Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Subject Terms: Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. / Classification: Books

101. Strange's pocket scrap book for young ladies and gentlemen : containing views of all the public places of amusement, watering places, etc. etc. : part IV.

Date:: [between 1841 and 1849]
Physical Description:: pt. : chiefly ill. ; 11 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. Oriental tooth paste : an unrivalled preparation for cleansing, beautifying & preserving the teeth & gums.

Creator:: J. & E. Atkinson's Perfumery
Date:: [188-?]
Physical Description:: [1] sheet : ill. ; 9 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

103. The stocking-knitter's manual : a handy book for the work-table / by Mrs. George Cupples.

Creator:: Cupples, George, Mrs., 1839–1898
Date:: [1872]
Physical Description:: 32 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

104. Royal cabinet album of Isle of Wight.

Date:: [1870]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([24] p.): chiefly ill. ; 15 x 130 cm, folded to 15 x 11 cm, in covers 15 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

105. Souvenir of the North.

Date:: 1855?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([40] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 14 x 400 cm., folded to 14 x 10 cm., attached to boards 15 x 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. Rock's Royal Bristol & Clifton cabinet album.

Date:: [between 1884 and 1896]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([12] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 162 cm, folded to 19 x 14 cm, attached to boards 20 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

107. The book of sports, games, and athletic exercises / by William Martin, author of The Parlour Book, &c. &c. &c.

Creator:: Martin, William, 1801–1867
Date:: [between 1837 and 1845]
Physical Description:: [4], 268 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

109. Diorama, Regent's Park : two views: Ruins of Holyrood Chapel, A Moonlight Scene, Painted by M. Daguerre, Knight of the Legion of Honor : and the Cathedral of Chartres, painted by M. Bouton.

Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (8, [4] p.) ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

110. The ladies' knitting and netting book : second series / by Miss Watts.

Creator:: Watts, Miss
Date:: [approximately 1840]
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 129, [3] pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

111. Hints on the formation of gardens and pleasure grounds : with designs, in various styles of rural embellishment : comprising plans for laying out flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, and the arrangement of glass-houses, hot walls, and stoves : interspersed with remarks on various subjects of horticultural improvement : to which is added, a priced catalogue of fruit and forest trees, shrubs, and plants : adapted to villa grounds, from one perch to a hundred acres in extent.

Creator:: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783–1843
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 70, [2] p., 20 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

113. A practical essay on flower painting in water colours / by Edward Pretty.

Creator:: Pretty, Edward, 1792–1865
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 28 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

114. The new guide to knitting & crochet / by Marie Jane Cooper.

Creator:: Cooper, Marie Jane
Date:: [1847]
Physical Description:: [4], 68 pages : illustrations ; 11 x 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

115. Lessons of thrift : published for general benefit / by a member of the Save-all Club.

Creator:: Member of the Save-all Club
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, 240 [i.e. 196], [2] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. The history of the flea : with notes and observations / by L. Bertolotto.

Creator:: Bertolotto, L
Date:: [1835]
Physical Description:: 28 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. Sketches in outline / drawn and engraved by Henry Moses.

Creator:: Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870
Date:: 1808]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 21 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

118. Nicotiana, or, The smoker's and snuff-taker's companion : containing the history of tobacco, culture, medical qualities and the laws relative to its importation and manufacture : with an essay in its defence : the whole elegantly embellished and interspersed with original poetry and anecdotes, being intended as an amusing and instructive volume for all genuine lovers of the herb / by Henry James Meller ...

Creator:: Meller, Henry James
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: viii, 128, 36 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

119. Extraordinary exhibition! : under the patronage of her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, the nobility, gentry, &c. &c. : 209, Regent Street, the industrious fleas : performing most astonishing feats : the whole different from last season.

Date:: 1833?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1]) p.) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

120. Geoffrey Gambado's surprising feats in horsemanship : exemplified in a series of very laughable caricatures.

Creator:: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : all color illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

121. Nimrod's hunting tours : interspersed with characteristic anecdotes, sayings and doings of sporting men : including notices of the principal crack riders of England, with analytical contents and general index of names.

Creator:: Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:: 1926
Physical Description:: xx, [2], 294 pages, [23] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

122. Cambridge customs and costumes : containing upwards of one hundred and fifty vignettes / by the author of "Familiar illustrations of the language of mathematics."

Creator:: Roget, John Lewis, 1828–1908
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: [2] p., 9 leaves : ill. ; 27 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

123. An historical and descriptive account of Brimham Rocks in the West Riding of Yorkshire : intended as a guide to visitors.

Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 24 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. The mirror of the graces, or, The English lady's costume : combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity, and economy with fashion in dress : and adapting the various articles of female embellishments to different ages, form, and complexions : to the seasons of the year, rank, and situation in life : with useful advice on female accomplishments, politeness, and manners : the cultivation of the mind and the disposition and carriage of the body : offering also the most efficacious means of preserving beauty, health, and loveliness : the whole according with the general principles of nature and rules of propriety / by a Lady of distinction ; who has witnessed and attentively studied what is esteemed truly graceful and elegant amongst the most refined nations of Europe.

Creator:: Lady of distinction, active 19th century
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: vii, [2] p., pp. 12-17, [2] p., pp. x-xxiii [i.e. xiii], [2] p., 10-241, [7] p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. Bacchus and the tee-totallers / by Rumfusticus Bibulus, Esq., president of the Anti-temperance society.

Creator:: Bibulus, Rumfusticus
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: 19, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

126. Country vignettes : descriptive passages selected from the writings of Richard Jefferies : with seven engravings by Anthony Christmas.

Creator:: Jefferies, Richard, 1848–1887
Date:: 1991
Physical Description:: [30] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

127. The comic album : a book for every table.

Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: [140] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

128. The young artist.

Date:: [1865?]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

129. A practical guide for the tailor's cutting-room : being a treatise on measuring and cutting clothing in all styles, and for every period of life from childhood to old age / by Joseph Couts ; with numerous diagrams and pictorial illustrations.

Creator:: Couts, Joseph
Date:: [1848]
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 166 p., xxvii, 17 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. The drawing-room dances / by Cellarius.

Creator:: Cellarius, Henri
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: xii, 149, [1] p., viii leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

131. Flower and fruit decoration : with some remarks on the treatment of town gardens, terraces, &c., and with many illustrations of colour and contrast applicable to both subjects / by T.C. March.

Creator:: March, T. C
Date:: 1862
Physical Description:: vii, 112, 16 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. Notes and sketches of the Paris exhibition / by George Augustus Sala, author of "My diary in America in the midst of war," etc.

Creator:: Sala, George Augustus, 1828–1895
Date:: 1868
Physical Description:: 396 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. 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

134. Memoranda of Leamington Priors and its neighbourhood; with views of the principal objects in that fashionable spa ...

Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 3 p. l., [5]-28 p. : all ill. ; plates. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

135. Roses and holly, and Pen and pencil pictures from the poets / profusely illustrated by Gourlay Steell, R.S.A., R. Herdman, R.S.A., Clark Stanton, A.R.S.A., Samuel Bough, A.R.S.A., John M'Whirter, A.R.S.A., John Lawson, and other eminent artists ; engraved by R. Paterson.

Date:: [1881?]
Physical Description:: xii, 148, viii, 152 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

136. A treatise on deportment, fencing, etc. : including the science of horsemanship; being a complete manual of instruction for the use of young persons, in the acquirement of those accomplishments; as well as a self-monitor in the exercise and duties of a cavalry soldier, for the use of gentlemen who are members of yeomanry corps : comprising likewise, instructions for the lance and carbine exercises. Also, the description of a military game resembling the game of chess, calculated to initiate young gentlemen who are designed for the army, in the science of tactics or military manœuvres. With copperplate engravings, illustrative of the various subjects described in the work / by Samuel Gribble, Regimental Serjeant-Major of the Corps of Sherwood Rangers.

Creator:: Gribble, Samuel
Date:: [1829]
Physical Description:: viii, [1], 14-147, [3] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

137. Routledges's every girl's annual / edited by Alicia A. Leith ; illustrated.

Date:: [1880]
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 524 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., music ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. [Batch of cakes]

Date:: 1818?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

139. The fern garden, how to make, keep, and enjoy it, or, Fern culture made easy / by Shirley Hibberd ; illustrated with eight coloured plates and forty wood engravings.

Creator:: Hibberd, Shirley, 1825–1890
Date:: 1869
Physical Description:: vi, 148, [6] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. Diorama, Regent's Park : description of the two pictures now exhibiting, viz. the Basilica of St. Paul, near Rome, and the village of Alagna, in Piedmont, painted by le chevalier Bouton.

Date:: [1837?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (3, [1] p.) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. Cheerful pastimes for merry-making parties : descriptive of the various domestic amusements resorted to in youthful and genteel society, tending to occupy the mind, and while away the winter evenings in hilarity / illustrated by Cruikshank.

Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: xxi, 185 p., 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

142. The poets of the nineteenth century / selected and edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, incumbent of Bearwood ; with English and American additions, arranged by Evert A. Duyckinck, editor of the Cyclopedia of American literature ; illustrated with one hundred and thirty-two engravings, drawn by eminent artists.

Creator:: Willmott, Robert Aris, 1809–1863
Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: xvi, 616 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

143. 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

144. London and its environs : including excursions to Brighton, the Isle of Wight, etc. : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker.

Creator:: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Date:: 1878
Physical Description:: x, 366 p., [5] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., maps ; 17 cm.+ [1] folded map (73 x 94 cm, folded to 15 x 10 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

145. 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

146. Reminiscences of a yachting cruise. / by Mrs. N.M. Condy ; illustrated by four lithographic drawing by T.G. Dutton, Esq., from sketches by the late N.M. Condy, Esq. ; with a portrait of that gentleman, from a painting by his father.

Creator:: Condy, Flora Ross
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: viii, 47, [1] p, [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. Marriage a-la-mode.

Creator:: Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (10 p.) : ill. ; 15 x 150 cm., folded to 15 x 15 cm., attached to boards 16 x 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. Conversations on botany : with plates.

Creator:: Fitton, Sarah Mary
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: xix, [1], 278 p., 21 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. [Calling card for Colonel Lowther : 31, Bruton Street].

Date:: [publisher not identified],
Physical Description:: 1 card ; 4 x 7 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. The practical paper fruit maker : a new and original kindergarten occupation for girls and infants / by Veronica Vassey, author of "The practical paper flower maker."

Creator:: Vassey, Veronica
Date:: [approximately 1900]
Physical Description:: xi, [2], 14-52, [12] pages, [8] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting.

Creator:: Collier, Jane, 1715?-1755
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: [8], 160 p., [5] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. Rock's Royal Leeds Cabinet Album.

Date:: [between 1884 and 1896]
Physical Description:: 10 pictures on 1 folded sheet : photolithographs ; 16 x 133 cm, accordion folded to 16 x 11 cm, in boards 17 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judy Sirota Rosenthal and Philip B. Rosenthal, Yale BA 1967, MA 1970, PhD 1974

153. The Tom & Jerry flash dictionary.

Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 69, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. Tatting, or, Frivolité / by Mrs. Mee and Miss Austin, 71, Brook Steet, Grosvenor Square, London (late of Bath).

Creator:: Mee, Cornelia, 1815–1875
Date:: [1862]
Physical Description:: viii, [1], 10-21, [3] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 10 x 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. Snapshots of St. Albans.

Date:: 187-?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([8] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 15 x 48 cm, folded to 15 x 12 cm, attached to wrappers 17 x 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. The ladies' knitting and netting book : first series / by Miss Watts.

Creator:: Watts, Miss
Date:: [approximately 1840]
Physical Description:: xiii, [1], 136, [2] pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. Characters in the grand fancy ball given by the British ambassador Sir Henry Wellesley, at Vienna, at the conclusion of the carnival 1826 : in thirteen highly coloured plates : with a description of the entertainment of that occasion.

Date:: MDCCCXXVII [1828]
Physical Description:: 16 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. 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

159. Hunting in the golden days / by Hubert Garle ; illustrated by Finch Mason.

Creator:: Garle, Hubert
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: 100, [6] pages, [8] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. Practical hints on church floral decorations / by a lady ; with an introduction by the Revd. W. Gresley.

Creator:: Lady, A
Date:: [1869]
Physical Description:: xiv, 62 p., [2], 21 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. The surprise art album : a new book containing over one hundred amusing and interesting picture puns / by W.H. Soulby.

Creator:: Soulby, W. H
Date:: [1900]
Physical Description:: [26] p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. 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

163. Spooner's Changing drolleries : no. 2 : choosing a husband : mercy on us what a set of frights! Ah, there's a decent looking portrait at last I declare!

Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : col. ill. ; 30 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. Souvenir album of Silloth : 28 views.

Date:: [188-?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet : chiefly ill. ; 16 x 135 cm, folded to 16 x 11 cm, in covers 16 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

165. Specimens of riding near London / drawn from life by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [3] pt. : all ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

166. A visit to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham.

Creator:: Bishop, James
Date:: [between 1854 and 1856]
Physical Description:: 15, [1] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [42] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. A series of sketches from nature of plant form / by F. Edward Hulme.

Creator:: Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841–1909
Date:: 1868
Physical Description:: [2], 54 p., [100] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. [Sketches of fairy land, or, A comparison between England & Lilliput].

Creator:: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760–1809
Date:: 1810]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. A treatise on adulterations of food, and culinary poisons : exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spiritous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles, and other articles employed in domestic economy, and methods of detecting them / by Fredrick Accum, operative chemist, lecturer on practical chemistry, mineralogy, and on chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures; member of the Royal Irish Academy; Fellow of the Linnean Society; member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Arts of Berlin, &c, &c.

Creator:: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, 372 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. 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

172. The lady's economical assistant, or, The art of cutting out, and making the most useful articles of wearing apparel, without waste : explained by the clearest directions, and numerous engravings, of appropriate and tasteful patterns : designed for domestic use / by a Lady ; designed for domestic use.

Creator:: Lady
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 55, [9] p., XXVII folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. Peep at Brighton / by Alfred Crowquill ; lithographed by Mr. Chas. J. Basebe ; in six scenes.

Creator:: Crowquill, Alfred
Date:: June 29th, 1848
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

174. Humorous designs / by M.E.

Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. Poikilographia, or, Various specimens of ornamental penmanship : comprising twenty two different alphabets.

Creator:: Jones, William, writing master
Date:: [1830?]
Physical Description:: [23] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

176. Coaching days of England : containing an account of whatever was most remarkable for grandeur, elegance and curiosity in the time of the coaches of England, comprehending the year 1750 until 1850 : together with an historical commentary by Anthony Burgess, and in addition decorated and illustrated with a great number of drawings, prints, and views in perspective gathered on purpose for this work.

Date:: 1966
Physical Description:: [2], 96 p., 25 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), ports., maps, facsims. ; 39 x 53 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

177. The passions, humourously delineated / by Timothy Bobbin, Esq. author of the Lancashire Dialect : containing twenty-five plates, with his portrait, title plate, and poetical descriptions.

Creator:: Bobbin, Tim, 1708–1786
Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: [34] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

178. A day at the Derby.

Date:: ca. 1835?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([9] panels) : ill. ; 10 x 130 cm., folded to 10 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. Pierce Egan's book of sports, and mirror of life : embracing the turf, the chase, the ring, and the stage / interspersed with original memoirs of sporting men, etc.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: iv, 414 pages : illustrations. ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. The school perspective : being a progressive course of instruction in Linear Perspective, both theoretical and practical : specially designed for the use of schools / by J.R. Dicksee, principal drawing master to the city of London School, to The Normal College for training teachers of the British and Foreign School Society, &c. ; illustrated with many woodcuts and forty engraved plates.

Creator:: Dicksee, J. R. (John Robert), 1817–1905
Date:: [1862]
Physical Description:: xiv, 79, [1] p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. A narrative of the Grand Festival at Yarmouth on Tuesday, the 19th of April, 1814 : with an appendix containing copies of all the handbills which were published on the occasions : a list of the xubscribers : and an account of the expenditure.

Creator:: Cory, Robert
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 72 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. 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

183. An account of the grand musical festival, held in September, 1823, in the cathedral church of York : for the benefit of the York County Hospital, and the general infirmaries at Leeds, Hull, and Sheffield : to which is prefixed, a sketch of the rise and progress of musical festivals in Great Britain : with biographical and historical notes / by John Crosse, F.S.A., F.R.S.L., M.G.S. ...

Creator:: Crosse, John, 1786–1833
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 436, xxvi, [2] p., [5] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. Hunting / by his grace the Duke of Beaufort, and Mowbray Morris ; with contributions by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, E.W.L. Davies, Digby Collins, and Alfred E.T. Watson ; with illustrations by J. Sturgess and J. Charlton.

Creator:: Beaufort, Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, Duke of, 1824–1899
Date:: 1885
Physical Description:: xiv, 401 p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. 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

186. The Windsor double check washing-book for ladies.

Date:: [1880?]
Physical Description:: [26] leaves ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

187. Ferny combes : a ramble after ferns in the glens and valleys of Devonshire / by Charlotte Chanter.

Creator:: Chanter, Charlotte, 1828–1882
Date:: 1856
Physical Description:: 118 p., VIII, [1] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

188. Etiquette illustrated, or, Hints on how to conduct oneself in the best society / by X.M C. [pseudonym for Thomas Onwhyn].

Creator:: Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886
Date:: [1849]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([23] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 13 x 299 cm, folded to 13 x 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

189. The instructive reading society.

Creator:: Instructive Reading Society (Surrey, England)
Date:: [approximately 1890]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

190. Golden thoughts from golden fountains : selected and arranged in fifty-two divisions / by the author of "The spirit of praise" ; illustrations by eminent artists, engraved by the brothers Dalziel.

Date:: [1868]
Physical Description:: xvi, [2], 290, [2] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

191. Domestic, literary, and village sketches : addressed to the young of our neighbourhood : in the vale of ***.

Date:: [1823]
Physical Description:: [6], 80, 30, [10] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

192. Domestic miseries.

Creator:: Heath, Henry, active 1824–1850
Date:: [1848]
Physical Description:: [2] v. : ill. ; 20 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

193. Paris lions and London tigers / by Harriette Wilson ; illustrated with twelve colored plates.

Creator:: Wilson, Harriette, 1786–1846
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 231, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

194. 1851, or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family, who came up to London to "enjoy themselves," and to see the Great Exhibition / by Henry Mayhew, and George Cruikshank.

Creator:: Mayhew, Henry, 1812–1887
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: [4], 242 (i.e. 240) p., [10] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

195. Rowlandson's characteristic sketches of the lower orders : intended as a companion to the New picture of London : consisting of fifty-four plates neatly coloured.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: iv p., [54] leaves of plates, [8] p. : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

196. The home knitter : a manual for making useful articles for the family / by a lady.

Creator:: Lady
Date:: [1876]
Physical Description:: 32 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

197. The floral gift : an illuminated souvenir / by Samuel Stanesby.

Creator:: Stanesby, Samuel
Date:: [1863]
Physical Description:: [4], 28 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

198. Recollections of Bala and neighbourhood.

Date:: [184-?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([24] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 167 cm, folded to 19 x 14 cm, in covers 19 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

199. The art of dress, or, Guide to the toilette : with directions for adapting the various parts of the female costume to the complexion and figure, hints on cosmetics, &c. / embellished with engravings from designs by Frank Howard, Esq.

Date:: MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:: x, 68, [2] p., VI leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

200. The race course and the road to it.

Creator:: Nash, J. F., b. 1836 or 7
Date:: [between 1868 and 1885]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : ill. ; 28 x 90 cm., folded to 15 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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101. Strange's pocket scrap book for young ladies and gentlemen : containing views of all the public places of amusement, watering places, etc. etc. : part IV.

102. Oriental tooth paste : an unrivalled preparation for cleansing, beautifying & preserving the teeth & gums.

103. The stocking-knitter's manual : a handy book for the work-table / by Mrs. George Cupples.

104. Royal cabinet album of Isle of Wight.

105. Souvenir of the North.

106. Rock's Royal Bristol & Clifton cabinet album.

107. The book of sports, games, and athletic exercises / by William Martin, author of The Parlour Book, &c. &c. &c.

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

109. Diorama, Regent's Park : two views: Ruins of Holyrood Chapel, A Moonlight Scene, Painted by M. Daguerre, Knight of the Legion of Honor : and the Cathedral of Chartres, painted by M. Bouton.

110. The ladies' knitting and netting book : second series / by Miss Watts.

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

113. A practical essay on flower painting in water colours / by Edward Pretty.

114. The new guide to knitting & crochet / by Marie Jane Cooper.

115. Lessons of thrift : published for general benefit / by a member of the Save-all Club.

116. The history of the flea : with notes and observations / by L. Bertolotto.

117. Sketches in outline / drawn and engraved by Henry Moses.

119. Extraordinary exhibition! : under the patronage of her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, the nobility, gentry, &c. &c. : 209, Regent Street, the industrious fleas : performing most astonishing feats : the whole different from last season.

120. Geoffrey Gambado's surprising feats in horsemanship : exemplified in a series of very laughable caricatures.

121. Nimrod's hunting tours : interspersed with characteristic anecdotes, sayings and doings of sporting men : including notices of the principal crack riders of England, with analytical contents and general index of names.

122. Cambridge customs and costumes : containing upwards of one hundred and fifty vignettes / by the author of "Familiar illustrations of the language of mathematics."

123. An historical and descriptive account of Brimham Rocks in the West Riding of Yorkshire : intended as a guide to visitors.

125. Bacchus and the tee-totallers / by Rumfusticus Bibulus, Esq., president of the Anti-temperance society.

126. Country vignettes : descriptive passages selected from the writings of Richard Jefferies : with seven engravings by Anthony Christmas.

127. The comic album : a book for every table.

128. The young artist.

129. A practical guide for the tailor's cutting-room : being a treatise on measuring and cutting clothing in all styles, and for every period of life from childhood to old age / by Joseph Couts ; with numerous diagrams and pictorial illustrations.

130. The drawing-room dances / by Cellarius.

131. Flower and fruit decoration : with some remarks on the treatment of town gardens, terraces, &c., and with many illustrations of colour and contrast applicable to both subjects / by T.C. March.

132. Notes and sketches of the Paris exhibition / by George Augustus Sala, author of "My diary in America in the midst of war," etc.

133. 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.

134. Memoranda of Leamington Priors and its neighbourhood; with views of the principal objects in that fashionable spa ...

135. Roses and holly, and Pen and pencil pictures from the poets / profusely illustrated by Gourlay Steell, R.S.A., R. Herdman, R.S.A., Clark Stanton, A.R.S.A., Samuel Bough, A.R.S.A., John M'Whirter, A.R.S.A., John Lawson, and other eminent artists ; engraved by R. Paterson.

137. Routledges's every girl's annual / edited by Alicia A. Leith ; illustrated.

138. [Batch of cakes]

139. The fern garden, how to make, keep, and enjoy it, or, Fern culture made easy / by Shirley Hibberd ; illustrated with eight coloured plates and forty wood engravings.

140. Diorama, Regent's Park : description of the two pictures now exhibiting, viz. the Basilica of St. Paul, near Rome, and the village of Alagna, in Piedmont, painted by le chevalier Bouton.

141. Cheerful pastimes for merry-making parties : descriptive of the various domestic amusements resorted to in youthful and genteel society, tending to occupy the mind, and while away the winter evenings in hilarity / illustrated by Cruikshank.

143. 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.

144. London and its environs : including excursions to Brighton, the Isle of Wight, etc. : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker.

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

146. Reminiscences of a yachting cruise. / by Mrs. N.M. Condy ; illustrated by four lithographic drawing by T.G. Dutton, Esq., from sketches by the late N.M. Condy, Esq. ; with a portrait of that gentleman, from a painting by his father.

147. Marriage a-la-mode.

148. Conversations on botany : with plates.

149. [Calling card for Colonel Lowther : 31, Bruton Street].

150. The practical paper fruit maker : a new and original kindergarten occupation for girls and infants / by Veronica Vassey, author of "The practical paper flower maker."

151. An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting.

152. Rock's Royal Leeds Cabinet Album.

153. The Tom & Jerry flash dictionary.

154. Tatting, or, Frivolité / by Mrs. Mee and Miss Austin, 71, Brook Steet, Grosvenor Square, London (late of Bath).

155. Snapshots of St. Albans.

156. The ladies' knitting and netting book : first series / by Miss Watts.

157. Characters in the grand fancy ball given by the British ambassador Sir Henry Wellesley, at Vienna, at the conclusion of the carnival 1826 : in thirteen highly coloured plates : with a description of the entertainment of that occasion.

158. 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.

159. Hunting in the golden days / by Hubert Garle ; illustrated by Finch Mason.

160. Practical hints on church floral decorations / by a lady ; with an introduction by the Revd. W. Gresley.

161. The surprise art album : a new book containing over one hundred amusing and interesting picture puns / by W.H. Soulby.

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

163. Spooner's Changing drolleries : no. 2 : choosing a husband : mercy on us what a set of frights! Ah, there's a decent looking portrait at last I declare!

164. Souvenir album of Silloth : 28 views.

165. Specimens of riding near London / drawn from life by Henry Alken.

166. A visit to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham.

167. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

168. A series of sketches from nature of plant form / by F. Edward Hulme.

169. [Sketches of fairy land, or, A comparison between England & Lilliput].

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

173. Peep at Brighton / by Alfred Crowquill ; lithographed by Mr. Chas. J. Basebe ; in six scenes.

174. Humorous designs / by M.E.

175. Poikilographia, or, Various specimens of ornamental penmanship : comprising twenty two different alphabets.

177. The passions, humourously delineated / by Timothy Bobbin, Esq. author of the Lancashire Dialect : containing twenty-five plates, with his portrait, title plate, and poetical descriptions.

178. A day at the Derby.

179. Pierce Egan's book of sports, and mirror of life : embracing the turf, the chase, the ring, and the stage / interspersed with original memoirs of sporting men, etc.

181. A narrative of the Grand Festival at Yarmouth on Tuesday, the 19th of April, 1814 : with an appendix containing copies of all the handbills which were published on the occasions : a list of the xubscribers : and an account of the expenditure.

184. Hunting / by his grace the Duke of Beaufort, and Mowbray Morris ; with contributions by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, E.W.L. Davies, Digby Collins, and Alfred E.T. Watson ; with illustrations by J. Sturgess and J. Charlton.