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Rare Books and Manuscripts 3,022
Reference Library 106

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Dilnot, John 23
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022 21
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
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
Higginson, A. Henry 7
Hislop, John 7
Shirley Smith, Richard 7
Aldin, Cecil, 1870–1935 6
Bicknell, Leslie 6

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Accessible in the Study Room 3,022
Accessible in the Reference Library 106

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 3,022

Image Available

unavailable 3,022

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 1

Classification

Books 3,022

Collective Title

Period

20th century 3,022

19th century 53
18th century 20
17th century 11
16th century 8
15th century 7
21st century 3

Materials & Techniques

Height [cm]

Width [cm]

Work Type

artists' book 367
private press books (publishing) 312
wood engraving 277
exhibition catalog 221
ephemera 156
photomechanical print 145
poem 65
accordion fold format (binding) 61
livres d'artiste 52
engraving 47
poetry 46
etching 38
exhibition catalogue 37
advertisement 35
screen print 35
fiction 33
memorial card 31
memorial work 30
dust jackets (binding) 29
bookmark 28
botanical illustration 28
lithograph 28
dust jacket 27
chromolithograph 26
concrete poem 26
photograph 25
prospectuse 24
relief print 23
linocut 22
pamphlet 20

Genre

Subject Terms

Artists' books -- Great Britain. 378
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 224
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. 34
Mourning customs -- Great Britain. 33
Grief. 32
English poetry -- 20th century. 30
Hunting. 28
Photography, Artistic. 28
Bookmarks -- Specimens. 25
Horses -- Breeding. 25
Hunting -- Great Britain. 25
Political parties -- Great Britain. 25
Politics -- 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
Race horses. 21
Fox hunting -- Great Britain. 19

Subject Period

20th century 249
19th century 54
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 732
England 362
London 226
United States 82
Waltham Saint Lawrence 76
France 28
London (England) 28
Ireland 26
Guildford 19
Guildford (England) 12
Italy 12
Oxford 12
Virginia 12
Cambridge 11
Edinburgh 11
Oxford (England) 11
Australia 10
Kentucky 10
Newtown (Powys, Wales) 10
Europe 9
Scotland 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
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 8
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 7
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022 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
Nicholson, William Sir, 1872–1949 4
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886–1967 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) 9
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 2,943
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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Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Period: 20th century Period: 20th century
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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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Hogarth, William, 1697–1764

The beggar's opera by Hogarth and Blake

1965
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Nonsensus

1988
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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

Indian Journal

1953
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

The book of nonsense

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

Lear in Sicily

1938
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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

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

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

Teapots and quails

1953
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds

1929
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Blake, William, 1757–1827

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

1980-
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Blake, William, 1757–1827

The writings of William Blake

MCMXXV [1925]
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Blake, William, 1757–1827

The complete writings of William Blake

MCMLVII [1957]
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Blake, William, 1757–1827

Blake's pencil drawings

1956
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Blake, William, 1757–1827

The note-book of William Blake

MCMXXXV [1935]
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Blake, William, 1757–1827

Pencil drawings by William Blake

1927
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Blake, William, 1757–1827

Illustrations of the book of Job by William Blake;

1935
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Blake, William, 1757–1827

The illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil

1937
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Blake, William, 1757–1827

The Blake-Varley sketchbook of 1819

1969
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Blake, William, 1757–1827

Spring

1993
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Blake, William, 1757–1827

Poetry and prose of William Blake

1935
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Chalmers, Patrick R. (Patrick Reginald), 1872–1942

The horn;

1938
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Walters, Henry, 1848–1931

Incunabula typographica

1906
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The history and adventures of Little Henry

1977
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Bean, Victoria

One fox

1996
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Page, Henry Savage, 1868–

Over the open,

1925
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In loving remembrance of Mary Ann

[1901]
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Vesey-FitzGerald, Brian Seymour, 1900–

The book of the horse

1947
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Massey, Marilyn

Above and below ground

c1985
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Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Blow

1994
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Correspondences

1999
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Maude, Robert

Southwest trees

[1988]
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Leighton, Clare, 1898–1989

The farmer's year

1933 [i.e. 1934]
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Kemplen, Tony

Bolshevik keyboard fingering chart =

1995
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Newcastle upon Tyne (England). Public libraries. Bewick Collection

Catalogue of the Bewick collection (Pease bequest)

1904]
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Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of, 1930–2017

Wild flowers

c1995
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London transport posters

1963
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Logue, Christopher, 1926–

Red bird

1979
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Bick, Andrew

Failure

[1996]
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Andrew W. Mellon, 1855-1937

May 3,1985
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Collecting sporting art

c1988
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Adolph Gottlieb

[1959]
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Karel Appel

[1957]
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Trubiano, Ernie

The Carolina Cup

c1982
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Isenbart, Hans-Heinrich, 1923–

The kingdom of the horse

1969
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Brown, George Mackay

The Scottish bestiary

1986
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Ghose, Sudhindra Nath.

Folk tales and fairy stories from India

1961
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Gonet, Jean de

An exhibition of bookbindings by Jean de Gonet

[1987]
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Jones, Glyn, 1905–1995

The meaning of fuchsias

c1987
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Byron, May Clarissa Gillington, d. 1936

The Peek-a-Boos in town

[1915]
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Cranmer-Byng, L. (Launcelot), 1872–1945

Tomorrow's star

1938
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Robertson, William H. P. (William Harris P.), 1920–

The history of thoroughbred racing in America

[1964]
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Pether, Henry E

Rainbow

[1900-1910]
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Clark, Thomas A.

A Ruskin sketchbook

1979
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Lee, Brian North

Richard Shirley Smith

1987
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Rindl, Deb

Six of one--

1998]
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Vasiri

[1962]
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Seligman, Patricia, 1950–

Painting murals

1987
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The History of steeplechasing

1966
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Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

British painting, 1952-1977

1977
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The Sphere

June 20, 1953
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Stokes, Telfer

Spaces

1974
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Stud Managers Course (1st : (1951 : Lexington, Kentucky)

Lectures given at the first annual Stud Managers Course

[1951]
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Cutts, Simon, 1944–

A new kind of tie

1972
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Gould, Nat

The magic of sport;

[1909]
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Dixon, William Scarth

Hunting in the olden days

1912
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Bicknell, Leslie

The art of gravitating upwards

1986
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Clark, Thomas A.

Homecoming

1988
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Stud managers handbook, based on lectures given at the Stud Managers Courses... [Read more]

[1958]
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Gautier, Théophile, 1811–1872

Mademoiselle de Maupin

1938
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Burch, Preston M., b. 1884

Training thoroughbred horses,

1973
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Upton, Roger

A bird in the hand

c1980
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Nowas, Cate, 1948–

The beauty of the horse

1972
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John McHale

1956
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Gommisti 1

1991
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Edwards, Lionel, 1878–1966

Sketches in stable and kennel,

[1933]
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FitzGerald, Arthur

The Arc

1997
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Kemplen, Tony

Richard III

1998]
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Winter, Gordon

The horseman's week-end book

[1937]
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Gamble, Mary Ann Fryer, 1791–

John Fryer of the Bounty

1939
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Relief structures

[London] :
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Elson, Sophie

Walga Rock

[1999?]
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Willett, Peter

The thoroughbred

[1970]
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Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842–1904

Veterinary notes for horse owners;

[1950]
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Stewart, F. A. (Frank Algernon), 1877–

'Cross country with hounds

c1936
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Surplus pages from A cross section

1988
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Asger Jorn

[1958]
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Rousuck, E. J. (Emanuel Jay), b. 1898

The Boston terrier,

1926
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Aldin, Cecil, 1870–1935

Hunting scenes

1936
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Bloodgood, Lida Fleitmann, 1894–

The horseman's dictionary,

[c1963]
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Goodall, Daphne Machin

Huntsmen of a golden age: Stephen Goodall, 1857-1823; William Goodall, 1817-1859

[1956]
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Shirley Smith, Richard

Richard Shirley Smith

1999
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Illusion in nature and art

©1973
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Pfahl, John, 1939–2020

Permutations on the picturesque

[1997]
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Morris, William, 1834–1896

A note by William Morris on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press

1969]
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Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022

Execution : the book

1990

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