Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Associated Places: London

1101. The works of Shakespeare : the text of the First Folio with quarto variants and a selection of modern readings / edited by Herbert Farjeon.

Creator:: Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
Date:: MCMXXIX-MCMXXXIII [1929-1933]
Physical Description:: 7 volumes ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1102. A catalogue of the very choice and select library of the late George Baker, esq. of St. Paul's Churchyard ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Sotheby, at his house, no. 3, Wellington Street, Strand, on Monday June 6, 1825, and two following days at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Sotheby, Samuel, 1771–1842
Date:: [1825]
Physical Description:: [7], 4-43 pages, [1] leaf of plates ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1103. Pervigilium Veneris = the vigil of Venus / translation by F.L. Lucas ; engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

Date:: 1939
Physical Description:: 27, [1] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1104. Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso / translated by the most eminent hands ; a selection from the 1717 edition ; with drawings by J. Yunge Bateman.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Date:: 1958
Physical Description:: 248 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1105. An idyl : a pictorial-music-play / the music composed (and the play illustrated) by Hubert Herkomer, R.A. ; the lyrics by Joseph Bennett.

Creator:: Herkomer, Hubert von, Sir, 1849–1914
Date:: [1889?]
Physical Description:: [4], 11, [1], 152 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (etchings) ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1106. Marks and re-marks for the catalogue of the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1856 / by A.E.

Creator:: Lane, Richard James, 1800–1872
Date:: [1856]
Physical Description:: 32 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1107. Selected poems / Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Creator:: Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844–1889
Date:: 1954
Physical Description:: v, [3], 104, [1] pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1108. Reverting to type.

Creator:: New North Press
Date:: 2010
Physical Description:: [28] p. : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Graham Bicknell

1109. Historical and descriptive accounts of the theatres of London / by Edward Wedlake Brayley, F.A.S. &c. &c. Secretary to the Russell Institution ; illustrated with a view of each theatre, elegantly coloured, drawn and engraved by the late Daniel Havell.

Creator:: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773–1854
Date:: MDCCCXXVI [1826]
Physical Description:: [4], 2, [v]-vi, [2], 92, 4 p., XVI leaves of plates : ill. : 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1110. Tote bag for the Museum of Everything's exhibition number four, Selfridges.

Creator:: Museum of Everything
Date:: 2011
Physical Description:: 1 tote bag : canvas, printed in black and red ; 42 x 38 cm (excluding handles)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Beth Miller

1111. Apollonius of Tyre : Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri / translated from the Latin by Paul Turner ; line-engravings by Mark Severin.

Date:: 1956
Physical Description:: 68 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1112. Pictorial Humpty Dumpty [graphic].

Creator:: Aliquis
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: 1 print on 4 joined sheets : etching ; sheets end-to-end 9 x 184 cm, accordion folded to 9 x 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1113. Same time, same place / Young-Ju Choi.

Creator:: Choi, Young-Ju
Date:: 2004
Physical Description:: [56] pages : illustrations ; 10 x 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist

1114. The voyage of the Challenger : a personal narrative of the historic circumnavigation of the globe in the years 1872-1876 / by navigating Sub-Lieutenant Herbert Swire, R.N. ; illustrated with reproductions from paintings and drawings in his journals ; foreword by Major Roger Swire ; introduction by G. Herbert Fowler.

Creator:: Swire, Herbert, -1934
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1115. A catalogue of the highly valuable collection of prints : the property of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart ... : part the first consisting of a series of British portraits, from the heptarchy to the end of the reign of William III : comprising a capital assemblage of extremely rare and curious prints : including several unique beautiful equestrian and historical engravings, by Delaram, Elstracke, Rogers, the Pass Family, &c. : the principal works of W. Hollar : a matchless display of the productions of that celebrated artist W. Faithorne, many of them brilliant proofs, &c. &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Sotheby, at his rooms, No. 3, Wellington Street, Strand, on Monday, 29th of March, 1824, and eleven following days, Sunday excepted, at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Sotheby, Samuel, 1771–1842
Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: 5 volumes in 1 : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1116. Catalogue of the splendid, choice, and curious library of P.A. Hanrott, Esq. part the fourth ... : which will be sold by auction ... on Saturday, March 15, and five following days, (Sunday excepted), 1834.

Creator:: Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857
Date:: [1834]
Physical Description:: [2], [85], [1] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1117. Aedes Althorpianae, or, An account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp, the residence of George John Earl Spencer, K.G. : to which is added A supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana / by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin, F.R.S., S.A., librarian to His Lordship.

Creator:: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776–1847
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

1118. Register of marriages, baptisms, & burials in Somerset House Chapel, 1714 to 1775. Typis Medio-Montanis, & c.

Creator:: Somerset House Chapel, London
Date:: 1831]
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., 18 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1119. Cinderella and the glass slipper / edited and illustrated with ten subjects ; designed and etched on steel by George Cruikshank.

Date:: [1854]
Physical Description:: 31 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

1120. A narrative of the proceedings at the laying of the first stone of the new buildings at Bethlem Hospital : on Thursday, the 26th day of July, 1838 with historical notes and illustrations, and official documents / Peter Laurie ...

Creator:: Laurie, Peter, Sir, 1778–1861
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: 62 p., [2], [4] folded leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1121. An account of a series of pictures, in the great room of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, at the Adelphi. By James Barry ...

Creator:: Barry, James, 1741–1806
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: 221 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1122. The order and ceremonies used for and at the solemn interment of the most high, mighty and most noble prince George Duke of Albemarle ... 1670 / collected by Francis Sandford ... and published by His Ma[jes]ties especiall command.

Creator:: Sandford, Francis, 1630–1694
Date:: 1670]
Physical Description:: [8] p., [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 32 x 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1123. A plurality of worlds : John Glanvill's translation / with a prologue by David Garnett.

Creator:: Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657–1757
Date:: 1929
Physical Description:: ix, [1], 138, [2] pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1124. Ecclesiastes, or, The preacher.

Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 21, [3] pages : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1125. 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

1126. Strawberry time, and, The banquet / by R.H. Mottram.

Creator:: Mottram, R. H. (Ralph Hale), 1883–1971
Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: [2], 87, [2] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1127. 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

1128. 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

1129. Building of the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 1 item ; 4.5 x 6 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.

1130. Jas. Newman : 24 Soho-Square : every requisite for drawing & painting.

Creator:: James Newman (Firm)
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: 1 print : color aquatint ; sheet 20 x15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1131. 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

1132. Reverting to type [graphic].

Date:: 77 x 54 cm
Physical Description:: [London] : New North Press, 2010.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Graham Bicknell

1133. Maps, charts, atlases, and geographical works published by Samuel Arrowsmith, Hydrographer to His Majesty, No. 10, Soho-Square, London,

Date:: [1839?]
Physical Description:: 16 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1134. St. Paul's : the roadway round the cathedral is 660 yards in length, with an average breadth of about 35 feet.

Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 19.2 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hilda Lease Jay.

1135. Catalogue of the third and concluding exhibition of national portraits : commencing with the fortieth year of the reign of George the Third and ending with the year MDCCCLXVII : on loan to the South Kensington Museum, April 13, 1868.

Creator:: South Kensington Museum
Date:: [1868]
Physical Description:: x, 210 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1136. Catalogue of pictures representing Christ rejected, Christ healing in the Temple, and a design of our Saviour's crucifixion : with sketches from other scriptural subjects / painted by B. West ... ; now exhibiting in Pall-Mall, near Carlton House.

Creator:: West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 16 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1137. Essays on physiognomy : designed to promote the knowledge and the love of mankind / by John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zurich, and Minister of the Gospel ; illustrated by engravings, accurately copied, and some duplicates added from originals, executed by or under the inspection of, Thomas Hollloway ; translated from the French by Henry Hunter, D.D., Minister of the Scots Church, London-Wall.

Creator:: Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741–1801
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 3 volumes in 5 : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1138. 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

1139. A communication to my friends / by George Moore.

Creator:: Moore, George, 1852–1933
Date:: 1933
Physical Description:: 86, [2] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1140. Brief candles / by Laurence Binyon ; with six engravings by Helen Binyon.

Creator:: Binyon, Laurence, 1869–1943
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: 49, [3] pages : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1141. The life of William Blake / by Mona Wilson.

Creator:: Wilson, Mona, 1872–
Date:: MCMXXVII [1927]
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 397, [1] pages, [24] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1142. Sonnets & tableaux / Thomas Meyer & Sandra Fisher.

Creator:: Meyer, Thomas, 1947–
Date:: 1987
Physical Description:: [96] pages : illustrations ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1143. Isles of wonder : London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, 27 July 2012 = Îles aux merveilles : cérémonie d'ouverture des Jeux Olympiques de Londres 2012, le 27 juillet 2012.

Date:: [2012]
Physical Description:: 75 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas R. Burns, Yale BA 2013

1144. [Catalogue of portraits of illustrious and eminent persons in history, literature and art : with which the proprietors have favoured the Institution, June, 1846.]

Creator:: British Institution
Date:: 1846
Physical Description:: 17 p., 2 leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1145. The history of Jack & the bean-stalk / edited and illustrated with six etchings by George Cruikshank.

Date:: [1854]
Physical Description:: 32 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer.

1146. 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

1147. 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.

1148. 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

1149. Mademoiselle de Maupin / a romance by Théophile Gautier ; translated by R. & E. Powys Mathers ; engravings by John Buckland Wright.

Creator:: Gautier, Théophile, 1811–1872
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: [4], 7-284, [2] pages, ([12] leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1150. [Catalogue of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds : together with a selection of pictures by ancient and deceased English masters : with which the proprietors have favoured the Institution, June, 1843.]

Creator:: British Institution
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: 15 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1151. 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

1152. 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

1153. 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

1154. 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

1155. 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

1156. 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

1157. The works of Alexander Pushkin : lyrics, narrative poems, folk tales, plays, prose / selected and edited, with an introduction, by Avrahm Yarmolinsky.

Creator:: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799–1837
Date:: [1939]
Physical Description:: viii, [2], 11-896 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1158. A catalogue of a genuine and valuable collection of topographical prints and drawings in England and Wales, the most extensive ever offered to public sale : which will be sold by auction, on Friday, December 11, 1795, and the three following days, (Sunday excepted) by Leigh and Sotheby, booksellers, at their house in York-Street, Covent-Garden, where catalogues may be had.

Creator:: Leigh and Sotheby
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: [2], 40 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1159. 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

1160. A new copy-book of the small Italian hand : published for the use of publick and private schools as well as for the use of families / by John Langton, writing master ...

Creator:: Langton, John, active 1700–1727
Date:: [1727?]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1161. A lovers progress : seventeenth century lyrics / selected by Nancy Quennell.

Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: [2], 5-84, [2] pages ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1162. Inventory of furniture, at 14 Stratford Place. 1830.

Date:: 1830?]
Physical Description:: 4 p. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1163. The Book Show.

Date:: 2003
Physical Description:: 41, [1] pages : illustrations ; 18 x 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1164. A catalogue of the extensive and truly magnificent collection of prints : forming altogether an unusual display of the most rare and superior productions of the French, Flemish, German and English engravers ... : and upwards of 1500 pieces by the hand of Wenceslaus Hollar ... : and a capital and rich collection of portraits by and after Sir Anthony Vandyke ... which will be sold by a auction, by Mr. Thos. Dodd ... on Tuesday, the 6th day of February, 1810 and seventeen following days.

Creator:: Dodd, Thomas, 1771–1850
Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: x, 93, [4], 102-162, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1165. 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

1166. Rudiments of landscape drawing : in a series of easy examples / by W.H. Pyne.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: [2], 22 p., 13, [1] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1167. Catalogue of a very large and valuable assemblage of water-colour drawings, including the collection of the late John Capon Clifton, Esq. : the collection of J. Dawson, Esq. ; and several other small collections of the highest class ; and some beautiful modern sculpture : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their great rooms, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, March 2, 1866, and following day , at one o'clock precisely.

Creator:: Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:: [1866]
Physical Description:: 35, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1168. Catalogue of the valuable collection of prints and drawings of the late John North, Esq. of East Acton : consisting of his Pennant's History of London, illustrated, containing an extensive variety of portraits and topography many of which are extremely rare : including numerous topographical drawings in colours, all neatly inlaid on large paper of an uniform size : also, heads of illustrious characters of the present Reign, intended to illustrate Gifford's Life of Mr. Pitt : beautiful original drawings in fixed water colours of subjects from the Old and New Testament, by R. Westall, R.A. : choice of modern engravings by the most celebrated masters, among which are nearly the whole of the works of those eminent artists Messrs. James and Charles Heath, proofs and plates : Last Supper by Raphael Morghen, fine proof; works of Woollett, proofs, &c. &c. : which will sold by auction, by Mr. Evans, at his house, no. 96, Pall-Mall, on Wednesday February 2nd, and six following days, Sunday excepted.

Creator:: Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857
Date:: [1820]
Physical Description:: 63, [1] pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1169. 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

1170. 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

1171. 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

1172. Exhibition of engravings / by living British artists ; associated under the patronage of His Majesty ...

Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 24, [2] p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1173. 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

1174. 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

1175. 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

1176. A catalogue of the highly valuable collection of prints and drawings, the property of the late George Baker, Esq., of St. Paul's Church Yard : the leading features of which embrace a matchless display of the works of Hogarth, ... an unequalled collection of the superior engravings of Woollett, ... chef d'oeuvres of the productions of Sir R. Strange, R. Morghen, Berwic, Volpato, Wille, ... which will be sold by auction by Mr. Sotheby at his house ... on Thursday, the 16th of June, 1825 and nine following days (Sunday excepted) at twelve o'clock each day.

Creator:: Sotheby, Samuel, 1771–1842
Date:: [1825]
Physical Description:: [7], 4-71, [1] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1177. Practical lessons in watercolour painting / by N.E. Green ; in six parts, (each part containing a subject in four states).

Creator:: Green, N. E. (Nathaniel Everett), 1823–1899
Date:: [1865]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1178. Portraits, india drawings, &c. : a catalogue of a genuine and valuable collection of English and foreign portraits, india drawings, &c. : comprising the choicest works of Bartolozzi, Blooteling, Delaram, Drevet, Elstrack, Faithorne, Hogarth, Hellar, Loggan, Lombart, Masson Nantuiel, the Passes, Sherwin, Smith, Vertue, Vandtycke, &c. &c. : including several rare and curious of Charles the First and Second, Cromwells, the Orange and Palatine Families, &c. : among the foreigners are many relating to English History : particularly those mentioned by Burnet, Clarendon, Grange, &c. : the collection in general is in perfect preservation, and the finest impressions : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Richardson, at his house, no. 31, the corner of Villers-Street, in the Strand, on Monday, February 18, 1799, and the eighteen following days, at twelve o'clock.

Creator:: Richardson, William, active 1778–1815
Date:: [1799]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, [170] pages 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1179. Bibliography of William Hazlitt / by Geoffrey Keynes ; author of Bibliographies of John Donne, William Blake, Sir Thomas Browne, Jane Austen, etc.

Creator:: Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887–1982
Date:: 1931
Physical Description:: xix, [2], 135, [3] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1180. 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

1181. 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

1182. 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

1183. The builder's price-book : containing a correct list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London : to the several artificers concerned in building : including the journeymen's prices / by an experienced surveyor.

Creator:: Experienced surveyor
Date:: 1798
Physical Description:: viii, 176, [16] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1184. 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

1185. His Majesties commission concerning the reparation of the cathedrall church of Saint Paul in London.

Creator:: England and Wales. Sovereign (1660–1685 : Charles II)
Date:: 1663
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([6], 60 p.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1186. International Exhibition : opened May 1st, MDCCCLXII.

Creator:: John Pinches (Medallists)
Date:: [1862]
Physical Description:: 1 medal : white metal ; 41 mm in diameter.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1187. 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

1188. 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

1189. 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

1190. 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

1191. 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.

1192. 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

1193. 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

1194. 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

1195. 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

1196. The Nonesuch century : an appraisal, a personal note and a bibliography of the first hundred books issued by the press, 1923-1934.

Creator:: Nonesuch Press
Date:: 1936
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 80 pages, [74] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1197. Microcosmographia / Mark Dion.

Creator:: Dion, Mark, 1961–
Date:: [2005]
Physical Description:: 48 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1198. Pencil drawings by William Blake / edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: xvi, [2] pages, 82 leaves, [82] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1199. Blake's pencil drawings : second series / edited by Geoffrey Keynes for the Nonesuch Press.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:: 1956
Physical Description:: xi, [115] pages, [56] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

1200. Catalogue of the late Lord Northwick's extensive and magnificent collection of ancient and modern pictures : cabinet of miniatures and enamels, and other choice works of art, and the furniture, plate, wines and effects, at Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, which will be sold by auction by Mr. Phillips at the mansion on Tuesday the 26th of July, 1859, and twenty-one subsequent days : commencing at one o'clock precisely each day, by direction of the administrator.

Creator:: Phillips, Mr.
Date:: [1859]
Physical Description:: iv, 200, 37, [3] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

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1101. The works of Shakespeare : the text of the First Folio with quarto variants and a selection of modern readings / edited by Herbert Farjeon.

1102. A catalogue of the very choice and select library of the late George Baker, esq. of St. Paul's Churchyard ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Sotheby, at his house, no. 3, Wellington Street, Strand, on Monday June 6, 1825, and two following days at twelve o'clock.

1103. Pervigilium Veneris = the vigil of Venus / translation by F.L. Lucas ; engravings by John Buckland-Wright.

1104. Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso / translated by the most eminent hands ; a selection from the 1717 edition ; with drawings by J. Yunge Bateman.

1105. An idyl : a pictorial-music-play / the music composed (and the play illustrated) by Hubert Herkomer, R.A. ; the lyrics by Joseph Bennett.

1106. Marks and re-marks for the catalogue of the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1856 / by A.E.

1107. Selected poems / Gerard Manley Hopkins.

1108. Reverting to type.

1109. Historical and descriptive accounts of the theatres of London / by Edward Wedlake Brayley, F.A.S. &c. &c. Secretary to the Russell Institution ; illustrated with a view of each theatre, elegantly coloured, drawn and engraved by the late Daniel Havell.

1110. Tote bag for the Museum of Everything's exhibition number four, Selfridges.

1111. Apollonius of Tyre : Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri / translated from the Latin by Paul Turner ; line-engravings by Mark Severin.

1112. Pictorial Humpty Dumpty [graphic].

1113. Same time, same place / Young-Ju Choi.

1116. Catalogue of the splendid, choice, and curious library of P.A. Hanrott, Esq. part the fourth ... : which will be sold by auction ... on Saturday, March 15, and five following days, (Sunday excepted), 1834.

1117. Aedes Althorpianae, or, An account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp, the residence of George John Earl Spencer, K.G. : to which is added A supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana / by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin, F.R.S., S.A., librarian to His Lordship.

1118. Register of marriages, baptisms, & burials in Somerset House Chapel, 1714 to 1775. Typis Medio-Montanis, & c.

1119. Cinderella and the glass slipper / edited and illustrated with ten subjects ; designed and etched on steel by George Cruikshank.

1120. A narrative of the proceedings at the laying of the first stone of the new buildings at Bethlem Hospital : on Thursday, the 26th day of July, 1838 with historical notes and illustrations, and official documents / Peter Laurie ...

1121. An account of a series of pictures, in the great room of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, at the Adelphi. By James Barry ...

1122. The order and ceremonies used for and at the solemn interment of the most high, mighty and most noble prince George Duke of Albemarle ... 1670 / collected by Francis Sandford ... and published by His Ma[jes]ties especiall command.

1123. A plurality of worlds : John Glanvill's translation / with a prologue by David Garnett.

1124. Ecclesiastes, or, The preacher.

1125. 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.

1126. Strawberry time, and, The banquet / by R.H. Mottram.

1127. Anacreon / done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S.B. 1683 ; newly embellished with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden.

1129. Building of the Great Exhibition of 1851.

1130. Jas. Newman : 24 Soho-Square : every requisite for drawing & painting.

1131. 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.

1132. Reverting to type [graphic].

1133. Maps, charts, atlases, and geographical works published by Samuel Arrowsmith, Hydrographer to His Majesty, No. 10, Soho-Square, London,

1134. St. Paul's : the roadway round the cathedral is 660 yards in length, with an average breadth of about 35 feet.

1135. Catalogue of the third and concluding exhibition of national portraits : commencing with the fortieth year of the reign of George the Third and ending with the year MDCCCLXVII : on loan to the South Kensington Museum, April 13, 1868.

1136. Catalogue of pictures representing Christ rejected, Christ healing in the Temple, and a design of our Saviour's crucifixion : with sketches from other scriptural subjects / painted by B. West ... ; now exhibiting in Pall-Mall, near Carlton House.

1138. 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 ...

1139. A communication to my friends / by George Moore.

1140. Brief candles / by Laurence Binyon ; with six engravings by Helen Binyon.

1141. The life of William Blake / by Mona Wilson.

1142. Sonnets & tableaux / Thomas Meyer & Sandra Fisher.

1143. Isles of wonder : London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony, 27 July 2012 = Îles aux merveilles : cérémonie d'ouverture des Jeux Olympiques de Londres 2012, le 27 juillet 2012.

1144. [Catalogue of portraits of illustrious and eminent persons in history, literature and art : with which the proprietors have favoured the Institution, June, 1846.]

1145. The history of Jack & the bean-stalk / edited and illustrated with six etchings by George Cruikshank.

1146. Hints on light and shadow, composition, etc. : as applicable to landscape painting / illustrated by examples by Samuel Prout.

1147. Blow : Royal Academy of Arts, 1994.

1149. Mademoiselle de Maupin / a romance by Théophile Gautier ; translated by R. & E. Powys Mathers ; engravings by John Buckland Wright.

1150. [Catalogue of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds : together with a selection of pictures by ancient and deceased English masters : with which the proprietors have favoured the Institution, June, 1843.]

1151. 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.

1152. 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.

1153. In defence of woman : a Welsh poem / by Wiliam Cynwal ; translated by Gwyn Williams ; engravings by John Petts.

1154. 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.

1155. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus : a poem attributed to Francis Beaumont / edited by Gwyn Jones ; with ten engravings in colour by John Buckland-Wright.

1156. The Latin portrait : an anthology / made by G. Rostrevor Hamilton.

1157. The works of Alexander Pushkin : lyrics, narrative poems, folk tales, plays, prose / selected and edited, with an introduction, by Avrahm Yarmolinsky.

1159. La belle O'Morphi : a brief biography / by Patrick De Heriz ; with illustrations by Francois Boucher.

1160. A new copy-book of the small Italian hand : published for the use of publick and private schools as well as for the use of families / by John Langton, writing master ...

1161. A lovers progress : seventeenth century lyrics / selected by Nancy Quennell.

1162. Inventory of furniture, at 14 Stratford Place. 1830.

1163. The Book Show.

1165. The poetical works of Robert Herrick / with a preface by Humbert Wolfe and decorations by Albert Rutherston.

1166. Rudiments of landscape drawing : in a series of easy examples / by W.H. Pyne.

1169. 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.

1170. 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.

1171. 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 ...

1172. Exhibition of engravings / by living British artists ; associated under the patronage of His Majesty ...

1173. The tale of the golden cockerel / by Pushkin.

1174. The Devil and all / by John Collier.

1175. 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.

1177. Practical lessons in watercolour painting / by N.E. Green ; in six parts, (each part containing a subject in four states).

1179. Bibliography of William Hazlitt / by Geoffrey Keynes ; author of Bibliographies of John Donne, William Blake, Sir Thomas Browne, Jane Austen, etc.

1180. 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.

1181. The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite / a new translation by F.L. Lucas, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge ; with ten engravings by Mark Severin.

1182. 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.

1183. The builder's price-book : containing a correct list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London : to the several artificers concerned in building : including the journeymen's prices / by an experienced surveyor.

1184. 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.

1185. His Majesties commission concerning the reparation of the cathedrall church of Saint Paul in London.