Collection: Reference Library / Language: English / Subject Terms: Great Britain. / Classification: Books

1. Treasures of art in Great Britain : being an account of the chief collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, illuminated mss., &c. &c. / by Dr. Waagen ...

Creator:: Waagen, Gustav Friedrich, 1794–1868
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: 3 volumes ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

2. Galleries and cabinets of art in Great Britain : being an account of more than forty collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, mss., &c. &c. visited in 1854 and 1856, and now for the first time described / By Dr. Waagen ... Forming a supplemental volume to the Treasures of art in Great Britain ...

Creator:: Waagen, Gustav Friedrich, 1794–1868
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: vii, 560 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

3. 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

4. The chronicles of crime, or, The new Newgate calendar. Being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841 ... Including a number of curious cases never before published. Embellished with engravings, from original drawings by "Phiz" / By Camden Pelham.

Creator:: Pelham, Camden, pseud
Date:: 1886
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

5. The story of my life / Augustus J.C. Hare.

Creator:: Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834–1903
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: 6 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

6. Great masters of decorative art.

Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

7. The Triumphant bore : a celebration of Marc Brunel's Thames tunnel / catalogue written and compiled by Michael M. Chrimes, Julia Elton, John May, Timothy Millett.

Date:: [1993]
Physical Description:: 96 pages : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 19 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

8. Holbein's "Ambassadors" : the picture and the men : an historical study / by Mary F.S. Hervey ... ; with nineteen illustrations and two facsimiles.

Creator:: Hervey, Mary F. S. (Mary Frederica Sophia), 1853–1920
Date:: 1900
Physical Description:: xii, 256 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.

9. The English pre-Raphaelite painters : their associates and successors / by Percy Bate.

Creator:: Bate, Percy (Percy H.), 1868–1913
Date:: 1972
Physical Description:: xvi, 126 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

10. Catalogue of the loan exhibition of British engraving and etching [microform] / [Introduction by E.F. Strange].

Date:: 1903
Physical Description:: 150 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

11. The Phil May album / collected by Augustus M. Moore.

Creator:: May, Phil, 1864–1903
Date:: 1904
Physical Description:: 3 preliminary leaves, [9]-78 pages : including frontispiece, illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.

12. Summary of and index to Waagen / by Algernon Graves.

Creator:: Graves, Algernon
Date:: 1970
Physical Description:: 366 pages, 1 leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

13. Policy and paint, or, Some incidents in the lives of Dudley Carleton and Peter Paul Rubens / by the author of "A life of Sir Kenelm Digby."

Creator:: Longueville, Thomas, 1844–1922
Date:: 1913
Physical Description:: xii, 221 pages, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

14. Thomas Gainsborough / by William T. Whitley.

Creator:: Whitley, William T. (William Thomas), 1858–1942
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: 439 pages, [8] pages of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

15. The note-book and account book of Nicholas Stone : master mason to James I and Charles I / transcribed and annotated with an introduction by Walter Lewis Spiers ; together with an appendix containing a transcript of the diary of Nicholas Stone, junr., recording the visit of himself and his brother Henry to France and Italy, in 1638-1642 (Brit. Mus. Harl. MSS., no. 4049).

Creator:: Stone, Nicholas, 1586–1647
Date:: 1919
Physical Description:: xviii, 200 pages : illustrations, portrait, facsimiles ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

16. Exhibition of present day industrial art : Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, 16th January to 25th February, 1922.

Creator:: British Institute of Industrial Art
Date:: 1922
Physical Description:: 46 pages : illustrations
Collection:: Reference Library

17. The history of Turner's Liber studiorum : with a new catalogue raisonné / by Alexander J. Finberg.

Creator:: Finberg, A. J. (Alexander Joseph), 1866–1939
Date:: 1924
Physical Description:: 3 preliminary leaves, v-xciv, 373 pages : 1 leaf including illustrations, plates ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

18. Catalogue of the British Institute of Industrial Art autumn exhibition [microform] : illustrating British industrial art for the slender purse, North Court, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, 9th November to 18th December 1929.

Creator:: Victoria and Albert Museum
Date:: [1929]
Physical Description:: 105 pages
Collection:: Reference Library

19. Purefoy letters : 1735-1753 / edited by G. Eland.

Creator:: Purefoy, Henry, 1697–1762
Date:: 1931
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, folded map, portraits, facsimiles, folded genealogical table ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

20. A short history of English sculpture / by Eric G. Underwood.

Creator:: Underwood, E. G. (Eric Gordon), 1890–
Date:: [1933]
Physical Description:: xiv, 192 pages : including frontispiece 47 plates ; 21 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

21. Fifty-four conceits : a collection of epigrams and epitaphs serious and comic / by Martin Armstrong ; wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious.

Creator:: Armstrong, Martin, 1882–1974
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: 70 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

22. The Torrington diaries : containing the tours through England and Wales of the Hon. John Byng (later fifth viscount Torrington) between the years 1781 and 1794 / edited, with an introduction, by C. Bruyn Andrews and with a general introduction by John Beresford.

Creator:: Torrington, John Byng, 5th Viscount, 1742?-1813
Date:: 1934-38
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations, plates, portraits, facsimiles, folded genealogical table ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

23. George the faithful : the life and times of George V "the people's king" 1865-1956 / edited and with a preface by Philip Gibbs.

Date:: [1936]
Physical Description:: 534 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

24. The life of John Sell Cotman / by Sydney D. Kitson.

Creator:: Kitson, Sydney D. (Sydney Decimus), 1871–1937
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: xix, 394 pages, [156] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

25. Kings and Queens of England, 1500-1900 [microform].

Creator:: Victoria and Albert Museum
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 50 pages : illustrations
Collection:: Reference Library

26. The continuity of the English town / contributors, Viscount Esher [and others].

Date:: 1943
Physical Description:: i-xi, 109-192 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

27. Britain can make it exhibition [microform] / organised by the Council of Industrial Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, opening 24th September, 1946.

Creator:: Council of Industrial Design (Great Britain)
Date:: [1946]
Physical Description:: 242 pages : illustrations
Collection:: Reference Library

28. Hogarth's drawings / edited and introduced by Michael Ayrton ; notes on the plates by Bernard Denvir.

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: 88 pages : 78 illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

29. The public house of tomorrow [microform] : an exhibition of drawings submitted in a competition, promoted by the Architectural Review, for the Interior design of the modern public house, [Victoria and Albert Museum, April 4 to 29, 1950.

Creator:: Victoria and Albert Museum
Date:: 1950
Physical Description:: 6 pages : illustrations
Collection:: Reference Library

30. Samuel Richardson : master printer / William M. Sale, Jr. Professor of English in Cornell University.

Creator:: Sale, William Merritt, 1899–1981
Date:: 1950
Physical Description:: vi, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

31. Catalogue of a loan exhibition of Persian miniature paintings from British collections [microform].

Date:: 1951
Physical Description:: iv, 36 pages ; 20 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

32. Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum / G.R. de BEER, F.R.S.

Creator:: De Beer, Gavin, Sir, 1899–1972
Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: 192 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

33. Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790 / Ellis Waterhouse.

Creator:: Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham, 1905–1985
Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: xiii, 270 pages : 192 pages of illustrations ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

34. An exhibition of Royal plate from Buckingham Palace & Windsor Castle [microform] : catalogue.

Creator:: Victoria and Albert Museum
Date:: [1954]
Physical Description:: 50 pages
Collection:: Reference Library

35. Nelson & Bronte, an illustrated guide to his life and times.

Creator:: Naish, G. P. B. (George P. B.)
Date:: 1958
Physical Description:: 27 pages 24 plates (including portraits) 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

36. English political caricature... : a study of opinion and propaganda / by M. Dorothy George.

Creator:: George, M. Dorothy (Mary Dorothy)
Date:: 1959
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

37. The Connoisseur new guide to antique English pottery, porcelain and glass / edited by L.G.G. Ramsey ; with an introduction by G. Bernard Hughes.

Date:: [1961]
Physical Description:: 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

38. An exhibition of XVIIIth and XIXth century oil paintings of celebrated racehorses.

Creator:: Arthur Ackermann & Son
Date:: 1962
Physical Description:: 32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

39. Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley : recording his life as actor and theater manager in both Dublin and London, and including a Smock-Alley calendar for the years of his management / by Esther K. Sheldon.

Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley : recording his life as actor and theater manager in both Dublin and London, and including a Smock-Alley calendar for the years of his management / by Esther K. Sheldon.

Creator:: Sheldon, Esther K.
Date:: 1967
Physical Description:: x, 530 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

40. The Windsor years ; the life of Edward, as Prince of Wales, King, and Duke of Windsor / Text by Lord Kinross. Photos. selected by the editors.

Creator:: Kinross, Patrick Balfour, Baron, 1904–1976
Date:: [1967]
Physical Description:: 303 pages : illustrations, coat of arms, facsimile, portraits ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

41. A history of the Royal Academy schools from 1837 to 1878 / by H.C. Morgan.

Creator:: Morgan, H. C
Date:: 1968
Physical Description:: 3 volumes in 1 (x, 547 pages) : 4 plans ; 28 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

42. Embroidery today : the 62 Group of the Embroiderers' Guild [microform] : a travelling exhibition / arranged by the Circulation Dept. of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Creator:: Victoria and Albert Museum. Circulation Department
Date:: [1969]
Physical Description:: 5 pages
Collection:: Reference Library

43. Anecdotes of painting in England : in 4 volumes / Horace Walpole.

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: 1969
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

44. The garden and the city : retirement and politics in the later poetry of Pope, 1731-1743 / Maynard Mack.

Creator:: Mack, Maynard, 1909–2001
Date:: [1969]
Physical Description:: xviii, 341 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

45. The British Institution, 1806-1867 : a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from the foundation of the Institution / by Algernon Graves.

The British Institution, 1806-1867 : a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from the foundation of the Institution / by Algernon Graves.

Creator:: Graves, Algernon
Date:: [1969]
Physical Description:: 617 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Copy 3 is a Gift of Jules Prown.

46. Ivon Hitchens : recent paintings.

Creator:: Hitchens, Ivon, 1893–1979
Date:: 1969
Physical Description:: 20 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 18 x 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joanna Martin.

47. The cartoon history of Britain / Michael Wynn Jones ; with a foreword by Michael Cummings.

Creator:: Wynn Jones, Michael
Date:: 1973
Physical Description:: 287 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.

48. The age of patronage : the arts in England, 1660-1750 / by Michael Foss.

Creator:: Foss, Michael
Date:: 1972
Physical Description:: ix, 234 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

49. Victorian glass [microform] : an exhibition of British glass of the Victorian period from the Circulation Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, to be circulated by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington.

Creator:: Victoria and Albert Museum. Circulation Department
Date:: 1971
Physical Description:: 14 pages : illustrations
Collection:: Reference Library

50. Modern British bookbinders [microform] : an exhibition of modern British bookbinding / by members of Designer Bookbinders.

Creator:: Designer Bookbinders
Date:: 1971
Physical Description:: 63 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. Treasures of art in Great Britain : being an account of the chief collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, illuminated mss., &c. &c. / by Dr. Waagen ...

3. 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.

5. The story of my life / Augustus J.C. Hare.

6. Great masters of decorative art.

7. The Triumphant bore : a celebration of Marc Brunel's Thames tunnel / catalogue written and compiled by Michael M. Chrimes, Julia Elton, John May, Timothy Millett.

8. Holbein's "Ambassadors" : the picture and the men : an historical study / by Mary F.S. Hervey ... ; with nineteen illustrations and two facsimiles.

9. The English pre-Raphaelite painters : their associates and successors / by Percy Bate.

10. Catalogue of the loan exhibition of British engraving and etching [microform] / [Introduction by E.F. Strange].

11. The Phil May album / collected by Augustus M. Moore.

12. Summary of and index to Waagen / by Algernon Graves.

13. Policy and paint, or, Some incidents in the lives of Dudley Carleton and Peter Paul Rubens / by the author of "A life of Sir Kenelm Digby."

14. Thomas Gainsborough / by William T. Whitley.

16. Exhibition of present day industrial art : Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, 16th January to 25th February, 1922.

17. The history of Turner's Liber studiorum : with a new catalogue raisonné / by Alexander J. Finberg.

18. Catalogue of the British Institute of Industrial Art autumn exhibition [microform] : illustrating British industrial art for the slender purse, North Court, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, 9th November to 18th December 1929.

19. Purefoy letters : 1735-1753 / edited by G. Eland.

20. A short history of English sculpture / by Eric G. Underwood.

21. Fifty-four conceits : a collection of epigrams and epitaphs serious and comic / by Martin Armstrong ; wood-engravings by Eric Ravilious.

22. The Torrington diaries : containing the tours through England and Wales of the Hon. John Byng (later fifth viscount Torrington) between the years 1781 and 1794 / edited, with an introduction, by C. Bruyn Andrews and with a general introduction by John Beresford.

23. George the faithful : the life and times of George V "the people's king" 1865-1956 / edited and with a preface by Philip Gibbs.

24. The life of John Sell Cotman / by Sydney D. Kitson.

25. Kings and Queens of England, 1500-1900 [microform].

26. The continuity of the English town / contributors, Viscount Esher [and others].

27. Britain can make it exhibition [microform] / organised by the Council of Industrial Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, opening 24th September, 1946.

28. Hogarth's drawings / edited and introduced by Michael Ayrton ; notes on the plates by Bernard Denvir.

29. The public house of tomorrow [microform] : an exhibition of drawings submitted in a competition, promoted by the Architectural Review, for the Interior design of the modern public house, [Victoria and Albert Museum, April 4 to 29, 1950.

30. Samuel Richardson : master printer / William M. Sale, Jr. Professor of English in Cornell University.

31. Catalogue of a loan exhibition of Persian miniature paintings from British collections [microform].

32. Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum / G.R. de BEER, F.R.S.

33. Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790 / Ellis Waterhouse.

34. An exhibition of Royal plate from Buckingham Palace & Windsor Castle [microform] : catalogue.

35. Nelson & Bronte, an illustrated guide to his life and times.

36. English political caricature... : a study of opinion and propaganda / by M. Dorothy George.

37. The Connoisseur new guide to antique English pottery, porcelain and glass / edited by L.G.G. Ramsey ; with an introduction by G. Bernard Hughes.

38. An exhibition of XVIIIth and XIXth century oil paintings of celebrated racehorses.

39. Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley : recording his life as actor and theater manager in both Dublin and London, and including a Smock-Alley calendar for the years of his management / by Esther K. Sheldon.

40. The Windsor years ; the life of Edward, as Prince of Wales, King, and Duke of Windsor / Text by Lord Kinross. Photos. selected by the editors.

41. A history of the Royal Academy schools from 1837 to 1878 / by H.C. Morgan.

42. Embroidery today : the 62 Group of the Embroiderers' Guild [microform] : a travelling exhibition / arranged by the Circulation Dept. of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

43. Anecdotes of painting in England : in 4 volumes / Horace Walpole.

44. The garden and the city : retirement and politics in the later poetry of Pope, 1731-1743 / Maynard Mack.

45. The British Institution, 1806-1867 : a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from the foundation of the Institution / by Algernon Graves.

46. Ivon Hitchens : recent paintings.

47. The cartoon history of Britain / Michael Wynn Jones ; with a foreword by Michael Cummings.

48. The age of patronage : the arts in England, 1660-1750 / by Michael Foss.

49. Victorian glass [microform] : an exhibition of British glass of the Victorian period from the Circulation Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, to be circulated by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington.

50. Modern British bookbinders [microform] : an exhibition of modern British bookbinding / by members of Designer Bookbinders.