On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Reference Library / Date: 1940 / Period: 20th century / Classification: Books

1. The Cambridge bibliography of English literature, edited by F.W. Bateson.

Creator:: Bateson, Frederick Wilse, 1901–1978
Date:: 1940-57
Physical Description:: 5 v. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

2. Roger Fry : a biography / Virginia Woolf ; edited by Diane F. Gillespie.

Creator:: Woolf, Virginia, 1882–1941
Date:: 1995
Physical Description:: xlix, 389 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

3. A brief survey of the history of Bisham Church, Berkshire / compiled by H.A. Jones; interior photographs by Cyril Roberts.

Date:: 194-?]
Physical Description:: 16 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

4. A history of the uniforms of the British Army, by Cecil C.P. Lawson. With many drawings by the author.

Creator:: Lawson, Cecil C. P
Date:: [c1961- ; v. 1, 1962]
Physical Description:: v. illus. (part col.) 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

5. The first printers and their books; a catalogue of an exhibition commemorating the five hundredth anniversary of the invention of printing, compiled by Elizabeth Mongan and Edwin Wolf, 2nd.

Creator:: Free Library of Philadelphia
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., 7-94 p. illus. (facsims) 26 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

6. The life of a painter / by Sir John Lavery.

Creator:: Lavery, John, Sir, 1856–1941
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 277 pages, [69] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

7. Thames River, eleven plates in colour and eleven illustrations in the text.

Creator:: Emanuel, William Vernon
Date:: [1940]
Physical Description:: 23, [1] p. illus.(incl. map.) XI col. pl. (incl. front.) 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

8. An eighteenth-century journal : being a record of the years 1774-1776 / Compiled by John Hampden.

Creator:: Hampden, John, 1898–1974
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 405 p. : ill., facsim., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

9. The Athenæum gallery, 1827-1873. The Boston athenæum as an early patron of art, by Mabel Munson Swan, with an introduction by Charles Knowles Bolton...

Creator:: Swan, Mabel Munson
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., [iii]-xiv, 312 p. front., plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

10. Bonington.

Creator:: Shirley, Andrew, Hon., 1900–1958
Date:: [1940]
Physical Description:: ix p., 1 l., 166 p., 1 l. front. (port) 157 pl. on 79 l. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

11. Guide to Bournemouth, Poole,and district : with descriptions of the principal motor and steamer excursions.

Creator:: Ward, Lock & Co
Date:: [194-?]
Physical Description:: 176 p., [12] leaves of plates (4 fold.) : ill., col maps, plans ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

12. Exhibition of recent paintings by Richard Sickert.

Date:: [1940]
Physical Description:: [6] p. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

13. Richard Norman Shaw, architect, 1831-1912 / a study by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

Creator:: Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856–1942
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: xii, 115 p. : ill . ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

14. Catalogue of an exhibition of flower paintings and some new bronzes by Jacob Epstein : the Leicester Galleries, October 1940.

Date:: [1940]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

15. Roger Fry, a biography [by] Virginia Woolf.

Creator:: Woolf, Virginia, 1882–1941
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 307 p. front., plates, ports. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

16. Windows of the morning; a critical study of William Blake's Poetical sketches, 1783, by Margaret Ruth Lowery.

Creator:: Lowery, Margaret Ruth
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: ix, 249 p. 2 facsim. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

17. The Carl H. Pforzheimer library, English literature, 1475-1700.

Creator:: Pforzheimer, Carl Howard, 1879–1957
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 3 v. fronts., illus., plates, ports., facsims. 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

18. Maps of Connecticut before the year 1800; a descriptive list by Edmund Thompson.

Creator:: Thompson, Edmund, 1897–1974
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 66 p. incl. front., maps (1 fold.) 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19. Notes by Horace Walpole on several characters of Shakespeare, edited by W.S. Lewis.

Creator:: Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: viii, 21 p., 2 l. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

20. Water-colours, including pictures of London in war-time by Anthony Gross : Recent paintings by Ivon Hitchens [and] New sculpture and drawings by Henry Moore : Ernest Brown & Phillips, Leicester Galleries, February, 1940.

Date:: [1940]
Physical Description:: 12 p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

21. United Artists' exhibition in aid of the Lord Mayor's Red Cross and St. John Fund and the Artists' General Benevolent Institution, Royal Academy of Arts, 1940.

Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 136 p.
Collection:: Reference Library

22. The Russells in Bloomsbury, 1669-1771 / Gladys Scott Thomson M.A., F.S.A., Somerville College Oxford.

Creator:: Thomson, Gladys Scott
Date:: [1940]
Physical Description:: 384 pages : frontispiece, portraits, plans, facsimiles ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

23. The dictionary of paper, including pulps, boards, paper properties and related papermaking terms.

Creator:: American Paper Institute
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: ix, 365 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

24. Chiltern country, by H. J. Massingham; illustrated from photographs, and from drawings by Thomas Hennell ...

Creator:: Massingham, H. J. (Harold John), 1888–1952
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: viii, 120 p. col. front., illus., plates. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

25. Holbein / herausgegeben von Hans Reinhardt ; geleitwort von Walter Dexel.

Creator:: Holbein, Hans, 1497–1543
Date:: [1940?]
Physical Description:: 160 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.

26. The eighteenth century background : studies on the idea of nature in the thought of the period / by Basil Willey.

Creator:: Willey, Basil, 1897–1978
Date:: London :
Physical Description:: viii, 301 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

27. The Roman baths of Bath : a catalogue of antiquities discovered during excavations on the site of the Roman Thermae at Bath / compiled by Alfred J. Taylor ; published by authority of the Corporation of Bath.

Creator:: Taylor, Alfred John, 1878–1938
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 57 p., [1] fold. leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

28. Banbury, Oxon : official guide and handbook ...

Date:: [1940?]
Physical Description:: 71 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

29. Chamberlain and the beautiful llama : and 101 more juxtapositions / Stefan Lorant.

Creator:: Lorant, Stefan, 1901–1997
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 237, [2] pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

30. Paintings and water-colours by John Piper [and] Paintings by Henry Lamb : Ernest Brown & Phillips, March 1940.

Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 8 p. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

31. A color atlas for fiber identification, by John H. Graff.

Creator:: Graff, John Henry
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 2 p. l., 7-27, [4] p. incl. V col. pl. 36 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

32. Printing in the fifteenth century, by George Parker Winship.

Creator:: Winship, George Parker, 1871–1952
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: xi, 158 p. facsims. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

33. Mrs. Delany / by Simon Dewes.

Creator:: Muriel, John St. Clair, 1909–
Date:: [1940]
Physical Description:: xii, 13-320 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

34. Catalogue of the first exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculpture by artists of fame and promise : the Leicester Galleries, Summer, 1940.

Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 12 p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. The Cambridge bibliography of English literature, edited by F.W. Bateson.

2. Roger Fry : a biography / Virginia Woolf ; edited by Diane F. Gillespie.

3. A brief survey of the history of Bisham Church, Berkshire / compiled by H.A. Jones; interior photographs by Cyril Roberts.

4. A history of the uniforms of the British Army, by Cecil C.P. Lawson. With many drawings by the author.

5. The first printers and their books; a catalogue of an exhibition commemorating the five hundredth anniversary of the invention of printing, compiled by Elizabeth Mongan and Edwin Wolf, 2nd.

6. The life of a painter / by Sir John Lavery.

7. Thames River, eleven plates in colour and eleven illustrations in the text.

8. An eighteenth-century journal : being a record of the years 1774-1776 / Compiled by John Hampden.

9. The Athenæum gallery, 1827-1873. The Boston athenæum as an early patron of art, by Mabel Munson Swan, with an introduction by Charles Knowles Bolton...

10. Bonington.

11. Guide to Bournemouth, Poole,and district : with descriptions of the principal motor and steamer excursions.

12. Exhibition of recent paintings by Richard Sickert.

13. Richard Norman Shaw, architect, 1831-1912 / a study by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

14. Catalogue of an exhibition of flower paintings and some new bronzes by Jacob Epstein : the Leicester Galleries, October 1940.

15. Roger Fry, a biography [by] Virginia Woolf.

16. Windows of the morning; a critical study of William Blake's Poetical sketches, 1783, by Margaret Ruth Lowery.

17. The Carl H. Pforzheimer library, English literature, 1475-1700.

18. Maps of Connecticut before the year 1800; a descriptive list by Edmund Thompson.

19. Notes by Horace Walpole on several characters of Shakespeare, edited by W.S. Lewis.

20. Water-colours, including pictures of London in war-time by Anthony Gross : Recent paintings by Ivon Hitchens [and] New sculpture and drawings by Henry Moore : Ernest Brown & Phillips, Leicester Galleries, February, 1940.

21. United Artists' exhibition in aid of the Lord Mayor's Red Cross and St. John Fund and the Artists' General Benevolent Institution, Royal Academy of Arts, 1940.

22. The Russells in Bloomsbury, 1669-1771 / Gladys Scott Thomson M.A., F.S.A., Somerville College Oxford.

23. The dictionary of paper, including pulps, boards, paper properties and related papermaking terms.

24. Chiltern country, by H. J. Massingham; illustrated from photographs, and from drawings by Thomas Hennell ...

25. Holbein / herausgegeben von Hans Reinhardt ; geleitwort von Walter Dexel.

26. The eighteenth century background : studies on the idea of nature in the thought of the period / by Basil Willey.

27. The Roman baths of Bath : a catalogue of antiquities discovered during excavations on the site of the Roman Thermae at Bath / compiled by Alfred J. Taylor ; published by authority of the Corporation of Bath.

28. Banbury, Oxon : official guide and handbook ...

29. Chamberlain and the beautiful llama : and 101 more juxtapositions / Stefan Lorant.

30. Paintings and water-colours by John Piper [and] Paintings by Henry Lamb : Ernest Brown & Phillips, March 1940.

31. A color atlas for fiber identification, by John H. Graff.

32. Printing in the fifteenth century, by George Parker Winship.

33. Mrs. Delany / by Simon Dewes.

34. Catalogue of the first exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculpture by artists of fame and promise : the Leicester Galleries, Summer, 1940.