Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Language: English / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Subject Terms: Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

1. An illustrated lecture on sketching from nature in pencil and water colour : with hints on light and shadow, on a method of study, etc., to be practically illustrated, when possible, by a series of lessons out of doors / by George Stubbs, of Alexander Square, Brompton ; with seventeen plates in tinted and chromo-lithography.

Creator:: Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:: [between 1862 and 1868]
Physical Description:: 12 pages, 17 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Hints to young practitioners, in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

Creator:: Alston, J. W. (J. William)
Physical Description:: [6], 67, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Rudiments of drawing, shadowing, and colouring flowers in water colours : contained in thirty-six instructive lessons, illustrated by twenty-nine plates from the outline of a single leaf progressively to the completion of a fine group : intended for beginners and students of this delightful art : with a description of colours used & the method of mixing them.

Date:: 1818 [i.e. 1817]
Physical Description:: [4], 36 p., [1], 29 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 38 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. An introduction to the general art of drawing, wherein is set forth the grounds and properties, which of this infallible and judicious art are necessary to be known and understood ... with an illustration of 25 copper prints ... Likewise, An excellent treatise of the art of limning in which the true grounds and the perfect use of water-colours ... are ... taught. Formerly set out by ... Gerhard of Brugge. And now much augmented and amended, with some observations, touching ... the colouring and painting with water-colours. Truly tr. into English by J. L.

Creator:: Goeree, Willem, 1635–1711
Date:: 1674
Physical Description:: 2 pts. plates. 24 cm. (4 to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. [Landscape views].

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 6 prints : etching ; 17 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: iv, 26 p., 64 leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: ii p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Introductory lessons with familiar examples in landscape : for the use of those who are desirous of gaining some knowledge of the pleasing art of painting in water colours : to which are added some clear and simple rules, exemplified by suitable sketches and more finished painting : as this work is chiefly intended for the mere beginner, the rules are both familiar and progressive : to which are added, instructions for executing transparencies, in a style both novel and easy / by James Roberts.

Creator:: Roberts, James, 1753–approximately 1809
Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: [4], 36 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The art of painting and drawing in coloured crayons : being a course of instruction for the execution of portraiture and landscape / by Henry Murray, F.S.A.

Creator:: Murray, Henry, F.S.A.
Date:: [between 1906 and 1916]
Physical Description:: 60, 64 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Process of sketching a landscape.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 34 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. M. Stanley's drawing book.

Creator:: Stanley, Montague, 1809–1844
Date:: [1841?]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves : all illustrations ; 26 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Useful hints on drawing and painting; intended to facilitate the improvement of young persons. By J.C. Burgess ...

Creator:: Burgess, John Cart, 1798–1863
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: vii, 54 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The principles of design : for the curious young gentleman and ladies, who study and practice the noble and commendable art of drawing, colouring and japanning : or a new and complete drawing book consisting of [a] variety of whole figures in divers positions, and all the several parts of the human body from head to foot, &c. in fifty copper-plates, neatly engraved: designed chiefly for young beginners, very necessary and useful for all drawing-schools, boarding-schools, &c. ; to which is prefixed An introduction to drawing ... / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse.

Creator:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 58 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 13 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

Creator:: Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A book of landskips & buildings pleasant & useful for youth to draw after.

Creator:: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637–1714
Date:: [between 1726 and 1736]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Progressive studies in cattle / by Dennis Dighton ; dedicated by permission to the Right Honourable the Earl of Glengall by his most obedient & obliged servants, the publisher.

Creator:: Dighton, Denis, 1792–1827
Date:: May, 1820
Physical Description:: [6] pt. : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning. Painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures ... Collected from the writings of the ablest masters, both antient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...

Date:: 1668
Physical Description:: 8 p.., 121 p. ill., fold. plates. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometric principles : and a mechanical method of perspective and designing ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of copper-plate figures.

Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [2], 31 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. An introduction to perspective, drawing, and painting : in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues between the author's children : illustrated by appropriate plates and diagrams, and a sufficiency of practical geometry, and a compendium of genuine instruction, comprising a progressive and complete body of information, carefully adapted for the instruction of females, and suited equally to the simplicity of youth and mental maturity / by Mr. Hayter, portrait painter, in miniature and crayons, and teacher of the principal elements of the art.

