Period: 18th century / Image Available: Unavailable / Language: English

1. Journal and notebook kept during a tour through France and Italy in 1773.

Creator:: Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 1 volume (approximately 42 leaves) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Account book of George Romney with his banker, Thomas Greene.

Creator:: Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:: 1788 August 19-1798 April 6
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([18] p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Manuscript daybook for George Romney, in the hand of Richard Williams.

Creator:: Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:: 1794-1796
Physical Description:: 1 volume ([4], 85, [57] pages) (many pages blank) ; 41 x 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Thomas Gainsborough letters to his sister Mrs. Mary Gibbon,

Creator:: Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:: 1777-1781
Physical Description:: 2 letters ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body with that of a tiger and a common fowl : manuscript.

Creator:: Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:: ca. [1798?]
Physical Description:: 4 volumes ; 26-34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Prints published by W. Hogarth : and are to be had at his house in Leicester-Fields, 1762.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste / by William Hogarth.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: xxii, [4], 153, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Industry and idleness [graphic] / design'd by Wm. Hogarth.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: [between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:: 12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A discourse, delivered at the opening of the Royal Academy, October 16, 1780 / by the President.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]
Physical Description:: 6, [7], [4], 32 p. ; 27 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 11, 1769 / by the President.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:: [4], 23, [1] p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1784 / by the President.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]
Physical Description:: [4], 32 p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Seven discourses delivered in the Royal Academy / by the President [i.e., J. Reynolds]

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: 326 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1778 / by the President.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: M DCC LXXIX [1779]
Physical Description:: [4], 38, [2] p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, Dec. the 10th, 1774 / by the President.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:: [2], 36 p. ; 32 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1772 / by the President.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: M DCC LXIII. [i.e. 1773]
Physical Description:: [4], 27, [1] p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1776 / by the President.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: M DCC LXXVII [1777]
Physical Description:: [4], 44 p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Manuscript notebook.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 1 v. (97 leaves) ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles

18. The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ... : containing his Discourses, Idlers, A journey to Flanders and Holland, and his commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of painting, printed from his revised copies ... : to which is prefixed An account of the life and writings of the author / by Edmond Malone ...

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 2 v. : port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1771 / by the President.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: MDCCLXXII [1772]
Physical Description:: [2], 29, [1] p. ; 31 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy on the distribution of the prizes, December 11, 1786 / by the President.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]
Physical Description:: [4], 30, [2] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A discourse, delivered at the opening of the Royal Academy, January 2, 1769 / by the President.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1769]
Physical Description:: [4], 15, [1] ; 28 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, Dec. 10th, 1788 / by the President.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]
Physical Description:: [4], 26, [2] ; 28 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 14, 1770 / by the President.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: MDCCLXXI [1771]
Physical Description:: [4], 20 p. ; 30 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1782 / by the President.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]
Physical Description:: 28 p. ; 27 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Joshua Reynolds archive, 1749-1816.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: 1749-1816
Physical Description:: 1 linear foot
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles

26. The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ... : containing his Discourses, Idlers, A journey to Flanders and Holland, and his commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of painting; printed from his revised copies ... To which is prefixed An account of the life and writings of the author, by Edmond Malone ...

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: 3 v.; 23 cm. (8 vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, Dec. 10, 1790 / by the President.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]
Physical Description:: [4], 31, [1] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. William Blake's water-colour designs for the poems of Thomas Gray / introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:: 1972
Physical Description:: 3 v. : col. ill. ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The practice of painting and perspective made easy: in which is contained, the art of painting in oil, with the method of colouring ... and a new ... account of the art of perspective, illustrated with copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Vivares. By Thomas Bardwell ...

Creator:: Bardwell, Thomas, 1704–1767
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 2 p.., [iii]-v, 64 p. VI plates. 26 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A notion of the historical draught or tablature of the judgment of Hercules, according to Prodicus, Lib. II. Xen. de Mem. Soc.

Creator:: Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671–1713
Date:: Printed in the year 1713
Physical Description:: 47, [1] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Letters concerning the present state of England. Particularly respecting the politics, arts, manners, and literature of the times.

Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., ii, 9-402 p. 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: [4], 75, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Designs in perspective for villas in the ancient castle and Grecian styles / by Robert Morison ; part the first.

Creator:: Morison, Robert
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [8] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. New copper plate magazine : containg select views of noblemens and gentlemens seats in England : taken from original drawings.

Date:: [1789-1796]
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [78] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. A catalogue of a known capital collection of pictures, in which are the works of the following masters : Raphael, Titian, Guido, P. Veronese, An. Del Sarto, L. Jordano, C. Maratti, C. Dolci, Spagnoletto, Ciro Ferri, Battolomeo, Bourgognone, F. Mola, P. Panini, Marieski, Amiconi, Rubens, Van Dyke, Teniers, Bergham, Ruysdael : also of the capital antique and modern busts, figures, &c. the whole property of a nobleman brought from his seat in Oxfordshire : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Walsh, at his room, opposite Mr. Almack's, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, May 12, 1775, and the following day : to be viewed on Wednesday and Thursday preceding the sale.

Creator:: Walsh, Mr.
Date:: [1775]
Physical Description:: 6 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. A catalogue of a most capital collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Pictures, by the most esteemed Masters, in the highest state of preservation : also a valuable selection of capital high-finished drawings, remarkable fine prints, books of prints and bronzes : small but well-chosen library of books in elegant and uniform bindings : a number of fine casts in plaster from the rarest subjects of the antique : capital models, a great variety of drawing implements : mathematical and musical instruments : a quantity of choice music : also all the elegant household furniture : fine china : a fine-toned piano forte by Longman and Broderip : a modern chaise and harness : and a great variety of curious and valuable effects : the property of John Alexander Gress, Esq. deceased, eminently and most deservedly distinguished for his knowledge in the fine arts, at his late house, No. 24, on the west side of Tottenham Court Road, nearly opposite Tavistock Street, Bedford Square : which will be sold by auction (by order of the executor) by Mr. Christie, on the premises, on Monday, April 7th, 1794, and five following days, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed Frida and Saturday preceding the sale.--catalogues may be had on the premises : at the Rainbow Coffee House : and in Pall Mall : also, at one o'clock, on the first day's sale, will be sold, the valuable lease of the premises--particulars may be had : N.B. the first and second days sale, will consist of prints, books of prints, &c. : third and fourth days, the drawings, drawing implements, models, &c. : fifth day, the capital collection of pictures, and library of books : sixth day, all the houshold furniture, china, musical instruments, &c.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: 30 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Jeffery's edition of The castle of Otranto, a Gothic story. Translated by William Marshal, gent. from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto ...

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xvi, 152 p. col. front., col. plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Poems written chiefly at the University of Cambridge : together with a Latin oration upon the history and genius of the Roman and canon laws, with a comparison of the laws of England, spoken in the chapel at Trinity-Hall, Cambridge, December 21, 1756 ...

Creator:: Marriott, James, Sir, 1730?-1803
Date:: 1760]
Physical Description:: 2 p.., viii, viii p., 1 leaf, 156 p. front., ill. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Letters to a young nobleman ...

Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 230 p., 1 leaf. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. An abstract of the act of Parliament made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, King George III. intitled, An act for the further and better regulation of buildings and party-walls, and for the more effectually preventing mischief by fire, within the cities of London and Westminster ... Calculated for the use of builders, and workmen in general.

Creator:: Matthews, John, 1748–
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: viii, 76, [12] p. 3 fold. plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Natura, philosophia, & ars in concordia. Or, Nature, philosophy, and art in friendship, an essay. In four parts. I. Demonstrating the necessity and practicability of building all manner of houses proof against fire and vermin ... II. An entire new plan of constructing chimnies ... III. Plain methods pointed out, by which smoky chimnies may be effectually cured. IV. Certain and easy directions to all mechanics in wood, how to finish household furniture, and the wainscotting of rooms, so as no vermin can exist therein ... By W. Cauty, cabinet-maker.

Creator:: Cauty, William, fl. 1757–1780
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: xvi, 110 p., 1 leaf. fold. plate. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The exhibition, or a second anticipation : being remarks on the principal works to be exhibited next month, at the Royal Academy ; / By Roger Shanhagan, ...

Creator:: Shanhagan, Roger
Date:: [1785]
Physical Description:: [2], 101 p., [2] p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass or, The young man's time well spent.

Date:: 1731
Physical Description:: 21, [1] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Taylor & Skinner's Survey and maps of the roads of North Britain or Scotland / George Taylor, Andrew Skinner.

Creator:: Taylor, George (Geographer), active 1778
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([3], 61 p., 1 folded leaf of plates) : 62 maps ; 22 x 53 cm. folded to 22 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A map of the county of Middlesex : reduced from an actual survey in four sheets / by John Rocque = Carte de la province de Middlesex : reduite d'apres un arpantage en quatre feuilles / par Jean Rocque.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 50 x 68 cm., on sheet 55 x 72 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Biographia britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, to the present times : collected from the best authorities, printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary.

Date:: 1778-1793
Physical Description:: 5 v. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Museum Britannicum, or, A display in thirty two plates, in antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk ...

Creator:: Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750–1788
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: [2], 2, 2, [8], xvii, [1], 88 pages, XXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 48 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Hibernia's free trade, or, A plan for the general improvement of Ireland : peculiarly adapted to a free trade : in three parts : Parts I. and II. On building in water, ... : Part III. On improving the commercial and landed interest of Ireland : ... illustrated with sixty-four copper plates / by George Semple.

Creator:: Semple, George, 1700?-1782?
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: x, 190 p., [64] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. A catalogue of a capital, and truly valuable assemblage of Chinese drawings, paintings, natural and artificial curiosities : the property of A. E. Van Braam, Esq. : Chief of the direction of the Dutch East India Company at Canton, and second in the Dutch Embassy, to the Court of Pekin, in the years 1794 and 1795, of which, Mr. Van Braam will speedily publish an authentic account : the whole of which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, February the 15th, 1799, at one o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1799]
Physical Description:: 10 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. [Commercial traveler's catalog of silver-plated ware, possibly made in Sheffield].

Date:: [ca. 1780]
Physical Description:: 74 prints (in 1 volume) : engravings ; 24 x 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The poetical works of Shakspeare.: With the life of the author.

Creator:: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [2], 214, [2] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 15 cm. (12 mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. The practical house carpenter : or, Youth's instructor : containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture ... to which is added, a list of prices and materials for labour, labour only, and day prices ... / by William Pain ...

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: v, [30], 24 p., [152] leaves of plates (1 folded) : chiefly ill., plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. A survey of the cathedral church of Bangor, and the edifices belonging to it : containing an account of all the inscriptions on the monuments and gravestones ... : together with a large appendix of records, and other curious matter relating to Bangor Church and bishoprick ... : to which is also subjoined several supplementary additions and records to the like history of St. Asaph Cathedral ... / collected by Browne Willis ... ; illustrated with draughts of the iconography and upright of Bangor Cathedral, and view of Bodowen Chapel.

Creator:: Willis, Browne, 1682–1760
Date:: 1721
Physical Description:: 372, [8] p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Captain Cook's Voyages round the world : the first performed in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 : the second in 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775 : the third and last in 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 : for making discoveries in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, by order of His present Majesty : containing a relation of all the interesting transactions which occurred in the course of the voyages : including Captain Furneaux's Journal of his proceedings during the separation of the ships : with a narrative of Commodore Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole, and an abridgement of Foster's introduction to his History of northern discoveries on the progress of navigation : to which is added, Governor Phillip's Voyage to Botany-Bay, with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, &c. &c.

Creator:: Cook, James, 1728–1779
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., ports., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. A treatise on the art of painting, and the composition of colours, containing instructions for all the various processes of painting. Together with observations upon the qualities and ingredients of colours. Translated from the French of M. Constant de Massoul.

Creator:: Massoul, Constant de
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 1 p.., v, [7]-242 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. The works of Jonathan Richardson. Containing I. The theory of painting. II. Essay on the art of criticism, (so far as it relates to painting). III. The science of a connoisseur.

Creator:: Richardson, Jonathan, 1665–1745
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: vi., [2], [5]-287 p. 12 ports. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Encyclopædia britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, &c. on a plan entirely new: by which, the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises or systems, comprehending the history, theory, and practice, of each, according to the latest discoveries and improvements; and full explanations given of the various detached parts of knowledge, whether relating to natural and artificial objects, or to matters ecclesiastical, civil, military, commercial, &c. Together with a description of all the countries, cities ... a general history, ancient and modern, of the different empires, kingdoms and states; and an account of the lives of the most eminent persons in every nation, from the earliest ages down to the present times ...

Date:: 1778-1783
Physical Description:: 10 v. fold. plates, fold. maps, fold. tables, fold. diagrs. (1 col.) 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. A description of the city, college, and cathedral of Winchester. Exhibiting a complete and comprehensive detail of their antiquities and present state. The whole illustrated with several curious and authentic particulars, collected from a manuscript of Anthony Wood ... ; the college and cathedral registers, and other original authorities, never before published ...

Creator:: Warton, Thomas, 1728–1790
Date:: [etc., etc., 1750]
Physical Description:: 108 p. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Sculptura; or, The history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper: with an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works. To which is annexed, a new manner of engraving, or mezzotinto, communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert to the author of this treatise, John Evelyn ...

Creator:: Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 3 p.l., [iii]-xxxvi, 140 p. front. (port.) 2 plates (1 fold.) 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. A new pocket companion for Oxford: or, Guide through the university. Containing an accurate description of the public edifices, the buildings in each of the colleges ... To which are added descriptions of the buildings, tapestry, paintings, sculpture, temples, gardens, &c. at Blenheim, Ditchley, Heythrop, Nuneham, and Stow ...

Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., 152 p. plates, fold. plan. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Arts improvement: or, Choice experiments and observations in building, husbandry, gardening, mechanicks, chimistry, painting, japaning, varnishing ... And in other arts and sciences profitable and pleasant. Extracted from the most celebrated authors in several languages; manuscripts, experiments communicated by several ingenious gentlemen, and the author's own experience. By T.S.

Creator:: Neve, Richard
Date:: 1703
Physical Description:: 24 p.., 96, 8, 97-240 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. The English connoisseur: containing an account of whatever is curious in painting, sculpture, &c. in the palaces and seats of the nobility and principal gentry of England, both in town and country. With many additions not in the London edition, particularly the British museum ...

Creator:: Martyn, Thomas, 1735–1825
Date:: 1767
Physical Description:: 2 v. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Planting and ornamental gardening; a practical treatise.

Creator:: Marshall, Mr. (William), 1745–1818
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: xi, [2] p., 1 l., 638 p. 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The history and antiquities, as well ecclesiastical as civil, of the Isle of Tenet, in Kent. / By John Lewis, M.A., vicar of Mynstre, and minister of Mergate in the said Island.

Creator:: Lewis, John, 1675–1747
Date:: MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Physical Description:: viii, 204, [4], 112, 105-124 pages, [1], XXV leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, portraits, plans, genealogical tables ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

Creator:: Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: 43 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo).
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Hester Lynch Piozzi letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1795, April 16-1816, September 10.

Creator:: Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821
Date:: 1795, April 16-1816, September 10
Physical Description:: 1 volume ([225] p.) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. Grand tour watercolor albums.

Date:: 1793-1842
Physical Description:: 5 volumes : ill. ; 18 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. The English pilot : part I, describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports : together with the soundings, sands, rocks and dangers in the southern navigation upon the coasts of England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Flanders, Spain, Portugal, to the streights-mouth, with the coasts of Barbary, and off to the Canary, Madera, Cape de Verde, and Western Islands : shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the setting of the tides and currents, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, &c.

Date:: MDCCXLI [1741]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2], 92 pages, [44] leaves of plates) : illustrations, 22 maps ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark. Interspersed with historical relations and political inquiries. Illustrated with charts and engravings. By William Coxe ...

Creator:: Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:: 1784-1790
Physical Description:: 3 v., [26] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., genealogical tables, maps, plans, ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. A list of the peers existing at the time of King James I : his accession to the crown, and of those who have since been advanced to the peerage by claim of ancient right, by writ, or by patent : as also of the several peers extinct in his and the succeeding reigns.

Date:: Printed in the year MDCCLXII [1772]
Physical Description:: 16 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

Creator:: Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718–1785
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Ogilby's and Morgan's Pocket-book of the roads : with their computed and measured distances, and the distinction of market and post towns : also a table for the ready finding any road, city, or market-town, and its distance from London : a sheet-map of England, fitted to bind with the book : and an exact account of all the fairs, both fixed and movable, in alphabetical order, shewing the days on which they are held / by William Morgan ...

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: [40], 17-166 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Vue de la ville de Nismes : du côté de la Tour-Magne.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : all ill. ; 38 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Ichnographia urbis Londinii : post magnum et fatale incendium ano. Dni. MDCLXVI, cum idea novæ urbis qualem tunc temporis / ex cineribus renatam esse designibat clarissimus vir Dns. Christophorus Wren = A plan of the city of London : after the great fire, in the year of our Lord 1666, with the modell of the new city / according to the design and proposal of Sr. Christopher Wren ... for rebuilding thereof.

Creator:: Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632–1723
Date:: 1724
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 35 x 70 cm., on sheet 49 x 72 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The curiosities, natural and artificial, of the island of Great Britain : containing a full and accurate description of whatever is remarkable and worthy of notice in the works of nature and art in the several counties, cities, towns, villages &c. of England, Wales and Scotland : the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, public buildings, places of resort and entertainment, &c. : carefully and faithfully displayed.

Date:: [1780?]
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The Sportsman's dictionary, or, The country gentlemen's companion in all rural recreations, with full and particular instructions for hawking, hunting, fowling, setting, fishing, racing, riding, cocking : with the method of breeding, curing, dieting, and ordering of horses, dogs, pigeons, cocks, etc. : extracted from the most celebrated English and French authors, ancient, and modern : with large improvements, made by several gentlemen ... illustrated ...

Date:: 1735
Physical Description:: 2 v., 25 [i.e. 26], pl. (part fold.; incl. front., music) ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. The oeconomy of human life : translated from an Indian manuscript written by an ancient Bramin : to which is prefixed an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered in a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China to the Earl of ****.

Creator:: Dodsley, Robert, 1704–1764
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: xxvi, 94 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 33 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The theory of perspective demonstrated; in a method entirely new. By which the several planes, lines, and points, made use of in this art, are shewn in the true positions in which they are to be considered. Invented, and now published for the use of the Royal Academy at Woolwich. By John Lodge Cowley ...

Creator:: Cowley, John Lodge, 1719–1797
Date:: 1765
Physical Description:: 2 v. plates. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Cary's Actual survey of Middlesex : on a scale of an inch to a mile : wherein the roads, rivers, woods and commons, as well as every market town, village &c. are distinguished, and every seat theron, with the name of the possessor, preceded by a general map of the county, divided into hundreds, to which is added an index of all the names contained in the plates.

Creator:: Cary, John, approximately 1754–1835
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2], [2], 28, [9] leaves) : ill., col. maps ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. A plan of Paris and the adjacent country : in which is contained a description of the villages, seats, great roads & others, valleys, woods, vinyards, plowd & pasture lands / surveyd by Monr. Roussel, capt. ingineer ... = Plan de Paris et de ses fauxbourgs avec ses environs : ou se trouve le detail des villages, chateaux, grands chemins et autres, des hauteurs, bois, vignes, champs et prez / levé par Monr. Roussel, capne. ingenieur ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1748
Physical Description:: 1 map on 6 sheets ; 222 x 262 cm., sheets 55 x 75 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. A description of Hagley, Envil and the Leasowes : wherein all the Latin inscriptions are translated, and every particular beauty described : interspersed with critical observations.

Creator:: Heely, Joseph
Date:: [1775?]
Physical Description:: 142 pages ; 17 cm (12 mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

83. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

Creator:: Somerville, William, 1675–1742
Date:: MDCCXLII [1742]
Physical Description:: [6], 14 p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Some anecdotes of the life of Julio Bonasoni, a Bolognese artist ... : accompanied by a catalogue of the engravings ... of the works of that ... composer ... : to which is prefixed, A plan for the improvement of the arts in England / by George Cumberland ...

Creator:: Cumberland, George, 1754–1848
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., 100 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The plan of a dictionary of the English language; addressed to the Right Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield ...

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Physical Description:: 1 p.l., 34 p. 26 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. A catalogue of the most magnificent and valuable collection of Italian, Roman, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures ever imported into England : selected from the first Cabinets in Europe, at a very liberal expence : in this collection are the most unquestionable and best performances of Raphael, Guido, Rubens, Rembrandt, S. Rosa, Mola, Corregio, Guerchino, C. Maratti, P. Veronese, Murillo, L. Da Vinci, Tintoret, Titian, Carracci, Claude, Cignani, Beughel, Poussin, Vandyke, Castigione, P. Cortona, Elsheimer, Schidone, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mess. Langford, at the Great Rooms, late belonging to the Society of Arts &c. opposite Beaufort Buildings, Strand : on Thursday, March 26, and the two following days : the said collection may be publickly viewed on Tuesday and Wednesday the 24th and 25th, and 'till the time of sale, which will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had, price six-pence, on the days of viewing, at the place of sale.

Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: [1778]
Physical Description:: 30 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Essays moral and literary. By Vicesimus Knox... In three volumes...

Creator:: Knox, Vicesimus, 1752–1821
Date:: MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
Physical Description:: 3 v. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Eboracum : or, The history and antiquities of the city of York, from its origin to this time : together with an account of the Ainsty, or, county of the same, and a description and history of the cathedral church, from its first foundation to the present year ...

Creator:: Drake, Francis, 1696–1771
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: 2 v., 17 leaves of plates (some folded) ill., plan; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. The complete English traveller, or, A new survey and description of England and Wales : containing a full account of whatever is curious and entertaining in the several counties of England and Wales, the isles of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, and other islands adjoining to, and dependant on the crown of Great Britain ... : to which is added, a concise and accurate description of ... Scotland .../ by Nathaniel Spencer ...

Creator:: Sanders, Robert, 1727–1783
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: iv, 696 [i.e. 700], [12] p., [61] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Sketches on the art of painting; with a description of the most capital pictures in the King of Spain's palace at Madrid. In a letter from Sir Anthony Raphael Mengs ... to Don Antonio Ponz ... Translated from the original Spanish, by John Talbot Dillon ...

Creator:: Mengs, Anton Raphael, 1728–1779
Date:: 1782
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., xii, 128 p., 1 leaf. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Comforts of Bath.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: [1798]
Physical Description:: 12 prints : aquatint ; 19 x 24 cm, mounted to leaves in an album 27 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Original letters relating to the hospitals in the diocese of Exeter : communicated at the instance of Seth [Ward] Lord Bishop of that see. Anno MDCLXV.

Date:: 1728]
Physical Description:: [2], 7, [1] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Grand tour diary of Miss Forbes.

Creator:: Forbes, Miss
Date:: 1780-1781
Physical Description:: 1 v. (115 leaves, with blanks) ; 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. A correct view of the telegraph : with the cabin, and manner of working explained / engraved and sold, by Mr. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

Creator:: Orme, Daniel, b. 1767
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill. ; 15 cm. + [1] plate.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Rural architecture, or, Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa / including some of which have been executed by the author, John Plaw.

Creator:: Plaw, John, 1744 or 5–1820
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: 8, viii, [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. To the Queen this book representing the birth and triumph of Cupid in Her Majesty's collection : from papers cut by Lady Dashwood is with permission most humbly dedicated by Her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged servant P.W. Tomkins, historical engraver to Her Majesty.

Creator:: Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759–1840
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany : preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619 : printed from the original version in the Lothian and Ashmole manuscripts, and from XXVI sermons / edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson.

Creator:: Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: [6], 79, [2] pages ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Lectures on horsemanship wherein is explained every necessary instruction for both ladies and gentlemen in the useful and polite art of riding ... by T.S.

Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 40 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. A new map of Virginia, Mary-Land, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey [cartographic material].

Creator:: Senex, John, -1740
Date:: 1719
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 48 x 54 cm, on sheet 53 x 59 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Palladio Londinensis, or, The London art of building : in three parts. : I. Containing a demonstration of all geometrical problems ... : III. copiously treating of the several kinds of stair-cases : the whole illustrated with fifty-two copper plates : to which is annexed, the builder's dictionary ... / by William Salmon.

Creator:: Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:: 1738
Physical Description:: 12, 132, [28] p., [52] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Journal and notebook kept during a tour through France and Italy in 1773.

2. Account book of George Romney with his banker, Thomas Greene.

3. Manuscript daybook for George Romney, in the hand of Richard Williams.

4. Thomas Gainsborough letters to his sister Mrs. Mary Gibbon,

5. Comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body with that of a tiger and a common fowl : manuscript.

6. Prints published by W. Hogarth : and are to be had at his house in Leicester-Fields, 1762.

7. The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste / by William Hogarth.

8. Industry and idleness [graphic] / design'd by Wm. Hogarth.

9. A discourse, delivered at the opening of the Royal Academy, October 16, 1780 / by the President.

10. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 11, 1769 / by the President.

11. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1784 / by the President.

12. Seven discourses delivered in the Royal Academy / by the President [i.e., J. Reynolds]

13. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1778 / by the President.

14. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, Dec. the 10th, 1774 / by the President.

15. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1772 / by the President.

16. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1776 / by the President.

17. Manuscript notebook.

18. The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ... : containing his Discourses, Idlers, A journey to Flanders and Holland, and his commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of painting, printed from his revised copies ... : to which is prefixed An account of the life and writings of the author / by Edmond Malone ...

19. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1771 / by the President.

20. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy on the distribution of the prizes, December 11, 1786 / by the President.

21. A discourse, delivered at the opening of the Royal Academy, January 2, 1769 / by the President.

22. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, Dec. 10th, 1788 / by the President.

23. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, December 14, 1770 / by the President.

24. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy on the distribution of the prizes, December 10, 1782 / by the President.

25. Joshua Reynolds archive, 1749-1816.

26. The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ... : containing his Discourses, Idlers, A journey to Flanders and Holland, and his commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of painting; printed from his revised copies ... To which is prefixed An account of the life and writings of the author, by Edmond Malone ...

27. A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the distribution of the prizes, Dec. 10, 1790 / by the President.

28. William Blake's water-colour designs for the poems of Thomas Gray / introduction and commentary by Geoffrey Keynes.

29. The practice of painting and perspective made easy: in which is contained, the art of painting in oil, with the method of colouring ... and a new ... account of the art of perspective, illustrated with copper-plates, engraved by Mr. Vivares. By Thomas Bardwell ...

30. A notion of the historical draught or tablature of the judgment of Hercules, according to Prodicus, Lib. II. Xen. de Mem. Soc.

31. Letters concerning the present state of England. Particularly respecting the politics, arts, manners, and literature of the times.

32. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

33. Designs in perspective for villas in the ancient castle and Grecian styles / by Robert Morison ; part the first.

34. New copper plate magazine : containg select views of noblemens and gentlemens seats in England : taken from original drawings.

37. Jeffery's edition of The castle of Otranto, a Gothic story. Translated by William Marshal, gent. from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto ...

38. Poems written chiefly at the University of Cambridge : together with a Latin oration upon the history and genius of the Roman and canon laws, with a comparison of the laws of England, spoken in the chapel at Trinity-Hall, Cambridge, December 21, 1756 ...

39. Letters to a young nobleman ...

42. The exhibition, or a second anticipation : being remarks on the principal works to be exhibited next month, at the Royal Academy ; / By Roger Shanhagan, ...

43. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass or, The young man's time well spent.

44. Taylor & Skinner's Survey and maps of the roads of North Britain or Scotland / George Taylor, Andrew Skinner.

45. A map of the county of Middlesex : reduced from an actual survey in four sheets / by John Rocque = Carte de la province de Middlesex : reduite d'apres un arpantage en quatre feuilles / par Jean Rocque.

47. Museum Britannicum, or, A display in thirty two plates, in antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk ...

50. [Commercial traveler's catalog of silver-plated ware, possibly made in Sheffield].

51. The poetical works of Shakspeare.: With the life of the author.

52. The practical house carpenter : or, Youth's instructor : containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture ... to which is added, a list of prices and materials for labour, labour only, and day prices ... / by William Pain ...

55. A treatise on the art of painting, and the composition of colours, containing instructions for all the various processes of painting. Together with observations upon the qualities and ingredients of colours. Translated from the French of M. Constant de Massoul.

56. The works of Jonathan Richardson. Containing I. The theory of painting. II. Essay on the art of criticism, (so far as it relates to painting). III. The science of a connoisseur.

62. The English connoisseur: containing an account of whatever is curious in painting, sculpture, &c. in the palaces and seats of the nobility and principal gentry of England, both in town and country. With many additions not in the London edition, particularly the British museum ...

63. Planting and ornamental gardening; a practical treatise.

64. The history and antiquities, as well ecclesiastical as civil, of the Isle of Tenet, in Kent. / By John Lewis, M.A., vicar of Mynstre, and minister of Mergate in the said Island.

65. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

66. Hester Lynch Piozzi letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1795, April 16-1816, September 10.

67. Grand tour watercolor albums.

69. Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark. Interspersed with historical relations and political inquiries. Illustrated with charts and engravings. By William Coxe ...

70. A list of the peers existing at the time of King James I : his accession to the crown, and of those who have since been advanced to the peerage by claim of ancient right, by writ, or by patent : as also of the several peers extinct in his and the succeeding reigns.

71. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

73. Vue de la ville de Nismes : du côté de la Tour-Magne.

77. The oeconomy of human life : translated from an Indian manuscript written by an ancient Bramin : to which is prefixed an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered in a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China to the Earl of ****.

78. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

82. A description of Hagley, Envil and the Leasowes : wherein all the Latin inscriptions are translated, and every particular beauty described : interspersed with critical observations.

83. Field-sports : a poem : humbly address'd to His Royal Highness the Prince / by William Somerville, Esq.

84. Some anecdotes of the life of Julio Bonasoni, a Bolognese artist ... : accompanied by a catalogue of the engravings ... of the works of that ... composer ... : to which is prefixed, A plan for the improvement of the arts in England / by George Cumberland ...

85. The plan of a dictionary of the English language; addressed to the Right Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield ...

87. Essays moral and literary. By Vicesimus Knox... In three volumes...

88. Eboracum : or, The history and antiquities of the city of York, from its origin to this time : together with an account of the Ainsty, or, county of the same, and a description and history of the cathedral church, from its first foundation to the present year ...

90. Sketches on the art of painting; with a description of the most capital pictures in the King of Spain's palace at Madrid. In a letter from Sir Anthony Raphael Mengs ... to Don Antonio Ponz ... Translated from the original Spanish, by John Talbot Dillon ...

91. Comforts of Bath.

92. Original letters relating to the hospitals in the diocese of Exeter : communicated at the instance of Seth [Ward] Lord Bishop of that see. Anno MDCLXV.

93. Grand tour diary of Miss Forbes.

94. A correct view of the telegraph : with the cabin, and manner of working explained / engraved and sold, by Mr. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

95. Rural architecture, or, Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa / including some of which have been executed by the author, John Plaw.

96. To the Queen this book representing the birth and triumph of Cupid in Her Majesty's collection : from papers cut by Lady Dashwood is with permission most humbly dedicated by Her Majesty's most devoted and very much obliged servant P.W. Tomkins, historical engraver to Her Majesty.

97. Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany : preached at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619 : printed from the original version in the Lothian and Ashmole manuscripts, and from XXVI sermons / edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson.