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1. The art of drawing in its various branches : exemplified in a course of twenty-eight progressive lessons ... / by Thomas Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, Thomas, fl. 1825
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
xiii, [3], 121, [12] p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The English spy: an original work, characteristic, satirical, and humorous. Comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society, being portraits of the illustrious, eminent, eccentric, and notorious. Drawn from the life by Bernard Blackmantle. The illustrations designed by Robert Cruikshank ...

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Creator:
Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy), 1787 or 1788–1868
Date:
1825-1826
Physical Description:
2 v. col. front., ill., col. plates. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Sporting anecdotes, original and selected : including numerous characteristic portraits of persons in every walk of life, who have acquired notoriety from their achievements on the turf, at the table, and in the diversions of the field : with sketches of various animals of the chase : to which is added, an account of noted pedestrians, trotting-matches, cricketers, &c. : the whole forming a complete delineation of the sporting world / by Pierce Egan.

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Creator:
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
iv, [4], 592 pages, [6] leaves of plates, [1] folded : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Sportsman's slang : a new dictionary of terms used in affairs of the turf, the ring, the chase, the pit, of bon-ton, and the varieties of life : forming the completest and most authentic lexicon balatronicum hitherto offered to the notice of the sporting world : for elucidating words and phrases that are necessarily, or purposely, rendered cramp, mutative, and unintelligible, outside their respective spheres : interspersed with anecdotes and whimsies, with tart quotations, and rum-ones, with examples, proofs and monitory precepts useful and proper for novices, flats, and yokels / by Jon Bee, Esq. ...

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Creator:
Badcock, John, active 1816–1830
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, 222 [that is 202] pages, [5] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The Manx sketch book, or, Beauties of the Isle of Man : in a series of lithographic prints : no. 1 / edited by T. Ashe ...

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Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[15] leaves, [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 x 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The life of an actor / by Pierce Egan, author of "Life in London," "Tom and Jerry," "A Musical Drama," etc. ; dedicated to Edmund Kean, Esq. ; the poetical descriptions by T. Greenwood ; embellished with twenty-seven characteristic scenes, etched by Theodore Lane ; enriched also with several original designs on wood, executed by Mr. Thompson.

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Creator:
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
xvi, 272 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts