Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Subject Terms: Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

101. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

Date:: [1805?]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. Das Kreisrätsel = The circular puzzle.

Creator:: F. Ad. Richter & Co
Date:: [between 1891 and 1900]
Physical Description:: [8], 42 pages : illustrations ; 84 x 79 mm, in box 92 x 92 x 15 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

103. Celebrated & extraordinary exhibition, patronized by the royal families of England, France, Belgium, &c. &c. &c. of the industrious fleas : from Regent Street, is now exhibiting at Somerset Gallery, Strand.

Date:: [183-?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1]) p.) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

104. An historical description of the tower of London and its curiosities : giving an account 1. Of its foundation, gradual increase, and present state. 2. Of its government, customs, and privileges. 3. Of its antiquities, records, and curiosities. 4. Of the lions, and other wild beasts kept there. 5. Of the spoils of the Spanish Armada, with the history of the Spanish Invasion in 1588. 6. Of the small armory, in which are arms for 100,000 men. 7. Of the Royal Train of Artillery, comprehending a variety of cannon, mortars, &c. &c. 8. Of the horse armory; with a concise history of the Kings fitting there on horseback, in full armour, from William the Conqueror to George II. 9. Of the Jewel-Office, and the regalia used at coronations, with a full account of Colonel Blood's attempt to steal them. 10. Of the mint, and the manner of stamping money : written principally to direct the attention of strangers to what is most curious in this Repository, and to enable them afterwards to describe what they have seen.

Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: 60 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

105. Album of photo-lithographic views of Liverpool & district.

Date:: [1886?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([12] p.) : ill. ; 21 x 372 cm, folded to 21 x 31 cm, attached to boards 23 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. The training of a craftsman / written by Fred Miller ; illustrated by many workers in the art crafts.

Creator:: Miller, Fred, decorative artist
Date:: 1898
Physical Description:: x, 249, [1], 9, [1] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

107. Talpa, or, The chronicles of a clay farm : an agricultural fragment / by C.W.H.

Creator:: Hoskyns, Chandos Wren, 1812–1876
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: viii, 237, [3], 4 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

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

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

109. Account book.

Date:: 1839-1851
Physical Description:: 1 v. (340 p., with blanks) ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

110. The elegancies of fashion and general remembrancer of taste and manners, or, Impartial record of painting, music, elegant literature, the theatre, costume, and arts conducive to the ornament or amusement of polished life / by Florio Honeysuckle. Vol. I.

Creator:: Honeysuckle, Florio
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: 1 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

111. [Calling card for Mr. Edmund Goodwin : Ducie House, Manchester].

Date:: [publisher not identified],
Physical Description:: 1 card ; 4 x 7 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

112. Sketches of characters in common life / by Edmund Patten.

Creator:: Patten, Edmund
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: [4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

113. 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.

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

114. De La Rue & Co.'s combined pocket chess and draught board [game] : with chess and draughts-men.

Creator:: Thomas De La Rue & Company
Date:: [187-?]
Physical Description:: 1 game (1 folded board, 30 movable paper chess pieces) : ill. ; 15 x 19 cm, folded to 15 x 10 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

115. The fashionable Chinese puzzle.

Date:: [between 1840 and 1850?]
Physical Description:: 4 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. The many headed monster.

Date:: mid-19th century
Physical Description:: 28 silhouettes : cut paper ; album 16 x 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. The experiences of an amateur artist / by C. M. W.

Creator:: Webber, Catherine Mary, 1831–1900
Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: 34 leaves : all ill. ; 10 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

118. The Harrogate alphabet for 1870.

Date:: 1870?
Physical Description:: 1 v. (13 p.) ; 12 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

119. The new album of London.

Date:: [ca. 1882?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([12] p.) : all ill. ; 17 x 163 cm, folded to 17 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

120. The whole art of dress, or, The road to elegance and fashion, at the enormous saving of thirty per cent!!! : being a treatise upon that essential and much-cultivated requisite of the present day, gentlemen's costume : explaining and clearly defining, by a series of beautifully engraved illustrations, the most becoming assortment of colours and style of dress and undress, in all their varieties; suited to different ages and complexions, so as to render the human figure most symmetrical and imposing to the eye : also, directions in the purchase of all kinds of wearing apparel: accompanied by hints for the toilette, containing a few valuable and original recipes; likewise, some advice to the improvement of defects in the person and carriage : together with a dissertation on uniform in general, and the selection of fancy dress / by a cavalry officer.

Creator:: Cavalry officer
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 100 p., 5 [i.e. 6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

121. Artistic amusements : being instructions for a variety of art work for home employment, and suggestions for a number of novel and saleable articles for fancy bazaars. : illustrated.

Date:: [1879?]
Physical Description:: [2], 112 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

122. Forfeitiana, or, An elegant budget of winter evening's recreation for young persons / written by a lady.

Creator:: Lady
Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: 34 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

123. [Fire insurance policy for Mr. Thomas Mason, May 9th, 1891 from the Phœnix Fire Office]

Creator:: Phœnix Fire Office (Firm : London, England)
Date:: 1891-1892
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet : illustrations ; 52 x 38 cm, folded to 27 x 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. The fern garden, how to make, keep, and enjoy it, or, Fern culture made easy / by Shirley Hibberd ; illustrated with eight coloured plates and forty wood engravings.

Creator:: Hibberd, Shirley, 1825–1890
Date:: 1869
Physical Description:: vi, 148, [6] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. [Batch of cakes]

Date:: 1818?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

126. Diorama, Regent's Park : description of the two pictures now exhibiting, viz. the Basilica of St. Paul, near Rome, and the village of Alagna, in Piedmont, painted by le chevalier Bouton.

Date:: [1837?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (3, [1] p.) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

127. Cheerful pastimes for merry-making parties : descriptive of the various domestic amusements resorted to in youthful and genteel society, tending to occupy the mind, and while away the winter evenings in hilarity / illustrated by Cruikshank.

Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: xxi, 185 p., 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

128. Geoffrey Gambado's surprising feats in horsemanship : exemplified in a series of very laughable caricatures.

Creator:: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : all color illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

129. Memoranda of Leamington Priors and its neighbourhood; with views of the principal objects in that fashionable spa ...

Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 3 p. l., [5]-28 p. : all ill. ; plates. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. The poets of the nineteenth century / selected and edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, incumbent of Bearwood ; with English and American additions, arranged by Evert A. Duyckinck, editor of the Cyclopedia of American literature ; illustrated with one hundred and thirty-two engravings, drawn by eminent artists.

Creator:: Willmott, Robert Aris, 1809–1863
Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: xvi, 616 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

131. Cassell's popular drawing copies. Series A. : floral and vegetable forms / by Charles Ryan ; in twelve parts, price sixpence each; or in one volume, complete, cloth lettered, 7s. 6d.

Creator:: Ryan, Charles, -1893
Date:: [1872]
Physical Description:: 12 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. Vere Foster's drawing copy book.

Creator:: Foster, Vere, 1819–1900
Date:: [1870-1894]
Physical Description:: pt. : chiefly ill. ; 18 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. Photographic pleasures : popularly portrayed with pen and pencil / by Cuthbert Bede, B.A., author of "Verdant Green," &c. &c. &c.

Creator:: Bede, Cuthbert, 1827–1889
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [9], 14-83, [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. London and its environs : including excursions to Brighton, the Isle of Wight, etc. : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker.

Creator:: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Date:: 1878
Physical Description:: x, 366 p., [5] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., maps ; 17 cm.+ [1] folded map (73 x 94 cm, folded to 15 x 10 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

135. English society at home : from the collection of "Mr. Punch" / by George du Maurier.

Creator:: Du Maurier, George, 1834–1896
Date:: 1881
Physical Description:: [8] p., 63 leaves, [63] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

136. Cambridge customs and costumes : containing upwards of one hundred and fifty vignettes / by the author of "Familiar illustrations of the language of mathematics."

Creator:: Roget, John Lewis, 1828–1908
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [2] p., 9 leaves : ill. ; 27 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

137. Nimrod's hunting tours : interspersed with characteristic anecdotes, sayings and doings of sporting men : including notices of the principal crack riders of England, with analytical contents and general index of names.

Creator:: Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:: 1926
Physical Description:: xx, [2], 294 pages, [23] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [42] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

139. Practical hints on church floral decorations / by a lady ; with an introduction by the Revd. W. Gresley.

Creator:: Lady, A
Date:: [1869]
Physical Description:: xiv, 62 p., [2], 21 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. [Die-cut and embossed chromolithographed scrap-sheet of the Drum and Fife Band of the Grenadier Guards].

Date:: [approximately 1890]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. A series of sketches from nature of plant form / by F. Edward Hulme.

Creator:: Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841–1909
Date:: 1868
Physical Description:: [2], 54 p., [100] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. A visit to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham.

Creator:: Bishop, James
Date:: [between 1854 and 1856]
Physical Description:: 15, [1] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. [Die-cut and embossed chromolithographed scrap-sheet of ships of the Royal Navy].

Date:: [ca. 1895]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

144. Bacchus and the tee-totallers / by Rumfusticus Bibulus, Esq., president of the Anti-temperance society.

Creator:: Bibulus, Rumfusticus
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: 19, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. An historical and descriptive account of Brimham Rocks in the West Riding of Yorkshire : intended as a guide to visitors.

Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 24 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

146. Flower and fruit decoration : with some remarks on the treatment of town gardens, terraces, &c., and with many illustrations of colour and contrast applicable to both subjects / by T.C. March.

Creator:: March, T. C
Date:: 1862
Physical Description:: vii, 112, 16 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. Notes and sketches of the Paris exhibition / by George Augustus Sala, author of "My diary in America in the midst of war," etc.

Creator:: Sala, George Augustus, 1828–1895
Date:: 1868
Physical Description:: 396 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. Sciography, or, Examples of shadows : with rules for their projection : intended for the use of architectural draughtsmen, and other artists : with twenty-four plates / by Joseph Gwilt.

Creator:: Gwilt, Joseph, 1784–1863
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: viii, 55, [1] pages, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. The young artist.

Date:: [1865?]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. The race and the road : Epsom, 1851.

Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 1 print on 4 joined sheets : hand-colored etching ; sheets end-to-end 12 x 210 cm, accordion folded to 12 x 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. Hints on the formation of gardens and pleasure grounds : with designs, in various styles of rural embellishment : comprising plans for laying out flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, and the arrangement of glass-houses, hot walls, and stoves : interspersed with remarks on various subjects of horticultural improvement : to which is added, a priced catalogue of fruit and forest trees, shrubs, and plants : adapted to villa grounds, from one perch to a hundred acres in extent.

Creator:: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783–1843
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 70, [2] p., 20 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

153. The funnyshire fox chace : a new game.

Date:: [ca. 1830?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([1] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 40 x 53 cm. folded to 18 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. The book of sports, games, and athletic exercises / by William Martin, author of The Parlour Book, &c. &c. &c.

Creator:: Martin, William, 1801–1867
Date:: [between 1837 and 1845]
Physical Description:: [4], 268 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips.

Creator:: Phillips, G. F. (Giles Firman), 1780–1867
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 28 p., [1], 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. Diorama, Regent's Park : two views: Ruins of Holyrood Chapel, A Moonlight Scene, Painted by M. Daguerre, Knight of the Legion of Honor : and the Cathedral of Chartres, painted by M. Bouton.

Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (8, [4] p.) ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. The ladies' knitting and netting book : second series / by Miss Watts.

Creator:: Watts, Miss
Date:: [approximately 1840]
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 129, [3] pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. The hand book on making paper flowers ... / by Foster, Son, & Duncan, of 16 Wigmore Street, artificial florists & plumassiers, importers & manufacturers of materials used by artifical flower makers.

Creator:: Foster, Son & Duncum
Date:: [approximately 1851]
Physical Description:: 2, 6 leaves, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

159. Marriage a-la-mode.

Creator:: Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (10 p.) : ill. ; 15 x 150 cm., folded to 15 x 15 cm., attached to boards 16 x 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. Reminiscences of a yachting cruise. / by Mrs. N.M. Condy ; illustrated by four lithographic drawing by T.G. Dutton, Esq., from sketches by the late N.M. Condy, Esq. ; with a portrait of that gentleman, from a painting by his father.

Creator:: Condy, Flora Ross
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: viii, 47, [1] p, [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. Der Kopfzerbrecher = The anchor puzzle.

Creator:: F. Ad. Richter & Co.
Date:: [1891 or 1892]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 8 cm, in box 8 x 8 x 2 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. The changing companions : comic metamorphosis = Die veränderlichen Gesellschafter : komische Verwandlungen = Les compagnons inconstants : métamorphoses comiques / G.W. Faber.

Date:: [ca. 1860?]
Physical Description:: 1 game (48 pieces) ; in wooden box 20 x 21 x 5 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. [Calling card for Colonel Lowther : 31, Bruton Street].

Date:: [publisher not identified],
Physical Description:: 1 card ; 4 x 7 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. 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.

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

165. The little sketch book : a course of very easy lessons in landscapes, figures, &c. First series, for young beginners.

Creator:: Childs, George
Date:: [between 1832 and 1839]
Physical Description:: 28 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 14 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

166. The betting-book / by George Cruikshank ; with cuts.

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: 31, [1] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

167. Pierce Egan's book of sports, and mirror of life : embracing the turf, the chase, the ring, and the stage / interspersed with original memoirs of sporting men, etc.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: iv, 414 pages : illustrations. ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. A narrative of the Grand Festival at Yarmouth on Tuesday, the 19th of April, 1814 : with an appendix containing copies of all the handbills which were published on the occasions : a list of the xubscribers : and an account of the expenditure.

Creator:: Cory, Robert
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 72 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. A series of practical instructions in landscape painting in water colours : containing directions for sketching from nature, and the application of perspective, progressive lessons in drawing from the tinted sketch to the finished subject, and examples of the introduction of figures, architectural subjects, particular effects, &c. as connected with landscape scenery / by John Clark ; illustrated by fifty-five views from nature, descriptive objects, &c. mounted in imitation of drawings.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: 4 pt. : col. ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. Spooner's Changing drolleries : no. 2 : choosing a husband : mercy on us what a set of frights! Ah, there's a decent looking portrait at last I declare!

Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : col. ill. ; 30 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. Oriental tooth paste : an unrivalled preparation for cleansing, beautifying & preserving the teeth & gums.

Creator:: J. & E. Atkinson's Perfumery
Date:: [188-?]
Physical Description:: [1] sheet : ill. ; 9 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

172. Souvenir album of Silloth : 28 views.

Date:: [188-?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet : chiefly ill. ; 16 x 135 cm, folded to 16 x 11 cm, in covers 16 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. Hobson's fox-hunting atlas [cartographic material] : containing separate maps of every county in England, and the three ridings of Yorkshire; comprising forty-two maps, showing the roads, railways, canals, parks, etc., etc. / compiled from the maps of the board of ordnance ; and other surveys by J. and C. Walker.

Creator:: Hobson, William Colling
Date:: [1850?]
Physical Description:: [4] p. : 42 double maps (colored) ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

174. Specimens of riding near London / drawn from life by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [3] pt. : all ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. The ladies' knitting and netting book : first series / by Miss Watts.

Creator:: Watts, Miss
Date:: [approximately 1840]
Physical Description:: xiii, [1], 136, [2] pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

176. Horse and man / by C.S. March Phillipps ; author of Jurisprudence etc.

Creator:: Phillipps, Charles Spencer March
Date:: 1869
Physical Description:: xiv, 131 ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. Hardy ferns : how I collected and cultivated them / by Nona Bellairs ; with a frontispiece.

Creator:: Bellairs, Nona Maria Stephenson
Date:: 1865
Physical Description:: 128, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

178. List of articles from Mechi, 4 Leadenhall St., London : inventor of the Mechian dressing case, and various improvements in articles of cutlery.

Creator:: J.J. Mechi
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: 16 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. Cambridge University boating costumes.

Date:: [1880?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : all ill. ; 32 x 39 cm, folded to 10 x 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. John Egarr scrapbook.

Creator:: Egarr, John, b. 1796
Date:: circa 1825-1860
Physical Description:: 1 v. : ill. ; 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. The complete angler, or, The contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing / written by Isaac Walton ; and instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream by Charles Cotton ; with original memoirs and notes by Sir Harris Nicolas, K.C.M.G.

Creator:: Walton, Izaak, 1593–1683
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. Pierce Egan's anecdotes (original and selected) of the turf, the chase, the ring, and the stage : the whole forming a complete panorama of the sporting world, uniting with it a book of reference and entertaining companion to the lovers of British sports / embellished with thirteen colored plates, designed from nature, and etched by Theodore Lane ; dedicated to Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: MDCCCXXVII [1827]
Physical Description:: viii, 304, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

183. H. Molyneux (wholesale & retail) : linen & woollen draper, silk mercer & hoster.

Creator:: H. Molyneux (Firm)
Date:: [between 1820-1825]
Physical Description:: 1 trade card : illustrations ; 7 x 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. The stocking-knitter's manual : a handy book for the work-table / by Mrs. George Cupples.

Creator:: Cupples, George, Mrs., 1839–1898
Date:: [1872]
Physical Description:: 32 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. [Album card with cut paper lace overlay].

Date:: [approximately 1875]
Physical Description:: 1 album card : chromolithograph ; 130 x 90 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

186. The boat race and who went to it.

Date:: [between 1868 and 1885]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([16] panels) : illustrations ; 29 x 89 cm, folded to 15 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

187. The Tom & Jerry flash dictionary.

Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 69, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

188. Spooner's Illustrated game of the steeple chase.

Date:: December 1st 1852
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ill. ; 58 x 44 cm., folded to 20 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

189. Tatting, or, Frivolité / by Mrs. Mee and Miss Austin, 71, Brook Steet, Grosvenor Square, London (late of Bath).

Creator:: Mee, Cornelia, 1815–1875
Date:: [1862]
Physical Description:: viii, [1], 10-21, [3] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 10 x 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

190. Strange's pocket scrap book for young ladies and gentlemen : containing views of all the public places of amusement, watering places, etc. etc. : part IV.

Date:: [between 1841 and 1849]
Physical Description:: pt. : chiefly ill. ; 11 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

191. Vere Foster's drawing copy book.

Creator:: Foster, Vere, 1819–1900
Date:: [1870]
Physical Description:: pt. : chiefly ill. ; 18 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

192. Lumps of pudding [graphic] / H.W. Bunbury Esqr. delin. ; etch'd by W. Heath.

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:: [15 August 1811]
Physical Description:: 1 print on 5 sheets : etching ; sheets 34 x 51 cm or smaller
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

193. The mirror of the graces, or, The English lady's costume : combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity, and economy with fashion in dress : and adapting the various articles of female embellishments to different ages, form, and complexions : to the seasons of the year, rank, and situation in life : with useful advice on female accomplishments, politeness, and manners : the cultivation of the mind and the disposition and carriage of the body : offering also the most efficacious means of preserving beauty, health, and loveliness : the whole according with the general principles of nature and rules of propriety / by a Lady of distinction ; who has witnessed and attentively studied what is esteemed truly graceful and elegant amongst the most refined nations of Europe.

Creator:: Lady of distinction, active 19th century
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: vii, [2] p., pp. 12-17, [2] p., pp. x-xxiii [i.e. xiii], [2] p., 10-241, [7] p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

194. Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are / drawn by M.E. Esq.

Creator:: Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [23] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

195. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be whips.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

196. [Embossed and metallic cut paper album card].

Date:: [approximately 1875]
Physical Description:: 1 album card : chromolithograph ; 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

197. An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting.

Creator:: Collier, Jane, 1715?-1755
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: [8], 160 p., [5] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

198. Snapshots of St. Albans.

Date:: 187-?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([8] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 15 x 48 cm, folded to 15 x 12 cm, attached to wrappers 17 x 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

199. [Album card with silver edged cut paper overlay].

Date:: [approximately 1875]
Physical Description:: 1 album card : chromolithograph ; 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

200. Cecilia Fitzgerald-de-Ros sketchbook.

Creator:: Fitzgerald-de-Ros, Cecilia, 1811–1869
Date:: 1820s
Physical Description:: 1 volume (39 drawings) ; 13 x 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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101. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

102. Das Kreisrätsel = The circular puzzle.

103. Celebrated & extraordinary exhibition, patronized by the royal families of England, France, Belgium, &c. &c. &c. of the industrious fleas : from Regent Street, is now exhibiting at Somerset Gallery, Strand.

105. Album of photo-lithographic views of Liverpool & district.

106. The training of a craftsman / written by Fred Miller ; illustrated by many workers in the art crafts.

107. Talpa, or, The chronicles of a clay farm : an agricultural fragment / by C.W.H.

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

109. Account book.

110. The elegancies of fashion and general remembrancer of taste and manners, or, Impartial record of painting, music, elegant literature, the theatre, costume, and arts conducive to the ornament or amusement of polished life / by Florio Honeysuckle. Vol. I.

111. [Calling card for Mr. Edmund Goodwin : Ducie House, Manchester].

112. Sketches of characters in common life / by Edmund Patten.

114. De La Rue & Co.'s combined pocket chess and draught board [game] : with chess and draughts-men.

115. The fashionable Chinese puzzle.

116. The many headed monster.

117. The experiences of an amateur artist / by C. M. W.

118. The Harrogate alphabet for 1870.

119. The new album of London.

121. Artistic amusements : being instructions for a variety of art work for home employment, and suggestions for a number of novel and saleable articles for fancy bazaars. : illustrated.

122. Forfeitiana, or, An elegant budget of winter evening's recreation for young persons / written by a lady.

123. [Fire insurance policy for Mr. Thomas Mason, May 9th, 1891 from the Phœnix Fire Office]

124. The fern garden, how to make, keep, and enjoy it, or, Fern culture made easy / by Shirley Hibberd ; illustrated with eight coloured plates and forty wood engravings.

125. [Batch of cakes]

126. Diorama, Regent's Park : description of the two pictures now exhibiting, viz. the Basilica of St. Paul, near Rome, and the village of Alagna, in Piedmont, painted by le chevalier Bouton.

127. Cheerful pastimes for merry-making parties : descriptive of the various domestic amusements resorted to in youthful and genteel society, tending to occupy the mind, and while away the winter evenings in hilarity / illustrated by Cruikshank.

128. Geoffrey Gambado's surprising feats in horsemanship : exemplified in a series of very laughable caricatures.

129. Memoranda of Leamington Priors and its neighbourhood; with views of the principal objects in that fashionable spa ...

131. Cassell's popular drawing copies. Series A. : floral and vegetable forms / by Charles Ryan ; in twelve parts, price sixpence each; or in one volume, complete, cloth lettered, 7s. 6d.

132. Vere Foster's drawing copy book.

133. Photographic pleasures : popularly portrayed with pen and pencil / by Cuthbert Bede, B.A., author of "Verdant Green," &c. &c. &c.

134. London and its environs : including excursions to Brighton, the Isle of Wight, etc. : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker.

135. English society at home : from the collection of "Mr. Punch" / by George du Maurier.

136. Cambridge customs and costumes : containing upwards of one hundred and fifty vignettes / by the author of "Familiar illustrations of the language of mathematics."

137. Nimrod's hunting tours : interspersed with characteristic anecdotes, sayings and doings of sporting men : including notices of the principal crack riders of England, with analytical contents and general index of names.

138. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

139. Practical hints on church floral decorations / by a lady ; with an introduction by the Revd. W. Gresley.

140. [Die-cut and embossed chromolithographed scrap-sheet of the Drum and Fife Band of the Grenadier Guards].

141. A series of sketches from nature of plant form / by F. Edward Hulme.

142. A visit to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham.

143. [Die-cut and embossed chromolithographed scrap-sheet of ships of the Royal Navy].

144. Bacchus and the tee-totallers / by Rumfusticus Bibulus, Esq., president of the Anti-temperance society.

145. An historical and descriptive account of Brimham Rocks in the West Riding of Yorkshire : intended as a guide to visitors.

146. Flower and fruit decoration : with some remarks on the treatment of town gardens, terraces, &c., and with many illustrations of colour and contrast applicable to both subjects / by T.C. March.

147. Notes and sketches of the Paris exhibition / by George Augustus Sala, author of "My diary in America in the midst of war," etc.

148. Sciography, or, Examples of shadows : with rules for their projection : intended for the use of architectural draughtsmen, and other artists : with twenty-four plates / by Joseph Gwilt.

149. The young artist.

150. The race and the road : Epsom, 1851.

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

153. The funnyshire fox chace : a new game.

154. The book of sports, games, and athletic exercises / by William Martin, author of The Parlour Book, &c. &c. &c.

155. Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips.

156. Diorama, Regent's Park : two views: Ruins of Holyrood Chapel, A Moonlight Scene, Painted by M. Daguerre, Knight of the Legion of Honor : and the Cathedral of Chartres, painted by M. Bouton.

157. The ladies' knitting and netting book : second series / by Miss Watts.

158. The hand book on making paper flowers ... / by Foster, Son, & Duncan, of 16 Wigmore Street, artificial florists & plumassiers, importers & manufacturers of materials used by artifical flower makers.

159. Marriage a-la-mode.

160. Reminiscences of a yachting cruise. / by Mrs. N.M. Condy ; illustrated by four lithographic drawing by T.G. Dutton, Esq., from sketches by the late N.M. Condy, Esq. ; with a portrait of that gentleman, from a painting by his father.

161. Der Kopfzerbrecher = The anchor puzzle.

162. The changing companions : comic metamorphosis = Die veränderlichen Gesellschafter : komische Verwandlungen = Les compagnons inconstants : métamorphoses comiques / G.W. Faber.

163. [Calling card for Colonel Lowther : 31, Bruton Street].

165. The little sketch book : a course of very easy lessons in landscapes, figures, &c. First series, for young beginners.

166. The betting-book / by George Cruikshank ; with cuts.

167. Pierce Egan's book of sports, and mirror of life : embracing the turf, the chase, the ring, and the stage / interspersed with original memoirs of sporting men, etc.

168. A narrative of the Grand Festival at Yarmouth on Tuesday, the 19th of April, 1814 : with an appendix containing copies of all the handbills which were published on the occasions : a list of the xubscribers : and an account of the expenditure.

170. Spooner's Changing drolleries : no. 2 : choosing a husband : mercy on us what a set of frights! Ah, there's a decent looking portrait at last I declare!

171. Oriental tooth paste : an unrivalled preparation for cleansing, beautifying & preserving the teeth & gums.

172. Souvenir album of Silloth : 28 views.

174. Specimens of riding near London / drawn from life by Henry Alken.

175. The ladies' knitting and netting book : first series / by Miss Watts.

176. Horse and man / by C.S. March Phillipps ; author of Jurisprudence etc.

177. Hardy ferns : how I collected and cultivated them / by Nona Bellairs ; with a frontispiece.

178. List of articles from Mechi, 4 Leadenhall St., London : inventor of the Mechian dressing case, and various improvements in articles of cutlery.

179. Cambridge University boating costumes.

180. John Egarr scrapbook.

183. H. Molyneux (wholesale & retail) : linen & woollen draper, silk mercer & hoster.

184. The stocking-knitter's manual : a handy book for the work-table / by Mrs. George Cupples.