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Creator:: Preston, Thomas, 1834–1901
Date:: [1885?]
Physical Description:: 198, [1] p, [19] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

25. Exquisite threads : English embroidery 1600s - 1900s.

Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 93 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

26. A calendar of country customs. / [by Ralph Whitlock.

Creator:: Whitlock, Ralph
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: 168 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

27. The Grand tour and its influence on architecture, artistic taste and patronage : a series of essays derived from a conference held in Edinburgh in conjunction with the Royal Society of Edinburgh in September 2007 / editor, Lester Borley.

Date:: 2008
Physical Description:: 156 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

28. The impact of Italy : the Grand Tour and beyond / edited by Clare Hornsby.

Date:: 2000
Physical Description:: xi, 260 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

29. Park Place, Berkshire. A short history of the place and an account of the owners and their guests. Ed. and arranged by Percy Noble. 1905. For private circulation only.

Creator:: Noble, Percy
Date:: [1905]
Physical Description:: 7 p. l., 192 p. front., plates, ports., facsims. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

30. Notes by Mr. Henry James on a collection of drawings by Mr. George Du Maurier [microform] / exhibited at the Fine Art Society's [Galleries], 148 New Bond Street, 1884.

Creator:: Du Maurier, George, 1834–1896
Date:: 1979
Physical Description:: 1 microfiche : 1 illustration ; 11 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

31. Horse and man in early modern England / Peter Edwards.

Creator:: Edwards, Peter (Peter Roger)
Date:: 2007
Physical Description:: xii, 340 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

32. Memoirs of an eighteenth-century footman, John Macdonald: Travels (1745-1779) with an introd. by John Beresford.

Creator:: MacDonald, John, b. 1741?
Date:: [1927]
Physical Description:: xxiv, 256 p. viii pl. (incl. front.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

33. The household book of Lady Grisell Baillie, 1692-1733, ed., with notes and introduction, by Robert Scott-Moncrieff, W.S.

Creator:: Baillie, Grizel, Lady, 1665–1746
Date:: 1911
Physical Description:: lxxx, 443 p. incl. tables. front., plates, ports. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

34. Chronicles of the eighteenth century, founded on the correspondence of Sir Thomas Lyttelton and his family, by Maud Wyndham ...

Creator:: Wyndham, Maud Mary Lyttelton, Hon., Mrs., 1880–
Date:: 1924
Physical Description:: 2 v. pl., ports., plans. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

35. The country house : material culture and consumption / edited by Jon Stobart and Andrew Hann.

Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: ix, 214 pages : illustrations (some color), color map, plans (some color) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

36. The diary of John Baker, barrister of the Middle Temple, solicitor-general of the Leeward islands; being extracts therefrom, transcribed and edited with an introduction and notes by Philip C. Yorke ... a record of life, family history and society, 1751-1778, in England (mostly in Sussex and London) and the Leeward islands, and of two travels abroad.

Creator:: Baker, John, 1712–1779
Date:: [1931]
Physical Description:: xvii, 517, [1] p. incl. geneal. tables. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

37. The memoirs of Susan Sibbald (1783-1812) edited by her great-grandson, Francis Paget Hett; with forty illustrations.

Creator:: Sibbald, Susan Mein, 1783–1866
Date:: [1926]
Physical Description:: xxiii, 339 p. front., plates, ports. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

38. The Edwardian house : the middle-class home in Britain 1880-1914 / Helen C. Long.

Creator:: Long, Helen C., 1958–
Date:: c1993
Physical Description:: xv, 208 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

39. Early Victorian England, 1830-1865.

Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 2 v. fronts., 1 illus., plates, plan, facsims. (part double) 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

40. A foreign view of England in the reigns of George I and George II; the letters of Monsieur César de Saussure to his family. Translated and edited by Madame Van Muyden.

Creator:: Saussure, César de, 1705–1783
Date:: 1902
Physical Description:: xi, 384 p. illus. 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

41. The country house : how it worked / John Vince.

Creator:: Vince, John Norman Thatcher
Date:: 1991
Physical Description:: 143 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.

42. The Torrington diaries : containing the tours through England and Wales of the Hon. John Byng (later fifth viscount Torrington) between the years 1781 and 1794 / edited, with an introduction, by C. Bruyn Andrews and with a general introduction by John Beresford.

Creator:: Torrington, John Byng, 5th Viscount, 1742?-1813
Date:: 1934-38
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations, plates, portraits, facsimiles, folded genealogical table ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

43. Society at royal Tunbridge Wells in the eighteenth century--and after, by Lewis Melville [pseud.] Illustrated from rare prints and portraits in the collection of A. M. Broadley.

Creator:: Benjamin, Lewis Saul, 1874–1932
Date:: 1912
Physical Description:: xvi, 17-314, [1] p. 1 l. front., plates. ports. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

44. Memories of ninety years / by Mrs. E.M. Ward ; edited by Isabel G. McAllister.

Creator:: Ward, E. M. (Edward Matthew), Mrs., 1832–1924
Date:: [1925]
Physical Description:: xxiv, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

45. Good Queen Anne : or, men and manners, life and letters in England's Augustan age / by W.H. Davenport Adams.

Creator:: Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828–1891
Date:: 1886
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

46. England and the English in the eighteenth century, chapters in the social history of the times.

Creator:: Sydney, William Connor
Date:: [1891]
Physical Description:: 2 v. illus.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. British clubs / Bernard Darwin ; with 8 plates in colour and 20 illustrations in black & white.

2. James Holmes and John Varley / by Alfred T. Story.

3. Women & hats : vintage people on photo postcards / Tom Phillips.

4. Catalogue of a collection of water-colour drawings by Thomas Rowlandson and John Downman, A.R.A [microform] / with a prefatory note by Joseph Grego ; exhibited at the Fine Art Society's 148 New Bond Street, London, Jan. 1895.

5. Events in Britain : a complete guide to annual events in Britain / Bernard Schofield with illustrations by the author.

6. Gossip of the century; personal and tradional memories -- social, literary, artistic, &c, by the author of Flemish interiors," "De omnibus rebus," &c.

7. Gossip in the first decade of Victoria's reign, by John Ashton.

8. The horse, a bibliography of British books, 1851-1976 : with a narrative commentary on the rôle of the horse in British social history, as revealed by the contemporary literature / Anne Grimshaw.

9. Correspondence of Sarah Spencer, Lady Lyttelton, 1787-1870. Edited by her great-granddaughter, the Hon. Mrs. Hugh Wyndham. With portraits

10. London society [microform] : two hundred drawings by George Du Maurier, R.W.S. / exhibited at the Fine Art Society's, 148 New Bond Street, London.

11. Catalogue of a collection of drawings illustrating a century and a half of English humourous art from Hogarth to the present day [microform] / with a prefatory note by Joseph Greco ; exhibited at the Fine Art Society's [Galleries], 148 New Bond Street, October, 1896.

12. English men and manners in the eighteenth century : an illustrated narrative / by A. S. Turberville.

13. Splendour at court : dressing for royal occasions since 1700 / Nigel Arch and Joanna Marschner.

14. An eighteenth-century journal : being a record of the years 1774-1776 / Compiled by John Hampden.

15. The Hamwood papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Mrs. G. H. Bell (John Travers)

16. A book for a rainy day; or, Recollections of the events of the years 1766-1833.

17. Orientalism transposed : the impact of the colonies on British culture / edited by Julie F. Codell and Dianne Sachko Macleod.

18. Diary, 1767-1788. Edited by Basil Cozens-Hardy.

19. Old country life, by S. Baring Gould. With illus. by W. Parkinson, F.D. Bedford, and F. Masey.

20. Life and work of the people of England: a pictorial record from contemporary sources, by Dorothy Hartley & Margaret M. Elliot.

21. Life in Britian, by J.D. Scott. With a chapter on the English way of law, by Henry Cecil.

22. Private correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Samuel Pepys, 1679-1703.

23. A history of London life [by] R.J. Mitchell and M.D.R. Leys.

24. The yeomen of the guard : their history from 1485 to 1885, and a concise account of the tower warders / by Thomas Preston.

25. Exquisite threads : English embroidery 1600s - 1900s.

26. A calendar of country customs. / [by Ralph Whitlock.

27. The Grand tour and its influence on architecture, artistic taste and patronage : a series of essays derived from a conference held in Edinburgh in conjunction with the Royal Society of Edinburgh in September 2007 / editor, Lester Borley.

28. The impact of Italy : the Grand Tour and beyond / edited by Clare Hornsby.

29. Park Place, Berkshire. A short history of the place and an account of the owners and their guests. Ed. and arranged by Percy Noble. 1905. For private circulation only.

30. Notes by Mr. Henry James on a collection of drawings by Mr. George Du Maurier [microform] / exhibited at the Fine Art Society's [Galleries], 148 New Bond Street, 1884.

31. Horse and man in early modern England / Peter Edwards.

32. Memoirs of an eighteenth-century footman, John Macdonald: Travels (1745-1779) with an introd. by John Beresford.

33. The household book of Lady Grisell Baillie, 1692-1733, ed., with notes and introduction, by Robert Scott-Moncrieff, W.S.

34. Chronicles of the eighteenth century, founded on the correspondence of Sir Thomas Lyttelton and his family, by Maud Wyndham ...

35. The country house : material culture and consumption / edited by Jon Stobart and Andrew Hann.

37. The memoirs of Susan Sibbald (1783-1812) edited by her great-grandson, Francis Paget Hett; with forty illustrations.

38. The Edwardian house : the middle-class home in Britain 1880-1914 / Helen C. Long.

39. Early Victorian England, 1830-1865.

40. A foreign view of England in the reigns of George I and George II; the letters of Monsieur César de Saussure to his family. Translated and edited by Madame Van Muyden.

41. The country house : how it worked / John Vince.

42. The Torrington diaries : containing the tours through England and Wales of the Hon. John Byng (later fifth viscount Torrington) between the years 1781 and 1794 / edited, with an introduction, by C. Bruyn Andrews and with a general introduction by John Beresford.

43. Society at royal Tunbridge Wells in the eighteenth century--and after, by Lewis Melville [pseud.] Illustrated from rare prints and portraits in the collection of A. M. Broadley.

44. Memories of ninety years / by Mrs. E.M. Ward ; edited by Isabel G. McAllister.

45. Good Queen Anne : or, men and manners, life and letters in England's Augustan age / by W.H. Davenport Adams.

46. England and the English in the eighteenth century, chapters in the social history of the times.