Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Associated Places: Great Britain

Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Thomas Gainsborough letter to Elizabeth Rasse

[1753]

Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body, with that of a tyger and a common fowl : in thirty tables, two copper-plates to each table, 20 inches by 15 : forming six numbers, ten plates to each number

[1802]

A heart that boasts a tender flame, sincere and constant too

mid-19th century

Cavanders, Ltd. (Firm)

Ancient Chinese

[1926]

Perkins, John (Gardener)

Floral designs for the table

1877

Clarke, J., active 1820

J. Clarke

[approximately 1820?]

Office Anthem

[approximately 193-?]

Tregear's Black jokes

1834

The cottage of content; or, Right roads and wrong ways

1848

Hibberd, Shirley, 1825–1890

The seaweed collector

[1872]

The royal and entertaining Game of the goose

[between 1761 and 1794]

T. C. L. (London, England)

Catalogue of up to date suites & chairs in Chippendale, Sheraton, Queen Anne, Jacobean, Hepplewhite, & Louis Styles

[1890?]

The royal wedding official programme

2011

Swaine, Alport & Lothian (London, England)

[Billhead of Swaine, Alport & Lowthian, distillers, London, recording gin purchased by Thomas Tebbitt, 1828]

1828

In affectionate remembrance of Mary, the beloved wife of Joseph Hardy, of Alston

1870

In affectionate remembrance of Moses

1875

Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

[Bookmark from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents]

[approximately 1970?]

Fob seal, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"

not before 1787

Archbald, the property of Mr. George Wilson, of Walkington, will serve mares this season, 1839, at one guinea and a-half each

[1839]

The Chinese sensitive plant, or, The living leaf

[approximately 1850]

Love has triumphed

mid-19th century

Ellis, Sarah Stickney, 1799–1872

Contrasts

1832

C. Goodall & Son

Flower time & fruit time

[approximately 1880]

Atkinson, John Augustus, 1775–approximately 1833

Sixteen scenes taken from The miseries of human life

March 1st 1807

Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883

Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people

[approximately 1850]

Davis, Joseph, active 1818–1857

Medal commemorating the abolition of the apprenticeship system in the British West Indies

1838

Mathiss, Madeleine

Album of pressed seaweed specimens

1869

Jones and Co. (London, England)

Now publishing in numbers, price 1s. and in monthly parts, at 2s. each, Commemoration of Hogarth by an edition of his works, commenced exactly a century after their first appearance

[1833?]