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1. Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body, with that of a tyger and a common fowl : in thirty tables, two copper-plates to each table, 20 inches by 15 : forming six numbers, ten plates to each number / the whole executed by George Stubbs, author of "The anatomy of the horse."

Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body, with that of a tyger and a common fowl : in thirty tables, two copper-plates to each table, 20 inches by 15 : forming six numbers, ten plates to each number / the whole executed by George Stubbs, author of "The anatomy of the horse."
Creator:
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:
[1802]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 29 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Now publishing in numbers, price 1s. and in monthly parts, at 2s. each, Commemoration of Hogarth by an edition of his works, commenced exactly a century after their first appearance.

Now publishing in numbers, price 1s. and in monthly parts, at 2s. each, Commemoration of Hogarth by an edition of his works, commenced exactly a century after their first appearance.
Creator:
Jones and Co. (London, England)
Date:
[1833?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. History of the University of Dublin / by W.B. Taylor.

History of the University of Dublin / by W.B. Taylor.
Creator:
Taylor, William B. Sarsfield (William Benjamin Sarsfield), 1781–1850
Date:
[1819-1820]
Physical Description:
3 parts (72 p., [9] leaves of plates) : col. ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats : with historical and descriptive accounts of each subject / engraved in aquatinta by R. Havell & Son.

A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats : with historical and descriptive accounts of each subject / engraved in aquatinta by R. Havell & Son.
Creator:
Havell, Robert, 1769–1832
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[42] pages, [21] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland / engraved by Thomas Milton. From original drawings, by the best masters.

A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland / engraved by Thomas Milton. From original drawings, by the best masters.
Creator:
Milton, Thomas, 1743?-1827
Date:
[1783-1793]
Physical Description:
xlvii, [5] p., xxiv leaves of plates : ill ; 21 x 27cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Advertisement [graphic] : All noble men and gentlemen that please to have their mansion houses design'd on copper plates, to be printed for composeing a volume of the prospects of the principall houses of England, may have them done by Mr Hen. Winstanley by way of subscription ...

Advertisement [graphic] : All noble men and gentlemen that please to have their mansion houses design'd on copper plates, to be printed for composeing a volume of the prospects of the principall houses of England, may have them done by Mr Hen. Winstanley by way of subscription ...
Creator:
Winstanley, Henry, 1644–1703
Date:
1670s?]
Physical Description:
1 print on laid paper : etching ; plate mark 35.2 x 40.9 cm., on sheet 35.4 x 47.5 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Prospectus and catalogue of the British School : instituted for the perpetual exhibition and sale of the original works of modern artists : under the patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ...

Prospectus and catalogue of the British School : instituted for the perpetual exhibition and sale of the original works of modern artists : under the patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ...
Creator:
British School
Date:
1802
Physical Description:
45 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Skute Awabo [Awabo Skute] / written, designed and printed by Ken Campbell, London 1992.

Skute Awabo [Awabo Skute] / written, designed and printed by Ken Campbell, London 1992.
Creator:
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022
Date:
1992
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 51 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Collection of Cabaret Theatre Club and Cave of the Golden Calf printed ephemera, 1912-1914.

Collection of Cabaret Theatre Club and Cave of the Golden Calf printed ephemera, 1912-1914.
Creator:
Cabaret Theatre Club (London, England)
Date:
1912-1914
Physical Description:
.42 linear feet (1 box, 11 items)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

10. Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country, taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's Cathedral; to be published in four engravings. By Thomas Hornor.

Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country, taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's Cathedral; to be published in four engravings. By Thomas Hornor.
Creator:
Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
31 p. 3 fold. plates (incl. front.) 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The architectural antiquities of Great Britain : represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of various ancient English edifices : with historical and descriptive accounts of each / by John Britton.

The architectural antiquities of Great Britain : represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of various ancient English edifices : with historical and descriptive accounts of each / by John Britton.
Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1807-1826
Physical Description:
5 v. : ill., plans ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The Waterloo banquet at Apsley House / by William Salter.

The Waterloo banquet at Apsley House / by William Salter.
Creator:
Moon, Francis Graham, 1796–1871
Date:
[1846?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 29 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The remains of the ancient monastic architecture of England / by Joseph Potter, architect.

No cover image available
Creator:
Potter, Joseph, approximately 1797–1875
Date:
MDCCCXLIV [1844]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, 23 leaves of plates in various numberings : illustrations ; 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The paste papers of the Golden Hind Press / by James H. Fraser.

No cover image available
Creator:
Fraser, James H. (James Howard), 1934–2013
Date:
1983
Physical Description:
17 pages, [9] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

15. Proposals for publishing by subscription, an engraving from the historical picture painted by John Singleton Copley, R.A. : and now exhibiting in a pavilion, erected through the gracious permission of the King for the purpose, in the Green Park : this work ... is to be placed in the council chamber of Guildhall as a testimony of respect to the late Lord Heathfield, then governor of Gibralter, Earl Howe, commander of the fleet ... for their gallant conduct displayed in the defence and relief of that important fortress.

No cover image available
Date:
[180-]
Physical Description:
[4] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Prospectus of an improved mode of delineating estates.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
[1], 6 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The boke of Iford / compiled by me, Harold A. Peto of Iford Manor from all the sources available in 1917 ; with a historical introduction by Robin Whalley.

The boke of Iford / compiled by me, Harold A. Peto of Iford Manor from all the sources available in 1917 ; with a historical introduction by Robin Whalley.
Creator:
Peto, Harold A. (Harold Ainsworth), 1854–1933
Date:
1993
Physical Description:
53 p. col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

18. Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.

Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.
Creator:
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Date:
1985
Physical Description:
46, [66] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

19. Proposals for publishing by subscription, original poems : with translations from the French, Italian, and Spanish : and a play, in five acts : by Charlotte Nooth, daughter to the late James Nooth, Esq. ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Nooth, Charlotte
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. This day are published, parts first and second, of Architectura ecclesiastica Londini, or the Ecclesiastical architecture of London.

No cover image available
Creator:
Booth, John (Bookseller)
Date:
January 25, 1814
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Specimen of the wood cuts to Northcote's Fables : second series.

No cover image available
Creator:
Northcote, James, 1746–1831
Date:
[1833]
Physical Description:
8 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Bligh's voyage in the Resource from Coupang to Batavia : together with the log of his subsequent passage to England in the Dutch Vlydt Packet : and his remarks on Morrison's Journal : all printed for the first time from the manuscripts in the Mitchell Library of New South Wales : with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter : The Golden Cockerel Press 1937.

No cover image available
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Blank page.

No cover image available
Date:
1988-1991
Physical Description:
6 volumes : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund

24. Preparing for the press, an historical description of the cathedral church of Salisbury : including an account of the monuments, chiefly extracted from Gough's "Sepulchral Monuments," and other authentic documents : also, biographical memoirs of the Bishops of Salisbury, from the earliest period by W. Dodsworth, verger of the Cathedral.

No cover image available
Creator:
Brodie and Dowding
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

No cover image available
Creator:
Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:
[6], 11, [35] pages, 47 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Richard Long : Walking and sleeping.

No cover image available
Creator:
IvoryPress
Date:
[2004]
Physical Description:
12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ivorypress

27. Prospectus for publishing in subscription The Oxford portfolio : offered to the nobility and gentry of the university / by G. Cooper.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cooper, George, active 1792–1830
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Prospectus for publishing by subscription, Laporte's progressive lessons in landscape, from nature, in imitation of pencil, from the original drawings : to be contained in six numbers, price to subscribers nine shillings each.

No cover image available
Creator:
Griffiths, Thomas (Publisher)
Date:
February, 1815
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Proposals for publishing by subscription, twelve engravings of a series of views, of interesting scenes and achievements of the British Army in Spain and Portugal : under the command of His Excellency Lieutenant General the Marquis of Wellington, &c. &c. &c. : from original drawings made on the spot, by Major St. Clair, 21st Portuguese Infantry, and Captain Royal Scotts ; engraved by C. Turner ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1811?]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1822?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Proposals, for publishing by subscription, in ten monthly parts, forming one handsome volume, the Costume of Yorkshire : illustrated by forty highly-finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings, descriptive of the peculiar dress, occupation and manners of various inhabitants of that extensive and populous County : the first part to be published on the first of September, 1813.

No cover image available
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Peter Biegel's racing pictures.

Peter Biegel's racing pictures.
Creator:
Biegel, Peter
Date:
1983
Physical Description:
160 p. : col. ill. ; 25 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Prospectus of a history of the county palatine and of the city of Chester : by Geo. Ormerod of Chorlton, Esq. M.A.F.S.A. : dedicated (with permission) to His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, Earl of Chester ; including King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities.

No cover image available
Date:
[1814?]
Physical Description:
2, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Just published, in large folio, complete in sixty-four maps, price six guineas, half-bound, a new and greatly improved edition of Lavoisne's genealogical, historical, chronological, & geographical atlas, by C. Gros and J. Aspin : containing the creation, the dispersion of mankind, the origin of nations, the establishment, continuation, and decline of empires and states, the genealogy, direct and collateral, of all the sovereigns and potentates, from the beginning of time to the year 1813 : forming the most complete system of history and geography ever produced.

No cover image available
Creator:
Barfield, John, active 1790–1842
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Prospectus for Pen, paper & a box of paints : Albert Rutherson, illustrator and designer for the stage, by Ian Rogerson.

No cover image available
Creator:
Fleece Press
Date:
[2015]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : color illustrations ; 19 x 33 cm, folded to 19 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Julian Francis Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books

36. Ken Campbell archive, 1975-2003.

No cover image available
Creator:
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022
Date:
1975-2003
Physical Description:
30 linear feet
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ken Campbell

37. The left-handed Punch : a new version of the comical tragedy of Punch and Judy / written by Roy Fisher ; designed and printed by Ronald King ; to be published by the Circle Press.

No cover image available
Creator:
Fisher, Roy, 1930–2017
Date:
1986
Physical Description:
[4] p. : ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Brandt nudes : a new perspective / with a commentary by Mark Haworth-Booth.

Brandt nudes : a new perspective / with a commentary by Mark Haworth-Booth.
Creator:
Brandt, Bill, 1904–1983
Date:
2004
Physical Description:
155, [5] p. : chiefly ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. A prospectus, &c. of the British School : His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, patron.

No cover image available
Creator:
British School
Date:
[1802?]
Physical Description:
20 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. In the press, and to be published immediately, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, dedicated by permission, to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, the entire works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt, the elder, by G.F. Nott, D.D.F.S.A., late fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

No cover image available
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. This day is published, the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha, with critical, philological, and explanatory notes by the Rev. John Hewlett, B.D.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme
Date:
[1812]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Specimen of The vicar of Wakefield : with thirty-two illustrations, engraved by John Thompson, from designs by William Mulready, R.A.

No cover image available
Creator:
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Date:
MDCCCXLIII [1843]
Physical Description:
[2], 4 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Proposals for printing a new and elegant edition of the life of King Robert Bruce, by John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen : and of the acts and deeds of Sir William Wallace, by Henry the Minstrel, commonly called Blind Harry with biographical sketches, notes, and a glossary by John Jamieson.

No cover image available
Creator:
James Ballantyne and Co
Date:
30th June, 1814
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Preparing for publication : The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London : extracted out of original charters, records, lieger books and other manuscripts / by Sir William Dugdale ...; with additions and a continuation by Henry Ellis ...

No cover image available
Date:
1813 [i.e. 1814]
Physical Description:
3 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. In the course of the present month, will be published Part I. of Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions by Edmund Lodge, ESQ. Lancaster Herald, F.S.A. author of the biographical tracts attached to the "Holbein Heads."

No cover image available
Creator:
Lackington, Allen and Co
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. This day is published, part I. to VII. (to be continued quarterly) ... of The Border antiquities of England and Scotland : comprising specimens of architecture and sculpture, and other vestiges of former ages, from the earliest time to the union of the crown : accompanied by a sketch of border history : together with illustrations of remarkable incidents in border history and tradition : and much original poetry by Walter Scott, Esq.

No cover image available
Creator:
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:
[1814]
Physical Description:
1 sheet, ([2] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Preparing for publication, by subscription, in one volume folio, illustrated with numerous engravings, a new edition of Thoresby's Ducatus leodiensis, by Thomas Dunham Whitaker, LL.D. F.S.A. ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1815?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The green book : a quarterly review of the visual and literary arts. Autumn 1985.

No cover image available
Date:
[1985]
Physical Description:
[64] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

49. Prospectus of an entire new and splendid publication, price 7s. 6d. each part, The virtuoso, or, Monthly preceptor of drawing : forming an elegant compendium of art, science, and amusement, on a new and attractive plan, calculated to instruct the mind, improve the talents, and gratify the taste.

No cover image available
Date:
[1814?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. In the course of the ensuing winter will be published, a reprint of the Morte d'Arthur.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
[1816?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Westminster Abbey : in the summer of 1816 will be published part the first of the History and antiquities of the Abbey Church of St Peter's : the whole to be illustrated by fifty engravings by J.P. Neale : with ample biographical notices by J. Norris Brewer.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
January, 1816
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. In the press, The history and antiquities of the county of Hertford : volume the first, containing the hundreds of cashio and dacorum : compiled from the best printed authorities and original records, preserved in private collections and public repositories : embellished with views of the most curious monuments of antiquities : drawn and engraven by the most eminent British artists : and illustrated with a map of the county by Robert Clutterbuck, of Watford, Esq. F.S.A.

No cover image available
Creator:
Nichols, firm, printers (London, England)
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. This day is published, The morbid anatomy of the liver : being an inquiry into the anatomical character, symptoms, and treatment of certain diseases which impair or destroy the structure of that viscus : order 1, tumours, part I, on the Tubera Circumscripta and Tubera Diffusa : in imperial quarto, illustrated by coloured engravings, price 15s. : by J.R. Farre, M.D.

No cover image available
Date:
[1812]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Historical epitome of the several counties and islands in the United Kingdom : the county of Southampton forming the second volume of this work, is now in immediate preparation, and will be published within six calendar months of this date ... / the work will be illustrated ... by C. Greenwood, author of the large atlas of the counties of England and Wales, &c., under whose superintendence and management this work is conducted.

No cover image available
Creator:
Greenwood, C. (Christopher), 1786–1855
Date:
1838?]
Physical Description:
[4] p. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Prospectus of a work now ready for the press, which under the title of Hibernia, proposes to treat, in an ample manner, of the ecclesiastical, topographical, and monastic antiquities of Ireland : by W. Monck Mason, Esq.

No cover image available
Creator:
Nichols, firm, printers (London, England)
Date:
[ca. 1818?]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. [Prospectus for Susan Allix's Small cakes : a selection containing brief histories, ingredients and recipes, poetic anecdotes and visual decorations].

No cover image available
Creator:
Allix, Susan, 1943–
Date:
2018
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([3] pages) : color photographs ; 12 x 32 cm, folded to 12 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

57. Preparing for publication : The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London : extracted out of original charters, records, leiger books, and other manuscripts / by Sir William Dugdale ... ; with additions and a continuation by Henry Ellis ...

No cover image available
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
3 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country : taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's cathedral : to be published in four engravings / by Thomas Hornor.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
31, [1] p., [3] folding leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. On the first of March, 1814, will be published, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row, price four shillings, No. I. (To be continued monthly) of Restituta, or, The titles and characters of old books in English literature and their authors, revived by Sir Egerton Brydges, K.J.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Forty sheets to the wind : a new portfolio of old typefaces.

No cover image available
Date:
1999
Physical Description:
1 portfolio : illustrations (some color), samples ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

61. To be published on the twenty-third of April, 1816, (being the anniversary of the 2nd century after his decease), an engraved portrait of Shakspeare, from the monumental bust at Stratford-upon-Avon.

No cover image available
Date:
[1816]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. The late Earl of Beaconsfield.

No cover image available
Creator:
Belt, Richard Claude, 1851–1920
Date:
[1881?]
Physical Description:
[4] p. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. On the 1st of May next, will be published, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, price £1:11:6, elegantly coloured, a series of original designs for shop-fronts by William Davison, architect.

No cover image available
Date:
[1816]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Azrael & other poems / Sylvia Townsend Warner.

No cover image available
Creator:
Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893–1978
Date:
1978
Physical Description:
[18] p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

65. John Christie archive, 1975-1995.

No cover image available
Creator:
Christie, John, 1945–
Date:
1975-1995
Physical Description:
1 linear foot (2 boxes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Christie

66. On the first of January next will be published in numbers, price 6d. each, to be continued weekly (or in parts containing eight numbers, prices 4s.), the whole intended to form two large volumes in quarto, The Holy Bible, including the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha : according to the authorised version, with notes, explanatory and practical.

No cover image available
Creator:
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)
Date:
[1813]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Specimens of James Nisbet & Company's illustrated books.

No cover image available
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
[4] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Prospectus for Drawings, by Michael Craig-Martin.

No cover image available
Creator:
Craig–Martin, Michael, Sir, born 1941
Date:
[2015?]
Physical Description:
10 cards : chiefly illustrations ; cardboard sleeve 16 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Johnson's dictionary, edited by the Reverend H.J. Todd.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
August 1, 1814
Physical Description:
iv pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Prospectus of A general history of the county of York. By Thomas Dunham Whitaker ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman (Firm)
Date:
1816]
Physical Description:
4 p. ; 43 cm. (in case 49 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Prospectus, The history of Johnny Quae Genus, the little foundling of the late Doctor Syntax : a poem, in eight monthly numbers : no. 1 was published on the 1st of August, and is continued monthly, price 2s. 6d. each : each part contains three coloured engravings / by T. Rowlandson, Esq., and thirty-two pages of letter press, by the author of the three tours of Doctor Syntax ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
[1821]
Physical Description:
[4] p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Prospectus for Richard Bawden, his life & work, by Malcolm Yorke.

No cover image available
Creator:
Fleece Press
Date:
2016
Physical Description:
[4] pages : color illustrations ; 11 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Julian Francis Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books

73. Preparing for publication, Des. Erasimi Rot. Concio de puero Iesu : olim pronunciata a puero in schola Iohannis Coleti Londini instituta in qua praesidebat imago pueri Iesu docentis specie : Editio nova : Londoni, Typis I. et I.B. Nichols, et S. Bentley, MDCCCXV.

No cover image available
Date:
September, 1815
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Messer Pietro mio : the engravings / Richard Shirley Smith.

No cover image available
Creator:
Shirley Smith, Richard
Date:
1985
Physical Description:
[12] prints : wood engravings ; 31 x 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

75. The burning of the books : a poem sequence / by George Szirtes ; based on Elias Canetti's novel "Auto da Fé ; illustrated by Ron King.

No cover image available
Creator:
Szirtes, George, 1948–
Date:
2008
Physical Description:
[8] p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The burning of the books : a poem sequence / by George Szirtes ; based on Elias Canetti's novel "Auto da Fé ; illustrated by Ron King.

No cover image available
Creator:
Szirtes, George, 1948–
Date:
2008
Physical Description:
1 portfolio (unpaged, unbound) : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. On the 1st of February, 1814, was published, no. I, price two shillings, of The new monthly magazine.

No cover image available
Date:
[1814]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([4] pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Michael Angelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel : ... facsimiles of original drawings, from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, made at the time of the paintings, and before the execution of the Last Judgment / ... engraved and published by J. Linnell.

No cover image available
Creator:
Linnell, John, 1792–1882
Date:
[1833-1835]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [42] leaves of plates : all illustrations ; 30 x 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Prospectus and specimen of an history of marine architecture : drawn from the best authorities, and chronologically deduced from the earliest period to the present time ; illustrated by upwards of one hundred plates : exhibiting at least a thousand figures : accurately engraved by the most eminent artists : in three volumes Royal Quarto / by John Charnock, Esq.

No cover image available
Creator:
Charnock, John, 1756–1807
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
[2], 20, 2 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Twelve views in Corsica / drawn, etched, and published by W. Cowen ; dedicated, by permision, to Earl Fitzwilliam.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cowen, William, 1797–1860
Date:
MDCCCXLIII [1843]
Physical Description:
[2] p., [12] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Proposals for publishing by subscription, in the course of the next spring, in one volume quarto, accompanied with seventeen plates, An Account and explanation of the paintings and other ornaments and decorations, discovered in the month of September last on the walls of the present House of Commons : including also, besides the history of these decorations and the building itself, a variety of original particulars as to the ancient state of the City of Westminster, and the Palace and other buildings there : and the principles and history of painting and Gothic architecture / by John Sidney Hawkins, Esq. F.A.A. ; the plates engraven by Mr. John Thomas Smith, from drawings made by himself on the spot.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758–1842
Date:
[1800]
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Proposals for publishing by subscription, in three volumes, historical and literary botany : containing the qualities, anecdotes, and superstitions relative to these trees, plants, and flowers, which are mentioned in sacred and profane history : the particulars of some rare and curious plants which bear the names of celebrated persons : and also of those which are used in the religious worship and civil ceremonies of divers nations : together with the devices, proverbs, &c. which derive their original from those vegetables : concluding with a romantic story, entitled Flowers ; or the artists, from the French of Madame de Genlis : with explanatory notes, &c. &c. by Eliza P. Reid.

No cover image available
Creator:
Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
Date:
[1826?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Prospectus. The history of Little Johnny, the foundling of the late Doctor Syntax : a poem in eight monthly numbers.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
[1821?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Narrative of a journey to the falls of the Cavery : with an historical and descriptive account of the Neilgherry hills / by Lieutenant H. Jervis.

No cover image available
Creator:
Jervis, H. (Humphrey)
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
x, 144, [16] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Portraits of celebrated painters.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Anish Kapoor : Wound.

No cover image available
Creator:
IvoryPress
Date:
2005
Physical Description:
12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elena Foster

87. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland : to be engraved by Thomas Milton, from original drawings, by the best masters.

No cover image available
Date:
November 25, 1782
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 24 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Preparing for Re-publication. Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum : The history of the ancient abbies, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales. Also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries ... / By the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Harding, J. (John)
Date:
1812]
Physical Description:
3, [1] p. ; 27 cm. (in case 43 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Nearly ready for publication, in two volumes ... An inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving on copper and wood : with an account of the most ancient engravers and their works, from the earliest period, to the middle of the sixteenth century : comprising observations on some of the first books ornaments with wood-cuts : by William Young Ottley, F.A.S.

No cover image available
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated by Mary M. Innes ; illustrations by Richard Shirley Smith.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:
1995
Physical Description:
xxix, 350 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

91. This day are published, in three volumes, quarto, price £7:7s. boards, illustrated with 74 plates, printed chiefly from his manuscripts, under the direction of a select committee of civil engineers, Reports, estimates, and treatises, embracing the several subjects of canals, navigable rivers, harbours, piers, bridges, draining, embanking, lighthouses, machinery of various descriptions including fire engines, mills, &c. &c. with other miscellaneous papers drawn up in the course of his employment as a civil engineer, by the late Mr. John Smeaton, F.R.S.

No cover image available
Date:
[1812]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Proposals for publishing by subscription, two prints, from pictures painted expressly to commemorate the glorious victories of Vittoria and the Pyrenees.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hassell and Rickards
Date:
[1814]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. The heart of the flute / Marco Antonio Montes de Oca ; translated by Laura Villaseñor ; introduction by Octavio Paz.

No cover image available
Creator:
Montes de Oca, Marco Antonio, 1932–2009
Date:
c1978
Physical Description:
[10], 60 p. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Proposals for publishing by subscription the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorised version, accompanied with a new translation, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
2, [2] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Just published, (no. I), price one guinea, a selection of Hebrew melodies, with appropriate symphonies and accompaniments by Mr. Braham and Mr. Nathan : the poetry written expressly for the work, by the Right Honourable Lord Bryon.

No cover image available
Creator:
Nathan, Isaac, 1792–1864
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1]) page ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. A history of Madeira : with a series of twenty-seven coloured engravings, illustrative of the costumes, manners, and occupations of the inhabitants of that island.

No cover image available
Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
v, [3], 118 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. To be published by subscription, two coloured engravings, with descriptive letter-press, of the procession and ceremony of the installation of the Knights of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, from the drawings by Mr. Frederic Nash.

No cover image available
Date:
[June 1, 1812]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Prospectus of a work entitled The costume of the original inhabitants of the British islands. By Samuel Rush Meyrick ... and Charles Hamilton Smith, esq.

No cover image available
Creator:
Meyrick, Samuel Rush, 1783–1848
Date:
[ca. 1814]
Physical Description:
broadside. 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Prospectus, address, and list of subscribers, to The Vitruvius britannicus. By P.F. Robinson ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Robinson, P. F. (Peter Frederick), 1776–1858
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
3, [1] p. 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A series of prints exhibiting the most interesting scenes in London and Westminster : drawn from the most striking points of view, and executed in aquatinta, by T. Malton, Jun.

No cover image available
Date:
March, 1781
Physical Description:
[1] sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 x 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts