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Rare Books and Manuscripts 13,897
Reference Library 160

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Christie & Manson 126
Christie, James, 1773–1831 118
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 99
Christie, Manson & Woods 77
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803 70
Britton, John, 1771–1857 51
Phillips, H., -1840 42
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 41
Dilnot, John 37
Sackett, Colin 35
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851 34
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804 30
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 28
Douglas, Helen, 1952– 28
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857 28
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 28
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022 26
Burford, Robert, 1791–1861 24
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878 24
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 24
Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805–1864 24
Bush, Tracey 22
Morris, William, 1834–1896 22
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825 22
Burnet, John, 1784–1868 21
Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863 20
King, Ronald, 1932– 20
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834 19
Combe, William, 1742–1823 19
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860 19

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Accessible in the Study Room 13,897
Accessible in the Reference Library 160

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 13,894
Free to Use 3

Image Available

unavailable 13,897

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 3

Classification

Books 13,897

Collective Title

Period

19th century 8,321
20th century 2,945
18th century 1,784
21st century 664
17th century 208
16th century 41
15th century 34

Materials & Techniques

Height [cm]

Width [cm]

Work Type

wood engraving 1,655
aquatint 911
lithograph 848
engraving 800
auction catalog 750
artists' book 716
chromolithograph 423
etching 370
private press books (publishing) 312
ephemera 296
armorial bookplates (provenance) 294
exhibition catalog 288
drawing book 246
chromoxylograph 224
photomechanical print 205
accordion fold format (binding) 203
steel engraving 172
catalog 156
prospectuse 152
publisher's advertisement 137
publishers' advertisement 130
woodcut 129
soft-ground etching 124
extra-illustrated copies (provenance) 118
poem 116
lithotint 112
advertisement 110
stipple engraving 106
photograph 101
map 97

Genre

Subject Terms

Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 668
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 661
Artists' books -- Great Britain. 655
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. 595
Painting, European -- Catalogs. 425
London Institution -- Ownership. 344
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph. 339
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 304
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 269
Drawing -- Technique. 225
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 224
Great Britain -- Description and travel. 161
Decorative arts -- Catalogs. 159
Drawing books -- Specimens. 158
Satire, English. 152
Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 150
Fox hunting. 146
Drawing, European -- Catalogs. 136
Horses. 134
Middle Hill Press -- Publisher. 133
Voyages and travels. 133
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 130
Art, Modern -- Exhibitions. 122
Women in natural history. 118
English poetry. 106
Painting -- Technique. 106
Ross, David and Judith -- Provenance. 106
Art -- Private collections. 105
Ackermann, R. -- Publisher. 104
Gunnis, Rupert -- Bookplate. 102

Subject Period

19th century 907
20th century 308
18th century 200
17th century 60
16th century 38
21st century 26
15th century 16
11th century 7
Alfred, 871-899 3
14th century 2
15th and 16th centuries 2
17th-18th centuries 2
Description and travel 2
Elizabeth II 2
12th century 1
13th century 1
17th cenury 1
18h century 1
19h century 1
58 B.C.-511 A.D 1
6th century 1
Republic, 265-30 B.C 1
Silurian 1
To 332 B. C 1
To 332 B.C 1
To 500 1
Twentieth Century 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 2,840
England 1,649
London 1,081
London (England) 314
United States 194
Edinburgh (Scotland) 169
Scotland 129
France 127
Italy 127
Edinburgh 113
Ireland 95
India 87
Oxford (England) 83
Europe 76
Waltham Saint Lawrence 76
Wales 68
Glasgow (Scotland) 51
Brighton (England) 48
Oxford 48
Spain 47
Bath (England) 46
Newcastle upon Tyne (England) 46
Hammersmith 45
Liverpool (England) 44
Egypt 43
Middle East 43
Dublin (Ireland) 42
Cambridge (England) 41
Dublin 40
Lake District (England) 39

Associated People

Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 64
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 36
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 28
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 27
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 26
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 25
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 25
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 25
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832 22
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821 20
Shirley Smith, Richard 20
Raphael, 1483–1520 19
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769–1852 18
Jesus Christ 17
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792, 17
Britton, John, 1771–1857 16
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606–1669 15
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 15
Blake, William, 1757–1827 14
George VI, King of Great Britain, 1895–1952 14
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 13
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762–1830 12
Glover, John, 1767–1849 12
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769–1830 12
Procktor, Patrick, 1936–2003 12
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641 12
Franklin, John, 1786–1847 11
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 11
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577–1640 11
Beckford, William, 1760–1844 10

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) 60
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 41
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 26
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 24
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) 23
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

Language

English 13,897

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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery, from the drawings and... [Read more]

[1819?]
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery from the drawings and... [Read more]

1819
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Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

An illustrated lecture on sketching from nature in pencil and water colour

[between 1862 and 1868]
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Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

Stubbs

1984
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Stubbs, George, 1724–1806

George Stubbs, 1724-1806

1984
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Constable, John, 1776–1837

Constable with his friends in 1806

1981
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Constable, John, 1776–1837

English landscape

[1845]
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Constable, John, 1776–1837

Various subjects of landscape, characteristic of English scenery

1833
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, or parrots

1978
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Nonsensus

1988
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Views in the seven Ionian islands

December 1st, 1863
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Lear in Sicily

1938
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

A book of nonsense

[1863]
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Journals of a landscape painter in Albania, &c.

1851
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

St. Kiven and the gentle Kathleen

1973
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Edward Lear's journals

1952
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Journals of a landscape painter in southern Calabria, &c.

1852
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Book of nonsense

1856]
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Book of nonsense

[1846]
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Indian Journal

1953
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Illustrated excursions in Italy

MDCCCXLVI [1846]
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

A book of nonsense

[between 1868 and 1871]
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

The book of nonsense

[approximately 1916?]
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

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

[approximately 1908?]
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Journal of a landscape painter in Corsica

1870
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Teapots and quails

1953
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

The works of Mr. Hogarth moralized

[183-?]
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

The works of William Hogarth, from the original plates restored by James... [Read more]

[1837?]
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

The beggar's opera by Hogarth and Blake

1965
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

The works of William Hogarth

[1849?]
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

The works of William Hogarth,

[between 1837 and 1848]
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

Prints published by W. Hogarth

1762
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

The works of William Hogarth

1824
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

The works of William Hogarth

[1833]
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

The complete works of William Hogarth

[between 1860 and 1870?]
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

The complete works of William Hogarth

1838
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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

The analysis of beauty

MDCCLII. [1753]
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds

1929
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

1819
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the... [Read more]

M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

The works of Sir Joshua Reynolds,

1801
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the... [Read more]

MDCCLXXV [1775]
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the... [Read more]

MDCCLXXI [1771]
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy on the... [Read more]

M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

A discourse, delivered at the opening of the Royal Academy, January 2,... [Read more]

MDCCLXIX [1769]
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the... [Read more]

M DCC LXXIX [1779]
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the... [Read more]

M DCC LXXVII [1777]
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

Seven discourses delivered in the Royal Academy

1778
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

Engravings from the pictures & sketches painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds

July 1820 [i.e. 1820-1831]
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

A discourse, delivered to the students of the Royal Academy, on the... [Read more]

MDCCLXIX [1769]

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