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1. The decorative painters' and glaziers' guide : containing the most approved methods of imitating oak, mahogney, maple, rose, cedar, coral, and every other kind of fancy wood ... : also a complete body of information on the art of staining and painting on glass ... / by Nathaniel Whittock.

The decorative painters' and glaziers' guide : containing the most approved methods of imitating oak, mahogney, maple, rose, cedar, coral, and every other kind of fancy wood ... : also a complete body of information on the art of staining and painting on glass ... / by Nathaniel Whittock.
Creator:
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
iv, 322 p., [77] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Newly invented portable walking-stick telescope : with achromatic object-glasses, of exceeding great power, by which views of nature's scenery & animate objects are warranted to be seen clearly, at a distance of six miles : made in handsome foreign woods, and sold wholesale, at extremely moderate prices by the manufacturers, J. Somalvico and Co. opticians, London, Hatton Garden.

Newly invented portable walking-stick telescope : with achromatic object-glasses, of exceeding great power, by which views of nature's scenery & animate objects are warranted to be seen clearly, at a distance of six miles : made in handsome foreign woods, and sold wholesale, at extremely moderate prices by the manufacturers, J. Somalvico and Co. opticians, London, Hatton Garden.
Creator:
J. Somalvico & Co
Date:
[between 1842 and 1850]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Hortus ericaeus woburnensis, or, A catalogue of heaths, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey : alphabetically and systematically arranged.

Hortus ericaeus woburnensis, or, A catalogue of heaths, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey : alphabetically and systematically arranged.
Creator:
Sinclair, George, 1786–1834
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
xiv, [2], 42 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Valentine card.

Valentine card.
Date:
[approximately 1859]
Physical Description:
1 card : color lithograph ; 18 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Instructions for collecting, rearing, and preserving British & foreign insects : also for collecting and preserving crustacea and shells / by Abel Ingpen.

Instructions for collecting, rearing, and preserving British & foreign insects : also for collecting and preserving crustacea and shells / by Abel Ingpen.
Creator:
Ingpen, Abel, -1854
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
106 p., 3 leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Cocking and its votaries.

Cocking and its votaries.
Creator:
Taylor, S. A
Date:
1885]
Physical Description:
36, i-iv p., [29] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Classes for oil painting, water colour and pencil drawing, &c., 46, Renfield Street.

Classes for oil painting, water colour and pencil drawing, &c., 46, Renfield Street.
Creator:
MacKenzie, David Maitland, 1800–1875
Date:
May, 1843
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The youths drawing book complete.

The youths drawing book complete.
Creator:
Fussell, Joseph, 1818–1912
Date:
[1832?]
Physical Description:
v. ; illustrations ; 15 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. [Collection of prints illustrating Victoria and Albert and their children].

[Collection of prints illustrating Victoria and Albert and their children].
Date:
ca. 1845]
Physical Description:
[10] sheets : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The railway companion : describing an excursion along the Liverpool Line : accompanined with a succint and popular history of the rise and progress of rail-roads : illustrated with several lithographic views / by a tourist.

The railway companion : describing an excursion along the Liverpool Line : accompanined with a succint and popular history of the rise and progress of rail-roads : illustrated with several lithographic views / by a tourist.
Creator:
Tourist
Date:
MDCCCXXXIII [1833]
Physical Description:
46, [2] p., [5] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Observations on fox-hunting and the management of hounds in the kennel and the field : addressed to a young sportsman, about to undertake a hunting establishment / by Colonel Cook, H.P. 28th Dragoons.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cook, John, 1773–1829
Date:
1826
Physical Description:
xvi, 292 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Rural scenery : coloured / by Calvert.

No cover image available
Creator:
Calvert, Frederick, fl. 1811–1844
Date:
[ca.1825]
Physical Description:
[6] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Sketches of characters in common life / by Edmund Patten.

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Creator:
Patten, Edmund
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
[4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A guide to sketching from nature in water colours / by Leonidas Clint Miles ; with numerous illustrations, drawn on stone and wood by the author.

No cover image available
Creator:
Miles, Leonidas Clint
Date:
1868
Physical Description:
85, 48 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The butterflies of Great Britain : with their transformations delineated and described / by J.O. Westwood ...

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Creator:
Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805–1893
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
xl, 140 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Hunter's annual.

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Creator:
Davis, Richard Barrett, 1782–1854
Date:
1836-1841
Physical Description:
4 pt. : col. ill. ; 63 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The whole art of dress, or, The road to elegance and fashion, at the enormous saving of thirty per cent!!! : being a treatise upon that essential and much-cultivated requisite of the present day, gentlemen's costume : explaining and clearly defining, by a series of beautifully engraved illustrations, the most becoming assortment of colours and style of dress and undress, in all their varieties; suited to different ages and complexions, so as to render the human figure most symmetrical and imposing to the eye : also, directions in the purchase of all kinds of wearing apparel: accompanied by hints for the toilette, containing a few valuable and original recipes; likewise, some advice to the improvement of defects in the person and carriage : together with a dissertation on uniform in general, and the selection of fancy dress / by a cavalry officer.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cavalry officer
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 100 p., 5 [i.e. 6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Specimen of material used in the new ventilating hat : as exhibited, class 6, no. 58 / Gaimes, Sanders & Nicol, 22 Birchin Lane, Cornhill, & 111 Strand, London.

No cover image available
Creator:
Gaimes, Sanders & Nicol
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 9 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A treatise on the æropleustic art, or, Navigation in the air : by means of kites, or buoyant sails : with a description of the charvolant, or kite carriage : and containing numerous most amusing and interesting anecdotes connected with several extraordinary excursions both by sea and land : with characteristic illustrations, drawn on stone by Rose Gilbert ; from designs by David Cox, jun.

No cover image available
Creator:
Pocock, George
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
54 p., [7] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The history of the Royal buckhounds / compiled by J.P. Hore.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hore, John Philip
Date:
MDCCCXCIII [1893]
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 400 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The breeds of the domestic animals of the British Islands / described by David Low ... ; and illustrated with plates, from drawings by Mr. W. Nicholson, R.S.A. ; reduced from a series of portraits from life, executed for the Agricultural Museum of the University of Edinburgh, by Mr. W. Shiels, R.S.A. ; in two volumes.

No cover image available
Creator:
Low, David, 1786–1859
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
2 v. : col. ill. ; 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Polyorama, or Endless changes of landscapes.

No cover image available
Date:
[1824?]
Physical Description:
11 pts. in case. col. ill. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Art embroidery : a treatise on the revived practice of decorative needlework / by M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister ; with nineteen plates printed in colours from designs by Thomas Crane.

No cover image available
Creator:
Lockwood, Mary S. (Mary Smith), 1831–1922
Date:
1878
Physical Description:
83 pages, XIX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

24. Jane Eyre : Charlotte Bronté : Royal Mail Mint Stamps / words: Lucaster Miller.

No cover image available
Creator:
Royal Mail Group (Firm)
Date:
2005
Physical Description:
1 sheet : color illustrations ; 39 x 22 cm, folded to 11 x 22 cm+ [6] postage stamps.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gillian Forrester

25. In-door plants, and how to grow them : for the drawing-room, balcony, and greenhouse : containing clear instructions by which ladies may obtain, at a small expense, a constant supply of flowers / by E.A. Maling ; with frontispiece.

No cover image available
Creator:
Maling, E. A
Date:
1861
Physical Description:
viii, 150 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Entomology in sport, and Entomology in earnest / by the Honorable Mrs. W. and Lady M.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ward, Mary, 1827–1869
Date:
[1859]
Physical Description:
20, 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The marine botanist : an introduction to the study of the British sea-weeds : containing descriptions of all the species, and the best method of preserving them / by Isabella Gifford.

No cover image available
Creator:
Gifford, Isabella
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
xl, 357 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. A plain and easy account of the British ferns : together with their classification, arrangement of genera, structure, and functions ; and a glossary of technical and other terms / edited by Mrs. Lankester ; with illustrations.

No cover image available
Creator:
Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900
Date:
[1859]
Physical Description:
[5], viii-xv, [1], 108, [4] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Free cutting, or, Drawing and story telling with the scissors : correlated with nature study, geography, conversational lessons, etc. : with fourteen additional plates of designs, illustrating geometrical paper cutting and designing : being a systematic course of the art of paper cutting made serviceable to the school and home : illustrated by sixty-three full size plates and notes on lessons / by Millicent A. Smith.

No cover image available
Creator:
Smith, Millicent A.
Date:
[1906]
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 117, [1] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 17 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk

30. Delineations of British field sports : together with the various methods of poachings / drawn in lithography by Samuel Alken.

No cover image available
Creator:
Alken, Samuel, 1756–1815
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
[14] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 x 46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Examples of mediæval foliage and coloured decoration, taken from buildings of the twelfth to the fifteenth century: with descriptive letterpress. By James Kellaway Colling ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Colling, James Kellaway
Date:
1874
Physical Description:
vii, 72 p. illus., 76 pl. 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The experiences of an amateur artist / by C. M. W.

No cover image available
Creator:
Webber, Catherine Mary, 1831–1900
Date:
1858
Physical Description:
34 leaves : all ill. ; 10 x 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Guide to figure drawing / by G.E. Hicks ; with illustrations.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hicks, George Elgar, 1824–1914
Date:
1869
Physical Description:
47 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The royal Windsor pair : a nations welcome : heaven protect them.

No cover image available
Date:
[1840?]
Physical Description:
1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; 14 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hilda Lease Jay.

35. Certificate of honour presented to [M. A. P.-R. D. Arm. 4 (b)] savings group : in grateful acknowledgement of successful achievement in Salute the Soldier National Savings Campaign 1944.

No cover image available
Date:
[1944]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Twelve crochet edgings, with illustrative engravings / edited by G. Curling Hope, author of "The Art of Crochet," "My Working Friend," Etc.

No cover image available
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
25, [7] pages, [1], ([1] folded leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. J.D. Harding's early drawing-book.

No cover image available
Creator:
Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
[2] p., 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Cox & Sons' illustrated catalogue of monuments, crosses and headstones, tomb rails, mural tablets, brasses, bronzes, &c. : from original designs by architects and others : including Sir M. Digby Wyatt, W.S. Barber, J. Buck, G. Goldie, J.T. Irvine, A. Smith, S.W. Tracey, B.J. Talbert, and S.J. Nicholl, Esqrs.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cox & Sons
Date:
June 1875
Physical Description:
28 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. [Collection of engravings on wood and steel].

No cover image available
Creator:
Morton, William
Date:
[185-?]
Physical Description:
[128] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The young artist.

No cover image available
Date:
[1865?]
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Passages in the life of a soldier, or, Military service in the East and West / by Lieut.-Colonel Sir James E. Alexander, Knt., K.C.L.S. ; fellow of the Royal Geographical and Asiatic Societies, etc. ; in two volumes.

No cover image available
Creator:
Alexander, James Edward, Sir, 1803–1885
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The art of sketching flowers from nature : with coloured illustrations / by R. Willett Lucas.

No cover image available
Creator:
Lucas, Ralph Willett, 1796–1874
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
iv, 45 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 1853.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. An historical record of the Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster : with the muster rolls from the first formation of the regiment, MDCCLXXIX, to the relodgement of the standards in the tower, MDCCCXXIX.

No cover image available
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
vi, 279, [1], [108], xviii, [2] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. An historical and descriptive account of Brimham Rocks in the West Riding of Yorkshire : intended as a guide to visitors.

No cover image available
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
24 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Flowers from nature : with the botanical name, class, and order ; and instructions for copying : lithographed and coloured from drawings / by Anne Everard ; dedicated, by permission, to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

No cover image available
Creator:
Everard, Anne
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
[8] p., 13 leaves, 13 leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Lively sallies : after Punch.

No cover image available
Creator:
Parkinson, William, fl. 1883–1895
Date:
[1870?]
Physical Description:
[7] leaves : ill ; 23 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. The works of James Gillray, the caricaturist : with the story of his life and times / edited by Thomas Wright ; with over four hundred illustrations.

No cover image available
Creator:
Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:
[1873]
Physical Description:
[2], 376 p., [81] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

48. English pleasure carriages : their origin, history, varieties, materials, construction, defects, improvements, and capabilities : with an analysis of the construction of common roads and railroads, and the public vehicles used on them : together with descriptions of new inventions ... / by William Bridges Adams ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Adams, William Bridges, 1797–1872
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
xviii p., 1 l., 315 p., [35] leaves of plates : ill ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Reliquiæ isurianæ : the remains of the Roman Isurium, (now Aldborough, near Boroughbridge, Yorkshire) / illustrated by Henry Ecroyd Smith ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Smith, Henry Ecroyd, 1823–1889
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
ii, 62, iv p., [36] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Characteristics of British palaces, in the olden time / the letter-press description by Mrs. S.C. Hall ; the plates drawn on stone by Joseph Nash, author of "Mansions in England in the olden time.".

No cover image available
Creator:
Hall, S. C., Mrs., 1800–1881
Date:
[1838]
Physical Description:
42 pages, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Lusus naturae / Wendy Mulford ; illustrated by Liz Rideal.

Lusus naturae / Wendy Mulford ; illustrated by Liz Rideal.
Creator:
Mulford, Wendy
Date:
1990
Physical Description:
[23] p. : ill. ; 21 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Cambridge customs and costumes : containing upwards of one hundred and fifty vignettes / by the author of "Familiar illustrations of the language of mathematics."

No cover image available
Creator:
Roget, John Lewis, 1828–1908
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
[2] p., 9 leaves : ill. ; 27 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The little flower maker.

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Creator:
Peachey, Emma
Date:
[1869]
Physical Description:
[12] leaves : ill. ; 15 x 22 cm. + 1 booklet (12 p.) ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Windsor pair : daily seen at the royal table.

No cover image available
Date:
[183-?]
Physical Description:
[1] sheet : ill. ; 24 x 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Park rding : containing instructions for acquiring the Grecian seat, the favourite and fashionable position acquired by ladies in the trot : with some remarks on the art of horsemanship / by J. Rimell Dunbar, professor of equitation.

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Creator:
Dunbar, J. Rimell
Date:
1861
Physical Description:
viii, 24, 23-94, [2] pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. The English school of painting in water-colours : its theory and practice. With the several stages of progression. Accompanied with forty-seven illustrations in the first style of chromo-lithography. By Aaron Penley ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Penley, Aaron Edwin, 1807–1870
Date:
1880
Physical Description:
2 p. l., [iii]-viii, [2], 130 p. mounted col. front., 46 col. plates mounted on 25 l. 56 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. W. Belch's Life of William the 4th.

No cover image available
Creator:
Belch, William
Date:
1830?]
Physical Description:
[8] leaves : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Pictures for painting / by Kate Greenaway ; with outlines from her various works for boys & girls to paint.

No cover image available
Creator:
Greenaway, Kate, 1846–1901
Date:
[1919]
Physical Description:
[9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. A critical inquiry into antient armour : as it existed in Europe, particularly in Great Britain from the Norman conquest to the reign of King Charles II ... / by Samuel Rush Meyrick.

No cover image available
Creator:
Meyrick, Samuel Rush, 1783–1848
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Lessons on trees / by J.D. Harding ; author of "Lessons on Art," "Elementary Art," "The Principles and practice of Art," &c. &c.

No cover image available
Creator:
Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:
MDCCCL [1850]
Physical Description:
[6] p., 30 leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Cambridge University boating costumes.

No cover image available
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : all ill. ; 32 x 39 cm, folded to 10 x 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Monumental brasses and slabs : an historical and descriptive notice of the incised monumental memorials of the Middle Ages with numerous illustrations / by Charles Boutell.

No cover image available
Creator:
Boutell, Charles, 1812–1877
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xv, 235, [6] p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Costumes of British ladies from the time of William the Ist to the reign of Queen Victoria.

No cover image available
Date:
[1843-1845]
Physical Description:
[49] leaves, [49] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 35-37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. My Lord Mayor's album, or, Cockney sports : the first of September.

No cover image available
Creator:
Heath, Henry, active 1824–1850
Date:
[1835]
Physical Description:
[27] leaves : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The hand book on making paper flowers ... / by Foster, Son, & Duncan, of 16 Wigmore Street, artificial florists & plumassiers, importers & manufacturers of materials used by artifical flower makers.

No cover image available
Creator:
Foster, Son & Duncum
Date:
[approximately 1851]
Physical Description:
2, 6 leaves, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Plain instructions for colouring photographs in water colours and india ink : embracing full directions for colouring photographs, engravings, lithographs, etc., by the Grecian process : with a palette of flesh tints, and notes of explanation / by M.P. Simons.

No cover image available
Creator:
Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
xiv, [1], 15-61, [9] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The comic album : a book for every table.

No cover image available
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
[140] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. New readings of old authors.

No cover image available
Creator:
Seymour, Robert, 1798–1836
Date:
[1830-1835]
Physical Description:
26 v. : chiefly ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Histories of noble British families : with biographical notices of the most distinguished individuals in each : illustrated by their armorial bearings, portraits, monuments, seals, etc.

No cover image available
Creator:
Drummond, Henry, 1786–1860
Date:
1842-1846
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. A sketch of the origin and progress of steam navigation from authentic documents / by Bennet Woodcroft, professor of machinery in University College, London ; with illustrations.

No cover image available
Creator:
Woodcroft, Bennet, 1803–1879
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
[10], iv, 140 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Reminiscences of a yachting cruise. / by Mrs. N.M. Condy ; illustrated by four lithographic drawing by T.G. Dutton, Esq., from sketches by the late N.M. Condy, Esq. ; with a portrait of that gentleman, from a painting by his father.

No cover image available
Creator:
Condy, Flora Ross
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
viii, 47, [1] p, [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Lessons in flower painting. : a series of easy and progressive studies, drawn and coloured after nature. / by James Andrews.

No cover image available
Creator:
Andrews, James, 1806–1876
Date:
[1836]
Physical Description:
4 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Parentalia : genealogical memoirs / compiled by George Ormerod, D.C.L., F.R.S., of Tyldesley and Sedbury Park.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ormerod, George, 1785–1873
Date:
MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:
iv, 114, [4] p., [9] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Colour, as a means of art : being an adaptation of the experience of professors to the practice of amateurs / by Frank Howard ...

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Creator:
Howard, Frank, 1805–1866
Date:
1849
Physical Description:
vi, [7]-108 p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Oriental tooth paste : an unrivalled preparation for cleansing, beautifying & preserving the teeth & gums.

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Creator:
J. & E. Atkinson's Perfumery
Date:
[188-?]
Physical Description:
[1] sheet : ill. ; 9 x 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Elementary art, or, The use of the chalk and lead pencil advocated and explained / by J.D. Harding.

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Creator:
Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
iv, 97 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. The Durobrivae of Antoninus : identified and illustrated in a series of plates : exhibiting the excavated remains of that Roman station, in the vicinity of Castor, Northamptonshire : including the mosaic pavements, inscriptions, paintings in fresco, baths, iron and glass furnaces, potters' kilns, implements for coining, and the manufacture of earthen vessels, war and other instruments in brass, iron, ivory, &c / discovered by E.T. Artis, F.S.A.F.G.S. &c. &c.

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Creator:
Artis, Edmund Tyrell, 1789–1847
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages, LX leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 45 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Hardy ferns : how I collected and cultivated them / by Nona Bellairs ; with a frontispiece.

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Creator:
Bellairs, Nona Maria Stephenson
Date:
1865
Physical Description:
128, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Practical hints upon landscape gardening : with some remarks on domestic architecture, as connected with scenery / by William S. Gilpin, Esq.

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Creator:
Gilpin, William Sawrey, 1762–1843
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
xii, 228 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. An historical record of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards or Oxford Blues : its services, and the transactions in which it has been engaged, from its first establishment to the present time / by Edmund Packe ...

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Creator:
Packe, Edmund
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
xix, 152 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Russian ballet / David Bomberg.

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Creator:
Bomberg, David, 1890–1957
Date:
1919
Physical Description:
[16] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. A letter addressed to the Rt. Hon. Lord John Russell ... : on the formation of a new national gallery, and the preservation of works of art : illustrated with plans / by an Old Traveller.

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Creator:
Traveller, Old
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
26 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : plans ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. The "Ladies of Llangollen", as sketched by many hands : with notices of other objects of interest in "that sweetest of vales" / by John Hicklin.

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Creator:
Hicklin, John
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
31 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Ashbee and Dangerfield, lithographic artists & printers in colors, ornamental designers and engravers on wood & copper : 22 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C.

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Creator:
Ashbee & Dangerfield
Date:
[between 1855 and 1860]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 32 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Cartoons: "the second childhood of John Bull"/ by Max Beerbohm.

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Creator:
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872–1956
Date:
[1911]
Physical Description:
1 portfolio ([34] leaves : 15 col. ill.) ; 53 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Selections from views of the residences and county seats of the nobility and gentry : which illustrate the most important national work entitled The mansions of England and Wales / by John Bartlett.

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Creator:
Bartlett, John, architect
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
[15] leaves, [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 x 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. New cyclopædia of botany and complete book of herbs : forms a history and description of all plants, British or foreign.

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Creator:
Brook, Richard, fl. 1847
Date:
[1860?]
Physical Description:
2 v. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Morning calls.

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Date:
[1830s?]
Physical Description:
[15] leaves : illustrations ; 12 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Modern practical farriery : a complete guide to all that relates to the horse, its history, varieties, and uses : breaking, training, feeding, stabling, and grooming : how to buy, keep and treat a horse in health and disease, etc. etc. : forming a complete system of the veterinary art, as at present practised at the Royal Veterinary College, London / by W.J. Miles, M.R.C.V.S.L. ; with numerous illustrations and a series of anatomical plates, engraved from original drawings from nature, by Benjamin Herring, Esq. ; to which is added an essay on the diseases and management of cattle, sheep, and pigs by J.L. Lupton, M.R.C.V.S.

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Creator:
Miles, W. J. (William J.)
Date:
1885
Physical Description:
[2], 536, vii, [1], iv, 96 pages, 39 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Elements of drawing and flower painting : in opaque and transparent water-colours / by Mrs. E.E. Perkins ; honored by the especial patronage of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

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Creator:
Perkins, Elizabeth Steele
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
xvi, [1], 18-66, [6] pages, [14] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Ferny combes : a ramble after ferns in the glens and valleys of Devonshire / by Charlotte Chanter.

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Creator:
Chanter, Charlotte, 1828–1882
Date:
1856
Physical Description:
118 p., VIII, [1] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. The log of a merchant officer : viewed with reference to the education of young officers and the youth of the merchant service / by Robert Methven, Commander in the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and author of the "Narrative of the Blenheim Hurricane of 1851" ; with an editorial preface by Dr. Lyon Playfair ; illustrated from sketches by the author.

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Creator:
Methven, Robert
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
xiv, 52, [4], 53-61, [24], 63-68 pages, [7] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, map ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. A series of eight plates of fox hunting / from the original drawings by W. P. Hodges, Esqr. ; and engraved by Mr. Henry Alken.

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Creator:
Hodges, Walter Parry, 1760–1845
Date:
1833[-1834]
Physical Description:
[2], 8, [1] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 76 x 56 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The melange of humour : a series of fifty coloured engravings, comprising a great variety of comic subjects / by the most popular artists of the present day.

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Date:
[1824?]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [50] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. The dwellings of the labouring classes, their arrangement and construction; illustrated by a reference to the model houses of the Society for improving the condition of the labouring classes, with other buildings recently erected: and an appendix, containing H.R.H. Prince Albert's exhibition model houses, Hyde Park, 1851; the model cottages &c., built by the Windsor royal society; with plans and elevations of dwellings adapted to towns, as well as to agricultural and manufacturing districts. By Henry Roberts.

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Creator:
Roberts, Henry, 1803–1876
Date:
[1853]
Physical Description:
3 p. ., 65 p. incl. illus., plates, plans. 12 pl. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Peep at Brighton / by Alfred Crowquill ; lithographed by Mr. Chas. J. Basebe ; in six scenes.

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Creator:
Crowquill, Alfred
Date:
June 29th, 1848
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The poet's corner / by Max Beerbohm.

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Creator:
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872–1956
Date:
1904
Physical Description:
[20] leaves : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mr. & Mrs. John E. Hankins

98. Four views of the Royal Steam Yacht "Victoria & Albert" : taken during the visit of Her Most Gracious Majesty to the port of Plymouth / painted by N. Condy ; lithographed by Louis Haghe.

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Date:
[1843]
Physical Description:
[4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. The national drawing master : on a new principle greatly facilitating self-instruction in landscape and figure drawing ... / by W.A. Nicholls.

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Creator:
Nicholls, W. A
Date:
[1858]
Physical Description:
viii, xxxvi, 118 p., [56] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Remarkable instances of the protection of certain ships of Her Majesty's Navy, from the destructive effects of lightning : collected from official and other authenticated documents ; to which is added a list of two hundred and twenty cases of ships of Her Majesty's Navy struck and damaged by lightning, abridged from the official logs of the ships / by W. Snow Harris, F.R.S. &c.

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Creator:
Harris, W. Snow (William Snow), Sir, 1791–1867
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
61, [3], 8 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts