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

1. 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

2. A new drawing book of heads : from the cartoons at Hampton Court ...

Date:: [17--]
Physical Description:: 6 leaves : all ill. ; 23 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Short and direct method of painting in water-colours / written by the late ingenious Mr. Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680
Date:: 1730
Physical Description:: 22 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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

5. 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

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. Walton's drawing book in the tinted style.

Creator:: Walton, John
Date:: 18--]
Physical Description:: 24 col. plates. 26 x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A new drawing book of views.

Date:: [ca. 1804]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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 drawing from nature, and the explanation of various processes of colouring, for producing from the sketch 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:: 1823
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 118 p., [4], 10 leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. 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

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. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. The Manx sketch book, or, Beauties of the Isle of Man : in a series of lithographic prints : no. 1 / edited by T. Ashe ...

Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [15] leaves, [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A practical essay on the art of colouring, and painting landscapes in water colours, with ten illustrative engravings / by John Heaviside Clark.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [4], 28 p., X leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. British scenery / by Calvert ...

Creator:: Calvert, Frederick, fl. 1811–1844
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 2 pts. ([1], 4; [1], 5 leaves) : all ill. ; 25 x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. Hullmandel's lithographic drawing book for 1827 / by J.D. Harding, S. Prout, C. Hullmandel.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: [47] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:: [1828]
Physical Description:: [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Dickinson's Advanced drawing book, 1828.

Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: [4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 24 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Studies of trees, by H. W. Burgess, author of the Eidodendron.

Creator:: Burgess, Henry William, approximately 1792–1844
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: 1 p., 10 plates, 1 leaf 29 x 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:: [ca. 1828]
Physical Description:: [34] leavesof plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. 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

38. 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

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. 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

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

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: [1829]
Physical Description:: [4] p., plates 25-36 : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. 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:: 1829
Physical Description:: vi, 159, [3] p., cv [i.e. 107] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. 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., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Drawing book / by E. Purcell.

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

45. 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

46. 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

47. Sketches at home and abroad / by Samuel Prout, F.S.A.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: [1830?]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [26] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. 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

49. An easy and familiar treatise on the art of drawing in perspective : calculated for young students, and to be acquired without a tutor / by Elias Taylor.

Creator:: Taylor, Elias
Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: viii, 74, [2] p., 25 leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. 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

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

2. A new drawing book of heads : from the cartoons at Hampton Court ...

3. Short and direct method of painting in water-colours / written by the late ingenious Mr. Smith.

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

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

7. Walton's drawing book in the tinted style.

8. A new drawing book of views.

9. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

10. The young artists instructor.

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

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

13. 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.

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

17. Rustic sketches / by W. Heath.

20. Rural scenery : coloured / by Calvert.

21. The amateur draughtsman / by Calvert.

22. The Manx sketch book, or, Beauties of the Isle of Man : in a series of lithographic prints : no. 1 / edited by T. Ashe ...

23. A practical essay on the art of colouring, and painting landscapes in water colours, with ten illustrative engravings / by John Heaviside Clark.

24. British scenery / by Calvert ...

25. 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.

26. 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.

28. 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.

29. Hullmandel's lithographic drawing book for 1827 / by J.D. Harding, S. Prout, C. Hullmandel.

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

32. 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.

33. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

34. Dickinson's Advanced drawing book, 1828.

35. Studies of trees, by H. W. Burgess, author of the Eidodendron.

36. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

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

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

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

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

44. Drawing book / by E. Purcell.

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

46. 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.

47. Sketches at home and abroad / by Samuel Prout, F.S.A.

49. An easy and familiar treatise on the art of drawing in perspective : calculated for young students, and to be acquired without a tutor / by Elias Taylor.

50. The youths drawing book complete.