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

1. 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

2. 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

3. "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

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. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. [Domestic animals from the most esteemed Masters].

Creator:: Cooke, George, 1781–1834
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 20 prints in 1 volume : etchings ; volume 29 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. Sketching landscape scenery, part 2nd.

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: not before 1825
Physical Description:: 1 volume (24 leaves) ; 29 x 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. Trees and their uses.

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

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. Vere Foster's drawing copy book.

Creator:: Foster, Vere, 1819–1900
Date:: [1870]
Physical Description:: pt. : chiefly ill. ; 18 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. 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

36. 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

37. The royal juvenile drawing book.

Date:: [ca. 1840?]
Physical Description:: pt. : all ill. ; 11 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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

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. 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

47. 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

48. 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

49. 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

50. 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

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2. 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.

3. "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. The youths drawing book complete.

6. 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.

9. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

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

11. Rural scenery : coloured / by Calvert.

12. [Domestic animals from the most esteemed Masters].

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

15. 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.

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

17. William Hermes album drawing copies : figures.

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

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

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

22. Sketching landscape scenery, part 2nd.

23. Etchings on copper.

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

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

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

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

28. Ackermann's drawing-book of trees.

29. 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.

30. Trees and their uses.

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

32. Second book of drawing / by John Clark.

34. Vere Foster's drawing copy book.

35. 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.

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

37. The royal juvenile drawing book.

39. Rustic sketches / by W. Heath.

40. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

47. 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)

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

50. 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.