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1. 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

2. Blanchet, artistes capillaires : hair cutter.

Blanchet, artistes capillaires : hair cutter.
Creator:
Blanchet, Etienne
Date:
not before 1866?
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 19 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Floral designs for the table : being directions for its ornamentation with leaves, flowers & fruit, with classified lists of suitable plants, berries, and leaves, and twenty-four original coloured designs / by John Perkins, head gardener for twenty-nine years to the late and present Lord Henniker.

Floral designs for the table : being directions for its ornamentation with leaves, flowers & fruit, with classified lists of suitable plants, berries, and leaves, and twenty-four original coloured designs / by John Perkins, head gardener for twenty-nine years to the late and present Lord Henniker.
Creator:
Perkins, John (Gardener)
Date:
1877
Physical Description:
38, [2] pages, 24 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 22 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The seaweed collector : a handy guide to the marine botanist : suggesting what to look for, and where to go, in the study of the British algae, and the British sponges / by Shirley Hibberd ...

The seaweed collector : a handy guide to the marine botanist : suggesting what to look for, and where to go, in the study of the British algae, and the British sponges / by Shirley Hibberd ...
Creator:
Hibberd, Shirley, 1825–1890
Date:
[1872]
Physical Description:
vii, 152 p. illus., 8 col. pl. (incl. front) 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Archbald, the property of Mr. George Wilson, of Walkington, will serve mares this season, 1839, at one guinea and a-half each.

Archbald, the property of Mr. George Wilson, of Walkington, will serve mares this season, 1839, at one guinea and a-half each.
Date:
[1839]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Advertisement for hats and caps sold by John Perring, 85 Strand, London.

Advertisement for hats and caps sold by John Perring, 85 Strand, London.
Creator:
Perring, John
Date:
between 1834-1845
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustration ; 28 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Bot. of Daniel Jones, sail maker, ship chandler : wholesale rope, canvas & oil merchant and general inronmonger : warehouses 48 & 51 Strand : 14 & 45 Adelaid St., Swansea.

Bot. of Daniel Jones, sail maker, ship chandler : wholesale rope, canvas & oil merchant and general inronmonger : warehouses 48 & 51 Strand : 14 & 45 Adelaid St., Swansea.
Creator:
Jones, Daniel (Ship chandler)
Date:
[approximately 1870?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustration ; 9 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

8. Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England : being examples of antique furniture, plate, church decorations, objects of historical interest, etc. / drawn and etched by William B. Scott, Government School of Design, Newcastle.

Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England : being examples of antique furniture, plate, church decorations, objects of historical interest, etc. / drawn and etched by William B. Scott, Government School of Design, Newcastle.
Creator:
Scott, William Bell, 1811–1890
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
18 p., 38 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Wild flowers worth notice : being a selection from the British flora of some of our native plants, which are most attractive from their beauty, uses, or associations / by Mrs. Lankester ; fully illustrated by J.E. Sowerby.

Wild flowers worth notice : being a selection from the British flora of some of our native plants, which are most attractive from their beauty, uses, or associations / by Mrs. Lankester ; fully illustrated by J.E. Sowerby.
Creator:
Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900
Date:
1861
Physical Description:
xiv, 138, [2] p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. 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

11. The second life of shells / etchings [by] Mandy Bonnell ; poem [by] Gabriel Gbadamosi.

The second life of shells / etchings [by] Mandy Bonnell ; poem [by] Gabriel Gbadamosi.
Creator:
Bonnell, Mandy
Date:
2001
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([20] p.) : ill. ; 30 x 440 cm.. folded to 30 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Carte du jour : le 11 aôut 1959.

Carte du jour : le 11 aôut 1959.
Creator:
Coq d'Or (London, England)
Date:
1955
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 42 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Cocking and its votaries.

Cocking and its votaries.
Creator:
Taylor, S. A
Date:
1885]
Physical Description:
36, i-iv p., [29] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Roberson & Company, manufacturers of oil and water colors, materials for drawing and painting : no. 99 Long Acre, London, W.C.

Roberson & Company, manufacturers of oil and water colors, materials for drawing and painting : no. 99 Long Acre, London, W.C.
Creator:
Roberson & Company
Date:
[not before 1862]
Physical Description:
1 broadside : ill. ; 44 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A slice of bread and butter / cut by G. Cruikshank ; being the substance of a speech delivered at a public meeting, held for the benefit of the Jews' and General Literary and Mechanics' Institution.

A slice of bread and butter / cut by G. Cruikshank ; being the substance of a speech delivered at a public meeting, held for the benefit of the Jews' and General Literary and Mechanics' Institution.
Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:
[1857]
Physical Description:
16 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

16. Scenes in England : for the amusement and instruction of little tarry-at-home travellers / by the Rev. Isaac Taylor.

Scenes in England : for the amusement and instruction of little tarry-at-home travellers / by the Rev. Isaac Taylor.
Creator:
Taylor, Isaac, 1759–1829
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
xvi, 152 p., [29] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Woodcuts of British fishes / engraved by Thomas Bewick.

Woodcuts of British fishes / engraved by Thomas Bewick.
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1878
Physical Description:
[25] leaves : all ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A pottle of strawberries, to beguile a short journey, or a long half hour / by Albert Smith ; with illustrations by Gilbert and Henning.

A pottle of strawberries, to beguile a short journey, or a long half hour / by Albert Smith ; with illustrations by Gilbert and Henning.
Creator:
Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
Date:
MDCCCXLVIII [1848]
Physical Description:
62 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A round of days described in original poems / by some of our most celebrated poets, and in pictures by eminent artists engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.

A round of days described in original poems / by some of our most celebrated poets, and in pictures by eminent artists engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.
Date:
MDCCCLXVI [1866]
Physical Description:
[6], 93, [1] leaves : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

20. The works of William Hogarth : containing one hundred and fifty-eight engravings / by Mr. Cooke, and Mr. Davenport ; with descriptions, in which are pointed out many beauties that have hitherto escaped notice ; with a comment on their moral tendency ; in two volumes.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Spring / William Blake.

No cover image available
Creator:
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Date:
1993
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([4] p). : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts : also, a catalogue of engravers who have been born or resided in England / collected by the late George Vertue ; digested and published from his original mss. by Horace Walpole ; with additions by the Rev. James Dallaway ; ... in three volumes.

No cover image available
Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1849
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Craswall / Roland Mathias ; wood engraving by Peter Reddick.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mathias, Roland
Date:
1988
Physical Description:
2 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Reminiscences of the late Thomas Assheton Smith, Esq. : a famous fox-hunter, or, The pursuits of an English country gentleman / by Sir John E. Eardley-Wilmot.

No cover image available
Creator:
Eardley-Wilmot, John E. (John Eardley), Sir, 1810–1892
Date:
MCMII [1902]
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 303, [1] pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. 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.

No cover image available
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

26. Red cross, or, Young America in England and Wales : a story of travel and adventure / by Oliver Optic.

No cover image available
Creator:
Optic, Oliver, 1822–1897
Date:
1868
Physical Description:
[4], 336, [2] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

27. Celebrated & extraordinary exhibition, patronized by the royal families of England, France, Belgium, &c. &c. &c. of the industrious fleas : from Regent Street, is now exhibiting at Somerset Gallery, Strand.

No cover image available
Date:
[183-?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1]) p.) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. [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

29. Advertisement for Pears' transparent soap.

No cover image available
Creator:
A. & F. Pears Limited
Date:
ca. [1879?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 39 x 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Twigs for nests, or, Notes on nursery nurture / by the author of 'The expositions of the cartoons of Raphael', etc. ; with illustrations in graphotype.

No cover image available
Creator:
Smith, Richard Henry
Date:
1866
Physical Description:
viii, [4], 144, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Ancient streets and homesteads of England / by Alfred Rimmer ; and an introduction by the Very Rev. J.S. Howson ... ; with one hundred and fifty illustrations from drawings by the author ; engraved by J.D. Cooper.

No cover image available
Creator:
Rimmer, Alfred, 1829–1893
Date:
1879
Physical Description:
xxii, 350 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Beauties of English landscape drawn by Birket Foster. Engraved by Dalziel brothers, J. Cooper, E. Evans, H. Harral and others.

No cover image available
Creator:
Foster, Myles Birket, 1825–1899
Date:
1874
Physical Description:
3 p. ., [ix]-xvi, 301, [1] p. front., ill. 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The comic history of England / by Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett ; with ten coloured etchings, and one hundred and twenty woodcuts by John Leech.

No cover image available
Creator:
À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811–1856
Date:
MDCCCXLVII-MDCCCXLIX [1847-1848]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A memoir of George Cruikshank / by Frederic G. Stephens ; and an Essay on the genius of George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray.

No cover image available
Creator:
Stephens, Frederic George, 1828–1907
Date:
1891
Physical Description:
xii, 144 p. : ill., port. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

35. The west of England and the exhibition, 1851. By Herbert Byng Hall ... With illustrations.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hall, Herbert Byng, 1805?-1883
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. col. fronts., ill., plates. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The English humourists in art; a catalogue of the exhibition, containing 100 pages of illustrations.

No cover image available
Creator:
Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour (Great Britain)
Date:
1889
Physical Description:
36, 96 p. ill. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Entomology in sport, and Entomology in earnest / by the Honorable Mrs. W. and Lady M.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ward, Mary, 1827–1869
Date:
[1859]
Physical Description:
20, 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. The Prince Consort's farms : an agricultural memoir / by John Chalmers Morton, editor of 'The Cyclopedia of Agriculture,' etc., honorary member of The Royal Agricultural Society of Holland.

No cover image available
Creator:
Morton, John Chalmers, 1821–1888
Date:
1863
Physical Description:
[12], 276 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. 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;.

No cover image available
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

40. Talpa, or, The chronicles of a clay farm : an agricultural fragment / by C.W.H.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hoskyns, Chandos Wren, 1812–1876
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
viii, 237, [3], 4 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

41. The hazards of imagery / Paul Violi ; Dale Devereux Barker.

No cover image available
Creator:
Violi, Paul, 1944–2011
Date:
c1998
Physical Description:
1 portfolio ([17] leaves of text, [19] leaves of plates) : chiefly ill. ; 53 x 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Feed the bees.

No cover image available
Creator:
English, Andy
Date:
MMXVIII [2018]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([6] pages) : illustrations ; 7 x 32 cm, folded to 7 x 4 cm, in boards 8 x 5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Date:
1760
Physical Description:
32 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The sportsman's calendar, or, Monthly remembrancer of field diversions / by the author of the British field sports.

No cover image available
Creator:
Lawrence, John, 1753–1839
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
[4], 144, [49], 146-172 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The trial of St. Thomas More / by E.E. Reynolds.

No cover image available
Creator:
Reynolds, Ernest Edwin, 1894–
Date:
1964
Physical Description:
xiv, 169 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

46. Figure training, or, Art the handmaid of nature / by E.D.M.

No cover image available
Date:
[between 1865 and 1873]
Physical Description:
125, [1] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. George Cruikshank's omnibus : illustrated with one hundred engravings on steel and wood ... / edited by Laman Blanchard, Esq.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
[2], vi, [2], 300 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

48. [Specimens of illustrated works] / published by Messrs. Longman, Brown, & Co., London.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman (Firm)
Date:
[1849?]
Physical Description:
[170] p. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Nelson's letters from the Leeward Islands and other original documents in the Public Record Office and the British Museum / edited by Geoffrey Rawson ; with notes by Michael Lewis and engravings by Geoffrey Wales.

No cover image available
Creator:
Rawson, Geoffrey
Date:
1953
Physical Description:
73, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. An essay on design in gardening.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mason, George, 1735–1806
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
[iv], 54 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts