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Reference Library 34,952
Rare Books and Manuscripts 14,045

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Christie, Manson & Woods 214
Sotheby's (Firm) 158
Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm) 150
Victoria and Albert Museum 145
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 131
Christie & Manson 126
Christie, James, 1773–1831 121
John Murray (Firm) 103
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 79
Blake, William, 1757–1827 78
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803 70
Karl Baedeker (Firm) 66
Ward, Lock & Co 63
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 60
Britton, John, 1771–1857 53
Arts Council of Great Britain 51
Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc 51
Fine Art Society 51
Tate Gallery 49
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 48
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902– 47
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 47
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 45
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 44
Bonhams (Firm : 2001) 43
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 43
Hockney, David, born 1937 43
Phillips, H., -1840 42
Dilnot, John 41
Mee, Arthur, 1875–1943 39

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Accessible in the Reference Library 34,952
Accessible in the Study Room 14,045

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 48,839

Image Available

unavailable 48,684
available 155

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 195

Classification

Books 48,839

Collective Title

Period

20th century 23,372
21st century 13,540
19th century 9,943
18th century 1,862
17th century 220
16th century 46
15th century 34

Materials & Techniques

Height [cm]

Width [cm]

Work Type

wood engraving 1,667
exhibition catalog 1,230
auction catalog 1,073
aquatint 910
lithograph 855
engraving 809
artists' book 751
history 600
chromolithograph 433
catalog 410
etching 372
ephemera 369
private press books (publishing) 314
armorial bookplates (provenance) 294
drawing book 246
chromoxylograph 225
accordion fold format (binding) 218
photomechanical print 209
criticism, interpretation, etc 185
exhibition catalogue 178
steel engraving 172
auction catalogue 156
biographie 155
prospectuse 155
advertisement 147
publishers' advertisement 144
publisher's advertisement 137
woodcut 133
soft-ground etching 124
guidebook 122

Genre

Subject Terms

Painting, European -- Catalogs. 1,036
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 853
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Catalogs. 737
Artists' books -- Great Britain. 686
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 679
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 663
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. 595
Rare books -- Catalogs. 582
Great Britain. 555
Art, British -- Catalogs. 490
Furniture -- Catalogs. 415
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 378
London Institution -- Ownership. 344
Auction catalogs. 340
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph. 339
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 325
Art auctions -- Catalogs. 320
Drawing, European -- Catalogs. 273
England. 251
Art, British -- Exhibitions. 243
Art -- Catalogs. 238
Decoration and ornament -- Catalogs. 238
Drawing -- Technique. 233
Silver -- Catalogs. 228
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 226
Sculpture, European -- Catalogs. 215
Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900– -- Provenance (BAC,REF) 209
Decorative arts -- Catalogs. 206
Manuscripts -- Catalogs. 204
Painting, British -- Exhibitions. 194

Subject Period

20th century 3,230
19th century 3,140
18th century 1,247
17th century 592
21st century 303
16th century 237
15th century 45
17th-18th centuries 18
11th century 14
15th and 16th centuries 13
12th century 6
14th century 6
Geschichte 5
Alfred, 871-899 3
13th century 2
Description and travel 2
Elizabeth II 2
To 400 2
To 500 2
10e siècle 1
17th cenury 1
17th-18th century 1
17th-19th century 1
18e siècle 1
18h century 1
18th-19th century 1
18th-20th centuries 1
19h century 1
19th centuries 1
19th-20th centuries 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 7,400
England 5,475
London 1,757
London (England) 929
Scotland 598
United States 530
Ireland 417
Europe 404
Italy 274
India 256
France 247
Australia 224
Wales 221
Edinburgh (Scotland) 188
Edinburgh 169
England London 136
Oxford (England) 109
Middle East 107
Canada 98
New York (State) 77
Oxford 76
Waltham Saint Lawrence 76
Bath (England) 75
Dublin 74
Egypt 72
Kent (England) 70
Lake District (England) 70
Devon (England) 69
Germany 69
Spain 67

Associated People

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 364
Blake, William, 1757–1827 325
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 164
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 161
Constable, John, 1776–1837 158
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 142
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 131
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 131
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 124
Morris, William, 1834–1896 117
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834–1903 109
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 108
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974 95
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 92
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 77
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 76
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882 72
Hockney, David, born 1937 69
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 65
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 64
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 64
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 62
Freud, Lucian, 1922–2011 60
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 57
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641 56
Palmer, Samuel, 1805–1881 53
Riley, Bridget, born 1931 52
Caro, Anthony, Sir, 1924–2013 49
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 48
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 48

Exhibition History

Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978) 110
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 61
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 46
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 41
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) 24
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 24
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08) 11
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 11
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) 10
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27) 9
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08) 8
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 3
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 3
Picture Talking: James Northcote and the Fables (Yale Center for British Art, October 2, 2014-December 14, 2014) 2
Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21) 2
“Endless forms”: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts (Yale Center for British Art, February 12, 2009-May 3, 2009) 2
“The Poet of Them All”: William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert (Yale Center for British Art, June 16, 2016-August 21, 2016) 2
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 1
Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10) 1
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19) 1
Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars (Yale Center for British Art, May 24, 2006-September 10, 2006) 1
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17) 1
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11) 1
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Historic Royal Palaces, 2017-06-22 - 2017-11-12) 1
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-02-02 - 2017-04-30) 1
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Pera Museum, 2008-09-26 - 2009-01-11) 1
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Sharjah Art Museum, 2009-02-18 - 2009-04-30) 1
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Tate Britain, 2008-06-04 - 2008-08-31) 1
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28) 1
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 1

Credit Line

22960487070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 15
22738171720008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9
22770980730008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9
22709619660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709619750008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709639120008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22960434330008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 6
22709619420008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22709624340008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22809639860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22809664000008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22836619370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22861662870008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 5
22644345570008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22709619930008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22738129860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane L. Jervis, Yale PhD 1978 4
22809659210008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22826513210008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer 4
22826544530008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22651990110008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22653444540008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22709620320008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22711725610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22711746740008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22781117950008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22809675040008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22826534440008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer 3
22895863350008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22960435500008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22960448240008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 3

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Accessible in the Study Room
Dean's new magic picture book

[between 1857 and 1865]
Accessible in the Study Room
Pigot, James, 1769–1843

J. Pigot, engraver, and copper plate printer

[between 1810 and 1821]
Accessible in the Study Room
Menu

1939
Accessible in the Study Room
Breame, James, born 1793 or 1794

Half a cwt. of coals, Mr. Breame's Wharf, near the bridge

[approximately 1845?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bonnell, Mandy

Bethany seeds

2013
Accessible in the Study Room
W. Stevens's circulating library and general newspaper office

[1880?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022

Skute Awabo [Awabo Skute]

1992
Accessible in the Study Room
Pigot, James, 1769–1843

Pigot, engraver & copper plate printer

[between 1810 and 1821]
Accessible in the Study Room
Establishment for the education of young ladies conducted by the Misses Sadler,... [Read more]

[approximately 1850]
Accessible in the Study Room
Gilks, Edward, 1822?-

Edward Gilks, ornamental designer

[1840?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Mockett, Andrew

A chapbook of English tat

[2002]
Accessible in the Study Room
Cunard Steamship Company, ltd.

Programme of events, Monday August 22nd, 1955

1955
Accessible in the Study Room
Brearey & Myers (Firm : York, England)

[Letter from Brearey & Myers to Thorpe, Black Swan, York, for order of a New... [Read more]

June 11th, 1828
Accessible in the Study Room
Probert, John, active 1764

Survey and valuation of the several estates belonging to John Kinchant Esqr.... [Read more]

1765
Accessible in the Study Room
Albert Boot and Shoe Warehouse (London, England)

George McKoen, maker of the celebrated French calf side-spring boots at... [Read more]

[mid 19th century]
Accessible in the Study Room
Thompson, W. P. (William Phillips)

With the best Christmas and New Year's wishes of Wm. P. Thompson, F.C.S.

1894
Accessible in the Study Room
Bush, Tracey

The lost rivers of London

1995
Accessible in the Study Room
Douglas, Helen, 1952–

Leda and the swan

[2011]
Accessible in the Study Room
The New album of Waverly views

[approximately 1850]
Accessible in the Study Room
An account of the receipts and expences of the Charity-School at Worfield

[1817]
Accessible in the Study Room
Cunard Steamship Company, ltd.

Children's tea party held on board R.M.S. "Ivernia"

1955
Accessible in the Study Room
J. Smithson, dealer in every description of watches, jewellery, plated... [Read more]

[1850?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Tobin, George, 1768–1838

Views in St. Helena

[Nov. 1, 1815]
Accessible in the Study Room
Mr. Ingham, general dealer, Sheffield

[approximately 1840?]
Accessible in the Study Room
For the information of travellers passing through the Turnpike Gates at Strood, and... [Read more]

May 1792
Accessible in the Study Room
Kindergarten and transition class

[approximately 1900]
Accessible in the Study Room
Richards, J.

The kind-hearted girl

[1845]
Accessible in the Study Room
Printer's sample: "Boots and Shoes neatly mended"

[1850?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Engravings, to be sold by auction, by Mr. Gaskill

[approximately 1825]
Accessible in the Study Room
Little Red Riding Hood

[approximately 1880]
Accessible in the Study Room
Freemasons. Chilterns Lodge, No. 4634 (Buckinghamshire, England)

Ladies' Festival : Wednesday, 6th November, 1929 : Wharncliffe Rooms,... [Read more]

1929
Accessible in the Study Room
J. Lyons & Company

Menu

1934
Accessible in the Study Room
Roberson & Company

Roberson & Company, manufacturers of oil and water colors, materials for drawing... [Read more]

[not before 1862]
Accessible in the Study Room
The mistletoe bough, or, Young Lovel's bride

[approximately 1845]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bugle Hotel (Newport, England)

Bugle Hotel, Newport, Isle of Wight

[late 19th century]
Accessible in the Study Room
Lever Brothers Ltd.

Lifebuoy royal disinfectant soap

[approximately 1894?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882–1966

Moor Park, Rickmansworth

1914
Accessible in the Study Room
Lamont-Fisher, Pauline

Sturgeon

2011
Accessible in the Study Room
Dilnot, John

Black apples

2016
Accessible in the Study Room
William's return

[18th century]
Accessible in the Study Room
The particulars and inventories of the estates of the sub-governor, deputy... [Read more]

1721
Accessible in the Study Room
Gandy, Joseph Michael, 1771–1843

Designs for cottages, cottage farms, and other rural buildings

1805
Accessible in the Study Room
Memento of the Mission for Children and Young People hald at Eastbourne

[approximately 1890]
Accessible in the Study Room
Egerton, Daniel Thomas, 1797–1842

Egerton's views in Mexico

July 1st, 1840
Accessible in the Study Room
Duke of York's Theatre (London, England)

[Program for the the Duke of York's Theatre production of Pink string and... [Read more]

[1943]
Accessible in the Study Room
Narielwalla, Hormazd

Diamond dolls

2021
Accessible in the Study Room
[Chinese decorative packaging labels]

[approximately 1950?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Menu, airmen's mess

1942
Accessible in the Study Room
Anchor Line (Firm)

Programme of events, Sunday, February 9th, 1930

1930
Accessible in the Study Room
Foster, Vere, 1819–1900

Vere Foster's Copy books

[approximately 1897?]

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