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Rare Books and Manuscripts 3,095
Reference Library 106

Creator

Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022 24
Dilnot, John 23
Sackett, Colin 20
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 19
Finlay, Ian Hamilton 16
Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), 1858–1949 15
Edwards, Lionel, 1878–1966 14
Kemplen, Tony 14
King, Ronald, 1932– 14
Labour Party (Great Britain) 14
Liberal Party (Great Britain) 14
Blake, William, 1757–1827 11
Fairfax-Blakeborough, J. (John), 1883– 11
Horl, Mikel 11
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886–1967 11
Rindl, Deb 10
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 10
Bush, Tracey 9
Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957 9
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 9
Metal Box Company 9
Young, Percy M. (Percy Marshall), 1912–2004 9
Fisher, Roy, 1930–2017 8
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 8
Clark, William Andrews, 1877–1934 7
Donne, John, 1572–1631 7
Harrow School 7
Higginson, A. Henry 7
Hislop, John 7
Shirley Smith, Richard 7

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 3,095
Accessible in the Reference Library 106

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 3,073
Free to Use 22

Image Available

unavailable 3,022
available 73

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 1

Classification

Books 3,095

Collective Title

Period

20th century 3,095

19th century 54
18th century 21
17th century 11
16th century 8
15th century 7
21st century 3

Materials & Techniques

Height [cm]

Width [cm]

Work Type

artists' book 377
private press books (publishing) 314
wood engraving 280
exhibition catalog 221
ephemera 194
photomechanical print 151
poem 66
accordion fold format (binding) 63
livres d'artiste 53
engraving 48
poetry 46
advertisement 44
etching 38
exhibition catalogue 37
screen print 35
fiction 33
memorial card 33
bookmark 31
memorial work 31
chromolithograph 29
dust jackets (binding) 29
botanical illustration 28
lithograph 28
dust jacket 27
concrete poem 26
photograph 26
prospectuse 25
relief print 25
linocut 23
pamphlet 21

Genre

Subject Terms

Artists' books -- Great Britain. 388
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 226
Art, Modern -- Exhibitions. 122
Fox hunting. 111
Horses. 80
Private press books -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence -- Specimens. 69
English poetry. 66
Circle Press -- Publisher. 53
Horsemanship. 53
Horse racing. 51
Horse racing -- Great Britain. 49
Death. 35
Mourning customs -- Great Britain. 35
Grief. 33
English poetry -- 20th century. 30
Bookmarks -- Specimens. 28
Hunting. 28
Photography, Artistic. 28
Politics -- Great Britain. 26
Horses -- Breeding. 25
Hunting -- Great Britain. 25
Political parties -- Great Britain. 25
Great Britain. 24
Horse racing -- United States. 24
Exhibitions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 22
Horses in art. 22
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 22
Thoroughbred horse. 22
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. 21
Race horses. 21

Subject Period

20th century 262
19th century 55
18th century 25
17th century 15
16th century 12
15th century 3
11th century 2
15th and 16th centuries 2
Description and travel 2
Elizabeth II 2
14th century 1
17th cenury 1
58 B.C.-511 A.D 1
Twentieth Century 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 768
England 372
London 233
United States 82
Waltham Saint Lawrence 76
London (England) 31
France 28
Ireland 26
Guildford 19
Edinburgh 12
Guildford (England) 12
Italy 12
Oxford 12
Oxford (England) 12
Virginia 12
Cambridge 11
Australia 10
Kentucky 10
Newtown (Powys, Wales) 10
Scotland 10
Europe 9
Cambridge (England) 8
India 8
Liverpool (England) 8
Axminster 7
Glasgow 7
Marlborough (England) 7
New York (State) 7
Bristol 6
Canada 6

Associated People

Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 24
George VI, King of Great Britain, 1895–1952 13
Shirley Smith, Richard 12
Blake, William, 1757–1827 11
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 11
Procktor, Patrick, 1936–2003 10
Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, 1900–2002 9
George V, King of Great Britain, 1865–1936 9
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 9
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022 8
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 8
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 7
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 7
Mary, Queen, consort of George V, King of Great Britain, 1867–1953 7
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 7
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 6
Finlay, Ian Hamilton 6
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519 5
Morris, William, 1834–1896 5
Picasso, Pablo, 1881–1973 5
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 4
Baxter, George, 1804–1867 4
Bembo, Pietro, 1470–1547 4
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 4
Diana, Princess of Wales, 1961–1997 4
Edwards, Lionel, 1878–1966 4
Fulton, Hamish, born 1946 4
Jesus Christ 4
Jones, David, 1895–1974 4
Nicholson, William Sir, 1872–1949 4

Exhibition History

"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 15
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11) 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
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 1
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 1

Credit Line

22711723710008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 2
22711731110008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert 2
22711731170008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert 2
22781079680008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert. 2
22606018760008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606039610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606091430008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt 1
22606096070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt 1
22606107810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt 1
22606110530008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt 1
22606125190008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt 1
22606514650008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22606582880008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D. 1
22606930130008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972 1
22607144580008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607197660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607246420008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607597140008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607654640008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607664040008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607685220008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607686490008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22607686500008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22608025680008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert 1
22608105100008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22608108990008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22608114850008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nigel Hamway 1
22608123860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22608141520008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1

Language

English 3,016
French 29
German 17
Welsh 9
Undetermined 4
Italian 3
Latin 3
Portuguese 3
Dutch 2
English, Middle (1100-1500) 1
Japanese 1
Norwegian 1
Polish 1
Spanish 1
Swedish 1

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Accessible in the Study Room
J. Lyons & Company

Menu

1934
Accessible in the Study Room
List of dances

[ca. 1920?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Cunard Steamship Company, ltd.

Programme of events, Monday August 22nd, 1955

1955
Accessible in the Study Room
St. John Ambulance Association

The triangular bandage

[circa 1915?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Kindergarten and transition class

[approximately 1900]
Accessible in the Study Room
First lessons in knitting for home or school

[approximately 1900?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Stencilled friezes

[ca. 1900?]
Accessible in the Study Room
In Disgraceful Memory of the Russian Navy, in their terrible encounter with nine... [Read more]

[1904]
Accessible in the Study Room
Kikkuli, fl. ca. 1350 B.C

The Kikkuli text on the training of horses (ca. 1350 B.C.)

c1977
Accessible in the Study Room
Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society

Scottish Widows' Fund

[approximately 1913?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Mintons Ltd

Minton English bone china

[between 1960 and 1980]
Accessible in the Study Room
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022

Father's garden

1989
Accessible in the Study Room
Menu, airmen's mess

1942
Accessible in the Study Room
Festival of Britain (1951 : Great Britain)

Festival of Britain

1951
Accessible in the Study Room
Festival of Britain (1951 : Great Britain)

Festival pleasure gardens

1951
Accessible in the Study Room
Brébeuf, Jean de, Saint, 1593–1649

The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of... [Read more]

MCMXXXVIII [1938]
Accessible in the Study Room
Festival of Britain (1951 : Great Britain)

Britain at home to the world

1951
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
In loving memory of Betsy Ann

[1924]
Accessible in the Study Room
Collection of eight prize awards given in dog shows

1924-1925
Accessible in the Study Room
Bonnell, Mandy

Sailing boats & dhows

[1994]
Accessible in the Study Room
Carroll, Lewis, 1832–1898

Alice's adventures in Wonderland

[1907]
Accessible in the Study Room
Royal Exchange Assurance (Firm)

[Bookmark, Royal Exchange Assurance

[approximately 1900?]
Accessible in the Study Room
London Association for the Blind

[Advertisement for household items made by blind workers]

[approximately 1930]
Accessible in the Study Room
Henland, Cecil

The ghosts of my friends

[approximately 1920]
Accessible in the Study Room
Ladies and Gentlemen!

[approximately 195-?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

[Bookmark from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents]

[approximately 1970?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Shaw, Bernard, 1856–1950

B. C. Whitney presents Bernard Shaw's latest and greatest play Saint... [Read more]

[1923]
Accessible in the Study Room
[Chinese decorative packaging labels]

[approximately 1950?]
Accessible in the Study Room
First lessons in plain sewing for home or school

[approximately 1900?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Empire Exhibition (1938 : Glasgow, Scotland)

Souvenir of the Empire Exhibition, Glasgow 1938

[1938]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bonnell, Mandy

The coral aquarium

[1997]
Accessible in the Study Room
Nash, Paul, 1889–1946

Dorset

[1936]
Accessible in the Study Room
Mallam, May

Brush drawing as applied to natural forms and common objects

1905
Accessible in the Study Room
Phillips, Nicholas

You're never alone in the ocean

1981.]
Accessible in the Study Room
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022

Skute Awabo [Awabo Skute]

1992
Accessible in the Study Room
Regency Hotel (Ramsgate, England)

The Regency. Ramsgate

1953
Accessible in the Study Room
Bush, Tracey

Cygnea cantio

1997
Accessible in the Study Room
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986

Henry Moore shelter-sketch-book

[1967]
Accessible in the Study Room
Coq d'Or (London, England)

Carte du jour

1955
Accessible in the Study Room
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872–1956

Rossetti and his circle

[1922]
Accessible in the Study Room
Emergency bulletin

[1926]
Accessible in the Study Room
Simpson's-in-the-Strand

Simpson's in-the-Strand, Grand Divan Tavern

1960
Accessible in the Study Room
Royal Bath Hotel (Bournemouth, England)

[Lunch and dinner menu for the Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth, August... [Read more]

1955
Accessible in the Study Room
Harrow School

Harrow School

1931
Accessible in the Study Room
Bush, Tracey

The lost rivers of London

1995
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
Dreyfus, John

Type specimen facsimiles;

1963
Accessible in the Study Room
Anchor Line (Firm)

Programme of events, Sunday, February 9th, 1930

1930
Accessible in the Study Room
Col. W. de Basil's Ballets Russes

[1935]
Accessible in the Study Room
Menu

1939
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
[Receipt from Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street, E.C.]

[approximately 1930?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882–1966

Moor Park, Rickmansworth

1914
Accessible in the Study Room
London

[approximately 1951]
Accessible in the Study Room
Reliance Rubber Company

Plastic gold

1889-1939 [that is, 1939]
Accessible in the Study Room
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891–1915

H. Gaudier-Brzeska, 1891-1915

[1919]
Accessible in the Study Room
[Luncheon menu for the University Arms Hotel, Cambridge, Sept. 6th, 1939]

1939
Accessible in the Study Room
Lydiat, Anne

Without

[1999]
Accessible in the Study Room
Stevens Art Gallery (St. Paul, Minn.)

Stevens Art Gallery

early 20th century
Accessible in the Study Room
M'Lagan & Cumming (Firm)

M'Lagan & Cumming

[1908?]
Accessible in the Study Room
The book of Jonah taken from the authorized version of King James I

1926
Accessible in the Study Room
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022

Ten years of Uzbekistan

1994
Accessible in the Study Room
Father Tuck's kindergarten paper modelling

[between 1910 and 1925]
Accessible in the Study Room
Bonnington Hotel (London, England)

Luncheon

1951
Accessible in the Study Room
London Transport Executive

[Ticket for 1951 Festival of Britain special bus service]

[1951]
Accessible in the Study Room
Reveley, Thomas, active 1904

£5 reward

approximately 1904
Accessible in the Study Room
Society of Dilettanti (London, England)

Antiquities of Ionia,

1769-1915
Accessible in the Study Room
Office Anthem

[approximately 193-?]
Accessible in the Study Room
Hassall, John, 1868–1948

Grosvenor House, July 25th, 1916

1916
Accessible in the Study Room
Bonnington Hotel (London, England)

Dinner

1951
Accessible in the Study Room
Bush, Tracey

The pocket book of sea creatures

1997
Accessible in the Study Room
Cunard White Star, ltd

Menu

[1935]
Accessible in the Reference Library
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

Stubbs

1984
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

George Stubbs, 1724-1806

1984
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Constable, John, 1776–1837

Constable with his friends in 1806

1981
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

The book of nonsense

[approximately 1916?]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Nonsensus

1988
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Edward Lear's journals

1952
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Teapots and quails

1953
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Lear in Sicily

1938
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

St. Kiven and the gentle Kathleen

1973
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Letters of Edward Lear, author of "The book of nonsense"

[approximately 1908?]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or parrots

1978
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Indian Journal

1953
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

The beggar's opera by Hogarth and Blake

1965
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds

1929
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Blake, William, 1757–1827

The note-book of William Blake

MCMXXXV [1935]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Blake, William, 1757–1827

The writings of William Blake

MCMXXV [1925]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Blake, William, 1757–1827

The illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil

1937
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Blake, William, 1757–1827

Pencil drawings by William Blake

1927
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Blake, William, 1757–1827

The Blake-Varley sketchbook of 1819

1969
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Blake, William, 1757–1827

Illustrations of the book of Job by William Blake;

1935
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Blake, William, 1757–1827

Blake's pencil drawings

1956
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Blake, William, 1757–1827

Poetry and prose of William Blake

1935
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Blake, William, 1757–1827

The complete writings of William Blake

MCMLVII [1957]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Blake, William, 1757–1827

William Blake's designs for Edward Young's Night thoughts

1980-
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Blake, William, 1757–1827

Spring

1993
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Heaton, Mary Margaret, 1836–1883

A concise history of painting

1909
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Broadhead, W. Smithson

Hoof prints over America;

1951

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