock ; forming an appendix to The decorative painter and glazier's guide, by the same author.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: 1840
Physical Description:: [4], 12, 4 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Letters and journals of Lord Byron : with notices of his life by Thomas Moore.

Creator:: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824
Date:: MDCCCXXXIII [1833]
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Figure training, or, Art the handmaid of nature / by E.D.M.

Date:: [between 1865 and 1873]
Physical Description:: 125, [1] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Celebrated & extraordinary exhibition, patronized by the royal families of England, France, Belgium, &c. &c. &c. of the industrious fleas : from Regent Street, is now exhibiting at Somerset Gallery, Strand.

Date:: [183-?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1]) p.) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Scenery, costumes and architecture, chiefly on the western side of India / by Captain Robert Melville Grindlay.

Creator:: Grindlay, Robert Melville, 1786–1877
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: 26, [86] pages, [36] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Twelve crochet edgings, with illustrative engravings / edited by G. Curling Hope, author of "The Art of Crochet," "My Working Friend," Etc.

Date:: 1848
Physical Description:: 25, [7] pages, [1], ([1] folded leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Voyage d'un français en Angleterre, pendant les années 1810 et 1811 : avec des observations sur l'état politique et moral, les arts, et la littérature de ce pays, et sur les moeurs et les usages de ses habitans ...

Creator:: Simond, L. (Louis), 1767–1831
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Costume of the lower orders of London : painted and engraved from nature / by T.L. Busby.

Creator:: Busby, Thomas Lord
Date:: [1820]
Physical Description:: iv, [24] p., [24] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Etchings on copper.

Creator:: Welles, E. F., active 1826–1856
Date:: 1835.]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves : all ill. ; 20 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Funny folks album : the artist's sorrows.

Date:: 187-]
Physical Description:: 1 panorama (8 p.) : col. ill. ; 7 cm. x 80 cm., folded to 7 cm. x 12 cm., in wrappers 7 cm. x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The story of Rosina : and other verses / by Austin Dobson ; illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

Creator:: Dobson, Austin, 1840–1921
Date:: 1895
Physical Description:: xvii, 120 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bert Boyson

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1. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery, from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert, Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

2. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

3. The complete writings of William Blake : with all the variant readings / edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

4. The printer's address to the Queen, and Her Majesty's answer.

6. The inhabitants, customs, idolatries &c. of Abbeokuta, (West Africa) : in six illustrations with letter-press descriptions / by the Revd. H. Townsend.

7. ... Ordonnance du roi, du 6 décembre 1829 : sur l'exercice et les évolutions de la cavalerie.

9. Talpa, or, The chronicles of a clay farm : an agricultural fragment / by C.W.H.

10. Scenes on the road.

11. Greek marine views : from sketches taken by an officer, during a three years cruize in the Mediterranean / arranged by W.J. Huggins, marine painter ; and engraved by Edward Duncan.

12. A hand-book of Mr. Albert Smith's ascent of Mont Blanc : illustrated by Mr. William Beverley : with twenty-five outline engravings of the views : first represented at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, Monday Evening, March 15, 1852.

15. [Le beau monde].

17. The Prince Consort's farms : an agricultural memoir / by John Chalmers Morton, editor of 'The Cyclopedia of Agriculture,' etc., honorary member of The Royal Agricultural Society of Holland.

18. The training of a craftsman / written by Fred Miller ; illustrated by many workers in the art crafts.

19. J.D. Harding's early drawing-book.

20. A short description of Badajoz, and the surrounding country; with extracts from the London Gazette: explanatory of the picture exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester Square, representing the siege in 1812. Taken from the fort La Picurina.

21. To consumers of tobacco ... : be particular to ask for Briggs' Tobacco : I hereby guarantee that the tobacco sent out by is, is perfectly genuine ... and in case of seizure I hereby indemnify the parties against all forfeitures and penalties. (Signed) John Briggs, 32, Pavement, York.

22. The manse garden / by Nathaniel Paterson, D.D., Minister of St. Andrew's Church, Glasgow.

23. Guide to figure drawing / by G.E. Hicks ; with illustrations.

24. Absurdities : in prose and verse / written and illustrated by A. Crowquill.

25. An introductory course of fencing.

26. Ackermann's drawing-book of trees.

27. Sketches of little boys : the well-behaved little boy, the covetous, the dilatory, the exact, the attentive, the inattentive, the quarrelsome, and, the good, little boy / Solomon Lovechild ...

28. Lectures on the history and principles of painting / by Thomas Phillips ...

29. Advertisement for Pears' transparent soap.

30. A concise account of lithography, or, The art of printing from stone : with suitable directions : Ruthven's patent lithographic press.

31. A narrative of the death of Captain James Cook : to which are added some particulars, concerning his life and character, and observations respecting the introduction of the venereal disease into the Sandwich Islands / by David Samwell, surgeon of the Discovery.

32. Directions for breeding game cocks : including instructions for the choice of a cock and hens to breed from : with calculations for betting, etc. ; being the result of many years of experience.

34. The science of drawing simplified, or, The elements of form demonstrated by models / by B. Waterhouse Hawkins.

35. The life of a soldier : a narrative and descriptive poem : with eighteen engravings / by William Heath.

36. Journal of a voyage to Brazil and residence there, during part of the years 1821, 1822, 1823 / by Maria Graham.

37. Costume caractéristique de France / d'après des desseins faits par un artiste dernièrement revenu du continent ; avec des descriptions appropriées.

38. South Australia and its mines : with an historical sketch of the colony, under its several administrations, to the period of Captain Grey's departure / by Francis Dutton.

39. The Welsh interpreter : consisting of a concise vocabulary, and a collection of useful and familiar phrases, with the exact mode of pronunciation, adapted for tourists, who may wish to make themselves understood by the peasantry during their rambles through Wales / by Thomas Roberts.

40. Journal of a residence and travels in Colombia during the years 1823 and 1824 / by Capt. Charles Stuart Cochrane ...

41. Sketches of characters in common life / by Edmund Patten.

44. Travels in various parts of Peru, including a year's residence in Potosi, by Edmond Temple...

45. The sketcher's manual, or, The whole art of picture making reduced to the simplest principles : by which amateurs may instruct themselves without the aid of a master / by Frank Howard.

46. The wife, or, Women as they are : a domestic drama.

47. The official illustrated guide to the London and South-Western, North and South Devon, Cornwall, and West Cornwall railway : including descriptions of some of the most important manufactories in the towns on the lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with 280 engravings and map.

49. The voyage of the Jamestown on her errand of mercy .

50. Modern horsemanship : a new method of teaching riding and training by means of pictures from the life / by Edward L. Anderson, author of 'A System of School Training for Horses,' 'The Gallop,' etc.

51. Cassell's sixpenny drawing copies. Series A. : Floral & vegetable forms.

52. A plain and easy account of the British ferns : together with their classification, arrangement of genera, structure, and functions ; and a glossary of technical and other terms / edited by Mrs. Lankester ; with illustrations.

54. A collection of designs for modern embellishments : suitable to parlours, dining & drawing rooms, chimney pieces, varandas, frizes &c. : on 25 plates / by C.A. Busby, architect.

55. Manufacturers of Roman and Parian cement, plaster of paris, and anticorrosian paint : at Nine Elms, near Vauxhall, London, S. and Medina Mill, near Cowes, Isle of Wight.

56. Sciography, or, Radial projection of shadows / by R. Campbell Puckett.

57. Doing the thing and the thing done : in a series of sporting plates / by Ben Tally-Ho ; author of "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of driving," and "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of hunting," &c. &c.

58. The post and the paddock : with recollections of George IV, Sam Chifney and other turf celebrites / by the Druid.

59. The experiences of an amateur artist / by C. M. W.

60. Heads, after various artists / on stone by E. Morton ; each part containing four subjects.

61. Specimen of material used in the new ventilating hat : as exhibited, class 6, no. 58 / Gaimes, Sanders & Nicol, 22 Birchin Lane, Cornhill, & 111 Strand, London.

63. The official illustrated guide to the Northern Railway of France, with six days in Paris / by George Measom ... ; embellished with one hundred engravings and map.

64. A collection of armorial bearings, inscriptions, etc., in the Church of St. Nicholas, Newcastle on Tyne, and chapelries of Gosforth & Cramlington, Northumberland; to which is prefixed, a historical account of the Church of St. Nicholas ...

65. Poems : legendary, incidental and humorous / by John F.M. Dovaston ...

66. [Specimens of illustrated works] / published by Messrs. Longman, Brown, & Co., London.

67. The life of Napoleon Bonaparte.

68. History and present state of Brislington House near Bristol : an asylum for the cure & reception of insane persons, established by Edward Long Fox, M.D. A.D. 1804 : and now conducted by Francis & Charles Fox, M.D.D.

69. Rambles in Germany, France, Italy, and Russia in search of sport / by the Hon. Ferdinand St. John.

70. Liston's characters : six coloured engravings.

71. Plans and views of ornamental domestic buildings : executed in the castellated and other styles / by R. Lugar, architect.

72. A new drawing book of figures : sketches from life at home and abroad / drawn on stone by George Childs ; author of "The little sketch book," " Drawing book of objects," &c.

74. Album of photo-lithographic views of Liverpool & district.

75. Entomology in sport, and Entomology in earnest / by the Honorable Mrs. W. and Lady M.

76. A treatise on the theory and practice of the art of fencing : illustrated with 12 highly finished plates / by George Roland.

77. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

78. A few ideas, caught on Easter Monday.

79. Zoological Society's gardens, Regent's Park. Saturday, August 21st, 1897. Admit one.

80. Rural sports / by the Rev. Wm. B. Daniel.

82. Indian racing reminiscences / by M. Horace Hayes ... ; illustrated by J.K. Ferguson.

84. Collins' national drawing books / designed by D. Mackinlay.

85. Lithographic pencil drawing or instructions for imitating aquatinta on stone / by a pupil of Mr. Senefelder the inventor of lithogrpahy.

86. Art embroidery : a treatise on the revived practice of decorative needlework / by M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister ; with nineteen plates printed in colours from designs by Thomas Crane.

87. The infant's grammar, or, A pic-nic party of the parts of speech.