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1. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery, from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert, Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

Creator:: Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:: [1819?]
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, [60] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

Creator:: Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, [60] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Moments of fancy and whim / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 14 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 29 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

Creator:: Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Memoirs of the life of the late George Morland : with critical and descriptive observations on the whole of his works hitherto before the public / by J. Hassell ...

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), 1767–1825
Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: [2], vii, [1], 204 p, [8] leaves of plates : ill., port.; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 30 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: iv, 26 p., 64 leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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

9. Lessons on drawing trees / by Geo. Harley.

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: [1829]
Physical Description:: [1], 16 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 35 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Process of sketching a landscape.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : all ill. ; 38 x 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Studies of cottages and rural scenery : drawn and etched in imitation of chalk / by Samuel Prout ; the work will consist of four numbers, to be published monthly, commencing the first of May, 1816 ; and is intended as a companion to the 'Studies of boats and coast scenery', also contained in four numbers by the same artist, just published.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 4 pts : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

Creator:: Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A few ideas, caught on Easter Monday.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: ii p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Process of sketching a landscape.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 34 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; fifty engravings, with descriptions.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: vi p., [53] p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A selection from the drawings and studies in land and seascape of British artists : imitated from the originals / by Louis Francia, and others.

Creator:: Francia, François-Thomas-Louis, 1772–1839
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [2] p., [59] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Specimens of riding near London / drawn from life by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [3] pt. : all ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Illustrations for landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Involuntary thoughts.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823-1824
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be whips.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Illustrations to popular songs / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, [43] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. 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

24. Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views, (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty) : illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire, in three books ... / by William Gilpin ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A touch at the fine arts : illustrated by twelve plates, with descriptions / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [16] leaves, 12 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

Creator:: Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The history of Java / by Thomas Stamford Raffles, Esq., late Lieut.-Governor of that Island and its dependencies, F.R.S. and A.S., member of that Asiatic Society at Calcutta, Honorary Member of the Literary Society at Bombay, and late President of the Society of Arts and Science at Batavia ; in two volumes ; with a map and plates.

Creator:: Raffles, Thomas Stamford, Sir, 1781–1826
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Travels in the western Caucasus, including a tour through Imeritia, Mingrelia, Turkey, Moldavia, Galicia, Silesia, and Moravia, in 1836. By Edmund Spencer ...

Creator:: Spencer, Edmund
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: 2 v. fronts., ill. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Russian cries : in correct portraiture from drawings done on the spot by G. Orlowski, and now in the possession of the Rt. Honble. Lord Kinnaird.

Creator:: Orlovskiĭ, Aleksandr Osipovich, 1777–1832
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [9] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [42] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Journal of a trip to Paris by the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, July MDCCCXIV.

Creator:: Rutland, John Henry Manners, Duke of, 1778–1857
Date:: 1814]
Physical Description:: [4], 30 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. A guide to landscape figure drawing / by N. E. Green ; woodcuts by James D. Cooper, from drawing by the author.

Creator:: Green, N. E. (Nathaniel Everett), 1823–1899
Date:: [1891]
Physical Description:: 56 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Studies of trees / by J.C. Deeley.

Creator:: Deeley, J. C
Date:: [1840?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Etchings of views and antiquities in the county of Gloucestershire : hitherto imperfectly or never engraved.

Creator:: Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:: [1791]
Physical Description:: [26] p., [106] leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms ; 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. An accurate description and history of the metropolitan and cathedral churches of Canterbury and York : from their first foundation to the present year : illustrated with one hundred and seventeen copper-plates, consisting of different views, plans, monuments, antiquities, arms, &c.

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [4], 144, [4] p., [91] leaves of plates : ill., plans, map, coats of arms ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Progressive lessons / P. S. M.

Creator:: Munn, Paul Sandby, 1773–1845
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 4 leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm. x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Chalon's drawing book of animals and birds of every description : studies from nature.

Creator:: Chalon, Henry Bernard, 1770–1849
Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 x 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Lewina the maid of Snowdon. A tale. By George Cumberland. With etchings by the author.

Creator:: Cumberland, George, 1754–1848
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., 32 p., 1 leaf. plate. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The history of Buxton : and visitor's guide to the curiosities of the Peak, including a descriptive itinerary of excursions usually made, and a set of botanical tables exhibiting the places of growth, &c. of the most remarkable plants found wild in the neighbourhood of Buxton / by A. Jewitt ...

Creator:: Jewitt, A. (Arthur)
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: vii, [2], 12-222, xxvii, [3] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. A new drawing book, in the manner of chalk : containing twelve views in the west of England as follows : Glastonbury, Tavistock, ditto, Lynmouth, Exmouth, East-Bourne, Ide, ditto, Chagford, Exeter, Pennycross, Dartmoor / drawn and engraved by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The complete aquatinter : being the whole process of etching and engraving in aquatinta : the method of using the aquafortis, with all the necessary tools : to which are added upwards of sixty of the best receipts for grounds, varnishes, &c. : collected from near a hundred that are most in use : the difficulties which may possibly occur, are point out, and the method of obviating them : the whole rendered clear and practical.

Creator:: Green, J. H. (John Hippisley)
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: viii, 25, [3] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: [6], 48 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. (part col.) ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A check, 12 o'clock, tipping for the swine / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Studies of cows from life : forming the first rudiments of sketching cattle from nature / H. M. Milbourne, in. et fec.

Creator:: Milbourne, Henry, 1781–ca. 1826
Date:: [1805]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm. x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Throwing off, not so easy / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The three voyages of Captain James Cook round the world : complete in seven volumes : with map and other plates.

Creator:: Cook, James, 1728–1779
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 7 v. in 6 : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Studies of landscapes : by T. Gainsborough, J. Hoppner, R. A., T. Girtin, Wm. Owen R.A., A. Callcot, A.S. Owen, J. Varley, J.S. Hayward, and L. Francia / imitated from the originals by L. Francia.

Creator:: Francia, François Louis Thomas, 1772–1839
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: [34] leaves plates : all ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Picturesque scenery in the Holy Land and Syria : delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800 / by F.B. Spilsbury ...

Creator:: Spilsbury, F. B. (Francis B.)
Date:: 1803
Physical Description:: [4], iv, 42, [2] pages, [1], 1, II-X, XII, XII, XIV, XIV, 18, [1], XVII, 20, XVI leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 50 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Caledonia : illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for the work / by W.H. Bartlett, T. Allom and others ; the descriptive text by William Beattie.

Creator:: Beattie, William, 1793–1875
Date:: [1838]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. [Etchings of lake scenery in Cumberland].

Creator:: Green, William, 1760–1823
Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: [29] leaves : all ill. ; 76 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. A collection of Gloucestershire antiquities / by Samuel Lysons ...

Creator:: Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: [4], iv, 38, [4] p., 110 leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms ; 58 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. [Drawing book of trees]

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1821.]
Physical Description:: [32] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The Byron gallery ; a series of historical embellishments to illustrate the poetical works of Lord Byron.

Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: [3] p., [31] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste, along the coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew : with an account of her subsequent shipwreck / by John M'Leod.

Creator:: M'Leod, John, 1777?-1820
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: 323 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

56. Ten mezzo-tinto engravings : from original drawings ... / by Her Majesty's dutiful, grateful & affectionate servant, Carolina Courtenay Boyle ; engraved by Louis Marvy.

Creator:: Boyle, Carolina Courtenay, 1803–1883
Date:: [circa 1849?]
Physical Description:: 1 portfolio (10 prints) ; sheets 31 x 44 cm, in portfolio 31 x 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country : taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's cathedral : to be published in four engravings / by Thomas Hornor.

Creator:: Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 31, [1] p., [3] folding leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The elements of drawing, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty-one engravings, plain and coloured, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton, drawing-master.

Creator:: Hamilton, George, writer on art
Date:: 1812
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be Meltonians.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1825 [i.e.1826]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae : containing figures of Roman antiquities discovered in various parts of England.

Creator:: Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:: 1813-1817
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. (some col.), port., plans, map ; 59 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Six studies of trees : the oak, the ash, the fir, the lopped elm, the willow, weeping willow / drawn and engraved in imitation of chalk-drawing by Harriet Gouldsmith.

Creator:: Arnold, Harriet, 1786 or 1787–1863
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : soft-ground etchings ; 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Studies of trees sketched from nature.

Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: 4 prints : soft-ground etchings ; plate marks approximately 21 x 29 cm, on sheets 25 x 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Tutors assistant / Hy. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all col. ill. ; 28 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The Artist's repository, or, Encyclopedia of the fine arts : exhibiting the principles, and explaining the practice in all their various branches ....

Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 4 v. in 8 : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Footsteps to drawing, according to the rules of perspective : explained in familiar dialogues, for the use of children and young persons, and illustrated by a series of progressive lessons in twenty plates of examples, calculated to combine a knowledge of perspective with the practice of drawing, and to lead the beginner imperceptibly to an acquaintance with the principal rules of that useful art. / by John George Wood, F.S.A., lecturer on perspective, &c.

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [4], 12 p., 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Sporting sketches : consisting of subjects relating to sports of the field, as horses, dogs, live and dead game, wild fowl, fox hunting, shooting, coursing, fishing, &c. &c. &c. : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1817-1818]
Physical Description:: 8 pt. : all ill. (engravings) ; 31 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. [Sporting dogs].

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: [6] prints : soft-ground etchings ; plate marks 13 x 20 cm, on sheets 14 x 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Greenwood's studies of forest trees.

Creator:: Greenwood, George, 1799–1875
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. British galleries of painting and sculpture : comprising a general historical and critical catalogue, with separate notices of every work of fine art in the principal collections / by C.M. Westmacott.

Creator:: Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy), 1787 or 1788–1868
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: viii, 240 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Sporting notions / by H. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1831-1833]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : all col ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. And a year ago, I commemorated a missed encounter--.

Creator:: Bustin, Jane
Date:: 2000
Physical Description:: [7] double leaves : ill. ; 35 x 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Two essays : one on the author's mode of executing rough sketches : the other on the principles on which they are composed : to these are added three plates of figures by Sawrey Gilpin ... / by William Gilpin.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: 43 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1819]
Physical Description:: [2] pt. : all ill. ; 28 x 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Travels in Switzerland, and in the country of the Grisons : in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq. / from William Coxe, M.A. F.R.S. F.A.S. Rector of Bemerton; and domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

Creator:: Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

Creator:: Green, Benjamin, 1739–1798
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm. x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple and easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts. / by John George Wood, F.S.A., author of Lectures on perspective, delivered at the Royal Institution in the years 1807, 1808, and 1809 ...

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Going to hunt, an easy job / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. A practical essay on the art of colouring and painting landscapes in water colours : accompanied with ten engravings / by John Heaviside Clark.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: 25 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Thirty-two etchings of cattle, &c. &c. / by Thomas Harvey, Esq. ; not published.

Creator:: Harvey, Thomas, 1748–1820
Date:: [approximately 1811?]
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [32] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: ii, 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29-33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China; : comprising a correct narrative of the public transactions of the embassy, of the voyage to and from China, and of the journey from the mouth of the Pei-Ho to the return to Canton. Interspersed wih observations upon the face of the country, the polity, moral character, and manners of the Chinese nation. The whole illustrated by maps and drawings / by Henry Ellis. Third commissioner of the embassy.

Creator:: Ellis, Henry, Sir, 1777–1869
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 526, [2] p., [11] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Facts and faces : being an enquiry into the connection between linear and mental portraiture : with a dissertation on personal and relative beauty / by Thomas Woolnoth.

Creator:: Woolnoth, Thomas A., 1785–1857
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: v, [2], 269 p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Progressive lessons in drawings / by J. Powell, No. 14 Allsops buildings, New Road, Marylebone.

Creator:: Powell, Joseph, 1780–1834
Date:: 1820-1821
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : all illustrations ; 23 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Thirty-five years in the East : adventures, discoveries, experiements, and historical sketches, relating to the Punjab and Cashmere : in connection with medicine, botany, pharmacy, etc. : together with an original materia medica; and a medical vocabulary, in four European and five eastern languages / by John Martin Honigberger ...

Creator:: Honigberger, John Martin, 1795–1869
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Four subjects of horses / drawn by Alken and engraved by Sutherland.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [4] plates : chiefly ill ; 36 x 53 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Symptoms of being amused. Vol. 1 / by Hy. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [42] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Narrative of a voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste, to the Yellow Sea, along the coast of Corea, and through its numerous hitherto undiscovered islands, to the Island of Lewchew : with an account of her shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar / by John M'Leod.

Creator:: M'Leod, John, 1777?-1820
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: 288 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The progress of a water-coloured drawing : wherein is represented to the reader the various gradation through which a drawing passes : from the outline to the finished state : the intention of this little work is to enable young people, where an eminent Master cannot be had, to cultivate the delightful art of drawing in colours with system and advantage.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [ca. 1807?]
Physical Description:: vii, [22] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Going home, apology for damage done / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The history of Richmond in the county of York : including a description of the castle, friary, Caseby-Abbey and other remains of antiquity in the neighbourhood.

Creator:: Clarkson, Christopher, 1758–1833
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 436 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. A series of easy lessons in landscape drawing : contained in forty plates, arranged progressively from the first principles in the chalk manner to the finished landscape colours / by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 4 p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Easy lessons in landscape drawing : contained in forty plates, arranged progressively, from the first principles in the chalk manner to the finished landscape colours / by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: [1819]
Physical Description:: 40 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Studies of the horse, and other animals, landscape-figures, &c. / by H. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1841]
Physical Description:: 29 prints in 1 volume : soft-ground etchings, lithographs ; sheet 18 x 26 cm, in volume 20 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laporte.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 43 x 58 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Laporte's Sketch book.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [1802]
Physical Description:: [26] leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. N. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

Creator:: Green, Benjamin, 1739–1798
Date:: [1786]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm. x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. An introduction to perspective : practical geometry, drawing and painting : a new and perfect explanation of the mixture of colours : with practical directions for miniature, crayon, and oil painting ... / by Charles Hayter.

Creator:: Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: xiv, [2], 276 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Of the characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laport.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1795-1798
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 39 x 53 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. A collection of nine selected sketches of villagers, favourite animals, &c., &c., &c. / by George Morland.

Creator:: Morland, George, 1763–1804
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: [2] p., [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. H. Alken's panorama of a fox hunt : shewing a large scope of the Leicestershire, Rutlandshire and Lincolnshire counties : with all sorts of riders, good, bad, & indifferent.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: Jany. 1st [1828]
Physical Description:: 1 print on 6 joined sheets : soft-ground etching ; sheets end-to-end 10 x 323 cm, rolled (in wooden case) to 16 x 4 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery, from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert, Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

2. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

3. Moments of fancy and whim / by Henry Alken.

4. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

5. Memoirs of the life of the late George Morland : with critical and descriptive observations on the whole of his works hitherto before the public / by J. Hassell ...

6. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

7. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

8. 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 ...

9. Lessons on drawing trees / by Geo. Harley.

10. Process of sketching a landscape.

12. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

13. A few ideas, caught on Easter Monday.

14. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

15. Process of sketching a landscape.

16. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; fifty engravings, with descriptions.

17. A selection from the drawings and studies in land and seascape of British artists : imitated from the originals / by Louis Francia, and others.

18. Specimens of riding near London / drawn from life by Henry Alken.

19. Illustrations for landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

20. Involuntary thoughts.

21. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be whips.

22. Illustrations to popular songs / by Henry Alken.

23. 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 ...

24. Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views, (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty) : illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire, in three books ... / by William Gilpin ...

25. A touch at the fine arts : illustrated by twelve plates, with descriptions / by Henry Alken.

26. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

28. Travels in the western Caucasus, including a tour through Imeritia, Mingrelia, Turkey, Moldavia, Galicia, Silesia, and Moravia, in 1836. By Edmund Spencer ...

29. Russian cries : in correct portraiture from drawings done on the spot by G. Orlowski, and now in the possession of the Rt. Honble. Lord Kinnaird.

30. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

31. Journal of a trip to Paris by the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, July MDCCCXIV.

32. A guide to landscape figure drawing / by N. E. Green ; woodcuts by James D. Cooper, from drawing by the author.

33. Studies of trees / by J.C. Deeley.

34. Etchings of views and antiquities in the county of Gloucestershire : hitherto imperfectly or never engraved.

35. An accurate description and history of the metropolitan and cathedral churches of Canterbury and York : from their first foundation to the present year : illustrated with one hundred and seventeen copper-plates, consisting of different views, plans, monuments, antiquities, arms, &c.

36. Progressive lessons / P. S. M.

37. Chalon's drawing book of animals and birds of every description : studies from nature.

38. Lewina the maid of Snowdon. A tale. By George Cumberland. With etchings by the author.

39. The history of Buxton : and visitor's guide to the curiosities of the Peak, including a descriptive itinerary of excursions usually made, and a set of botanical tables exhibiting the places of growth, &c. of the most remarkable plants found wild in the neighbourhood of Buxton / by A. Jewitt ...

40. A new drawing book, in the manner of chalk : containing twelve views in the west of England as follows : Glastonbury, Tavistock, ditto, Lynmouth, Exmouth, East-Bourne, Ide, ditto, Chagford, Exeter, Pennycross, Dartmoor / drawn and engraved by Samuel Prout.

42. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

43. A check, 12 o'clock, tipping for the swine / Hy. Alken delt.

44. Studies of cows from life : forming the first rudiments of sketching cattle from nature / H. M. Milbourne, in. et fec.

45. Throwing off, not so easy / Hy. Alken delt.

46. The three voyages of Captain James Cook round the world : complete in seven volumes : with map and other plates.

47. Studies of landscapes : by T. Gainsborough, J. Hoppner, R. A., T. Girtin, Wm. Owen R.A., A. Callcot, A.S. Owen, J. Varley, J.S. Hayward, and L. Francia / imitated from the originals by L. Francia.

48. Picturesque scenery in the Holy Land and Syria : delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800 / by F.B. Spilsbury ...

49. Caledonia : illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for the work / by W.H. Bartlett, T. Allom and others ; the descriptive text by William Beattie.

50. [Etchings of lake scenery in Cumberland].

51. A collection of Gloucestershire antiquities / by Samuel Lysons ...

52. [Drawing book of trees]

53. The Byron gallery ; a series of historical embellishments to illustrate the poetical works of Lord Byron.

54. Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste, along the coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew : with an account of her subsequent shipwreck / by John M'Leod.

56. Ten mezzo-tinto engravings : from original drawings ... / by Her Majesty's dutiful, grateful & affectionate servant, Carolina Courtenay Boyle ; engraved by Louis Marvy.

57. Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country : taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's cathedral : to be published in four engravings / by Thomas Hornor.

58. The elements of drawing, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty-one engravings, plain and coloured, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton, drawing-master.

59. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be Meltonians.

60. Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae : containing figures of Roman antiquities discovered in various parts of England.

61. Six studies of trees : the oak, the ash, the fir, the lopped elm, the willow, weeping willow / drawn and engraved in imitation of chalk-drawing by Harriet Gouldsmith.

62. Studies of trees sketched from nature.

63. Tutors assistant / Hy. Alken.

64. The Artist's repository, or, Encyclopedia of the fine arts : exhibiting the principles, and explaining the practice in all their various branches ....

66. Sporting sketches : consisting of subjects relating to sports of the field, as horses, dogs, live and dead game, wild fowl, fox hunting, shooting, coursing, fishing, &c. &c. &c. : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

67. [Sporting dogs].

68. Greenwood's studies of forest trees.

69. British galleries of painting and sculpture : comprising a general historical and critical catalogue, with separate notices of every work of fine art in the principal collections / by C.M. Westmacott.

70. Sporting notions / by H. Alken.

71. And a year ago, I commemorated a missed encounter--.

72. Two essays : one on the author's mode of executing rough sketches : the other on the principles on which they are composed : to these are added three plates of figures by Sawrey Gilpin ... / by William Gilpin.

73. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

74. Travels in Switzerland, and in the country of the Grisons : in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq. / from William Coxe, M.A. F.R.S. F.A.S. Rector of Bemerton; and domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

75. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

77. Going to hunt, an easy job / Hy. Alken delt.

78. A practical essay on the art of colouring and painting landscapes in water colours : accompanied with ten engravings / by John Heaviside Clark.