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1901. A catalogue of the Orleans' Italian pictures : which will be exhibited for sale by private contract, on Wednesday, the 26th of December, 1798, and following days, at the Lyceum in the Strand.

Creator:: Bryan, Michael, 1757–1821
Date:: [1798]
Physical Description:: 14, [2] pages. ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1902. Horda angel-cynnan, or, A compleat view of the manners, customs, arms, habits, &c. of the inhabitants of England : from the arrival of the Saxons, till the reign of Henry the Eighth : with a short account of the Britons, during the government of the Romans : in two volumes / by Joseph Strutt ; author of the regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: MDCCLXXV-MDCCLXXVI [1775-1776]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1903. More mornings at Bow street : a new collection of humorous and entertaining reports / by John Wight, of the Morning Herald ; with twenty-five illustrations by George Cruikshank.

Creator:: Wight, J. (John)
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: xvi, 264, [8] p., [9] leaves of plates : il. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

1904. The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book in colours : comprising a series of progressive lessons, in the art of drawing and colouring landscapes, marine views, picturesque architecture, animals, fruit, flowers, shells, rustic figures, etc., etc. : with practical direction in the art of painting miniatures and portraits from life / by N. Whittock.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: [between 1833 and 1840?]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1905. Modern Chatsworth, or, The palace of the Peak : comprising an account of the house, pictures, sculpture gallery, &c / by the author of "Peak scenery".

Creator:: Rhodes, Ebenezer, 1762–1839
Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: 55 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1906. Love's progress, or, The education of Araminta / by James Laver.

Creator:: Laver, James, 1899–1975
Date:: MCMXXIX [1929]
Physical Description:: [2], 7-30, [2] pages ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1907. The authentic representation of the magnificent marriage procession and ceremony of Her Most Gracious Majesty of Queen Victoria with His Royal Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg [graphic] : celebrated at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, February 10, 1840.

Date:: [1840]
Physical Description:: 1 print on 20 sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 9 x 420 cm, accordion folded to 9 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1908. The poetical works of Robert Herrick / with a preface by Humbert Wolfe and decorations by Albert Rutherston.

Creator:: Herrick, Robert, 1591–1674
Date:: 1928
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1909. Pertelote, a sequel to Chanticleer : being a bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, October 1936-1943, April / foreword & notes by the partners ; illustrations from the books.

Date:: 1943
Physical Description:: 51, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1910. The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite / a new translation by F.L. Lucas, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge ; with ten engravings by Mark Severin.

Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: 35, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1911. English architecture, or, The publick buildings of London and Westminster : with plans of the streets and squares, represented in one hundred and twenty-three folio plates : with a succinct review of their history, and a candid examination of their perfections and defects.

Date:: [ 1758?]
Physical Description:: [6], 112, [4] pages, [123] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps, plans ; 46 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1912. The poll for knights of the shire begun on Wednesday, May 20th, and finally closed on Friday, June 5th, 1807 : taken at the castle of York before Richard Fontayne Wilson, Esquire, high sheriff of the said county. Candidates : William Wilberforce, Esquire, the Right Honourable Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam (commonly called Viscount Milton) and the Honourable Henry Lascelles : arranged from the sheriff's poll books / under the direction and inspection of the under sheriff.

Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: xxiii, [2], 10-485, [1] p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1913. Sporting reminiscences of Hampshire : from 1745 to 1862 / by Aesop.

Creator:: Aesop, active 1864
Date:: 1864
Physical Description:: xx, 380 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1914. Horses past and present, by Sir Walter Gilbey.

Creator:: Gilbey, Walter, Sir, 1831–1914
Date:: 1900
Physical Description:: 89 p. illus., 9 plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1915. Billhead recording receipt of payment of fees for the interment of Edward Bennett, 83 years.

Creator:: Wavertree Churchyard (Liverpool, England)
Date:: 29 May 1941
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1916. British theatrical gallery : a collection of whole length portraits / with biographical notices by D. Terry, Esq.

Creator:: Terry, Daniel, 1782–1829
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [70] p., [43] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1917. Hobson's fox-hunting atlas [cartographic material] : containing separate maps of every county in England, and the three ridings of Yorkshire; comprising forty-two maps, showing the roads, railways, canals, parks, etc., etc. / compiled from the maps of the board of ordnance, and other surveys, by J. and C. Walker.

Creator:: Hobson, William Colling
Date:: [1848]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([4] p., [84] leaves of plates) : 42 maps (colored) ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1918. A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture : illustrated by fifty original, and three additional plates, engraved by old Rooker, old Foudrinier, Charles Grignion, and other eminent hands / by Sir William Chambers, K.P.S. ...

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCXCI [1791]
Physical Description:: [4], vi, [1], 8-137, [1] pages, [53] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1919. Sporting pictures of England [by] Guy Paget. With 12 plates in colour and 21 illustrations in black & white.

Creator:: Paget, Guy, 1886–1952
Date:: 1945
Physical Description:: 47, [1] p. illus., col. plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

1920. Horse lovers : addressed to those who are thrilled by the deep note of a hound, and rejoice in the feel of a good horse beneath them / by Lt.-Col. Geoffrey Brooke ; with illus. by "Snaffles."

Creator:: Brooke, Geoffrey Francis Heremon, 1884–1966
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: viii, 356 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1921. East Anglian Daily Times.

Creator:: Steam Printing Works (Firm)
Date:: [1891?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : color illustrations ; 14 x 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

1922. Works of art and artists in England. By G.F. Waagen, Director of the Royal Gallery at Berlin ...

Creator:: Waagen, Gustav Friedrich, 1794–1868
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: 3 v. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1923. Cooper Henderson and the open road : the life and works of Charles Cooper Henderson, 1803-1877 / by Charles Lane.

Creator:: Lane, Charles
Date:: 1984
Physical Description:: 122 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1924. Through the woods : the English woodland, April to April / by H.E. Bates ; with 73 engravings on wood by Agnes Miller Parker.

Creator:: Bates, H. E. (Herbert Ernest), 1905–1974
Date:: 1936
Physical Description:: 141, [1] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1925. Cockalorum : a sequel to Chanticleer and Pertelote : being a bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, June 1943-December 1948 / foreword and notes by Christopher Sandford ; illustrated from the books.

Date:: [1948]
Physical Description:: 112 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1926. The farmer's year : a calendar of English husbandry / written and engraved by Clare Leighton.

Creator:: Leighton, Clare, 1898–1989
Date:: 1933 [i.e. 1934]
Physical Description:: [6], 54 p. : ill. ; 28 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1927. Hints on light and shadow, composition, etc. : as applicable to landscape painting / illustrated by examples by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [4], 16, [36] p., 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1928. Paintings, watercolours, drawings, sculpture for the collector : Mercury Gallery, September 11-October 12, 1996.

Creator:: Mercury Gallery
Date:: 1996
Physical Description:: [24] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.

1929. A treatise on English shooting : under the following heads : of the knowledge of a good fowling-piece : the ordering and managing of the fowling-piece : the appendages of the fowling-piece : the choice of powder, shot, and flints : of partridge shooting, with the choice and ordering of pointers : of pheasant shooting, with the ordering of spaniels : of woodcock shooting : of snipe shooting : of water and fen-fowl shooting, and the use of proper dogs : of upland winter shooting : with necessary observations for the young sportsman when out and on returning home / by George Edie, gent.

Creator:: Edie, George
Date:: MDCCLXXIII [1773]
Physical Description:: 23, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1930. The Middle English text of The Art of Hunting / by William Twiti ; edited from an uncatalogued manuscript in a private collection, Ashton-under-Lyne ; with a parallel text of The Anglo-Norman L'Art de venerie by William Twiti edited from Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 424/448 by David Scott-MacNab.

Creator:: Twiti, William, d. 1328
Date:: c2009
Physical Description:: lxxxvii, 125 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1931. The craft of venery.

Creator:: Twiti, William, d. 1328
Date:: circa 1450
Physical Description:: 1 v. (7 p.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1932. Assignatio dotis Elizabethæ Comitissæ de Ferrers anno 29 H. VI.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 7 p. 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1933. Leaves of life : a ballad-cantata [for schools] for soli, S.A.T.B. chorus & piano : [op. 41].

Creator:: Joubert, John, 1927–2019
Date:: [c1963]
Physical Description:: 1 score (58 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

1934. Extracts from Bretforton register, Co. Wigorn.

Creator:: Bretforten, England
Date:: [1831]
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., 22 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1935. A handbook to the museum of ornamental art in the Art Treasures Exhibition / by J.B. Waring ... ; to which is added The armoury by J.R. Planché ... ; being a reprint of critical notices originally published in The Manchester Guardian.

Creator:: Waring, J. B. (John Burley), 1823–1875
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 80 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1936. The churches of the Middle Ages : being select specimens of early and middle pointed structures, with a few of the purest late pointed examples / by Henry Bowman and J.S. Crowther, arcs.

Creator:: Bowman, Henry, 1814–1883
Date:: [1853?]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, plans ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1937. Rhymes in red. With 31 illustrations by Cuthbert Bradley.

Creator:: Williams, W. Phillpotts
Date:: 1899
Physical Description:: 108 p. illus.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1938. Leon Kossoff : recent paintings, 19 January - 20 February 1972.

Creator:: Kossoff, Leon, 1926–2019
Date:: [1972]
Physical Description:: 55 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

1939. A liberal critique on the present exhibition of the Royal Academy : being an attempt to correct the national taste, to ascertain the state of the polite arts at this period, and to rescue merit from oppression / by Anthony Pasquin ...

Creator:: Pasquin, Anthony, 1761–1818
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 36 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1940. The seasons / by James Thomson : with five pictures by Jacquier and an introduction by John Beresford.

Creator:: Thomson, James, 1700–1748
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: xx, [2], 198, [2] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1941. Blow : Royal Academy of Arts, 1994.

Creator:: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Date:: 1994
Physical Description:: 48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.

1942. A catalogue of the noble collection of pictures, from the grand cabinets of Cardinal Mazarine, and Prince Carignan Duke D'Valentinois : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Prestage, at his Great Room in Savile-Row, on Tuesday the 26th of February 1765, and the two following days : the said collection may be publicly viewed on Saturday the 23d, to the time of sale, which will begin punctually each day, at 12 o'clock : catalogues price one shilling.

Creator:: Prestage, John, -1767
Date:: [1765]
Physical Description:: 8 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1943. A catalogue of the pictures, miniatures and drawings, framed and glazed of that eminent and judicious collector, Matthew Duane, Esq. deceased : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Greenwood, at his room in Leicester-Square, on Friday the 22d of April, 1785, and the following day.

Creator:: Greenwood, John, 1727–1792
Date:: [1785]
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1944. A catalogue of a most capital and truly valuable collection : consisting of about fifty well-known pictures, of the highest class and consequence, which have graced some of the first palaces in Florence, Rome, and Naples : the many judges who have visited Ital, and examined the justly celebrated works in the fine arts, in that country will recognize these pictures : which are in the same pure and perfect state as when they were first transferred from the easels of the immortal artists who painted them, to the apartments in the several distinguished palaces they adorned : they consist of the works of Raffael, Polidore, Titian, Parmegiano, L. Carracci, A. Carracci, Guido, Domenichino, Baroccio, Guercino, Schidoni, Albano, Bronzino, Velasquez, Claude Lorraine, N. Poussin, Caravagio, P. Brill, and various other great and esteemed masters : which will be sold by auction (without the least reserve,) by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, April the 25th, 1800, at twelve o'clock : to be publickly viewed two days preceding the sale with catalogues only to be had in Pall Mall.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1945. Prize medal proofs, International Exhibition, London, 1862.

Creator:: Wyon, Leonard Charles, 1826–1891
Date:: [1862?]
Physical Description:: 2 proofs : embossed paper ; each 8 cm in diameter, on sheet 16 x 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1946. A catalogue of the remaining part of the valuable collection of modern drawings : a few paintings, a set of cartoons by L. da Vinci, consisting of the original designs by that great master, for the heads in his picture of the Last Supper : ... models, in wax and terra cotta, by M. Angelo and G. di Bologna : a few bronzes and antique marble bustos : and an engraved copperplate portrait of the young Duke of Reichstadt, never published ; the property of Sir Thomas Lawrence ... deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his great room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 17th of June, and two following days at one o'clock precisely : may be viewed two days preceding, and catalogues had (at 1s. each) at Mr. Christie's Office, 8, King Street, St. James's Square.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: 28, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1947. A catalogue of a capital and extensive collection of valuable, pictures, by much esteemed masters : amongst which are undoubted pictures by Claude Lorrain, Paul Potter, Honderkoeter, Teniers, Guido, P. Panini, Wouvermans. Schoebarts, Zuccarelli, Hogarth, Fuseli, Moland, Barrett, Cipriani, Mortimer, Stubbs, Smith, of Chichester, Ibetson, La Porte, &c. : also, a valuable and extensive collection of prints, drawings and books of prints, by, or after the most celebrated masters, ancient and modern : the whole being the real and genuine collection of the late Mr. Edward Rogers, of Liverpool : which will be sold by auction, in the Linen Hall, Marble-Street, Williamson-Square, by T. Vernon : on Monday the 24th of July, 1797, and four following days at ten o'clock each day : the whole may be viewed three days preceding the sale and catalogues had on the premises, at one shilling each : (which will be returned to purchases,) or of T. Vernon, No. 15, Clayton-Square.

Creator:: Vernon, Thomas
Date:: [1797]
Physical Description:: 30 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1948. X sermons preached by that late and learned and Rev. Divine John Donne : doctor in divinity, once dean of the cathedral church of Saint Paul's / chosen from the whole body of Donne's sermons by Geoffrey Keynes.

Creator:: Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: [6], 162 pages ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1949. The Bedale Hounds, 1832-1908 / by Frank H. Reynard.

Creator:: Reynard, Frank H
Date:: 1908
Physical Description:: [5], 204 p., 11 leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1950. The tale of the golden cockerel / by Pushkin.

Creator:: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799–1837
Date:: [1936]
Physical Description:: 22, [1] pages : illustrations ; 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1951. This day is published, in a thick 8vo volumes of upwards of one thousand pages, price twenty shillings extra boards, or twenty-two shillings calf gilt, Pietas Londinensis : the history, design, and present state of the various public charities in and near London : in six parts, by A. Highmore, Esq., Ely Place, author of "The law of Mortmain and charitable uses, &c."

Creator:: Craddock & Joy
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1952. The Latin portrait : an anthology / made by G. Rostrevor Hamilton.

Creator:: Hamilton, G. Rostrevor (George Rostrevor), 1888–1967
Date:: 1929
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 367, [1] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1953. A catalogue of all the remaining works of that distinguished artist, Mortimer : which have been preserved by the Family ever since his decease, and have never yet been exposed to sale : they comprise his sketches and finished drawings, among them : a capital and noble finished pen drawing, St. Paul Preaching to the Druids, and the Death of Sir Philip Sidney : with the copper-plate of the former, by Haynes, and of the latter by Bartolozzi : the copper-plate of the Battle of Agincourt, by Burke : the copper-plates from the subjects of Shakspeare and others, by Mortimer : and etchings by Haynes : the original picture of Vortigern and Rowena, (never engraved) and The Agincourt, by Mortimer : and a charming Landscape by Jones : with figures representing the Death of Orpheus, by Mortimer : which (by order of the Widow,) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, March the 25th, 1808, at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1808]
Physical Description:: 8 pages : 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1954. A catalogue of the library of the late John, Duke of Roxburghe : arranged by G. and W. Nicol, booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall ; which will be sold by auction, at His Grace's late residence in St. James's Square, on Monday, 18th May, 1812, and the forty-one following days, Sundays excepted, at twelve o'clock, by Robert H. Evans, bookseller, Pall-Mall.

Creator:: Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740–1804
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 17 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, xxii-xxiv, 284 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1955. A catalogue of a small but choice collection of chiefly Italian pictures, a few statues, articles of sculpture, and a pair of beautiful slabs, composed of rare marbles : the property of the late John Barber, Esquire, Late of Brentford, Dec. : purchased by him above 40 years ago in Italy : among these are genuine specimens of the following great and celebrated Masters : Titian, P. Del Vaga, Carracci, Guido, Domenichino, Guercino, Procaccini, P. Da Cortona, Marratti, Mompert, S. Rosa, Breughel, Poussin : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, June 26, 1807, and following day, at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1807]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1956. The poll of the freeholders of Oxfordshire : taken at the county court held in Oxford on the 17th of April, 1754 / by Tho. Blackall ..., High-Sheriff ; candidates : Rt. Hon. Lord Visct. Wenman, Sir James Dashwood ..., Rt. Hon. Lord Visct. Parker, Sir Edward Turner ...

Date:: [1754]
Physical Description:: 115 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1957. Grand illusions : contemporary interior murals / Caroline Cass ; with photographs by Tom Leighton.

Creator:: Cass, Caroline
Date:: 1988
Physical Description:: 160 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

1958. A catalogue of a capital and elegant collection of pictures, selected from the Roman, Florentine, Lombard, Venetian, and other schools : consisting of the works of the following Masters : Titian, Vandyck, Agostino Caracci, Dominichino, Guercino, Albani, Simon Da Pesaro, Filippo Manzani, Benefiali, Bartolomeo, Baptista Fery, Carlo Dolci, Lu Atelli, Poussin, Bourdon, Stella, Le Brun, Rembrandt, Swanefeld, Holbein, Bamboccio, Cuyp, Hondius : the whole collected during two separate journeys abroad, by Robert Strange : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall-Mall, on Friday, May 5, 1775, and the following day : to be viewed on Wednesday and Thursday preceding the sale.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1775]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1959. A catalogue of a collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures, together with a selection of pleasing subjects, drawings in water colours, &c. by Morland, Wheatley, and other modern masters : ; the property of the late Right Honorable Lady Rivers, dec.: brought from her Ladysip's seat in the country : which will be sold by auction by M.[...] The greater part of the above collection is offered to the public in the same state it has continued in upwards of fifty years, and it is presumed many objects will be found worthy the attention of the connoisseur.

Creator:: Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:: [1797]
Physical Description:: 10 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1960. Fores's new chalk drawing-book of studies of trees, landscape, animals, figures, buildings, &c. : from original drawings by Le Cave : a most improving work for students, & well selected.

Creator:: La Cave, P. (Peter)
Date:: [1801]
Physical Description:: v. : all ill. ; 29 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1961. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860; architecture, drawing books, art collections, magazines, navy and army, panoramas, etc., from the library of J. R. Abbey; a bibliographical catalogue.

Creator:: Abbey, J. R. (John Roland), 1896–1969
Date:: 1972
Physical Description:: xxi, 427 p. illus. 32 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

1962. The love poems of John Donne : with some account of his life taken from the writings of 1639 of Izaak Walton.

Creator:: Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 91 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1963. The chace, the road, and the turf / by Nimrod.

Creator:: Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: xvi, 231 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1964. The Haughtyshire hunt / by Fox Russell ; with sixteen full-page pictures on plate paper and twenty-four illus. in the text by R.J. Richardson.

Creator:: Russell, Fox
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: vi, 258 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1965. Observations on laying out farms, in the Scotch style, adapted to England. Comprising an account of the introduction of the Berwickshire husbandry into Middlesex and Oxfordshire. With remarks on the importance of this system to the general improvement of landed property. Illustrated by forty plates, descriptive of farm buildings, rural improvements, &c. &c. recently executed. By J.C. Loudon, F.L.S.

Creator:: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783–1843
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 2 p.., [9]-16, [19]-105 p. col. plates (part. fold.) plans (part. fold.) 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1966. The courtier's library, or, Catalogus librorum aulicorum incomparabilium et non vendibilium / by John Donne ; edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson ; with a translation.

Creator:: Donne, John, 1572–1631
Date:: 1930
Physical Description:: [4], 93, [1] pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1967. Memoires for my grand-son / by John Evelyn ; transcribed and furnished with a preface and notes by Geoffrey Keynes.

Creator:: Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Date:: 1926
Physical Description:: xii, [2], 104, [1] pages ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1968. The Devil and all / by John Collier.

Creator:: Collier, John, 1901–1980
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: [6],123, [3] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1969. A catalogue of rare and valuable books, the property of Messrs. G. and W. Nicol : including Biblia Sacra Latina ... Livii Historia ... / which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans, at his house, No. 93, Pall-Mall, on Monday, July 18, and three following days, 1825.

Creator:: Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857
Date:: [1825]
Physical Description:: 38 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1970. Journey home / by Sally Waterman.

Creator:: Waterman, Sally, 1974–
Date:: [2003]
Physical Description:: 6 folded sheets : all ill. ; 4 x 123 cm. folded to 4 x 8 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1971. The Bicester and William Hill Hunt / by William Fawcett ; official handbook.

Creator:: Fawcett, William, 1902–1941
Date:: [ca. 1940s]
Physical Description:: 32 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1972. Queen Victoria's dolls / by Frances H. Low ; illustrated by Alan Wright.

Creator:: Low, Frances H
Date:: 1894
Physical Description:: [150] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1973. Catalogue of the works of British artists in the gallery of the British Institution, Pall-Mall : for exhibiton and sale : 1833 / British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom.

Creator:: British Institution
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 22, [6] p. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1974. The Song of songs : the authorized version / together with a new translation, an introduction and notes by W.O.E. Oesterley ; with engravings on copper by Lettice Sandford.

Date:: 1936
Physical Description:: 59 p. : ill., plates ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1975. In defence of woman : a Welsh poem / by Wiliam Cynwal ; translated by Gwyn Williams ; engravings by John Petts.

Creator:: Cynwal, Wiliam, -1587 or 1588
Date:: [1960]
Physical Description:: 28, [2] pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1976. Eight implemental heads in colours / with lines by Thomas Hood.

Creator:: Cooke, William Bernard, 1778–1855
Date:: [1828-1829]
Physical Description:: 8 prints : engraving, hand-colored ; sheet 20 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1977. Leek Wotton register.

Creator:: Leek Wootton, Eng. (Parish)
Date:: 1867]
Physical Description:: 9 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1978. Views exhibiting the exterior & interior & principal monuments of the very ancient and remarkable church of St. Dunstan in the West : in the city of London : to which is added an historical account of the church / by the Rev'd J.F. Denham.

Creator:: Denham, J. F. (Joshua Frederick), d. 1861
Date:: [1830?]
Physical Description:: [4], 33, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill.. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1979. A house for the suburbs : socially and architecturally sketched / with a prefatory glance at the great city by Thomas Morris ; member of the Royal Institute ...

Creator:: Morris, Thomas (Architect)
Date:: 1870
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 191, [1] pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1980. Reward card : the large white butterfly.

Creator:: Cadbury Brothers
Date:: approximately 1910
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1981. A catalogue of an elegant and valuable assemblage of capital modern drawings and fine prints, by Wollett, Bartolozzi, &c. : chiefly framed and glazed : the property of a Gentleman : the drawings comprise fine specimens of Du Cros, Desprez, Gainsborough, Cozens, Barret, Girtin, Clerisseau, Sandby, Dayes, La Porte, Morland &c. &c. &c. in the best style of these several Masters : also, a few capital drawings by G. Morland : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Saturday, the 10th of May, 1806, at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:: [1806]
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1982. The English gentleman's guide, or, A new and compleat book of maps of all England and Wales : shewing its ancient and present government, divided as in the Saxon heptarchy : also into dioceses, judges circuits, and counties : describing all the cities, market-towns, parishes, villages, noble and gentlemens seats, archbishops and bishops sees, universities, places which send members to Parliament, &c. : with the names of the rivers, sea-ports, sand-hills, moors, forests, &c. : all the great or post-roads, cross-roads, posts for directions on the roads, ponds, inns and houses on the roads, with the distances of measur'd miles, according to Mr. Ogilby's survey : with many additions and corrections not extant on any maps : the whole being finely engrav'd, and made portable either for cloak-bag, portmanteau, or pocket.

Date:: [1717?]
Physical Description:: 1 map on 4 sheets ; sheets 47 x 146 cm or smaller, folded in cover 48 x 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1983. Anacreon / done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. 1683 ; newly embellished with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden.

Date:: 1923
Physical Description:: [93] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1984. The Rambler.

Date:: [1750-1752]
Physical Description:: 208 no. in 2 v. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1985. Sketches in architecture : containing plans and elevations of cottages, villas, and other useful buildings, with characteristic scenery / by John Soane ... ; to which are added, Six designs for improving and embellishing of grounds, with sections and explanations, by an amateur ; the whole engraved on fifty-four plates.

Creator:: Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:: MDCCXCVIII [1798]
Physical Description:: [6], iv, iv, 20 pages, XLI, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1986. La belle O'Morphi : a brief biography / by Patrick De Heriz ; with illustrations by Francois Boucher.

Creator:: De Heriz, Patrick
Date:: [1947]
Physical Description:: 35, [1] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1987. Sketchbook of a series of tours through England.

Creator:: Smith, Elizabeth, fl. 1822–1825
Date:: 1822, June 25-1825, May 20
Physical Description:: 1 v. (189 [i.e. 193] leaves) : ill. ; 12 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1988. Exhibition of Mr. Wright's Pictures at Robin's Rooms, Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

Creator:: Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 1 v. (26 p.) ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1989. Sketches by Boz : and other minor works.

Creator:: Boz, 1812–1870
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: xxix, [1], 817, [3] pages, [57] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1990. Notes on some of the principal pictures exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy and the Society of Painters in Water Colours : no. II, 1856 / by John Ruskin ...

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: 1856
Physical Description:: 51 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1991. Glig-gamena angel-deod : or, the sports and pastimes of the people of England ; including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time ; illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings ; in which are represented most of the popular diversions / By Joseph Strutt.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: 1 p.l., 1, [6], 301, [1] p. : col. front., XXXIX col. pl. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1992. A catalogue raisonné of the unequalled collection of historical pictures, and other admired compositions, the works of the revered and highly-gifted painter, the late Benjamin West, esq. president of the Royal Academy : comprising one hundred and eighty epic, classic, familiar, and landscape compositions, among which are many sublime efforts of his vast & comprehensive mind / which will be sold by auction by Mr. George Robins ... May 22d, 23d,& 25th, 1829.

Creator:: Robins, George Henry, 1777–1847
Date:: [1829]
Physical Description:: 53, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1993. [Drawing book].

Creator:: Carson, Agnes, fl. 1866
Date:: 1866
Physical Description:: 1 v. (14 drawings) : graphite ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1994. The Athenians : being correspondence between Thomas Jefferson Hogg and his friends, Thomas Love Peacock, Leigh Hunt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and others / edited by Walter Sidney Scott.

Creator:: Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792–1862
Date:: 1943
Physical Description:: 86, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1995. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus : a poem attributed to Francis Beaumont / edited by Gwyn Jones ; with ten engravings in colour by John Buckland-Wright.

Creator:: Beaumont, Francis, 1584–1616
Date:: 1951
Physical Description:: 44, [2] pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1996. The old curiosity shop.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xiii, [3], 593, [3] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1997. A catalogue of a unique series of twenty drawings, by that celebrated British artist, Mr. Hearne : executed on the spot, expressly for the late Right Hon. Lord Lavington, when Governor of the Leward Island : these drawings ae particularly interesting to Gentlemen having estates in these pasts, as they exhibit accurate views of some of the principle towns and harbors with the costume of the country : they likewise afford the speculative publisher, an opportunity of enriching the libraries of the Cognoscenti and others, by making a volume of engravings in imitation of the originals : also, a medallion in marble, a collection of casts from antique gems, preserved birds, &c. &c. : which (by order of the executrix,) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Jaubert, at the new auction room, Pall Mall, (Late Mr. Bower's Gallery) on Thursday, July the 5th, 1810, at one o'clock,.

Creator:: Jaubert, Mr.
Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1998. The art of hunting : 1327 / William Twiti ; ed. by Bror Danielsson.

Creator:: Twiti, William, d. 1328
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: 116 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1999. A book of ornamental glazing quarries, collected and arranged from ancient examples, by Augustus Wollaston Franks ...

Creator:: Franks, Augustus Wollaston, 1826–1897
Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: 31, [1] p., 1 leaf. 112 col. plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2000. The 104th psalm / illustrated by Susan Maria Ffarington. Worden.

Date:: [ca. 1870]
Physical Description:: [1] sheet. ill. 11 x 364 cm. fold to 12 x 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1901. A catalogue of the Orleans' Italian pictures : which will be exhibited for sale by private contract, on Wednesday, the 26th of December, 1798, and following days, at the Lyceum in the Strand.

1903. More mornings at Bow street : a new collection of humorous and entertaining reports / by John Wight, of the Morning Herald ; with twenty-five illustrations by George Cruikshank.

1905. Modern Chatsworth, or, The palace of the Peak : comprising an account of the house, pictures, sculpture gallery, &c / by the author of "Peak scenery".

1906. Love's progress, or, The education of Araminta / by James Laver.

1907. The authentic representation of the magnificent marriage procession and ceremony of Her Most Gracious Majesty of Queen Victoria with His Royal Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg [graphic] : celebrated at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, February 10, 1840.

1908. The poetical works of Robert Herrick / with a preface by Humbert Wolfe and decorations by Albert Rutherston.

1909. Pertelote, a sequel to Chanticleer : being a bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, October 1936-1943, April / foreword & notes by the partners ; illustrations from the books.

1910. The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite / a new translation by F.L. Lucas, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge ; with ten engravings by Mark Severin.

1911. English architecture, or, The publick buildings of London and Westminster : with plans of the streets and squares, represented in one hundred and twenty-three folio plates : with a succinct review of their history, and a candid examination of their perfections and defects.

1913. Sporting reminiscences of Hampshire : from 1745 to 1862 / by Aesop.

1914. Horses past and present, by Sir Walter Gilbey.

1915. Billhead recording receipt of payment of fees for the interment of Edward Bennett, 83 years.

1916. British theatrical gallery : a collection of whole length portraits / with biographical notices by D. Terry, Esq.

1918. A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture : illustrated by fifty original, and three additional plates, engraved by old Rooker, old Foudrinier, Charles Grignion, and other eminent hands / by Sir William Chambers, K.P.S. ...

1919. Sporting pictures of England [by] Guy Paget. With 12 plates in colour and 21 illustrations in black & white.

1920. Horse lovers : addressed to those who are thrilled by the deep note of a hound, and rejoice in the feel of a good horse beneath them / by Lt.-Col. Geoffrey Brooke ; with illus. by "Snaffles."

1921. East Anglian Daily Times.

1922. Works of art and artists in England. By G.F. Waagen, Director of the Royal Gallery at Berlin ...

1923. Cooper Henderson and the open road : the life and works of Charles Cooper Henderson, 1803-1877 / by Charles Lane.

1924. Through the woods : the English woodland, April to April / by H.E. Bates ; with 73 engravings on wood by Agnes Miller Parker.

1925. Cockalorum : a sequel to Chanticleer and Pertelote : being a bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, June 1943-December 1948 / foreword and notes by Christopher Sandford ; illustrated from the books.

1926. The farmer's year : a calendar of English husbandry / written and engraved by Clare Leighton.

1927. Hints on light and shadow, composition, etc. : as applicable to landscape painting / illustrated by examples by Samuel Prout.

1928. Paintings, watercolours, drawings, sculpture for the collector : Mercury Gallery, September 11-October 12, 1996.

1931. The craft of venery.

1932. Assignatio dotis Elizabethæ Comitissæ de Ferrers anno 29 H. VI.

1933. Leaves of life : a ballad-cantata [for schools] for soli, S.A.T.B. chorus & piano : [op. 41].

1934. Extracts from Bretforton register, Co. Wigorn.

1935. A handbook to the museum of ornamental art in the Art Treasures Exhibition / by J.B. Waring ... ; to which is added The armoury by J.R. Planché ... ; being a reprint of critical notices originally published in The Manchester Guardian.

1936. The churches of the Middle Ages : being select specimens of early and middle pointed structures, with a few of the purest late pointed examples / by Henry Bowman and J.S. Crowther, arcs.

1937. Rhymes in red. With 31 illustrations by Cuthbert Bradley.

1938. Leon Kossoff : recent paintings, 19 January - 20 February 1972.

1939. A liberal critique on the present exhibition of the Royal Academy : being an attempt to correct the national taste, to ascertain the state of the polite arts at this period, and to rescue merit from oppression / by Anthony Pasquin ...

1940. The seasons / by James Thomson : with five pictures by Jacquier and an introduction by John Beresford.

1941. Blow : Royal Academy of Arts, 1994.

1945. Prize medal proofs, International Exhibition, London, 1862.

1948. X sermons preached by that late and learned and Rev. Divine John Donne : doctor in divinity, once dean of the cathedral church of Saint Paul's / chosen from the whole body of Donne's sermons by Geoffrey Keynes.

1949. The Bedale Hounds, 1832-1908 / by Frank H. Reynard.

1950. The tale of the golden cockerel / by Pushkin.

1952. The Latin portrait : an anthology / made by G. Rostrevor Hamilton.

1956. The poll of the freeholders of Oxfordshire : taken at the county court held in Oxford on the 17th of April, 1754 / by Tho. Blackall ..., High-Sheriff ; candidates : Rt. Hon. Lord Visct. Wenman, Sir James Dashwood ..., Rt. Hon. Lord Visct. Parker, Sir Edward Turner ...

1957. Grand illusions : contemporary interior murals / Caroline Cass ; with photographs by Tom Leighton.

1960. Fores's new chalk drawing-book of studies of trees, landscape, animals, figures, buildings, &c. : from original drawings by Le Cave : a most improving work for students, & well selected.

1961. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860; architecture, drawing books, art collections, magazines, navy and army, panoramas, etc., from the library of J. R. Abbey; a bibliographical catalogue.

1962. The love poems of John Donne : with some account of his life taken from the writings of 1639 of Izaak Walton.

1963. The chace, the road, and the turf / by Nimrod.

1964. The Haughtyshire hunt / by Fox Russell ; with sixteen full-page pictures on plate paper and twenty-four illus. in the text by R.J. Richardson.

1966. The courtier's library, or, Catalogus librorum aulicorum incomparabilium et non vendibilium / by John Donne ; edited by Evelyn Mary Simpson ; with a translation.

1967. Memoires for my grand-son / by John Evelyn ; transcribed and furnished with a preface and notes by Geoffrey Keynes.

1968. The Devil and all / by John Collier.

1969. A catalogue of rare and valuable books, the property of Messrs. G. and W. Nicol : including Biblia Sacra Latina ... Livii Historia ... / which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans, at his house, No. 93, Pall-Mall, on Monday, July 18, and three following days, 1825.

1970. Journey home / by Sally Waterman.

1971. The Bicester and William Hill Hunt / by William Fawcett ; official handbook.

1972. Queen Victoria's dolls / by Frances H. Low ; illustrated by Alan Wright.

1973. Catalogue of the works of British artists in the gallery of the British Institution, Pall-Mall : for exhibiton and sale : 1833 / British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom.

1974. The Song of songs : the authorized version / together with a new translation, an introduction and notes by W.O.E. Oesterley ; with engravings on copper by Lettice Sandford.

1975. In defence of woman : a Welsh poem / by Wiliam Cynwal ; translated by Gwyn Williams ; engravings by John Petts.

1976. Eight implemental heads in colours / with lines by Thomas Hood.

1977. Leek Wotton register.

1978. Views exhibiting the exterior & interior & principal monuments of the very ancient and remarkable church of St. Dunstan in the West : in the city of London : to which is added an historical account of the church / by the Rev'd J.F. Denham.

1979. A house for the suburbs : socially and architecturally sketched / with a prefatory glance at the great city by Thomas Morris ; member of the Royal Institute ...

1980. Reward card : the large white butterfly.

1983. Anacreon / done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. 1683 ; newly embellished with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden.

1984. The Rambler.

1986. La belle O'Morphi : a brief biography / by Patrick De Heriz ; with illustrations by Francois Boucher.

1987. Sketchbook of a series of tours through England.

1988. Exhibition of Mr. Wright's Pictures at Robin's Rooms, Great Piazza, Covent Garden.

1989. Sketches by Boz : and other minor works.

1990. Notes on some of the principal pictures exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy and the Society of Painters in Water Colours : no. II, 1856 / by John Ruskin ...

1993. [Drawing book].

1994. The Athenians : being correspondence between Thomas Jefferson Hogg and his friends, Thomas Love Peacock, Leigh Hunt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and others / edited by Walter Sidney Scott.

1995. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus : a poem attributed to Francis Beaumont / edited by Gwyn Jones ; with ten engravings in colour by John Buckland-Wright.

1996. The old curiosity shop.