Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Language: English / Subject Terms: Drawing books -- Specimens. / Classification: Books

1. Lessons on trees / by J. D. Harding ; author of "Lessons on Art," "Guide and Companion to Lessons on Art," "Elementary Art," "The Principles and practice of Art," &c. &c.

Lessons on trees / by J. D. Harding ; author of "Lessons on Art," "Guide and Companion to Lessons on Art," "Elementary Art," "The Principles and practice of Art," &c. &c.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: [8] p., 30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. "Our Boys" Clothing Company's universal progressive drawing book.

Creator:: Our Boys Clothing Company
Date:: [ca. 1885?]
Physical Description:: [16] p. : chiefly ill. ; 15 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The young artist's companion, or, Drawing-book of studies and landscape embellishments : comprising a great variety of the most picturesque objects required in the various compositions of landscape scenery, arranged as progressive lessons / by David Cox , author of 'A treatise on landscape-painting and effect in water-colours,' &c. &c.

The young artist's companion, or, Drawing-book of studies and landscape embellishments : comprising a great variety of the most picturesque objects required in the various compositions of landscape scenery, arranged as progressive lessons / by David Cox , author of 'A treatise on landscape-painting and effect in water-colours,' &c. &c.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [2], 15 p., 64 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The Continental drawing book : for the use of advanced pupils : being views in Switzerland and the Alps and Italian lakes / drawn from nature and on stone by George Barnard.

The Continental drawing book : for the use of advanced pupils : being views in Switzerland and the Alps and Italian lakes / drawn from nature and on stone by George Barnard.

Creator:: Barnard, George, 1807–1890
Date:: Jany. 2nd, 1837
Physical Description:: [14] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. An essay on trees in landscape, or, An attempt to shew the propriety and importance of characteristic expression in this branch of art, and the means of producing it, with examples / by Edward Kennion.

An essay on trees in landscape, or, An attempt to shew the propriety and importance of characteristic expression in this branch of art, and the means of producing it, with examples / by Edward Kennion.

Creator:: Kennion, E
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: x, 48 p., L, [II] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The young painter's maulstick : being a practical treatise on perspective : containing rules and principles for delineation on planes : treated so as to render the art of drawing correctly easy of attainment even to common capacities : and entertaining at the same time, from its truth and facility : founded on the clear mechanical process of Vignola and Sirigatti, united with the theoretic principles of the celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor : addressed to students in drawing / by James Malton, architect and draftsman.

The young painter's maulstick : being a practical treatise on perspective : containing rules and principles for delineation on planes : treated so as to render the art of drawing correctly easy of attainment even to common capacities : and entertaining at the same time, from its truth and facility : founded on the clear mechanical process of Vignola and Sirigatti, united with the theoretic principles of the celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor : addressed to students in drawing / by James Malton, architect and draftsman.

Creator:: Malton, James, d. 1803
Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: [4], ii, xiv, 71, [1] p., 23 leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The youths drawing book complete.

Creator:: Fussell, Joseph, 1818–1912
Date:: [1832?]
Physical Description:: v. ; illustrations ; 15 x 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

Date:: [1805?]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Collins' national drawing books / designed by D. Mackinlay.

Date:: [ca. 1880]
Physical Description:: 36 pt. : ill. ; 19 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Ackermann's drawing-book of trees.

Date:: [Jany.1,1841]
Physical Description:: 48 leaves : all ill. ; 20 x 28 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, F. S. A., painter in water colours in ordinary to Her Majesty.

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

12. An elementary treatise on sketching from nature : with the principles of light and shade, the theory of colours, &c. / by John Wood.

Creator:: Wood, John
Date:: [1850]
Physical Description:: 52 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Sciography, or, Radial projection of shadows / by R. Campbell Puckett.

Creator:: Puckett, R. Campbell (Robert Campbell)
Date:: 1871
Physical Description:: xiv, 52 p., [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book : containing a series of progressive lessons, with instructions for drawing rural scenery, architecture, the human figure, animals, &c. / illustrated by upward of one hundred engravings by N. Whittock, author of "The decorative painter's guide," illustrations of York, Sussex, Surrey. &c. &c.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: iv, 108 p., 104 leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Trees and their uses.

Date:: [1850?]
Physical Description:: [4] pt.. : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm. x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A practical illustration of Gilpin's day : representing the various effects on landscape scenery from morning till night, in thirty designs from nature / by the late Rev. Wm. Gilpin ... ; with instructions in, and explanation of, the improved method of colouring, and painting in water colours by John Heaviside Clark.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [4], vi, [34] p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. J.D. Harding's early drawing-book.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [2] p., 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. William Hermes album drawing copies : figures.

Creator:: Hermes, Wilhelm
Date:: [185-?]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Trees and how to paint them in watercolours / by W.H.J. Boot. ; with eighteen coloured plates and numerous wood engravings.

Creator:: Boot, W. H. J. (William Henry James), 1848–1918
Date:: 1883
Physical Description:: 24, [4] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Cassell's sixpenny drawing copies. Series A. : Floral & vegetable forms.

Date:: [1872]
Physical Description:: [12] pt. : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Drawing and perspective : in a series of progressive lessons, with general instructions ...

Date:: 1870
Physical Description:: 1 v. : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Chubb's drawing book, and artists' assistant : illustrated with nearly sixty well-executed copper plate engravings of the human figure.

Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 77, [3] pages, [50] leaves of plates (in various foliations) : illustrations ; 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Progressive lessons / by H. M. Whichelo.

Creator:: Whichelo, H. M. (Henry Mayle), 1800–1884
Date:: May 1823
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding ; formerly teacher of landscape painting in the family of His Late Majesty the King of the French.

Creator:: Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856
Date:: [1856]
Physical Description:: 54 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Hints for sketching in water-colour from nature / by Thomas Hatton.

Creator:: Hatton, Thomas, active 1757–1774
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: 62 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Rural scenery : coloured / by Calvert.

Creator:: Calvert, Frederick, fl. 1811–1844
Date:: [ca.1825]
Physical Description:: [6] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Etchings on copper.

Creator:: Welles, E. F., active 1826–1856
Date:: 1835.]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves : all ill. ; 20 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Series of sketches of cottages, landscapes, trees, bridges, water-falls, ruins, castles, boats, &c.

Creator:: Calvert, Frederick, fl. 1811–1844
Date:: [1830?]
Physical Description:: [60] leaves : ill. ; 20 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Lessons on drawing trees / by Geo. Harley.

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: [1829]
Physical Description:: [1], 16 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 35 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The art of flower painting./ by Mrs. William Duffield ; with twelve illustrations drawn on wood by the author.

Creator:: Duffield, William, Mrs., 1819–1914
Date:: [187-?]
Physical Description:: 65 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Drawing for schools : containing expositions of the method of teaching drawing in schools ; a full explanation of the practice of model drawing after the method of Dupuis, as first practised at the Battersea Training College ; the principles and practice of outline and perspective drawing : together with numerous illustrations and drawing exercises / by Thomas Tate, F.R.A.S., of Kneller Training College, Twickenham; late mathematical professor and lecturer on chemistry in the National Society's Training College, Battersea. Author of "The principles of the differential and integral calculus;" " A treatise on the strength of materials;" "The principles of geometry and mensuration," etc. etc.

Creator:: Tate, Thomas, 1807–1888
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: [4], 45, [3] p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. A guide to sketching from nature in water colours / by Leonidas Clint Miles ; with numerous illustrations, drawn on stone and wood by the author.

Creator:: Miles, Leonidas Clint
Date:: 1868
Physical Description:: 85, 48 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The Oxford drawing book, or, The art of drawing, and the theory and practice of perspective, in a series of letters containing progressive information on sketching, drawing, and colouring landscape scenery, animals, and the human figure : with a new method of practical perspective : detailed in a novel, easy, and perspicuous style : for the use of teachers, or for self-instruction / by Nathaniel Whittock ; teacher of drawing and perspective, and lithographist to the University of Oxford ; embellished with upwards of one hundred lithographic drawings ; from real views, taken expressly for this work.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: [between 1829 and 1848]
Physical Description:: vi, 159, [3] p., cv leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Drawing book of trees : including the elements of foliage and finished studies / by George Barnard.

Creator:: Barnard, George, 1807–1890
Date:: [1848]
Physical Description:: [1], 24 leaves : all ill. ; 21 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The elements of drawing in its various branches, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty engravings, plain and colored, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton.

Creator:: Hamilton, George, writer on art
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: viii, 92 p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. An introduction to the study of perspective : elucidated by easy and familiar examples in question and answer : so as to enable the student of drawing, to apply the principles of the science with facility, to sketching from nature / by Stephen Humble ; teacher of drawing and painting, Edinburgh ; illustrated with seventeen copperplates.

Creator:: Humble, Stephen
Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: 27, [1] p., 17 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Drawing book of horses in progressive lessons / by John Sutcliffe.

Creator:: Sutcliffe, J. V. (John V.)
Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves : ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. A guide to landscape figure drawing / by N. E. Green ; woodcuts by James D. Cooper, from drawing by the author.

Creator:: Green, N. E. (Nathaniel Everett), 1823–1899
Date:: [1891]
Physical Description:: 56 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Landscape animals : sketched from nature / by Edward Purcell.

Creator:: Purcell, E. (Edward)
Date:: August 1, 1822 [i.e. 1829]
Physical Description:: 4 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 18 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Lessons in flower painting. : a series of easy and progressive studies, drawn and coloured after nature. / by James Andrews.

Creator:: Andrews, James, 1806–1876
Date:: [1836]
Physical Description:: 4 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The progressive drawing book : containing a series of easy and comprehensive lessons for drawing landscape, architecture, the human figure, shipping, animals, &c. : without the aid of a master : also a complete treatise on perspective : with nearly three hundred engravings.

Date:: MLCCCLIII [1853]
Physical Description:: [4], 56, [1] p., 88 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The young artists instructor.

Creator:: Calvert, Frederick, fl. 1811–1844
Date:: [1823]
Physical Description:: [4], 48 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A course of water-colour painting / by R.P. Leitch.

Creator:: Leitch, R. P. (Richard Pettigrew)
Date:: [1884?]
Physical Description:: 36, [4] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Second book of drawing / by John Clark.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 91 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Rustic sketches / by W. Heath.

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: [1], 6 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Hints for sketching trees from nature, in water colours : with numerous illustrations / by Thomas Hatton.

Creator:: Hatton, Thomas
Date:: [ca. 1890]
Physical Description:: [2], 61, [1] p., IX leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Lessons on trees / by J.D. Harding ; author of "Lessons on Art," "Elementary Art," "The Principles and practice of Art," &c. &c.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: MDCCCL [1850]
Physical Description:: [6] p., 30 leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Pictures for painting / by Kate Greenaway ; with outlines from her various works for boys & girls to paint.

Creator:: Greenaway, Kate, 1846–1901
Date:: [1919]
Physical Description:: [9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Ward's progressive book of landscape drawing : in thirteen parts / by J. H. Burgess.

Creator:: Burgess, J. Howard (James Howard), 1817–1890
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 13 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Greenwood's studies of forest trees.

Creator:: Greenwood, George, 1799–1875
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Sketching from nature in water-colours / by Aaron Penley, author of "The English school of painting in water-colours," "Elements of perspective," "A system of painting in water-colours," etc. etc. ; with illustrations in chromo-lithography after original water-colour drawings.

Creator:: Penley, Aaron, 1807–1870
Date:: [1875]
Physical Description:: [2], 36 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Elements of drawing and painting in water colours : being supplement to the Elements of drawing and perspective, published in Chambers's educational course / by John Clark.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 212 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The lithographic drawing book for the year 1826 / by R.R. Reinagle, J.D. Harding, S. Prout, C. Hullmandel, H. Gastineau, C. Carbonnier, and H. Monnier.

Creator:: Reinagle, Ramsay R. (Ramsay Richard), 1775–1862
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips.

Creator:: Phillips, G. F. (Giles Firman), 1780–1867
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 28 p., [1], 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Studies of trees in pencil and in water colors. By J. Needham. Second series. Sixteen examples in pencil. Nine examples in colors. With a description of each tree, and full instructions for drawing and painting by an experienced teacher.

Creator:: Needham, J
Date:: [1895]
Physical Description:: 1 p., 52 p. ill. (part mounted and col.) 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Elements of perspective : illustrated by numerous examples and diagrams / by Aaron Penley.

Creator:: Penley, Aaron Edwin, 1807–1870
Date:: 1874
Physical Description:: 63 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Cassell's sixpenny drawing copies. Series C. Landscape drawing.

Date:: [1872]
Physical Description:: [12] pt. : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Hannah Bolton's first drawing book : a walk through a house shown by scenes in the journey.

Creator:: Bolton, Hannah
Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: [5] pt. : chiefly ill. ; 27 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. An introduction to perspective, practical geometry, drawing, and painting : a new and perfect explanation of the mixture of colours with full and practical directions for miniature, crayons, and oil painting : in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues between the author's children : and an epistolary instruction to pupils : properly adapted for the instruction of females, and equally for all professional students / by Charles Hayter.

Creator:: Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: xxvi, 259 p., [23] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Harding's Drawing book for the year MDCCCXLI : studies in sepia : partly original and partly selected.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: [24] leaves : all ill. ; 29 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Julien's studies of heads : selected from paintings of eminent artists, or drawn from nature / by Monsieur Julien, professor of drawing in the Military School, Paris ; lithographed by Thomas Fairland.

Creator:: Julien, Bernard-Romain, 1802–1871
Date:: [ca. 1858]
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Subjects after nature / by Newton Fielding ; in three parts, four plates each.

Creator:: Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856
Date:: [1836]
Physical Description:: 3 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Drawing book / by E. Purcell.

Creator:: Purcell, E. (Edward)
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: [1], 24 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The art of sketching flowers from nature : with coloured illustrations / by R. Willett Lucas.

Creator:: Lucas, Ralph Willett, 1796–1874
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: iv, 45 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 1853.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: [6], 48 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. (part col.) ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Sciography, or, Examples of shadows : with rules for their projection : intended for the use of architectural draughtsmen, and other artists : with twenty-four plates / by Joseph Gwilt.

Creator:: Gwilt, Joseph, 1784–1863
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: viii, 55, [1] pages, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Flowers from nature : with the botanical name, class, and order ; and instructions for copying : lithographed and coloured from drawings / by Anne Everard ; dedicated, by permission, to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

Creator:: Everard, Anne
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: [8] p., 13 leaves, 13 leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Elementary art, or, The use of the lead pencil advocated and explained / by J. D. Harding.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: MDCCCXXXIV[1834]
Physical Description:: [4], 80 p., [XXVI, [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The guide to miniature painting, and colouring photographs : with a few words on portrait painting in water colours / by J. S. Templeton and A. H. Wall.

Date:: [1896?]
Physical Description:: 64 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Cassell's popular drawing copies. Series A. : floral and vegetable forms / by Charles Ryan ; in twelve parts, price sixpence each; or in one volume, complete, cloth lettered, 7s. 6d.

Creator:: Ryan, Charles, -1893
Date:: [1872]
Physical Description:: 12 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Grammar to flower-painting : being a concise, plain, and easy method for amateurs to attain the rudiments of the science without the help of a master : in ten plates, coloured / from drawings by J. Sillett.

Creator:: Sillett, James, 1764–1840
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: [10] leaves : all ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Elementary drawing book of landscapes and buildings / by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: [ca. 1840]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 20 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. A painting book for boys and girls / presented by Carter's Little Liver Pills.

Creator:: Carter's Little Liver Pills
Date:: [191-?]
Physical Description:: [16] p. : ill. ; 13 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. The anatomy of the bones and muscles : exhibiting the parts as they appear on dissection, and more particularly in the living figure; as applicable to the fine arts : designed for the use of artists, and members of the Artist's anatomical society : in two parts / by George Simpson ; member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London; lecturer on anatomy to the Artist's Anatomical Society, &c. ; illustrated with highly-finished lithographic impressions.

Creator:: Simpson, George
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [4], iii, [7], v, [1], 140 p., xiv, xiv, [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Elements for drawing / designed and engraved by Francis Bartolozzi ... The originals in the possession of M. Bovi.

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Progressive sketches for the lead pencil / by G.F. Bragg.

Creator:: Bragg, G.. F
Date:: [1835?]
Physical Description:: 24 leaves : all ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. British small birds : Vere Foster's drawing book, embracing every description of drawing, with paper for copying : animals / by Harrison Weir & other artists ; in twelve books (O to O11)

Date:: [188-]
Physical Description:: 16 p. : chiefly ill. ; 17 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Advanced studies of flower painting in water colors. Reproduced from original drawings, specially made for the work by Ada Hanbury and other artists ... With full directions for copying the examples, general instructions on painting, and a description of each flower. By Blanche Hanbury.

Creator:: Hanbury, Blanche
Date:: 1885
Physical Description:: xvi, 56 p. ill. (part col. and mounted) 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. 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:: 1823
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Every youth's drawing book : containing the whole art of drawing, the principles of perspective, with clear and ample instructions for portrait, flower, miniature, and landscape painting, in oil and in water colours, engraving on wood, casting, medalling, bronzing, mezzotint scraping, modelling, etc. : illustrated with above 60 engravings on wood and copper.

Date:: MDCCCXXVIII [1828]
Physical Description:: 64 p., [31] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Ackermann's rudimental drawing-book, for beginners in landscape / by H. Bright ; complete in six numbers.

Creator:: Bright, Henry, 1810–1873
Date:: [1843]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm. x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. A series of practical instructions in landscape painting in water colours : containing directions for sketching from nature, and the application of perspective, progressive lessons in drawing from the tinted sketch to the finished subject, and examples of the introduction of figures, architectural subjects, particular effects, &c. as connected with landscape scenery / by John Clark ; illustrated by fifty-five views from nature, descriptive objects, &c. mounted in imitation of drawings.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: 4 pt. : col. ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. The child's own drawing-book, or, Easy and progressive steps to drawing in animals, landscapes, flowers, shipping, the human figure, &c. in 14 books / drawn on stone by G.W. Davis.

Creator:: Davis, G. W
Date:: [1830?]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 18 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. A rudimentary and practical treatise on perspective for beginners : simplified for the use of juvenile students and amateurs in architecture, painting, etc. : also adapted for schools and private instructors / by George Pyne, artist ; eighty-six illustrations.

Creator:: Pyne, George, 1800?-1884
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: v, [3], 165, [3] p., XIII leaves of plates ([6] folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Divers different designs of figures proper for carvers, painters, &c. : but particularly adapted for youth to draw after.

Date:: [17--?]
Physical Description:: [3] leaves : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. A new drawing book of modes / by B. Picart.

Creator:: Picart, Bernard, 1673–1733
Date:: [1733?]
Physical Description:: 13 leaves : all ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Sketches at home and abroad : hints on the acquirement of freedom of execution and breadth of effect in landscape painting : to which are added simple instructions on the proper uses and application of colour / by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: [2], 16 p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Hints for sketching in water-colour from nature.

Creator:: Hatton, Thomas, active 1757–1774
Date:: 1876
Physical Description:: 64 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Hood's drawing book / with designs and suggestions by an artist of long and varied experience.

Date:: C.I. Hood Co.,
Physical Description:: 21 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

90. Buchanan's initiatory drawing lessons : for the use of writing academies & private families : engraved series, to be copied with the pen.

Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: 4 p., 43 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colour : with introductory illustrations on perspective and drawing with pencil.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 32 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Principles of effect and colour : as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips, member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours.

Creator:: Phillips, G. F. (Giles Firman), 1780–1867
Date:: [ca. 1840]
Physical Description:: 30, [2] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. A course of water-colour painting : with twenty-four coloured plates / from designs by R.P. Leitch.

Creator:: Leitch, R. P. (Richard Pettigrew)
Date:: [1880?]
Physical Description:: 36 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The elementary drawing book for the year 1833 / by G. Barnard.

Creator:: Barnard, George, 1807–1890
Date:: [1833]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 19 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Elementary art, or, The use of the chalk and lead pencil advocated and explained / by J.D. Harding.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: [1854]
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 97, [3] p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. The amateur draughtsman / by Calvert.

Creator:: Calvert, Frederick, fl. 1811–1844
Date:: Sept[embe]r 1825
Physical Description:: [49] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 17 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours : with introductory illustrations on perspective and drawing with pencil.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: 32 p., [19] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. The principles and practice of art / by J.D. Harding ; with illustrations drawn and engraved by the author.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: [2], vii, [1], 156 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Slate pencil drawings : for the self instruction of children.

Date:: [ca. 1850?]
Physical Description:: [13] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The coloured drawing book for young painters / by F.A. Lydon.

Creator:: Lydon, A. F. (Alexander Francis)
Date:: [186-?]
Physical Description:: 3 pt. : ill. ; 23 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Lessons on trees / by J. D. Harding ; author of "Lessons on Art," "Guide and Companion to Lessons on Art," "Elementary Art," "The Principles and practice of Art," &c. &c.

2. "Our Boys" Clothing Company's universal progressive drawing book.

4. The Continental drawing book : for the use of advanced pupils : being views in Switzerland and the Alps and Italian lakes / drawn from nature and on stone by George Barnard.

5. An essay on trees in landscape, or, An attempt to shew the propriety and importance of characteristic expression in this branch of art, and the means of producing it, with examples / by Edward Kennion.

7. The youths drawing book complete.

8. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

9. Collins' national drawing books / designed by D. Mackinlay.

10. Ackermann's drawing-book of trees.

11. 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.

12. An elementary treatise on sketching from nature : with the principles of light and shade, the theory of colours, &c. / by John Wood.

13. Sciography, or, Radial projection of shadows / by R. Campbell Puckett.

15. Trees and their uses.

17. J.D. Harding's early drawing-book.

18. William Hermes album drawing copies : figures.

19. Trees and how to paint them in watercolours / by W.H.J. Boot. ; with eighteen coloured plates and numerous wood engravings.

20. Cassell's sixpenny drawing copies. Series A. : Floral & vegetable forms.

21. Drawing and perspective : in a series of progressive lessons, with general instructions ...

22. Chubb's drawing book, and artists' assistant : illustrated with nearly sixty well-executed copper plate engravings of the human figure.

23. Progressive lessons / by H. M. Whichelo.

24. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding ; formerly teacher of landscape painting in the family of His Late Majesty the King of the French.

25. Hints for sketching in water-colour from nature / by Thomas Hatton.

26. Rural scenery : coloured / by Calvert.

27. Etchings on copper.

28. Series of sketches of cottages, landscapes, trees, bridges, water-falls, ruins, castles, boats, &c.

29. Lessons on drawing trees / by Geo. Harley.

30. The art of flower painting./ by Mrs. William Duffield ; with twelve illustrations drawn on wood by the author.

32. A guide to sketching from nature in water colours / by Leonidas Clint Miles ; with numerous illustrations, drawn on stone and wood by the author.

34. Drawing book of trees : including the elements of foliage and finished studies / by George Barnard.

35. The elements of drawing in its various branches, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty engravings, plain and colored, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton.

37. Drawing book of horses in progressive lessons / by John Sutcliffe.

38. A guide to landscape figure drawing / by N. E. Green ; woodcuts by James D. Cooper, from drawing by the author.

39. Landscape animals : sketched from nature / by Edward Purcell.

40. Lessons in flower painting. : a series of easy and progressive studies, drawn and coloured after nature. / by James Andrews.

41. The progressive drawing book : containing a series of easy and comprehensive lessons for drawing landscape, architecture, the human figure, shipping, animals, &c. : without the aid of a master : also a complete treatise on perspective : with nearly three hundred engravings.

42. The young artists instructor.

43. A course of water-colour painting / by R.P. Leitch.

44. Second book of drawing / by John Clark.

45. Rustic sketches / by W. Heath.

46. Hints for sketching trees from nature, in water colours : with numerous illustrations / by Thomas Hatton.

47. Lessons on trees / by J.D. Harding ; author of "Lessons on Art," "Elementary Art," "The Principles and practice of Art," &c. &c.

48. Pictures for painting / by Kate Greenaway ; with outlines from her various works for boys & girls to paint.

49. Ward's progressive book of landscape drawing : in thirteen parts / by J. H. Burgess.

50. Greenwood's studies of forest trees.

51. Sketching from nature in water-colours / by Aaron Penley, author of "The English school of painting in water-colours," "Elements of perspective," "A system of painting in water-colours," etc. etc. ; with illustrations in chromo-lithography after original water-colour drawings.

52. Elements of drawing and painting in water colours : being supplement to the Elements of drawing and perspective, published in Chambers's educational course / by John Clark.

53. The lithographic drawing book for the year 1826 / by R.R. Reinagle, J.D. Harding, S. Prout, C. Hullmandel, H. Gastineau, C. Carbonnier, and H. Monnier.

54. Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips.

55. Studies of trees in pencil and in water colors. By J. Needham. Second series. Sixteen examples in pencil. Nine examples in colors. With a description of each tree, and full instructions for drawing and painting by an experienced teacher.

56. Elements of perspective : illustrated by numerous examples and diagrams / by Aaron Penley.

57. Cassell's sixpenny drawing copies. Series C. Landscape drawing.

58. Hannah Bolton's first drawing book : a walk through a house shown by scenes in the journey.

60. Harding's Drawing book for the year MDCCCXLI : studies in sepia : partly original and partly selected.

61. Julien's studies of heads : selected from paintings of eminent artists, or drawn from nature / by Monsieur Julien, professor of drawing in the Military School, Paris ; lithographed by Thomas Fairland.

62. Subjects after nature / by Newton Fielding ; in three parts, four plates each.

63. Drawing book / by E. Purcell.

64. The art of sketching flowers from nature : with coloured illustrations / by R. Willett Lucas.

65. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

66. Sciography, or, Examples of shadows : with rules for their projection : intended for the use of architectural draughtsmen, and other artists : with twenty-four plates / by Joseph Gwilt.

67. Flowers from nature : with the botanical name, class, and order ; and instructions for copying : lithographed and coloured from drawings / by Anne Everard ; dedicated, by permission, to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

68. Elementary art, or, The use of the lead pencil advocated and explained / by J. D. Harding.

69. The guide to miniature painting, and colouring photographs : with a few words on portrait painting in water colours / by J. S. Templeton and A. H. Wall.

70. Cassell's popular drawing copies. Series A. : floral and vegetable forms / by Charles Ryan ; in twelve parts, price sixpence each; or in one volume, complete, cloth lettered, 7s. 6d.

71. Grammar to flower-painting : being a concise, plain, and easy method for amateurs to attain the rudiments of the science without the help of a master : in ten plates, coloured / from drawings by J. Sillett.

72. Elementary drawing book of landscapes and buildings / by Samuel Prout.

73. A painting book for boys and girls / presented by Carter's Little Liver Pills.

75. Elements for drawing / designed and engraved by Francis Bartolozzi ... The originals in the possession of M. Bovi.

76. Progressive sketches for the lead pencil / by G.F. Bragg.

77. British small birds : Vere Foster's drawing book, embracing every description of drawing, with paper for copying : animals / by Harrison Weir & other artists ; in twelve books (O to O11)

78. Advanced studies of flower painting in water colors. Reproduced from original drawings, specially made for the work by Ada Hanbury and other artists ... With full directions for copying the examples, general instructions on painting, and a description of each flower. By Blanche Hanbury.

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

81. Ackermann's rudimental drawing-book, for beginners in landscape / by H. Bright ; complete in six numbers.

83. The child's own drawing-book, or, Easy and progressive steps to drawing in animals, landscapes, flowers, shipping, the human figure, &c. in 14 books / drawn on stone by G.W. Davis.