Creator Gender: unknown / Work Type: prospectuse / Classification: Books

101. In the press and speedily will be published, in two volumes, royal quarto, with superb embellishments, an historical survey of the country of Cornwall by C.S. Gilbert.

Creator:: Congdon, John
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. Prospectus of a Universal historical dictionary, : or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics : by George Crabb ...

Creator:: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
Date:: [1825]
Physical Description:: 2, [14] p. ; 22 cm. (in case 25 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

103. Mémories du Muséum d'histoire naturelle par les professeurs de cet établissement.

Date:: [1814?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (4 pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

104. Proposals for publishing by subscription four prints : dedicated (by permission) to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, representing views of the action between the Java and the Constitution.

Date:: [1813?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (2 pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

105. Bibliotheca Peirsoniana, or, Catalogue raisonné : (adapted to serve as a perpetual Vade mecum for young clergy-men and students in Divinity) of the very valuable and extensive library of the Rev. Thomas Peirson, D.D. Senior Minster of the Established English Church, in the City of Amsterdam.

Creator:: Peirson, Thomas
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: [2], xi, [1], 219, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. [Prospectus for Tracey Bush's artist book Dusk : British Moths].

Creator:: Bush, Tracey
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: 1 print : illustrations ; 14 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk

107. William Kentridge : Tummelplatz.

Creator:: IvoryPress
Date:: [2017]
Physical Description:: 8 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ivorypress

108. Prospectus of a work now ready for the press, which under the title of Hibernia, proposes to treat, in an ample manner, of the ecclesiastical, topographical, and monastic antiquities of Ireland : by W. Monck Mason, Esq.

Creator:: Nichols, firm, printers (London, England)
Date:: [ca. 1818?]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

109. New medical journal : on the 1st of January, 1814, will be published, in 8vo, no. I, to be continued monthly, of The London medical, surgical, and pharmaceutical repository, or, The surgeon-apothecary's and apothecary's journal and review / conducted by George Man Burrows ... William Royston ... Anthony Todd Thomson ... Robert Masters Kerrison ; ... assisted by a society of general practitioners.

Date:: [1813]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([3] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

110. The legal and literary journal, and mercantile magazine : to be continued monthly, and number three to be published January 1st, 1814 / conducted by John Williams, Esq., author of the Laws of trade and Commerce, &c. &c. ; assisted by several literary and commercial gentlemen.

Creator:: Williams, John, Esq
Date:: December 15, 1813
Physical Description:: [1] sheet ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

111. Proposals for publishing a picturesque voyage round Great Britain : illustrated with coloured engravings by William Daniell : to commence with a picturesque voyage from Land's End, towards Anglesea.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

112. Code of health and longevity : the third edition : in one volume, octavo / by the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart.

Creator:: Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754–1835
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 2, 3, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

113. The green book : a quarterly review of the visual and literary arts. Autumn 1985.

Date:: [1985]
Physical Description:: [64] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

114. A prospectus, &c. of the British School : His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, patron.

Creator:: British School
Date:: [1802?]
Physical Description:: 20 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

115. This day is published, part I. to VII. (to be continued quarterly) ... of The Border antiquities of England and Scotland : comprising specimens of architecture and sculpture, and other vestiges of former ages, from the earliest time to the union of the crown : accompanied by a sketch of border history : together with illustrations of remarkable incidents in border history and tradition : and much original poetry by Walter Scott, Esq.

Creator:: Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet, ([2] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. Specimen of The vicar of Wakefield : with thirty-two illustrations, engraved by John Thompson, from designs by William Mulready, R.A.

Creator:: Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Date:: MDCCCXLIII [1843]
Physical Description:: [2], 4 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. This day is published, the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha, with critical, philological, and explanatory notes by the Rev. John Hewlett, B.D.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme
Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

118. In the press, and to be published immediately, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, dedicated by permission, to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, the entire works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt, the elder, by G.F. Nott, D.D.F.S.A., late fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

119. In the course of the present month, will be published Part I. of Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions by Edmund Lodge, ESQ. Lancaster Herald, F.S.A. author of the biographical tracts attached to the "Holbein Heads."

Creator:: Lackington, Allen and Co
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

120. In the press, The history and antiquities of the county of Hertford : volume the first, containing the hundreds of cashio and dacorum : compiled from the best printed authorities and original records, preserved in private collections and public repositories : embellished with views of the most curious monuments of antiquities : drawn and engraven by the most eminent British artists : and illustrated with a map of the county by Robert Clutterbuck, of Watford, Esq. F.S.A.

Creator:: Nichols, firm, printers (London, England)
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

121. Nearly ready for publication, price eighteen shillings, Bertram : a poetical tale in four cantos by Sir Egerton Brydger, Bart. K.J. M.P.

Creator:: Private Press of Lee Priory
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

122. The heart of the flute / Marco Antonio Montes de Oca ; translated by Laura Villaseñor ; introduction by Octavio Paz.

Creator:: Montes de Oca, Marco Antonio, 1932–2009
Date:: c1978
Physical Description:: [10], 60 p. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

123. Proposals for printing in weekly numbers, Eden, or, a compleat body of curious and useful gardening.

Creator:: T. Osborne and J. Shipton (Firm)
Date:: August 21, 1756
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. The Highgrove florilegium : MMVIII [prospectus].

Date:: [2008]
Physical Description:: 1 v. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

125. Orme's collection of British field sports : illustrated in twenty beautifully coloured engravings from designs by S. Howitt.

Creator:: Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822
Date:: [1955]
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, 20 leaves of plates : facsims. ; 45 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

126. To be published by subscription, a treatise on theology written by Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson ... : to which will be added a letter from her to her daughter on the principles of the Christian religion : also the life of Mrs. Hutchinson written by herself, a fragment : from the original manuscripts.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1816?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

127. On December 1, 1814, will be published, dedicated by permission, to His Grace the Duke of Wellington, No. I of a highly embellished, splendid, and interesting work, to be entitled, The martial achievements of Great Britain and her allies, from the year 1800 to 1814 : illustrated with accurate representations of the numerous glorious victories in which they have been engaged : accompanied with the Gazette and other official documents of the defeats of their enemies.

Creator:: Jenkins, James, 1753–1831
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

128. Domestic manners of the Americans / by Mrs. Trollope.

Creator:: Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780–1863
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

129. Avis aux souscripteurs : sur cette dernière livraison du Voyage pittoresque

Creator:: Saint Non, Jean Claude Richard de, 1727–1791
Date:: [1786]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. Proposals for publishing by subscription the memoirs of Zerah Colburn : in one volume quarto, embellished with a portrait : a child of just nine years of age who possesses the singular faculty of solving a great variety of arithmetical questions by the mere operation of the mind, and without the usual assistance of any visible symbol or contrivance

Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

131. Ravilious at war : the complete work of Eric Ravilious, September 1939-September 1942 / edited by Anne Ullmann ; with contributions from Barry and Saria Viney, Christopher Whittick and Simon Lawrence ; and a foreword by Brian Sewell.

Creator:: Ravilious, Eric William, 1903–1942
Date:: 2002
Physical Description:: 283 p. : ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. Racing at home and abroad : an authoritative treatise on racing in four volumes / by Charles Richardson, the Hon. George Lambton, H.A. Brown, Lieut.-Col. F.F. Maccabe, Thomas E. Healy, and other well-known writers ; original paintings and drawings by Major G.D. Giles, Lynwood Palmer, Alfred Bright, & Charles Simpson.

Creator:: London & Counties Press Association Limited
Date:: [1923?]
Physical Description:: [4] p. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. Proposals for publishing by subscription, Elements of chemical science, as applied to the arts and manufactures, and natural phaenomena, by J. Murray, "corresponding" member of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, member of the Norwich Philosophical Society, &c.

Creator:: Youngman, George
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. Historical epitome of the several counties and islands in the United Kingdom : the county of Southampton forming the second volume of this work, is now in immediate preparation, and will be published within six calendar months of this date ... / the work will be illustrated ... by C. Greenwood, author of the large atlas of the counties of England and Wales, &c., under whose superintendence and management this work is conducted.

Creator:: Greenwood, C. (Christopher), 1786–1855
Date:: 1838?]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

135. Mr. Bowyer's prospectus of a splendid national portrait of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, from an original picture painted by Thomas Lawrence ...

Creator:: Bowyer, Robert, 1758–1834
Date:: 1814]
Physical Description:: 2 p. ; 26 cm. (in case 33 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

136. The testament of Charlotte B. / edited & introduced by Marius Kociejowski ; decorated by Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Biggs, Charlotte, d. 1827
Date:: 1988
Physical Description:: 68 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

137. Themes in aquatint / Colin Franklin.

Creator:: Franklin, Colin
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: vii, 103 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. Works by Mr. Ruskin / published by and to be had of George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent ... ; also to be obtained from the principal booksellers ...

Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: 12 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

139. Proposals for publishing by subscription, a series of engravings of the principal military achievements of the British Army in Portugal : under the command of Lieut. General Lord Viscount Wellington.

Creator:: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co
Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. Virtuoso--advt.

Date:: 1814
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. Rural sports, a poem, by William Somerville, author of "The Chase" : to be published, by subscription, by R. Ackermann, No. 101, Strand.

Creator:: Somerville, William, 1675–1742
Date:: June 1, 1812
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. In the press, and speedily will be published, part I of Archaica, containing a reprint of scarce Old English tracts, with prefaces and notes, critical and biographical.

Date:: [1814?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. To be published by subscription, A collection of select views in Great Britain : from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists : to be engraved by S. Middiman.

Date:: October 1, 1783
Physical Description:: [1] sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

144. Le Keux's memorials of Cambridge : a series of views of the colleges, halls, churches, and other public buildings, of the university and town of Cambridge : engraved by J. Le Keux, from original drawings, made expressly for the work : with historical and descriptive accounts of the buildings, &c. / by Thomas Wright.

Creator:: Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:: [1837?]
Physical Description:: [2], 16 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. This day is published, in a thick 8vo volumes of upwards of one thousand pages, price twenty shillings extra boards, or twenty-two shillings calf gilt, Pietas Londinensis : the history, design, and present state of the various public charities in and near London : in six parts, by A. Highmore, Esq., Ely Place, author of "The law of Mortmain and charitable uses, &c."

Creator:: Craddock & Joy
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

146. The life of James the Second, King of England : collected out of memoirs writ of his own hand : also, King James's advice to his son : and that monarch's last will, dated November 17, 1688 : the whole to be edited, by order of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, by the Rev. J.S. Clarke, L.L.B. F.R.S., historiographer to the King, chaplain of the household and librarian to His Royal Highness.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: [1] page ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. Prospectus of a weekly newspaper, to be entitled the Colchester Gazette : which will commence on Saturday, January 1, 1814.

Date:: [1813]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. Proposals for publishing by subscription, the History of the Kings of England from the arrival of the Saxons A.D. 449, to his own times, A.D. 1143 : by William of Malmsbury, collated with authentic mss. and translated from the original Latin with a preface, notes, and an index, by the Rev. John Sharpe, B.A. ...

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: Dec.15, 1813
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. To be published by subscription, two coloured engravings, with descriptive letter-press, of the procession and ceremony of the installation of the Knights of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, from the drawings by Mr. Frederic Nash.

Date:: [June 1, 1812]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. Prospectus, address, and list of subscribers, to The Vitruvius britannicus. By P.F. Robinson ...

Creator:: Robinson, P. F. (Peter Frederick), 1776–1858
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: 3, [1] p. 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. A Venetian story / by Lord Byron ; with illustrations from eighteenth century copper-plate engravings selected and introduced by Eleanor M. Garvey and Philip Hofer.

Creator:: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824
Date:: 1963
Physical Description:: 39 leaves : ill. ; 35 x 51 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A series of prints exhibiting the most interesting scenes in London and Westminster : drawn from the most striking points of view, and executed in aquatinta, by T. Malton, Jun.

Date:: March, 1781
Physical Description:: [1] sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

153. This day is published, number XCIV, with a view of the city gates : (to be continued weekly, price six-pence) : the sixth edition of Stow's survey of London and Westminster : and of the borough of Southward : being the best topography of those cities : together with the distinct history of them : in two large volumes, folio : containing their original, antiquity, increase, present state, and government : written at first by John Stow, citizen and native of London ; several times reprinted and augmented, then corrected, and very much enlarged in the year 1720 by J. Strype, M.A. ; and the history and survey now brought down to this present time by careful hands ; illustrated with exact maps of all the wards and out-parishes both of London and Westminister ; with other draughts of the most eminent and public edifices and monuments.

Date:: November 29, 1755
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page (incomplete)) ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. Anish Kapoor : Wound.

Creator:: IvoryPress
Date:: 2005
Physical Description:: 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elena Foster

155. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland : to be engraved by Thomas Milton, from original drawings, by the best masters.

Date:: November 25, 1782
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 24 x 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. Preparing for the press, Memoirs of John, Duke of Marlborough : chiefly drawn from his private correspondence and family documents, preserved at Blenheim : as well as from other authentic sources never before published : by William Cox, Archdeacon of Wilts. : with portraits, maps, plans, genealogical tables, coats of arms, and fac-similes of the hand-writing of the most illustrious persons, whose letters appear in this work : in two volumes, quarto.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1817?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. Preparing for the press, a new edition of The Saxon chronicle, with an English translation and notes by the Rev. J. Ingram ... : a reprint of that very valuable Romance of Morte Arthur, with an introduction and notes, in quarto ... : "The poeticall exercises at vacant houres of James the Sixt--King of Scotland," edited by R.P. Gillies, Esq.

Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. Prospectus and specimens of the wood engravings which will accompany the text of the Oriental album; or Historical, pictorial and ethnographical sketches illustrating the human families in the valley of the Nile. Their costumes, usages, habits, modes of life ... By E. Prisse, Esq. ...

Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 4 p. ill. 58 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

159. A series of etchings illustrative of the architectural antiquities of Suffolk : accompanied with an historical index / the whole drawn and etched by Henry Davy ...

Creator:: Davy, Henry, active 1829
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: [4], 12 pages, [70] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. Prospectus of a new edition of The history of Kent.

Date:: ca. 1886.]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] p. ; 44 cm. (in case 48 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. A history of Madeira : with a series of twenty-seven coloured engravings, illustrative of the costumes, manners, and occupations of the inhabitants of that island.

Creator:: Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: v, [3], 118 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. Preparing for Re-publication. Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum : The history of the ancient abbies, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales. Also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries ... / By the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel ...

Creator:: Harding, J. (John)
Date:: 1812]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] p. ; 27 cm. (in case 43 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. This day are published, in three volumes, quarto, price £7:7s. boards, illustrated with 74 plates, printed chiefly from his manuscripts, under the direction of a select committee of civil engineers, Reports, estimates, and treatises, embracing the several subjects of canals, navigable rivers, harbours, piers, bridges, draining, embanking, lighthouses, machinery of various descriptions including fire engines, mills, &c. &c. with other miscellaneous papers drawn up in the course of his employment as a civil engineer, by the late Mr. John Smeaton, F.R.S.

Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. Just published, (no. I), price one guinea, a selection of Hebrew melodies, with appropriate symphonies and accompaniments by Mr. Braham and Mr. Nathan : the poetry written expressly for the work, by the Right Honourable Lord Bryon.

Creator:: Nathan, Isaac, 1792–1864
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1]) page ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

165. Sir, there is a scheme set on foot for erecting a publick academy for the improvement of the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture ...

Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: [2] sheets ([2] p.) ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

166. In the press, and speedily will be published, The dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations, by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed a history of the language and an English grammar by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. : with numerous corrections, and with the addition of many thousand words, by the Rev. Henry J. Todd.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte pendant l'éxpedition du Général Bonaparte. Par le citoyen Denon ... : Prospectus ...

Creator:: Didot, Pierre, l'Aîné
Date:: 1801]
Physical Description:: 13 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. Prospectus of A general history of the County of York. By Thomas Dunham Whitaker ...

Creator:: Longman (Firm)
Date:: 1816.]
Physical Description:: 4 p. ; 28 cm. (in case 49 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. Prospectus of a work of engravings of twelve in number upon the scale of Sir Robert Strange's largest works : and of a smaller work, consisting of fifteen portraits, or single figures, on the scale of Vandyke's Book of Heads : to be executed by the most eminent artists of the present period : both works to be under the direction of William Buchanan, Esq.

Creator:: Buchanan, William, 1777–1864
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 8, [1] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. Nearly ready for publication, in two volumes ... An inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving on copper and wood : with an account of the most ancient engravers and their works, from the earliest period, to the middle of the sixteenth century : comprising observations on some of the first books ornaments with wood-cuts : by William Young Ottley, F.A.S.

Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. Metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated by Mary M. Innes ; illustrations by Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:: 1995
Physical Description:: xxix, 350 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

172. Prospectus of a work entitled The costume of the original inhabitants of the British islands. By Samuel Rush Meyrick ... and Charles Hamilton Smith, esq.

Creator:: Meyrick, Samuel Rush, 1783–1848
Date:: [ca. 1814]
Physical Description:: broadside. 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. Prospectus du Voyage pittoresque de l'Italie.

Creator:: Saint Non, Jean Claude Richard de, 1727–1791
Date:: [1778]
Physical Description:: 6 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

174. Edes and Gill's North American Almanack.

Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. Proposals for publishing by subscription the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorised version, accompanied with a new translation, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1817]
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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101. In the press and speedily will be published, in two volumes, royal quarto, with superb embellishments, an historical survey of the country of Cornwall by C.S. Gilbert.

102. Prospectus of a Universal historical dictionary, : or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics : by George Crabb ...

103. Mémories du Muséum d'histoire naturelle par les professeurs de cet établissement.

104. Proposals for publishing by subscription four prints : dedicated (by permission) to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, representing views of the action between the Java and the Constitution.

105. Bibliotheca Peirsoniana, or, Catalogue raisonné : (adapted to serve as a perpetual Vade mecum for young clergy-men and students in Divinity) of the very valuable and extensive library of the Rev. Thomas Peirson, D.D. Senior Minster of the Established English Church, in the City of Amsterdam.

106. [Prospectus for Tracey Bush's artist book Dusk : British Moths].

107. William Kentridge : Tummelplatz.

108. Prospectus of a work now ready for the press, which under the title of Hibernia, proposes to treat, in an ample manner, of the ecclesiastical, topographical, and monastic antiquities of Ireland : by W. Monck Mason, Esq.

110. The legal and literary journal, and mercantile magazine : to be continued monthly, and number three to be published January 1st, 1814 / conducted by John Williams, Esq., author of the Laws of trade and Commerce, &c. &c. ; assisted by several literary and commercial gentlemen.

111. Proposals for publishing a picturesque voyage round Great Britain : illustrated with coloured engravings by William Daniell : to commence with a picturesque voyage from Land's End, towards Anglesea.

112. Code of health and longevity : the third edition : in one volume, octavo / by the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart.

113. The green book : a quarterly review of the visual and literary arts. Autumn 1985.

114. A prospectus, &c. of the British School : His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, patron.

116. Specimen of The vicar of Wakefield : with thirty-two illustrations, engraved by John Thompson, from designs by William Mulready, R.A.

117. This day is published, the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha, with critical, philological, and explanatory notes by the Rev. John Hewlett, B.D.

121. Nearly ready for publication, price eighteen shillings, Bertram : a poetical tale in four cantos by Sir Egerton Brydger, Bart. K.J. M.P.

122. The heart of the flute / Marco Antonio Montes de Oca ; translated by Laura Villaseñor ; introduction by Octavio Paz.

123. Proposals for printing in weekly numbers, Eden, or, a compleat body of curious and useful gardening.

124. The Highgrove florilegium : MMVIII [prospectus].

125. Orme's collection of British field sports : illustrated in twenty beautifully coloured engravings from designs by S. Howitt.

126. To be published by subscription, a treatise on theology written by Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson ... : to which will be added a letter from her to her daughter on the principles of the Christian religion : also the life of Mrs. Hutchinson written by herself, a fragment : from the original manuscripts.

128. Domestic manners of the Americans / by Mrs. Trollope.

129. Avis aux souscripteurs : sur cette dernière livraison du Voyage pittoresque

131. Ravilious at war : the complete work of Eric Ravilious, September 1939-September 1942 / edited by Anne Ullmann ; with contributions from Barry and Saria Viney, Christopher Whittick and Simon Lawrence ; and a foreword by Brian Sewell.

133. Proposals for publishing by subscription, Elements of chemical science, as applied to the arts and manufactures, and natural phaenomena, by J. Murray, "corresponding" member of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, member of the Norwich Philosophical Society, &c.

135. Mr. Bowyer's prospectus of a splendid national portrait of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, from an original picture painted by Thomas Lawrence ...

136. The testament of Charlotte B. / edited & introduced by Marius Kociejowski ; decorated by Richard Shirley Smith.

137. Themes in aquatint / Colin Franklin.

138. Works by Mr. Ruskin / published by and to be had of George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent ... ; also to be obtained from the principal booksellers ...

139. Proposals for publishing by subscription, a series of engravings of the principal military achievements of the British Army in Portugal : under the command of Lieut. General Lord Viscount Wellington.

140. Virtuoso--advt.

141. Rural sports, a poem, by William Somerville, author of "The Chase" : to be published, by subscription, by R. Ackermann, No. 101, Strand.

142. In the press, and speedily will be published, part I of Archaica, containing a reprint of scarce Old English tracts, with prefaces and notes, critical and biographical.

143. To be published by subscription, A collection of select views in Great Britain : from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists : to be engraved by S. Middiman.

147. Prospectus of a weekly newspaper, to be entitled the Colchester Gazette : which will commence on Saturday, January 1, 1814.

149. To be published by subscription, two coloured engravings, with descriptive letter-press, of the procession and ceremony of the installation of the Knights of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, from the drawings by Mr. Frederic Nash.

150. Prospectus, address, and list of subscribers, to The Vitruvius britannicus. By P.F. Robinson ...

151. A Venetian story / by Lord Byron ; with illustrations from eighteenth century copper-plate engravings selected and introduced by Eleanor M. Garvey and Philip Hofer.

152. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A series of prints exhibiting the most interesting scenes in London and Westminster : drawn from the most striking points of view, and executed in aquatinta, by T. Malton, Jun.

154. Anish Kapoor : Wound.

155. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland : to be engraved by Thomas Milton, from original drawings, by the best masters.

158. Prospectus and specimens of the wood engravings which will accompany the text of the Oriental album; or Historical, pictorial and ethnographical sketches illustrating the human families in the valley of the Nile. Their costumes, usages, habits, modes of life ... By E. Prisse, Esq. ...

159. A series of etchings illustrative of the architectural antiquities of Suffolk : accompanied with an historical index / the whole drawn and etched by Henry Davy ...

160. Prospectus of a new edition of The history of Kent.

161. A history of Madeira : with a series of twenty-seven coloured engravings, illustrative of the costumes, manners, and occupations of the inhabitants of that island.

164. Just published, (no. I), price one guinea, a selection of Hebrew melodies, with appropriate symphonies and accompaniments by Mr. Braham and Mr. Nathan : the poetry written expressly for the work, by the Right Honourable Lord Bryon.

165. Sir, there is a scheme set on foot for erecting a publick academy for the improvement of the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture ...

167. Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte pendant l'éxpedition du Général Bonaparte. Par le citoyen Denon ... : Prospectus ...

168. Prospectus of A general history of the County of York. By Thomas Dunham Whitaker ...

171. Metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated by Mary M. Innes ; illustrations by Richard Shirley Smith.

172. Prospectus of a work entitled The costume of the original inhabitants of the British islands. By Samuel Rush Meyrick ... and Charles Hamilton Smith, esq.

173. Prospectus du Voyage pittoresque de l'Italie.

174. Edes and Gill's North American Almanack.

175. Proposals for publishing by subscription the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorised version, accompanied with a new translation, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts.