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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Period 18th century

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Work Type soft-ground etching

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1. The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on seventy-two copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practice / by the author of The artist's assistant.

The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on seventy-two copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practice / by the author of The artist's assistant.
Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
[2], 16 p., [72] leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Antiquities of London and its environs / engraved and published by John Thomas Smith ; dedicated to Sir James Winter Lake ... ; containing views of houses, monuments, statues, and other curious remains of antiquity engraved from original drawings, communicated by several members of the Society of Antiquaries ; with remarks and references to the historical works of Pennant, Lysons, Stowe, Weaver, Camden, Maitland, &c.

Antiquities of London and its environs / engraved and published by John Thomas Smith ; dedicated to Sir James Winter Lake ... ; containing views of houses, monuments, statues, and other curious remains of antiquity engraved from original drawings, communicated by several members of the Society of Antiquaries ; with remarks and references to the historical works of Pennant, Lysons, Stowe, Weaver, Camden, Maitland, &c.
Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1791-[1800]
Physical Description:
[96] leaves : chiefly ill., ports. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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

4. Etchings of views and antiquities in the county of Gloucestershire : hitherto imperfectly or never engraved.

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Creator:
Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:
[1791]
Physical Description:
[26] p., [106] leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms ; 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. An accurate description and history of the metropolitan and cathedral churches of Canterbury and York : from their first foundation to the present year : illustrated with one hundred and seventeen copper-plates, consisting of different views, plans, monuments, antiquities, arms, &c.

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Date:
1755
Physical Description:
[4], 144, [4] p., [91] leaves of plates : ill., plans, map, coats of arms ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Lewina the maid of Snowdon. A tale. By George Cumberland. With etchings by the author.

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Creator:
Cumberland, George, 1754–1848
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
1 p. ., 32 p., 1 leaf. plate. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West coast of America : to which are prefixed, an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the ship Nootka : observations on the probable existence of a North West Passage : and some account of the trade between the North West Coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain / by John Meares, Esq.

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Creator:
Meares, John, 1756?-1809
Date:
MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:
viii, [12], xcv, [1], 372, [108] pages, ([28] leaves of plates, [4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views, (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty) : illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire, in three books ... / by William Gilpin ...

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. 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:
1792
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

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Creator:
Green, Benjamin, 1739–1798
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm. x 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Sketches from nature / by G. Morland.

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Creator:
Morland, George, 1763–1804
Date:
1796-1797
Physical Description:
2 pts. (6, 4 leaves) : all ill. ; 23 x 32-27 x 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Travels in Switzerland, and in the country of the Grisons : in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq. / from William Coxe, M.A. F.R.S. F.A.S. Rector of Bemerton; and domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

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Creator:
Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. N. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

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Creator:
Green, Benjamin, 1739–1798
Date:
[1786]
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm. x 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Of the characters of trees / drawn and engraved by J. Laport.

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Creator:
Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:
1795-1798
Physical Description:
6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 39 x 53 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Sketches of animals from nature / etched by George Garrard.

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Creator:
Garrard, George, 1760–1826
Date:
March 1st, 1794
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 30 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The student's treasure : a new drawing book, consisting in a variety of etchings and engravings executed by Irish artists, after the following great masters, viz : Angelica, Cipriani, Bartolozzi, Wheatly, Vivaries, West, Bertrand, Rowlandson, Stubbs, Zucchi, Mortimer, Howit, Gilray, Boucher, Gainsborough, &c. &c.

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Date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:
8, [2] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. An essay on the study of nature in drawing landscape / by W.M. Craig ; with illustrative prints, engraved by the author.

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Creator:
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
24 p., VIII leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Fores's new chalk drawing-book, of heads and academy figures / from original drawings by C.M. Metz ; engraved in exact imitation of chalk.

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Creator:
Metz, C. M. (Conrad Martin), 1755–1827
Date:
1795-1799
Physical Description:
v. : ill. ; 29 x 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. [Plates from William Coxe's Travels in Switzerland]

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Creator:
Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:
[1794]
Physical Description:
[24] leaves ([1] folded) : all ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Histoire des philosophes modernes : avec leur portrait gravé dans le goût du crayon, d'apres les desseins des plus grands peintres / par M. Saverien.

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Creator:
Savérien, Alexandre, 1720–1805
Date:
[1760-1769?]
Physical Description:
8 volumes : illustrations ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts