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1. Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body, with that of a tyger and a common fowl : in thirty tables, two copper-plates to each table, 20 inches by 15 : forming six numbers, ten plates to each number / the whole executed by George Stubbs, author of "The anatomy of the horse."

Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body, with that of a tyger and a common fowl : in thirty tables, two copper-plates to each table, 20 inches by 15 : forming six numbers, ten plates to each number / the whole executed by George Stubbs, author of "The anatomy of the horse."
Creator:
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:
[1802]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 29 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Views in the eastern archipelago : Borneo, Sarawak, Labuan &c. &c. &c. : from drawings made on the spot by Captn. Drinkwater Bethune, R.N.C., Commander L.G. Heath, R.N., and others / the descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John, Esqr., author of manners & customs of the Ancient Greek ; drawn on stone by J.W. Giles.

Views in the eastern archipelago : Borneo, Sarawak, Labuan &c. &c. &c. : from drawings made on the spot by Captn. Drinkwater Bethune, R.N.C., Commander L.G. Heath, R.N., and others / the descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John, Esqr., author of manners & customs of the Ancient Greek ; drawn on stone by J.W. Giles.
Creator:
St. John, James Augustus, 1795–1875
Date:
Augt., 1847
Physical Description:
3 portfolios : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Prospectus and catalogue of the British School : instituted for the perpetual exhibition and sale of the original works of modern artists : under the patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ...

Prospectus and catalogue of the British School : instituted for the perpetual exhibition and sale of the original works of modern artists : under the patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ...
Creator:
British School
Date:
1802
Physical Description:
45 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats : with historical and descriptive accounts of each subject / engraved in aquatinta by R. Havell & Son.

A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats : with historical and descriptive accounts of each subject / engraved in aquatinta by R. Havell & Son.
Creator:
Havell, Robert, 1769–1832
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[42] pages, [21] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. History of the University of Dublin / by W.B. Taylor.

History of the University of Dublin / by W.B. Taylor.
Creator:
Taylor, William B. Sarsfield (William Benjamin Sarsfield), 1781–1850
Date:
[1819-1820]
Physical Description:
3 parts (72 p., [9] leaves of plates) : col. ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. 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.

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.
Creator:
Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
31 p. 3 fold. plates (incl. front.) 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland / engraved by Thomas Milton. From original drawings, by the best masters.

A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland / engraved by Thomas Milton. From original drawings, by the best masters.
Creator:
Milton, Thomas, 1743?-1827
Date:
[1783-1793]
Physical Description:
xlvii, [5] p., xxiv leaves of plates : ill ; 21 x 27cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The architectural antiquities of Great Britain : represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of various ancient English edifices : with historical and descriptive accounts of each / by John Britton.

The architectural antiquities of Great Britain : represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of various ancient English edifices : with historical and descriptive accounts of each / by John Britton.
Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1807-1826
Physical Description:
5 v. : ill., plans ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Now publishing in numbers, price 1s. and in monthly parts, at 2s. each, Commemoration of Hogarth by an edition of his works, commenced exactly a century after their first appearance.

Now publishing in numbers, price 1s. and in monthly parts, at 2s. each, Commemoration of Hogarth by an edition of his works, commenced exactly a century after their first appearance.
Creator:
Jones and Co. (London, England)
Date:
[1833?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The Waterloo banquet at Apsley House / by William Salter.

The Waterloo banquet at Apsley House / by William Salter.
Creator:
Moon, Francis Graham, 1796–1871
Date:
[1846?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 29 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Skute Awabo [Awabo Skute] / written, designed and printed by Ken Campbell, London 1992.

Skute Awabo [Awabo Skute] / written, designed and printed by Ken Campbell, London 1992.
Creator:
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022
Date:
1992
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 51 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. For the use of schools ... The young artist's complete magazine, for the instruction of the youth of both sexes ...

For the use of schools ... The young artist's complete magazine, for the instruction of the youth of both sexes ...
Date:
[1788]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) ; 23 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1822?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Peter Biegel's racing pictures.

Peter Biegel's racing pictures.
Creator:
Biegel, Peter
Date:
1983
Physical Description:
160 p. : col. ill. ; 25 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Prospectus for publishing in subscription The Oxford portfolio : offered to the nobility and gentry of the university / by G. Cooper.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cooper, George, active 1792–1830
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Proposals for publishing by subscription, original poems : with translations from the French, Italian, and Spanish : and a play, in five acts : by Charlotte Nooth, daughter to the late James Nooth, Esq. ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Nooth, Charlotte
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. [Prospectus for Susan Allix's Small cakes : a selection containing brief histories, ingredients and recipes, poetic anecdotes and visual decorations].

No cover image available
Creator:
Allix, Susan, 1943–
Date:
2018
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([3] pages) : color photographs ; 12 x 32 cm, folded to 12 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

18. Prospectus of an improved mode of delineating estates.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
[1], 6 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Bligh's voyage in the Resource from Coupang to Batavia : together with the log of his subsequent passage to England in the Dutch Vlydt Packet : and his remarks on Morrison's Journal : all printed for the first time from the manuscripts in the Mitchell Library of New South Wales : with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter : The Golden Cockerel Press 1937.

No cover image available
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Specimen of the wood cuts to Northcote's Fables : second series.

No cover image available
Creator:
Northcote, James, 1746–1831
Date:
[1833]
Physical Description:
8 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. This day are published, parts first and second, of Architectura ecclesiastica Londini, or the Ecclesiastical architecture of London.

No cover image available
Creator:
Booth, John (Bookseller)
Date:
January 25, 1814
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Proposals, for publishing by subscription, in ten monthly parts, forming one handsome volume, the Costume of Yorkshire : illustrated by forty highly-finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings, descriptive of the peculiar dress, occupation and manners of various inhabitants of that extensive and populous County : the first part to be published on the first of September, 1813.

No cover image available
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Prospectus of a history of the county palatine and of the city of Chester : by Geo. Ormerod of Chorlton, Esq. M.A.F.S.A. : dedicated (with permission) to His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, Earl of Chester ; including King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities.

No cover image available
Date:
[1814?]
Physical Description:
2, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Proposals for publishing by subscription, an engraving from the historical picture painted by John Singleton Copley, R.A. : and now exhibiting in a pavilion, erected through the gracious permission of the King for the purpose, in the Green Park : this work ... is to be placed in the council chamber of Guildhall as a testimony of respect to the late Lord Heathfield, then governor of Gibralter, Earl Howe, commander of the fleet ... for their gallant conduct displayed in the defence and relief of that important fortress.

No cover image available
Date:
[180-]
Physical Description:
[4] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Books published by J. Taylor, High Holborn.

No cover image available
Creator:
Taylor, J
Date:
[1807]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A Venetian story [prospectus] / by Lord Byron.

No cover image available
Creator:
Allen Press
Date:
[1963]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([4] p.) ; 40 x 25 cm., folded to13 x 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The boke of Iford / compiled by me, Harold A. Peto of Iford Manor from all the sources available in 1917 ; with a historical introduction by Robin Whalley.

The boke of Iford / compiled by me, Harold A. Peto of Iford Manor from all the sources available in 1917 ; with a historical introduction by Robin Whalley.
Creator:
Peto, Harold A. (Harold Ainsworth), 1854–1933
Date:
1993
Physical Description:
53 p. col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

28. On the first of March, 1814, will be published, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row, price four shillings, No. I. (To be continued monthly) of Restituta, or, The titles and characters of old books in English literature and their authors, revived by Sir Egerton Brydges, K.J.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Landseer. [Editado por Cândido Guinle de Paula Machado. Texto de Alberto Rangel.]

No cover image available
Creator:
Landseer, Charles, 1799 or 1800–1879
Date:
1972]
Physical Description:
162 p. (chiefly col. illus. part fold.) 40 x 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Narrative of a journey to the falls of the Cavery : with an historical and descriptive account of the Neilgherry hills / by Lieutenant H. Jervis.

No cover image available
Creator:
Jervis, H. (Humphrey)
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
x, 144, [16] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Prospectus of a work now ready for the press, which under the title of Hibernia, proposes to treat, in an ample manner, of the ecclesiastical, topographical, and monastic antiquities of Ireland : by W. Monck Mason, Esq.

No cover image available
Creator:
Nichols, firm, printers (London, England)
Date:
[ca. 1818?]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. In the course of the present month, will be published Part I. of Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions by Edmund Lodge, ESQ. Lancaster Herald, F.S.A. author of the biographical tracts attached to the "Holbein Heads."

No cover image available
Creator:
Lackington, Allen and Co
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Schottland in Bildern / nach der Natur gezeichnet von T. Allom und W.H. Bartlett ; und mit beschreibendem Text von Wilhelm Beattie ... ; aus dem Englischen uebersetzt von Johann von Horn.

No cover image available
Creator:
Beattie, William, 1793–1875
Date:
[1838]
Physical Description:
[2] v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. In the course of the ensuing winter will be published, a reprint of the Morte d'Arthur.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
[1816?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Westminster Abbey : in the summer of 1816 will be published part the first of the History and antiquities of the Abbey Church of St Peter's : the whole to be illustrated by fifty engravings by J.P. Neale : with ample biographical notices by J. Norris Brewer.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
January, 1816
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. This day is published, The morbid anatomy of the liver : being an inquiry into the anatomical character, symptoms, and treatment of certain diseases which impair or destroy the structure of that viscus : order 1, tumours, part I, on the Tubera Circumscripta and Tubera Diffusa : in imperial quarto, illustrated by coloured engravings, price 15s. : by J.R. Farre, M.D.

No cover image available
Date:
[1812]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Prospectus. The history of Little Johnny, the foundling of the late Doctor Syntax : a poem in eight monthly numbers.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
[1821?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Preparing for publication : The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London : extracted out of original charters, records, lieger books and other manuscripts / by Sir William Dugdale ...; with additions and a continuation by Henry Ellis ...

No cover image available
Date:
1813 [i.e. 1814]
Physical Description:
3 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Prospectus and specimen of an history of marine architecture : drawn from the best authorities, and chronologically deduced from the earliest period to the present time ; illustrated by upwards of one hundred plates : exhibiting at least a thousand figures : accurately engraved by the most eminent artists : in three volumes Royal Quarto / by John Charnock, Esq.

No cover image available
Creator:
Charnock, John, 1756–1807
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
[2], 20, 2 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Twelve views in Corsica / drawn, etched, and published by W. Cowen ; dedicated, by permision, to Earl Fitzwilliam.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cowen, William, 1797–1860
Date:
MDCCCXLIII [1843]
Physical Description:
[2] p., [12] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Prospectus of an entire new and splendid publication, price 7s. 6d. each part, The virtuoso, or, Monthly preceptor of drawing : forming an elegant compendium of art, science, and amusement, on a new and attractive plan, calculated to instruct the mind, improve the talents, and gratify the taste.

No cover image available
Date:
[1814?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Michael Angelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel : ... facsimiles of original drawings, from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, made at the time of the paintings, and before the execution of the Last Judgment / ... engraved and published by J. Linnell.

No cover image available
Creator:
Linnell, John, 1792–1882
Date:
[1833-1835]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [42] leaves of plates : all illustrations ; 30 x 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Prospectus for Drawings, by Michael Craig-Martin.

No cover image available
Creator:
Craig–Martin, Michael, Sir, born 1941
Date:
[2015?]
Physical Description:
10 cards : chiefly illustrations ; cardboard sleeve 16 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Specimens of James Nisbet & Company's illustrated books.

No cover image available
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
[4] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Prospectus of A general history of the county of York. By Thomas Dunham Whitaker ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman (Firm)
Date:
1816]
Physical Description:
4 p. ; 43 cm. (in case 49 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Prospectus for publishing by subscription, Laporte's progressive lessons in landscape, from nature, in imitation of pencil, from the original drawings : to be contained in six numbers, price to subscribers nine shillings each.

No cover image available
Creator:
Griffiths, Thomas (Publisher)
Date:
February, 1815
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Proposals for publishing by subscription, twelve engravings of a series of views, of interesting scenes and achievements of the British Army in Spain and Portugal : under the command of His Excellency Lieutenant General the Marquis of Wellington, &c. &c. &c. : from original drawings made on the spot, by Major St. Clair, 21st Portuguese Infantry, and Captain Royal Scotts ; engraved by C. Turner ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1811?]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. On the 1st of February, 1814, was published, no. I, price two shillings, of The new monthly magazine.

No cover image available
Date:
[1814]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([4] pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Portraits of celebrated painters.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Course of lectures delivered at the Surry institution--advt.

No cover image available
Creator:
Landseer, John, 1769–1852
Date:
1815
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts