Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / 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. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. Trees and their uses.

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

32. 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

33. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

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

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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

45. 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

46. 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

47. 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

48. 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

49. 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

50. 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

51. 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

52. 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

53. 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

54. 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

55. 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

56. 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

57. 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

58. Drawing book / by E. Purcell.

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

59. 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

60. 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

61. 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

62. 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

63. 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

64. 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

65. 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

66. 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

67. 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

68. 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

69. 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

70. 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

71. Flower painting in water colours / by F. Edward Hulme ...

Creator:: Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841–1909
Date:: [1884]
Physical Description:: 15, [4] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. First drawing book.

Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: 11 pages, XLVIII leaves of plates ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Child's advanced drawing book.

Creator:: Childs, George
Date:: ca. 1840]
Physical Description:: 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. 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

75. 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

76. The natural principles and analogy of the harmony of form / by D. R. Hay ; decorative painter to the Queen, Edinburgh; Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institue of the Architects of Ireland, and author of "The Laws of harmonious colouring," etc.

Creator:: Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798–1866
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: 50 p., XVIII leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Flower painting in water colours / by F. Edward Hulme.

Creator:: Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841–1909
Date:: [1883?]
Physical Description:: 19, 8 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. 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

79. Black-board drawing / by M. Swannell.

Creator:: Swannell, M. (Mildred)
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 25, [1] p., XXVII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Hullmandel's Lithographic drawing book for the year 1832 / by J.D. Harding ...

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: [1832]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 19 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. A new drawing book of views.

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

82. The national drawing master : on a new principle greatly facilitating self-instruction in landscape and figure drawing ... / by W.A. Nicholls.

Creator:: Nicholls, W. A
Date:: [1858]
Physical Description:: viii, xxxvi, 118 p., [56] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. The illustrated London architectural, engineering, & mechanical drawing-book : for the use of schools, students, and artisans / by Robert Scott Burn, M.E., M.S.A. editor of the "Illuminated London drawing-book," "Mechanics and mechanism," "Practical geometry," etc.

Creator:: Burn, Robert Scott
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: [5], 10-151, [1] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The school of design drawing book : a collection of authentic drawings of different periods and styles of ornaments as applied to decorative art, forming a series of most interesting & instructive studies in freehand drawing, copies from the best models to be found in the various museums and art galleries of the continent / by M.J. Fitschen ; in four books, each containing six studies, price sixpence each book ; also printed on cards suitable for drawing classes, in packets of six in wrapper, price ninepence each packet.

Creator:: Fitschen, M. J
Date:: [1882]
Physical Description:: 4 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. 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

86. 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

87. Young ladies' drawing book, or, complete instructor in drawing and colouring flowers, fruits & shells; with directions for purchasing and using all the materials connected with that fine art.

Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: [1], 24 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Elementary studies of river craft and shipping / by A. Montague.

Creator:: Montague, Alfred, d. 1883
Date:: [1835]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. A manual for teaching model-drawing from solid forms, : the models founded on those of M. Dupuis; combined with a popular view of perspective, and adapted to the elementary instruction of classes in schools and public institutions. / by Butler Williams ... ; under the sanction of the Committee of Council on Education.

Creator:: Williams, J. Butler (James Butler), Sir
Date:: M.DCCC.XLIII. [1843]
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 257, [1], 16 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: 24 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. A manual on flower painting in oil colours from nature : with instructions for preliminary practice : also a section on flower painting in water colours, etc. : three illustrations / by W.J. Buckley.

Creator:: Muckley, William J
Date:: 1885
Physical Description:: 60 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Landscape drawing-book / by J. Syer ; complete in six numbers.

Creator:: Syer, John, 1815–1885
Date:: [between 1833 and 1854]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Rudiments of landscapes / by George Harley.

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 4 v. : all ill. ; 18 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book in colours : comprising a series of progressive lessons, in the art of drawing and colouring landscapes, marine views, picturesque architecture, animals, fruit, flowers, shells, rustic figures, etc., etc. : with practical direction in the art of painting miniatures and portraits from life / by N. Whittock.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: [between 1833 and 1840?]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. The students' guide, or, Elements of drawing and perspective : with directions for sketching and colouring from nature / by H.M. Whichelo, professor of drawing and painting at the Clapham, Stockwell, and Stepney grammar schools.

Creator:: Whichelo, H. M. (Henry Mayle), 1800–1884
Date:: [1841]
Physical Description:: 13, [1] p., XIV leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. 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

97. 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

98. Etudes de paysages / par Lang.

Creator:: Lang, Jochen R
Date:: [ca. 1860]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. 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

100. Progressive drawing-book of flowers, for beginners. / By James Andrews ... Drawn on stone by John Collins, and coloured after nature.

Creator:: Andrews, James, 1806–1876
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: 2 leaves, [24] leaves of plates (some colored) : ill. ; 15 x 22 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. Progressive sketches for the lead pencil / by G.F. Bragg.

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. Ackermann's drawing-book of trees.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

25. 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.

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

27. 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.

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

30. 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.

31. Trees and their uses.

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

33. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

34. Etchings on copper.

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

37. 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.

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

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

41. Rural scenery : coloured / by Calvert.

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

43. Second book of drawing / by John Clark.

44. Rustic sketches / by W. Heath.

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

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

47. 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.

48. The young artists instructor.

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

50. 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.

52. 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.

53. William Hermes album drawing copies : figures.

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

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

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

58. Drawing book / by E. Purcell.

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

60. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

71. Flower painting in water colours / by F. Edward Hulme ...

72. First drawing book.

73. Child's advanced drawing book.

74. British scenery / by Calvert ...

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

76. The natural principles and analogy of the harmony of form / by D. R. Hay ; decorative painter to the Queen, Edinburgh; Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institue of the Architects of Ireland, and author of "The Laws of harmonious colouring," etc.

77. Flower painting in water colours / by F. Edward Hulme.

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

79. Black-board drawing / by M. Swannell.

80. Hullmandel's Lithographic drawing book for the year 1832 / by J.D. Harding ...

81. A new drawing book of views.

82. The national drawing master : on a new principle greatly facilitating self-instruction in landscape and figure drawing ... / by W.A. Nicholls.

83. The illustrated London architectural, engineering, & mechanical drawing-book : for the use of schools, students, and artisans / by Robert Scott Burn, M.E., M.S.A. editor of the "Illuminated London drawing-book," "Mechanics and mechanism," "Practical geometry," etc.

85. Dickinson's Advanced drawing book, 1828.