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Work Type armorial bookplates (provenance)

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1. Hints on light and shadow, composition, etc. : as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples / by Samuel Prout, F. S. A., painter in water colours in ordinary to Her Majesty.

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Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1848
Physical Description:: [2], iv, 16 p., [20] leaves, [22] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A catalogue of pictures, consisting of portraits, landscapes, sea-pieces, architecture, flowers, fruits, animals, Histories, of the late Richard Mead, M. D. : sold by Auction on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV.

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Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: Printed in the year M.DCC.LV. [1755]
Physical Description:: xv, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Suggestions for the architectural improvement of the western part of London / by Sydney Smirke, F.S.A., F.G.A.

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Creator:: Smirke, Sydney, 1798–1877
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: [4], 117 p., [3] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., plan ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of valuable gems, bronzes, marble and other busts and antiquities, of the late Doctor Mead : which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Tuesday the 11th of this instant March 1755, and the four following days : the said collection will be exhibited to public view on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 7th, 8th and 10th instant, from ten in the morning till four, and the sale will begin each day punctually at twelve o'clock : catalogues of which may be had on Thursday the 6th, at Mr. Langford's aforesaid.

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Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774, publisher
Date:: [1755]
Physical Description:: 15 pages, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mead : consising of the works of the most eminent masters : and particularly of a matchless collection, containing 95 drawings of exotics, insects, fruit and flowers in water colours, on vellum, by Melian, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour'd from nature, and finished to the greatest perfection : which, (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 13th of January 1755, and the thirteen following evenings.

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Creator:: Langford, Mr. (Abraham), 1711–1774
Date:: [1755]
Physical Description:: 30 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Catalogue of the collection of pictures, works of art, and decorative objects, the property of His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, K. T. : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods at their Great Rooms, 8 King Street, St. James's Square ...

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Creator:: Christie, Manson & Woods
Date:: [1882]
Physical Description:: 234 pages, 78 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

7. A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ...

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Creator:: Skinner and Co. (London, England)
Date:: [1786]
Physical Description:: viii, [1], 4-194 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 28 cm. (4vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nancy H. Bartels

8. Der Freischütz, travestie / by Septimus Globus, Esq. ... ; with twelve etchings, by George Cruikshank, from drawings by an amateur; and the original tale whereon the German opera is founded.

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Creator:: Globus, Septimus
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [4], 68 p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

9. A catalogue of the highly valuable collection of prints : the property of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart ... : part the first consisting of a series of British portraits, from the heptarchy to the end of the reign of William III : comprising a capital assemblage of extremely rare and curious prints : including several unique beautiful equestrian and historical engravings, by Delaram, Elstracke, Rogers, the Pass Family, &c. : the principal works of W. Hollar : a matchless display of the productions of that celebrated artist W. Faithorne, many of them brilliant proofs, &c. &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Sotheby, at his rooms, No. 3, Wellington Street, Strand, on Monday, 29th of March, 1824, and eleven following days, Sunday excepted, at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:: Sotheby, Samuel, 1771–1842
Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: 5 volumes in 1 : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The fables of John Dryden : ornamented with engravings from the pencil of the Right Hon. Lady Diana Beauclerc.

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Creator:: Dryden, John, 1631–1700
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [4], xviii, 241, [1] p. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Hints on light and shadow, composition, etc. : as applicable to landscape painting / illustrated by examples by Samuel Prout.

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Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [4], 16, [36] p., 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts