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The royal pastime of cupid, or, Entertaining game of the snake.
Date:
12th May 1794
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 38 x 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
If truest love can gain respect I may a mutual love expect ...
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Le souvenir, or, Pocket remembrancer for MDCCXCIX.
Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
[38], 64 pages : illustrations ; 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Collection of eight prize awards given in dog shows.
Date:
1924-1925
Physical Description:
8 pieces ; 8 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
St. Valentine's Day at length is here to lovers still held dear
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Quartettes.
Date:
circa 1860?
Physical Description:
53 cards (rectos only) ; 92 mm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Parnell & Banner : ship & insurance brokers : No. 57 Gracechurch Street, London.
Creator:
Parnell & Banner
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 7 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Farr, fringe lace & worsted manufacturer : 254, High Holborn : worsted & lamb's wool in shades for needle work : combd wool in any colour.
Creator:
Walkinshaw, A.
Date:
[1805?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 10 x 6 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of cartes-de-visite and cabinet photographs of the British royal family.
Date:
ca. 1860-ca. 1905
Physical Description:
1 album (76 photographs) ; 30 x 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The circle of knowledge : a new game of the wonders of nature, science, & art.
Date:
[ca. 1850?]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored aquatint ; 65 x 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
I will love thee ever dearly.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The habit makes the man = L'habit forme l'homme.
Date:
18--]
Physical Description:
1 game (26 pieces) : paper, col. ; in case, 12 x 8 x 2 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
One hundred new fables : embellished with designs to each fable / by James Northcote, R.A.
Creator:
Northcote, James, 1746–1831
Date:
1817-1825
Physical Description:
331, 4 p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A book token.
Creator:
White, Gwen, 1901–1986
Date:
[approximately 1936]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 13 x 16 cm, folded to 13 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Australia pavilion / Campbell Gray.
Date:
[1924 or 1925]
Physical Description:
1 postcard ; 9 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The combat with the giant : a new invented and entertaining game.
Date:
September 1st, 1796
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 40 x 40 cm, folded to 13 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The beauteous flower which now I see, a simple tale doth tell ...
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 18 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Short account of Lord Nelson's defeat of the French at the Nile : ... The view of Margate is in the upper circle : open from eight till dusk, 1799.
Creator:
Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England)
Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : ill. ; 42 x 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Portraits of the winning horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster : from the year 1815 to the present year].
Date:
[1815-1844]
Physical Description:
30 prints : aquatint, hand-colored ; 56 x 77 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cobweb three-dimensional watercolor.
Physical Description:
1 item : ill. ; 23 x 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A journey to Lindley Murray's.
Date:
[185-?]
Physical Description:
1 col. sheet. 45 x 57 cm. fold. to 23 x 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sturgeon / [Pauline Lamont-Fisher].
Creator:
Lamont-Fisher, Pauline
Date:
2011
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([7] leaves) : ill. ; 15 x 85 cm, folded to 15 x 12 cm, in paper cover 16 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Original drawings for Designs for small picturesque cottages and hunting boxes.
Creator:
Gyfford, E
Date:
[not after 1807]
Physical Description:
19 drawings : watercolor ; 22 x 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses for Miss Kate Lamb, due to Mrs. Blundell at Grey Friars' House, Lincoln.
Creator:
Grey Friars' House (Lincoln, England)
Date:
April, 1882
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 24 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Day & Martin : proprietors of the real Japan blacking. London, and Liverpool.
Creator:
Day and Martin
Date:
[approximately 1880]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : chromolithograph ; 9 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A new, moral, and entertaining game of the reward of merit / invented by Geo. Fox ...
Creator:
Fox, Geo. (George)
Date:
December 10th, 1801
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 41 x 51 cm, folded to 17 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Album of watercolors of British birds.
Date:
circa 1820-circa 1830
Physical Description:
1 album (94 drawings) : watercolor ; 20 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Thou are all I wish.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Programme of events, Sunday, February 9th, 1930 : T.S.S. "Caledonia", Anchor Line.
Creator:
Anchor Line (Firm)
Date:
1930
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 19 x 24 cm, folded to 19 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
[Photographic postcards of actors and scenes from "The Girls of Gottenberg."]
Date:
[approximately 1907]
Physical Description:
3 postcards : b/w ; 14 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
A packet of carefully selected Christmas cards, suitable for young or old, by the celebrated makers, Marcus Ward & Co. : sent post free for seven stamps : sold in the ordinary way for one shilling.
Date:
[1875?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 20 x 80 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Post Office Jubilee of Uniform Penny Postage at South Kensington Museum, 2nd July, 1890.
Date:
[1890]
Physical Description:
1 card : illustrations ; 11 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A token of faithful love! To my dearest Valentine!
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
W. Burt scrapbook : manuscript.
Date:
1820s?-1867 (bulk 1820s)
Physical Description:
1 volume (80 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 44 x 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The book of 4021 & 4020 : (golden delicious).
Creator:
Rook, Anne
Date:
2002
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm. + 1 plastic food container (19 x 14 x 4 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of pressed plant, flower, and seaweed specimens.
Date:
1856-1863
Physical Description:
1 volume (31 leaves) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Bill of receipt by Nicholas Watson, on behalf of his mother Ann Watson, for the purchase of coffee and sugar by Mrs. De Sausmarez, 1793].
Creator:
Watson, Nicholas, active 1793
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 70 x 164 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

445. Lichen.

Lichen.
Creator:
Bonnell, Mandy
Date:
[2012]
Physical Description:
20 packets : illustrations ; in box 8 x 21 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
T.W. Hill's boarding school & day school, Gough St.
Creator:
Hill, Thomas Wright, 1763–1851
Date:
[between 1803 and 1819]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : engraving ; 42 x 52 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for expenses at Grove House School, Highgate.
Creator:
Dickinson, A. E. C., active 1892
Date:
June 14, 1892
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ; 21 x 26 cm, folded to 21 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Field poppy : Papaver rhoeas / T. Bush.
Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Date:
2006
Physical Description:
1 collage ; 40 x 28 cm, on sheet 42 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Two funeral scenes, with horse-drawn hearses.
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 print : woodcut ; sheet 14 x 22
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fob seal, with motto "Am I not a woman and a sister?"
Date:
circa 1835
Physical Description:
1 fob seal : gilding over copper or copper alloy, amethyst-colored glass ; face 15 x 8 mm, depth 22 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In affectionate remembrance of John Stringer, the beloved husband of Sarah Ann Stringer : who died January 6th, 1888.
Date:
1888
Physical Description:
1 embossed card : letterpress ; 78 x 116 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wallis's elegant and instructive game exhibiting the wonders of nature in each quarter of the world.
Date:
1st Novr. 1818
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 48 x 64 cm, folded to 24 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Model of HMS Victory.
Date:
2018
Physical Description:
1 model : paper, wood, brass, thread ; 78 x 109 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Louis G. Audette, Yale BA 1962, BFA 1963, MS 1965
To her I love.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 25 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sea-side walks of a naturalist with his children / by Rev. W. Houghton ... ; illustrated with eight coloured plates and numerous wood engravings.
Creator:
Houghton, W. (William), 1828–1895
Date:
1870
Physical Description:
vi, 154 p.,, [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Beetles book].
Creator:
Cockburn, Julie
Date:
[2002]
Physical Description:
1 v. : ill. ; 39 x 54 x 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Land tax bill for William Bourn, April 5th, 1798.
Date:
1798
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 6 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Old series Ordnance Survey maps of England and Wales]
Creator:
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey
Date:
1805-1834 [i.e. 1834-1835?]
Physical Description:
65 maps on 66 sheets : mounted on linen ; sheets 69 x 98 cm, or smaller + index.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Bookmark, Royal Exchange Assurance : Fire, life, Marine, burglary, personal accident, employers liability].
Creator:
Royal Exchange Assurance (Firm)
Date:
[approximately 1900?]
Physical Description:
1 bookmark : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
John Webb account book : manuscript.
Creator:
Webb, John, 1611–1672
Date:
1630s
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Eidodendron : views of the general character & appearance of trees : foreign & indigenous, connected with picturesque scenery / by H.W. Burgess.
Creator:
Burgess, Henry William, approximately 1792–1844
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
[12], iii, 26 [i.e. 53], [2] p., [55] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 57 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dick Turpin's last ride on his bonnie Black Bess.
Creator:
Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888
Date:
[approximately 1880]
Physical Description:
1 silk picture : color ; 6 x 13 cm, on mount 14 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In affectionate remembrance of Elizabeth Brooks who departed this life January 2th, 1918 : aged 63 years : interred at Walcot Cemetery.
Date:
1918
Physical Description:
1 folded card : illustrations ; 80 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The British tourist : a new game.
Date:
[1830s?]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 50 x 63 cm, folded to 22 x 13 cm, in slipcase 22 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Paper doll.
Date:
approximately 1830?
Physical Description:
1 paper doll (4 pieces) ; 80 x 110 mm, in envelope 120 x 400 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Haustellata lepidoptera diurna.
Creator:
Stephens, James Francis, 1792–1853
Date:
circa 1839
Physical Description:
1 v. (169 pages, some blank) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
William Stevenson Owen, judge.
Date:
between 1884 and 1909
Physical Description:
1 bookplate : engraving ; 115 x 78 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
[Tax bill for C. Johnstone, Paddington, Middlesex, October 4th, 1856]
Date:
1856
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 6 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Jones' views of the seats, mansions, castles, etc. of noblemen and gentlemen, in England ...
Creator:
Neale, J. P. (John Preston), 1780–1847
Date:
[1829-31]
Physical Description:
3 v. plates. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Ye cvstoms & manners of Ye Englyshe people : How the younge menne doe smoke.
Creator:
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
Date:
[approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) : etching ; 19 x 12 cm, folded to 9 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine : presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the iles adioyning : with the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-townes, within [the] kingdome of England / divided and described by Iohn Speed.
Creator:
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:
[1612]
Physical Description:
[14], 146 [that is 280], [10] pages : illustrations (woodcuts), 67 maps (metal cuts) ; 46 cm (folio)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The young companion.
Date:
1897 January-1898 December
Physical Description:
2 volumes (204, 130 pages) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Turnbulls' Cheltenham Exchange / engraved by J. Radford.
Creator:
Turnbull's Cheltenham Exchange
Date:
[ca. 1826?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : engraving ; 80 x 106 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A history of British birds. By Thomas Bewick.
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 v. ill. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The mirror of truth : exhibiting a variety of biographical anecdotes and moral essays : calculated to inspire a love of virtue and abhorrence of vice.
Date:
Jany. 1st, 1811
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; sheet 46 x 57 cm, folded to 19 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Laurie's new and entertaining game of the golden goose.
Date:
[1831]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand colored engraving ; 40 x 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Advantages of the Cremerian Boot : to elevate the wearer : to improve the instep : to produce an arched and hollow waist : to give a symmetrical form to the foot.
Creator:
Cremer & Co. (Firm : London, England)
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
With love and good wishes for a happy New Year.
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 pop-up card : color illustrations ; 15 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In loving remembrance of William Albert Hadley, aged 18 years : died April 30th, 1873.
Date:
1873
Physical Description:
1 card : letterpress ; 80 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
The new game of the multiplication table.
Date:
[between 1830 and 1832]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored illustrations ; sheet 48 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
P. J. Lara : house agent, funeral economist & licensed appraiser : 4, Warwick Place, Kingsland Road & no. 6 Oxford Street, Mile End.
Creator:
P. J. Lara (Firm)
Date:
[approximately 1860-1880]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 7 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Billhead of S. Dixon, carver and gilder, looking glass and picture frame manufacturer, recording purchase made by Lady Hartland on May 25th, 1835]
Creator:
Dixon, S. (Carver)
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 13 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Kyngeston vpon Hvll.
Creator:
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607–1677
Date:
circa 1642
Physical Description:
1 view : illustrations ; 31 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of comic sketches.
Creator:
A.J.K.H.
Date:
1869-1873
Physical Description:
1 album (91 drawings) ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Time's footsteps for 1881 / C. Goodall & Son, London.
Creator:
C. Goodall & Son
Date:
[1880]
Physical Description:
1 print : chromolithograph ; 90 x 60 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Henry Halvoet & Cie. : negt. en poissons : Edmonds Place, Aldersgate Street, No. 36, city, Londres / Daveluy, Lith. du Roi, Bruges.
Creator:
Daveluy, Édouard, 1812–1894
Date:
[approximately 1840]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 11 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Newmarket, Mildenhall, and Swaffham stage waggons : by Thomas Archer.
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
1 handbill ; 11 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In loving memory of Frederick Callis : born January 1st, 1874 : died June 18th, 1898 : he died of enteric fever at Landi Kotal, India : 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry.
Date:
1898
Physical Description:
1 folded card : illustrations ; 80 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Moth collection / John Dilnot.
Creator:
Dilnot, John
Date:
2013
Physical Description:
1 specimen box ; 21 x 15 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In affectionate remembrance of James Page : who fell asleep in Jesus August 19th, 1885 : aged 63 years.
Date:
1885
Physical Description:
1 cut paper card : letterpress ; 80 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Label for Bacon Brothers "B.B." cigarettes (Turkish)]
Creator:
Bacon Brothers (Cambridge, England)
Date:
[approximately 1910]
Physical Description:
1 label ; 25 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Yours unalterably.
Date:
[1875?]
Physical Description:
1 card : color illustrations ; 9 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fortunio & his seven gifted servants.
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
1 game : color lithograph ; 57 x 44 cm, folded to 20 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Billhead of Richard T. Cussons, bookseller and stationer, Hull, for purchases by Mrs. Maister, Wood Hall.
Creator:
Cussons, Richard T.
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 26 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Visiting card for Mansfield Stone Quarries for a visit by Mr. W. Williams on Feb. 18th, 1870.
Creator:
Mansfield Stone Quarries
Date:
1870
Physical Description:
1 visiting card : photograph ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Thou art my life, my love my heart. Thou art the world. And if thy will show .... I'll do it or die for thee.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Polyorama, or, Endless changes of landscapes.
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
16 pts. in case. ill. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts