Creator Gender: unknown / Period: 18th century / Associated Places: Great Britain / Image Available: Unavailable / Classification: Books

1. An abstract of the act of Parliament made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, King George III. intitled, An act for the further and better regulation of buildings and party-walls, and for the more effectually preventing mischief by fire, within the cities of London and Westminster ... Calculated for the use of builders, and workmen in general.

Creator:: Matthews, John, 1748–
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: viii, 76, [12] p. 3 fold. plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A catalogue of the collection of pictures, &c. belonging to King James the Second : to which is added, A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the closet of the late Queen Caroline, with their exact measures, and also of the principal pictures in the palace at Kensington.

Creator:: Chiffinch, William, 1602?-1688
Date:: MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:: iv, 144, 51, [3] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Biographia britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, to the present times : collected from the best authorities, printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary.

Date:: 1778-1793
Physical Description:: 5 v. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, in England and Wales / by the most eminent British artists : with a description of each seat.

Date:: [1786-1788]
Physical Description:: [101] leaves, [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A letter to George, Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries, &c. &c. &c. : read to the Society Feb. 7, 1788 / from John Henniker, Esq., ...

Creator:: Henniker, John Henniker-Major, Baron, 1752–1821
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: 64 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

6. An essay on design in gardening.

Creator:: Mason, George, 1735–1806
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: [iv], 54 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The new complete sportsman, or, The town and country gentleman's recreation : containing among the various diversions which are made plain and easy to every capacity ...: together with many other equally curious articles, too numerous to mention here, and including many useful directions to horse-feeders, grooms and others ...

Creator:: Fairfax, Thomas, Esq
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: iv, 302 [i.e. 202], [2] p, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Letters concerning the present state of England. Particularly respecting the politics, arts, manners, and literature of the times.

Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., ii, 9-402 p. 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

Date:: 1771 [i.e. 1772]
Physical Description:: [2], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The carpenter's companion for Chinese railing and gates : containing thirty-three entire new and beautiful designs ... : the whole correctly and neatly engraved on sixteen copper plates from the original drawings of J.H. Morris ... and J. Crunden.

Creator:: Morris, J. H
Date:: 1765
Physical Description:: [2], [16] plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

12. Museum Britannicum, or, A display in thirty two plates, in antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk ...

Creator:: Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750–1788
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: [2], 2, 2, [8], xvii, [1], 88 pages, XXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 48 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. An Act for better preservation of the game, within that part of Great Britain called England.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: [2], 347-350 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Remarks made in a tour from London to the lakes of Westmoreland and Cumberland in the summer of M.DCC.XCI. Originally published in the Whitehall Evening Post, and now reprinted with additions and corrections. To which is annexed, A sketch of the police, religion, arts, and agriculture of France, made in an excursion to Paris in M.DCC.LXXXV. By A. Walker, ...

Creator:: Walker, A. (Adam), 1730 or 31–1821
Date:: M,DCC,XCII [1792]
Physical Description:: [6], 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Six new designs for convenient farm-houses : with their proper offices : ... both in in brick and stone : adapted more particularly to the western counties in England, and the whole principality of Wales ... : [part II] Six new designs for convenient farm-houses ... : adapted more particularly to the northern counties in England and all Scotland ... / by William Halfpenny ; ... published ... May 20th, 1751.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: [2], 46 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Original designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for villas, mansions, town-houses, &c., and a new design for a theatre : with descriptions, and explanations of the plates, and an introduction to the work / by James Lewis = Disegni originali di architettura : consistenti in piante, elevazioni, e spaccati di varie case di campagna, et di città : con un projetto di un teatro : preceduti da una introduzione, ed accompagnati dalle necessaire spiegazioni / da Giacomo Lewis.

Creator:: Lewis, James, 1750 or 1751–1820
Date:: MDCCLXXX [1780]-1797
Physical Description:: 2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 60 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

Date:: [1776]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves, [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A sure method of improving estates, by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice-woods, &c. : wherein is demonstrated the necessity and advantages thereof : their manner of raising, cultivating, felling, &c., in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improv'd : offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain / by Batty Langley, of Twickenham.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:: [10], xx, 274 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The English baronetage : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English baronets, now existing ... illustrated with their coats of arms ... to which are added, an account of such Nova-Scotia baronets as are of English families, now resident in England : and a list of such persons names who were deemed fit and qualifiwed at the restoration, to be made Knights of the Royal Oak ...

Creator:: Wotton, Thomas, d. 1766
Date:: 1741
Physical Description:: 4 v. in 5 : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The complete English traveller, or, A new survey and description of England and Wales : containing a full account of whatever is curious and entertaining in the several counties of England and Wales, the isles of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, and other islands adjoining to, and dependant on the crown of Great Britain ... : to which is added, a concise and accurate description of ... Scotland .../ by Nathaniel Spencer ...

Creator:: Sanders, Robert, 1727–1783
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: iv, 696 [i.e. 700], [12] p., [61] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. [Cost of artificial slate in roofing compared with that of plain tiles and that of slate].

Creator:: Searles, Michael, fl. 1779–1781
Date:: 1779?]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Le cabinet des plus beaux portraits des plusieurs princes & princesses, hommes illustres, fameux peintres & autres / faits par le fameux Antoine Van Dyck, Chevalier et Peintre du Roi, quel l'auteur a fait graver à ses propres dépens, par les meilleurs graveurs de son temps ; cette ouvrage peut aussi servir pour supplement au Cabinet du fameux van Dyck, imprimez à Anvers.

Creator:: Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641
Date:: MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [49] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. An account of Roman antiquities discovered at Woodchester in the county of Gloucester / by Samuel Lysons ...

Creator:: Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [6], 20, [4], 21, [1] p., XL leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), map, plans ; 59 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. An Act for the better preservation of the game in that part of Great Britain called England.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [2], 683-686 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. An answer to certain assertions : contained in the appendix to a pamphlet entitled Minutes of the proceedings on the court martial held at Portsmouth, August 12, 1792, on ten persons charged with mutiny on board His Majesty's Ship the Bounty / by Captain William Bligh.

Creator:: Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [2], 31, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The antiquities of England and Wales / by Francis Grose ...

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1773-1787
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill., maps, port., plans ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: [4], 75, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A new display of the beauties of England, or, A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom.

Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. An account of the operations carried on for accomplishing a trigonometrical survey of England and Wales ...

Creator:: Mudge, William, 1762–1820
Date:: 1799-1811
Physical Description:: 3 v. plates (partly fold.) incl. maps, tables, diagrs. 29 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Minutes of the proceedings at a court-martial assembled for the trial of the Honourable Admiral Augustus Keppel : on a charge exhibited against him by Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, as taken by George Jackson, Esq; Judge-Advocate of His Majesty's Fleet. Published by order of the Right Honourble the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. : With an appendix containing all the letters and papers that have any relation to the trial.

Creator:: Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725–1786
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1779]
Physical Description:: [4], 182 p. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The acts of Parliament relating to the building fifty new churches in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and for making provision for the ministers thereof, as also His Majesty's letters patent, appointing commissioners for the purposes aforesaid.

Creator:: Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc
Date:: 1721
Physical Description:: 179, [21] p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for publick and private buildings / publish'd by William Kent, with some additional designs.

Creator:: Jones, Inigo, 1573–1652
Date:: MDCCXXVII [1727]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 46-52 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Designs in perspective for villas in the ancient castle and Grecian styles / by Robert Morison ; part the first.

Creator:: Morison, Robert
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [8] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

Creator:: Shebbeare, John, 1709–1788
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. More lyric odes to the Royal academicians / by Peter Pindar, esquire ; a distant relation of the poet of Thebes, and laureat to the academy.

Creator:: Pindar, Peter, 1738–1819
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: 35, [1] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. All sorts of wheel-carriage, improved : wherein it is plainly made appear, that a much less than the usual draught of horses, &c. will be requir'd, in waggons, carts, coaches, and all other wheel vehicles, as likewise all water-mills, wind-mills and horse-mills ... The whole illustrated with copper plates ... And an explanation of the structure of a coach and cart, according to this method / by Jacob Rowe, Esq;.

