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101. Fores's new guide for foreigners, containing the most complete and accurate description of the cities of London and Westminster, and their environs, that has yet been offered to the public ... In French and English, with or without a map of London ...

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Creator:
Fores, Samuel William, 1761–1838
Date:
[179-?]
Physical Description:
[2], vii, vii, vii, vii, 131, 131 p. fold. map. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. A letter to a friend on commerce and free ports, and London-docks.

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Creator:
Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
2 p.., 24 p. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

103. A tale of two cities.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
xiv, 363, [3] pages, [17] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

104. The pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities : illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others : and a new complete map, engraved by Lowry.

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Creator:
Weale, John, 1791–1862
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
910 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

105. An historical description of Westminster Abbey, its monuments and curiosities : designed chiefly as a guide to strangers.

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Date:
1834
Physical Description:
189, [4], [1], [2] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. 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.

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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

107. Pigot and Co.'s London & provincial new commercial directory for 1827-8 : containing a classification of, and alphabetical reference to the merchants, manufacturers and traders of the metropolis ... : in addition to which is compiled ... a directory of the county of Middlesex, with every town and village within twelve miles of the metropolis, and in the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex ... : this volume is embellished with a new series of elegant maps of the above-named counties ... [and] a large map of London ...

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Creator:
J. Pigot & Co
Date:
[1827?]
Physical Description:
cxvi, 384, 104, 742 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

108. Part of the visitation of London, 1634. Copied by Baruch Longmate. (Mss. Phillipps, no. 9774.)

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Creator:
St. George, Henry, Sir, 1625–1715
Date:
1840?]
Physical Description:
6 p. 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

109. The public buildings of the city of London described. : With twelve engravings. / By the author of "Public buildings of Westminster described."

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Creator:
Johnstone, C. I. (Christian Isobel), 1781–1857
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
[8], 259 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

110. London in 1850-1851 : from the geographical dictionary of J.R. McCulloch.

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Creator:
McCulloch, J. R. (John Ramsay), 1789–1864
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
132 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

111. Literary and historical memorials of London / by J. Henage Jesse.

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Creator:
Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

112. Doppelgänger / Stephen Willats.

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Creator:
Willats, Stephen, 1943–
Date:
1985
Physical Description:
[42] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

113. Panorama of London.

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Date:
ca. 1860]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

114. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places / by Walter Thornbury.

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Creator:
Thornbury, Walter, 1828–1876
Date:
[1873-1878]
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill., ports., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

115. Description de Londres et de ses édifices, avec un précis historique et des observations sur le caractère de leur architecture, et sur les principaux objects d'art et de curiosité qu'ils renferment; par J.-B. Barjaud, et C.P. Landon ...

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Creator:
Barjaud, Jean Baptiste Benoît, 1785–1813
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
1 p.., [v]-viii, 239, 4 p. : front. (fold. map) plates, ports. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. Report from the Committee appointed to inspect the several houses and other buildings immediately adjoining to Westminster Hall, and the two Houses of Parliament, and the offices thereto belonging : (July 22d, 1789.) : Ordered to be printed 16th February 1790.

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Creator:
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Date:
Printed in the year MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:
9, [1] p. ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. Views in London : consisting of the most remarkable buildings : with an historical description of each.

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Date:
[1820?]
Physical Description:
26, 11 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

118. Progress of inebriety.

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Creator:
Wilson, T. C
Date:
ca. 1830]
Physical Description:
[10] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

119. Site-unseen.

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Creator:
Smith, Terry
Date:
1997
Physical Description:
[46] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

120. Barnaby Rudge : a tale of the riots of 'eighty / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
[1874]
Physical Description:
x, 322 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

121. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

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Creator:
Leigh, Samuel
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
vi, [iii]-iv, 524, 36 p. fold. front., fold. plates, fold. map, fold. plan. 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

122. Londres / par Louis Énault ; illustré de 174 gravures sur bois par Gustave Doré.

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Creator:
Enault, Louis, 1824–1900
Date:
1876
Physical Description:
[4], 434 p. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

123. Answer to objections against the London-docks.

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Creator:
Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
21 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. The survey of London : contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe : with a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publike and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors, as also all the ancient and moderne monuments erected in the churches, not onely of those two famous cites, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) foure miled compasse / begunne first by the paines and industry of Iohn Stow, in the yeere 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the yeere 1618 ; and now completely finished by the study and labour of A.M. ; H.D., and others, this present yeere 1633, whereunto, besides many additions (as appeares by the contents) are annexed divers alphabeticall tables, especially two ; the first, an index of things ; the second, a concordance of names.

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Creator:
Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:
1633
Physical Description:
[16], 534, 527-652, 655-770, 773-939, [29] p. : illustrations 35 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. The official illustrated guide to the London and South-Western, North and South Devon, Cornwall, and West Cornwall railway : including descriptions of some of the most important manufactories in the towns on the lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with 280 engravings and map.

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Creator:
Measom, George S
Date:
[1864]
Physical Description:
lii, 475, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

126. Johnstone's London commercial guide, and street directory: in four parts ...

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Date:
1817
Physical Description:
[v]-xxxii p., 956 columns, 957-1114, 151, [1] p. : 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

127. New picture of London, or, A view of the political, religious,medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis : presenting a luminous guide to the stranger, on all subjects connected with general information, business, or amusement, to which is subjoined, a description of the environs.

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Creator:
Leigh, Samuel
Physical Description:
viii, 496 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

128. A day's journal of a sponge / by Peter Pasquin [pseud.].

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Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

129. A series of views in Islington and Pentonville : from original drawings, made in the year 1818 / by Augustus Pugin ; with a description of each subject, by Edward Wedlake Brayley.

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Creator:
Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773–1854
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[2], 21, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. Jane Foster's London.

Jane Foster's London.
Creator:
Foster, Jane, 1970–
Date:
2017
Physical Description:
[22] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

131. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

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Creator:
Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718–1785
Date:
1772
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster : the public buildings, palaces, gardens, squares, &c. : with an alphabetical list of all the streets, squares, courts, lanes, and alleys, &c. within the bills of mortality : to which are added some proper cautions to the merchants, tradesmen and shop-keepers ... / by Sir John Fielding ...

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Creator:
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721–1780
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
xxxiii, [3], 161, 90 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. Some account of the hospital and parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex / by John Parton ...

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Creator:
Parton, John, d. 1821
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 427, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map, plan ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. London's gratitude: or, An account of such pieces of sculpture and painting as have been placed in Guildhall at the expense of the city of London. To which is added, A list of those distinguished persons to whom the freedom of the city has been presented for public services since the year MDCCLVIII. With engravings of the sculptures, & c.

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Date:
1783
Physical Description:
50 p. plates (incl. port., coats of arms) 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

135. The cries of London; exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times. Copied from rare engravings, or drawn from the life. With a memoir and portrait of the author.

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Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
xv, 99 p. plates, port. 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

136. The antiquities of St. Peter's, or, The abbey-church of Westminster : containing all the inscriptions, epitaphs, &c. upon the tombs and grave-stones : with the lives, marriages and issue of the most eminent personages therein reposited and their coats of arms truly emblazon'd : adorn'd with draughts of the tombs, curiously engraven ...

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Creator:
Crull, Jodocus, -1713?
Date:
1713
Physical Description:
[10], 351, [15] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

137. London : illustrated by twenty bird's-eye views of the principal streets : also a map showing its chief suburbs and environs : and by a street-map of central London by Herbert Fry.

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Creator:
Fry, Herbert, 1830–1885
Date:
1889
Physical Description:
xviii, 286, viii, [22] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. The history and antiquities of London / by Thomas Pennant.

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Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
vi, 381 p. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

139. Illustrations of the public buildings of London : with descriptive accounts of each edifice : supplement : containing the new subjects and descriptions incorporated in the second edition / by W.H. Leeds.

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Creator:
Leeds, W. H. (William Henry), 1786–1866
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
xii, 136 p., [18] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. The four Indian kings.

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Date:
[1780?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 22 x 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. The picture of London for 1807 : being a correct guide to all the curiosities, amusements, exhibitions, public establishments, and remarkable objects, in and near London : with a collection of appropriate tables, two large maps, and several views.

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Date:
[1807]
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 420 p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. Pigot & Co.'s metropolitan guide & book of reference : to every street, court, lane, passage, alley and public building : in the cities of London & Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and their respective suburbs.

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Creator:
J. Pigot & Co
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
154 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. Strange's pocket scrap book for young ladies and gentlemen : containing views of all the public places of amusement, watering places, etc. etc. : part IV.

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Date:
[between 1841 and 1849]
Physical Description:
pt. : chiefly ill. ; 11 x 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

144. Angliæ metropolis, or, The present state of London : with memorials comprehanding a full and succinct account of the ancient and modern state thereof ... / first written by ... Tho. Delaune ... and continued to the present year by a careful hand ...

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Creator:
Delaume, Thomas, d. 1685
Date:
1690
Physical Description:
[10], 444 p. : coats of arms ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. The life of a nobleman.

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Creator:
Dawe, George, 1781–1829
Date:
[ca. 1825]
Physical Description:
[9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

146. Observations on the design for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as executed in the year 1812 : accompanied by plans, elevation, & sections, of the same : engraved on eighteen plates / by Benjamin Wyatt, F.S.A. architect.

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Creator:
Wyatt, Benjamin Dean, 1775–1855
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
xii, 77 p.,18 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. The carriers cosmographie, or, A briefe relation, of the innes ordinaries, hosteries, and other lodgings, in and neere London : where the carriers, waggons, foote-posts and higglers, doe usually come, from any parts, townes, shires, and countries, of the kingdoms of England, principality of Wales, as also from the kingdomes of Scotland and Ireland : with nomination of what daies of the weeke they do come to London and on what daies they returne, whereby all sorts of people may find direction how to receiue or send, goods or letters, into such places as their occasions may require : as also where the ships, hoighs, barkes, t[i]ltboats, barges and wherries, do usually attend to carry passengers ... / by Iohn Taylor.

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Creator:
Taylor, John, 1580–1653
Date:
1637
Physical Description:
24 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. Reports relating to the entertainment of Her Majesty the Queen, in the Guildhall of the City of London on Lord Mayor's Day, 1837.

No cover image available
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
[4], 35, [3], 7, [1], 79, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. A chart illustrating the architecture of Westminster Abbey / by F. Bedford.

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Creator:
Bedford, Francis, 1816–1894
Date:
[1840?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : chiefly ill. ; 56 x 44 cm., folded to 20 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. Londina illustrata : Graphic and historic memorials of monasteries, churches, chapels, schools, charitable foundations, palaces, halls, courts, processions, places of early amusement and modern & present theaters, in the city and suburbs of London & Westminster.

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Creator:
Robert Wilkinson (Publisher)
Date:
1819-25
Physical Description:
2 v., pl. : plans. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. Our mutual friend.

No cover image available
Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1938
Physical Description:
xviii, [2], 927, [3] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. Exhibition of models of the most elegant buildings in Europe : viz. the Church of St. Peter at Rome, that of St. Paul at London, the Stadthouse at Amsterdam : together with a great variety of others ...

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Date:
[ca. 1780]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 27 x 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

153. [Notice. Lost gold girdle and other items].

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Creator:
Pyne, Benjamin, -1732
Date:
June 16, 1731
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 9 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. Stairwell / Stephen Willats.

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Creator:
Willats, Stephen, 1943–
Date:
1990
Physical Description:
[15] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. An historical memento, representing the different scenes of public rejoicing, which took place the first of August, in St. James's and Hyde Parks, London, in celebration of the glorious peace of 1814, and of the centenary of the accession of the illustrious House of Brunswick to the throne of these kingdoms.

No cover image available
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
64 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. Views in London and its vicinity / complete in forth-eight plates, engraved on copper by George Cooke ; from drawing by Calcott, R.A., Stanfield, A.R.A., Prout, Roberts, Stark, Harding, Cotman, Havell, &c. &c. ; after original sketches made on the spot by Edward W. Cooke.

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Creator:
Cooke, George, 1781–1834
Date:
[1826]-1834
Physical Description:
12 pt. (48 prints, [3], 7 p.) : ill. : 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. Baldwin's new complete guide to all persons who have any trade or concern with the city of London, and parts adjacent. : ... Being the exactest piece of the kind hitherto published: and designed for the use of persons of all degrees, as well natives as foreigners.

No cover image available
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
[2], 266, [24] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. Repertorium ecclesiasticum parochiale Londinense : an ecclesiastical parochial history of the diocese of London : containing an account of the bishops of that sea, from the first foundation thereof : also, of the deans, archdeacons, dignitaries and prebendaries, from the conquest : and lastly, of the several parish-churches ... within the limits of that diocese, and of their patrons and incumbents : and also the endowments of several vicarages, and likewise of the several religious houses that were within the same : continu'd to the year of Our Lord, MDCC : in an alphabetical order / by Ric. Newcourt ...

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Creator:
Newcourt, Richard, d. 1716
Date:
1708-1710
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

159. London survey'd, or, An explanation of the large map of London : giving a particular account of the streets and lanes in the city and liberties : with the courts, yards, and alleys, churches, halls, and houses of note in every street and lane and directories to find them in the map : with the names and marks of the wards, parishes, and precincts, therein described / by John Ogilby & William Morgan ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:
1677
Physical Description:
[14], 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : plan ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. The history and antiquities of London / by Thomas Pennant.

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Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port., plans ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. London exhibited in 1851 : elucidating its natural and physical characteristics, its antiquity and architecture : its arts, manufactures, trade, and organization : its social, literary, and scientific institutions : and its numerous galleries of fine art : with 205 illustrations, executed by Mr. Robert Branston, Mr. O. Jewitt, Mr. J.R. Jobbins, and others : including a newly-constructed map, engraved by Mr. Wilson Lowry.

No cover image available
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
910, [2] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. Domestic union, or, London as it should be : containing observations on the present state of the municipality of London;--with hints for it's extention and improvement ; together with remarks on the West-India Docks in the Ilse of Dogs;--the Wapping Docks;--the projects for improving London Bridge, and for making a new iron bridge across the Thames; the canal on the south side of the river, and the several new streets under present contemplation. / By the author of the Portentous Globe.

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Creator:
Stonestreet, George Griffin
Date:
1800
Physical Description:
[4], 67, [1] p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. A description of the Colosseum as re-opened in M.DCCC.XLV. under the patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, and H.R.H. Prince Albert. With numerous illustrations, and eight coloured sections of the panorama of London, embossed by messrs. Dobbs, Bailey, & Co. This catalogue has been prepared for the proprietor by messrs. Kronheim and Skirving, engravers and designers, and the illustrations and letter-press are printed from stereotype plates cast by the patent process of messrs. Kronheim & Co., 3, Earl-street, Blackfriars.

No cover image available
Date:
[1845]
Physical Description:
24 p. ill., 22 plates (part col.) 20 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. A brief account of the Colosseum : in the Regent's Park, London: comprising a description of the building; the panoramic view from the top of St. Paul's Cathedral; the conservatory, &c.

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
8 p. : 8 plates. ; 28 x 41 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

165. Ambulator, or, A pocket companion in a tour round London : within the circuit of twenty-five miles : describing whatever is most remarkable for antiquity, grandeur, elegance, or rural beauty : including new catalogs of pictures, and illustrated by historical and biographical observations : to which are prefixed concise description of the metropolis, and a map of the country described ...

No cover image available
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
ix, [1], 324 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

166. Observations on a pamphlet entitled "A plan of the London dock," shewing the impracticability of the proposed plan, and demonstrating the advantages which would arise to the commerce of the metropolis, by extending the port, increasing the legal quays, and improving the banks of the Thames ...

No cover image available
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
1 p.., 33 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. Examination of William Vaughan, esq. in a committee of the hon. House of Commons, April 22, 1796, on the commerce of the port of London, and the accommodations for shipping, &c.

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Creator:
Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
23 p., [3] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. The finish to the adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic : in their pursuits through life in and out of London / by Pierce Egan ; with numerous illustrations by Robert Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:
1889
Physical Description:
xvi, 321 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent / by Thomas Allen.

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Creator:
Allen, Thomas, 1803–1833
Date:
1827-1828
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. Rural retreats : a collection of views of gentlemen's seats in the neighbourhood of London.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
[36] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys, &c : contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark ... / engraved by John Pine ... ; from an actual survey made by John Roque [sic] ...

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Creator:
Rocque, John, -1762
Date:
1747
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 46, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

172. An historical description of Westminster Abbey : its monuments and curiosities designed chiefly as a guide to strangers.

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Date:
1827
Physical Description:
198 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life and every-day people / with thirty-four illustrations by F. Barnard.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
[1876]
Physical Description:
viii, 240 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

174. The curiosities of London and Westminster : described in four volumes : embellished with elegant copper plates.

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Date:
1796
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. A new and accurate history and survey of London, Westminster, Southwark, and places adjacent : containing whatever is most worthy of notice in their ancient and present state ... with the charters, laws, customs, rights, liberties and privileges of this great metropolis ... / by the Rev. John Entick ...

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Creator:
Entick, John, 1703?-1773
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., plans, ports., map ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

176. The picture of London for 1802 : being a correct guide to all the curiosities, amusements, exhibitions, public establishments and remarkable objects, in and near London : with a collection of appropriate tables for the use of strangers, foreigners, and all persons who are not intimately acquainted with the British metropolis.

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Date:
[1802]
Physical Description:
xii, 420 p., [4] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., maps ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. An antiquarian ramble in the streets of London : with anecdotes of their more celebrated residents / by John Thomas Smith ; edited by Charles Mackay.

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Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

178. London : being an accurate history and description of the British metropolis and its neighbourhood : to thirty miles extent, from an actual perambulation / by David Hughson ...

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Creator:
Hughson, David, active 19th century
Date:
1805-1809
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. The giant book of London from the air / photographs by Jason Hawkes.

The giant book of London from the air / photographs by Jason Hawkes.
Creator:
Hawkes, Jason
Date:
2001
Physical Description:
32 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. Knight's cyclopaedia of London, 1851.

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Date:
[1851]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. Characters at the west end of the town / drawn and etched by Richard Dighton.

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Creator:
Dighton, Richard, 1795–1880
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[46] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 x 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. London : what to see, and how to see it : with numerous illustrations.

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Date:
1857
Physical Description:
208 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

183. Metro-land : British Empire Exhibition number : containing a general description of the British Empire Exhibition, how to get about London, and a comprehensive & descriptive review of the various districts served by Metropolitan Tailway.

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Date:
1924?]
Physical Description:
118 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. Letters from London.

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Date:
1808
Physical Description:
[2], 52 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. Descriptive particulars of the ancient and present state of the palace of the Savoy : now the scite of the bridge of Waterloo : the greatest in the world, with the dimensions of the same / by B. Johnson ...

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Creator:
Johnson, B
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
19 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. in folder 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

186. Reflections occasioned by the frequency of fires in the metropolis : with thoughts on measures for adding to public security, and remarks on the law of arson. Addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Kenyon, Lord Chief Justice of England / by Philanthropos.

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Creator:
Stonestreet, George Griffin
Date:
MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:
[3], vi-xii, 44 p. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

187. Hydraulia; an historical and descriptive account of the water works of London, : and the contrivances for supplying other great cities, in different ages and countries. / By William Matthews ...

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Creator:
Matthews, William, 1771–1836
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
xx, 454, [1] p., [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans, port. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

188. The new London cries, or, Humorous alphabet.

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Date:
[182-?]
Physical Description:
[16] leaves : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

189. The history and survey of London and its environs : from the earliest period to the present time ... / by B. Lambert ...

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Creator:
Lambert, B
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

190. The South Bank Exhibition : a guide to the story it tells / by Ian Cox.

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Creator:
Cox, Ian H. (Ian Herbert), 1910–
Date:
[1951]
Physical Description:
95, lviv pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Sequoia Miller.

191. Annals of the Regency.

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Date:
1817
Physical Description:
[14] disc-shaped sheets : illustrations ; each 8 cm in diameter, in case 9 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

192. London scenes, or, A visit to Uncle William in town : containing a description of the most remarkable buildings and curiosities in the British metropolis : illustrated by seventy-eight copperplate engravings ...

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Date:
[1824]
Physical Description:
xvi, 211 p., [23] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

193. The picture of London for 1815 : being a correct guide to all the curiosities, amusements, exhibitions, public establishments, and remarkable objects in and near London : with a collection of appropriate tables, two large maps, and various other engravings.

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Date:
[1814]
Physical Description:
x, 458 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans, maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

194. The history of London, and its environs : containing an account of the origin of the city, its state under the Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, its rise and progress to its present state of commercial greatness : likewise an account of all the towns, villages, and country, within twenty-five miles of London.

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Creator:
Hunter, Henry, 1741–1802
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
2 v. ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

195. Cruchley's picture of London : comprising the history, rise and progress of the metropolis to the present period : with a full description of Windsor Castle, Hampton Court, Woolwich, Greenwich, Chelsea, and other places in the environ, useful to the visitor : the whole embellished with fifty-nine engravings of public buildings : a route for viewing the whole in seven days : to which is annexed a new and superior map, with references to the principal streets, omnibus routes, railway stations, etc.

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Creator:
Cruchley, G. F
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
xii, 294, 14, [1] p. : ill., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

196. Metropolitan improvements, or, London in the nineteenth century : displayed in a series of engravings of the new buildings, improvements, &c., by the most eminent artists, from original drawings taken from the objects themselves expressly for this work / by Mr. Thos. H. Shepherd ; comprising the palaces, parks, new churches, bridges, streets, river scenery, public offices and institutions, gentlemen's seats and mansions, and every other object worthy of notice throughout the metropolis and its environs, with historical, topographical, and critical illustrations, by James Elmes ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)
Date:
1827 [i.e. 1827-1830]
Physical Description:
vi, ii, 172 p., [80] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

197. The exhibition and grand London sights.

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Date:
[1856]
Physical Description:
[8] leaves : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

198. Londinium redivivum, or, An ancient history and modern description of London / compiled from parochial records, archives of various foundations, the Harleian mss. and other authentic sources ... by James Peller Malcolm.

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Creator:
Malcolm, James Peller, 1767–1815
Date:
1803-07
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., map, port. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

199. Escort card.

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Date:
late 19th century
Physical Description:
1 card : illustrations ; 40 x 76 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

200. Views within twelve miles round London / drawn and engraved by James Peller Malcolm ; this work tends to preserve the perishable forms of many a building and monument of antiquity, whose fate has been pronounced, and whose remembrance shall only be had from this and similar works.

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Creator:
Malcolm, James Peller, 1767–1815
Date:
[180-?]
Physical Description:
[30] leaves : all ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts