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1. [Metamorphic pictures].

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Date:
[circa 1775]
Physical Description:
7 drawings : watercolor on laid and wove paper ; sheets 10 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Account book of George Romney with his banker, Thomas Greene.

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Creator:
Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:
1788 August 19-1798 April 6
Physical Description:
1 v. ([18] p.) ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Manuscript daybook for George Romney, in the hand of Richard Williams.

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Creator:
Romney, George, 1734–1802
Date:
1794-1796
Physical Description:
1 volume ([4], 85, [57] pages) (many pages blank) ; 41 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Industry and idleness [graphic] / design'd by Wm. Hogarth.

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Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
[between 1771 and 1785]
Physical Description:
12 prints : engravings ; plate marks 18 x 28 cm, on sheets 23 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1771
Physical Description:
[4], 75, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for publick and private buildings / publish'd by William Kent, with some additional designs.

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Creator:
Jones, Inigo, 1573–1652
Date:
MDCCXXVII [1727]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 46-52 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Designs in perspective for villas in the ancient castle and Grecian styles / by Robert Morison ; part the first.

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Creator:
Morison, Robert
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[8] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. [Receipt for drawing and engrossing lycence for Mr Skynnor and Lady].

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Creator:
Martin, Phil., active 18th century
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 19 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Paul Mellon collection of British artists' correspondence, 1767-1917.

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Date:
1767-1917
Physical Description:
.84 linear feet (2 boxes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The elements of navigation : manuscript / by John Hipwell, educated at Chrits [i.e. Christ's] Hospital, London, in the year 1759.

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Creator:
Hipwell, John
Date:
1759
Physical Description:
510 pages : illustrations, diagrams, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks ... Book 11.

No cover image available
Date:
1771
Physical Description:
fold. col. plate. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Malpas, engraver : in Church Street near Greek Street, Soho / Malpas del. et sculp.

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Creator:
Malpas, Edward
Date:
[approximately 1775]
Physical Description:
1 print : engraving ; sheet 125 x 87 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The method of cutting up a stag.

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Date:
Jany. 1st, 1793
Physical Description:
1 print : engraving ; plate mark 22.5 x 18 cm, on sheet 23.7 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. All sorts of wheel-carriage, improved : wherein it is plainly made appear, that a much less than the usual draught of horses, &c. will be requir'd, in waggons, carts, coaches, and all other wheel vehicles, as likewise all water-mills, wind-mills and horse-mills ... The whole illustrated with copper plates ... And an explanation of the structure of a coach and cart, according to this method / by Jacob Rowe, Esq;.

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Creator:
Rowe, Jacob
Date:
1734
Physical Description:
[4], 38, [2] p. (last leaf blank), [5] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Geometry exercise book.

No cover image available
Date:
circa 1780
Physical Description:
1 v. (71 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. 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 ...

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A new display of the beauties of England, or, A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom.

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Date:
1776
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Six new designs for convenient farm-houses : with their proper offices : ... both in in brick and stone : adapted more particularly to the western counties in England, and the whole principality of Wales ... : [part II] Six new designs for convenient farm-houses ... : adapted more particularly to the northern counties in England and all Scotland ... / by William Halfpenny ; ... published ... May 20th, 1751.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:
1751
Physical Description:
[2], 46 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. An account of the operations carried on for accomplishing a trigonometrical survey of England and Wales ...

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Creator:
Mudge, William, 1762–1820
Date:
1799-1811
Physical Description:
3 v. plates (partly fold.) incl. maps, tables, diagrs. 29 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. [Transparent prints published by Rudolph Ackermann]

No cover image available
Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
109 prints : aquatint
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. At Mr. de Poggi's new room, No. 91, New Bond Street, near Oxford Road, are now exhibiting two large pictures painted by Mr. Robert Cleveley of the Royal Navy : representing the great and important victory obtained by the British fleet, under the command of the Earl Howe, over the French, on the first of June, 1794.

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Creator:
Poggi, A. C. de
Date:
1795
Physical Description:
1 leaflet ; 12 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Original designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for villas, mansions, town-houses, &c., and a new design for a theatre : with descriptions, and explanations of the plates, and an introduction to the work / by James Lewis = Disegni originali di architettura : consistenti in piante, elevazioni, e spaccati di varie case di campagna, et di città : con un projetto di un teatro : preceduti da una introduzione, ed accompagnati dalle necessaire spiegazioni / da Giacomo Lewis.

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Creator:
Lewis, James, 1750 or 1751–1820
Date:
MDCCLXXX [1780]-1797
Physical Description:
2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 60 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

No cover image available
Date:
[1776]
Physical Description:
[16] leaves, [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The English baronetage : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English baronets, now existing ... illustrated with their coats of arms ... to which are added, an account of such Nova-Scotia baronets as are of English families, now resident in England : and a list of such persons names who were deemed fit and qualifiwed at the restoration, to be made Knights of the Royal Oak ...

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Creator:
Wotton, Thomas, d. 1766
Date:
1741
Physical Description:
4 v. in 5 : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Minutes of the proceedings at a court-martial assembled for the trial of the Honourable Admiral Augustus Keppel : on a charge exhibited against him by Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, as taken by George Jackson, Esq; Judge-Advocate of His Majesty's Fleet. Published by order of the Right Honourble the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. : With an appendix containing all the letters and papers that have any relation to the trial.

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Creator:
Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725–1786
Date:
MDCCLXIX [1779]
Physical Description:
[4], 182 p. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A sure method of improving estates, by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice-woods, &c. : wherein is demonstrated the necessity and advantages thereof : their manner of raising, cultivating, felling, &c., in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improv'd : offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain / by Batty Langley, of Twickenham.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:
[10], xx, 274 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The nobleman and gentleman's director and assistant, in the true choice of their wheel-carriages : being entire new designs for travelling-coaches, post-coaches, landaus both open and close, chariots, post-chariots, calashes, post-chaises, phaetons, and other vehicles, &c. curiously hung on steel springs. Being a work of universal use, not only to gentlemen, but coach-makers and spring-makers in general. The wheels and axle-trees are made of a proper height, so as to enable the horses to draw freely and with the greatest ease; many a fine horse having been totally spoiled by going up great ascents, and all owing to fixing improperly the wheels and axis. The whole drawn from original designs, executed and correctly engraved on thirty-six copper plates.

No cover image available
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
[2] p., 36 leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. More lyric odes to the Royal academicians / by Peter Pindar, esquire ; a distant relation of the poet of Thebes, and laureat to the academy.

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Creator:
Pindar, Peter, 1738–1819
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:
35, [1] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

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Creator:
Shebbeare, John, 1709–1788
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
2 v. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Remarks made in a tour from London to the lakes of Westmoreland and Cumberland in the summer of M.DCC.XCI. Originally published in the Whitehall Evening Post, and now reprinted with additions and corrections. To which is annexed, A sketch of the police, religion, arts, and agriculture of France, made in an excursion to Paris in M.DCC.LXXXV. By A. Walker, ...

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Creator:
Walker, A. (Adam), 1730 or 31–1821
Date:
M,DCC,XCII [1792]
Physical Description:
[6], 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

No cover image available
Date:
1771 [i.e. 1772]
Physical Description:
[2], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. [Album of cut paper work].

No cover image available
Date:
[179-?]
Physical Description:
1 volume (ca. 33 p.) ; 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The new complete sportsman, or, The town and country gentleman's recreation : containing among the various diversions which are made plain and easy to every capacity ...: together with many other equally curious articles, too numerous to mention here, and including many useful directions to horse-feeders, grooms and others ...

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Creator:
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq
Date:
1770
Physical Description:
iv, 302 [i.e. 202], [2] p, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. [Commercial traveler's catalog of silver-plated ware, possibly made in Sheffield].

No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1780]
Physical Description:
74 prints (in 1 volume) : engravings ; 24 x 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. An essay on design in gardening.

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Creator:
Mason, George, 1735–1806
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
[iv], 54 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. An Act for better preservation of the game, within that part of Great Britain called England.

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Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Date:
1770
Physical Description:
[2], 347-350 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Museum Britannicum, or, A display in thirty two plates, in antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750–1788
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
[2], 2, 2, [8], xvii, [1], 88 pages, XXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 48 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. [Artificial slate roofs].

No cover image available
Creator:
Searles, Michael, fl. 1779–1781
Date:
178-?]
Physical Description:
[7] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The establishment of the yearly charge of our dyett, with incidents for housekeeping : also wages & boardwages to the officers & servants of our house, chamber, chappells, & stables, with provisions for horses : also allowances, stipends, and pentions to old & supernumerary servants and widows, to commence the first day of October, 1714.

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Creator:
George I, King of Great Britain, 1660–1727
Date:
1714-1716
Physical Description:
1 volume (159, [1] pages) ; 47 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales .../ by Daniel Paterson ...

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
xxxv, [1] p., 390 columns, 391-406 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. [Cost of artificial slate in roofing compared with that of plain tiles and that of slate].

No cover image available
Creator:
Searles, Michael, fl. 1779–1781
Date:
1779?]
Physical Description:
[7] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Le cabinet des plus beaux portraits des plusieurs princes & princesses, hommes illustres, fameux peintres & autres / faits par le fameux Antoine Van Dyck, Chevalier et Peintre du Roi, quel l'auteur a fait graver à ses propres dépens, par les meilleurs graveurs de son temps ; cette ouvrage peut aussi servir pour supplement au Cabinet du fameux van Dyck, imprimez à Anvers.

No cover image available
Creator:
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641
Date:
MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:
[2] p., [49] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. At a special committee of the Light-Horse Volunteers, held the 25th of October 1798.

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Creator:
Great Britain. Army. London and Westminster Light House Volunteers
Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The London calendar, or, Court and city register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America for the year ...

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Physical Description:
v. ; 16-17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A political and satirical history of the years 1756 and 1757 : in a series of seventy-five humourous and entertaining prints : containing all the most remarkable transactions, characters and caricaturas of those two memorable years : to which is annexed, an explanatory account or key to every print, which renders the whole full and significant.

No cover image available
Date:
[1758?]
Physical Description:
15, [1] p., 75 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Magna Britannia, aut Anglia, Scotia et Hibernia, quarum prior divisa in septem Regna, sive Provincias, dictas Northumbriam, Merciam, Angliam Orient. Essexiam, Cantium, Sussexiam, Westsexiam, et Princi. Walliae. posterior in Septent. et Austr. Scotiam. postrema in quatuor Provincias Ultoniam, Lageniam, Momoniam, et Conagtiam / typis G. et L. Valk.

No cover image available
Creator:
Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651–1726
Date:
[approximately 1705]
Physical Description:
1 map : engraving, hand-colored ; 46 x 58 cm, on sheet 54 x 65 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. The art of painting, and the lives of painters: containing, a compleat treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints ... Done from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English-school, with the lives and characters of above 100 painters.

No cover image available
Creator:
Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:
1706
Physical Description:
480 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Plans, sections, and elevations of Chiswick House and the Assembly Rooms, York.

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Creator:
Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1694–1753
Date:
[approximately 1735?]
Physical Description:
11 prints in 1 volume ; sheets 50 x 70 cm, in volume 50 x 39 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. [Views of English cathedrals and churches]

No cover image available
Creator:
Buckler, John, 1770–1851
Date:
[1798-1814]
Physical Description:
66 prints and 1 drawing in 1 portfolio : etching, aquatint, and watercolor ; sheets 56 x 73 cm or smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Comforts of Bath.

No cover image available
Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
12 prints : aquatint ; 19 x 24 cm, mounted to leaves in an album 27 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England ... : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities / by Arthur Collins ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:
1735
Physical Description:
3 v. in 4 : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. [Rural views].

No cover image available
Creator:
John Bluck, active 1791–1819
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : all illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

No cover image available
Creator:
Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:
MDCCLXXXI [1776]
Physical Description:
[2], ii, ii, 11, [5] pages, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Heraldry in miniature; containing all the arms, crests, supporters, and mottos, of the peers, peeresses, and bishops, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the baronets of Great Britain; and the insignia of the different orders of knighthood in the three kingdoms: also an introduction to the science of heraldry, a dictionary of heraldic terms ...

No cover image available
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
2 p.., 36, [20] p. plates. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Wallis's tour through England and Wales, a new geographical pastime.

No cover image available
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
1 sheet 50 x 68 cm. fold. to 17 x 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Bowles's polite recreation in drawing : containing picturesque portraits of fashionable faces that frequent the genteel watering places : including fifty-two well known heads and the animals they resemble.

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Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
[1779]
Physical Description:
[1], [26] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

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Creator:
Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:
1783
Physical Description:
43 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo).
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. A series of plans for cottages or habitations of the labourer : either in husbandry or the mechanic arts, adapted as well to towns as to the country. Engraved on thirty plates. To which is added, an introduction, containing many useful observations on this class of building; tending to the comfort of the poor and advantage of the builder : with calculations of expences / by the late Mr. J. Wood, of Bath, Architect.

No cover image available
Creator:
Wood, John, -1782
Date:
MDCCXCII (1792)
Physical Description:
[2], 38 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Monastic remains and ancient castles in England and Wales / drawn on the spot by James Moore ... ; finished and etched by J. Schnebbelie ... ; aquatinted by G.J.[!] Parkyns ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Moore, James, 1762–1799
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
1 pt. ([6], 12 p., [6] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. The seats of the nobility and gentry : in a collection of the most interesting & picturesque views / engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.

No cover image available
Creator:
Watts, William, 1752–1851
Date:
January 1st, 1779 [i.e. 1779-1786]
Physical Description:
[172] p., LXXXIV leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. The cocker : humbly inscribed to those gentlemen who are amateurs of the game cock, that prodigy of British valour / by a gentleman who has been in the habit of breeding these eight and twenty years.

No cover image available
Creator:
Sketchley, William
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
45, [28] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... / by Daniel Paterson ...

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
viii, xxiv p., 272 columns, [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Letters and memorials of state : in the reigns of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles the First, part of the reign of King Charles the Second, and Oliver's usurpation / written and collected by Sir Henry Sydney, the famous Sir Philip Sydney, and his brother Sir Robert Sydney ..., Robert, the second earl of Leicester ..., Philip, lord viscount Lisle ... and of his brother, Colonel Algernon Sydney ... ; together with letters of the other ministers of state, with whom they held a correspondence ; the whole containing the antient state of Ireland, with characters and private memoirs ; also, the antient government of the principality of Wales, the wars between the Spaniards, and the States-General in the Netherlands, negotiations between the courts of England, France, &c., the intriegues of the several courts of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charles the First ; with other remarkable transactions, both at home and abroad, during those times, not hitherto known, faithfully transcribed from the originals ; whereunto is added, genealogical and historical observations, also memoirs of the lives and actions of the Sydneys, and their noble ancestors, the Dudleys, Grey, Talbot,

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Creator:
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:
1746
Physical Description:
2 v. : port. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. ...

No cover image available
Date:
Jany. 1, 1776, according to act of Parlt. (39 Strand)
Physical Description:
[240] prints : etchings ; 46 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The gentleman and farmer's architect : a new work, containing a great variety of useful and genteel designs : being correct plans and elevations of parsonage and farm houses, lodges for parks, pinery, peach, hot and green houses, with the fire-wall, tan-pit, &c. particularly described : dutch, and other barns, cow-houses, stables, sheep-cots, huts, facades : with all offices appertaining to a well regulated farm : their situations rendered convenient, and aspects agreeable : with scales and tables of reference, describing the several parts, with their just dimensions and use / designed and drawn by T. Lightoler, Architect ; and well engraved on twenty-five folio copper plates.

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Creator:
Lightoler, T. (Timothy), 18th cent
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
25 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. J. & S. Kelly saddlery halfpenny token.

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Creator:
J. & S. Kelly (London, England)
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
1 token : copper ; 27 mm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Designs, and estimates, of farm houses, &c. for the county of York, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Bishoprick of Durham / by Daniel Garret.

No cover image available
Creator:
Garret, Daniel, -1753
Date:
MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:
[4], 11, [1] p., [8] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. An Act more effectually to prevent the stealing of deer, and to repeal several former statutes made for the like purpose.

No cover image available
Creator:
Great Britain
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
[2], 839-854 p. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Britannicarum gentium historiae antiquae scriptores tres : Ricardus Corinensis, Gildas Badonicus, Nennius Banchorensis / recensuit notisque & indice auxit Carolus Bertramus.

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Creator:
Bertram, Charles, 1723–1765
Date:
1757
Physical Description:
198 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England, now existing, either by tenure, summons or creation : their descents and collateral lines : their births, marriages, and issues ... : also their paternal coats of arms, crests, and supporters ... : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities / by Arthur Collins ...

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Creator:
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:
1741
Physical Description:
4 v. : coats of arms ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Select views in Great Britain / engrav'd by S. Middiman ; from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions.

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Creator:
Middiman, Samuel, approximately 1750–1831
Date:
[1784-1792]
Physical Description:
[112] p., 49 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. The copper plate magazine, or, Monthly treasure for the admirers of the imitative arts.

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Date:
1774-1778
Physical Description:
[258] p., [126] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

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Date:
1766-1769
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1744
Physical Description:
2 p.l., 180 [i.e. 186] p., [1] l. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The chair-maker's guide : being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain ... / by Robert Manwaring, ... ; and others ; the whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper plates.

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Creator:
Manwaring, Robert
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
[2] p., [75] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. An account of Roman antiquities discovered at Woodchester in the county of Gloucester / by Samuel Lysons ...

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Creator:
Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[6], 20, [4], 21, [1] p., XL leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), map, plans ; 59 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... / originally begun by the celebrated Daniel De Foe, continued by the late Mr. Richardson ... and brought down to the present time by gentlemen of eminence in the literary world.

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Creator:
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Date:
1779
Physical Description:
4 v. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

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Creator:
Longmate, Barak, 1738–1793
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. A catalogue and description of King Charles the First's capital collection of pictures, limnings, statures, bronzes, medals and other curiosities : now first published from an original manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford / the whole transcribed and prepared for the Press, and a great part of it printed, by the late ingenious Mr. Vertue, and now finished form his papers.

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Creator:
Van der Doort, Abraham, -1640–
Date:
MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:
[2], iv, 202 p. ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. The elements of clock and watch-work : adapted to practice : in two essays / by Alexander Cumming.

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Creator:
Cumming, Alexander, 1733–1814
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
192, [14] p., [16] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Account of pictures, chiefly original portraits, extant about AD 1769.

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Date:
1769
Physical Description:
1 v. ([1], 34, [1] leaves) ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. An Act for making the Act of the fifth year of Her Majesties reign, for the better preservation of the game, perpetual, and for making the same more effectual.

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Creator:
Great Britain
Date:
[1711]
Physical Description:
[2], 531-533, [1] p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Memoirs of the Royal academicians; being an attempt to improve the national taste. By Anthony Pasquin ...

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Creator:
Williams, John, 1754–1818?
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
3 p.., [5]-148 p. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Remarks on the different constructions of bridges, and improvements to secure their foundations on the different soils where they are intended to be built : which hitherto seems to have been a thing not sufficiently consider'd.

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Creator:
Marquand, Charles
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
15 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The peerage of England : or, An historical and genealogical account of the present nobility : containing the descent, original creations, and most remarkable actions of them and their respective ancestors : also, the chief titles of honour, and preferment they now enjoy ... To which is prefix'd An introduction to the present royal family of Great Britain ...

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Creator:
Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:
1710
Physical Description:
[10], 408, 158 p., [2] leaves of plates : portraits, coats of arms ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. A tour to the west of England, in 1788 / By the Rev. S. Shaw, ...

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Creator:
Shaw, Stebbing, 1762–1802
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
viii, 602 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. The ode for the opening of the new exhibition room of the Royal Incorporated Society of Artists of Great Britain.

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Date:
1772
Physical Description:
8 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. An Act for the better preservation of the game in that part of Great Britain called England.

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Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[2], 683-686 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Hester Lynch Piozzi letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1795, April 16-1816, September 10.

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Creator:
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821
Date:
1795, April 16-1816, September 10
Physical Description:
1 volume ([225] p.) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. Marriage contract of Eleanor Ley and John Bennett.

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Date:
1758 April 27
Physical Description:
1 sheet : parchment ; 71 x 86 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Andrew F. Petryn

91. The complete sportsman, or, Country gentleman's recreation : containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game cocks, with the best methods of fighting them : of rearing and backing colts : of managing race-horses, hunters, &c. : of horse-racing : of bowling : of hare-hunting : of fox-hunting : of buck-hunting : of otter-hunting : of coursing : of breeding and ordering dogs for the gun or chase, &c. : of angling in all its various branches : of breeding pigeons, rabbets, canary birds, &c. : of finding the haunts of partridges, pheasants, and all manner of game : of shooting, and of shooting flying, &c. : together, with several other equally curious articles, too numerous to be mentioned in this title page / by Thomas Fairfax, Esq.

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Creator:
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.
Date:
[1760?]
Physical Description:
vi, [1], 8-240, [1], 2-24 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Prospects of all the cathedral & collegiate churches of England & Wales , neatly engraved = Veues de toutes les eglises, cathedrals et collegiats d'Angleterre et de Galle, proprement gravée.

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Date:
[ca. 1720?]
Physical Description:
[9] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 x 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great-Britain ... / by Daniel Paterson ...

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Creator:
Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
xvi p., 702 columns, [1], 704-759, lxii p., [2] leaves of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Rural architecture, or, Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa / including some of which have been executed by the author, John Plaw.

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Creator:
Plaw, John, 1744 or 5–1820
Date:
1790
Physical Description:
8, viii, [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. An answer to certain assertions : contained in the appendix to a pamphlet entitled Minutes of the proceedings on the court martial held at Portsmouth, August 12, 1792, on ten persons charged with mutiny on board His Majesty's Ship the Bounty / by Captain William Bligh.

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Creator:
Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[2], 31, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

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Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
33 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. A succinct description of that elaborate pile of art, call'd the microcosm.

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Date:
1760
Physical Description:
32 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. An heroic postscript to the public, occasioned by their favourable reception of a late heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... By the author of that epistle ...

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Creator:
Mason, William, 1725–1797
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
14 p. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. A correct view of the telegraph : with the cabin, and manner of working explained / engraved and sold, by Mr. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

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Creator:
Orme, Daniel, b. 1767
Date:
[1796]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill. ; 15 cm. + [1] plate.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. An abstract of the act of Parliament made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, King George III. intitled, An act for the further and better regulation of buildings and party-walls, and for the more effectually preventing mischief by fire, within the cities of London and Westminster ... Calculated for the use of builders, and workmen in general.

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Creator:
Matthews, John, 1748–
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
viii, 76, [12] p. 3 fold. plates. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts