Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Associated Places: England / Work Type: prospectuse

1. Proposal for printing by subscription L'ecole des armes, ou, L'explication generale des principales attitudes et positions concernent l'escrime / written the first edition in French, the second in English, by Mr. Angelo Tremamondo, fencing master to Their Royal Highnesses Prince William Henry & Prince Henry Frederick.

Proposal for printing by subscription L'ecole des armes, ou, L'explication generale des principales attitudes et positions concernent l'escrime / written the first edition in French, the second in English, by Mr. Angelo Tremamondo, fencing master to Their Royal Highnesses Prince William Henry & Prince Henry Frederick.

Creator:: Angelo, Domenico, 1717?-1802
Date:: circa 1763
Physical Description:: [2] sheets ([4] p.) ; 31 x 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats : with historical and descriptive accounts of each subject / engraved in aquatinta by R. Havell & Son.

A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats : with historical and descriptive accounts of each subject / engraved in aquatinta by R. Havell & Son.

Creator:: Havell, Robert, 1769–1832
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: [42] pages, [21] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. For the use of schools ... The young artist's complete magazine, for the instruction of the youth of both sexes ...

Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (2 pages) ; 23 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Prospectus for Pen, paper & a box of paints : Albert Rutherson, illustrator and designer for the stage, by Ian Rogerson.

Creator:: Fleece Press
Date:: [2015]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : color illustrations ; 19 x 33 cm, folded to 19 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Julian Francis Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books

5. On the first of March, 1814, will be published, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row, price four shillings, No. I. (To be continued monthly) of Restituta, or, The titles and characters of old books in English literature and their authors, revived by Sir Egerton Brydges, K.J.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1813?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The auto-biography of John Britton : ... in three parts ... copiously illustrated.

Creator:: Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:: 1849-1850
Physical Description:: 3 pt. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. [Prospectus for Somerset Struben de Chair's The silver crescent]

Creator:: Golden Cockerel Press
Date:: [1943]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 17 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Proposals, for publishing by subscription, in ten monthly parts, forming one handsome volume, the Costume of Yorkshire : illustrated by forty highly-finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings, descriptive of the peculiar dress, occupation and manners of various inhabitants of that extensive and populous County : the first part to be published on the first of September, 1813.

Date:: [1813?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Prospectus for publishing by subscription, Laporte's progressive lessons in landscape, from nature, in imitation of pencil, from the original drawings : to be contained in six numbers, price to subscribers nine shillings each.

Creator:: Griffiths, Thomas (Publisher)
Date:: February, 1815
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

Creator:: Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [6], 11, [35] pages, 47 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. This day are published, parts first and second, of Architectura ecclesiastica Londini, or the Ecclesiastical architecture of London.

Creator:: Booth, John (Bookseller)
Date:: January 25, 1814
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Just published, in large folio, complete in sixty-four maps, price six guineas, half-bound, a new and greatly improved edition of Lavoisne's genealogical, historical, chronological, & geographical atlas, by C. Gros and J. Aspin : containing the creation, the dispersion of mankind, the origin of nations, the establishment, continuation, and decline of empires and states, the genealogy, direct and collateral, of all the sovereigns and potentates, from the beginning of time to the year 1813 : forming the most complete system of history and geography ever produced.

Creator:: Barfield, John, active 1790–1842
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Forty sheets to the wind : a new portfolio of old typefaces.

Date:: 1999
Physical Description:: 1 portfolio : illustrations (some color), samples ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

14. Johnson's dictionary, edited by the Reverend H.J. Todd.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: August 1, 1814
Physical Description:: iv pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Prospectus of an entire new and splendid publication, price 7s. 6d. each part, The virtuoso, or, Monthly preceptor of drawing : forming an elegant compendium of art, science, and amusement, on a new and attractive plan, calculated to instruct the mind, improve the talents, and gratify the taste.

Date:: [1814?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (2 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Proposals for publishing by subscription, in three volumes, historical and literary botany : containing the qualities, anecdotes, and superstitions relative to these trees, plants, and flowers, which are mentioned in sacred and profane history : the particulars of some rare and curious plants which bear the names of celebrated persons : and also of those which are used in the religious worship and civil ceremonies of divers nations : together with the devices, proverbs, &c. which derive their original from those vegetables : concluding with a romantic story, entitled Flowers ; or the artists, from the French of Madame de Genlis : with explanatory notes, &c. &c. by Eliza P. Reid.

Creator:: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
Date:: [1826?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Portraits of celebrated painters.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Proposals for publishing by subscription, two prints, from pictures painted expressly to commemorate the glorious victories of Vittoria and the Pyrenees.

Creator:: Hassell and Rickards
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Patrick Procktor : prints 1959-1985.

Creator:: Procktor, Patrick
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: 144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.

20. To be published by subscription, a treatise on theology written by Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson ... : to which will be added a letter from her to her daughter on the principles of the Christian religion : also the life of Mrs. Hutchinson written by herself, a fragment : from the original manuscripts.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1816?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Preparing for the press, Memoirs of John, Duke of Marlborough : chiefly drawn from his private correspondence and family documents, preserved at Blenheim : as well as from other authentic sources never before published : by William Cox, Archdeacon of Wilts. : with portraits, maps, plans, genealogical tables, coats of arms, and fac-similes of the hand-writing of the most illustrious persons, whose letters appear in this work : in two volumes, quarto.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1817?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Bibliotheca Peirsoniana, or, Catalogue raisonné : (adapted to serve as a perpetual Vade mecum for young clergy-men and students in Divinity) of the very valuable and extensive library of the Rev. Thomas Peirson, D.D. Senior Minster of the Established English Church, in the City of Amsterdam.

Creator:: Peirson, Thomas
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: [2], xi, [1], 219, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The testament of Charlotte B. / edited & introduced by Marius Kociejowski ; decorated by Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Biggs, Charlotte, d. 1827
Date:: 1988
Physical Description:: 68 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

24. In the press, and speedily will be published, The history of Richard the Third, King of England. etc., composed in five books by Sir George Buck : now first printed entire from the original ms. in the possession of the editor : with an appendix of notes and documents by Charles Yarnold, Esq.

Creator:: Rees, Richard (Publisher)
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: [1] page ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Proposals for publishing by subscription the memoirs of Zerah Colburn : in one volume quarto, embellished with a portrait : a child of just nine years of age who possesses the singular faculty of solving a great variety of arithmetical questions by the mere operation of the mind, and without the usual assistance of any visible symbol or contrivance

Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Proposals for publishing by subscription, a series of engravings of the principal military achievements of the British Army in Portugal : under the command of Lieut. General Lord Viscount Wellington.

Creator:: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co
Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Francis Bacon : detritus.

Creator:: IvoryPress
Date:: [2006]
Physical Description:: 12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ivorypress

28. Prospectus of a work of engravings of twelve in number upon the scale of Sir Robert Strange's largest works : and of a smaller work, consisting of fifteen portraits, or single figures, on the scale of Vandyke's Book of Heads : to be executed by the most eminent artists of the present period : both works to be under the direction of William Buchanan, Esq.

Creator:: Buchanan, William, 1777–1864
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 8, [1] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Just published, (no. I), price one guinea, a selection of Hebrew melodies, with appropriate symphonies and accompaniments by Mr. Braham and Mr. Nathan : the poetry written expressly for the work, by the Right Honourable Lord Bryon.

Creator:: Nathan, Isaac, 1792–1864
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1]) page ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Proposals for publishing by subscription the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorised version, accompanied with a new translation, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1817]
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. In the press, and speedily will be published, The dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations, by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed a history of the language and an English grammar by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. : with numerous corrections, and with the addition of many thousand words, by the Rev. Henry J. Todd.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. This day is published, in a thick 8vo volumes of upwards of one thousand pages, price twenty shillings extra boards, or twenty-two shillings calf gilt, Pietas Londinensis : the history, design, and present state of the various public charities in and near London : in six parts, by A. Highmore, Esq., Ely Place, author of "The law of Mortmain and charitable uses, &c."

Creator:: Craddock & Joy
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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2. A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats : with historical and descriptive accounts of each subject / engraved in aquatinta by R. Havell & Son.

3. For the use of schools ... The young artist's complete magazine, for the instruction of the youth of both sexes ...

4. Prospectus for Pen, paper & a box of paints : Albert Rutherson, illustrator and designer for the stage, by Ian Rogerson.

5. On the first of March, 1814, will be published, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row, price four shillings, No. I. (To be continued monthly) of Restituta, or, The titles and characters of old books in English literature and their authors, revived by Sir Egerton Brydges, K.J.

6. The auto-biography of John Britton : ... in three parts ... copiously illustrated.

7. [Prospectus for Somerset Struben de Chair's The silver crescent]

9. Prospectus for publishing by subscription, Laporte's progressive lessons in landscape, from nature, in imitation of pencil, from the original drawings : to be contained in six numbers, price to subscribers nine shillings each.

10. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

11. This day are published, parts first and second, of Architectura ecclesiastica Londini, or the Ecclesiastical architecture of London.

13. Forty sheets to the wind : a new portfolio of old typefaces.

14. Johnson's dictionary, edited by the Reverend H.J. Todd.

17. Portraits of celebrated painters.

18. Proposals for publishing by subscription, two prints, from pictures painted expressly to commemorate the glorious victories of Vittoria and the Pyrenees.

19. Patrick Procktor : prints 1959-1985.

20. To be published by subscription, a treatise on theology written by Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson ... : to which will be added a letter from her to her daughter on the principles of the Christian religion : also the life of Mrs. Hutchinson written by herself, a fragment : from the original manuscripts.

22. Bibliotheca Peirsoniana, or, Catalogue raisonné : (adapted to serve as a perpetual Vade mecum for young clergy-men and students in Divinity) of the very valuable and extensive library of the Rev. Thomas Peirson, D.D. Senior Minster of the Established English Church, in the City of Amsterdam.

23. The testament of Charlotte B. / edited & introduced by Marius Kociejowski ; decorated by Richard Shirley Smith.

24. In the press, and speedily will be published, The history of Richard the Third, King of England. etc., composed in five books by Sir George Buck : now first printed entire from the original ms. in the possession of the editor : with an appendix of notes and documents by Charles Yarnold, Esq.

26. Proposals for publishing by subscription, a series of engravings of the principal military achievements of the British Army in Portugal : under the command of Lieut. General Lord Viscount Wellington.

27. Francis Bacon : detritus.

29. Just published, (no. I), price one guinea, a selection of Hebrew melodies, with appropriate symphonies and accompaniments by Mr. Braham and Mr. Nathan : the poetry written expressly for the work, by the Right Honourable Lord Bryon.

30. Proposals for publishing by subscription the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorised version, accompanied with a new translation, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts.