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As in a looking glass / by F.C. Philips ; iIllustrated by G. du Maurier.
Creator:
Philips, F. C. (Francis Charles), 1849–1921
Date:
1889
Physical Description:
[10], 293, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross
The Chinese expedition, 1859-1860 / by Major W.G.R. Masters, Royal Marine Light Infantry ; a series of eight views ...
Creator:
Masters, W. G. R. (William Godfrey Rays)
Date:
[1861]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, 8 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 58 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Inn tally for food and drink at the Black Lion Inn, Scarthingmoor].
Creator:
Black Lion Inn (Scarthingmoor, England)
Date:
[early 19th century]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 17 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Gentlemen's fitting measurements diagram for use by tailors].
Creator:
Howle, J. (Tailor)
Date:
[approximately 1820-1830]
Physical Description:
1 card : illustrations ; 6 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Crimean War.
Creator:
Bowers, George Frederick
Date:
1856?
Physical Description:
1 jug : white transferware; 24 cm high (including handle) x 13 cm in diameter (17 cm including handle)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
Ancient Chinese.
Creator:
Cavanders, Ltd. (Firm)
Date:
[1926]
Physical Description:
25 cards : illustrations ; 70 x 40 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Key to the picture of the fancy going to a fight at Moulsey-Hurst : dedicated, by permission, to Mr. Jackson and the Pugilistic Club / designed and etched by I.R. Cruickshank, under the direction of P. Egan.
Creator:
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
36 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
J. Clarke : boot & shoe maker : 110 High Holborn, London.
Creator:
Clarke, J., active 1820
Date:
[approximately 1820?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : engraving ; 6 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Conversation cards, or, Pleasing pastimes for winter evenings : [game]
Date:
[ca. 1815?]
Physical Description:
[26] pictorial cards : ill. ; 65 x 45 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dearest name thee happy time that I in truth may all you mine.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Valentine card.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 18 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses for Jean Cockburn, at Mrs. Waldie's school, Hendersyde.
Creator:
Waldie, Mrs., active 1808
Date:
1808
Physical Description:
1 sheets ; 16 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead recording clothing purchased by Mrs. Clough from James Shoubridge, hatter, London.
Creator:
Shoubridge, James
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
2 sheets : illustration, 20 x 24 cm and 9 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Geo. Wostenholm & Son's, Ltd. : Sheffield, England : the finest cutlery in the world.
Creator:
George Wostenholm & Son (Sheffield, England)
Date:
[not before 1875]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 10 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : How the Englyshe bathe the bodyes of the womenne & childrenne in the sea.
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
G. A. E. Wilmot, undertaker : Albion House, Walworth : family mourning.
Creator:
G.A.E. Wilmot (Firm)
Date:
[1850?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 7 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dean's steam-boat alphabet : a companion to the Railway alphabet.
Date:
[1855?]
Physical Description:
1 scroll : illustrations ; in box 18 x 23 x 5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
J. Sage : furniture japanner, sign painter and glass enameller : Aldens Court, Broadmead, Bristol.
Creator:
Sage, John (Painter)
Date:
[approximately 1830]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketches in India : taken at Hyderabad and Secunderabad, in the Madras Presidency / by Captain Allan N. Scott, Madras Artillery ; edited by Charles Richard Weld, barrister-at-law.
Creator:
Scott, Allan N. (Allan Newton), 1824–1870
Date:
1862
Physical Description:
1 volume (various pagings) : 101 albumen prints ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Advertisement for Young's London Drapery House.
Creator:
Young's London Drapery House (Firm : Tynemouth and Whitley)
Date:
1886
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 page) : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Chinese sensitive plant, or, The living leaf : patronized by the Emperor of China, the principal court of Europe, the Royal Family, and nobility of Great Britain.
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 28 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Love has triumphed.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 14 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Fire insurance policy for Mr. Robert Gibbs, March 1, 1808, from British Fire Office]
Creator:
British Fire Office (London, England)
Date:
March 1st, 1808
Physical Description:
4 pages : illustrations ; 25 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Potter, No. 22, Old Bond Street, late foreman to Mr. Breach, hatter to Their Majesties.
Creator:
Potter, John (Hatter)
Date:
[approximately 1816]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 50 x 82 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Lawrence & Co.'s cheap clothing establishment : 153, Caledonia Road (near the canal bridge).
Creator:
Lawrence & Co. (London, England)
Date:
[not before 1882]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 13 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of F. Henderson, clothier & outfitter, recording purchases by Mr. G. Duncan, Imperial Hotel, 1888].
Creator:
Henderson, F. (Clothier)
Date:
1888
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 18 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Crosse & Blackwell : purveyors by appointment to the Queen : Soho Square, London.
Creator:
Crosse & Blackwell
Date:
[1876?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustration ; 77 x 118 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Pigmy revels, or, All alive at Lilliput [graphic] / Woodward delin.
Creator:
Sansom, Francis, active 1784–1799
Date:
1800-1801
Physical Description:
8 prints : hand-colored etchings ; sheets 45 x 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead of J.S. Moss & Son, draper and general outfitter, Manchester.
Creator:
J.S. Moss & Son (Firm : Manchester, England)
Date:
1881
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 27 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The language of flowers.
Date:
[approximately 1860]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 26 x 26 cm, folded to 15 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
National Panorama, 21, York Street, Westminster : Battle of Tel el Kebir, by Oliver Pichat.
Creator:
National Panorama (London, England)
Date:
[1883?]
Physical Description:
1 admission ticket ; 11 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To be disposed of : for terms inquire within.
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 card : color lithograph ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
A tribute to beautiful love! : vous seulement! J'estime et en vérité J'aime.
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
1 card ; 19 x 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses for C. Lamb, to be paid to Edwin R. Dibben, Classical School, Mount Pleasant, Sleaford.
Creator:
Classical School (Mount Pleasant, Sleaford, England)
Date:
1880
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 24 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
W. Herring, dealer in all sorts of pheasants, fancy poultry, swans, water fowl, gold and silver fish, sporting and fancy dogs : menagerie, New Road, near Regents Park, London, late Brookes.
Creator:
Herring, William
Date:
approximately 1835
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 70 x 100 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Remember me : blest with thy love.
Date:
1881
Physical Description:
1 card : color illustrations ; 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
When the hearts feeling burns with concealing, oh, what an anguish silent to languish.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 17 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketches for college rooms / from the portfolio of a gentleman of the University of Cambridge.
Creator:
Smith, Charles Loraine, 1751–1835
Date:
[ca. 1820?]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 x 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead recording shoes purchased by Mr. Roberts from P. Roche, boot maker, Liverpool.
Creator:
Roche, Patrick (Bootmaker)
Date:
1850
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 12 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses at King's Lodge Academy, Exeter, to be paid to the Messrs. Quicke.
Creator:
King's Lodge Academy (Exeter, England)
Date:
1850
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages ; 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Prize medal of the Exhibition : Hullmandel & Walton, Class XXX
Creator:
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
1 medal : bronze ; 8 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Amateurs repository of Indian sketches. Pt. 1.
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
11 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 27 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses from the Royal Academy for Lord Augustus Beauclerk.
Creator:
Royal Academy (Gosport, England)
Date:
August 2nd, 1834
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 25 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Trade card for The London Hotel].
Date:
1862
Physical Description:
1 trade card : engraving ; 13 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
I am thine love.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Eleventh anniversary of the United Society of Master Chimney Sweeps : (established June 15th, 1825,) for the benefit of their apprentices.
Creator:
United Society of Master Chimney Sweeps (London, England)
Date:
1836
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 27 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
F. Furness, painter and gilder : Repository of Arts, High Street, Stockton / W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinb.
Creator:
Furness, F.
Date:
[between 1826 and 1840?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 7 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Happy may they birthday be.
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 item : color illustrations ; 22 x 8 cm, folded to 12 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Anniversary dinner of the St. Nicholas Society, at the St. Nicholas Hotel, December 6th, 1853.
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 27 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture : set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott / by A. Welby Pugin.
Creator:
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812–1852
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
67, 40 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Tax bill for Samuel Staneforth Esqr of Attercliff [illegible] Darnall, dated July 12, 1814]
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 22 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Spurgeon's : registered cashmere capes from 12/9 to 5 guineas.
Creator:
Roberts
Date:
[approximately 1870]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 120 x 90 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
T'is happiness we have in view, and mine is in possessing you.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Charles Siddall, tailor, &c., Eppleby.
Creator:
Siddall, Charles, 1804–
Date:
March 31st 1840
Physical Description:
1 unnumbered page ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Photographic postcard of an unidentified group of people and 4 wheeled wagon].
Date:
[approximately 1880-1900?]
Physical Description:
1 postcard : b & w ; 9 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Notebook of recipes and taxidermic instructions.
Date:
1830-1834
Physical Description:
1 v. ([68] p.) ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A. Jacques Molay : 172 & 181, rue du Temple et rue des Fontaines.
Creator:
Molay, A. Jacques
Date:
[1870?-1890?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 10 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A collection of portraits sketched from the life since the year 1793 / by George Dance ... ; and engraved in imitation of the original drawings by William Daniell ...
Creator:
Dance, George, 1741–1825
Date:
1809-1814
Physical Description:
2 v. : 72 ports. ; 47 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Herman W. Liebert
Happy families [game] : a new and most diverting game for juveniles : forty-four grotesque characters, beautifully colored.
Date:
[186-?]
Physical Description:
1 card game (44 cards) : col. ill. ; in box 10 x 8 x 3 cm. + 1 instruction card (93 x 65 mm.), 1 instruction sheet (1 folded sheet ([4] p. ; 19 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
George McKoen, maker of the celebrated French calf side-spring boots at 12/6, equal to bespoke, Albert Boot and Shoe Warehouse : No. 9, Albert Terrace, Bishop's Road, Bayswater, near the Royal Oak.
Creator:
Albert Boot and Shoe Warehouse (London, England)
Date:
[mid 19th century]
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages ; 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of H.J. Simkin, carver & gilder, London, for the purchase of picture frames by Mr. Stevenson].
Creator:
Simkin, Henry James, -1896
Date:
1891
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 14 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of Miller & Sons, candle merchants, London].
Creator:
Miller & Sons (London, England)
Date:
[between 1830 and 1850?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration, 17 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dearest name the happy time, that I in truth may call you mine.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A correct plan and elevation of the famous French raft : constructed on purpose for the invasion of England and intended to carry 30,000 men, ammunition, stores &c. &c.
Date:
Feby. 1st 1798
Physical Description:
1 broadside : ill. ; 37 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Mars and the L'Hercule, April 21, 1798 : a transparent print / R.M.
Creator:
R. M
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
1 print on wove paper : aquatint ; plate mark 21 x 21 cm, on sheet 44 x 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Box of pigments and implements for painting on china.
Creator:
Reeves & Sons (London, England)
Date:
ca. 1880
Physical Description:
1 box : wood box, with pigments, varnish, glass muller, ceramic palettes, and brushes ; 17.5 x 26.5 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Thomas Miller, manufacturer of the most improved water and oil colours : (52, Long Acre), and 33, Rathbone Place, London.
Creator:
Miller, Thomas, 1799 or 1800–1854
Date:
[approximately 1840]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 14 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
European polyorama : course ticket.
Date:
[approximately 1851]
Physical Description:
1 ticket ; 4 x 7 cm, mounted on card 20 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Phoenix soup & dining-rooms.
Creator:
Phoenix (Restaurant : London, England)
Date:
[early 19th century]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 17 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
We must be united!
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 14 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
I would these flowers had lips to tell that I do love thee true and well.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Advertisement for hats and caps sold by John Perring, 85 Strand, London.
Creator:
Perring, John
Date:
between 1834-1845
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 28 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To the diletanti [sic] and lovers of the fine arts : drawings let out to copy at Stoddart & Craggs' literary repository, Lowgate, Hull.
Date:
[1830]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Constant as the sun in heaven above, this heart that thou has won will be to see in love.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 17 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Advertisement for patent doors, windows, & shutters for the prevention of burglary]
Date:
[1817?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 32 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bills for school expenses for Miss Gleason, to be paid to Amy Godfreys, Vernon Street, Derby.
Creator:
Godfreys, Amy, active 1879
Date:
1878-1879
Physical Description:
2 items ; 26 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
London manners and dandy fashions.
Date:
[approximately 1825?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 24 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
By Her Majesty's command, Frogmore House & gardens to be shown to Miss Smith & her party.
Date:
between 1792 and 1818?
Physical Description:
1 admission ticket ; 8 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Campaign card advertising the free trade movement, and the Free Trade Star].
Creator:
Anti-Corn Law League
Date:
[approximately 1844]
Physical Description:
1 campaign card : color illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The pencil of nature / by H. Fox Talbot.
Creator:
Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800–1877
Date:
1844 [i.e. 1844-1846]
Physical Description:
[80] pages, [24] leaves of plates : 24 photographs ; 30.5 x 24.3 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Zachariah Parkes, Digbeth, Birmingham : manufacturer of steel mills, for grinding malt beans, peas, oats, barley, wheat, indian corn, coffee, pepper, rice, cocoa, almonds, cochineal, indigo, & seeds of all sorts.
Creator:
Parkes, Zachariah
Date:
[between 1820 and 1840?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 14 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
John R. Purssell & Comp., 20, Ludgate Hill, opposite the Old Bailey : French and Italian ices to-day.
Creator:
John R. Purssell & Comp.
Date:
[between 1850 and 1875?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses for Mr. Bryans from Miss Thompson, 17 and 18 Holland Road, Brighton.
Creator:
Thompson, Miss, active 1889
Date:
April 1889
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 18 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Zoological Society's gardens, Regent's Park. Sunday, December 14th, 1879. Admit one.
Creator:
Zoological Society of London
Date:
1879
Physical Description:
1 admission ticket ; 70 x 80 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Vues choisies d'Amsterdam et ses environs / dessinées d'après nature par C. de Kruyf et autres artistes.
Creator:
Kruyff, Cornelis de, 1771–1854
Date:
[1825?]
Physical Description:
[2] p., [46] leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Miseries of human life / designed and etched by T. Rowlandson.
Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:
[1808]
Physical Description:
[50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
"Our Boys" Clothing Company's universal progressive drawing book.
Creator:
Our Boys Clothing Company
Date:
[ca. 1885?]
Physical Description:
[16] p. : chiefly ill. ; 15 x 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
G. Purt, licensed compounder & manufacturer of elder cordial : 13, St. Mary at Hill, Lower Thames Street, London.
Date:
[approximately 1842]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Pidcock's Royal Menagerie farthing token.
Creator:
Pidcock's Royal Menagerie (London, England)
Date:
[approximately 1800]
Physical Description:
1 token : copper ; 21 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts