Collection: Reference Library / On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Reference Library / Period: 20th century and 19th century / Language: English / Classification: Books

1. [Account book of engravings sales / John Martin, 1789-1854]

Creator:: Martin, John, 1789–1854
Physical Description:: 213 p.
Collection:: Reference Library

2. A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography / by William Upcott ; with a new introd. by Jack Simmons.

Creator:: Upcott, William, 1779–1845
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: ca. 200 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

3. A booke in Englysh metre, of the great marchaunt man called "Dives pragmaticus" ... 1563. Reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the John Rylands library. Together with an introduction by Percy E. Newbery; and remarks on the vocabulary and dialect, with a glossary by Henry C. Wyld.

Creator:: Newbery, Thomas, fl.1563
Date:: 1910
Physical Description:: xxxviii p. facsim. ([16] p. illus.) 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

4. A catalog of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: [1842]
Physical Description:: xxiv, 250 p. front. (port.) illus. 28 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

5. A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum.

Creator:: Smith, A. H. (Arthur Hamilton), 1860–1941
Date:: 1892-1904
Physical Description:: 3 v. ill. incl. plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

6. A catalogue of the large and capital collection of pictures by the most admired Italian, Flemish and Dutch masters : also, prints and drawings, framed and glazed, of James West ... which will be sold by auction by Mess. Langford's ... on Wednesday the 31st of ... March, 1773 ...

Creator:: West, James, 1704?-1773
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 24 p.
Collection:: Reference Library

7. A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints etc. of the present artists : exhibited in the Great Room of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce ...

Creator:: Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (Great Britain)
Date:: 1760-[1764]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

8. A complete course of lithography ... With a new introduction by A. Hyatt Mayor ... and a supplement of thirty-one plates from the first German and French editions.

Creator:: Senefelder, Alois, 1771–1834
Date:: 1968
Physical Description:: vi, xxviii p., 1 l., 342 p., 5 l. front., illus., plates, ports., facsims. 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

9. A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the nineteenth century, containing over forty-six thousand articles (authors), with forty indexes of subjects. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1858-72.

Creator:: Allibone, S. Austin (Samuel Austin), 1816–1889
Date:: 1965
Physical Description:: 3 v. (3140 p.) 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

10. A description of Bath, 1765 / John Wood.

Creator:: Wood, John, 1704–1754
Date:: 1969
Physical Description:: 456, xiii p. : ill. (part fold.), ports. plans ; 21cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

11. A Dictionary of Edwardian biography [microform].

Date:: 1898-
Physical Description:: v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

12. A dictionary of the English language / Samuel Johnson.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1983
Physical Description:: ca. 1350 p. in various pagings ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

13. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke.

A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke.

Creator:: Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

14. A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland / by John Burke and John Bernard Burke.

A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland / by John Burke and John Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: 644 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

15. A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire. By Sir Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1969]
Physical Description:: 12, 642 p. illus. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

16. A history of Northumberland, issued under the direction of the Northumberland county history committee.

Creator:: Northumberland county history committee
Date:: 1893-1940
Physical Description:: 15 v. fronts. (1 col. ; part double) illus., plates, maps (part fold.) plans (part fold.) facsims., geneal. tables (part fold.) 29 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

17. A history of the machine-wrought hosiery and lace manufactures / by William Felkin.

Creator:: Felkin, William
Date:: 1867
Physical Description:: xxvi, 559 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

18. A history of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. [microform] / by Algernon Graves, F.S.A., and William Vine Cronin ...

Creator:: Graves, Algernon
Date:: 1899-1901
Physical Description:: 4 v. : fronts., 154 pl. (incl. ports., facsims.) ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19. A history of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., by Algernon Graves, F.S.A., and William Vine Cronin ...

Creator:: Graves, Algernon
Date:: 1899-1901
Physical Description:: 4 v. fronts., 154 pl. (incl. ports., facsims.) 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

20. A history of wood-engraving. New York, Harper & Bros., 1883.

Creator:: Woodberry, George Edward, 1855–1930
Date:: 1969
Physical Description:: 221 p. illus., ports. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

21. A map of the County of Devon, 1765 / Benjamin Donn ; reprinted in facsimile with an introduction by W.L.D. Ravenhill.

Creator:: Donne, Benjamin, 1729–1798
Date:: 1965
Physical Description:: v, 22 p., [27] p. of plates : maps, facsims. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

22. A memoir of Thomas Uwins, R.A. : with letters to his brothers during seven years spent in Italy and correspondence with the late Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir Charles L. Eastlake, A.E. Chalon, R.A. and other distingusihed persons / by Mrs. Uwins.

A memoir of Thomas Uwins, R.A. : with letters to his brothers during seven years spent in Italy and correspondence with the late Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir Charles L. Eastlake, A.E. Chalon, R.A. and other distingusihed persons / by Mrs. Uwins.

Creator:: Uwins, Thomas, 1782–1857
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: 2 volumes in 1 ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

23. A new method of landscape / by Alexander Cozens ; with a new introd. by Michael Marqusee.

Creator:: Cozens, Alexander, 1717–1786
Date:: c1977
Physical Description:: xi, 33 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

24. A new orchard and garden / William Lawson. Knots for gardens / John Marriott. A treatise of fruit-trees together with the spiritual use of an orchard / Ralph Austen.

Creator:: Lawson, William, active 1618
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: 241 p. in various pagings : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

25. A particular account of the Emperor of China's gardens, near Pekin / Jean Denis Attiret ; translated by Joseph Spence. Unconnected thoughts on gardening ; A description of the Leasowes / William Shenstone. An essay on design in gardening / George Mason.

Creator:: Attiret, Jean Denis, 1702–1768
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: ca. 206 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

26. A plan of Mr. Pope's garden / John Serle. Gardens at Richmond, Kew, and environs, ca. 1730-1760.

Creator:: Serle, John
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: 131 p. in various pagings, [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

27. A Select collection of poems : with notes biographical and historical.

Date:: 1969
Physical Description:: 8 v. : ports. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

28. A series of plans for cottages or habitations of the labourer, either in husbandry or the mechanic arts, adapted as well to towns as to the country ..., by the late J. Wood.

A series of plans for cottages or habitations of the labourer, either in husbandry or the mechanic arts, adapted as well to towns as to the country ..., by the late J. Wood.

Creator:: Wood, John, -1782
Date:: 1972
Physical Description:: 31 p., 30 leaves. illus., plans. 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

29. A short introduction in the binding of books / Dirk de Bray ; followed by a note on the gilding of the edges by Ambrosius Vermerck ; with an introd. and a paraphrase by K. van der Horst and C. de Wolf ; translated by H. S. Lake.

A short introduction in the binding of books / Dirk de Bray ; followed by a note on the gilding of the edges by Ambrosius Vermerck ; with an introd. and a paraphrase by K. van der Horst and C. de Wolf ; translated by H. S. Lake.

Creator:: Bray, Dirk de, 17th cent
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: 87 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

30. A sparke of frendship and warme goodwill, that shewes the effect of trve affection and Vnfoldes the fineneffe of this world : Whereunto is ioined, the commoditie of sundrie sciences, the benefit that paper bringeth, with many rare matters rehearsed in the same : with a description & commendation of a paper mill, now and of late set vp (neere the towne of Darthford) by an high Germayn called M. Spilman, Ieweller to the Qu. most excellent Maiestie / written by Thomas Chruchyard Gent.

A sparke of frendship and warme goodwill, that shewes the effect of trve affection and Vnfoldes the fineneffe of this world : Whereunto is ioined, the commoditie of sundrie sciences, the benefit that paper bringeth, with many rare matters rehearsed in the same : with a description & commendation of a paper mill, now and of late set vp (neere the towne of Darthford) by an high Germayn called M. Spilman, Ieweller to the Qu. most excellent Maiestie / written by Thomas Chruchyard Gent.

Creator:: Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: [36] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

31. A supplement to Allibone's critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors.

Creator:: Kirk, John Foster, 1824–1904
Date:: 1965
Physical Description:: 2 v. (x, 1562 p.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

32. A survey of London, by John Stow; reprinted from the text of 1603, with introduction and notes by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford.

Creator:: Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:: 1908
Physical Description:: 2 v. fronts. (v. 1. port.) illus., fold. map inserted, double facsim. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

33. A topographical dictionary of Ireland : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate, market, and post towns, parishes, and villages, with historical and statistical descriptions ... / by Samuel Lewis.

Creator:: Lewis, Samuel, -1865
Date:: 1984
Physical Description:: 2 v. : coats of arms ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

34. A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge.

Creator:: Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo, 1538–1600
Date:: 1969
Physical Description:: 119, 218 p. illus. 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

35. A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical; with upwards of three hundred illustrations engraved on wood by John Jackson. The historical portion by W. A. Chatto.

Creator:: Chatto, William Andrew, 1799–1864
Date:: 1969
Physical Description:: xvi, 560, 561*-600*, 561-664 p. illus. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

36. American exhibition of British art : oil pictures and water colours.

Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 31 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

37. Among English hedgerows, written and illustrated by Clifton Johnson; with an introd. by Hamilton W. Mabie.

Creator:: Johnson, Clifton, 1865–1940
Date:: 1907 [c1899]
Physical Description:: 347 p. illus. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

38. An architectural account of the churches of Shropshire, by the Rev. D. H. S. Cranage ... illustrated with permanent plates, reproduced from photographs by Martin J. Harding ... with ground plans of the most important churches, drawn by W. Arthur Webb ...

Creator:: Cranage, D. H. S. (David Herbert Somerset), 1866–1957
Date:: 1894-1912
Physical Description:: 10 pts. illus., CXIX pl., plans. 29 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

39. An encyclopaedia of gardening / J.C. Loudon.

Creator:: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783–1843
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

40. An essay on landscape / R.L. de Girardin ; translated by D. Malthus. A tour to Ermenonville.

Creator:: Girardin, René Louis, marquis de, 1735–1808
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: lv, 160, vii, 103 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

41. An Essay upon harmony as it relates chiefly to situation and building / Robert Morris. Elements of modern gardening / John Trusler.

Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: 38, 80 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

42. An historical sketch of bookbinding / S.T. Prideaux.

Creator:: Prideaux, S. T. (Sarah Treverbian)
Date:: 1989
Physical Description:: vi, 303 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

43. An index to the early printed books in the British Museum: from the invention of printing to the year 1500. With notes of those in the Bodleian Library.

Creator:: Proctor, Robert, 1868–1903
Date:: 1960
Physical Description:: 908 p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

44. An introduction to a general system of hydrostaticks and hydraulicks, philosophical and practical / Stephen Switzer.

Creator:: Switzer, Stephen, 1682?-1745
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

45. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England, with critical remarks on their productions.

Creator:: Edwards, Edward, 1738–1806
Date:: 1970
Physical Description:: [29], xxxix, 328 p., plate. port. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

46. Anecdotes of the arts in England, or Comparative remarks on architecture, sculpture and painting, chiefly illustrated by specimens at Oxford London.

Creator:: Dallaway, James, 1763–1834
Physical Description:: xxi, 526 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

47. Anecdotes of William Hogarth, written by himself, with essays on his life and genius, and criticisms on his works, selected from Walpole, Gilpin, J. Ireland, Lamb, Phillips, and others. To which are added a catalogue of his prints; account of their variations, and principal copies; lists of paintings, drawings, &c. London, J. B. Nichols, 1833.

Anecdotes of William Hogarth, written by himself, with essays on his life and genius, and criticisms on his works, selected from Walpole, Gilpin, J. Ireland, Lamb, Phillips, and others. To which are added a catalogue of his prints; account of their variations, and principal copies; lists of paintings, drawings, &c. London, J. B. Nichols, 1833.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: 1970?]
Physical Description:: xii, 415 p. illus. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

48. Architectural designs for rustic cottages, picturesque dwellings, villas, &c ..., by W. F. Pocock. London, J. Taylor, 1807

Creator:: Pocock, William Fuller, 1779–1849
Date:: 1972]
Physical Description:: vii, 36 p., 33 plates (incl. plans) 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

49. Artists of the nineteenth century and their works [by] Clara Erskine Clement Waters and Laurence Hutton.

Creator:: Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834–1916
Date:: 1969 [c1884]
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

50. Autobiographical recollections / By the late Charles Robert Leslie. Edited, with a prefatory essay on Leslie as an artist, and selections from his correspondence, by Tom Taylor. With a new introd. (1978) by Robin Hamlyn.

Creator:: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: lxxxviii, 255, 352 p. : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

51. Autobiography and journals, edited, with an introd., by Malcolm Elwin.

Creator:: Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786–1846
Date:: [1950]
Physical Description:: xxxiii, 675 p. illus., ports. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

52. Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters, 1780 / [by] William Beckford.

Creator:: Beckford, William, 1760–1844
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: [17], 158 p. : ports. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

53. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improved road atlas of England and Wales 1731 / [compiled] by Emanuel Bowen.

Date:: 1979
Physical Description:: 273 p. : chiefly maps ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

54. Britannia illustrata / Knyff & Kip ; edited by John Harris and Gervase Jackson-Stops.

Creator:: Kip, Johannes, 1653–1722
Date:: c1984
Physical Description:: 200 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

55. British mezzotinto portraits : being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century : arranged according to the engravers, the inscriptions given at full length, and the variations of state precisely set forth : accompanied by biographical notes, and appendix of a selection of the prices produced at public sales by some of the specimens, down to the present time / by John Chaloner Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John Chaloner, 1827–1895
Date:: 2004
Physical Description:: 4 v. in 2 ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

56. Campania foelix / Timothy Nourse.

Creator:: Nourse, Timothy, d. 1699
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: 354 [i.e. 366] p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

57. Caricature history of the Georges.

Creator:: Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:: [1968]
Physical Description:: xiii, 639 p. illus. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

58. Carington Bowles's New and enlarged catalogue of useful and accurate maps, charts, and plans : curious and entertaining engraved and mezzotint prints, single or in sets, writing books ...

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: 1784]
Physical Description:: 198 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

59. Catalogue (with descriptive notes and 23 illustrations) of the loan collection of paintings in oil and water-colours by modern English animal painters [microform]

Creator:: Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
Date:: 1892
Physical Description:: 58 p. : ill.
Collection:: Reference Library

60. Catalogue of a special loan collection of English furniture and figured silks, manufactured in the 17th and 18th centuries [microform] : Bethnal Green Branch Museum / with an introduction by John Hungerford Pollen.

Date:: 1975
Physical Description:: 2 microfiche ; 11 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

61. Catalogue of an important and highly-interesting sale ... at Broughton Castle .. which will be offered for ... sale by auction by Messrs. Enoch & Redfern ... on Tuesday, the 4th day of July, 1837 ...

Creator:: Broughton Castle
Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: 62 p.
Collection:: Reference Library

62. Catalogue of books printed for private circulation. Collected by Bertram Dobell, and now described and annotated by him.

Creator:: Dobell, Bertram, 1842–1914
Date:: [1890]-1906
Physical Description:: 4 pt. in 1 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

63. Catalogue of drawings by British artists and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain ... by Laurence Binyon ...

Creator:: British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings
Date:: 1898-1907
Physical Description:: 4 v. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

64. Catalogue of the exhibition of pictures by ancient and modern artists at the Council Hall, Truro, June 1861 : in connection with the meeting of the Bath and West of England Society, for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Art, Manufacturers, and Commerce. The profits will be devoted to the Royal Cornwall Infirmary.

Creator:: Truro (England). Council Hall
Date:: 1861
Physical Description:: 8 p.
Collection:: Reference Library

65. Catalogue of the special exhibition in the Water Colour Gallery of drawings and pictures by Thomas Sandby and Paul Sandby, February 1884 / by G. Harry Wallis.

Creator:: Wallis, G. Harry
Date:: 1884
Physical Description:: 48 p. : ports.
Collection:: Reference Library

66. Catalogue of the special exhibition of works of art of the mediæval, renaissance, and more recent periods [microform] : on loan at the South Kensington museum, June 1862. Ed. by J.C. Robinson.

Date:: [1863]
Physical Description:: xvi, 766 pages, 1 leaf ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

67. Catalogve of original and early editions of some of the poetical and prose works of English writers from Langland to Wither. With collations & notes, & 87 facsimiles of titlepages and frontispieces; being a contribution to the bibliography of English literature.

Creator:: Grolier Club
Date:: 1963
Physical Description:: xiii, 240 p. illus., facsims. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

68. Classic textile designs : fifty plates, in gold, silver and colors comprising upwards of 1,000 various styles of ancient, medieval and modern designs of textile fabrics with explanatory descriptions and a general introduction / M. Dupont-Auberville ; foreword by Jennifer Harris.

Classic textile designs : fifty plates, in gold, silver and colors comprising upwards of 1,000 various styles of ancient, medieval and modern designs of textile fabrics with explanatory descriptions and a general introduction / M. Dupont-Auberville ; foreword by Jennifer Harris.

Creator:: Dupont-Auberville, A
Date:: 1989
Physical Description:: [iv], 13 pages and [50] pages of plates : color illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mary E. Oake.

69. Collectors' marks / arranged and edited by Milton I.D. Einstein and Max A. Goldstein.

Creator:: Fagan, Louis, 1845–1903
Date:: 2007
Physical Description:: 1 v. (various pagings). : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

70. Coloured views on the Liverpool and Manchester railway / T. T. Bury ; with an historical introd. to the railway by George Ottley.

Creator:: Bury, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1811–1877
Date:: c1976
Physical Description:: ix, 8 p., [16] leaves of plates (3 fold.) : ill. (some col.) ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

71. Continuation of Redford's Art sales, commencing from 1887.

Creator:: Redford, George
Date:: 1887?-1918?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

72. Contributions towards a dictionary of English book-collectors, as also of some foreign collectors whose libraries were incorporated in English collections or whose books are chiefly met with in England, by Edward Burbidge [and others]

Creator:: Quaritch, Bernard, 1819–1899
Date:: [1968]
Physical Description:: 14 pts. in 1 v. illus., facsims., ports. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

73. Designs for churches and chapels / W.F. Pocock ; with an introduction by Christopher Webster.

Creator:: Pocock, W. F. (William Fuller), 1779–1849
Date:: c2010
Physical Description:: 36, 28, 44 p. of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

74. Designs for cottages, cottage farms and other rural buildings, including entrance gates and lodges. London, Harding, 1805.

Creator:: Gandy, Joseph Michael, 1771–1843
Date:: 1971
Physical Description:: [1], x, 28, [26] p., 17 l. illus., plans. 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

75. Designs for small picturesque cottages and hunting boxes adapted for ornamental retreats for hunting and shooting: also some designs for park entrances, bridges, etc., carefully studied and thrown into perspective, by E. Gyfford; engraved on twenty plates. London, J. Taylor, 1807.

Designs for small picturesque cottages and hunting boxes adapted for ornamental retreats for hunting and shooting: also some designs for park entrances, bridges, etc., carefully studied and thrown into perspective, by E. Gyfford; engraved on twenty plates. London, J. Taylor, 1807.

Creator:: Gyfford, E
Date:: 1971
Physical Description:: 16 p., 20 leaves. illus., plans. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

76. Diary in Turkey and Greece [microform] : Greece and Asia Minor, 1794-95 / Morritt, John of Rokeby.

Creator:: Morritt, John B. S. (John Bacon Sawrey), 1772?-1843
Date:: [1794?]
Physical Description:: 366 p. : ill.
Collection:: Reference Library

77. Don Pottery pattern book, 1807.

Date:: 1983
Physical Description:: [12], 13, [72] p. : ill., port. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

78. Encyclopaedia of literary and typographical anecdote / C. H. Timperley ; with a new introd. by Terry Belanger.

Creator:: Timperley, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1795?-1861
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: 2 v. (996, 12,115 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

79. Ferme ornée; or, Rural improvements: a series of domestic and ornamental designs suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms &c ... . London, I. and J. Taylor, 1795.

Ferme ornée; or, Rural improvements: a series of domestic and ornamental designs suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms &c ... . London, I. and J. Taylor, 1795.

Creator:: Plaw, John, 1744 or 5–1820
Date:: 1972
Physical Description:: [3], 13 p., 38 leaves. illus., plans. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

80. Flaxman's illustrations to Homer / drawn by John Flaxman ; engraved by William Blake and others ; edited, with an introd. and commentary by Robert Essick and Jenijoy LaBelle.

Creator:: Flaxman, John, 1755–1826
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: xxxii, [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

81. Florid Victorian ornament / Karl Klimsch.

Creator:: Klimsch, Karl, 1812–1890
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: [52] leaves of plates : all illustrations ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mary E. Oake.

82. Georgian Dublin : twenty-five aquatint views in colour / James Malton ; with an introduction and descriptive notes by Maurice Craig.

Creator:: Malton, James, d. 1803
Date:: 1984
Physical Description:: x, [54] p. : col. ill. ; 12 x 16 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

83. Henry Bankes's Treatise on lithography : reprinted from the 1813 and 1816 editions / with an introd. and notes by Michael Twyman.

Creator:: Bankes, H
Date:: 1976
Physical Description:: 91 p. in various pagings : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

84. Hints for dwellings: consisting of original designs for cottages, farm-houses, villas ... . London, J. Taylor, 1800.

Creator:: Laing, David, 1774–1856
Date:: 1972
Physical Description:: 15 p., 34 leaves of illus. plans. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

85. Hints to young painters; a historic treatise on the color, expression, and painting techniques of American artists of the Colonial and Federal periods. Reprinted in new format from the original ed. of 1873, with a special introd. by Faber Birren.

Creator:: Sully, Thomas, 1783–1872
Date:: 1965
Physical Description:: xxiii, 46 p. illus., facsim. 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

86. Historical & descriptive account of the caricatures of James Gillray; comprising a political and humorous history of the latter part of the reign of George the Third [by] Thomas Wright and R. H. Evans.

Creator:: Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:: 1968
Physical Description:: xv, 496 p. port. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

87. History of the corporation of Birmingham : with a sketch of the earlier government of the town / by John Thackray Bunce.

Creator:: Bunce, John Thackray, 1828–1899
Date:: 1878-1902
Physical Description:: 3 v. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

88. History of the modern taste in gardening ; Journals of visits to country seats / Horace Walpole.

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: xxv, p. 233-326, 80 p. : ill., port. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

89. Homes of family names in Great Britain.

Creator:: Guppy, H. B. (Henry Brougham), 1854–1926
Date:: 1968
Physical Description:: lxv, 601 p. maps. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

90. Is Fingal's Cave artificial? / by F. Cope Whitehouse.

Creator:: Whitehouse, Frederic Cope, 1842–1911
Date:: [2022]
Physical Description:: 12 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

91. Italian sculptors : being a history of sculpture in Northern, Southern and Eastern Italy / by Charles C. Perkins.

Creator:: Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823–1886
Date:: 2010
Physical Description:: xi, 326 p. : ill. ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

92. Jerusalem : the emanation of the giant Albion / William Blake ; edited with an introduction and notes by Morton D. Paley.

Creator:: Blake, William, 1757–1827
Physical Description:: 302 p. : 100, 5 col. facsims. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

93. John Leech: his life and work.

Creator:: Frith, William Powell, 1819–1909
Date:: 1969
Physical Description:: 2 v. illus., port. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

94. Laocoon : an essay upon the limits of painting and poetry / Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Ellen Frothingham.

Creator:: Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729–1781
Date:: 2005]
Physical Description:: xi, 250 p. ; 18 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

95. Leaves from the diary of Henry Greville; ed. by the Viscountess Enfield.

Creator:: Greville, Henry William, 1801–1872
Date:: 1883-1905
Physical Description:: 4 v. front. (port., v. 2) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

96. Les fleuves de France = : The rivers of France / Turner.

Creator:: Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
Date:: c1990
Collection:: Reference Library

97. Letters of James Smetham, with an introductory memoir, edited by Sarah Smetham and William Davies.

Creator:: Smetham, James, 1821–1889
Date:: 1902, c1892
Physical Description:: 404 p. port. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

98. Letters on the beauties of Hagley, Envil, and the Leasowes / Joseph Heely.

Creator:: Heely, Joseph
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: vii, 239 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

99. Life and letters of William Bewick (artist) / edited by Thomas Landseer.

Creator:: Bewick, William, 1795–1866
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

100. Life of William Etty, R.A. / by Alexander Gilchrist.

Creator:: Gilchrist, Alexander, 1828–1861
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : port. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

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1. [Account book of engravings sales / John Martin, 1789-1854]

2. A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography / by William Upcott ; with a new introd. by Jack Simmons.

3. A booke in Englysh metre, of the great marchaunt man called "Dives pragmaticus" ... 1563. Reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the John Rylands library. Together with an introduction by Percy E. Newbery; and remarks on the vocabulary and dialect, with a glossary by Henry C. Wyld.

4. A catalog of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.

5. A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum.

6. A catalogue of the large and capital collection of pictures by the most admired Italian, Flemish and Dutch masters : also, prints and drawings, framed and glazed, of James West ... which will be sold by auction by Mess. Langford's ... on Wednesday the 31st of ... March, 1773 ...

7. A catalogue of the pictures, sculptures, models, drawings, prints etc. of the present artists : exhibited in the Great Room of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce ...

8. A complete course of lithography ... With a new introduction by A. Hyatt Mayor ... and a supplement of thirty-one plates from the first German and French editions.

10. A description of Bath, 1765 / John Wood.

11. A Dictionary of Edwardian biography [microform].

12. A dictionary of the English language / Samuel Johnson.

13. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke.

14. A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland / by John Burke and John Bernard Burke.

15. A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire. By Sir Bernard Burke.

16. A history of Northumberland, issued under the direction of the Northumberland county history committee.

17. A history of the machine-wrought hosiery and lace manufactures / by William Felkin.

18. A history of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. [microform] / by Algernon Graves, F.S.A., and William Vine Cronin ...

19. A history of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., by Algernon Graves, F.S.A., and William Vine Cronin ...

20. A history of wood-engraving. New York, Harper & Bros., 1883.

21. A map of the County of Devon, 1765 / Benjamin Donn ; reprinted in facsimile with an introduction by W.L.D. Ravenhill.

22. A memoir of Thomas Uwins, R.A. : with letters to his brothers during seven years spent in Italy and correspondence with the late Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir Charles L. Eastlake, A.E. Chalon, R.A. and other distingusihed persons / by Mrs. Uwins.

23. A new method of landscape / by Alexander Cozens ; with a new introd. by Michael Marqusee.

24. A new orchard and garden / William Lawson. Knots for gardens / John Marriott. A treatise of fruit-trees together with the spiritual use of an orchard / Ralph Austen.

25. A particular account of the Emperor of China's gardens, near Pekin / Jean Denis Attiret ; translated by Joseph Spence. Unconnected thoughts on gardening ; A description of the Leasowes / William Shenstone. An essay on design in gardening / George Mason.

26. A plan of Mr. Pope's garden / John Serle. Gardens at Richmond, Kew, and environs, ca. 1730-1760.

27. A Select collection of poems : with notes biographical and historical.

28. A series of plans for cottages or habitations of the labourer, either in husbandry or the mechanic arts, adapted as well to towns as to the country ..., by the late J. Wood.

29. A short introduction in the binding of books / Dirk de Bray ; followed by a note on the gilding of the edges by Ambrosius Vermerck ; with an introd. and a paraphrase by K. van der Horst and C. de Wolf ; translated by H. S. Lake.

31. A supplement to Allibone's critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors.

32. A survey of London, by John Stow; reprinted from the text of 1603, with introduction and notes by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford.

33. A topographical dictionary of Ireland : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate, market, and post towns, parishes, and villages, with historical and statistical descriptions ... / by Samuel Lewis.

34. A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge.

35. A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical; with upwards of three hundred illustrations engraved on wood by John Jackson. The historical portion by W. A. Chatto.

36. American exhibition of British art : oil pictures and water colours.

37. Among English hedgerows, written and illustrated by Clifton Johnson; with an introd. by Hamilton W. Mabie.

38. An architectural account of the churches of Shropshire, by the Rev. D. H. S. Cranage ... illustrated with permanent plates, reproduced from photographs by Martin J. Harding ... with ground plans of the most important churches, drawn by W. Arthur Webb ...

39. An encyclopaedia of gardening / J.C. Loudon.

40. An essay on landscape / R.L. de Girardin ; translated by D. Malthus. A tour to Ermenonville.

41. An Essay upon harmony as it relates chiefly to situation and building / Robert Morris. Elements of modern gardening / John Trusler.

42. An historical sketch of bookbinding / S.T. Prideaux.

43. An index to the early printed books in the British Museum: from the invention of printing to the year 1500. With notes of those in the Bodleian Library.

44. An introduction to a general system of hydrostaticks and hydraulicks, philosophical and practical / Stephen Switzer.

45. Anecdotes of painters, who have resided or been born in England, with critical remarks on their productions.

46. Anecdotes of the arts in England, or Comparative remarks on architecture, sculpture and painting, chiefly illustrated by specimens at Oxford London.

48. Architectural designs for rustic cottages, picturesque dwellings, villas, &c ..., by W. F. Pocock. London, J. Taylor, 1807

49. Artists of the nineteenth century and their works [by] Clara Erskine Clement Waters and Laurence Hutton.

50. Autobiographical recollections / By the late Charles Robert Leslie. Edited, with a prefatory essay on Leslie as an artist, and selections from his correspondence, by Tom Taylor. With a new introd. (1978) by Robin Hamlyn.

51. Autobiography and journals, edited, with an introd., by Malcolm Elwin.

52. Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters, 1780 / [by] William Beckford.

53. Britannia depicta, or, Ogilby improved road atlas of England and Wales 1731 / [compiled] by Emanuel Bowen.

54. Britannia illustrata / Knyff & Kip ; edited by John Harris and Gervase Jackson-Stops.

56. Campania foelix / Timothy Nourse.

57. Caricature history of the Georges.

58. Carington Bowles's New and enlarged catalogue of useful and accurate maps, charts, and plans : curious and entertaining engraved and mezzotint prints, single or in sets, writing books ...

59. Catalogue (with descriptive notes and 23 illustrations) of the loan collection of paintings in oil and water-colours by modern English animal painters [microform]

60. Catalogue of a special loan collection of English furniture and figured silks, manufactured in the 17th and 18th centuries [microform] : Bethnal Green Branch Museum / with an introduction by John Hungerford Pollen.

61. Catalogue of an important and highly-interesting sale ... at Broughton Castle .. which will be offered for ... sale by auction by Messrs. Enoch & Redfern ... on Tuesday, the 4th day of July, 1837 ...

62. Catalogue of books printed for private circulation. Collected by Bertram Dobell, and now described and annotated by him.

63. Catalogue of drawings by British artists and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain ... by Laurence Binyon ...

65. Catalogue of the special exhibition in the Water Colour Gallery of drawings and pictures by Thomas Sandby and Paul Sandby, February 1884 / by G. Harry Wallis.

66. Catalogue of the special exhibition of works of art of the mediæval, renaissance, and more recent periods [microform] : on loan at the South Kensington museum, June 1862. Ed. by J.C. Robinson.

67. Catalogve of original and early editions of some of the poetical and prose works of English writers from Langland to Wither. With collations & notes, & 87 facsimiles of titlepages and frontispieces; being a contribution to the bibliography of English literature.

68. Classic textile designs : fifty plates, in gold, silver and colors comprising upwards of 1,000 various styles of ancient, medieval and modern designs of textile fabrics with explanatory descriptions and a general introduction / M. Dupont-Auberville ; foreword by Jennifer Harris.

69. Collectors' marks / arranged and edited by Milton I.D. Einstein and Max A. Goldstein.

70. Coloured views on the Liverpool and Manchester railway / T. T. Bury ; with an historical introd. to the railway by George Ottley.

71. Continuation of Redford's Art sales, commencing from 1887.

72. Contributions towards a dictionary of English book-collectors, as also of some foreign collectors whose libraries were incorporated in English collections or whose books are chiefly met with in England, by Edward Burbidge [and others]

73. Designs for churches and chapels / W.F. Pocock ; with an introduction by Christopher Webster.

74. Designs for cottages, cottage farms and other rural buildings, including entrance gates and lodges. London, Harding, 1805.

75. Designs for small picturesque cottages and hunting boxes adapted for ornamental retreats for hunting and shooting: also some designs for park entrances, bridges, etc., carefully studied and thrown into perspective, by E. Gyfford; engraved on twenty plates. London, J. Taylor, 1807.