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1. 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

2. Boydell's heads of illustrious and celebrated persons, generally connected with the history of Great Britain in the reigns of James I. Charles I. Charles II. and James II. The portraits painted by Van Dyke, Lely, Kneller, Riley, &c. Engraved by John Smith, &c. And revised by Richard Earlom. With biographical memoirs, by John Watkins, LL.D.

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Creator:
Boydell and Co
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
viii, 94 p. front. (port.) ports. 48 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. George Selwyn and his contemporaries : with memoirs and notes / by John Heneage Jesse.

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Creator:
Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:
1843-1844
Physical Description:
4 volumes : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Racehorses, with their performances, 1872-1876.

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Creator:
Taunton, T. H
Date:
1872-1876
Physical Description:
1 v. : ill. ; 55 x 68 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Observations on the cure of the curved spine : in which the effect of mechanical assistance in considered / by James Earle, Esq; F. R.S. Surgeon extraordinary to the King and to his Majesty's Household; And Senior Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

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Creator:
Earle, James, Sir, 1755–1817
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[6], 81, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The Wilkie gallery : a selection of the best pictures of the late Sir David Wilkie, R.A., including his Spanish and Oriental sketches, with notices biographical and critical.

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Creator:
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785–1841
Date:
[1848-1850]
Physical Description:
[4], 93, [80] pages, [67] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

7. Book for a rainy day, or, Recollections of the events of the last sixty-six years / by John Thomas Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
306 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

8. The fine arts of the English school : illustrated by a series of engravings, from paintings, sculpture, and architecture, of eminent English artists : with ample biographical, critical, and descriptive essays, by various authors / edited, and partly written by John Britton, F.S.A.

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
[128] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. [The coronation of George the Fourth]

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Date:
[1841]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 77 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts