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1. A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : illustrated with copper-plates : designed principally for the information of such ladies as practise the above arts : and absolutely necessary to all students, who wish to acquire correctness in the outline of the human figure / by W.F. Wells.

A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : illustrated with copper-plates : designed principally for the information of such ladies as practise the above arts : and absolutely necessary to all students, who wish to acquire correctness in the outline of the human figure / by W.F. Wells.
Creator:
Wells, William Frederick, 1762–1836
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
[4], 19, [1] page, [6] leaves of plates : illlustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Polymetis: or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists. Being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. By the Rev.d Mr. Spence.

Polymetis: or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists. Being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. By the Rev.d Mr. Spence.
Creator:
Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
xii, 361, [1] p. front. (port.) illus., XLI pl. (part fold.) 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Museum Britannicum : being an exhibition of a great variety of antiquities and natural curiosities, belonging to that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : illustrated with curious prints, engraved after the original designs, from nature, other objects : and with distinct explanations of each figure / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk, pictors.

Museum Britannicum : being an exhibition of a great variety of antiquities and natural curiosities, belonging to that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : illustrated with curious prints, engraved after the original designs, from nature, other objects : and with distinct explanations of each figure / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk, pictors.
Creator:
Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750–1788
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
[4], xvi, 84 pages, XXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A collection of prints in imitation of drawings. To which are annexed lives of their authors with explanatory and critical notes, by Charles Rogers ...

A collection of prints in imitation of drawings. To which are annexed lives of their authors with explanatory and critical notes, by Charles Rogers ...
Creator:
Rogers, Charles, 1711–1784
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
2 v. illus., plates, ports. 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Antiquities of London and its environs / engraved and published by John Thomas Smith ; dedicated to Sir James Winter Lake ... ; containing views of houses, monuments, statues, and other curious remains of antiquity engraved from original drawings, communicated by several members of the Society of Antiquaries ; with remarks and references to the historical works of Pennant, Lysons, Stowe, Weaver, Camden, Maitland, &c.

Antiquities of London and its environs / engraved and published by John Thomas Smith ; dedicated to Sir James Winter Lake ... ; containing views of houses, monuments, statues, and other curious remains of antiquity engraved from original drawings, communicated by several members of the Society of Antiquaries ; with remarks and references to the historical works of Pennant, Lysons, Stowe, Weaver, Camden, Maitland, &c.
Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1791-[1800]
Physical Description:
[96] leaves : chiefly ill., ports. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The elegant repository and new-print magazine : including engravings from original pictures of the most pleasing subjects, furnished by the art of design.

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Date:
[1791-1792]
Physical Description:
XII parts ([48] p., [37] leaves of plates ) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Memoirs of the life of David Garrick, esq. : interspersed with characters and anecdotes of his theatrical contemporaries : the whole forming a history of the stage, which includes a period of thirty-six years / by Thomas Davies.

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Creator:
Davies, Thomas, 1713–1785
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
2 v. : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West coast of America : to which are prefixed, an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the ship Nootka : observations on the probable existence of a North West Passage : and some account of the trade between the North West Coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain / by John Meares, Esq.

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Creator:
Meares, John, 1756?-1809
Date:
MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:
viii, [12], xcv, [1], 372, [108] pages, ([28] leaves of plates, [4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The biographical mirrour : comprising a series of ancient and modern English portraits of eminent and distinguished persons, from original pictures and drawings.

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Creator:
Waldron, F. G. (Francis Godolphin), 1744–1818
Date:
1795-[1814]
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The seasons / by James Thomson ; adorned with a set of engravings, from original paintings ; together with an original life of the author, and a critical essay on the seasons. By Robert Heron.

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Creator:
Thomson, James, 1700–1748
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
Physical Description:
6, lii, 250, 39 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African ... : to which are prefixed, memoirs of his life ...

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Creator:
Sancho, Ignatius, 1729–1780
Date:
1782
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 : fronts. (v.1: port.) ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Essays by a society of gentlemen, at Exeter ...

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Date:
[1796]
Physical Description:
viii, 573, 1 p., 5 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A practical treatise on farriery : deduced from the experience of above forty years, in the services, of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart., the present Earl Grosvenor, and, the present Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, bart. / by William Griffiths, Groom, at Wynnstay.

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Creator:
Griffiths, William, groom
Date:
[1784]
Physical Description:
[4], iii, [1], 184, [14] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The cabinet of the arts : a series of engravings by English artists : from original designs by Stothard, Harding, Van Assen, Cosway, Mather Brown, Burney, Corbould, Porter, Paul Sanby [i.e. Sandby], Catton ...

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Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[119] leaves : all ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts