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Rare Books and Manuscripts 17,081
Reference Library 160

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Christie & Manson 126
Christie, James, 1773–1831 118
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 106
Christie, Manson & Woods 77
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803 70
Britton, John, 1771–1857 55
Phillips, H., -1840 42
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 41
Dilnot, John 41
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 38
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 35
Sackett, Colin 35
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804 32
Douglas, Helen, 1952– 31
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878 30
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 30
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022 29
Burford, Robert, 1791–1861 28
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857 28
Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852 27
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 27
Bush, Tracey 25
Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863 25
Morris, William, 1834–1896 25
Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805–1864 25
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834 24
Combe, William, 1742–1823 22
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825 22
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860 22
Burnet, John, 1784–1868 21

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Accessible in the Study Room 17,081

Accessible in the Reference Library 160

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 16,327
Free to Use 754

Image Available

unavailable 16,174
available 907

Provenance

New Online Additions

2025 - 2026 1

Classification

Books 17,081

Collective Title

Period

19th century 9,367
20th century 3,095
18th century 2,263
21st century 701
17th century 386
15th century 309
16th century 154
13th century 1
14th century 1

Materials & Techniques

Height [cm]

Width [cm]

Work Type

wood engraving 1,785
engraving 1,072
aquatint 1,037
lithograph 1,013
auction catalog 779
artists' book 755
chromolithograph 481
etching 464
ephemera 440
woodcut 422
armorial bookplates (provenance) 362
private press books (publishing) 315
exhibition catalog 297
drawing book 277
incunabula 260
fragments (object portions) 247
chromoxylograph 236
accordion fold format (binding) 232
photomechanical print 217
advertisement 190
steel engraving 181
prospectuse 175
catalog 161
map 145
hand coloring 144
publisher's advertisement 143
soft-ground etching 143
publishers' advertisement 141
extra-illustrated copies (provenance) 137
poem 125

Genre

Subject Terms

Artists' books -- Great Britain. 698
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 673
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 664
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. 604
Painting, European -- Catalogs. 443
London Institution -- Ownership. 348
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph. 343
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 335
Incunabula in Yale Library. 298
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 271
Drawing -- Technique. 258
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. 248
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 226
Great Britain -- Description and travel. 178
Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 177
Decorative arts -- Catalogs. 167
Drawing books -- Specimens. 167
Middle Hill Press -- Publisher. 160
Satire, English. 159
Voyages and travels. 154
Fox hunting. 146
Drawing, European -- Catalogs. 142
Horses. 138
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 132
Women in natural history. 132
Art, Modern -- Exhibitions. 123
Ackermann, R. -- Publisher. 119
Painting -- Technique. 119
Ross, David and Judith -- Provenance. 108
Art -- Private collections. 106

Subject Period

19th century 1,079
20th century 333
18th century 243
17th century 78
16th century 58
15th century 27
21st century 27
11th century 7
15th and 16th centuries 4
12th century 3
Alfred, 871-899 3
13th century 2
14th century 2
17th-18th centuries 2
Description and travel 2
Elizabeth II 2
To 500 2
To 510 B.C 2
16th-18th centuries 1
17th cenury 1
18h century 1
19h century 1
19th Century 1
58 B.C.-511 A.D 1
6th century 1
Civil War, 49-45 B.C 1
Early church, ca. 30-600 1
Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C 1
Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 1
Republic, 265-30 B.C 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 3,143
England 1,736
London 1,122
London (England) 361
France 230
United States 205
Italy 176
Edinburgh (Scotland) 174
Scotland 147
India 138
Edinburgh 116
Ireland 106
Oxford (England) 91
Europe 86
Wales 77
Waltham Saint Lawrence 76
Germany 56
Egypt 55
Spain 55
Glasgow (Scotland) 53
Middle East 52
China 51
Oxford 51
Brighton (England) 50
Hammersmith 50
Bath (England) 48
Newcastle upon Tyne (England) 46
Paris (France) 46
Cambridge (England) 45
Liverpool (England) 45

Associated People

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 66
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 53
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 32
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 31
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 31
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 30
Jesus Christ 29
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 28
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821 27
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 25
Raphael, 1483–1520 24
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606–1669 24
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832 23
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641 22
Shirley Smith, Richard 21
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769–1852 19
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577–1640 18
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 18
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 17
Britton, John, 1771–1857 16
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 15
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769–1830 15
Blake, William, 1757–1827 14
George VI, King of Great Britain, 1895–1952 14
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471–1528 13
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762–1830 13
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610–1685 13
Procktor, Patrick, 1936–2003 13
Franklin, John, 1786–1847 12
Glover, John, 1767–1849 12

Exhibition History

Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978) 135
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 92
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 61
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 52
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 39
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) 30
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08) 22
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) 21
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27) 18
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 18
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 14
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08) 13
Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2026-01-08 - 2026-05-31) 10
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 8
Picture Talking: James Northcote and the Fables (Yale Center for British Art, October 2, 2014-December 14, 2014) 6
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19) 5
Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10) 4
Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars (Yale Center for British Art, May 24, 2006-September 10, 2006) 4
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Historic Royal Palaces, 2017-06-22 - 2017-11-12) 4
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-02-02 - 2017-04-30) 4
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 3
Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21) 3
“Endless forms”: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts (Yale Center for British Art, February 12, 2009-May 3, 2009) 3
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17) 2
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11) 2
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14) 2
The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989) 2
“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
Art in Focus: Relics of Old London (Yale Center for British Art, May 11, 2016-August 14, 2016) 1

Credit Line

22960487070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 15
22968197670008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 13
22709619840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 12
22738171720008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9
22770980730008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9
22711752960008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 8
22709619660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709619750008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709639120008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22960434330008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 6
22709619420008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22709621880008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22709624340008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22738129860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane L. Jervis, Yale PhD 1978 5
22809639860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22809664000008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22836619370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22861662870008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 5
22644345570008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22709613400008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22709619930008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22709620320008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22711746740008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22711768080008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22781117950008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22809659210008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22826513210008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer 4
22826544530008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22651990110008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22651992110008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3

Language

English 14,717
French 455
Latin 312
German 216
Italian 117
Dutch 35
Undetermined 14
Spanish 13
Welsh 10
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600) 9
German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500) 7
English, Middle (1100-1500) 6
Multiple languages 6
Swedish 6
Portuguese 5
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 4
Japanese 4
Low German 4
Russian 4
Scots 3
Danish 2
Hebrew 2
Norwegian 2
Polish 2
Romance (Other) 2
Czech 1
Efik 1
Elamite 1
Germanic (Other) 1
Scottish Gaelic 1

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Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)

London and its environs in the nineteenth century

[1829, i.e. 1829-1831]
Accessible in the Study Room
Jervis, T. B. (Thomas Best), 1796–1857

Geographical and statistical memoir of the Konkun

1840
Accessible in the Study Room
Skelton, Joseph, 1783–1871

Skelton's Engraved illustrations of the principal antiquities of Oxfordshire

1823
Accessible in the Study Room
Clark, W. A. V. (William A. V.)

Ten views in the island of Antigua

1823
Accessible in the Study Room
Lucas, Thomas J

Pen & pencil reminiscences of a campaign in South Africa

[1861]
Accessible in the Study Room
Belisario, Isaac Mendes, 1795–1849

Sketches of character

1837[-1838]
Accessible in the Study Room
Jones, Owen, 1809–1874

Designs for mosaic and tessellated pavements

MDCCCXLII [1842]
Accessible in the Study Room
Marquez y Encheandia, Luis

Las cofradias de Sevilla

1888?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751

Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions

1747
Accessible in the Study Room
Gwynn, John, 1713–1786

London and Westminster improved

MDCCLXVU [1766]
Accessible in the Study Room
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

[Bookmark from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents]

[approximately 1970?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Ellis, Sarah Stickney, 1799–1872

Contrasts

1832
Accessible in the Study Room
Dillon, Frank, 1823–1909

Sketches in the island of Madeira

1850
Accessible in the Study Room
Francquart, Jacques, 1577–1651

Pompa funebris optimi potentissimiq[ue] principis Alberti Pii, Archiducis... [Read more]

MDCXXIII [1623]
Accessible in the Study Room
D'Oyly, Charles, 1781–1845

Sketches of the New Road in a journey from Calcutta to Gyah

1830
Accessible in the Study Room
Whittington, Robert, -approximately 1560

Editio Roberti Whitintoni Lichfeldie[n]sis grammatices magistri... [Read more]

Anno d[omi]ni. MCCCCCxxi [1521]
Accessible in the Study Room
Austin & Seeley

Collection of ornaments at Austin & Seeley's artificial stone works

1841
Accessible in the Study Room
Edwards, James, 1756–1816

A companion from London to Brighthelmston, in Sussex

1801
Accessible in the Study Room
Burnes, James, 1801–1862

Narrative of a visit to the court of Sinde at Hyderabad on the Indus

1839
Accessible in the Study Room
Rattray, James

Scenery, inhabitants, and costumes of Afghaunistan

1847-1848
Accessible in the Study Room
Spooner's transformations

1838 [-39]
Accessible in the Study Room
MacKenzie, David Maitland, 1800–1875

Classes for oil painting, water colour and pencil drawing, &c., 46,... [Read more]

May, 1843
Accessible in the Study Room
Manesson-Mallet, Allain, 1630?-1706?

Les Travaux de Mars, ou, L'Art de la guerre

1696
Accessible in the Study Room
Festival of Britain (1951 : Great Britain)

Festival of Britain

1951
Accessible in the Study Room
Daniell, Samuel, 1775–1811

Picturesque illustrations of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants of... [Read more]

1808
Accessible in the Study Room
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812–1852

The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture

1841
Accessible in the Study Room
St. John, James Augustus, 1795–1875

Views in the eastern archipelago

Augt., 1847
Accessible in the Study Room
Gulflocher, Leopolde

Leopolde Gulflocher, sculpteur en marbre et albatre

[approximately 1815]
Accessible in the Study Room
A book of the habits, customes, and manners of diverse nations

[169-?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Gilks, Edward, 1822?-

Edward Gilks, ornamental designer

[1840?]
Accessible in the Study Room
White, George Francis, 1808–1898

Views in India

1836-1837
Accessible in the Study Room
Greaves, John, 1602–1652

Pyramidographia, or, A description of the pyramids in Ægypt

1646
Accessible in the Study Room
Linwood, Mary, 1755–1845

The Linwood gallery of pictures in needle-work

1811
Accessible in the Study Room
A political and satirical history of the years 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, and 1760

[1763?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Parnell & Banner

Parnell & Banner

[approximately 1850]
Accessible in the Study Room
Gautier Dagoty, 1717–1785

Exposition anatomique des organes des sens

MDCCLXXV [1775]
Accessible in the Study Room
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851

Picturesque views in England and Wales

MDCCCXXXVIII [1838]
Accessible in the Study Room
Betham-Edwards, Matilda, 1836–1919

Snow-flakes and the stories they told the children

[1862]
Accessible in the Study Room
Great Britain. Army. Royal Regiment of Artillery

Report of a professional tour of officers of the Royal Artillery in 1865

1866
Accessible in the Study Room
Daniell, William, 1769–1837

A voyage round Great Britain

1814-1825
Accessible in the Study Room
Middiman, Samuel, approximately 1750–1831

Select views in Great Britain

[1813?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Lady

Original sketches in the Punjaub

1854
Accessible in the Study Room
Patison, Jane M

Gleanings among the British ferns

1858
Accessible in the Study Room
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834

A treatise on Ackermann's superfine water colours

[1801]
Accessible in the Study Room
Armer's (Flookborough, England]

Armer's, Flookborough

[early 19th century]
Accessible in the Study Room
The Chinese sensitive leaf

[approximately 1820?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Six views of Buxton & neighbourhood

[185-?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Williamson, Thomas

Oriental field sports

1807
Accessible in the Study Room
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791

A treatise on ancient armour and weapons,
Accessible in the Study Room
Witton, Philip Henry

Views of the ruins of the principal houses destroyed during the riots at Birmingham =

1791 [i.e. 1792]

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