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

201. Sketches of characters in common life / by Edmund Patten.

Creator:: Patten, Edmund
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: [4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

202. 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

203. 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

204. 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, member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours.

Creator:: Phillips, G. F. (Giles Firman), 1780–1867
Date:: [ca. 1840]
Physical Description:: 30, [2] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

205. The royal guide to wax flower modelling / by Mrs. Peachey, artiste to Her Majesty.

Creator:: Peachey, Emma
Date:: MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:: xvi, 72 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

206. Epochs of painted vases : an introduction to their study / by Hodder M. Westropp, Esq.

Creator:: Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), d. 1884
Date:: 1856
Physical Description:: [4], 24, [2] p., IX leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

207. 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

208. Glances at character.

Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: viii, 158 p., 8 [i.e. 7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

209. Sabbath recreations : a collection of sacred music from the works of Mozart, Haydn, Handel, &c. &c. / arranged for the piano-forte by J. Pridham ; with illustrations of the principal English cathedrals.

Creator:: Pridham, John
Date:: [ca. 1880?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., music ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

210. An historical description of the tower of London and its curiosities : giving an account 1. Of its foundation, gradual increase, and present state. 2. Of its government, customs, and privileges. 3. Of its antiquities, records, and curiosities. 4. Of the lions, and other wild beasts kept there. 5. Of the spoils of the Spanish Armada, with the history of the Spanish Invasion in 1588. 6. Of the small armory, in which are arms for 100,000 men. 7. Of the Royal Train of Artillery, comprehending a variety of cannon, mortars, &c. &c. 8. Of the horse armory; with a concise history of the Kings fitting there on horseback, in full armour, from William the Conqueror to George II. 9. Of the Jewel-Office, and the regalia used at coronations, with a full account of Colonel Blood's attempt to steal them. 10. Of the mint, and the manner of stamping money : written principally to direct the attention of strangers to what is most curious in this Repository, and to enable them afterwards to describe what they have seen.

Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: 60 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

211. 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

212. A descriptive guide to Guy's Cliff : with an authentic catalogue of the paintings.

Date:: MDCCCXLIV [1844]
Physical Description:: [2], 27, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

213. Greetings from Oxford.

Date:: [Oxford? :
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 9 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

214. 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

215. Book for a rainy day, or, Recollections of the events of the last sixty-six years / by John Thomas Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: 306 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

216. 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

217. 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

218. The poets of the nineteenth century / selected and edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, incumbent of Bearwood ; illustrated with one hundred engravings, drawn by eminent artists, and engraved by the brothers Dalziel

Creator:: Willmott, Robert Aris, 1809–1863
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 398, [2] p. ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Alicia Faxon in memory of Richard B. Faxon, Yale BA 1949

219. The new album of London.

Date:: [ca. 1882?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([12] p.) : all ill. ; 17 x 163 cm, folded to 17 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

220. New cyclopædia of botany and complete book of herbs : forms a history and description of all plants, British or foreign.

Creator:: Brook, Richard, fl. 1847
Date:: [1860?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

221. The album of Windsor views.

Date:: [1880?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([10] p.) : all ill. ; 21 x 150 cm, folded to 21 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

222. 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

223. 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

224. 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

225. 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

226. Collinso furioso, or, Matters "to tatters" / from drawings by M.E.

Date:: July. 1825
Physical Description:: [26] p., [1], 11, [1] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

227. Absurdities : in prose and verse / written and illustrated by A. Crowquill.

Creator:: Crowquill, Alfred
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: [2], x, [2], 132 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

228. 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

229. Sketches of pumps / handled by Robert Cruikshank with some temperate spouting by Alfred Crowquill ; illustrated in glyphography.

Creator:: Crowquill, Alfred
Date:: 1846
Physical Description:: [2], 16 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

230. Alfred Crowquill's guide to the watering places : with illustrations / by Alfred Crowquill.

Creator:: Crowquill, Alfred
Date:: [between 1830 and 1837]
Physical Description:: [2], 50, [10] p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

231. Rouge et noir : the academicians of 1823, or, The Greeks of the Palais Royal, and the clubs of St. James's : dedicated (sans permission) to His the Duke of , and Bishop of _, commander in ___, &c. &c. &c. / by Charles Persius, Esq. ; Garde Nationale de Paris, auteur des Réflexions sur l'homme, d'un Essai sur la folie, des observations sur les femmes du xix siècle, et d'un critique sur les Mémoires de Mrs. Dyott, one of the Graces of Grosvenor Square.

Creator:: Dunne, Charles
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 456, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

232. 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

233. The harmonist's preceptor, or, Treasury of mirth : being a new and extensive collection of modern and popular songs : in which will be found, distinctly arranged, English and Irish comic songs, Scotch songs, Yorkshire songs, Jews songs, love songs, and songs for the social board : with considerable additions, together with an entire new collection of toasts and sentiments, adapted to each song / written and selected by Mr. Bryant, of the Royal Cobourg theatre ; author of various dramatic pieces, poems, &c. &c.

Creator:: Bryant, Mr
Date:: [1822]
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 204 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

234. A treatise on the æropleustic art, or, Navigation in the air : by means of kites, or buoyant sails : with a description of the charvolant, or kite carriage : and containing numerous most amusing and interesting anecdotes connected with several extraordinary excursions both by sea and land : with characteristic illustrations, drawn on stone by Rose Gilbert ; from designs by David Cox, jun.

Creator:: Pocock, George
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 54 p., [7] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

235. Forfeitiana, or, An elegant budget of winter evening's recreation for young persons / written by a lady.

Creator:: Lady
Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: 34 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

236. 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

237. Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are / drawn by M.E. Esq.

Creator:: Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [23] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

238. Humorous designs / by M.E.

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

239. Olla Podrida / by M. Egerton, Esqre.

Creator:: Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: [2] p., [22] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

240. Life in London, or, The day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthia Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis / by Pierce Egan, author of Walks through Bath, Sporting anecdotes, Pictures of the Fancy, Boxiana, &c. ; dedicated to His Most Gracious Majesty King George the Fourth ; embellished with thirty-six scenes from real life, designed and etched by I. R. & G. Cruikshank ; and enriched also with numerous original designs on wood, by the same artists.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: xvi, 376, [10] p., [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

241. The life of an actor / by Pierce Egan, author of "Life in London," "Tom and Jerry," "A Musical Drama," etc. ; dedicated to Edmund Kean, Esq. ; the poetical descriptions by T. Greenwood ; embellished with twenty-seven characteristic scenes, etched by Theodore Lane ; enriched also with several original designs on wood, executed by Mr. Thompson.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: xvi, 272 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

242. The cutter : in five lectures upon the art and practice of cutting friends, acquaintances, and relations.

Creator:: Evans, Arthur Benoni, 1781–1854
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: [8],104 p., [6] leaves of plates ([5] folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

243. Sketches in London / by James Grant, the author of "Random recollections of the Lords and Commons," "The Great Metropolis," &c. &c. ; with twenty-four humorous illustrations, by "Phiz," and others.

Creator:: Grant, James, 1802–1879
Date:: [1837-1838]
Physical Description:: [12] pt. ([4], viii, 408 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

244. Hints on horsemanship, to a nephew and niece, or, Common sense and common errors in common riding / by an Officer of the Household Brigade of Cavalry.

Creator:: Greenwood, George, 1799–1875
Date:: MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:: [6], 105, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

245. Brooklands : a sporting biography / by Herbert Byng Hall, K.S.F. ... ; in two vols.

Creator:: Hall, H. Byng (Herbert Byng), 1805–1883
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

246. 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

247. 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

248. 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

249. A practical treatise on gas-light : exhibiting a summary description of the apparatus and machinery best calculated for illuminating streets, houses, and manufactories, with carburetted hydrogen, or coal-gas; with remarks on the utility, safety, and general nature of this new branch of civil economy / by Frederick Accum, operative chemist, lecturer on practical chemistry, on mineralogy, and on chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures; member of the Royal Irish Academy, Fellow of the Linnæn Society, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, &c. &c.

Creator:: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: [2], iii, [1], v, [1], 186 p., VII leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

250. Arliss's funny library, of wit, satire, and humour : containing, facetiae, under the heads of pasquinades, anecdotes, jeu d'esprits, witticisms : mornings at Bow Street, new punning songs, broad grins, maxims, irish bulls, conundrums, anagrams, enigmas, bon mots, whims, tid bits, curious epitaphs, brevities, yarns, miseries, long bows, puzzles, &c., &c., : embellished with forty-eight numerous wood engravings by the most eminent artists.

Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

251. The complete angler, or, The contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing / written by Isaac Walton ; and instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream by Charles Cotton ; with original memoirs and notes by Sir Harris Nicolas, K.C.M.G.

Creator:: Walton, Izaak, 1593–1683
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

252. The archer's guide : containing full instructions for the use of that ancient and noble instrument the bow; directions for the choice of arrows; and all information essential to the attainment of theoretical proficiency in the graceful, manly, and fashionable pastime of archery : accompanied by a sketch of the history of the long-bow, whether as a weapon of war or an instrument of amusement / by an old toxophilite ; illustrated with plates of the costume and paraphernalia, position in shooting, etc. by R. Cruikshank, Esq., member of the Brompton Club of Archers.

Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 23, [1], xi, [1], 178, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

253. Photographic pleasures : popularly portrayed with pen and pencil / by Cuthbert Bede, B.A., author of "Verdant Green," &c. &c. &c.

Creator:: Bede, Cuthbert, 1827–1889
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [9], 14-83, [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

254. 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

255. Golden thoughts from golden fountains : selected and arranged in fifty-two divisions / 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

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

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

257. Art embroidery : a treatise on the revived practice of decorative needlework / by M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister ; with nineteen plates printed in colours from designs by Thomas Crane.

Creator:: Lockwood, Mary S. (Mary Smith), 1831–1922
Date:: 1878
Physical Description:: 83 pages, XIX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

258. Fables in action : by means of moveable pictures, and dissected and coloured figures, with explanatory text.

Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [2], 18 p. : ill. ; 10 x 16 cm. + (1 col. ill. envelope and 24 col. ill. cut out figures.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

259. Fashion and folly : illustrated in a series of twenty-one humorous coloured engravings / by W. Heath.

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:: [1822]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

260. Domestic miseries.

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

261. Hints to the bearers of walking-sticks and umbrellas : illustrated by six engravings.

Creator:: Duncan, John Shute, 1769–1844
Date:: 1809
Physical Description:: 32 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

262. 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

263. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

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

264. The artists' painting book.

Date:: [ca. 1900]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves : all ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

265. The whole art of dress, or, The road to elegance and fashion, at the enormous saving of thirty per cent!!! : being a treatise upon that essential and much-cultivated requisite of the present day, gentlemen's costume : explaining and clearly defining, by a series of beautifully engraved illustrations, the most becoming assortment of colours and style of dress and undress, in all their varieties; suited to different ages and complexions, so as to render the human figure most symmetrical and imposing to the eye : also, directions in the purchase of all kinds of wearing apparel: accompanied by hints for the toilette, containing a few valuable and original recipes; likewise, some advice to the improvement of defects in the person and carriage : together with a dissertation on uniform in general, and the selection of fancy dress / by a cavalry officer.

Creator:: Cavalry officer
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 100 p., 5 [i.e. 6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

266. 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

267. Moveable shadows / by W. Newman (of Punch).

Creator:: Newman, William
Date:: [1859]
Physical Description:: [1], [9] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

268. Reminiscences of Oxford varsity life / by an undergraduate.

Date:: [ca. 1862]
Physical Description:: [29] plates : chiefly ill. 30 cm. in folder 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

269. 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

270. 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

271. 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

272. The Tom & Jerry flash dictionary.

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

273. Felix on the bat : being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat : together with the history and use of the catapulta : also the laws of cricket, as revised by the Marylebone Club, 1845.

Creator:: Felix, Nicholas, 1804–1876
Date:: MDCCCXLV [1845]
Physical Description:: 40, [8] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

274. Female beauty, as preserved and improved by regimen, cleanliness and dress : and especially by the adaptation, colour and arrangement of dress, as variously influencing the forms, complexion, and expression of each individual, and rendering cosmetic impositions unnecessary / by Mrs. A. Walker ; all that regards regimen and health being furnished by medical friends ; and revised by Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S. Vice President of the College of Surgeons, &c. &c. &c. ; illustrated by coloured drawings of heads by J.W. Wright, and of figures by E.T. Parris.

Creator:: Walker, A., Mrs
Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: xxxvi, 432 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

275. Characters / by Williams.

Creator:: Williams, Charles, active 1797–1830
Date:: ca. 1800?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

276. Talpa, or, The chronicles of a clay farm : an agricultural fragment / by C.W.H.

Creator:: Hoskyns, Chandos Wren, 1812–1876
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: viii, 237, [3], 4 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

277. The age of intellect, or, Clerical showfolk, and wonderful layfolk : a series of poetical epistles between Bob Blazon in town, and Jack Jingle in the country : dedicated to the Fair Circassian : with notes critical, ethical, satirical, physiological, craniological, and astrological / by Francis Moore, physician, author of the celebrated work entitled Vox stellarum or, A loyal almanack.

Creator:: Moore, Francis, 1657–1714
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [4], ii, [v]-xxiii, [24]-172, [8] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

278. 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

279. 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

280. Whimsical song book for 1814.

Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 27, [1] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

281. A nineteenth century, and familiar history of the lives, loves, and misfortunes of Abeillard and Heloisa : a matchless pair, who flourished in the twelfth century : a poem, in twelve cantos : illustrated with ten engravings / by Robert Rabelais, the younger.

Creator:: Rabelais, Robert, the younger
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: xvii, 384 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

282. A treatise on the theory and practice of the art of fencing : illustrated with 12 highly finished plates / by George Roland.

Creator:: Roland, George
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: xi, 181 p., [12] plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

283. 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

284. 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

285. [Batch of cakes]

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

286. [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

287. Journal of a landsman from Portsmouth to Lisbon : on board His Majesty's ship.

Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: [2], 26 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

288. New readings of old authors : Shakespeare / designed and drawn on stone by the late Robert Seymour.

Creator:: Seymour, Robert, 1798–1836
Date:: [1841]
Physical Description:: [120] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

289. Twelfth night characters.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: 1811]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

290. The instructive picture book, or, Lessons from the vegetable world / by the author of "The heir of Redclyffe" and "The herb of the field" ; illustrated with 31 colored plates ; arranged by Robert M. Stark, Fellow of The Botanical and Royal Physical Societies, Edinburgh, author of "A Popular History of British Mosses.".

Creator:: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823–1901
Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: 22, [2] p., xxxi leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

291. 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

292. Celebrated & extraordinary exhibition, patronized by the royal families of England, France, Belgium, &c. &c. &c. of the industrious fleas : from Regent Street, is now exhibiting at Somerset Gallery, Strand.

Date:: [183-?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1]) p.) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

293. 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

294. 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

295. 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

296. 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

297. Pierce Egan's anecdotes (original and selected) of the turf, the chase, the ring, and the stage : the whole forming a complete panorama of the sporting world, uniting with it a book of reference and entertaining companion to the lovers of British sports / embellished with thirteen colored plates, designed from nature, and etched by Theodore Lane ; dedicated to Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: MDCCCXXVII [1827]
Physical Description:: viii, 304, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

298. Hardy ferns : how I collected and cultivated them / by Nona Bellairs ; with a frontispiece.

Creator:: Bellairs, Nona Maria Stephenson
Date:: 1865
Physical Description:: 128, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

299. Now exhibiting at the large exhibition room near the foot of Waterloo Bridge, a small distance from the Coburg theatre, the ancient vessel : this celebrated remains of antiquity is caulked with moss : and is supposed to have been on of the vessels used by the Danes when they invaded England in the time of Alfred the Great.

Date:: [18--]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

300. Introduction to ornamental writing : for the use of artists, painters, and sculptors / from designs by G. Campion.

Creator:: Campion, G
Date:: [1830?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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201. Sketches of characters in common life / by Edmund Patten.

202. An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting.

203. 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.

204. 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, member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours.

205. The royal guide to wax flower modelling / by Mrs. Peachey, artiste to Her Majesty.

206. Epochs of painted vases : an introduction to their study / by Hodder M. Westropp, Esq.

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

208. Glances at character.

209. Sabbath recreations : a collection of sacred music from the works of Mozart, Haydn, Handel, &c. &c. / arranged for the piano-forte by J. Pridham ; with illustrations of the principal English cathedrals.

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

212. A descriptive guide to Guy's Cliff : with an authentic catalogue of the paintings.

213. Greetings from Oxford.

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

215. Book for a rainy day, or, Recollections of the events of the last sixty-six years / by John Thomas Smith.

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

217. 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.

218. The poets of the nineteenth century / selected and edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, incumbent of Bearwood ; illustrated with one hundred engravings, drawn by eminent artists, and engraved by the brothers Dalziel

219. The new album of London.

220. New cyclopædia of botany and complete book of herbs : forms a history and description of all plants, British or foreign.

221. The album of Windsor views.

222. 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.

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

224. 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.

225. 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.

226. Collinso furioso, or, Matters "to tatters" / from drawings by M.E.

227. Absurdities : in prose and verse / written and illustrated by A. Crowquill.

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

229. Sketches of pumps / handled by Robert Cruikshank with some temperate spouting by Alfred Crowquill ; illustrated in glyphography.

230. Alfred Crowquill's guide to the watering places : with illustrations / by Alfred Crowquill.

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

235. Forfeitiana, or, An elegant budget of winter evening's recreation for young persons / written by a lady.

236. 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.

237. Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are / drawn by M.E. Esq.

238. Humorous designs / by M.E.

239. Olla Podrida / by M. Egerton, Esqre.

242. The cutter : in five lectures upon the art and practice of cutting friends, acquaintances, and relations.

243. Sketches in London / by James Grant, the author of "Random recollections of the Lords and Commons," "The Great Metropolis," &c. &c. ; with twenty-four humorous illustrations, by "Phiz," and others.

244. Hints on horsemanship, to a nephew and niece, or, Common sense and common errors in common riding / by an Officer of the Household Brigade of Cavalry.

245. Brooklands : a sporting biography / by Herbert Byng Hall, K.S.F. ... ; in two vols.

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

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

253. Photographic pleasures : popularly portrayed with pen and pencil / by Cuthbert Bede, B.A., author of "Verdant Green," &c. &c. &c.

254. 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!

255. Golden thoughts from golden fountains : selected and arranged in fifty-two divisions / illustrations by eminent artists, engraved by the brothers Dalziel.

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

257. Art embroidery : a treatise on the revived practice of decorative needlework / by M.S. Lockwood and E. Glaister ; with nineteen plates printed in colours from designs by Thomas Crane.

258. Fables in action : by means of moveable pictures, and dissected and coloured figures, with explanatory text.

259. Fashion and folly : illustrated in a series of twenty-one humorous coloured engravings / by W. Heath.

260. Domestic miseries.

261. Hints to the bearers of walking-sticks and umbrellas : illustrated by six engravings.

263. Fair nature : postcard painting album.

264. The artists' painting book.

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

267. Moveable shadows / by W. Newman (of Punch).

268. Reminiscences of Oxford varsity life / by an undergraduate.

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

270. Royal cabinet album of Isle of Wight.

271. 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.

272. The Tom & Jerry flash dictionary.

273. Felix on the bat : being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat : together with the history and use of the catapulta : also the laws of cricket, as revised by the Marylebone Club, 1845.

275. Characters / by Williams.

276. Talpa, or, The chronicles of a clay farm : an agricultural fragment / by C.W.H.

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

279. 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.

280. Whimsical song book for 1814.

281. A nineteenth century, and familiar history of the lives, loves, and misfortunes of Abeillard and Heloisa : a matchless pair, who flourished in the twelfth century : a poem, in twelve cantos : illustrated with ten engravings / by Robert Rabelais, the younger.

282. A treatise on the theory and practice of the art of fencing : illustrated with 12 highly finished plates / by George Roland.

283. 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.

284. 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.

285. [Batch of cakes]

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

287. Journal of a landsman from Portsmouth to Lisbon : on board His Majesty's ship.

288. New readings of old authors : Shakespeare / designed and drawn on stone by the late Robert Seymour.