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1. The hand-book of useful and ornamental amusements and accomplishments : including artificial flower making, engraving, etching, painting in all its styles, modelling, carving in wood, ivory, and shell, also fancy work of every description / by a lady.

Creator:: Lady
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: xviii, 315, 24 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The modern art of fencing : agreeably to the practice of the most eminent masters in Europe / by le sieur Guzman Rolando, of the Academie des Armes ; carefully revised and augmented with a technical glossary, etc. by J. S. Forsyth ; embellished with numerous plates.

Creator:: Rolando, Guzman
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: xxxi, [1], 240 p., [23] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Lights in art : a review of ancient and modern pictures : with critical remarks on the present state, treatment, and preservation of oil paintings / by George William Novice, artist.

Creator:: Novice, George William
Date:: 1874
Physical Description:: ix, [3], 368 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Pyramiden Spiel = Jeu de pyramides.

Date:: [ca. 1835?]
Physical Description:: 1 set of building blocks (54 pieces) : wood ; various sizes, in wooden box 18 x 23 x 3 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The instructive picture book, or, Lessons from the vegetable world / by the author of "The heir of Redclyffe" and "The herb of the field" ; illustrated with 31 colored plates ; arranged by Robert M. Stark, Fellow of The Botanical and Royal Physical Societies, Edinburgh, author of "A Popular History of British Mosses.".

Creator:: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823–1901
Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: 22, [2] p., xxxi leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Characters / by Williams.

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797–1830
Date:: ca. 1800?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Arliss's funny library, of wit, satire, and humour : containing, facetiae, under the heads of pasquinades, anecdotes, jeu d'esprits, witticisms : mornings at Bow Street, new punning songs, broad grins, maxims, irish bulls, conundrums, anagrams, enigmas, bon mots, whims, tid bits, curious epitaphs, brevities, yarns, miseries, long bows, puzzles, &c., &c., : embellished with forty-eight numerous wood engravings by the most eminent artists.

Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Roses and holly, and Pen and pencil pictures from the poets / profusely illustrated by Gourlay Steell, R.S.A., R. Herdman, R.S.A., Clark Stanton, A.R.S.A., Samuel Bough, A.R.S.A., John M'Whirter, A.R.S.A., John Lawson, and other eminent artists ; engraved by R. Paterson.

Date:: [1881?]
Physical Description:: xii, 148, viii, 152 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

9. A treatise on deportment, fencing, etc. : including the science of horsemanship; being a complete manual of instruction for the use of young persons, in the acquirement of those accomplishments; as well as a self-monitor in the exercise and duties of a cavalry soldier, for the use of gentlemen who are members of yeomanry corps : comprising likewise, instructions for the lance and carbine exercises. Also, the description of a military game resembling the game of chess, calculated to initiate young gentlemen who are designed for the army, in the science of tactics or military manœuvres. With copperplate engravings, illustrative of the various subjects described in the work / by Samuel Gribble, Regimental Serjeant-Major of the Corps of Sherwood Rangers.

Creator:: Gribble, Samuel
Date:: [1829]
Physical Description:: viii, [1], 14-147, [3] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Elegant arts for ladies : ... profusely illustrated.

Date:: [1861]
Physical Description:: viii, 227, [5] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Routledges's every girl's annual / edited by Alicia A. Leith ; illustrated.

Date:: [1880]
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 524 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., music ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Hunting in the golden days / by Hubert Garle ; illustrated by Finch Mason.

Creator:: Garle, Hubert
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: 100, [6] pages, [8] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The young artist.

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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. The art of sketching flowers from nature : with coloured illustrations / by R. Willett Lucas.

Creator:: Lucas, Ralph Willett, 1796–1874
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: iv, 45 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 1853.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Lessons in flower painting. : a series of easy and progressive studies, drawn and coloured after nature. / by James Andrews.

Creator:: Andrews, James, 1806–1876
Date:: [1836]
Physical Description:: 4 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Confessions of an Oxonian : in three volumes : embellished with thirty-six coloured plates.

Creator:: Moore, Thomas, 1779–1852
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: 3 v. ill. ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Present pastimes of merrie England / interpreted from ancient mss. and annotated by F.C. Burnand ; with illustrations drawn from ye quicke by J.E. Rogers, author of "Ridicula rediviva".

Creator:: Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir, 1836–1917
Date:: one thousand eight hundred and seventy three [1873]
Physical Description:: [4], 32 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. 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

22. [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

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

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

24. 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

25. 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

26. The practical paper fruit maker : a new and original kindergarten occupation for girls and infants / by Veronica Vassey, author of "The practical paper flower maker."

Creator:: Vassey, Veronica
Date:: [approximately 1900]
Physical Description:: xi, [2], 14-52, [12] pages, [8] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Involuntary thoughts.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823-1824
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Rock's Royal Bristol & Clifton cabinet album.

Date:: [between 1884 and 1896]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([12] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 162 cm, folded to 19 x 14 cm, attached to boards 20 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Country vignettes : descriptive passages selected from the writings of Richard Jefferies : with seven engravings by Anthony Christmas.

Creator:: Jefferies, Richard, 1848–1887
Date:: 1991
Physical Description:: [30] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Royal cabinet album of Isle of Wight.

Date:: [1870]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([24] p.): chiefly ill. ; 15 x 130 cm, folded to 15 x 11 cm, in covers 15 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Souvenir of the North.

Date:: 1855?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([40] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 14 x 400 cm., folded to 14 x 10 cm., attached to boards 15 x 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Moveable shadows / by W. Newman (of Punch).

Creator:: Newman, William
Date:: [1859]
Physical Description:: [1], [9] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. Fashion and folly, or, The buck's pilgrimage [graphic]

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:: [1822]
Physical Description:: 24 pictures on 1 joined sheet : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 617 cm, in cylindrical case 16 cm x 7 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The comic album : a book for every table.

Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: [140] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. [Die-cut and embossed chromolithographed scrap].

Date:: [approximately 1880]
Physical Description:: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. 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

43. Der Quälgeist = The Tormentor.

Creator:: F. Ad. Richter & Co
Date:: [1891?]
Physical Description:: [8], 5-52 pages : illustrations ; 70 x 71 mm, in box 78 x 78 x 15 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. 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

45. 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

46. 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

47. 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

48. A guide to sketching from nature in water colours / by Leonidas Clint Miles ; with numerous illustrations, drawn on stone and wood by the author.

Creator:: Miles, Leonidas Clint
Date:: 1868
Physical Description:: 85, 48 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. [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

50. 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

51. 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

52. 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

53. 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

54. A synoptical compend of British botany : (from the class Monandria to polygamia inclusive) arranged after the Linnean system : and containing the essential characters of the genera, the specific characters, English names, places of growth, soil and situation, colour of the flowers, times of flowering, duration, and references to figures / by John Galpine.

Creator:: Galpine, John, 1769–1806
Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: viii, [194] p. in various pagings : ill ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. The shooter's guide, or, Complete sportsman's companion : containing a compendious view of the game laws : a description of the various kinds of dogs : and the best mode of breeding, rearing, and training them : with an account of the diseases to which they are liable, and the best methods of cure : to which are added, directions for grouse, partridge, pheasant, woodcock, snipe, hare, and wild duck shooting : particular instructions for the young sportsman : and much miscellaneous information on the choice of guns, gunpowder, shot, &c. &c. / by B. Thomas.

Creator:: Johnson, Thomas Burgeland, -1840
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [5], viii-x, 304 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Sciography, or, Radial projection of shadows / by R. Campbell Puckett.

Creator:: Puckett, R. Campbell (Robert Campbell)
Date:: 1871
Physical Description:: xiv, 52 p., [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Industrial exhibition of all nations.

Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 1 set of puzzle blocks (60 pieces) : wood ; in wooden box 28 x 19 x 9 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Voyage d'un français en Angleterre, pendant les années 1810 et 1811 : avec des observations sur l'état politique et moral, les arts, et la littérature de ce pays, et sur les moeurs et les usages de ses habitans ...

Creator:: Simond, L. (Louis), 1767–1831
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. British ferns : their classification, structure, and functions : together with the best methods for their cultivation / by Mrs. Lankester. ; author of "Wild flowers worth notice.".

Creator:: Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900
Date:: 1884
Physical Description:: [4], 127, [1] p., 16 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Diary of the Diamond Jubilee of H.M. The Queen-Empress, June 1897.

Date:: 1897, June 21-1897, July 4
Physical Description:: 1 v. (28 p.) ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. 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

62. 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

63. A practical guide for the tailor's cutting-room : being a treatise on measuring and cutting clothing in all styles, and for every period of life from childhood to old age / by Joseph Couts ; with numerous diagrams and pictorial illustrations.

Creator:: Couts, Joseph
Date:: [1848]
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 166 p., xxvii, 17 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The drawing-room dances / by Cellarius.

Creator:: Cellarius, Henri
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: xii, 149, [1] p., viii leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. 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

66. 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

67. 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

68. Liston's characters : six coloured engravings.

Date:: 1826
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Applied sciences, or, Sciences applied.

Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([16] leaves) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Harrogate diary.

Date:: 1824, July 28-September 8
Physical Description:: 1 v. (29 p.) ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Figure training, or, Art the handmaid of nature / by E.D.M.

Date:: [between 1865 and 1873]
Physical Description:: 125, [1] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Out for a holiday.

Creator:: G. C. T
Date:: 1880, August 10-1881, August 15
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([31] leaves) : ill. ; 15 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Air-navigation, by means of the rotary balloon / by John Luntley ; provisionally registered, April 26th, 1851.

Creator:: Luntley, John, b. 1820
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 20 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Garden plans.

Date:: 1869-1873
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([10] leaves) : plans ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Twelve crochet edgings, with illustrative engravings / edited by G. Curling Hope, author of "The Art of Crochet," "My Working Friend," Etc.

Date:: 1848
Physical Description:: 25, [7] pages, [1], ([1] folded leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. 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

77. 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

78. The fashionable Chinese puzzle.

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

79. The many headed monster.

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

80. The family coach.

Creator:: E. R. T
Date:: 1868
Physical Description:: 1 volume ([2], 11, [1] pages) ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. 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

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

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

83. Lessons of thrift : published for general benefit / by a member of the Save-all Club.

Creator:: Member of the Save-all Club
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, 240 [i.e. 196], [2] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Greetings from Oxford.

Date:: [Oxford? :
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 9 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. 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

86. Flowers from nature : with the botanical name, class, and order ; and instructions for copying : lithographed and coloured from drawings / by Anne Everard ; dedicated, by permission, to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

Creator:: Everard, Anne
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: [8] p., 13 leaves, 13 leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. 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

88. 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

89. 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

90. 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

91. 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

92. The Harrogate alphabet for 1870.

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

93. 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

94. 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

95. [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

96. [Le beau monde].

Date:: 1823?]
Physical Description:: [19] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The manse garden / by Nathaniel Paterson, D.D., Minister of St. Andrew's Church, Glasgow.

Creator:: Paterson, N. (Nathaniel), 1787–1871
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: x, [11]-262, 2 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

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

99. A few ideas, caught on Easter Monday.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Particulars and recommendations of the stadium, or British National Arena : for manly and defensive exercises, equestrian, chivalric, and aquatic games, and skilful and amusing pastimes : at the residence of the late Lord Cremorne : on a space of twenty-four acres, extending from the King's Road, Chelsea, to the Thames, and distant less that 2 1/2 miles from Piccadilly.

Creator:: Beaufain, Charles Random de Bérenger, baron de
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: 36 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

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1. The hand-book of useful and ornamental amusements and accomplishments : including artificial flower making, engraving, etching, painting in all its styles, modelling, carving in wood, ivory, and shell, also fancy work of every description / by a lady.

2. The modern art of fencing : agreeably to the practice of the most eminent masters in Europe / by le sieur Guzman Rolando, of the Academie des Armes ; carefully revised and augmented with a technical glossary, etc. by J. S. Forsyth ; embellished with numerous plates.

3. Lights in art : a review of ancient and modern pictures : with critical remarks on the present state, treatment, and preservation of oil paintings / by George William Novice, artist.

4. Pyramiden Spiel = Jeu de pyramides.

6. Characters / by Williams.

8. Roses and holly, and Pen and pencil pictures from the poets / profusely illustrated by Gourlay Steell, R.S.A., R. Herdman, R.S.A., Clark Stanton, A.R.S.A., Samuel Bough, A.R.S.A., John M'Whirter, A.R.S.A., John Lawson, and other eminent artists ; engraved by R. Paterson.

10. Elegant arts for ladies : ... profusely illustrated.

11. Routledges's every girl's annual / edited by Alicia A. Leith ; illustrated.

12. Hunting in the golden days / by Hubert Garle ; illustrated by Finch Mason.

13. The young artist.

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

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

16. 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.

17. The art of sketching flowers from nature : with coloured illustrations / by R. Willett Lucas.

18. Lessons in flower painting. : a series of easy and progressive studies, drawn and coloured after nature. / by James Andrews.

19. Confessions of an Oxonian : in three volumes : embellished with thirty-six coloured plates.

20. Present pastimes of merrie England / interpreted from ancient mss. and annotated by F.C. Burnand ; with illustrations drawn from ye quicke by J.E. Rogers, author of "Ridicula rediviva".

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

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

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

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

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

26. The practical paper fruit maker : a new and original kindergarten occupation for girls and infants / by Veronica Vassey, author of "The practical paper flower maker."

27. Involuntary thoughts.

28. Rock's Royal Bristol & Clifton cabinet album.

29. Country vignettes : descriptive passages selected from the writings of Richard Jefferies : with seven engravings by Anthony Christmas.

30. Royal cabinet album of Isle of Wight.

31. Souvenir of the North.

32. Moveable shadows / by W. Newman (of Punch).

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

34. 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.

35. Vere Foster's drawing copy book.

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

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

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

39. Fashion and folly, or, The buck's pilgrimage [graphic]

40. The comic album : a book for every table.

41. [Die-cut and embossed chromolithographed scrap].

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

43. Der Quälgeist = The Tormentor.

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

45. An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting.

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

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

48. A guide to sketching from nature in water colours / by Leonidas Clint Miles ; with numerous illustrations, drawn on stone and wood by the author.

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

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

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

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

56. Sciography, or, Radial projection of shadows / by R. Campbell Puckett.

57. Industrial exhibition of all nations.

58. Voyage d'un français en Angleterre, pendant les années 1810 et 1811 : avec des observations sur l'état politique et moral, les arts, et la littérature de ce pays, et sur les moeurs et les usages de ses habitans ...

59. British ferns : their classification, structure, and functions : together with the best methods for their cultivation / by Mrs. Lankester. ; author of "Wild flowers worth notice.".

60. Diary of the Diamond Jubilee of H.M. The Queen-Empress, June 1897.

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

62. 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.

63. A practical guide for the tailor's cutting-room : being a treatise on measuring and cutting clothing in all styles, and for every period of life from childhood to old age / by Joseph Couts ; with numerous diagrams and pictorial illustrations.

64. The drawing-room dances / by Cellarius.

65. 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.

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

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

68. Liston's characters : six coloured engravings.

69. Applied sciences, or, Sciences applied.

70. Harrogate diary.

71. Figure training, or, Art the handmaid of nature / by E.D.M.

72. Out for a holiday.

73. Air-navigation, by means of the rotary balloon / by John Luntley ; provisionally registered, April 26th, 1851.

74. Garden plans.

75. Twelve crochet edgings, with illustrative engravings / edited by G. Curling Hope, author of "The Art of Crochet," "My Working Friend," Etc.

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

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

78. The fashionable Chinese puzzle.

79. The many headed monster.