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Quadrilling [music] : a favourite song / by the author of "Rejected Addresses" ; the decorations designed and executed by William Hawkes Smith.
Date:
[1822]
Physical Description:
[4] p. : ill., music ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
D. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Creator:
Orme, Daniel, 1766–1837
Date:
[between 1792 and 1797]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 13 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Novum ac magnum theatrum urbium Belgicae Regiae / ad praesentis temporis faciem expressum a Ioanne Blaeu, Amstelaedamensi.
Creator:
Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673
Date:
[1649]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([470] pages) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Joyful mystery birthday card jig-saw puzzle.
Date:
[approximately 1930]
Physical Description:
1 puzzle (20 pieces) : card ; 10 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Studio portrait of Maharani Bamba Duleep Singh.
Creator:
Claudet, A. (Antoine), 1797–1867
Date:
1864
Physical Description:
1 carte de visite : albumen print ; 8.2 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Alderman Akeinside's "Bit of dinner at the club"!
Date:
[1860s?]
Physical Description:
[30] pages ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The horse and the stag : tailpiece.
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1818?
Physical Description:
1 printing block ; 23 mm high x 36 mm wide x 24 mm deep
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A description of the Oxford baths, and school of natation / illustrated with four lithographic plates, by N. Whittock.
Creator:
Richardson, Andrew Hude
Date:
[ca. 1830]
Physical Description:
8 p., IV leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Etchings of remarkable beggars, itinerant traders and other persons of notoriety in London and its environs / by John Thomas Smith, draughtsman and etcher of London and Westminster topography.
Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
[24] leaves : all. ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Naval woolwork.
Date:
1891
Physical Description:
1 embroidered panel, with tintype : wool and silk on linen backing ; 38 x 34 cm, in frame 41 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of domestic interiors and figures in fashionable dress.
Date:
circa 1860
Physical Description:
1 v. ([32] p.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Dandelion] : [Taraxacum officinale].
Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Date:
2005-2006
Physical Description:
1 collage ; 40 x 39 cm, on sheet 42 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

1715. Tygress.

Tygress.
Creator:
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845
Date:
ca. 1798
Physical Description:
1 needlework picture : wool ; image 46 x 59 cm, in frame 61 x 74 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Studio portraits of two women.
Date:
Great Britain,
Physical Description:
2 photographs : ambrotypes, in leather case ; visible images approximately 55 x 45 mm (ninth plate format), in case 75 x 60 x 15 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Festival of Britain : May 3-September 30 : Britain at home to the world.
Creator:
Festival of Britain (1951 : Great Britain)
Date:
1951
Physical Description:
[20] pages : illustrations ; 24 x 21 cm folded to 24 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
This Cabinet : formed entirely of Whigs and Blocks ingeniously constructed by His Most Gracious Majesty was presented to the British Nation A. D. 1831.
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
1 sheet : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
To my Valentine
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 11 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The shepherd's tower : a series of photographs of the sculptures of Giotto's tower : to illustrate part VI of Mornings in Florence / by John Ruskin ...
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1881
Physical Description:
iv p., [29] leaves of plates : chiefly photographs ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Map of the routes in India : with tables of distances between the principal towns and military stations.
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 77 x 65 cm., folded to 21 x 13 cm., in covers 22 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Rodwell and Martin's Lithographic drawing book for students / by J.D. Harding, S. Prout, C. Hullmandell, A. Aglio, &c.
Date:
[1821]
Physical Description:
volumes : all illustrations ; 16 x 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The railway companion : describing an excursion along the Liverpool Line : accompanined with a succint and popular history of the rise and progress of rail-roads : illustrated with several lithographic views / by a tourist.
Creator:
Tourist
Date:
MDCCCXXXIII [1833]
Physical Description:
46, [2] p., [5] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Walla Walla Cycling Club minute book.
Creator:
Walla Walla Cycling Club (Manchester, England)
Date:
1897-1903
Physical Description:
1 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Account book, trade cards, and printed labels of George Sprackett, chemist and druggist, of Bristol, England.
Creator:
Sprackett, George
Date:
1853 January 1-1882 May 1
Physical Description:
1 volume (195 pages) ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Illustrations of the mission, the camp and the Zenána / drawn by Mrs. Colin Mackenzie.
Creator:
MacKenzie, Colin, Mrs.
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
[21] pages, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 58 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Avril Winks
Billhead of Henry Leath, London clothier, recording purchases by J. Challinor, 1851.
Creator:
Leath, Henry
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration, 19 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses for Cyrill Clough, at Henry Lloyd's school.
Creator:
Lloyd, Mr., active 1795
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) ; 25 x 42 cm, folded to 25 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cut-paper diorama of the HMS Sutherland.
Creator:
Walker, Augustine
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
1 diorama ; 50 x 60 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead recording repairs to the carriages of the late Sir Musgrave Brisco in Carlisle from July 21, 1886 to December 19, 1886.
Creator:
W. & J. Proud, coach builder
Date:
1887
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) : illustrations ; 34 cn
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Billhead recording coal purchased by W. Walters from W. Stobart Junr. & Co.
Creator:
W. Stobart Junior & Co.
Date:
[1840?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 11 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ysgol Sabbothol Eglwys : Rhymney.
Creator:
White, M. W.
Date:
[1890?]
Physical Description:
1 card.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Drawings of London street life.
Creator:
Moser, Robert James, 1828–1908
Date:
1888
Physical Description:
1 volume (37 drawings) : pen and black ink ; 8.3 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Indenture placing William Spill into the service of William Beales, broad weaver.
Date:
1728 April 8
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 33 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The battle of Alma : a grand military spectacle in two acts : written expressly for and adapted to Webb's characters & scenes in the same.
Date:
[1857]
Physical Description:
18 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, [1857]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
The language of the flowers is but useless here to tell ...
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 18 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The bald knight : tailpiece.
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1818?
Physical Description:
1 printing block ; 42 mm high x 52 mm wide x 24 mm deep
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Views of the South of Germany, the Tyrol and Italy / drawn on stone by J.D. Harding, W. Westall, & C. Hullmandel, from sketches by C. Hullmandel.
Creator:
Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789–1850
Date:
[1825]
Physical Description:
[20] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Going to a fight : the sporting world in all its variety of style and costume along the road from Hyde Park Corner to Moulsey Hurst.
Creator:
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789–1856
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
42 pictures on 8 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatints ; sheets end-to-end 6 x 360 cm, rolled (in wooden case) to 10 x 5 cm (scroll format)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The lost rivers of London.
Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Date:
1995
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet : ill. ; 11 cm. x 54 cm., folded to 11 cm. x 9 cm., in covers 12 cm. x 10 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Original Menagerie, New Road, near Fitzroy Square, London : revived by the late Mr. Brooks's son, Paul.
Creator:
Brookes's Menagerie (London, England)
Date:
between 1803 and 1813?
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 25 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Nouveau livre de vases / par F. Bo...
Creator:
Boucher, François, 1703–1770
Date:
Oct. 22, 1771
Physical Description:
1, [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Greeting card with movable flower].
Date:
[1850?]
Physical Description:
1 greeting card : color illustrations ; 17 x 12 cm, mounted on 21 x 16 cm manila paper.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Crimson topaz hummingbird (Topaza pella), male, with Cyclamen (cf. Cyclamen L.) and (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae), open, and Red Postman (Heliconius erato phyllis), closed; shells, from left: (Conus tessulatus Born, 1778), (cf. Cypraecassis testiculus L. 1758), and (cf. Cypraea histrio Gmelin, 1791), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Lines on the melancholy catastrophe at Holmfirth : on the fourth of February, by the bursting of the reservoir, causing the loss of upwards of 100 lives.
Date:
[ca. 1852]
Physical Description:
([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Jas. Middleton, portable writing desk and dressing box manufacturer : 8 Lombard Street from the Strand.
Date:
[approximately 1830?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 5 x 6 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A Turkish atrocity : where is the victim?
Date:
[ca. 1876]
Physical Description:
1 print ; 8 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To thee my heart beats with affection sincerely.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 12 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Account book of Joseph English, undertaker.
Creator:
English, Joseph, 1798 or 1799–1871
Date:
1829-1837
Physical Description:
58 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts