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H. Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891-1915.
Creator:
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891–1915
Date:
[1919]
Physical Description:
1 portfolio ([1] leaf, [19] leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
The Boys Clothing House, A.B. Joseph & Co. : 150 Regent St., London : Grey St. Newcastle.
Creator:
Boys Clothing House (London, England)
Date:
[approximately 1864?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 14 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria.
Creator:
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Date:
1796-1803
Physical Description:
1 volume (74 drawings) : watercolor and gouache over graphite ; 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Tender feet : the elastic enamelled cloth for boots & shoes for tender feet : invented by Richard Hall, manufacturer of elastic spring ankle boots, for ladies and gentlemen, of the same material.
Creator:
Hall, Richard, (Boot maker)
Date:
[approximately 1851]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Wedding portrait of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, December 20, 1947.
Date:
1947
Physical Description:
1 photographic print : b&w ; 11 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Goodall's Royal Bezique register.
Creator:
C. Goodall & Son
Date:
[approximately 1900]
Physical Description:
1 Bezique register : color illustrations ; 80 x 100 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Photogram of ferns.
Date:
1860s?
Physical Description:
1 photograph : albumen print, photogram ; 33 x 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Itinerarium curiosum, or, An account of the antiquities and remarkable curiositys in nature or art : observ'd in travels thro' Great Brittan : illustrated with copper plates : Centuria I / by William Stukeley, M.D. CML. & SRS.
Creator:
Stukeley, William, 1687–1765
Date:
MDCCXXIV [1724]
Physical Description:
[12], 198, [6] pages, 100 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leda and the swan / [Helen Douglas].
Creator:
Douglas, Helen, 1952–
Date:
[2011]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([52] p.) : all col. ill. ; 18 x 216 cm, folded to 18 x 4 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Album of bird illustrations made from bird feathers.
Date:
approximately 1880
Physical Description:
26 pictures in 1 volume : bird feathers, watercolor ; volume 22 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A love, pure and ardent to thee I declare ...
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 18 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sketchbook.
Creator:
Palairet, Septimus Henry, 1807–1854
Date:
circa 1830
Physical Description:
1 album ([88] leaves of drawings) : watercolor over pen and ink ; 10 x 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rebecca Salter, in memory of her father Samuel Salter.
To my daughter, may the morn of thy existence be unclouded, thy noontide of dazzling light : and thy eventide like the sun which only sets to rise again in renewed splendour.
Creator:
Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888
Date:
[approximately 1870]
Physical Description:
1 silk picture : color ; 17 x 5 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Remember me : blest with thy love.
Date:
1881
Physical Description:
1 card : color illustrations ; 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Origin of the Union Jack of Great Britain.
Date:
1868
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ; 9 x 22 cm, folded to 9 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Three-dimensional cut-paper album card].
Date:
[approximately 1890]
Physical Description:
1 album card : color illustrations ; 100 x 60 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Postmortem portrait of an infant and mother.
Date:
1850s
Physical Description:
1 photograph : ambrotype, hand-colored ; visible image 9.0 x 6.5 cm (quarter plate format), in case 12.0 x 9.5 x 1.5 cm (closed)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Jennens, Bettridge & Sons, manufacturers to Her Majesty & The Royal Family : 6, Halkin St. West-Belgrave Squ., London and 99, Constitution Hill, Birmingham.
Creator:
Jennens, Bettridge & Sons
Date:
[approximately 1849?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 8 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968, and Linda Mitchell
Daylight / [Pauline Lamont-Fisher].
Creator:
Lamont-Fisher, Pauline
Date:
2006
Physical Description:
[18] leaves : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

323. Stencils.

Stencils.
Date:
late 19th century
Physical Description:
91 items
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Please to imagine lady fair, If you my passion truly share, that in these gloves our hands combine, Mine in yours, love, and yours in mind.
Date:
[approximately 1860]
Physical Description:
1 folded card ; 30 x 110 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Grosvenor House, July 25th, 1916 : III Arts Womens' Employment Fund / by us, Philip Burne-Jones, Hassall.
Creator:
Hassall, John, 1868–1948
Date:
1916
Physical Description:
[24] pages : illustrations ; 15 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
I would these flowers had lips to tell that I do love thee true and well.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for school expenses for C. Lamb, to be paid to Edwin R. Dibben, Classical School, Mount Pleasant, Sleaford.
Creator:
Classical School (Mount Pleasant, Sleaford, England)
Date:
1880
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 24 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Photographic postcard of a three-quarter length portrait of a young woman / Henderson & Co., Day & Electric Light Studios Rochdale.
Creator:
Henderson & Co., Day & Electric Light Studios Rochdale
Date:
[189-?]
Physical Description:
1 photographic print : b & w ; 14 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Monastic and baronial remains : with other interesting fragments of antiquity in England, Wales, and Scotland ... / by G.J.[!] Parkyns ...
Creator:
Parkyns, George Isham, approximately 1750–approximately 1820
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A fourth book, containing twelve imitations of drawings, of modern carriages : on a half inch scale to a foot.
Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
4 p., 12 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
History of British birds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick ...
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1797-1804
Physical Description:
2 v. ill. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens.
Creator:
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
Date:
1879-1880
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 18 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Henry Seebohm ornithological notebook and diary.
Creator:
Seebohm, Henry, 1832–1895
Date:
1860-1866
Physical Description:
1 volume (140 pages) ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
May mutual loves count us blest.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
La Fontaine in the game of the goose.
Date:
[ca. 1810]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : ill. ; 37 x 43 cm. folded to 19 x 12 cm. + 1 booklet ([8] leaves ; 12 cm)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Chocolate box by J.S. Fry & Sons, with photograph of Lily Elsie.
Creator:
J.S. Fry & Sons
Date:
ca. 1909
Physical Description:
1 chocolate box ; 27 x 20 x 4 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sallis's comic play grammar.
Creator:
Sallis, William, 1782–1865
Date:
[ca. 1850?]
Physical Description:
1 card game (41 cards) : illustrations ; each card 9.8 x 7 cm, in box 10.5 x 7.3 x 3 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
English lotteries, 1569-1826.
Date:
mostly 18th-19th c
Physical Description:
1 albums (139 items) ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Roberson & Company, manufacturers of oil and water colors, materials for drawing and painting : no. 99 Long Acre, London, W.C.
Creator:
Roberson & Company
Date:
[not before 1862]
Physical Description:
1 broadside : ill. ; 44 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Bill of receipt by John Lingley, for the purchase of beer by Captain Richey, 1783].
Creator:
Lingley, John (Brewer)
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 77 x 172 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
To my pretty Valentine!
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Programme of Mr. Albert Smith's ascent of Mont Blanc, August, 12th & 13th 1851.
Creator:
Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
1 folding fan : ill. ; 24 x 40 cm. folded to 24 x 3 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Spooner's transformations.
Date:
1838 [-39]
Physical Description:
col. plates : 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
[Billhead of Maple & Co., London, for purchases by R.W. Stevenson].
Creator:
Maple & Co.
Date:
1881
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 26 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
In affectionate remembrance of William Foggin : who died February 15th, 1864 : aged 3 years and 10 months.
Date:
1864
Physical Description:
1 embossed print : letterpress ; 80 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
By nature formed to be the lover's flower ...
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 18 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
My memory holds thy form in view ...
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 17 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Rowlandson's sketches from nature.
Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:
[1822]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [18] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fern and flower album.
Creator:
Paley, Ann
Date:
1873-1878
Physical Description:
1 v. ([15] leaves, with many blanks) ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bill for clothes, buttons and trimmings.
Creator:
Leaf, Edward (Tailor)
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 15 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Trade cards for Van Houten's cocoa.
Creator:
Van Houten (Firm)
Date:
[ca. 1880?]
Physical Description:
3 trade cards : color illustrations, 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
Stereographoscope : with stereoscopic views of European cities.
Creator:
Negretti & Zambra
Date:
ca. 1875
Physical Description:
1 stereographoscope : wood, brass, glass, and bone ; 40 cm long x 24 cm wide x 28 cm tall (open), 40 cm long x 24 cm wide x 11 cm tall (folded)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A chapbook of English tat.
Creator:
Mockett, Andrew
Date:
[2002?]
Physical Description:
1 portfolio (10 prints) : hand-colored woodcuts ; sheets 29 x 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Andrew Mockett
My heart is truly thine, dear Valentine.
Date:
mid-19th century
Physical Description:
1 card ; 17 x 12 cm
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
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

371. 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
Scenes in England : for the amusement and instruction of little tarry-at-home travellers / by the Rev. Isaac Taylor.
Creator:
Taylor, Isaac, 1759–1829
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
xvi, 152 p., [29] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[A collection of engravings of castles, abbeys, etc. in England and Wales, by Saml. and Nathl. Buck]
Creator:
Buck, Samuel, 1696–1779
Date:
1726-42
Physical Description:
9 v. 420 plates. 32 x 48 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
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
John Webb account book : manuscript.
Creator:
Webb, John, 1611–1672
Date:
1630s
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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
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
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
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