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1. London, or, Interesting memorials of its rise, progress and present state / by Sholto & Reuben Percy ...

Creator:: Percy, Sholto, 1788–1852
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill., port., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Blackout in London.

Creator:: Brandt, Bill, 1904–1983
Date:: 1939 December
Physical Description:: pages 551-558 : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Albert Smith token.

Creator:: Pinches (Medallists)
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: 1 token : copper ; 22 mm in diameter
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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

5. London : the City and the East End.

Date:: [1871]
Physical Description:: 48 p., [12] cards : ill. ; 11 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

6. A journey from Ecton, through London, to Bath, and from there, back again, through Cirencester, and Banbury, to Daventry, and Northampton : from August the 3d to October the 12th, 1785.

Creator:: Orlebar, Mary, 1730–1821
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. On the construction and decoration of the shop fronts of London : illustrated with eighteen coloured representations exhibiting the varied styles of the present period, for the use of builders, carpenters, shopkeepers, &c. / by N. Whittock ; forming an appendix to The decorative painter and glazier's guide, by the same author.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: 1840
Physical Description:: [4], 12, 4 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

Creator:: Leigh, Samuel
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: vi, [iii]-iv, iv p., 1 leaf, 524, 36 p. plates (part col., part fold.) fold. map, fold. plan. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Kemp's West London Sketcher and Theleme.

Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A scramble through London & Brighton / by E. Nelson Haxell ...

Creator:: Haxell, Edward Nelson
Date:: [1884]
Physical Description:: [10], 122, [6] p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Gall & Inglis' pocket map of the suburbs of London [cartographic material].

Creator:: Gall & Inglis
Date:: [ca. 1897?]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 51.3 x 63.3 cm, folded in covers 15 x 9 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The Flip-Flap : Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908.

Date:: [1908]
Physical Description:: 1 postcard : b/w ; 9 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Old Humphrey's walks in London : and its neighbourhood.

Creator:: Old Humphrey, 1787–1854
Date:: [1843?]
Physical Description:: viii, 355 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Proposals of a new model for rebuilding the city of London : with houses, streets and wharfs, to be forthwith set out by His Majesty's and the city surveyors : with the advantages that will accrue by the building the same accordingly, viz. I. The owners satisfied for their ground, the builder for building, and the poor inhabitants their losses by the fire. II. The city built stately with large streets, the houses not in danger of fire, and the ground all put to the best profit. III. The people will walk easy and dry, the houses-of-office and streets kept sweet and clean; and goods delivered much cheaper. IV. Convenient houses, shops, warehouses and wharfs not dear. V. Advanced to His Majesty by fines 372670 l. VI. A revenue for ever settled upon the crown of per ann. 223517 l. 10 s.

Creator:: Knight, Val. (Valentine)
Date:: [1666]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 29 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Cruchley's New plan of London improved : including the East and West India docks.

Creator:: Cruchley, G. F
Date:: [1847]
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 51 x 100 cm., folded to 17 x 11 cm., in case 18 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Further report and memorials of the commissioners for executing the Act 46 Geo. III. c. 89 : for improvement of streets and places near to Westminster-Hall and the two Houses of Parliament : to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's treasury.

Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: 48, [2] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Resolutions of the Associated Architects : with the report of a committee by them appointed to consider the causes of the frequent fires and the best means of preventing the like in future.

Creator:: Association of Architects (London, England)
Date:: [1793]
Physical Description:: [4], iii, [5]-31 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round : begun in 1741, finished in 1745, and published in 1746, according to act of Parliament / by John Rocque ... ; engrav'd by Richard Parr and printed by W. Pratt ... = Urbium maxime insignium Londini et Westmonasterii nec non municipii Sudovercencis, regionumque ad decem quasi milliaria circumjacentium : delineatio ichnographica anno 1741 incohata 1745 absoluta / a Johanne Rocque ... = Carte topographique des villes de Londres, Weatminster, et bourg de Southwark et de leurs environs : levée très exactement sur les lieux, en 1741, achevée en 1745, et publieé selon un acte de Parlement en 1746 / par Jean Rocque.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: [1747]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2], [32] leaves) : maps ; 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Stanford's map of central London.

