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1. New picture of London, or, A view of the political, religious,medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis : presenting a luminous guide to the stranger, on all subjects connected with general information, business, or amusement, to which is subjoined, a description of the environs.

Creator:: Leigh, Samuel
Physical Description:: viii, 496 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A day's journal of a sponge / by Peter Pasquin [pseud.].

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The grand procession of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert : accompanied by the civic authorities, to the opening of the Royal Exchange, on Monday, October 28th, 1844.

Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: 1 print on 5 joined sheets : hand-colored lithograph ; sheets end-to-end 11 x 365 cm, accordion folded to 11 x 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Platte grondt der Vebrande Stadt London / by Marcus Williamsz Doornick.

Creator:: Doornick, Marcus Williamsz
Date:: 1666
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 30 x 54 cm., on sheet 50 x 58 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

Creator:: Noorthouck, John, 1746?-1816
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 ([4], viii, [4], 902, [42] p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded)) : ill., map, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A new pocket plan of the cities of London and Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1812.

Creator:: Faden, William, 1749–1836
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 46 x 92 cm., folded to 16 x 12 cm., in case 16 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A popular account of St. Paul's Cathedral : including a brief history and description of the old and new cathedral : with explanations of the monumental designs and other interesting particulars.

Creator:: Hackett, Maria, 1783–1874
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 104 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The Langham Hotel guide to London / prepared for the use of visitors to that establishment by James M. Sanderson.

Creator:: Sanderson, James M
Date:: 1867
Physical Description:: 132, 87 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The new album of London.

Date:: [ca. 1882?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([12] p.) : all ill. ; 17 x 163 cm, folded to 17 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

10. London : the City and the East End.

Date:: [1871]
Physical Description:: 48 p., [12] cards : ill. ; 11 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

11. A journey from Ecton, through London, to Bath, and from there, back again, through Cirencester, and Banbury, to Daventry, and Northampton : from August the 3d to October the 12th, 1785.

Creator:: Orlebar, Mary, 1730–1821
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. An historical description of the tower of London and its curiosities : giving an account 1. Of its foundation, gradual increase, and present state. 2. Of its government, customs, and privileges. 3. Of its antiquities, records, and curiosities. 4. Of the lions, and other wild beasts kept there. 5. Of the spoils of the Spanish Armada, with the history of the Spanish Invasion in 1588. 6. Of the small armory, in which are arms for 100,000 men. 7. Of the Royal Train of Artillery, comprehending a variety of cannon, mortars, &c. &c. 8. Of the horse armory; with a concise history of the Kings fitting there on horseback, in full armour, from William the Conqueror to George II. 9. Of the Jewel-Office, and the regalia used at coronations, with a full account of Colonel Blood's attempt to steal them. 10. Of the mint, and the manner of stamping money : written principally to direct the attention of strangers to what is most curious in this Repository, and to enable them afterwards to describe what they have seen.

Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: 60 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex : which are not described in the Environs of London / by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S & F.S.A.

Creator:: Lysons, Daniel, 1762–1834
Date:: MDCCC [1800]
Physical Description:: [2], viii, [2], 316, [2] p., [17] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Johnstone's London commercial guide, and street directory: in four parts ...

Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: [v]-xxxii p., 956 columns, 957-1114, 151, [1] p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A panorama of London [graphic] / taken from nature by R. Havell, Jun.

Creator:: Havell, Robert, -1832
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 1 print on 6 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 9 x 420 cm, rolled (in wooden case) to 9 x 6 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A description of the Colosseum as re-opened in M.DCCC.XLV. under the patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, and H.R.H. Prince Albert. With numerous illustrations, and eight coloured sections of the panorama of London, embossed by messrs. Dobbs, Bailey, & Co. This catalogue has been prepared for the proprietor by messrs. Kronheim and Skirving, engravers and designers, and the illustrations and letter-press are printed from stereotype plates cast by the patent process of messrs. Kronheim & Co., 3, Earl-street, Blackfriars.

Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: 24 p. ill., 21 plates (part col.) 20 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, on the subject of the intended new docks to be established at Wapping.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: iv, [5]-46 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The graphic.

Date:: [not before 1869]-[not after 1932]
Physical Description:: volumes : illustrations ; 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

19. Survey of the country around London : to the distance of thirty-two miles from St. Paul's.

Creator:: Laurie, Richard Holmes
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 61 x 80 cm., folded to 22 x 13 cm., in case 23 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. On wet docks, quays, and warehouses, for the port of London; with hints respecting trade. Pt. I.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 27 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Ambulator, or, A pocket companion in a tour round London : within the circuit of twenty-five miles : describing whatever is most remarkable for antiquity, grandeur, elegance, or rural beauty : including new catalogues of pictures, and illustrated by historical and bibliographical observations : to which are prefixed a concise description of the metropolis, and a map of the country described.

Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: [4], 312 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. A new and compleat history and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent : from the earliest accounts, to the beginning of the year 1770 ... / by a society of gentlemen ; revised, corrected, and improved by Henry Chamberlain ...

Date:: [1769]
Physical Description:: [2], 682, [10] p., [68] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., ports., map, plans ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Centre section of the 9 sheet master plan of London.

Creator:: Geographers' A-Z Map Company
Date:: [1995]
Physical Description:: 1 map : color ; 74 x 99 cm, on sheet 77 x 102 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Further report and memorials of the commissioners for executing the Act 46 Geo. III. c. 89 : for improvement of streets and places near to Westminster-Hall and the two Houses of Parliament : to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's treasury.

Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: 48, [2] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Zoological Society's gardens, Regent's Park. Saturday, August 21st, 1897. Admit one.

Creator:: Zoological Society of London
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: 1 admission ticket ; 70 x 80 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

Creator:: Saunders, George, 1762–1839
Date:: MDCCXC [1790 ]
Physical Description:: x, [4], 94 p., XIII leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Felix Summerly's hand-book for Westminster Abbey.

Creator:: Cole, Henry, Sir, 1808–1882
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: 35 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

Creator:: Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718–1785
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster : the public buildings, palaces, gardens, squares, &c. : with an alphabetical list of all the streets, squares, courts, lanes, and alleys, &c. within the bills of mortality : to which are added some proper cautions to the merchants, tradesmen and shop-keepers ... / by Sir John Fielding ...

Creator:: Fielding, John, Sir, 1721–1780
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: xxxiii, [3], 161, 90 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Black and white,

Creator:: Maude, Robert
Date:: 1991
Physical Description:: [12] p. : ill. ; 13 x 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Some account of the hospital and parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex / by John Parton ...

Creator:: Parton, John, d. 1821
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 427, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map, plan ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Ichnographia urbis Londinii : post magnum et fatale incendium ano. Dni. MDCLXVI, cum idea novæ urbis qualem tunc temporis / ex cineribus renatam esse designibat clarissimus vir Dns. Christophorus Wren = A plan of the city of London : after the great fire, in the year of our Lord 1666, with the modell of the new city / according to the design and proposal of Sr. Christopher Wren ... for rebuilding thereof.

Creator:: Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632–1723
Date:: 1724
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 35 x 70 cm., on sheet 49 x 72 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. A Tale of Two Cities / Charles Dickens ; with appendixes and notes by D.K. Swan.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1964
Physical Description:: 533 p. : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

34. How to enjoy London, or, The elegant economist : showing the various means of enjoying London on incomes of from 25 to 500 a year : adapted equally to the married and the single / arranged with great care according to the existing state of the metropolis, and the present modes of life by the author of the "Book of economy".

Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 36 p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. London, or, Interesting memorials of its rise, progress and present state / by Sholto & Reuben Percy ...

Creator:: Percy, Sholto, 1788–1852
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill., port., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Cruchley's New plan of London improved : including the East and West India docks.

Creator:: Cruchley, G. F
Date:: [1847]
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 51 x 100 cm., folded to 17 x 11 cm., in case 18 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

Creator:: Leigh, Samuel
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: vi, [iii]-iv, iv p., 1 leaf, 524, 36 p. plates (part col., part fold.) fold. map, fold. plan. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Old Humphrey's walks in London : and its neighbourhood.

Creator:: Old Humphrey, 1787–1854
Date:: [1843?]
Physical Description:: viii, 355 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Blackout in London.

Creator:: Brandt, Bill, 1904–1983
Date:: 1939 December
Physical Description:: pages 551-558 : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. On the construction and decoration of the shop fronts of London : illustrated with eighteen coloured representations exhibiting the varied styles of the present period, for the use of builders, carpenters, shopkeepers, &c. / by N. Whittock ; forming an appendix to The decorative painter and glazier's guide, by the same author.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: 1840
Physical Description:: [4], 12, 4 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Costume of the lower orders of London : painted and engraved from nature / by T.L. Busby.

Creator:: Busby, Thomas Lord
Date:: [1820]
Physical Description:: iv, [24] p., [24] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round : begun in 1741, finished in 1745, and published in 1746, according to act of Parliament / by John Rocque ... ; engrav'd by Richard Parr and printed by W. Pratt ... = Urbium maxime insignium Londini et Westmonasterii nec non municipii Sudovercencis, regionumque ad decem quasi milliaria circumjacentium : delineatio ichnographica anno 1741 incohata 1745 absoluta / a Johanne Rocque ... = Carte topographique des villes de Londres, Weatminster, et bourg de Southwark et de leurs environs : levée très exactement sur les lieux, en 1741, achevée en 1745, et publieé selon un acte de Parlement en 1746 / par Jean Rocque.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: [1747]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2], [32] leaves) : maps ; 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A scramble through London & Brighton / by E. Nelson Haxell ...

Creator:: Haxell, Edward Nelson
Date:: [1884]
Physical Description:: [10], 122, [6] p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Kemp's West London Sketcher and Theleme.

Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Gall & Inglis' pocket map of the suburbs of London [cartographic material].

Creator:: Gall & Inglis
Date:: [ca. 1897?]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 51.3 x 63.3 cm, folded in covers 15 x 9 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Albert Smith token.

Creator:: Pinches (Medallists)
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: 1 token : copper ; 22 mm in diameter
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Proposals of a new model for rebuilding the city of London : with houses, streets and wharfs, to be forthwith set out by His Majesty's and the city surveyors : with the advantages that will accrue by the building the same accordingly, viz. I. The owners satisfied for their ground, the builder for building, and the poor inhabitants their losses by the fire. II. The city built stately with large streets, the houses not in danger of fire, and the ground all put to the best profit. III. The people will walk easy and dry, the houses-of-office and streets kept sweet and clean; and goods delivered much cheaper. IV. Convenient houses, shops, warehouses and wharfs not dear. V. Advanced to His Majesty by fines 372670 l. VI. A revenue for ever settled upon the crown of per ann. 223517 l. 10 s.

Creator:: Knight, Val. (Valentine)
Date:: [1666]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 29 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The Flip-Flap : Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908.

Date:: [1908]
Physical Description:: 1 postcard : b/w ; 9 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Resolutions of the Associated Architects : with the report of a committee by them appointed to consider the causes of the frequent fires and the best means of preventing the like in future.

Creator:: Association of Architects (London, England)
Date:: [1793]
Physical Description:: [4], iii, [5]-31 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Stanford's map of central London.

Creator:: Edward Stanford Ltd
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: 1 map : color ; 64 x 93 cm, folded to 19 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. [Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of ... engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions ...

Creator:: Storer, James, 1771–1853
Date:: 1804-5]
Physical Description:: 2 v. 12 ill., 60 plates. 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Striking likenesses, handsomely framed, only 1s. each, taken at 114, Strand, opposite Exeter 'Change.

Date:: [approximately 1820?]
Physical Description:: 1 trade card : portrait ; 81 x 45 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. A series of views in Islington and Pentonville : from original drawings, made in the year 1818 / by Augustus Pugin ; with a description of each subject, by Edward Wedlake Brayley.

Creator:: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773–1854
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [2], 21, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. History and description of the parish of Clerkenwell, embellished with numerous engravings, by J. & H. S. Storer. The historical department by T. Cromwell ...

Creator:: Cromwell, Thomas, 1792–1870
Date:: [1828]
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., [iii]-viii, 448, v p. front., plates, fold. maps. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Jane Foster's London.

Creator:: Foster, Jane, 1970–
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: [22] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. A month in London; or, Some of its modern wonders described. By Jefferys Taylor ...

Creator:: Taylor, Jefferys, 1792–1853
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., 182 p. front., plate. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Leigh's new picture of London, or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis : presenting a luminous guide to the stranger, on all subjects connected with general information, business, or amusement, to which is subjoined, a description of the environs.

Creator:: Leigh, Samuel
Date:: 1825-5
Physical Description:: vii, 520, 35 p., [40] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. London : illustrated by twenty bird's-eye views of the principal streets : also a map showing its chief suburbs and environs : and by a street-map of central London by Herbert Fry.

Creator:: Fry, Herbert, 1830–1885
Date:: 1889
Physical Description:: xviii, 286, viii, [22] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Horizon : a review of literature and art.

Date:: 1940-1950
Physical Description:: 20 v. : ill., plates (part col.) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Real life in London, or, The rambles and adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and his cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, through the metropolis : exhibiting a living picture of fashionable characters, manners, and amusements in high and low life / by an amateur ; embellished and illustrated with a series of coloured prints, designed and engraved by Messrs. Alken, Dighton, Brooke, Rowlandson &c.

Date:: 1821-1822
Physical Description:: 56 pt. in 33 pt.. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Lilliput the pocket magazine for everyone.

Date:: [1937?]-
Physical Description:: volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. London in 1842 : taken from the summit of the Duke of York's column.

Date:: [1843]
Physical Description:: 1 print : wood engraving ; 91 x 133 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. [Billheads of Edward Petty and William Wood, grocers, of London, for purchases made by Colonel Alexander Campbell, 1822]

Creator:: Edward Petty & William Wood, (Grocers)
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 3 sheets ; 17 x 21 cm, 13 x 21 cm, and 11 x 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Report from the committee appointed to inspect Lords journals, respecting the improvements in Westminster.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: 4 p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Londinum feracissimi Angliae Regni metropolis.

Creator:: Hogenberg, Frans, approximately 1539–1590
Date:: [1574]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 32 x 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

66. R. Ackermann's series [graphic]

Creator:: Picken, Thomas, -1870
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 10 prints : hand-colored lithographs ; image 20 x 29 cm, on sheet 28 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The universal British directory of trade and commerce ; : comprehending lists of the inhabitants of London, Westminster, and borough of Southwark; ... with the mails, and other coaches, stage-waggons, hoys, packets, and trading vessels. ... : To which is added, a genuine account of the drawbacks and duties chargeable at the custom-house on all goods and merchandize ... with a particular of the public houses of every denomination ... with the whole body of liverymen, and places of residence, together with an historical and particular detail of the trade, polity, and manufactures, of each city, town, and village ...

Creator:: Barfoot, Peter
Date:: MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:: 5 v. ; 22 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : all ill. (some col.) ; 17 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The antiquities of St. Peter's, or, The abbey-church of Westminster : containing all the inscriptions, epitaphs, &c. upon the tombs and grave-stones : with the lives, marriages and issue of the most eminent personages therein reposited and their coats of arms truly emblazon'd : adorn'd with draughts of the tombs, curiously engraven ...

Creator:: Crull, Jodocus, -1713?
Date:: 1713
Physical Description:: [10], 351, [15] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Report from the Committee on petition of the Ministers, Churchwardens and vestry of St. Margaret's, Westminster.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Date:: [1813]
Physical Description:: 10 p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. The London directory, or, A new and improved plan of London, Westminster & Southwark : with the adjacent country, the new buildings, the new roads, and the late alterations by opening of new streets, & widening of others, &c.

Creator:: Robert Laurie and James Whittle
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 31 x 5l cm., folded to 14 x 11 cm., in case 14 x 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. A prospect of the city of London from the south east in the year 1945 : shewing its architecture, the destruction caused by the King's enemies during the previous five years, and some of the means whereby the safety of the citizens was maintained : 1939-1945 / Cecil Brown delineavit.

Creator:: Brown, Cecil, 1903–1983
Date:: 1949
Physical Description:: 1 view ; 38 x 53 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The history and antiquities of London / by Thomas Pennant.

Creator:: Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: vi, 381 p. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Crumpled city London / design, Emanuele Pizzolorusso.

Date:: 2011
Physical Description:: 1 map : color ; 57 x 71 cm, on sheet 58 x 88 cm, folded to 15 x 12 cm, in box 16 x 12 x 3 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

75. The cries of London; exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times. Copied from rare engravings, or drawn from the life. With a memoir and portrait of the author.

Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xv, 99 p. plates, port. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Children's map of London / John Bartholomew and Son.

Creator:: John Bartholomew and Son
Date:: [approximately 1939]
Physical Description:: 1 map : color ; 52 x 72 cm, folded to 19 x 10 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

77. To the Right Honble. Lord Hawksbury, &c. &c., this perspective sketch illustrating a design submitted to the consideration of the House of Commons on the improvement of the port of London, is inscribed by his obedient humble servant, Geo. Dance / designed by Geo. Dance ... ; Willm. Daniell fecit.

Creator:: Dance, George, 1741–1825
Date:: Novr. 10, 1800
Physical Description:: 1 print : aquatint with hand-colouring ; platemark 40 x 69 cm, on sheet 54 x 70
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. The curiosities of London and Westminster : described in four volumes : embellished with elegant copper plates.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys, &c : contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark ... / engraved by John Pine ... ; from an actual survey made by John Roque [sic] ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1747
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 46, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life and every-day people / with thirty-four illustrations by F. Barnard.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: [1876]
Physical Description:: viii, 240 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

81. Pigot & Co.'s metropolitan guide & book of reference : to every street, court, lane, passage, alley and public building : in the cities of London & Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and their respective suburbs.

Creator:: J. Pigot & Co
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 154 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Strange's pocket scrap book for young ladies and gentlemen : containing views of all the public places of amusement, watering places, etc. etc. : part IV.

Date:: [between 1841 and 1849]
Physical Description:: pt. : chiefly ill. ; 11 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Reports relating to the entertainment of Her Majesty the Queen, in the Guildhall of the City of London on Lord Mayor's Day, 1837.

Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [4], 35, [3], 7, [1], 79, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. A chart illustrating the architecture of Westminster Abbey / by F. Bedford.

Creator:: Bedford, Francis, 1816–1894
Date:: [1840?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : chiefly ill. ; 56 x 44 cm., folded to 20 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The "District Railway" miniature map of London [cartographic material].

Creator:: W.J. Adams & Sons
Date:: [ca. 1887?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : col. ; 17.7 x 25.3 cm., folded in cover 14.1 x 9.2 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

86. Progress of inebriety.

Creator:: Wilson, T. C
Date:: ca. 1830]
Physical Description:: [10] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

Creator:: Leigh, Samuel
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: vi, [iii]-iv, 524, 36 p. fold. front., fold. plates, fold. map, fold. plan. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. A visit to London : containing a description of the principal curiosities in the British metropolis / by S.W. ; with six copper plates.

Creator:: S. W., active 1801–1820?
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 2, 196 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. London's lost rivers / Paul Talling.

Creator:: Talling, Paul
Date:: 2011
Physical Description:: 190, [2] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Angliæ metropolis, or, The present state of London : with memorials comprehanding a full and succinct account of the ancient and modern state thereof ... / first written by ... Tho. Delaune ... and continued to the present year by a careful hand ...

Creator:: Delaume, Thomas, d. 1685
Date:: 1690
Physical Description:: [10], 444 p. : coats of arms ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Temple Bar : the city Golgotha : a narrative of the historical occurrences of a criminal character associated with the present Bar / by a member of the Inner Temple.

Creator:: Wilson, James Holbert, 1809–1873
Date:: MDCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:: [4], 68 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. The history of London: illustrated by views in London & Westminster engraved by John Woods, from original drawings by Shepherd, Garland, Salmon, Topham, Clarke, Browne, Roberts, &c. Edited by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and (in continuation) by Thomas Harral ...

Creator:: Fearnside, W. G. (William Gray)
Date:: 184-?]
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 203, [1] p., 1 leaf, vi, [2], ii, 158 p. front., plates. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and the contiguous buildings : with all the new roads that have been made on account of Westminster Bridge, and the new buildings and alterations to the present year MDCCLV / engraved from an actual survey made by John Rocque ; this plan extends from east to west near six miles, and from north to south a little more than three, and contains about 11,500 acres of ground.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 1 map on 8 sheets ; 132 x 216 cm., sheets 67 x 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. An account of what seem'd most remarkable in the five days peregrination of the five following persons vizt. Messieurs Tothall, Scott, Hogarth, Thornhill & Forrest : begun on Saturday, May 27th, 1723 and finished on the 31st of the same month / with an introduction by Nick Savage and vinyl engravings by Michaela Kidney.

Creator:: Forrest, Ebenezer, active 1774
Date:: 1989
Physical Description:: [36] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. A new critical review of the publick buildings, statues and ornaments, in and about London and Westminster. With some reflections on the use of sepulchral monuments; as also a scheme shewing the dimensions of St. Peter's Church at Rome and St. Paul's Cathedral at London; and a preface, being an essay on taste. To all which is added, an Appendix, containing a dispute between the Weekly miscellany and the author; and a compleat Alphabetical index.

Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: 3 p. l., vi, 91, [5] p. fold. table. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. London and its environs : a practical guide to the metropolis and its vicinity : illustrated by maps, plans, and views.

Date:: 1862
Physical Description:: xv, 391, 16 p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The comic history of London : from the earliest period : illustrated with numerous engravings.

Date:: [18--]
Physical Description:: 366 p., [1] leaf of plate : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. De Londres et de ses environs.

Creator:: Cambry, Jacques, 1749–1807
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 2 p.., v [i.e. iv], 147 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. London : being an accurate history and description of the British metropolis and its neighbourhood : to thirty miles extent, from an actual perambulation / by David Hughson ...

Creator:: Hughson, David, active 19th century
Date:: 1805-1809
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Exhibition of models of the most elegant buildings in Europe : viz. the Church of St. Peter at Rome, that of St. Paul at London, the Stadthouse at Amsterdam : together with a great variety of others ...

Date:: [ca. 1780]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 27 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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2. A day's journal of a sponge / by Peter Pasquin [pseud.].

3. The grand procession of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert : accompanied by the civic authorities, to the opening of the Royal Exchange, on Monday, October 28th, 1844.

4. Platte grondt der Vebrande Stadt London / by Marcus Williamsz Doornick.

5. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

6. A new pocket plan of the cities of London and Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1812.

7. A popular account of St. Paul's Cathedral : including a brief history and description of the old and new cathedral : with explanations of the monumental designs and other interesting particulars.

8. The Langham Hotel guide to London / prepared for the use of visitors to that establishment by James M. Sanderson.

9. The new album of London.

10. London : the City and the East End.

11. A journey from Ecton, through London, to Bath, and from there, back again, through Cirencester, and Banbury, to Daventry, and Northampton : from August the 3d to October the 12th, 1785.

13. An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex : which are not described in the Environs of London / by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S & F.S.A.

14. Johnstone's London commercial guide, and street directory: in four parts ...

15. A panorama of London [graphic] / taken from nature by R. Havell, Jun.

17. A letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, on the subject of the intended new docks to be established at Wapping.

18. The graphic.

19. Survey of the country around London : to the distance of thirty-two miles from St. Paul's.

20. On wet docks, quays, and warehouses, for the port of London; with hints respecting trade. Pt. I.

22. A new and compleat history and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent : from the earliest accounts, to the beginning of the year 1770 ... / by a society of gentlemen ; revised, corrected, and improved by Henry Chamberlain ...

23. Centre section of the 9 sheet master plan of London.

24. Further report and memorials of the commissioners for executing the Act 46 Geo. III. c. 89 : for improvement of streets and places near to Westminster-Hall and the two Houses of Parliament : to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's treasury.

25. Zoological Society's gardens, Regent's Park. Saturday, August 21st, 1897. Admit one.

26. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

27. Felix Summerly's hand-book for Westminster Abbey.

28. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

30. Black and white,

31. Some account of the hospital and parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex / by John Parton ...

33. A Tale of Two Cities / Charles Dickens ; with appendixes and notes by D.K. Swan.

35. London, or, Interesting memorials of its rise, progress and present state / by Sholto & Reuben Percy ...

36. Cruchley's New plan of London improved : including the East and West India docks.

37. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

38. Old Humphrey's walks in London : and its neighbourhood.

39. Blackout in London.

41. Costume of the lower orders of London : painted and engraved from nature / by T.L. Busby.

43. A scramble through London & Brighton / by E. Nelson Haxell ...

44. Kemp's West London Sketcher and Theleme.

45. Gall & Inglis' pocket map of the suburbs of London [cartographic material].

46. Albert Smith token.

48. The Flip-Flap : Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908.

49. Resolutions of the Associated Architects : with the report of a committee by them appointed to consider the causes of the frequent fires and the best means of preventing the like in future.

50. Stanford's map of central London.

51. [Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of ... engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions ...

52. Striking likenesses, handsomely framed, only 1s. each, taken at 114, Strand, opposite Exeter 'Change.

53. A series of views in Islington and Pentonville : from original drawings, made in the year 1818 / by Augustus Pugin ; with a description of each subject, by Edward Wedlake Brayley.

54. History and description of the parish of Clerkenwell, embellished with numerous engravings, by J. & H. S. Storer. The historical department by T. Cromwell ...

55. Jane Foster's London.

56. A month in London; or, Some of its modern wonders described. By Jefferys Taylor ...

58. London : illustrated by twenty bird's-eye views of the principal streets : also a map showing its chief suburbs and environs : and by a street-map of central London by Herbert Fry.

59. Horizon : a review of literature and art.

61. Lilliput the pocket magazine for everyone.

62. London in 1842 : taken from the summit of the Duke of York's column.

63. [Billheads of Edward Petty and William Wood, grocers, of London, for purchases made by Colonel Alexander Campbell, 1822]

64. Report from the committee appointed to inspect Lords journals, respecting the improvements in Westminster.

65. Londinum feracissimi Angliae Regni metropolis.

66. R. Ackermann's series [graphic]

68. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

70. Report from the Committee on petition of the Ministers, Churchwardens and vestry of St. Margaret's, Westminster.

71. The London directory, or, A new and improved plan of London, Westminster & Southwark : with the adjacent country, the new buildings, the new roads, and the late alterations by opening of new streets, & widening of others, &c.

72. A prospect of the city of London from the south east in the year 1945 : shewing its architecture, the destruction caused by the King's enemies during the previous five years, and some of the means whereby the safety of the citizens was maintained : 1939-1945 / Cecil Brown delineavit.

73. The history and antiquities of London / by Thomas Pennant.

74. Crumpled city London / design, Emanuele Pizzolorusso.

75. The cries of London; exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times. Copied from rare engravings, or drawn from the life. With a memoir and portrait of the author.

76. Children's map of London / John Bartholomew and Son.

78. The curiosities of London and Westminster : described in four volumes : embellished with elegant copper plates.

79. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys, &c : contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark ... / engraved by John Pine ... ; from an actual survey made by John Roque [sic] ...

80. Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life and every-day people / with thirty-four illustrations by F. Barnard.

81. Pigot & Co.'s metropolitan guide & book of reference : to every street, court, lane, passage, alley and public building : in the cities of London & Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and their respective suburbs.

82. Strange's pocket scrap book for young ladies and gentlemen : containing views of all the public places of amusement, watering places, etc. etc. : part IV.

83. Reports relating to the entertainment of Her Majesty the Queen, in the Guildhall of the City of London on Lord Mayor's Day, 1837.

84. A chart illustrating the architecture of Westminster Abbey / by F. Bedford.

85. The "District Railway" miniature map of London [cartographic material].

86. Progress of inebriety.

87. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

88. A visit to London : containing a description of the principal curiosities in the British metropolis / by S.W. ; with six copper plates.