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Rare Books and Manuscripts 3,908
Reference Library 112

Creator

Clark, Thomas A 39
Dilnot, John 26
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022 24
Sackett, Colin 22
King, Ronald, 1932– 20
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 19
Finlay, Ian Hamilton 18
Edwards, Lionel, 1878–1966 15
Kemplen, Tony 15
Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), 1858–1949 15
Labour Party (Great Britain) 14
Liberal Party (Great Britain) 14
Blake, William, 1757–1827 12
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886–1967 12
Bush, Tracey 11
Fairfax-Blakeborough, J. (John), 1883– 11
Horl, Mikel 11
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 11
Rindl, Deb 10
Shirley Smith, Richard 10
Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957 9
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 9
Metal Box Company 9
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 9
Young, Percy M. (Percy Marshall), 1912–2004 9
Fisher, Roy, 1930–2017 8
Aldin, Cecil, 1870–1935 7
Brandt, Bill, 1904–1983 7
Clark, Thomas A. 7
Clark, William Andrews, 1877–1934 7

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 3,908
Accessible in the Reference Library 112

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 3,864
Free to Use 44

Image Available

unavailable 3,742
available 166

Provenance

New Online Additions

Classification

Books 3,016
Articles & Chapters 125
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 120
Music (printed) 116
Postcards 112
Prints 92
Archives & Manuscripts 90
Periodicals 61
Photographs 40
Maps & Atlas (printed) 29
Drawings & Watercolors 13
Visual Materials 12
Musical Sound Recordings 4
Computer Files 1
Videos 1

Collective Title

Period

20th century 3,908

19th century 95
18th century 23
17th century 9
21st century 7
16th century 6
15th century 5

Materials & Techniques

ink 2
photographic paper 2
albumen process 1
engraving (action) 1
gelatin silver process 1
graphite (mineral) 1
laid paper 1
plywood 1
steel engraving (printing process) 1
watercolor (paint) 1
wove paper 1
zinc 1

Height [cm]

Width [cm]

Work Type

artists' book 469
ephemera 452
private press books (publishing) 313
wood engraving 278
exhibition catalog 224
photomechanical print 215
postcard 132
photograph 130
sheet music 107
memorial card 90
chromolithograph 88
accordion fold format (binding) 77
poem 69
advertisement 68
memorials (commemorative) 62
livres d'artiste 60
engraving 53
lithograph 53
photographic postcard 53
poetry 53
gelatin silver print 45
botanical illustration 44
postage stamp 44
screen print 44
etching 42
map 42
periodical 40
exhibition catalogue 38
photographic print 36
bookmark 35

Genre

Subject Terms

Artists' books -- Great Britain. 504
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 226
Art, Modern -- Exhibitions. 122
Fox hunting. 113
Mourning customs -- Great Britain. 94
Grief. 89
Horses. 79
English poetry. 77
Circle Press -- Publisher. 73
Private press books -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence -- Specimens. 68
Death. 62
Songs with piano. 61
Postcards -- Specimens. 58
Great Britain -- Social life and customs. 55
Horse racing. 52
Horsemanship. 52
Horse racing -- Great Britain. 50
Popular music -- 1901–1910. 43
Moschatel Press -- Publisher. 36
Bookmarks -- Specimens. 32
English poetry -- 20th century. 32
Photography, Artistic. 31
Festival of Britain (1951 : Great Britain) 30
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. 30
Hunting. 28
Hunting -- Great Britain. 27
Piano music. 27
Great Britain. 26
Politics -- Great Britain. 26
Horse racing -- United States. 25

Subject Period

20th century 381
19th century 71
18th century 26
17th century 16
16th century 13
11th century 2
Description and travel 2
Elizabeth II 2
14th century 1
15th and 16th centuries 1
15th century 1
17th cenury 1
58 B.C.-511 A.D 1
Civil War, 43-31 B.C 1
Twentieth Century 1
Twentieth century 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 1,087
England 430
London 258
United States 91
Waltham Saint Lawrence 76
London (England) 70
Guildford 30
Ireland 29
France 25
Scotland 25
Guildford (England) 22
India 16
Edinburgh 15
Italy 15
Oxford 13
Cambridge 12
Glasgow 12
Oxford (England) 12
Virginia 12
Australia 10
Kentucky 10
Cambridge (England) 8
Canada 8
Docking (Norfolk, England) 8
Germany 8
Liverpool (England) 8
New York (State) 8
Axminster 7
Edinburgh (Scotland) 7
Europe 7

Associated People

Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 28
George V, King of Great Britain, 1865–1936 19
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 19
George VI, King of Great Britain, 1895–1952 17
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 15
Blake, William, 1757–1827 12
Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841–1910 11
Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, 1900–2002 11
Shirley Smith, Richard 11
Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867–1953 10
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 9
Procktor, Patrick, 1936–2003 9
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 9
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 8
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022 8
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 8
Finlay, Ian Hamilton 8
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 8
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 7
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 7
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519 6
Fulton, Hamish, born 1946 6
Morris, William, 1834–1896 6
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886–1967 6
Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 1894–1972 6
Bembo, Pietro, 1470–1547 5
Churchill, Winston, 1874–1965 5
Picasso, Pablo, 1881–1973 5
Adam (Biblical figure) 4
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 4

Exhibition History

"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 17
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 3
“The Poet of Them All”: William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert (Yale Center for British Art, June 16, 2016-August 21, 2016) 2
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 1
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17) 1
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) 1
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11) 1
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 1
Peterloo and Protest (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-08-16 - 2019-12-01) 1
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 1

Credit Line

22960409440008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 10
22960469820008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Dr. Robert V. Tauxe, Yale BA 1975, Yale MPH 1980 6
22711723710008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 4
22960470130008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman 4
22652008990008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 2
22711731110008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert 2
22711731170008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert 2
22781079680008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert. 2
22606018760008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606039610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606091430008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt 1
22606096070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt 1
22606107810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt 1
22606110530008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt 1
22606125190008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt 1
22606224620008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 1
22606244240008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 1
22606514650008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606582880008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D. 1
22606683430008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Scott B. Wilcox, Yale PhD 1985 1
22606930130008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972 1
22607144580008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607197660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607246420008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607489790008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson 1
22607597140008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607654640008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607664040008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607685220008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1

Language

English 3,908

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Accessible in the Study Room
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986

Henry Moore shelter-sketch-book

[1967]
Accessible in the Study Room
Reliance Rubber Company

Plastic gold

1889-1939 [that is, 1939]
Accessible in the Study Room
J. Grossmith & Son

Phul-nana perfume

[ca. 1926?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Society of Dilettanti (London, England)

Antiquities of Ionia,

1769-1915
Accessible in the Study Room
Office Anthem

[approximately 193-?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Cavanders, Ltd. (Firm)

Ancient Chinese

[1926]
Accessible in the Study Room
J.S. Fry & Sons

Chocolate box by J.S. Fry & Sons, with photograph of Lily Elsie

ca. 1909
Accessible in the Study Room
John Bartholomew and Son

Bartholomew's one inch to the mile environs of London

[not before 1921]
Accessible in the Study Room
Salisbury, Frank O. (Frank Owen), 1874–1962

Album relating to frescoes by Frank Salisbury in Victoria Memorial Hall,... [Read more]

1921
Accessible in the Study Room
Dilnot, John

[Set of three postcards made to accompany "Estate : a book of collected... [Read more]

1991
Accessible in the Study Room
In loving memory of Emily Clifford, dearly beloved wife of George Clifford

1905
Accessible in the Study Room
Treloar & Sons

Advertisement for Treloar's Inlaid Linoleum

[1902?]
Accessible in the Study Room
John Thridgould & Co.

Rock me to sleep Teddy

[approximately 1905]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bonnell, Mandy

The coral aquarium

[1997]
Accessible in the Study Room
In loving memory of Frederick Charles

1911
Accessible in the Study Room
West Sussex (England). County Council

Licence to drive a motor car or cycle for Frank Wickham of Woolbeding Rectory... [Read more]

1916
Accessible in the Study Room
Freemasons. Chilterns Lodge, No. 4634 (Buckinghamshire, England)

Ladies' Festival : Wednesday, 6th November, 1929 : Wharncliffe Rooms,... [Read more]

1929
Accessible in the Study Room
A souvenir frae bonny Scotland

[1930?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bush, Tracey

The pocket book of sea creatures

1997
Accessible in the Study Room
J. Cardno & Co. (Fraserburgh, Scotland)

[Billhead of J. Cardno & Co., grocers in Fraserburgh, Scotland, recording... [Read more]

1913
Accessible in the Study Room
A bit of rock from Boston

[approximately 1900]
Accessible in the Study Room
Young, Patricia (Nurse)

Album of photographs, autographs, and notes compiled by Patricia Young, nurse of the... [Read more]

1914-1917
Accessible in the Study Room
Whitbread and Company

The Harrow, Wateringbury

[between 1949 and 1955]
Accessible in the Study Room
Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society

Scottish Widows' Fund Mutual LIfe Assurance Society

[approximately 1914]
Accessible in the Study Room
Pollard, G.

Letter

1928 April 13th
Accessible in the Study Room
Till the boys come home

1914 or 1915
Accessible in the Study Room
The Princes Restaurant, Piccadilly

[191-?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Parkinson, W. (William), 1871–1927

Westminster Abbey fund

1920
Accessible in the Study Room
Dilnot, John

[Set of five postcards made to accompany "Out of the Trees and into the... [Read more]

1985
Accessible in the Study Room
Joyful mystery birthday card jig-saw puzzle

[approximately 1930]
Accessible in the Study Room
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022

Skute Awabo [Awabo Skute]

1992
Accessible in the Study Room
Festival of Britain (1951 : Great Britain)

Festival of Britain

1951
Accessible in the Study Room
Album of drawings

ca. 1900-1903
Accessible in the Study Room
Officer's photograph album of British military hospitals and camps

1917-1918
Accessible in the Study Room
In Disgraceful Memory of the Russian Navy, in their terrible encounter with nine... [Read more]

[1904]
Accessible in the Study Room
Kikkuli, fl. ca. 1350 B.C

The Kikkuli text on the training of horses (ca. 1350 B.C.)

c1977
Accessible in the Study Room
The Kinora

[1911?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022

Ten years of Uzbekistan

1994
Accessible in the Study Room
[Receipt from Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street, E.C.]

[approximately 1930?]
Accessible in the Study Room
S.A., her book

approximately 1920?
Accessible in the Study Room
[Postcard with birthday wishes]

[approximately 1910]
Accessible in the Study Room
Pierce, Constance, born 1946

Sketchbook,

1995
Accessible in the Study Room
Whitstable in an oyster shell

[approximately 1930]
Accessible in the Study Room
Levinstein Limited (firm)

Fast khakis and blues, for government requirements

1914?
Accessible in the Study Room
In affectionate remembrance of Elizabeth Heap, of Bent Clough Farm,... [Read more]

1914
Accessible in the Study Room
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891–1915

H. Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891-1915

[1919]
Accessible in the Study Room
Stencilled friezes

[ca. 1900?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Thy Christmas be happy

[approximately 1900]
Accessible in the Study Room
Menu

1939
Accessible in the Study Room
Turner & Wainwright Ltd

Turnwright's Toffee De-light

[1930?]

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