Creator:: Edward Stanford Ltd
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: 1 map : color ; 64 x 93 cm, folded to 19 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A new and compleat history and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent : from the earliest accounts, to the beginning of the year 1770 ... / by a society of gentlemen ; revised, corrected, and improved by Henry Chamberlain ...

Date:: [1769]
Physical Description:: [2], 682, [10] p., [68] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., ports., map, plans ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

Creator:: Saunders, George, 1762–1839
Date:: MDCCXC [1790 ]
Physical Description:: x, [4], 94 p., XIII leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Felix Summerly's hand-book for Westminster Abbey.

Creator:: Cole, Henry, Sir, 1808–1882
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: 35 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Costume of the lower orders of London : painted and engraved from nature / by T.L. Busby.

Creator:: Busby, Thomas Lord
Date:: [1820]
Physical Description:: iv, [24] p., [24] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A popular account of St. Paul's Cathedral : including a brief history and description of the old and new cathedral : with explanations of the monumental designs and other interesting particulars.

Creator:: Hackett, Maria, 1783–1874
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 104 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. 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

26. The Langham Hotel guide to London / prepared for the use of visitors to that establishment by James M. Sanderson.

Creator:: Sanderson, James M
Date:: 1867
Physical Description:: 132, 87 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster : the public buildings, palaces, gardens, squares, &c. : with an alphabetical list of all the streets, squares, courts, lanes, and alleys, &c. within the bills of mortality : to which are added some proper cautions to the merchants, tradesmen and shop-keepers ... / by Sir John Fielding ...

Creator:: Fielding, John, Sir, 1721–1780
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: xxxiii, [3], 161, 90 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Some account of the hospital and parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex / by John Parton ...

Creator:: Parton, John, d. 1821
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 427, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map, plan ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Ichnographia urbis Londinii : post magnum et fatale incendium ano. Dni. MDCLXVI, cum idea novæ urbis qualem tunc temporis / ex cineribus renatam esse designibat clarissimus vir Dns. Christophorus Wren = A plan of the city of London : after the great fire, in the year of our Lord 1666, with the modell of the new city / according to the design and proposal of Sr. Christopher Wren ... for rebuilding thereof.

Creator:: Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632–1723
Date:: 1724
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 35 x 70 cm., on sheet 49 x 72 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

Creator:: Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718–1785
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Johnstone's London commercial guide, and street directory: in four parts ...

Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: [v]-xxxii p., 956 columns, 957-1114, 151, [1] p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex : which are not described in the Environs of London / by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S & F.S.A.

Creator:: Lysons, Daniel, 1762–1834
Date:: MDCCC [1800]
Physical Description:: [2], viii, [2], 316, [2] p., [17] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The graphic.

Date:: [not before 1869]-[not after 1932]
Physical Description:: volumes : illustrations ; 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

34. On wet docks, quays, and warehouses, for the port of London; with hints respecting trade. Pt. I.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 27 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Survey of the country around London : to the distance of thirty-two miles from St. Paul's.

Creator:: Laurie, Richard Holmes
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 61 x 80 cm., folded to 22 x 13 cm., in case 23 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The grand procession of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert : accompanied by the civic authorities, to the opening of the Royal Exchange, on Monday, October 28th, 1844.

Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: 1 print on 5 joined sheets : hand-colored lithograph ; sheets end-to-end 11 x 365 cm, accordion folded to 11 x 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Platte grondt der Vebrande Stadt London / by Marcus Williamsz Doornick.

Creator:: Doornick, Marcus Williamsz
Date:: 1666
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 30 x 54 cm., on sheet 50 x 58 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. How to enjoy London, or, The elegant economist : showing the various means of enjoying London on incomes of from 25 to 500 a year : adapted equally to the married and the single / arranged with great care according to the existing state of the metropolis, and the present modes of life by the author of the "Book of economy".

Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 36 p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. A Tale of Two Cities / Charles Dickens ; with appendixes and notes by D.K. Swan.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1964
Physical Description:: 533 p. : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

40. A series of views in Islington and Pentonville : from original drawings, made in the year 1818 / by Augustus Pugin ; with a description of each subject, by Edward Wedlake Brayley.

Creator:: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773–1854
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [2], 21, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Jane Foster's London.

Creator:: Foster, Jane, 1970–
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: [22] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The survey of London : contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe : with a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publike and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors, as also all the ancient and moderne monuments erected in the churches, not onely of those two famous cites, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) foure miled compasse / begunne first by the paines and industry of Iohn Stow, in the yeere 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the yeere 1618 ; and now completely finished by the study and labour of A.M. ; H.D., and others, this present yeere 1633, whereunto, besides many additions (as appeares by the contents) are annexed divers alphabeticall tables, especially two ; the first, an index of things ; the second, a concordance of names.

Creator:: Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:: 1633
Physical Description:: [16], 534, 527-652, 655-770, 773-939, [29] p. : illustrations 35 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The London directory, or, A new and improved plan of London, Westminster & Southwark : with the adjacent country, the new buildings, the new roads, and the late alterations by opening of new streets, & widening of others, &c.

Creator:: Robert Laurie and James Whittle
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 31 x 5l cm., folded to 14 x 11 cm., in case 14 x 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. A prospect of the city of London from the south east in the year 1945 : shewing its architecture, the destruction caused by the King's enemies during the previous five years, and some of the means whereby the safety of the citizens was maintained : 1939-1945 / Cecil Brown delineavit.

Creator:: Brown, Cecil, 1903–1983
Date:: 1949
Physical Description:: 1 view ; 38 x 53 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Striking likenesses, handsomely framed, only 1s. each, taken at 114, Strand, opposite Exeter 'Change.

Date:: [approximately 1820?]
Physical Description:: 1 trade card : portrait ; 81 x 45 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The picture of London for 1802 : being a correct guide to all the curiosities, amusements, exhibitions, public establishments and remarkable objects, in and near London : with a collection of appropriate tables for the use of strangers, foreigners, and all persons who are not intimately acquainted with the British metropolis.

Date:: [1802]
Physical Description:: xii, 420 p., [4] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., maps ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Rural retreats : a collection of views of gentlemen's seats in the neighbourhood of London.

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: [36] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Reports relating to the entertainment of Her Majesty the Queen, in the Guildhall of the City of London on Lord Mayor's Day, 1837.

Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [4], 35, [3], 7, [1], 79, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. A chart illustrating the architecture of Westminster Abbey / by F. Bedford.

Creator:: Bedford, Francis, 1816–1894
Date:: [1840?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : chiefly ill. ; 56 x 44 cm., folded to 20 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. The original picture of London : enlarged and improved : being a correct guide for the stranger, as well as for the inhabitant, to the metropolis of the British empire : together with a description of the environs.

Creator:: Feltham, John, fl. 1797–1799
Date:: [1829?]
Physical Description:: liv, 498 p., [30] leaves of plates (2 fold.) : ill., map, plan ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952

51. Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country : taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's cathedral : to be published in four engravings / by Thomas Hornor.

Creator:: Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 31, [1] p., [3] folding leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Pigot and Co.'s London & provincial new commercial directory for 1827-8 : containing a classification of, and alphabetical reference to the merchants, manufacturers and traders of the metropolis ... : in addition to which is compiled ... a directory of the county of Middlesex, with every town and village within twelve miles of the metropolis, and in the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex ... : this volume is embellished with a new series of elegant maps of the above-named counties ... [and] a large map of London ...

Creator:: J. Pigot & Co
Date:: [1827?]
Physical Description:: cxvi, 384, 104, 742 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Sunday in London / illustrated in fourteen cuts by George Cruikshank ; and a few words by a friend of his ; with a copy of Sir Andrew Agnew's bill.

Creator:: Wight, J. (John)
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: iv, 105 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

54. Pierce Egan's Finish to the adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, in their pursuits through life in and out of London / illustrated by the pencil of Mr. Robert Cruikshank, in 36 scenes from real life, & enriched with several designs on wood by the same artist ; dedicated to His Most Gracious Majesty King George the Fourth.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: xvi, 368 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Canadian Pavilion, The Minerals : Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908.

Date:: [1908]
Physical Description:: 1 postcard : color ; 9 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Sweet Thames.

Creator:: Chasseaud, Peter
Date:: MMXI [2011]
Physical Description:: 1 print : letterpress, color ; 66 x 52 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Centre of Western Section, Canadian Pavilion : Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908.

Date:: [1908]
Physical Description:: 1 postcard : color ; 9 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The curiosities of London and Westminster : described in four volumes : embellished with elegant copper plates.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys, &c : contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark ... / engraved by John Pine ... ; from an actual survey made by John Roque [sic] ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1747
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 46, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. The illustrated London news.

Date:: 1842-
Physical Description:: v. : ill. ; 30-43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. An historical description of Westminster Abbey : its monuments and curiosities designed chiefly as a guide to strangers.

Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: 198 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life and every-day people / with thirty-four illustrations by F. Barnard.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: [1876]
Physical Description:: viii, 240 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

63. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent / by Thomas Allen.

Creator:: Allen, Thomas, 1803–1833
Date:: 1827-1828
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. A visit to London: containing a description of the principal curiosities in the British metropolis. By the author of "The visit to a farm-house."

Date:: [1838?]
Physical Description:: vi, 192 p. front., ill., plates. 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Stone tile.

Date:: 1941?
Physical Description:: 1 tile : stone and metal ; 16 x 16 x 5 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

66. Pigot & Co.'s metropolitan guide & book of reference : to every street, court, lane, passage, alley and public building : in the cities of London & Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and their respective suburbs.

Creator:: J. Pigot & Co
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 154 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. 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

68. Hippodrome Queen of Leicester Square : (with tonic sol-fa) / written and composed by Robert Donnelly ; sung with great success by Miss Sylvia Love ; [arranged by W.T. Webb].

Creator:: Donnelly, Robert
Date:: [190-?]
Physical Description:: 1 score ([3] p.) ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson, in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson

69. I love London : 30 assorted latex free children's plasters.

Date:: [not after 2013]
Physical Description:: 1 tin box (30 plasters) ; 7 x 10 x 2 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

70. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

Creator:: Leigh, Samuel
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: vi, [iii]-iv, 524, 36 p. fold. front., fold. plates, fold. map, fold. plan. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. A letter to a friend on commerce and free ports, and London-docks.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 24 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Baldwin's new complete guide to all persons who have any trade or concern with the city of London, and parts adjacent. : ... Being the exactest piece of the kind hitherto published: and designed for the use of persons of all degrees, as well natives as foreigners.

Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: [2], 266, [24] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. London survey'd, or, An explanation of the large map of London : giving a particular account of the streets and lanes in the city and liberties : with the courts, yards, and alleys, churches, halls, and houses of note in every street and lane and directories to find them in the map : with the names and marks of the wards, parishes, and precincts, therein described / by John Ogilby & William Morgan ...

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: 1677
Physical Description:: [14], 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : plan ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Repertorium ecclesiasticum parochiale Londinense : an ecclesiastical parochial history of the diocese of London : containing an account of the bishops of that sea, from the first foundation thereof : also, of the deans, archdeacons, dignitaries and prebendaries, from the conquest : and lastly, of the several parish-churches ... within the limits of that diocese, and of their patrons and incumbents : and also the endowments of several vicarages, and likewise of the several religious houses that were within the same : continu'd to the year of Our Lord, MDCC : in an alphabetical order / by Ric. Newcourt ...

Creator:: Newcourt, Richard, d. 1716
Date:: 1708-1710
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., port. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. A tale of two cities.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xiv, 363, [3] pages, [17] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. London in 1850-1851 : from the geographical dictionary of J.R. McCulloch.

Creator:: McCulloch, J. R. (John Ramsay), 1789–1864
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 132 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Literary and historical memorials of London / by J. Henage Jesse.

Creator:: Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Doppelgänger / Stephen Willats.

Creator:: Willats, Stephen, 1943–
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: [42] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and the contiguous buildings : with all the new roads that have been made on account of Westminster Bridge, and the new buildings and alterations to the present year MDCCLV / engraved from an actual survey made by John Rocque ; this plan extends from east to west near six miles, and from north to south a little more than three, and contains about 11,500 acres of ground.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 1 map on 8 sheets ; 132 x 216 cm., sheets 67 x 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. The history of London: illustrated by views in London & Westminster engraved by John Woods, from original drawings by Shepherd, Garland, Salmon, Topham, Clarke, Browne, Roberts, &c. Edited by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and (in continuation) by Thomas Harral ...

Creator:: Fearnside, W. G. (William Gray)
Date:: 184-?]
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 203, [1] p., 1 leaf, vi, [2], ii, 158 p. front., plates. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Temple Bar : the city Golgotha : a narrative of the historical occurrences of a criminal character associated with the present Bar / by a member of the Inner Temple.

Creator:: Wilson, James Holbert, 1809–1873
Date:: MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:: [4], 68 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. A new critical review of the publick buildings, statues and ornaments, in and about London and Westminster. With some reflections on the use of sepulchral monuments; as also a scheme shewing the dimensions of St. Peter's Church at Rome and St. Paul's Cathedral at London; and a preface, being an essay on taste. To all which is added, an Appendix, containing a dispute between the Weekly miscellany and the author; and a compleat Alphabetical index.

Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: 3 p. l., vi, 91, [5] p. fold. table. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. New remarks of London or, A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, of Southwark, and part of Middlesex and Surrey, within the circumference of the bills of mortality. Containing the situation ... of each church; the value of the rectory ... Likewise, an alphabetical table of all the streets, courts, lanes ... Collected by the Company of Parish-Clerks ...

Creator:: Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks
Date:: 1732
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 410 [i.e., 412] p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The carriers cosmographie, or, A briefe relation, of the innes ordinaries, hosteries, and other lodgings, in and neere London : where the carriers, waggons, foote-posts and higglers, doe usually come, from any parts, townes, shires, and countries, of the kingdoms of England, principality of Wales, as also from the kingdomes of Scotland and Ireland : with nomination of what daies of the weeke they do come to London and on what daies they returne, whereby all sorts of people may find direction how to receiue or send, goods or letters, into such places as their occasions may require : as also where the ships, hoighs, barkes, t[i]ltboats, barges and wherries, do usually attend to carry passengers ... / by Iohn Taylor.

Creator:: Taylor, John, 1580–1653
Date:: 1637
Physical Description:: 24 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Real life in London, or, The rambles and adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and his cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, through the metropolis : exhibiting a living picture of fashionable characters, manners, and amusements in high and low life / by an amateur ; embellished and illustrated with a series of coloured prints, designed and engraved by Messrs. Alken, Dighton, Brooke, Rowlandson &c.

Date:: 1821-1822
Physical Description:: 56 pt. in 33 pt.. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. The "District Railway" miniature map of London [cartographic material].

Creator:: W.J. Adams & Sons
Date:: [ca. 1887?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : col. ; 17.7 x 25.3 cm., folded in cover 14.1 x 9.2 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

87. The life of a nobleman.

Creator:: Dawe, George, 1781–1829
Date:: [ca. 1825]
Physical Description:: [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Observations on the design for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as executed in the year 1812 : accompanied by plans, elevation, & sections, of the same : engraved on eighteen plates / by Benjamin Wyatt, F.S.A. architect.

Creator:: Wyatt, Benjamin Dean, 1775–1855
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: xii, 77 p.,18 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. [Notice. Lost gold girdle and other items].

Creator:: Pyne, Benjamin, -1732
Date:: June 16, 1731
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 9 x 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. A description of the Colosseum as re-opened in M.DCCC.XLV. under the patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, and H.R.H. Prince Albert. With numerous illustrations, and eight coloured sections of the panorama of London, embossed by messrs. Dobbs, Bailey, & Co. This catalogue has been prepared for the proprietor by messrs. Kronheim and Skirving, engravers and designers, and the illustrations and letter-press are printed from stereotype plates cast by the patent process of messrs. Kronheim & Co., 3, Earl-street, Blackfriars.

Date:: [1845]
Physical Description:: 24 p. ill., 22 plates (part col.) 20 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Whitbread's new plan of London : drawn from authentic surveys.

Creator:: Whitbread, J
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 41 x 65 cm, folded in cover 16 x 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Stairwell / Stephen Willats.

Creator:: Willats, Stephen, 1943–
Date:: 1990
Physical Description:: [15] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. An historical memento, representing the different scenes of public rejoicing, which took place the first of August, in St. James's and Hyde Parks, London, in celebration of the glorious peace of 1814, and of the centenary of the accession of the illustrious House of Brunswick to the throne of these kingdoms.

Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 64 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Views in London and its vicinity / complete in forth-eight plates, engraved on copper by George Cooke ; from drawing by Calcott, R.A., Stanfield, A.R.A., Prout, Roberts, Stark, Harding, Cotman, Havell, &c. &c. ; after original sketches made on the spot by Edward W. Cooke.

Creator:: Cooke, George, 1781–1834
Date:: [1826]-1834
Physical Description:: 12 pt. (48 prints, [3], 7 p.) : ill. : 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. History and description of the parish of Clerkenwell, embellished with numerous engravings, by J. & H. S. Storer. The historical department by T. Cromwell ...

Creator:: Cromwell, Thomas, 1792–1870
Date:: [1828]
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., [iii]-viii, 448, v p. front., plates, fold. maps. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Report from the committee appointed to inspect Lords journals, respecting the improvements in Westminster.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: 4 p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Londinum feracissimi Angliae Regni metropolis.

Creator:: Hogenberg, Frans, approximately 1539–1590
Date:: [1574]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 32 x 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

98. R. Ackermann's series [graphic]

Creator:: Picken, Thomas, -1870
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 10 prints : hand-colored lithographs ; image 20 x 29 cm, on sheet 28 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Ambulator, or, A pocket companion in a tour round London : within the circuit of twenty-five miles : describing whatever is most remarkable for antiquity, grandeur, elegance, or rural beauty : including new catalogues of pictures, and illustrated by historical and bibliographical observations : to which are prefixed a concise description of the metropolis, and a map of the country described.

Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: [4], 312 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Zoological Society's gardens, Regent's Park. Saturday, August 21st, 1897. Admit one.

Creator:: Zoological Society of London
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: 1 admission ticket ; 70 x 80 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. London, or, Interesting memorials of its rise, progress and present state / by Sholto & Reuben Percy ...

2. Blackout in London.

3. Albert Smith token.

5. London : the City and the East End.

6. A journey from Ecton, through London, to Bath, and from there, back again, through Cirencester, and Banbury, to Daventry, and Northampton : from August the 3d to October the 12th, 1785.

8. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

9. Kemp's West London Sketcher and Theleme.

10. A scramble through London & Brighton / by E. Nelson Haxell ...

11. Gall & Inglis' pocket map of the suburbs of London [cartographic material].

12. The Flip-Flap : Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908.

13. Old Humphrey's walks in London : and its neighbourhood.

15. Cruchley's New plan of London improved : including the East and West India docks.

16. Further report and memorials of the commissioners for executing the Act 46 Geo. III. c. 89 : for improvement of streets and places near to Westminster-Hall and the two Houses of Parliament : to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's treasury.

17. Resolutions of the Associated Architects : with the report of a committee by them appointed to consider the causes of the frequent fires and the best means of preventing the like in future.

19. Stanford's map of central London.

20. A new and compleat history and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent : from the earliest accounts, to the beginning of the year 1770 ... / by a society of gentlemen ; revised, corrected, and improved by Henry Chamberlain ...

21. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

22. Felix Summerly's hand-book for Westminster Abbey.

23. Costume of the lower orders of London : painted and engraved from nature / by T.L. Busby.

24. A popular account of St. Paul's Cathedral : including a brief history and description of the old and new cathedral : with explanations of the monumental designs and other interesting particulars.

25. The new album of London.

26. The Langham Hotel guide to London / prepared for the use of visitors to that establishment by James M. Sanderson.

28. Some account of the hospital and parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex / by John Parton ...

30. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

31. Johnstone's London commercial guide, and street directory: in four parts ...

32. An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex : which are not described in the Environs of London / by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S & F.S.A.

33. The graphic.

34. On wet docks, quays, and warehouses, for the port of London; with hints respecting trade. Pt. I.

35. Survey of the country around London : to the distance of thirty-two miles from St. Paul's.

36. The grand procession of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert : accompanied by the civic authorities, to the opening of the Royal Exchange, on Monday, October 28th, 1844.

37. Platte grondt der Vebrande Stadt London / by Marcus Williamsz Doornick.

39. A Tale of Two Cities / Charles Dickens ; with appendixes and notes by D.K. Swan.

40. A series of views in Islington and Pentonville : from original drawings, made in the year 1818 / by Augustus Pugin ; with a description of each subject, by Edward Wedlake Brayley.

41. Jane Foster's London.

43. The London directory, or, A new and improved plan of London, Westminster & Southwark : with the adjacent country, the new buildings, the new roads, and the late alterations by opening of new streets, & widening of others, &c.

44. A prospect of the city of London from the south east in the year 1945 : shewing its architecture, the destruction caused by the King's enemies during the previous five years, and some of the means whereby the safety of the citizens was maintained : 1939-1945 / Cecil Brown delineavit.

45. Striking likenesses, handsomely framed, only 1s. each, taken at 114, Strand, opposite Exeter 'Change.

47. Rural retreats : a collection of views of gentlemen's seats in the neighbourhood of London.

48. Reports relating to the entertainment of Her Majesty the Queen, in the Guildhall of the City of London on Lord Mayor's Day, 1837.

49. A chart illustrating the architecture of Westminster Abbey / by F. Bedford.

50. The original picture of London : enlarged and improved : being a correct guide for the stranger, as well as for the inhabitant, to the metropolis of the British empire : together with a description of the environs.

51. Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country : taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's cathedral : to be published in four engravings / by Thomas Hornor.

53. Sunday in London / illustrated in fourteen cuts by George Cruikshank ; and a few words by a friend of his ; with a copy of Sir Andrew Agnew's bill.

55. Canadian Pavilion, The Minerals : Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908.

56. Sweet Thames.

57. Centre of Western Section, Canadian Pavilion : Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908.

58. The curiosities of London and Westminster : described in four volumes : embellished with elegant copper plates.

59. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys, &c : contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark ... / engraved by John Pine ... ; from an actual survey made by John Roque [sic] ...

60. The illustrated London news.

61. An historical description of Westminster Abbey : its monuments and curiosities designed chiefly as a guide to strangers.

62. Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life and every-day people / with thirty-four illustrations by F. Barnard.

63. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent / by Thomas Allen.

64. A visit to London: containing a description of the principal curiosities in the British metropolis. By the author of "The visit to a farm-house."

65. Stone tile.

66. Pigot & Co.'s metropolitan guide & book of reference : to every street, court, lane, passage, alley and public building : in the cities of London & Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and their respective suburbs.

67. 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.

68. Hippodrome Queen of Leicester Square : (with tonic sol-fa) / written and composed by Robert Donnelly ; sung with great success by Miss Sylvia Love ; [arranged by W.T. Webb].

69. I love London : 30 assorted latex free children's plasters.

70. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

71. A letter to a friend on commerce and free ports, and London-docks.

72. Baldwin's new complete guide to all persons who have any trade or concern with the city of London, and parts adjacent. : ... Being the exactest piece of the kind hitherto published: and designed for the use of persons of all degrees, as well natives as foreigners.

75. A tale of two cities.

76. London in 1850-1851 : from the geographical dictionary of J.R. McCulloch.

77. Literary and historical memorials of London / by J. Henage Jesse.

78. Doppelgänger / Stephen Willats.

80. The history of London: illustrated by views in London & Westminster engraved by John Woods, from original drawings by Shepherd, Garland, Salmon, Topham, Clarke, Browne, Roberts, &c. Edited by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and (in continuation) by Thomas Harral ...

81. Temple Bar : the city Golgotha : a narrative of the historical occurrences of a criminal character associated with the present Bar / by a member of the Inner Temple.

86. The "District Railway" miniature map of London [cartographic material].

87. The life of a nobleman.

88. Observations on the design for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as executed in the year 1812 : accompanied by plans, elevation, & sections, of the same : engraved on eighteen plates / by Benjamin Wyatt, F.S.A. architect.

89. [Notice. Lost gold girdle and other items].

91. Whitbread's new plan of London : drawn from authentic surveys.

92. Stairwell / Stephen Willats.