Creator:: Rowe, Jacob
Date:: 1734
Physical Description:: [4], 38, [2] p. (last leaf blank), [5] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. The nobleman and gentleman's director and assistant, in the true choice of their wheel-carriages : being entire new designs for travelling-coaches, post-coaches, landaus both open and close, chariots, post-chariots, calashes, post-chaises, phaetons, and other vehicles, &c. curiously hung on steel springs. Being a work of universal use, not only to gentlemen, but coach-makers and spring-makers in general. The wheels and axle-trees are made of a proper height, so as to enable the horses to draw freely and with the greatest ease; many a fine horse having been totally spoiled by going up great ascents, and all owing to fixing improperly the wheels and axis. The whole drawn from original designs, executed and correctly engraved on thirty-six copper plates.

Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: [2] p., 36 leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. An heroic postscript to the public, occasioned by their favourable reception of a late heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... By the author of that epistle ...

Creator:: Mason, William, 1725–1797
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 14 p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England ... : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities / by Arthur Collins ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1735
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 4 : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. A tour through the Isle of Man : to which is subjoined a review of the Manks history / by David Robertson, Esq.

Creator:: Robertson, David, active 1794
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [12], 233, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Magnae Britanniae Notitia : or, The present state of Great Britain; with divers remarks upon the antient state thereof. / By John Chamberlayne, ...

Creator:: Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616–1703
Date:: MDCCXXIII (1723)
Physical Description:: [4], vi, [12], 672, 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A list of the peers existing at the time of King James I : his accession to the crown, and of those who have since been advanced to the peerage by claim of ancient right, by writ, or by patent : as also of the several peers extinct in his and the succeeding reigns.

Date:: Printed in the year MDCCLXII [1772]
Physical Description:: 16 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The curiosities, natural and artificial, of the island of Great Britain : containing a full and accurate description of whatever is remarkable and worthy of notice in the works of nature and art in the several counties, cities, towns, villages &c. of England, Wales and Scotland : the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, public buildings, places of resort and entertainment, &c. : carefully and faithfully displayed.

Date:: [1780?]
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... / originally begun by the celebrated Daniel De Foe, continued by the late Mr. Richardson ... and brought down to the present time by gentlemen of eminence in the literary world.

Creator:: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: 4 v. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

Creator:: Longmate, Barak, 1738–1793
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

Creator:: Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: 43 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo).
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 33 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. A succinct description of that elaborate pile of art, call'd the microcosm.

Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: 32 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. A correct view of the telegraph : with the cabin, and manner of working explained / engraved and sold, by Mr. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

Creator:: Orme, Daniel, b. 1767
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill. ; 15 cm. + [1] plate.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Rural architecture, or, Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa / including some of which have been executed by the author, John Plaw.

Creator:: Plaw, John, 1744 or 5–1820
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: 8, viii, [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England, now existing, either by tenure, summons or creation : their descents and collateral lines : their births, marriages, and issues ... : also their paternal coats of arms, crests, and supporters ... : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities / by Arthur Collins ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1741
Physical Description:: 4 v. : coats of arms ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

Date:: 1766-1769
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Prospects of all the cathedral & collegiate churches of England & Wales , neatly engraved = Veues de toutes les eglises, cathedrals et collegiats d'Angleterre et de Galle, proprement gravée.

Date:: [ca. 1720?]
Physical Description:: [9] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. The chair-maker's guide : being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain ... / by Robert Manwaring, ... ; and others ; the whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper plates.

Creator:: Manwaring, Robert
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: [2] p., [75] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. [Rural views].

Creator:: John Bluck, active 1791–1819
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. A series of plans for cottages or habitations of the labourer : either in husbandry or the mechanic arts, adapted as well to towns as to the country. Engraved on thirty plates. To which is added, an introduction, containing many useful observations on this class of building; tending to the comfort of the poor and advantage of the builder : with calculations of expences / by the late Mr. J. Wood, of Bath, Architect.

Creator:: Wood, John, -1782
Date:: MDCCXCII (1792)
Physical Description:: [2], 38 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales .../ by Daniel Paterson ...

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xxxv, [1] p., 390 columns, 391-406 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

Creator:: Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: MDCCLXXXI [1776]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, ii, 11, [5] pages, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improved : being an actual survey of all the direct and principal cross roads of England and Wales : shewing all the cities, towns, villages, churches, gentlemen's seats, &c. situated on, or near any of the roads ... / engraved by Emanuel Bowen ... ; to which is added an accurate historical and topographical description of all the cities, boroughs, towns corporate, and other places of note ; compiled from the best authorities, by John Owen ... ; the whole illustrated with maps of all the counties of South-Britain, and a summary description of each.

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: 1764
Physical Description:: 12, 273 p. : coats of arms, maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: viii, xxiii, [1] pages, 238 columns, [1] page, [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 18 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

Creator:: Matthews, John, lieutenant in the Royal Navy
Date:: MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description:: 24 pages, [21] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. A new and compleat system of architecture delineated, in a variety of plans and elevations of designs for convenient and decorated houses : together with offices and out-buildings proportioned thereto, and appropriated to the several uses and situations required : as also, an estimate of each by the great square : prefix'd to these are ten different sorts of piers, with gates of various compositions suitable to the same : intended for entrances to courts, gardens, &c. as also new architectonic rules for drawing the members, in all kinds and proportions of the orders : and to them are also added a perspective view of the sinking pier of Westminster-Bridge, with the two adjoining arches : and a method proposed by trusses &c. to take off 3/4 of the weight, or abutment and pressure now on the pier, and discharge it as set forth on the plate / the whole comprised on 47 copper plates, with explanations thereto in common press-work neatly engraved and design'd by William Halfpenny.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: [4], 25, [1] p., [47] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. [Pattern book for English knife and fork handles].

Date:: [ca. 1780?]
Physical Description:: [5] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The present state of Great Britain and North America : with regard to agriculture, population, trade, and manufactures, impartially considered : containing a particular account of the dearth and scarcity of the necessaries of life in England; the want of staple commodities in the Colonies; the decline of their trade; increase of people; and necessity of manufactures, as well as of a trade in them hereafter : in which the causes and consequences of there growing evils, and methods of preventing them, are suggested; the proper regulations for the Colonies, and the taxes imposed upon them, are considered, and compared with their condition and circumstances.

Creator:: Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Date:: MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:: [8], xvi, 363, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. A tour to the west of England, in 1788 / By the Rev. S. Shaw, ...

Creator:: Shaw, Stebbing, 1762–1802
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: viii, 602 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. An Act for the better preservation of the game in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: [1751]
Physical Description:: [2], 867-868 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. New practical improvements, and observations on some of the experiments and considerations touching colours : of the honourable and judicious Robert Boyle, esq., so far as they relate to tinctures and pigments : intended for the use of gentlemen and ladies that amuse themselves with painting in water colours, as well as designers and limners, &c. / by John Hoofnail.

Creator:: Hoofnail, John
Date:: 1738
Physical Description:: vi, 2, 64 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Bowles's art of painting in water-colours : exemplified in landscapes, flowers, &c. : together with instructions for painting on glass and in crayons : explained in a full and familiar manner : with particular directions for preparing the colours agreeable to the practice of the most eminent masters / by the author of Bowles's artist's assistant.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: 1787
Physical Description:: [i]-iv, [5-7], 8-80 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. A catalogue of Hogarth's original works / to be had of Mrs. Hogarth, at her house, at the Golden Head, Leicester Fields, London. 1784.

Creator:: Hogarth, Jane, 1711?-1789
Date:: [1784]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 33 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Statutes of the most honourable Order of the Bath.

Creator:: Order of the Bath
Date:: 1725, reprinted 1812
Physical Description:: viii, 77 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. One hundred & fifty new designs / by Thos. Johnson, carver ; consisting of cielings [sic], chimney pieces, slab, glass & picture frames, stands for china &c., clock & watch cases, girondoles, brackets, grates, lanthorns, &c. &c. ; the whole well adapted for decorating all kinds of ornamental furniture, in the present taste ; engrav'd on 56 copper plates.

Creator:: Johnson, Thos. (Thomas), 1714?-approximately 1778
Date:: 1761
Physical Description:: 4 pt. in 1 : all ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. A description of nine historical prints, representing kings, queens, princes, &c, of the Tudor family. Selected, drawn, and engraved, from the original paintings, by George Vertue, late engraver to the Society of antiquaries of London.

Creator:: Vertue, George, 1684–1756
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 21 p. 9 double pl. (incl. ports.) 60 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Cupid's magick lantern / from designs by Woodward ; etch'd by Rowlandson.

Date:: [1797]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : ill. ; 23 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

76. 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.

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

77. Edward Ryland : copper plate printer in the Old Bailey near Ludgate Hill, London.

Creator:: Ryland, Edwd. (Edward), active approximately 1762–1775
Date:: [ca. 1760]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 27 x 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. A survey of the cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Lichfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, and Bristol : giving an account of their foundations, builders, antient monuments and inscriptions, endowments, alienations, sales of lands, patronages, dates of consecreation, admission, preferment, deaths, burials, and epithaphs of the archbishops, bishops, deans, precentors, chancellors, treasurers, archdeacons, and prebendaries ... : with an exact account of all the churches and chapels in every diocese ... / by Browne Willis ...

Creator:: Willis, Browne, 1682–1760
Date:: 1727-1730
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 3 : ill., plans ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The country gentleman's architect : in a great variety of new designs, for cottages, farm houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates : with plans of the offices belonging to each design ... / by J. Miller, architect.

Creator:: Miller, J. (John), architect
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 32 plates, 4 p. : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. An Act to amend so much of an Act made in the first year of the reign of King James the First, intituled, An Act for the better execution of the intent and meaning of former statutes made against shooting in guns : and for the preservation of the game of pheasants and partridges, and against the destroying of hares with hare pipes, and tracing hares in the snow; as relates to the preservation of house doves and pidgeons, by making the manner of convicting such person or persons as shall offend therein, more easy and expeditious.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [2], 855-858 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. The life of the late John Elwes, Esquire; member in three successive parliaments for Berkshire. : First published in the paper of the World. / Inscribed to Sir Paul Jodrell, by Edward Topham ...

Creator:: Topham, Edward, 1751–1820
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: vii, l06 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. The plans, elevations, and sections, chimney-pieces, and cielings [sic] of Houghton in Norfolk : built by Sr. Robert Walpole ... Earl of Orford &c. / the whole designed by Thomas Ripley ... ; delinated by Isaac Ware and William Kent ... ; and engrav'd by ... Mr. Fourdrinier , with a description of the house and of the elegant collection of pictures.

Creator:: Ripley, Thomas, -1758
Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: [4], 10 p., [37] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. An Act for the further punishment of such persons as shall unlawfully kill or destroy deer in parks, paddocks, or other inclosed grounds.

Creator:: Great Britain
Date:: [1719]
Physical Description:: [2], 463-464 p. ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Six sketches in aquatinta / by Mr. Cartwright.

Creator:: Cartwright, Mr.
Date:: [1791]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The chronicle of England / by Joseph Strutt.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: MDCCLXXVII-MDCCLXXVIII [1777-1778]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Cantabrigia illustrata : contenant: les vûës de la ville de Cambridge, avec ses edifices, & ses maisons de campagne, comme aussi des autres lieux circonvoisins; representées en tailles-douces très exactes, avec des explications dessous chaque planche.

Creator:: Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:: [ca. 1700]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [44] leaves of plates, [1] folded : ill., maps ; 20 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. The trial of Frederick Calvert, Esq., Baron of Baltimore in the kingdom of Ireland, for a rape on the body of Sarah Woodcock : and of Eliz. Griffinburg and Ann Harvey, otherwise Darby, as accessaries before the fact, for procuring, aiding, and abetting him in committing the said rape : at the assizes held at Kingston for the county of Surry, on Saturday the 26th of March, 1768 before the Hon. Sir Sydney Stafford Smythe, Knt., one of the barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer / published by permission of the judge ; taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney.

Creator:: Baltimore, Frederick Calvert, Baron, 1731–1771
Date:: MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Physical Description:: [2], 74 p. ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Imitations of original drawings by Hans Holbein, in the collection of His Majesty, for the portraits of illustrious persons of the court of Henry VIII. With biographical tracts. Published by John Chamberlaine ...

Creator:: Chamberlaine, John, 1745–1812
Date:: 1792 [i. e. 1792-1800]
Physical Description:: XIII parts. col. ports. (part mounted) 55 cm. (60 cm., in case)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Second letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of ****** : concerning the qualifications and duty of a surveyor : in which the essential accomplishments are more particularly described and considered : with some farther remarks on their supposed imperfections ...

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: [2], 33, [1] p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The history of England / written in French by Mr. Rapin de Thoyras ; translated into English, with additional notes, by N. Tindal ...

Creator:: Rapin de Thoyras, M. (Paul), 1661–1725
Date:: 1743-1747
Physical Description:: 4 v. in 5 : ill., geneal. tables, maps, ports. 40 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. The regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England : containing the representations of all the English monarchs : from Edward the Confessor to Henry the Eighth : together with many of the great persons that were eminent under their several reigns : the whole carefully collected from ancient illuminated manuscripts / by Joseph Strutt.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: [6], 119, [5], [2], 24 p., [72] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain : particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. A new book of shipping : on six plates.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 6 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. An historical description of an ancient picture in Windsor Castle. By Sir Joseph Ayloffe ...

Creator:: Ayloffe, Joseph, Sir, 1709–1781
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 45 p. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. An Act for granting to His Majesty certain duties on certificates issued with respect to the killing of game.

Creator:: Great Britain
Date:: 1784
Physical Description:: [2], 671-683, [1] p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Warwick waggons, and pack-horses, are removed from the Bell-Inn in West-Smithfield, to the Red-Lyon-Inn ... : where all gentlemen, merchants, tradesmen, and others, may be accomodated with carriage, at reasonable rates : performed (if God permit) by Nich. Rothwell ...

Date:: ca. 1730]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. A supplement to the four volumes of the Peerage of England : containing a succession of the peers from 1740 : with accounts of those that have been promoted to higher titles, and a genealogical history of all the families since advanced to the peerage of this kingdom ... : also their paternal coats of arms, crests, and supporters, curiously engraven on copper plates : collected from records, authentick manuscripts, our most approved historians, and other authorities ... / by Arthur Collins ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1750
Physical Description:: 2 v. (viii, 820 p.) : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. The continuation of Mr. Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, from the revolution to the accession of King George II : illustrated with thirty-six heads of the kings, queens, and several eminent persons, also with twenty maps and sea-charts / by N. Tindal ....

Creator:: Tindal, N. (Nicholas), 1687–1774
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: 2 v. ill., ports., maps ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

Creator:: Clubbe, John, 1702 or 3–1773
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 30 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

Creator:: Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519–1592
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: [8], iv, [32] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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2. A catalogue of the collection of pictures, &c. belonging to King James the Second : to which is added, A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the closet of the late Queen Caroline, with their exact measures, and also of the principal pictures in the palace at Kensington.

4. Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, in England and Wales / by the most eminent British artists : with a description of each seat.

5. A letter to George, Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries, &c. &c. &c. : read to the Society Feb. 7, 1788 / from John Henniker, Esq., ...

6. An essay on design in gardening.

8. Letters concerning the present state of England. Particularly respecting the politics, arts, manners, and literature of the times.

9. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

10. The carpenter's companion for Chinese railing and gates : containing thirty-three entire new and beautiful designs ... : the whole correctly and neatly engraved on sixteen copper plates from the original drawings of J.H. Morris ... and J. Crunden.

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

12. Museum Britannicum, or, A display in thirty two plates, in antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk ...

13. An Act for better preservation of the game, within that part of Great Britain called England.

17. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

21. [Cost of artificial slate in roofing compared with that of plain tiles and that of slate].

23. An account of Roman antiquities discovered at Woodchester in the county of Gloucester / by Samuel Lysons ...

24. An Act for the better preservation of the game in that part of Great Britain called England.

25. An answer to certain assertions : contained in the appendix to a pamphlet entitled Minutes of the proceedings on the court martial held at Portsmouth, August 12, 1792, on ten persons charged with mutiny on board His Majesty's Ship the Bounty / by Captain William Bligh.

26. The antiquities of England and Wales / by Francis Grose ...

27. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

28. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

29. A new display of the beauties of England, or, A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom.

30. An account of the operations carried on for accomplishing a trigonometrical survey of England and Wales ...

32. The acts of Parliament relating to the building fifty new churches in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and for making provision for the ministers thereof, as also His Majesty's letters patent, appointing commissioners for the purposes aforesaid.

33. The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for publick and private buildings / publish'd by William Kent, with some additional designs.

34. Designs in perspective for villas in the ancient castle and Grecian styles / by Robert Morison ; part the first.

35. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

36. More lyric odes to the Royal academicians / by Peter Pindar, esquire ; a distant relation of the poet of Thebes, and laureat to the academy.

39. An heroic postscript to the public, occasioned by their favourable reception of a late heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... By the author of that epistle ...

40. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England ... : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities / by Arthur Collins ...

41. A tour through the Isle of Man : to which is subjoined a review of the Manks history / by David Robertson, Esq.

42. Magnae Britanniae Notitia : or, The present state of Great Britain; with divers remarks upon the antient state thereof. / By John Chamberlayne, ...

43. A list of the peers existing at the time of King James I : his accession to the crown, and of those who have since been advanced to the peerage by claim of ancient right, by writ, or by patent : as also of the several peers extinct in his and the succeeding reigns.

45. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... / originally begun by the celebrated Daniel De Foe, continued by the late Mr. Richardson ... and brought down to the present time by gentlemen of eminence in the literary world.

46. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

47. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

48. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

49. A succinct description of that elaborate pile of art, call'd the microcosm.

50. A correct view of the telegraph : with the cabin, and manner of working explained / engraved and sold, by Mr. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

51. Rural architecture, or, Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa / including some of which have been executed by the author, John Plaw.

53. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

54. Prospects of all the cathedral & collegiate churches of England & Wales , neatly engraved = Veues de toutes les eglises, cathedrals et collegiats d'Angleterre et de Galle, proprement gravée.

55. The chair-maker's guide : being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain ... / by Robert Manwaring, ... ; and others ; the whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper plates.

56. [Rural views].

58. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales .../ by Daniel Paterson ...

59. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

61. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

62. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

64. [Pattern book for English knife and fork handles].

66. A tour to the west of England, in 1788 / By the Rev. S. Shaw, ...

67. An Act for the better preservation of the game in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

70. A catalogue of Hogarth's original works / to be had of Mrs. Hogarth, at her house, at the Golden Head, Leicester Fields, London. 1784.

71. Statutes of the most honourable Order of the Bath.

73. A description of nine historical prints, representing kings, queens, princes, &c, of the Tudor family. Selected, drawn, and engraved, from the original paintings, by George Vertue, late engraver to the Society of antiquaries of London.

74. Cupid's magick lantern / from designs by Woodward ; etch'd by Rowlandson.

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

76. 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.

77. Edward Ryland : copper plate printer in the Old Bailey near Ludgate Hill, London.

79. The country gentleman's architect : in a great variety of new designs, for cottages, farm houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates : with plans of the offices belonging to each design ... / by J. Miller, architect.

81. The life of the late John Elwes, Esquire; member in three successive parliaments for Berkshire. : First published in the paper of the World. / Inscribed to Sir Paul Jodrell, by Edward Topham ...

83. An Act for the further punishment of such persons as shall unlawfully kill or destroy deer in parks, paddocks, or other inclosed grounds.

84. Six sketches in aquatinta / by Mr. Cartwright.

85. The chronicle of England / by Joseph Strutt.

86. Cantabrigia illustrata : contenant: les vûës de la ville de Cambridge, avec ses edifices, & ses maisons de campagne, comme aussi des autres lieux circonvoisins; representées en tailles-douces très exactes, avec des explications dessous chaque planche.

88. Imitations of original drawings by Hans Holbein, in the collection of His Majesty, for the portraits of illustrious persons of the court of Henry VIII. With biographical tracts. Published by John Chamberlaine ...

89. Second letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of ****** : concerning the qualifications and duty of a surveyor : in which the essential accomplishments are more particularly described and considered : with some farther remarks on their supposed imperfections ...

90. The history of England / written in French by Mr. Rapin de Thoyras ; translated into English, with additional notes, by N. Tindal ...

92. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain : particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

93. A new book of shipping : on six plates.

94. An historical description of an ancient picture in Windsor Castle. By Sir Joseph Ayloffe ...

95. An Act for granting to His Majesty certain duties on certificates issued with respect to the killing of game.

96. Warwick waggons, and pack-horses, are removed from the Bell-Inn in West-Smithfield, to the Red-Lyon-Inn ... : where all gentlemen, merchants, tradesmen, and others, may be accomodated with carriage, at reasonable rates : performed (if God permit) by Nich. Rothwell ...

98. The continuation of Mr. Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, from the revolution to the accession of King George II : illustrated with thirty-six heads of the kings, queens, and several eminent persons, also with twenty maps and sea-charts / by N. Tindal ....

99. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.