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Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
2
Cozens, Alexander, 1717–1786
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Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
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Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
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Angus, William, 1752–1821
1
Attiret, Jean Denis, 1702–1768
1
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
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Beckford, William, 1760–1844
1
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
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Best, Thomas
1
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571–1638
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Boswell, James, 1740–1795
1
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
1
Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1541–1622
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Bray, Dirk de, 17th cent
1
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
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Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
1
Campbell, Colen, 1676–1729
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Books
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Articles & Chapters
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Maps & Atlas (printed)
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Archives & Manuscripts
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Periodicals
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private press books (publishing)
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wood engraving
4
early work
3
engraving
2
photomechanical print
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armorial bookplates (provenance)
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book illustration
1
bookplate
1
charcoal drawing
1
correspondence
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diarie
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essay
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etching
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exhibition catalog
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fable
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facsimiles (printing)
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genealogie
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Gardening -- Early works to 1800.
6
Gardening -- England -- Early works to 1800.
5
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
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Gardens, English -- Early works to 1800.
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Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900- -- Provenance (BAC,REF)
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England -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
3
Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
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Agriculture -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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Architecture -- Early works to 1800.
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Art -- Early works to 1800.
2
Decoration and ornament -- Chippendale style.
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Drawing -- Early works to 1800.
2
Early maps -- Facsimiles.
2
England -- Description and travel.
2
English wit and humor.
2
Furniture design.
2
Gardens -- Design -- Early works to 1800.
2
Gardens -- England -- Design -- Early works to 1800.
2
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900- -- Provenance (Bac,Ref)
2
Horsemanship.
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18th century
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England
18
Great Britain
11
Waltham Saint Lawrence
3
Greece
2
Leasowes Garden (Halesowen, England)
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London
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London (England)
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Turkey
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Athens
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Belgium
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Dublin
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East Indies
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Enville (Staffordshire)
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Adam (Biblical figure)
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Carr family
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Carr, Anna Margaret, 1797–1872
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Carr, Harriet, 1829–1889
1
Carr, Thomas William, 1830–1912
1
Casteels, Peter, 1684–1749
1
Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492
1
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
1
Cranworth, Laura Rolfe, Lady, 1807–1868
1
Cranworth, Robert Monsey Rolfe, Baron, 1790–1868
1
Eve (Biblical figure)
1
Fletcher, Henry, active 1715–1738
1
Gray, Thomas, 1716–1771
1
Lushington, Sarah Grace, 1794–1837
1
Malton, James, d. 1803
1
Milton, John, 1608–1674
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
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Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
1
Vanbrugh, John, Sir, 1664–1726
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick W. Hilles
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Society of Dilettanti (London, England)
Antiquities of Ionia,
1769-1915
2
Blake, William, 1757–1827
William Blake's water-colour designs for the poems of Thomas Gray
1972
3
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
The metamorphoses of Ovid
1968
4
Album of English bookplates
approximately 1700-1950?
5
Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Lucina sine concubitu
MCMXXX [1930]
6
Donne, John, 1572–1631
Donne's Sermon of valediction at his going into Germany
1932
7
Paul Mellon collection of British artists' correspondence,
1767-1917
8
Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592–1676
A general system of horsemanship
1970
9
Best, Thomas
A concise treatise on the art of angling ...
1992
10
The Post office London directory
11
Society of Antiquaries of London
Vetusta Monumenta
n.d.]
12
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
The new London letter writer
1948
13
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
[Morning]
[2015]
14
More, Thomas, Saint, 1478–1535
A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of a publique weale, & of the new yle, called Utopia
MCMXXIX [1929]
15
Lacombe, Jean de, sieur de Querc̦y, active 1676
A compendium of the East
1937
16
Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century
The noble & joyous boke entytled Le Morte Darthur
1934
17
The fables of Aesop
MCMXXVI [1926]
18
Dryden, John, 1631–1700
Theodore & Honoria
1985
19
Collection of engraved portraits
20
Caxton, William, approximately 1422–1491 or 1492
Vocabulary in French and English
1964
21
De Houtsneden van Mansion's Ovide moralise, Bruges 1484
1922
22
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
An academy for grown horsemen
1929
23
Ketham, Joannes de, active 15th century
Der Fasciculus medicinae des Johannes de Ketham, Alemannus
1923
24
Carr family
Carr family collection of travel sketches, scrapbooks, and genealogical material,
1699-1981
25
Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470–1519
Die Weltkarten Waldseemüllers (Ilacomilus) 1507 & 1516 =
1903
26
Shenstone, William, 1714–1763
Men & manners
MCMXXVII [1927]
27
Russell, John, -1494
Propositio Johannis Russell
1909
28
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts
29
Berners, Juliana, b. 1388?
English hawking and hunting in the Boke of St. Albans
1975
30
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Songs of innocence and of experience
c1991
31
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Poetical sketches
1926
32
Cozens, Alexander, 1717–1786
A new method of assisting the invention in drawing original compositions of landscape (1785)
1981
33
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
The English husbandman
1982
34
Mason, William, 1725–1797
The English garden
1982
35
Rouquet, Jean André, 1701–1758
The present state of the arts in England,
1970
36
Heely, Joseph
Letters on the beauties of Hagley, Envil, and the Leasowes
1982
37
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
New principles of gardening
1982
38
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
The gentleman & cabinet-maker's director
[1966]
39
Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (Great Britain)
A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints etc. of the present artists
1760-[1764]
40
Jones, Inigo, 1573–1652
The Banqueting House with the Whitehall and Holbein gates [graphic]
1967
41
Cozens, Alexander, 1717–1786
A new method of landscape
c1977
42
Caus, Isaac de, 1590–1648
Wilton garden ; New and rare inventions of waterworks
1982
43
Martyn, Thomas, 1735–1825
The English connoisseur
1968
44
Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604
A sparke of frendship and warme goodwill, that shewes the effect of trve affection and Vnfoldes the fineneffe of this world
1978
45
Switzer, Stephen, 1682?-1745
An introduction to a general system of hydrostaticks and hydraulicks, philosophical and practical
1982
46
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts
47
Elsum, John, fl. 1700–1705
The art of painting after the Italian manner
1703
48
Hill, Thomas, approximately 1528–
The gardeners labyrinth
1982
49
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
The hypochondriack,
1928
50
Kip, Johannes, 1653–1722
Britannia illustrata
c1984
51
Campbell, Colen, 1676–1729
Vitruvius Britannicus
2007
52
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Mr. William Shakespeares comedies, histories & tragedies
1954
53
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Observations on the River Wye
1973
54
Bray, Dirk de, 17th cent
A short introduction in the binding of books
1977
55
Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect
1927
56
The Gardens at Stowe
1982
57
Girardin, René Louis, marquis de, 1735–1808
An essay on landscape
1982
58
Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improved road atlas of England and Wales 1731
1979
59
Gentil, François
The retir'd gard'ner
1982
60
Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1541–1622
Civitates orbis terrarum,
1966 [c1965]
61
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Observations on the western parts of England
1973
62
Stow, John, 1525?-1605
A survey of London,
1908
63
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant ..
1972]
64
Nivelon, François
The rudiments of genteel behavior
2003
65
Attiret, Jean Denis, 1702–1768
A particular account of the Emperor of China's gardens, near Pekin
1982
66
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571–1638
Blaeu's Atlas of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
[1970]
67
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director
2005
68
Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo, 1538–1600
A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge
1969
69
Angus, William, 1752–1821
Seats of the nobility and gentry in Great Britain and Wales
1982
70
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
A dictionary of the English language
1983
71
Stuart, James, 1713–1788
The antiqvities of Athens, measvred and delineated
1968-
72
Lawson, William, active 1618
A new orchard and garden
1982
73
Entwurff und Beschreibung von der Papiermacherey,
1962]
74
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717–1768
Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks
2013
75
Nourse, Timothy, d. 1699
Campania foelix
1982
76
Wood, John, 1704–1754
A description of Bath, 1765
1969
77
Serle, John
A plan of Mr. Pope's garden
1982
78
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Carington Bowles's New and enlarged catalogue of useful and accurate maps, charts, and plans
1784]
79
Sachs, Hans, 1494–1576
The book of trades (Ständebuch)
[1973]
80
An Essay upon harmony as it relates chiefly to situation and building
1982
81
Beckford, William, 1760–1844
Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters, 1780
1977
82
The Case of designers, engravers, etchers, &c.
Reprinted 1975
83
Morritt, John B. S. (John Bacon Sawrey), 1772?-1843
Diary in Turkey and Greece
[1794?]
84
Twelve months of flowers
1982?]
85
Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm)
Sayer & Bennett's catalogue of prints for 1775
1970
86
Worlidge, John, fl. 1669–1698
Systema horti-culturae, or, The art of gardening
1982
87
Donne, Benjamin, 1729–1798
A map of the County of Devon, 1765
1965
88
Swan, Abraham
The British architect
1967
89
Malton, James, d. 1803
Georgian Dublin
1984
90
Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758–1837
New description of Blenheim
1982
91
Lens, Bernard, 1682–1740
The exact dress of the head, 1725
1970
92
A Select collection of poems
1969
93
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Observations on the mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland
1973
94
Newbery, Thomas, fl.1563
A booke in Englysh metre,
1910
95
Sheraton, Thomas, 1751–1806
The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book
[1972]
96
Hodges, William, 1744–1797
Travels in India during the years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783
1999
97
Collins, William, 1721–1759
Odes on several descriptive and allegoric subjects
1926]
98
Plaw, John, 1744 or 5–1820
Ferme ornée;
1972
99
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
A prospect of the most famous parts of the world
1966
100
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Remarks on forest scenery
1973
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