Creator:: Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: xi, [5], 197, [3] p., [xvii] leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass or, The young man's time well spent.

Date:: 1731
Physical Description:: 21, [1] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Process of sketching a landscape.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : all ill. ; 38 x 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens ... : with outlines to each plate ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred and thirteen copper plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, Chatelin, ... : to which are annexed proper instructions to youth ...

Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [1], 8, [1] p., [100], [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The young colorist.

Date:: [ca. 1880]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm. x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Hassell's drawing magazine ...

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:: 1808-1811
Physical Description:: 4 v. plates 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. An introduction to perspective, adapted to the capacities of youth, in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues, between the author's children : accompanied with illustrative plates, appropriate diagrams, and a sufficiency of practical geometry : to which is added, A compendium of genuine instruction in the art of drawing and painting : the whole comprising a body of information, adapted equally to the simplicity of youth, and to mental maturity ... / by Mr. Hayter ...

Creator:: Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: viii, 168 p., [1], XIV leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. All draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in ten instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life, 10. history : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: [177-?]
Physical Description:: [2], 16 p., [62] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The practice of drawing and painting landscape from nature, in water colours : exemplified in a series of instructions calculated to facilitate the progress of the learner, including the elements of perspective, their application in sketching from nature and the explanation of various processes of colouring, for producing from the outline a finished picture, with observations on the study of nature and various other matters relative to the arts / by Francis Nicholson.

Creator:: Nicholson, Francis, 1753–1844
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: iv, 91 p., [5] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Flower painting made easy : being a collection of correct outlines after nature / by Tho. Parkinson painter ; and well engrav'd on 72 copper plates, ...

Creator:: Parkinson, Thomas, active 1769–1789
Date:: [1760?]
Physical Description:: [72] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Etchings of rustic figures : for the embellishment of landscape / by W.H. Pyne.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A new drawing book, in the manner of chalk : containing twelve views in the west of England as follows : Glastonbury, Tavistock, ditto, Lynmouth, Exmouth, East-Bourne, Ide, ditto, Chagford, Exeter, Pennycross, Dartmoor / drawn and engraved by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: 40 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The Art of drawing and painting in water-colours. Whereby a stranger to those arts may be immediately render'd capable of delineating any view or prospect with the utmost exactness ... With instructions for making transparent colours of every sort; partly from some curious personages in Holland, France, and Italy; but chiefly from a manuscript of the great Mr. Boyle ...

Date:: 1731
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 64 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The elements of drawing, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty-one engravings, plain and coloured, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton, drawing-master.

Creator:: Hamilton, George, writer on art
Date:: 1812
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... to which is added, a method of casting amber ...

Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. plate. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. An essay on mechanical drawing : comprising an elementary course of practice in the perspective delineation of machinery / illustrated in numerous plates by Charles Blunt.

Creator:: Blunt, Charles
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: [4], 91, [1] p., [63] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Perspective practical, or, A plain and easie method of true and lively representing all things to the eye at a distance, by the exact rules of art ... / by a religious person of the Society of Jesus, a Parisien ; faithfully translated out of French, and illustrated with 150 copper cuts ; set forth in English by Robert Pricke for the lovers of art.

Creator:: Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [15], 150, 150, [6] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. A compendium of the theory and practice of drawing and painting : illustrated by the technical terms in art : with practical observations on the essential lines and the forms connected with them : adapted to the earliest state of instruction for the use of school or private tuition : to which is added, the practice of the pencil, chalk, tinted, and water-colour drawing / by R. Dagley ; author of "Select gems from the antique".

Creator:: Dagley, Richard, d. 1841
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: xvi, 79 p., 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The art of painting in miniature ... Translated from the original French. To which are now added I. Certain secrets of one of the greatest Italian painters for making the finest colours ... II. Some ... lessons for the art of drawing ... III. The usefulness and benefit of prints.

Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 150 p. 2 plates. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction / by J.G. Chapman.

Creator:: Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808–1889
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 168 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Precepts of landscape drawing, exemplified in fifteen views : with instructions to young artists / by John Varley.

Creator:: Varley, John, 1778–1842
Date:: 1818]
Physical Description:: [2] double plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Instructions in the art of drawing and painting : for the book-case of instruction and delight.

Date:: [between 1782 and 1807]
Physical Description:: 32 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 10 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures ... Collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...

Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., [11], 123 p. front., illus., plates (part fold.) 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The principles of drawing ornaments made easy : by proper examples of leaves for mouldings, capitals, scrolls, husks, foliage, etc. : engraved in imitation of drawings on sixteen plates : with instructions for learning without a master : particularly useful to carvers, cabinet-makers, stucco-workers, painters, smiths, and every one concerned in ornamental decorations / by an artist.

Creator:: Artist, pseud., fl. 1780
Date:: 1780
Physical Description:: [4] p., [16] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of ... : illustrated with variety of copper-plate figures : to which are annexed the art of painting upon glass ... : to which is added a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 92 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The artist's vade-mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

Date:: 1776 [i.e. 177-?]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple to easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts / by John George Wood.

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: iv, 18, 16, 8, 14, [2] p., 16, 16, 16, 16 leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. [Drawing book of trees]

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1821.]
Physical Description:: [32] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Studies of trees sketched from nature.

Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: 4 prints : soft-ground etchings ; plate marks approximately 21 x 29 cm, on sheets 25 x 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. The art of drawing in perspective: wherein the doctrine of perspectiv[e is] clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometrical principles; and a mechanical method of perspective and designing invented, for the benefit of such as are strangers to mathematics. Illustrated with variety [!] of copper-plate figures. To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... the art of etching, and that of japanning upon wood, or any metal ... and ... a method of casting amber ...

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. fold. front. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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2. Hints to young practitioners, in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

4. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

6. [Landscape views].

7. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

8. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

10. The art of painting and drawing in coloured crayons : being a course of instruction for the execution of portraiture and landscape / by Henry Murray, F.S.A.

11. Process of sketching a landscape.

12. M. Stanley's drawing book.

13. Useful hints on drawing and painting; intended to facilitate the improvement of young persons. By J.C. Burgess ...

15. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

16. A book of landskips & buildings pleasant & useful for youth to draw after.

17. Progressive studies in cattle / by Dennis Dighton ; dedicated by permission to the Right Honourable the Earl of Glengall by his most obedient & obliged servants, the publisher.

19. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometric principles : and a mechanical method of perspective and designing ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of copper-plate figures.

21. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass or, The young man's time well spent.

22. Process of sketching a landscape.

23. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens ... : with outlines to each plate ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred and thirteen copper plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, Chatelin, ... : to which are annexed proper instructions to youth ...

24. The young colorist.

25. Hassell's drawing magazine ...

29. Flower painting made easy : being a collection of correct outlines after nature / by Tho. Parkinson painter ; and well engrav'd on 72 copper plates, ...

30. Etchings of rustic figures : for the embellishment of landscape / by W.H. Pyne.

31. A new drawing book, in the manner of chalk : containing twelve views in the west of England as follows : Glastonbury, Tavistock, ditto, Lynmouth, Exmouth, East-Bourne, Ide, ditto, Chagford, Exeter, Pennycross, Dartmoor / drawn and engraved by Samuel Prout.

32. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

34. The elements of drawing, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty-one engravings, plain and coloured, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton, drawing-master.

35. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... to which is added, a method of casting amber ...

36. An essay on mechanical drawing : comprising an elementary course of practice in the perspective delineation of machinery / illustrated in numerous plates by Charles Blunt.

39. The art of painting in miniature ... Translated from the original French. To which are now added I. Certain secrets of one of the greatest Italian painters for making the finest colours ... II. Some ... lessons for the art of drawing ... III. The usefulness and benefit of prints.

40. The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction / by J.G. Chapman.

41. Precepts of landscape drawing, exemplified in fifteen views : with instructions to young artists / by John Varley.

42. Instructions in the art of drawing and painting : for the book-case of instruction and delight.

45. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of ... : illustrated with variety of copper-plate figures : to which are annexed the art of painting upon glass ... : to which is added a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

47. Principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple to easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts / by John George Wood.

48. [Drawing book of trees]

49. Studies of trees sketched from nature.