Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Subject Terms: Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

401. Sensitive leaf : the surprising phenomenon of nature.

Date:: [between 1832 and 1865]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 19 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

402. The life of an actor / by Pierce Egan, author of "Life in London," "Tom and Jerry," "A Musical Drama," etc. ; dedicated to Edmund Kean, Esq. ; the poetical descriptions by T. Greenwood ; embellished with twenty-seven characteristic scenes, etched by Theodore Lane ; enriched also with several original designs on wood, executed by Mr. Thompson.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: xvi, 272 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

403. The artists' painting book.

Date:: [ca. 1900]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves : all ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

404. [Album of views of Tenby, Wales]

Date:: between 1899 and 1920?]
Physical Description:: [12] p. : chiefly ill. ; 11 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

405. £300 a year, or, Single and married life : dedicated to all young bachelors.

Creator:: Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: 1sheet (10 p.) : ill. ; 15 x 140 cm., folded to 15 x 14 cm., attached to boards 15 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

406. The boy joiner and model maker : containing practical directions for making numerous articles for use and ornament, mechanical toys, models, etc. : with descriptions of various tools, and the method of using them / by Ellis A. Davidson ... ; with nearly 200 illustrations.

Creator:: Davidson, Ellis A., -1878
Date:: [1874]
Physical Description:: xii, 211, [1] p. : ill., plans ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

407. Fashion and folly : illustrated in a series of twenty-one humorous coloured engravings / by W. Heath.

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:: [1822]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

408. A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume / drawn and engraved by Henry Moses.

Creator:: Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: [30] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

409. Female beauty, as preserved and improved by regimen, cleanliness and dress : and especially by the adaptation, colour and arrangement of dress, as variously influencing the forms, complexion, and expression of each individual, and rendering cosmetic impositions unnecessary / by Mrs. A. Walker ; all that regards regimen and health being furnished by medical friends ; and revised by Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S. Vice President of the College of Surgeons, &c. &c. &c. ; illustrated by coloured drawings of heads by J.W. Wright, and of figures by E.T. Parris.

Creator:: Walker, A., Mrs
Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: xxxvi, 432 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

410. Album of cuttings from illustrated envelopes and letters.

Date:: 1879-1891
Physical Description:: 1 volume (38 pages, plus blanks) ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

411. Pawson & Lewis, undertakers : upholsterers, auctioneers, appraisers, house and estate agents : accountants & undertakers : 27 Chichester Place, Gray's Inn Road.

Creator:: Pawson & Lewis (Firm)
Date:: [approximately 1830?]
Physical Description:: 1 trade card : illustrations ; 6 x 9 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

412. Exercise in colouring landscapes.

Date:: [ca. 1865]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 15 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

413. The album of Windsor views.

Date:: [1880?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([10] p.) : all ill. ; 21 x 150 cm, folded to 21 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

414. Menu cards and name cards, with scenes of England and Wales.

Date:: between 1870 and 1890?
Physical Description:: 11 watercolors ; menu cards 17 x 11 cm, name cards 6.2 x 9.0 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

415. The bird-catcher : a merry round game for the table or the fireside.

Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 1 game (12 cards) : hand-colored lithographs ; each card 9 x 7 cm, in wallet 11 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

416. Helps and hints how to protect life and property : with instructions in rifle and pistol shooting, &c. / by Lt. Col. baron de Berenger ; the embellishments by Mr. Bonner and others ; after designs by Messrs. G. and R. Cruikshank, Alken, Haghe, Fussell, and de Berenger.

Creator:: Beaufain, Charles Random de Bérenger, baron de
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 286, [2] p., [10] leaves of plates (two folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

417. Rock's royal Colchester cabinet album.

Date:: [187-?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet : chiefly ill. ; 12 cm. x 18 cm., folded to 12 cm. x 18 cm., in covers 13 cm. x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

418. Goorkha gazette : a weekly publication.

Date:: 1887
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

419. The nose game : a series of five sets of types each set comprising ten different cards.

Creator:: Carreras, Ltd. (Firm)
Date:: [1927]
Physical Description:: [50] cigarette cards : color illustrations ; 70 x 40 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

420. Sabbath recreations : a collection of sacred music from the works of Mozart, Haydn, Handel, &c. &c. / arranged for the piano-forte by J. Pridham ; with illustrations of the principal English cathedrals.

Creator:: Pridham, John
Date:: [ca. 1880?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., music ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

421. Tea : its mystery and history / by Samuel Phillips Day, author of "Food papers: a popular treatise on dietetics," etc. ; with a preface in Chinese and English, by Lo Fong Loh, C.I.C.S., secretary to the Chinese Educational Mission in Europe ; illustrated.

Creator:: Day, Samuel Phillips
Date:: 1878
Physical Description:: 92 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

422. [Paper quillwork picture of a flower vase] [realia]

Date:: [ca. 1820?]
Physical Description:: 1 paper quillwork picture ; 17 x 20 x 1 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

423. Crystal Palace : the zigzag puzzle.

Creator:: R. S. W
Date:: [late 19th century]
Physical Description:: 1 puzzle (approximately 70 pieces + 1 board) : wood ; 15 x 15 x 1 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

424. The cutter : in five lectures upon the art and practice of cutting friends, acquaintances, and relations.

Creator:: Evans, Arthur Benoni, 1781–1854
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: [8],104 p., [6] leaves of plates ([5] folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

425. The London Mathews : containing an account of this celebrated actor's memorandum book, of peculiarities, characters, and manners, collected by him in his various trips, and several other humorous songs, (all adpted to well-known airs.), viz. Memoranda in confusion, The night coach, "Bubbles", a capital song, The sailing match, Old and new times, Public office, Bow street, Finale, and a monopolylogue, intitled [sic], The Crown Inn Danger : embellished with seven copper-plate engravings.

Creator:: Mathews, Charles, 1776–1835
Date:: [1826?]
Physical Description:: 36 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

426. The royal guide to wax flower modelling / by Mrs. Peachey, artiste to Her Majesty.

Creator:: Peachey, Emma
Date:: MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:: xvi, 72 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

427. [White and gold metallic cut paper card]

Date:: [approximately 1875]
Physical Description:: 1 folded card : chromolithograph ; 70 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

428. Orientalisches parquetspiel = Jeu de parquet oriental = The play of Oriental inlaid work.

Date:: [approximately 1835?]
Physical Description:: 1 puzzle (156 pieces) : wood ; in box 26 x 26 x 2 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

429. Domestic, literary, and village sketches : addressed to the young of our neighbourhood : in the vale of ***.

Date:: [1823]
Physical Description:: [6], 80, 30, [10] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

430. Domestic miseries.

Creator:: Heath, Henry, active 1824–1850
Date:: [1848]
Physical Description:: [2] v. : ill. ; 20 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

431. Paris lions and London tigers / by Harriette Wilson ; illustrated with twelve colored plates.

Creator:: Wilson, Harriette, 1786–1846
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 231, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

432. 1851, or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family, who came up to London to "enjoy themselves," and to see the Great Exhibition / by Henry Mayhew, and George Cruikshank.

Creator:: Mayhew, Henry, 1812–1887
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: [4], 242 (i.e. 240) p., [10] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

433. Rowlandson's characteristic sketches of the lower orders : intended as a companion to the New picture of London : consisting of fifty-four plates neatly coloured.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: iv p., [54] leaves of plates, [8] p. : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

434. Grand Leicestershire steeple chase, on the 12th of March, 1829.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: 8 prints : aquatint engraving ; 41 x 52 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

435. The home knitter : a manual for making useful articles for the family / by a lady.

Creator:: Lady
Date:: [1876]
Physical Description:: 32 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

436. Fables in action : by means of moveable pictures, and dissected and coloured figures, with explanatory text.

Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [2], 18 p. : ill. ; 10 x 16 cm. + (1 col. ill. envelope and 24 col. ill. cut out figures.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

437. The harmonist's preceptor, or, Treasury of mirth : being a new and extensive collection of modern and popular songs : in which will be found, distinctly arranged, English and Irish comic songs, Scotch songs, Yorkshire songs, Jews songs, love songs, and songs for the social board : with considerable additions, together with an entire new collection of toasts and sentiments, adapted to each song / written and selected by Mr. Bryant, of the Royal Cobourg theatre ; author of various dramatic pieces, poems, &c. &c.

Creator:: Bryant, Mr
Date:: [1822]
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 204 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

438. Instructions in all kinds of gymnastic exercises : as taught and practised in the gymnastic institutions of Germany : designed as well for colleges, schools, and other places of education, as for private use. With eleven illustrative plates / by a Military officer.

Creator:: Military officer
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: [1], xii, 99, [1] p., 11 leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

439. Lillywhite's illustrated hand-book of cricket : containing portraits of Pilch, Box, A. Mynn, Esq. C. Taylor, Esq. Lillywhite, Cobbett, G. H. Langdon, Esq. R. Kynaston, Esq. : also, the laws of cricket and other useful information / edited by a Cantab.

Creator:: Lillywhite, William, 1792–1854
Date:: [1844]
Physical Description:: 22, [2] p., [8] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., ports. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

440. Parlour magic.

Date:: MDCCCXXXVIII [1838]
Physical Description:: vii, [2], iv-viii, [2],183, [1] pages : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

441. Collection of blank visiting cards.

Date:: 1930s or 1940s?
Physical Description:: 4 boxes ; each approximately 8.5 x 4.5 x 2 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

442. Book for a rainy day, or, Recollections of the events of the last sixty-six years / by John Thomas Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: 306 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

443. Twelfth night characters.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: 1811]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

444. Whimsical song book for 1814.

Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 27, [1] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

445. A leap-year's proposal / illustrated and written by Harry B. Neilson.

Creator:: Neilson, Harry B. (Harry Bingham), 1861–
Date:: [1889]
Physical Description:: [48] pages : illustrations ; 18 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

446. The game of spellicans : ivory.

Date:: [ca. 1880?]
Physical Description:: 1 game (26 jackstraws, 2 hooks) ; each piece approximately 10 cm in length, in wooden box 5 x 12 x 3 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

447. Theatrical pleasures / drawn and engraved by Theodore Lane ; six coloured plates.

Creator:: Lane, Theodore, 1800–1828
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: 6 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

448. Groups of figures from cuttings in black paper : intended as lessons for instruction in paper cutting / designed and executed by Miss Barbara Anne Townshend.

Creator:: Townshend, Barbara Anne
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: [2] pt. : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

449. The art of modelling flowers in paper to imitate nature.

Date:: [ca. 1870?]
Physical Description:: 8 p., 6 p. of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

450. Worsley's little drawing book : very easy studies, in landscapes, houses, shipping, etc. : first series.

Date:: [between 1845 and 1852]
Physical Description:: [2] p., 28 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 15 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

451. Epochs of painted vases : an introduction to their study / by Hodder M. Westropp, Esq.

Creator:: Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), d. 1884
Date:: 1856
Physical Description:: [4], 24, [2] p., IX leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

452. The Royal cabinet album of Winchester.

Date:: [1881?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([12] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 14 x 132 cm, folded to 14 x 12 cm, in boards 15 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

453. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding.

Creator:: Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856
Date:: [1856]
Physical Description:: 54 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

454. The steeple-chase game.

Date:: [1860]
Physical Description:: 1 game (1 gameboard, 6 game pieces, wooden die shaker, 3 dice) ; in box 57 x 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

455. The art of dress, or, Guide to the toilette : with directions for adapting the various parts of the female costume to the complexion and figure, hints on cosmetics, &c. / embellished with engravings from designs by Frank Howard, Esq.

Date:: MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:: x, 68, [2] p., VI leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

456. The race course and the road to it.

Creator:: Nash, J. F., b. 1836 or 7
Date:: [between 1868 and 1885]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : ill. ; 28 x 90 cm., folded to 15 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

457. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:: [ca. 1828]
Physical Description:: [34] leavesof plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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401. Sensitive leaf : the surprising phenomenon of nature.

403. The artists' painting book.

404. [Album of views of Tenby, Wales]

405. £300 a year, or, Single and married life : dedicated to all young bachelors.

406. The boy joiner and model maker : containing practical directions for making numerous articles for use and ornament, mechanical toys, models, etc. : with descriptions of various tools, and the method of using them / by Ellis A. Davidson ... ; with nearly 200 illustrations.

407. Fashion and folly : illustrated in a series of twenty-one humorous coloured engravings / by W. Heath.

408. A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume / drawn and engraved by Henry Moses.

410. Album of cuttings from illustrated envelopes and letters.

411. Pawson & Lewis, undertakers : upholsterers, auctioneers, appraisers, house and estate agents : accountants & undertakers : 27 Chichester Place, Gray's Inn Road.

412. Exercise in colouring landscapes.

413. The album of Windsor views.

414. Menu cards and name cards, with scenes of England and Wales.

415. The bird-catcher : a merry round game for the table or the fireside.

416. Helps and hints how to protect life and property : with instructions in rifle and pistol shooting, &c. / by Lt. Col. baron de Berenger ; the embellishments by Mr. Bonner and others ; after designs by Messrs. G. and R. Cruikshank, Alken, Haghe, Fussell, and de Berenger.

417. Rock's royal Colchester cabinet album.

418. Goorkha gazette : a weekly publication.

419. The nose game : a series of five sets of types each set comprising ten different cards.

420. Sabbath recreations : a collection of sacred music from the works of Mozart, Haydn, Handel, &c. &c. / arranged for the piano-forte by J. Pridham ; with illustrations of the principal English cathedrals.

421. Tea : its mystery and history / by Samuel Phillips Day, author of "Food papers: a popular treatise on dietetics," etc. ; with a preface in Chinese and English, by Lo Fong Loh, C.I.C.S., secretary to the Chinese Educational Mission in Europe ; illustrated.

422. [Paper quillwork picture of a flower vase] [realia]

423. Crystal Palace : the zigzag puzzle.

424. The cutter : in five lectures upon the art and practice of cutting friends, acquaintances, and relations.

426. The royal guide to wax flower modelling / by Mrs. Peachey, artiste to Her Majesty.

427. [White and gold metallic cut paper card]

428. Orientalisches parquetspiel = Jeu de parquet oriental = The play of Oriental inlaid work.

429. Domestic, literary, and village sketches : addressed to the young of our neighbourhood : in the vale of ***.

430. Domestic miseries.

431. Paris lions and London tigers / by Harriette Wilson ; illustrated with twelve colored plates.

432. 1851, or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family, who came up to London to "enjoy themselves," and to see the Great Exhibition / by Henry Mayhew, and George Cruikshank.

433. Rowlandson's characteristic sketches of the lower orders : intended as a companion to the New picture of London : consisting of fifty-four plates neatly coloured.

434. Grand Leicestershire steeple chase, on the 12th of March, 1829.

435. The home knitter : a manual for making useful articles for the family / by a lady.

436. Fables in action : by means of moveable pictures, and dissected and coloured figures, with explanatory text.

438. Instructions in all kinds of gymnastic exercises : as taught and practised in the gymnastic institutions of Germany : designed as well for colleges, schools, and other places of education, as for private use. With eleven illustrative plates / by a Military officer.

439. Lillywhite's illustrated hand-book of cricket : containing portraits of Pilch, Box, A. Mynn, Esq. C. Taylor, Esq. Lillywhite, Cobbett, G. H. Langdon, Esq. R. Kynaston, Esq. : also, the laws of cricket and other useful information / edited by a Cantab.

440. Parlour magic.

441. Collection of blank visiting cards.

442. Book for a rainy day, or, Recollections of the events of the last sixty-six years / by John Thomas Smith.

443. Twelfth night characters.

444. Whimsical song book for 1814.

445. A leap-year's proposal / illustrated and written by Harry B. Neilson.

446. The game of spellicans : ivory.

447. Theatrical pleasures / drawn and engraved by Theodore Lane ; six coloured plates.

448. Groups of figures from cuttings in black paper : intended as lessons for instruction in paper cutting / designed and executed by Miss Barbara Anne Townshend.

449. The art of modelling flowers in paper to imitate nature.

450. Worsley's little drawing book : very easy studies, in landscapes, houses, shipping, etc. : first series.

451. Epochs of painted vases : an introduction to their study / by Hodder M. Westropp, Esq.

452. The Royal cabinet album of Winchester.

453. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding.

454. The steeple-chase game.

455. The art of dress, or, Guide to the toilette : with directions for adapting the various parts of the female costume to the complexion and figure, hints on cosmetics, &c. / embellished with engravings from designs by Frank Howard, Esq.

456. The race course and the road to it.

457. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.