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1. Catalogue of the first special exhibition of national portraits ending with the reign of King James the Second, on loan to the South Kensington museum. April, 1866.

Date:: [1866]
Physical Description:: xi, 202 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

2. The life and works of Joseph Wright, A.R.A., commonly called "Wright of Derby" / by William Bemrose ... ; with a preface by Cosmo Monkhouse ; illustrated with two etchings by Mr. F. Seymour Haden, and other plates and woodcuts.

Creator:: Bemrose, William, 1831–1908
Date:: 1885
Physical Description:: x, 128 pages, [7] unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, genealogical table ; 40 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

3. A new treatise on flower painting, or, Every lady her own drawing master: containing familiar and easy instructions for acquiring a perfect knowledge of drawing flowers with accuracy and taste: also complete directions for producing the various tints. By George Brookshaw ...

Creator:: Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823.
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 36 p. col. front., plates (part col.) 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

4. Memoirs and recollections of the late Abraham Raimbach, esq., engraver ... Including a Memoir of Sir David Wilkie, R.A.: ed. by M.T.S. Raimbach ...

Creator:: Raimbach, Abraham, 1776–1843
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: viii, 203 p. front. (port.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

5. Loan collection of pictures by George Stubbs ... and engravings from his works.

Date:: 1885
Physical Description:: 52 p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

6. Lectures on art delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 / by John Ruskin.

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: 1870
Physical Description:: 189 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

7. A catalogue of the pictures at Grosvenor House, London : with etchings from the whole collection : executed by permission of the noble proprietor, and accompanied by historical notices of the principal works / by John Young ...

Creator:: Young, John, 1755–1825
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [8], 46 p., 46 leaves of plates : ill. ; 3l cm
Collection:: Reference Library

8. American book prices current.

Physical Description:: v. 22-27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

9. The life of Sir David Wilkie; with his journals, tours, and critical remarks on works of art; and a selection from his correspondence. By Allan Cunningham ...

Creator:: Cunningham, Allan, 1784–1842
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: 3 v. front. (port.) 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

10. Life and times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: : with notices of some of his contemporaries. Commenced by Charles Robert Leslie, R. A., continued and concluded by Tom Taylor ... with portraits and illustrations.

Creator:: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
Date:: 1865
Physical Description:: 2 v., [12] leaves of plates : ill. (some colored), ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

11. Life and letters of William Bewick (artist) / edited by Thomas Landseer.

Creator:: Bewick, William, 1795–1866
Date:: 1871
Physical Description:: 2 v. : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

12. Practical carver & gilders' guide and picture frame makers' companion : containing information on the various departments of the trade in gilding and re-gilding picture and looking-glass frames, console tables, what-nots, &c ... / by a practical hand.

Date:: [ca. 1870]
Physical Description:: 205 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

13. Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions / by Edmund Lodge.

Creator:: Lodge, Edmund, 1756–1839
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: 12 v. in 6 : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

14. The life and letters of Sir John Everett Millais, president of the Royal Academy / by his son, John Guille Millais ; with 319 illustrations, including nine photogravures.

Creator:: Millais, John Guille, 1865–1931
Date:: 1899
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas R. Burns, Yale BA 2013

15. The Carlyles' Chelsea home : being some account of no. 5, Cheyne Row / by Reginald Blunt.

Creator:: Blunt, Reginald, 1857–1944
Date:: 1895
Physical Description:: xvi, 98, [2] pages, [36] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

16. A hand-book to Hampton Court : with illustrations and a complete catalogue of the pictures / by Felix Summerly (Sir Henry Cole, K.C.B.) ...

Creator:: Cole, Henry, Sir, 1808–1882
Date:: 1887
Physical Description:: 108 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

17. Recollections of A.W.N. Pugin and his father, Augustus Pugin : with notices of their works / by Benjamin Ferrey ; with an appendix by E. Sheridan Purcell.

Creator:: Ferrey, Benjamin, 1810–1880
Date:: 1861
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 473, 12, [3] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

18. The works of James Gillray, the caricaturist : with the story of his life and times / edited by Thomas Wright ; with over four hundred illustrations.

Creator:: Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:: [1873]
Physical Description:: [2], 376 p., [81] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19. St. Pancras; being antiquarian, topographical, and biographical memoranda, relating to the extensive metropolitan parish of St. Pancras, Middlesex; with some account of the parish from its foundation. By Samuel Palmer...

Creator:: Palmer, Samuel
Date:: 1870
Physical Description:: ix, [13]-322 p. incl. illus., front. (map) plates 29 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

20. Journal of a landscape painter in Corsica / by Edward Lear.

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: 1870
Physical Description:: xvi, 272 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

21. Anecdotes of William Hogarth, written by himself, with essays on his life and genius, and criticisms on his works, selected from Walpole, Gilpin, J. Ireland, Lamb, Phillips, and others. To which are added a catalogue of his prints; account of their variations, and principal copies; lists of paintings, drawings, &c. London, J. B. Nichols, 1833.

Anecdotes of William Hogarth, written by himself, with essays on his life and genius, and criticisms on his works, selected from Walpole, Gilpin, J. Ireland, Lamb, Phillips, and others. To which are added a catalogue of his prints; account of their variations, and principal copies; lists of paintings, drawings, &c. London, J. B. Nichols, 1833.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: 1970?]
Physical Description:: xii, 415 p. illus. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

22. Sir Joshua Reynolds' Notes and observations on pictures, chiefly of the Venetian school ... also, The Rev. W. Mason's observations on Sir Joshua's method of coloring, and some unpublished letters of Dr. Johnson, Malone, and others. With an appendix, containing a tanscript of Sir Joshua Reynolds' account book, showing what pictures he painted and the prices paid for them. Edited by William Cotton ...

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: xii, 107, [1] p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

23. Sir Joshua Reynolds and his works : gleanings from his diary, unpublished manuscripts and from other sources / by William Cotton ; edited by John Burnet ...

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: 1856
Physical Description:: xviii, 276 p., [11] p. of plates : ill., ports., facsims. (part fold.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

24. The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ... to which is prefixed, a memoir of the author; with remarks on his professional character, illustrative of his principles and practice. By Henry William Beechey.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: 2 v. front. (port.) 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

25. The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ... with a memoir by Henry William Beechy.

Creator:: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
Date:: 1899-1901
Physical Description:: 2 v. front. (port.) 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

26. Les fleuves de France = : The rivers of France / Turner.

Creator:: Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
Date:: c1990
Collection:: Reference Library

27. Poetical sketches / By W.B.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:: 1926
Physical Description:: [8], 70 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

28. Jerusalem : the emanation of the giant Albion / William Blake ; edited with an introduction and notes by Morton D. Paley.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Physical Description:: 302 p. : 100, 5 col. facsims. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

29. Songs of innocence and of experience / William Blake ; edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lincoln.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:: c1991
Physical Description:: 209 p. : 54, 12 col. facsims. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

30. Illustrations of Milton's Comus : eight drawings by William Blake reproduced by William Griggs.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:: 1890
Physical Description:: 8 col. pl.; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

31. The practical carver and gilder's guide, and picture frame maker's companion : containing information on the various departments of the trade in gilding and re-gilding picture and looking-glass frames, console tables, what-nots, &c : interior and exterior gilding : silvering plate glass : the restoration of oil paintings, cleaning old engravings, &c. : with chapters on mitreing-up mouldings, mount cutting, mounting engravings, maps, photographs, etc. : French polishing, varnishing, and staining : and a number of useful receipts / by a practical hand.

Creator:: Savory, Charles H
Date:: [187-?]
Physical Description:: xiv, 201, [7] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

32. Decoration & furniture of town houses; a series of Cantor lectures delivered before the Society of Arts, 1880, amplified and enl., by Robert W. Edis, with 29 full-page illustrations and numerous sketches.

Creator:: Edis, Robert W. (Robert William), 1839–1927
Date:: 1881
Physical Description:: xvi, 292 p. front., illus., 28 pl. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

33. Le Livre; revue du monde littéraire--archives des écrits de ce temps.

Physical Description:: 21 v. ill., plates (part col.) ports. 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

34. History of sculpture, from the earliest ages to the present time. By Dr. Wilhelm Lübke ... tr. by F.E. Bunnett...

Creator:: Lübke, Wilhelm, 1826–1893
Date:: 1872
Physical Description:: 2 v. illus. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

35. The history of Long Melford.

Creator:: Parker, William, Sir, 1826–1891
Date:: 1873
Physical Description:: x, 379 p. 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

36. A history of ancient sculpture, by Lucy M. Mitchell. With numerous illustrations, including six plates in phototype.

Creator:: Mitchell, Lucy Myers Wright, 1845–1888
Date:: 1883
Physical Description:: xxxi, 766 p. illus., 6 pl. 28 cm. and atlas of XX pl. 38 x 35 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

37. The strand magazine.

Date:: 1891-1946
Physical Description:: 111 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 20-25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

38. Guide de l'amateur. Bibliographie des ouvrages illustrés du XIX siècle, principalement des livres à gravures sur bois, par Jules Brivois...

Creator:: Brivois, Jules Baptiste Lucien, 1832–1920
Date:: 1883
Physical Description:: xiii, 468 p. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

39. A catalogue of twenty thousand engraved portraits, chiefly of personages connected with the history and literature of Great Britain, on sale at the annexed prices, by John Russell Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John Russell, 1810–1894
Date:: 1883
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., 232 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

40. English children as painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds : an essay on some of the characteristics of Reynolds as a designer, with especial reference to his portraiture of children / by Frederic G. Stephens ...

Creator:: Stephens, Frederic George, 1828–1907
Date:: 1884
Physical Description:: viii, 85 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

41. George Morland's pictures: their present possessors, with details of the collection. By Ralph Richardson.

Creator:: Richardson, Ralph
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: vi p., 1l., 103 p. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

42. Catalogue of a collection of water-colour drawings by Thomas Rowlandson and John Downman, A.R.A. / with a prefatory note by Joseph Grego. Exhibited at The Fine Art Society's.

Creator:: Fine Art Society
Date:: 1895
Physical Description:: 22, [14] leaves of plates, 8 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

43. Catalogue of the second special exhibition of national portraits commencing with the reign of William and Mary and ending with the year MDCCC, on loan to the South Kensington museum. May 1, 1867.

Creator:: South Kensington Museum
Date:: [1867]
Physical Description:: x, [11]-208 p. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

44. The autobiography of the Hon. Roger North, ed. by Augustus Jessopp ...

Creator:: North, Roger, 1651–1734
Date:: 1887
Physical Description:: 7 p. l., xx, 281, [xxi]-ixi, [282]-289 p. front., plates, ports. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

45. The English school of painting. By Ernest Chesneau. Tr. by Lucy N. Etherington. With a preface by Professor Ruskin.

Creator:: Chesneau, Ernest, 1833–1890
Date:: 1885
Physical Description:: xliii, 339 p. illus. 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

46. One hundred and seventy-six historic and artistic bookbindings dating from the fifteenth century to the present time pictured by etchings, artotypes, and lithographs after the originals selected from the library of Robert Hoe ...

Creator:: Hoe, Robert, 1839–1909
Date:: 1895
Physical Description:: 2 v. : plates (some col.) ; 36 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

47. Poole's index to periodical literature : the first supplement, from January 1, 1882 to January 1, 1887 / by William Frederick Poole and William I. Fletcher, with the coöperation of the American Library Association ....

Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: xiii, 483 p. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

48. Men of the time; a dictionary of contemporaries, containing biographical notices of eminent characters of both sexes.

Date:: 1872
Physical Description:: vii, 1008 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

49. History of the Wrays of Glentworth 1523-1852. Including memoirs of the principal families with which they were connected ..

Creator:: Dalton, Charles, 1850–1913
Date:: 1880-81
Physical Description:: 2 v. fronts. (ports.) geneal. tables (part fold.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

50. Life of Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. With appendix. By his great-grandson, William Raeburn Andrew ...

Creator:: Andrew, William Raeburn, 1853–1914
Date:: 1894
Physical Description:: viii, 160 p. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

51. Romney and Lawrence / by Lord Ronald Gower ...

Creator:: Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845–1916
Date:: 1892
Physical Description:: x, 124 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

52. A handbook of pictorial art, by the Rev. R. St. John Tyrwhitt ... with a chapter on perspective by A. Macdonald ...

Creator:: Tyrwhitt, R. St. John (Richard St. John), 1827–1895
Date:: 1868
Physical Description:: xi, [1] p., 2 l., 480 p. col. front., illus., plates (partly col.) photos. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

53. Catalogue of the third and concluding exhibition of national portraits commencing with the fortieth year of the reign of George the Third and ending with the year MDCCCLXVII. On loan to the South Kensington museum. April 13, 1868.

Creator:: South Kensington Museum
Date:: [1868]
Physical Description:: x, 210 p. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

54. A catalogue of the portraits painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, knt., P.R.A. Compiled from his autograph memorandum books, and from printed catalogues, &c., by William Cotton, esq.

Creator:: Cotton, William, 1794–1863
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: vii, 81, [1] p., 1 l. 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

55. The early work of Aubrey Beardsley / with a prefatory note by H.C. Marillier.

Creator:: Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872–1898
Date:: 1899
Physical Description:: 18 p., 157 leaves, [153] leaves of plates : ill. (1 col.), port. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

56. Catalogue of drawings by British artists and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain ... by Laurence Binyon ...

Creator:: British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings
Date:: 1898-1907
Physical Description:: 4 v. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

57. The register, and magazine of biography, a record of births, marriages, deaths, and other genealogical and personal occurrences. v. 1-2; Jan.-Dec. 1869.

Date:: 1869
Physical Description:: 2 v. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

58. Catalogue of the ... dramatic and general library of John Mansfield Mackenzie, esq., of Edinburgh; comprising ... biographies, histories, controversies, facetiae, &c. relating to the stage ... old plays, play-bills, theatrical newspapers and periodicals ... works by Scottish writers or relating to Scotland ... theatrical portraits, including original drawings, autograph letters, &c., which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... the 11th day of March, 1889, and seven following days ...

Creator:: Mackenzie, John Mansfield, 1846–
Date:: [1889]
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., 170 p. 25 1/2 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

59. Notes on bookplates. By Augustus W. Franks ... No. I. English dated bookplates, 1574-1800.

Creator:: Franks, Augustus Wollaston, 1826–1897
Date:: 1887
Physical Description:: 32 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

60. The Cathedral churches of England and Wales. Descriptive, historical, pictorial.

Creator:: Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833–1923
Date:: 1885
Physical Description:: xx, 272 p. incl. front. illus., plates. 40 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

61. England, Scotland, & Ireland, a picturesque survey of the United Kingdom and its institutions, by P. Villars; tr. by Henry Frith. With six hundred illustrations.

Creator:: Villars, Paul, 1849–1935
Date:: 1887
Physical Description:: xiv p., 1 l., 222, 277, 154, [6] p. incl. front., illus., port. 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

62. Recollections of A. W. N. Pugin, and his father, Augustus Pugin / Benjamin Ferrey ; with an appendix by E. Sheridan Purcell and an introduction and index by Clive and Jane Wainwright.

Recollections of A. W. N. Pugin, and his father, Augustus Pugin / Benjamin Ferrey ; with an appendix by E. Sheridan Purcell and an introduction and index by Clive and Jane Wainwright.

Creator:: Ferrey, Benjamin, 1810–1880
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: xlii, 473, lii p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

63. The Gresleys of Drakelowe, an account of the family, and notes of its connexions by marriage and descent from the Norman conquest to the present day with appendixes, pedigrees and illustrations. Comp. by Falconer Madan ...

Creator:: Madan, Falconer, 1851–1935
Date:: 1899
Physical Description:: xi, [1] p., 1 l., 335, [1] p. front. (col. port) plates, plan, geneal. tables. 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

64. The biographical treasury; a dictionary of universal biography. By Samuel Maunder.

Creator:: Maunder, Samuel, 1785–1849
Date:: 1866
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., 1154 p. front. 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

65. The history of the family of Carr of Dunston Hill, Co. Durham : and the collateral lines in England / by Colonel Ralph Edward Carr ... and by Cuthbert Ellison Carr (C.E.)

Creator:: Carr, Ralph Edward, 1833–1892
Date:: 1893-1899
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

66. A history of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., by Algernon Graves, F.S.A., and William Vine Cronin ...

Creator:: Graves, Algernon
Date:: 1899-1901
Physical Description:: 4 v. fronts., 154 pl. (incl. ports., facsims.) 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

67. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of English broadsides, 1505-1897.

Creator:: Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847–1913
Date:: 1898
Physical Description:: xl, 526 p., 1 l. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

68. John Crome and his works, with lists of his pictures exhibited in Norwich from the year 1805 to 1821 inclusive; some account of the Norwich society of artists; short notices of painters, the local contemporaries of Crome, &c., &c., by the late John Wodderspoon ...

Creator:: Wodderspoon, John, 1806–1862
Date:: 1876
Physical Description:: 9 p., 1 l., 12-22 p. mounted front. (port.) 43 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

69. Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth ...

Creator:: Dukes of Devonshire. Library (Chatsworth)
Date:: 1879
Physical Description:: 4 v. illus. 27 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

70. Visitation of England and Wales. Ed. by Joseph Jackson Howard, LL. D., Maltravers herald extraordinary. And Frederick Arthur Crisp. Notes ...

Creator:: Howard, Joseph Jackson, 1827–1902
Date:: 1896-1919
Physical Description:: v. illus., plates (part col.) ports., facsims., fold. geneal. tab. 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

71. The peerage and baronetage of the British empire as at present existing / Arranged and printed from the personal communications of the nobility... By Edmund Lodge... With the arms of the peers.

Creator:: Lodge, Edmund, 1756–1839
Date:: 1874
Physical Description:: lxv, 869 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

72. A general catalogue of books / offered to the public at the affixed prices by Bernard Quaritch.

Creator:: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Date:: 1880
Physical Description:: x, 2395 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

73. A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British empire, by John Burke, esq.

Creator:: Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: 2 v. front. (port.) illus. (coats of arms) 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

74. A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire. By Sir Bernard Burke ...

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1866
Physical Description:: x, 636 p. front., coats of arms. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

75. William Hogarth: painter, engraver, and philosopher. Essays on the man, the works, and the time. By George Augustus Sala.

Creator:: Sala, George Augustus, 1828–1895
Date:: 1866
Physical Description:: 318 p. incl. front., illus. 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

76. Family romance; or, Episodes in the domestic annals of the aristocracy. By J. Bernard Burke ...

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 2 v. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

77. Introduction of the art of printing into Scotland; by Robert Dickson.

Creator:: Dickson, Robert, 1828–1893
Date:: 1885
Physical Description:: xvi, 98 p. incl. illus., facsims. (part col.) 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

78. Vicissitudes of families.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1863
Physical Description:: xix, 444 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

79. The pocket peerage of Great Britain and Ireland; with genealogical and historical notices of the families of the nobility; the archbishops and bishops; a list of titles of courtsey; a baronetage of the United Kingdom; The Privy Council, &c. by Henry Rumsey Forster.

Creator:: Forster, Henry Rumsey, 1815–1884
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: xviii, 550 p. 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

80. Men of the time : a biographical dictionary of eminent living characters of both sexes.

Date:: 1865
Physical Description:: xxxix, [1], 860 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

81. A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1863
Physical Description:: 2 v. (1267 p.) coats of arms. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

82. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. A list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards, worth Ł3,000 a year; Also, one thousand three hundred owners of two thousand acres and upwards, in England, Scotland, Ireland & Wales, their acreage, and income from land, culled from The modern Domesday book; Also their colleges, clubs, and services. Corrected in the vast majority of cases by the owners themselves. With a series of tables originally compiled for "English land and English landowners," by Hon. G. Brodrick, with a dissertation thereon.

Creator:: Bateman, John
Date:: 1883
Physical Description:: xxviii, 533, 15 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

83. Catalogue of choice and valuable books, from several collections.

Creator:: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: 34 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

84. A second series of vicissitudes of families / by Sir Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1861
Physical Description:: 436 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

85. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. A list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards, worth Ł3,000 a year, in England, Scotland, Ireland & Wales, their income from land, avreage, colleges, clubs, and services, culled from The modern Domesday book. Corrected in the vast majority of cases by the owners themselves.

Creator:: Bateman, John
Date:: 1879
Physical Description:: xxviii, 488, 31 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

86. The peerage and baronetage of the British empire as at present existing / Arranged and printed from the personal communications of the nobility... By Edmund Lodge... With the arms of the peers.

Creator:: Lodge, Edmund, 1756–1839
Date:: 1894
Physical Description:: lxiv, 1011, 31 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

87. A guide to the drawings and prints exhibited to the public in the King's library.

Creator:: British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: 32 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

88. Catalogue of the valuable library of Alexander E. Burnett ...

Creator:: Burnett, Alexander Edwin, 1842–1895
Date:: 1889
Physical Description:: 44 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

89. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. A list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards, worth Ł3,000 a year, in England, Scotland, Ireland & Wales, their acreage, income from land, college, club, and services, culled from The modern Domesday book. With an analysis by John Bateman, F.R.G.S.

Creator:: Bateman, John
Date:: 1878
Physical Description:: xxviii, 488, 31 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

90. The historic peerage of England : exhibiting, under alphabetical arrangement, the origin, descent, and present state of every title of peerage which has existed in this country since the Conquest ; being a new edition of the "Synopsis of the Peerage of England" / by the late Sir Harris Nicolas. Revised, corrected, and continued to the present time, including all recent creations, extinctions, deaths, etc. by William Courthope.

Creator:: Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir, 1799–1848
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: lxxvi, 610 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

91. The Society of Painters in Water Colours : a list of members, associates and honorary members from its foundation, November 30, 1804.

Creator:: Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours (Great Britain)
Date:: 1878]
Physical Description:: ca. 200 leaves.
Collection:: Reference Library

92. Catalogue of an important and highly-interesting sale ... at Broughton Castle .. which will be offered for ... sale by auction by Messrs. Enoch & Redfern ... on Tuesday, the 4th day of July, 1837 ...

Creator:: Broughton Castle
Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: 62 p.
Collection:: Reference Library

93. Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley their ancestors and descendants. Attempted by Robert Edmond Chester Waters ...

Creator:: Waters, Robert Edmond Chester, 1828–
Date:: 1878
Physical Description:: 2 v. illus. (coats of arms) 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

94. Life and letters of John Constable, R.A. / by C.R. Leslie, R.A. With three portraits of Constable and forty-two illustrations from Constable's pictures and sketches, together with some notes on his work, etc. by Robert C. Leslie.

Creator:: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: xx, 416 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

95. Catalogue of the exhibition of pictures by ancient and modern artists at the Council Hall, Truro, June 1861 : in connection with the meeting of the Bath and West of England Society, for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Art, Manufacturers, and Commerce. The profits will be devoted to the Royal Cornwall Infirmary.

Creator:: Truro (England). Council Hall
Date:: 1861
Physical Description:: 8 p.
Collection:: Reference Library

96. The art collection of the Corporation of Glasgow / by Edward Pinnington, illustrated with twenty-five Annan photogravures.

Creator:: Pinnington, Edward, 1846–
Date:: 1898
Physical Description:: x, 123 p. [25] leaves of plates : plates ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

97. Turner and Girtin's picturesque views sixty years since. With thirty engravings of the olden time / Thomas Miller.

Creator:: Miller, Thomas, 1807–1874
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: lv, 164 p. : ill., facsim. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

98. A catalogue of the large and capital collection of pictures by the most admired Italian, Flemish and Dutch masters : also, prints and drawings, framed and glazed, of James West ... which will be sold by auction by Mess. Langford's ... on Wednesday the 31st of ... March, 1773 ...

Creator:: West, James, 1704?-1773
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 24 p.
Collection:: Reference Library

99. Life of William Etty, R.A. / by Alexander Gilchrist.

Creator:: Gilchrist, Alexander, 1828–1861
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : port. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

100. Richard Cosway, R.A., and his wife and pupils : miniaturists of the eighteenth century / By George C. Williamson.

Creator:: Williamson, George Charles, 1858–1942
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: xii p., 1 l., 170 p., 1 l. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. Catalogue of the first special exhibition of national portraits ending with the reign of King James the Second, on loan to the South Kensington museum. April, 1866.

2. The life and works of Joseph Wright, A.R.A., commonly called "Wright of Derby" / by William Bemrose ... ; with a preface by Cosmo Monkhouse ; illustrated with two etchings by Mr. F. Seymour Haden, and other plates and woodcuts.

3. A new treatise on flower painting, or, Every lady her own drawing master: containing familiar and easy instructions for acquiring a perfect knowledge of drawing flowers with accuracy and taste: also complete directions for producing the various tints. By George Brookshaw ...

4. Memoirs and recollections of the late Abraham Raimbach, esq., engraver ... Including a Memoir of Sir David Wilkie, R.A.: ed. by M.T.S. Raimbach ...

5. Loan collection of pictures by George Stubbs ... and engravings from his works.

6. Lectures on art delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 / by John Ruskin.

7. A catalogue of the pictures at Grosvenor House, London : with etchings from the whole collection : executed by permission of the noble proprietor, and accompanied by historical notices of the principal works / by John Young ...

8. American book prices current.

9. The life of Sir David Wilkie; with his journals, tours, and critical remarks on works of art; and a selection from his correspondence. By Allan Cunningham ...

10. Life and times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: : with notices of some of his contemporaries. Commenced by Charles Robert Leslie, R. A., continued and concluded by Tom Taylor ... with portraits and illustrations.

11. Life and letters of William Bewick (artist) / edited by Thomas Landseer.

12. Practical carver & gilders' guide and picture frame makers' companion : containing information on the various departments of the trade in gilding and re-gilding picture and looking-glass frames, console tables, what-nots, &c ... / by a practical hand.

13. Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions / by Edmund Lodge.

14. The life and letters of Sir John Everett Millais, president of the Royal Academy / by his son, John Guille Millais ; with 319 illustrations, including nine photogravures.

15. The Carlyles' Chelsea home : being some account of no. 5, Cheyne Row / by Reginald Blunt.

16. A hand-book to Hampton Court : with illustrations and a complete catalogue of the pictures / by Felix Summerly (Sir Henry Cole, K.C.B.) ...

17. Recollections of A.W.N. Pugin and his father, Augustus Pugin : with notices of their works / by Benjamin Ferrey ; with an appendix by E. Sheridan Purcell.

18. The works of James Gillray, the caricaturist : with the story of his life and times / edited by Thomas Wright ; with over four hundred illustrations.

19. St. Pancras; being antiquarian, topographical, and biographical memoranda, relating to the extensive metropolitan parish of St. Pancras, Middlesex; with some account of the parish from its foundation. By Samuel Palmer...

20. Journal of a landscape painter in Corsica / by Edward Lear.

23. Sir Joshua Reynolds and his works : gleanings from his diary, unpublished manuscripts and from other sources / by William Cotton ; edited by John Burnet ...

24. The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ... to which is prefixed, a memoir of the author; with remarks on his professional character, illustrative of his principles and practice. By Henry William Beechey.

25. The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ... with a memoir by Henry William Beechy.

26. Les fleuves de France = : The rivers of France / Turner.

27. Poetical sketches / By W.B.

28. Jerusalem : the emanation of the giant Albion / William Blake ; edited with an introduction and notes by Morton D. Paley.

29. Songs of innocence and of experience / William Blake ; edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lincoln.

30. Illustrations of Milton's Comus : eight drawings by William Blake reproduced by William Griggs.

32. Decoration & furniture of town houses; a series of Cantor lectures delivered before the Society of Arts, 1880, amplified and enl., by Robert W. Edis, with 29 full-page illustrations and numerous sketches.

33. Le Livre; revue du monde littéraire--archives des écrits de ce temps.

34. History of sculpture, from the earliest ages to the present time. By Dr. Wilhelm Lübke ... tr. by F.E. Bunnett...

35. The history of Long Melford.

36. A history of ancient sculpture, by Lucy M. Mitchell. With numerous illustrations, including six plates in phototype.

37. The strand magazine.

38. Guide de l'amateur. Bibliographie des ouvrages illustrés du XIX siècle, principalement des livres à gravures sur bois, par Jules Brivois...

39. A catalogue of twenty thousand engraved portraits, chiefly of personages connected with the history and literature of Great Britain, on sale at the annexed prices, by John Russell Smith.

40. English children as painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds : an essay on some of the characteristics of Reynolds as a designer, with especial reference to his portraiture of children / by Frederic G. Stephens ...

41. George Morland's pictures: their present possessors, with details of the collection. By Ralph Richardson.

42. Catalogue of a collection of water-colour drawings by Thomas Rowlandson and John Downman, A.R.A. / with a prefatory note by Joseph Grego. Exhibited at The Fine Art Society's.

43. Catalogue of the second special exhibition of national portraits commencing with the reign of William and Mary and ending with the year MDCCC, on loan to the South Kensington museum. May 1, 1867.

44. The autobiography of the Hon. Roger North, ed. by Augustus Jessopp ...

45. The English school of painting. By Ernest Chesneau. Tr. by Lucy N. Etherington. With a preface by Professor Ruskin.

46. One hundred and seventy-six historic and artistic bookbindings dating from the fifteenth century to the present time pictured by etchings, artotypes, and lithographs after the originals selected from the library of Robert Hoe ...

47. Poole's index to periodical literature : the first supplement, from January 1, 1882 to January 1, 1887 / by William Frederick Poole and William I. Fletcher, with the coöperation of the American Library Association ....

48. Men of the time; a dictionary of contemporaries, containing biographical notices of eminent characters of both sexes.

49. History of the Wrays of Glentworth 1523-1852. Including memoirs of the principal families with which they were connected ..

50. Life of Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. With appendix. By his great-grandson, William Raeburn Andrew ...

51. Romney and Lawrence / by Lord Ronald Gower ...

52. A handbook of pictorial art, by the Rev. R. St. John Tyrwhitt ... with a chapter on perspective by A. Macdonald ...

53. Catalogue of the third and concluding exhibition of national portraits commencing with the fortieth year of the reign of George the Third and ending with the year MDCCCLXVII. On loan to the South Kensington museum. April 13, 1868.

54. A catalogue of the portraits painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, knt., P.R.A. Compiled from his autograph memorandum books, and from printed catalogues, &c., by William Cotton, esq.

55. The early work of Aubrey Beardsley / with a prefatory note by H.C. Marillier.

56. Catalogue of drawings by British artists and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain ... by Laurence Binyon ...

57. The register, and magazine of biography, a record of births, marriages, deaths, and other genealogical and personal occurrences. v. 1-2; Jan.-Dec. 1869.

59. Notes on bookplates. By Augustus W. Franks ... No. I. English dated bookplates, 1574-1800.

60. The Cathedral churches of England and Wales. Descriptive, historical, pictorial.

61. England, Scotland, & Ireland, a picturesque survey of the United Kingdom and its institutions, by P. Villars; tr. by Henry Frith. With six hundred illustrations.

62. Recollections of A. W. N. Pugin, and his father, Augustus Pugin / Benjamin Ferrey ; with an appendix by E. Sheridan Purcell and an introduction and index by Clive and Jane Wainwright.

63. The Gresleys of Drakelowe, an account of the family, and notes of its connexions by marriage and descent from the Norman conquest to the present day with appendixes, pedigrees and illustrations. Comp. by Falconer Madan ...

64. The biographical treasury; a dictionary of universal biography. By Samuel Maunder.

65. The history of the family of Carr of Dunston Hill, Co. Durham : and the collateral lines in England / by Colonel Ralph Edward Carr ... and by Cuthbert Ellison Carr (C.E.)

66. A history of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., by Algernon Graves, F.S.A., and William Vine Cronin ...

67. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of English broadsides, 1505-1897.

68. John Crome and his works, with lists of his pictures exhibited in Norwich from the year 1805 to 1821 inclusive; some account of the Norwich society of artists; short notices of painters, the local contemporaries of Crome, &c., &c., by the late John Wodderspoon ...

69. Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth ...

70. Visitation of England and Wales. Ed. by Joseph Jackson Howard, LL. D., Maltravers herald extraordinary. And Frederick Arthur Crisp. Notes ...

71. The peerage and baronetage of the British empire as at present existing / Arranged and printed from the personal communications of the nobility... By Edmund Lodge... With the arms of the peers.

72. A general catalogue of books / offered to the public at the affixed prices by Bernard Quaritch.

73. A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British empire, by John Burke, esq.

74. A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire. By Sir Bernard Burke ...

75. William Hogarth: painter, engraver, and philosopher. Essays on the man, the works, and the time. By George Augustus Sala.

76. Family romance; or, Episodes in the domestic annals of the aristocracy. By J. Bernard Burke ...

77. Introduction of the art of printing into Scotland; by Robert Dickson.