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1. A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : illustrated with copper-plates : designed principally for the information of such ladies as practise the above arts : and absolutely necessary to all students, who wish to acquire correctness in the outline of the human figure / by W.F. Wells.

A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : illustrated with copper-plates : designed principally for the information of such ladies as practise the above arts : and absolutely necessary to all students, who wish to acquire correctness in the outline of the human figure / by W.F. Wells.
Creator:
Wells, William Frederick, 1762–1836
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
[4], 19, [1] page, [6] leaves of plates : illlustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Six progressive lessons for flower painting : with letter-press directions for drawing and coloring of flowers upon botanical principles.

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

3. The new descriptive lesson for carbonic drawing / by Rawson Walker ; carbonic drawing is the only known mode of drawing that can imitate the photographs, calotypes, or sun pictures.

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Creator:
Walker, John Rawson, 1796–1873
Date:
[ca. 1847]
Physical Description:
4 p. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

5. A guide to sketching from nature in water colours / by Leonidas Clint Miles ; with numerous illustrations, drawn on stone and wood by the author.

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Creator:
Miles, Leonidas Clint
Date:
1868
Physical Description:
85, 48 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Studies of cows from life : forming the first rudiments of sketching cattle from nature / H. M. Milbourne, in. et fec.

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Creator:
Milbourne, Henry, 1781–ca. 1826
Date:
[1805]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm. x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Sketching landscape scenery, part 2nd.

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Creator:
Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:
not before 1825
Physical Description:
1 volume (24 leaves) ; 29 x 39 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. M. Stanley's drawing book.

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Creator:
Stanley, Montague, 1809–1844
Date:
[1841?]
Physical Description:
[25] leaves : all illustrations ; 26 x 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

10. The art of sketching flowers from nature : with coloured illustrations / by R. Willett Lucas.

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Creator:
Lucas, Ralph Willett, 1796–1874
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
iv, 45 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 1853.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Copper plates used in Pyne's Etchings of rustic figures.

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Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:
1814, April 1-July 1
Physical Description:
18 plates ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Lessons on trees / by J.D. Harding ; author of "Lessons on Art," "Elementary Art," "The Principles and practice of Art," &c. &c.

No cover image available
Creator:
Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:
MDCCCL [1850]
Physical Description:
[6] p., 30 leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Ackermann's rudimental drawing-book, for beginners in landscape / by H. Bright ; complete in six numbers.

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Creator:
Bright, Henry, 1810–1873
Date:
[1843]
Physical Description:
6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm. x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Artist's sketchbook, circa 1809?.

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Date:
circa 1809?
Physical Description:
1 v. ([14] leaves) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Elementary art, or, The use of the chalk and lead pencil advocated and explained / by J.D. Harding.

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Creator:
Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
iv, 97 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Ward's progressive book of landscape drawing : in thirteen parts / by J. H. Burgess.

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Creator:
Burgess, J. Howard (James Howard), 1817–1890
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
13 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Hannah Bolton's first drawing book : a walk through a house shown by scenes in the journey.

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Creator:
Bolton, Hannah
Date:
[1853]
Physical Description:
[5] pt. : chiefly ill. ; 27 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. An essay on mechanical drawing : comprising an elementary course of practice in the perspective delineation of machinery / illustrated in numerous plates by Charles Blunt.

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Creator:
Blunt, Charles
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
[4], 91, [1] p., [63] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Le Messurier's A.B.C. sketching frame.

No cover image available
Date:
circa 1900?
Physical Description:
1 v. ; 19 x 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The school perspective : being a progressive course of instruction in Linear Perspective, both theoretical and practical : specially designed for the use of schools / by J.R. Dicksee, principal drawing master to the city of London School, to The Normal College for training teachers of the British and Foreign School Society, &c. ; illustrated with many woodcuts and forty engraved plates.

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Creator:
Dicksee, J. R. (John Robert), 1817–1905
Date:
[1862]
Physical Description:
xiv, 79, [1] p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Groups of flowers : drawn and accurately coloured after nature : with full directions for the young artist, designed as a companion to the treatise on flower painting / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Britannica, Treatise on flower painting, &c.

No cover image available
Creator:
Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
20 p., [12] leaves of plates. : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Elements of drawing and flower painting : in opaque and transparent water-colours / by Mrs. E.E. Perkins ; honored by the especial patronage of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

No cover image available
Creator:
Perkins, Elizabeth Steele
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
xvi, [1], 18-66, [6] pages, [14] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Buchanan's initiatory drawing lessons : for the use of writing academies & private families : engraved series, to be copied with the pen.

No cover image available
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
4 p., 43 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature: being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1760]
Physical Description:
16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Studies of flowers from nature ... : a selection of subjects from the choicest exotics, painted after nature, with a correct outline of each and instructions for producing a facsimile of the finished drawing / by Miss Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, Penelope
Date:
[ca. 1818]
Physical Description:
3 p., [20] leaves, [41] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Marine sketches / drawn on stone by S. Prout.

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Creator:
Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[24] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Young ladies' drawing book, or, complete instructor in drawing and colouring flowers, fruits & shells; with directions for purchasing and using all the materials connected with that fine art.

No cover image available
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
[1], 24 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Elementary art, or, The use of the lead pencil advocated and explained / by J.D. Harding.

No cover image available
Creator:
Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
iv, 80 p., [28] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Mellin's food for infants & invalids.

No cover image available
Date:
[18--]
Physical Description:
15 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Lessons on drawing, watercolors, and miniatures.

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Creator:
Robertson, Archibald, 1765–1835
Date:
1797-1803
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing : to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

No cover image available
Date:
[between 1770 and 1784?]
Physical Description:
16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Groups of fruit : accurately drawn and coloured after nature, with full directions for the young artist : designed as a companion to the treatises on flowers and birds / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.

No cover image available
Creator:
Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[16] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. [Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]

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Creator:
John Bluck, active 1791–1819
Date:
[1800]
Physical Description:
[4], 8 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. 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.

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

35. Progressive lessons in drawings / by J. Powell, No. 14 Allsops buildings, New Road, Marylebone.

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Creator:
Powell, Joseph, 1780–1834
Date:
1820-1821
Physical Description:
3 volumes : all illustrations ; 23 x 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Short and direct method of painting in water-colours / written by the late ingenious Mr. Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680
Date:
1730
Physical Description:
22 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The speculum, or, Art of drawing in water colours : and instructions for sketching from nature : comprising the whole process of a water-coloured drawing, familiarly exemplified in drawing, shadowing, and tinting a complete landscape, in all its progressive stages : with directions for compounding and using colours, sepia, indian ink, bister, etc. / by J.Hassell.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
56 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. An easy and familiar treatise on the art of drawing in perspective : calculated for young students, and to be acquired without a tutor / by Elias Taylor.

No cover image available
Creator:
Taylor, Elias
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
viii, 74, [2] p., 25 leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Rowlandson's world in miniature : consisting of groups of figures for the illustration of landscape scenery / drawn and etched by T. Rowlandson.

No cover image available
Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
[40] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The art of drawing without a master / from Mons. Le Clerc.

No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1840?]
Physical Description:
[19] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

No cover image available
Creator:
Heckel, Augustin, approximately 1690–1770
Date:
[1759]
Physical Description:
[1], 5 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Fifty plates of green-house plants, drawn and coloured from nature : with concise descriptions, and rules for their culture. Intended also for the improvement of young ladies in the art of drawing / by Henrietta Maria Moriarty.

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Creator:
Moriarty, Henrietta Maria
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
xii p., 50 leaves, [4] p., 50 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Six birds : accurately drawn and coloured after nature with full instructions for the young artist : intended as a companion to the treatise on flower painting / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.

No cover image available
Creator:
Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[18] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
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

45. Elements of drawing and flower painting : in opaque and transparent water-colours / by Mrs. E.E. Perkins ; honored by the especial patronage of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

No cover image available
Creator:
Perkins, Elizabeth Steele
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
xvi, 50, [6] pages, [15] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:
[ca. 1828]
Physical Description:
[34] leavesof plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts