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Bill for school expenses for Miss Kate Lamb, due to Mrs. Blundell at Grey Friars' House, Lincoln.
Creator:
Grey Friars' House (Lincoln, England)
Date:
April, 1882
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 24 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Day & Martin : proprietors of the real Japan blacking. London, and Liverpool.
Creator:
Day and Martin
Date:
[approximately 1880]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : chromolithograph ; 9 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Six progressive lessons for flower painting : with letter-press directions for drawing and coloring of flowers upon botanical principles.
Date:
January 1, 1802
Physical Description:
14, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketches representing the native tribes, animals, and scenery of southern Africa / from drawings made by the late Mr. Samuel Daniell, engraved by William Daniell.
Creator:
Daniell, Samuel, 1775–1811
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[6] p., 48 leaves, [48] leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Short account of Lord Nelson's defeat of the French at the Nile : ... The view of Margate is in the upper circle : open from eight till dusk, 1799.
Creator:
Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)
Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : ill. ; 42 x 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : How the younge menne doe smoke.
Creator:
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) : etching ; 19 x 12 cm, folded to 9 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Advertisement for venetian fan blinds, brass cornice poles spring roller blinds, painted blinds and curtain brackets, London, 1818]
Creator:
Barron & Co. (Firm : London, England)
Date:
[1818]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 33 x 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The costume of Yorkshire / illustrated by a series of forty engravings, being fac-similes of original drawings, with descriptions in English and French.
Creator:
Havell, Robert, 1769–1832
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
10 parts ([7], 96 pages, [1], 40 leaves of plates) : color illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Science in sport, or, The pleasure of astronomy : a new & instructive pastime : revised and approved by M. Bryan, of Blackheath
Date:
[1804]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving : sheet 43 x 55 cm, folded to 22 by 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
St. Valentine's Day at length is here to lovers still held dear
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Front views of F. & R. Sparrow & Co.'s original London genuine tea warehouses.
Creator:
Frederick & Robert Sparrow & Co.
Date:
[1823]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (2 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm, folded to 23 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Almanac for 1881].
Date:
[1880]
Physical Description:
8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 91 x 60 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Skelton, copper plate printer : no. 8 Leicester Street, Leicester Square : opposite Sidney's Alley,
Creator:
Skelton, William, 1763–1848
Date:
[approximately 1800?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 10 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A Merry Christmas to you.
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 Christmas card : color illustrations ; 100 x 70 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Accept these flowers thus gracefully combined ... thus in unison let our loves be twined.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Thou are all I wish.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Portraits of the princes & people of India / by the Honble. Miss Eden ; drawn on the stone by L. Dickinson.
Creator:
Eden, Emily, 1797–1869
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
24, [1] leaves, [26] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Chesterfield travestie, or, School for modern manners : embellished with ten caricatures / engraved by Woodward from original drawings by Rowlandson.
Creator:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760–1809
Date:
1808 [i.e. 1809]
Physical Description:
iv, [2], 70, [2] p., [10] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of the work of William Walter Burch, engraver on gold and silver.
Creator:
Burch, William Walter, approximately 1796–1873
Date:
1821-1871
Physical Description:
1 volume (226 pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
John Lloyd, tobacco & snuff manufacturer : 30, High Street, Birmingham & 77, Snow Hill, London.
Creator:
Lloyd, John, active 1843
Date:
[ca. 1843]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : engraving ; 6 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Will you share these with me?
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Kafir wars and the British settlers in South Africa / a series of picturesque views from original sketches by T.W. Bowler ; with descriptive letterpress by W.R. Thomson.
Creator:
Bowler, Thomas William, 1813–1869
Date:
1865
Physical Description:
24 leaves, [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Various subjects of landscape, characteristic of English scenery / from pictures painted by John Constable, R.A. ; engraved by David Lucas.
Creator:
Lucas, David, 1802–1881
Date:
1830[-1832]
Physical Description:
22 prints, 4 leaves of letterpress in 1 volume : mezzotint ; volume 29 x 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Crowquills and goosequills.
Date:
circa 1855-1857
Physical Description:
2 v. (104, 108 p.) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
With love and good wishes for a happy New Year.
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 pop-up card : color illustrations ; 15 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
P. J. Lara : house agent, funeral economist & licensed appraiser : 4, Warwick Place, Kingsland Road & no. 6 Oxford Street, Mile End.
Creator:
P. J. Lara (Firm)
Date:
[approximately 1860-1880]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 7 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Paoletti impronte.
Date:
[circa 1865?]
Physical Description:
226 plaster cameos ; in 9 cases 26 x 16 x 5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketches & incidents of the siege of Lucknow / from drawings made during the siege by Clifford Henry Mecham, Lieutenant Madras Army ; with descriptive notices by George Couper, Esq., late secretary to the chief commissioner of Oude.
Creator:
Mecham, Clifford Henry, 1832–1865
Date:
[1858]
Physical Description:
[12] pages, [18] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of comic sketches.
Creator:
A.J.K.H.
Date:
1869-1873
Physical Description:
1 album (91 drawings) ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Henry Halvoet & Cie. : negt. en poissons : Edmonds Place, Aldersgate Street, No. 36, city, Londres / Daveluy, Lith. du Roi, Bruges.
Creator:
Daveluy, Édouard, 1812–1894
Date:
[approximately 1840]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 11 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
My heart is truly thine, dear Valentine.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 17 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
I live for thee only.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Happy is her most truly so for whom you heart does beat : a wife is so modest and so fair must render bliss complete.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billheads of Elliston & Cavell, clothiers, Oxford, for clothing purchased by Mrs. Risley, on behalf of the Warneford Asylum.
Creator:
Elliston & Cavell, Ltd
Date:
1909-1911
Physical Description:
3 sheets : illustration ; 19 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead recording fabric purchased by Robert Campbell, Esq. from John Sinclair, Edinburgh.
Creator:
Sinclair, John, active 1815
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 20 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses from Broomfield Hall for Miss Dodson.
Creator:
Broomfield Hall (Kidderminster, England)
Date:
December 19, 1882
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) ; 21 x 26 cm, folded to 21 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Easy boots.
Creator:
Grundy, T., (Boot maker)
Date:
[approximately 1851]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A token of faithful love! To my dearest Valentine!
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
W. Burt scrapbook : manuscript.
Date:
1820s?-1867 (bulk 1820s)
Physical Description:
1 volume (80 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 44 x 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Charles Dashwood diaries and commissions relating to Xalapa and Guatemala City.
Creator:
Dashwood, Charles, 1787–1832
Date:
1826-1830
Physical Description:
2 v. + (2 commissions) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Receipt for taxes paid by Samuel Forester.
Date:
April 25, 1803
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 16 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Thou art my life, my love my heart. Thou art the world. And if thy will show .... I'll do it or die for thee.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Price list for items produced and sold by Henry Urch, Saddle and Harness Manufacturer, 84, Long Acre, London].
Creator:
Urch, Henry
Date:
May, 1851
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Professor Groves' new and magnificent colossal diorama of Turkey and India.
Date:
[1858?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 89 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of Maple & Co., London, for purchases by R.W. Stevenson].
Creator:
Maple & Co.
Date:
1881
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 26 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Advertisement for A. M. Redfern,
Creator:
A. M. Redfern (Firm : Leek)
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([4] pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
By nature formed to be the lover's flower ...
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 18 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
My memory holds thy form in view ...
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 17 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Paper doll.
Date:
approximately 1830?
Physical Description:
1 paper doll (4 pieces) ; 80 x 110 mm, in envelope 120 x 400 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To her I love.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 25 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of James Sedgwick, Manchester clothier, for purchases by John Davenport, 1811.
Creator:
Sedgwick, James
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration, 32 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Goode's new universal primer.
Creator:
Goode, Thomas
Date:
[between 1859 and 1879]
Physical Description:
12 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Jones & Halton : furnishing undertakers, and funeral feathermen : 11 & 12 Church Row, Islington.
Creator:
Jones & Halton (Firm)
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 7 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To the visitors at watering places, and to the owners and drivers of donkeys.
Creator:
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Date:
approximately 1875
Physical Description:
2 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of James Cracknall, clothier, London, for tailoring provided to Lord Strathallen, 1831-1832.
Creator:
Cracknall, James
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration, 23 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of W. Woods & Son, fancy hardwaremen, London, for equipment purchased by Mr. Treat].
Creator:
W. Woods & Son (London, England)
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 19 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cupid'a ariel ship.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The youths drawing book complete.
Creator:
Fussell, Joseph, 1818–1912
Date:
[1832?]
Physical Description:
v. ; illustrations ; 15 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A round of days described in original poems / by some of our most celebrated poets, and in pictures by eminent artists engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.
Date:
MDCCCLXVI [1866]
Physical Description:
[6], 93, [1] leaves : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross
One hundred new fables : embellished with designs to each fable / by James Northcote, R.A.
Creator:
Northcote, James, 1746–1831
Date:
1817-1825
Physical Description:
331, 4 p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The beauteous flower which now I see, a simple tale doth tell ...
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 18 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The gypsey's tent : a true incident, dedicated to Miss Cicely Egerton by her affectionate aunt, Harriot Blackburne.
Creator:
Blackburne, Harriot
Date:
1849, January
Physical Description:
1 v. ([20] p.) ; 18 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Photographs of the Abyssinian Campaign.
Date:
[1867-1868]
Physical Description:
1 album (78 photographic prints) : albumen ; 21 x 28 cm, and smaller.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Establishment for the education of young ladies conducted by the Misses Sadler, Chignell House, near the turnpike, Uxbridge road, Ealing W.
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ; 19 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Quartettes.
Date:
circa 1860?
Physical Description:
53 cards (rectos only) ; 92 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parnell & Banner : ship & insurance brokers : No. 57 Gracechurch Street, London.
Creator:
Parnell & Banner
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 7 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of Battle-Bridge Brewhouse, London, for purchases made by Mr. Gibbs, 1808.
Creator:
Battle-Bridge Brewhouse (London, England)
Date:
1808
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 11 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
I will love thee ever dearly.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for the repair of boots and shoes.
Creator:
Cook, Jno. (Shoemaker)
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 16 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Novel and interesting exhibition of fancy shell-work!.
Creator:
Le Lacheur, Madame, active 1845
Date:
[1845]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 23 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
An essay on trees in landscape, or, An attempt to shew the propriety and importance of characteristic expression in this branch of art, and the means of producing it, with examples / by Edward Kennion.
Creator:
Kennion, E
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
x, 48 p., L, [II] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Behar amateur lithographic scrap book.
Creator:
D'Oyly, Charles, 1781–1845
Date:
[1828?]
Physical Description:
[27] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 29 x 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of Frederick Hammond, London clothier, recording purchases by Lord G. Beauclerk, 1871.
Creator:
Hammond, Frederick (Hosier)
Date:
1871
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 18 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dean's new magic picture book : showing wonderful & lifelike effects of real distance & space : book I : contains The Crystal Palace, St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, The Thames Tunnel.
Date:
[between 1857 and 1865]
Physical Description:
[4] leaves : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Pattern book of fabric designs.
Date:
ca. 1832?
Physical Description:
1 volume (88 leaves, approximately 500 drawings) ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Taxes assessed to William Moody, of Ampthill.
Date:
Michaelmas, 1820 and 1823
Physical Description:
2 sheets ; 16 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
T. Pellow's price current of teas, coffees, and general groceries, Italian and proprietary goods : Borough Supply Stores, Honey Street, Bodmin.
Creator:
Pellow, T.
Date:
[approximately 1880]
Physical Description:
[32] pages : 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Oh! Woe is me. My tender heart is pierced with cupid's fatal dart ...
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Facts from Gweedore : with useful hints to Donegal tourists / compiled from notes by Lord George Hill ...
Creator:
Hill, George, Lord, 1801–1879
Date:
1845 [i.e. 1846]
Physical Description:
37, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Japanese waterproof polish : manufactured at 97, High Holborn.
Creator:
Day and Martin
Date:
approximately 1880
Physical Description:
1 trade card : chromolithograph ; 90 x 118 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Program for performance by Marion Hood in Dorothy at the Prince of Wales theatre]
Creator:
Prince of Wales Theatre (London, England)
Date:
[approximately 1887]
Physical Description:
[8] pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The shooting directory / by R.B. Thornhill.
Creator:
Thornhill, R. B. (Richard Badham)
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
xvi, ix, [1], 432 p., [8] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses for Miss Davenport, at H. Boulaye's school, Manchester.
Creator:
Boulaye, H., active 1819
Date:
June 17, 1819
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 13 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Caricature card depiciting a sepia illustration of a shop assistant, with verse]
Creator:
Dean & Son
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 card ; illustrations ; 16 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Amid'st a meadow green and gay ...
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 18 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Modern London : being the history and present state of the British metropolis : illustrated with numerous copper plates.
Creator:
Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir, 1767–1840
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
viii, 571 p., [23] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., plan : 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The last days of Lord Byron : with his lordship's opinions on various subjects, particularly on the state and prospects of Greece / by William Parry, Major of Lord Byron's Brigade, commanding officer of artillery, and engineer in the service of the Greeks.
Creator:
Parry, William, fl. 1825
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 360 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Family tea establishment : Hollis, Walford & Co. : 2, Bold Street & 8, Dale Street, Liverpool.
Creator:
Hollis, Walford & Co.
Date:
[after 1842]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 21 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Julia Maria Barmby and Charlotte Elizabeth Barmby commonplace books.
Creator:
Barmby, Julia Maria, 1823–1892
Date:
ca. 1844-1865
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Little Gertrude's picture book, from mamma, 1864.
Creator:
Egerton, Mary Sarah Amherst, Lady, 1837–1892
Date:
1864
Physical Description:
1 v. (ca. 140 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for clothes, notions, and fabrics, 1801.
Creator:
Watson (Clothier)
Date:
1801
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 24 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Funeral biscuits : made by A. Butterworth, Confectioner, Ardwick.
Date:
[approximately 1825]
Physical Description:
1 biscuit wrapper ; 110 x 100 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses for Miss H. Townley at Mrs. Laurie's school, Bath Place, Reading.
Creator:
Laurie, Mrs, active 1831
Date:
June 16th, 1831
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) ; 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Print of 2 gentlemen in a field with two dogs].
Date:
[186-?]
Physical Description:
1 print : lithograph ; sheet 15 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ken Spelman Books
Panorama of the Rhine and the adjacent country from Cologne to Mayence / drawn from nature by F. W. Delkeskamp ; engraved by John Clark ; to which are now added maps showing the routes from Calais, Ostend, and Rotterdam, to Cologne, and from Mayence to the sources of the Rhine, together with the steam boat companion, describing the places between Rotterdam and Mayence.
Creator:
Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863
Date:
[between 1834 and 1839]
Physical Description:
3 prints on 6 sheets : engraving ; sheets end-to-end 284 x 28 cm, accordion folded to 19 x 23 cm, in covers 21 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts