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1. Roaming Britain; 8,000 miles through England, Scotland, and Wales. Illustrated with a map and photo. by the author.

Creator:: Price, Willard, 1887–1983
Date:: [1958]
Physical Description:: 308 p. illus. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

2. 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

3. British hills and mountains / Peter Bicknell.

Creator:: Bicknell, Peter
Date:: 1947
Physical Description:: 47, [1] p. illus.,col.plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

4. Westminster Abbey / by Mrs. A. Murray Smith (E.T. Bradley) and Lady Birchenough (M.C. Bradley) ; drawings and architectural chapter by A.J. Grahame ; plans by J.O. Cheadle ; photographs taken by David Weller and others ; with introductory chapter by Dean Bradley.

Creator:: Birchenough, Mrs., 1860–1936
Date:: 1922
Physical Description:: viii, 111 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

5. A handbook for London : past and present / by Peter Cunningham.

Creator:: Cunningham, Peter, 1816–1869
Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (933 pages) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Scott Wilcox.

6. Visits to remarkable places. Illus. designed and executed by Samuel Williams.

Creator:: Howitt, William, 1792–1879
Date:: 1891
Physical Description:: xvi, 468 p. illus. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

7. Literary landscapes of the British Isles : a narrative atlas / David Daiches & John Flower.

Creator:: Daiches, David, 1912–2005
Date:: c1979
Physical Description:: 287 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

8. Recording Britain : a pictorial Domesday of pre-war Britain / David Mellor, Gill Saunders, Patrick Wright.

Creator:: Mellor, David
Date:: [1990]
Physical Description:: 160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

9. A prospect of Britain , [by] Andrew Young, with 20 photographs by J. Allan Cash.

Creator:: Young, Andrew, 1885–1971
Date:: [1956?]
Physical Description:: 200 p., illus. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

10. A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.

A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.

Creator:: Daniell, William, 1769–1837
Date:: c1978
Physical Description:: 2 v. plates. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

11. The British heritage; the people, their crafts and achievements as recorded in their buildings and on the face of the countryside.

Date:: [1948]
Physical Description:: 320 p. illus. (part col.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

12. The railroad book of England: historical, topographical, and picturesque; descriptive of the cities, towns, country seats and other subject s of local interest.

Creator:: Churton, Edward, d. 1885
Date:: 1851]
Physical Description:: xxxiv, 590 p. incl. front., illus. fold. map. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

13. The rail road book of England: historical, topographical and picturesque; descriptive of the cities, towns, country seats, and other subjects of local interest, with a brief sketch of the lines in Scotland and Wales.

Creator:: Churton, Edward, d. 1885
Date:: 1973-
Physical Description:: v. illus., map. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

14. Discovering cottage architecture / Christopher Powell.

Creator:: Powell, C. G. (Christopher G.)
Date:: 1996
Physical Description:: 104 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

15. Writers at home.

Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: 184 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

16. The National trust book of long walks in England, Scotland, and Wales / Adam Nicolson ; photographs by Charlie Waite.

Creator:: Nicolson, Adam, 1957–
Date:: c1981
Physical Description:: 287 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

17. The counties of Britain : a Tudor atlas / by John Speed ; introduction by Nigel Nicholson ; county commentaries by Alasdair Hawkyrd.

Creator:: Speed, John, 1552?-1629
Date:: 1988
Physical Description:: 288 p. : ill. (some col.), col. facsims., col. maps, ports. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

18. The age of exuberance, 1550-1700 / Michael Reed.

Creator:: Reed, Michael A
Date:: 1986
Physical Description:: xvii, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19. A tour through the whole island of Great Britain / Daniel Defoe ; abridged and edited by P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens; picture research by A.J. Coulson.

Creator:: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Date:: 1991
Physical Description:: xiii, 417 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

20. British highways and byways from a motor car, being a record of a five thousand mile tour in England, Wales and Scotland, by Thos. D. Murphy. With sixteen illustrations in colour and thirty-two duogravures from photographs; also two descriptive maps.

Creator:: Murphy, Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler), 1866–1928
Date:: 1908
Physical Description:: 5 p. l., 318 p. 32 pl., 16 col. pl. (incl. front.) 2 fold. maps. 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

21. The real counties of Britain / Russell Grant.

Creator:: Grant, Russell
Date:: 1989
Physical Description:: 242 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.

22. England, Scotland, & Ireland, a picturesque survey of the United Kingdom and its institutions, by P. Villars; tr. by Henry Frith. With six hundred illustrations.

Creator:: Villars, Paul, 1849–1935
Date:: 1887
Physical Description:: xiv p., 1 l., 222, 277, 154, [6] p. incl. front., illus., port. 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

23. AA guide to National Trust properties in Britain.

Date:: c1986
Physical Description:: 192 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

24. The landscapes of Britain. With 24 plates in colour from the author's paintings

Creator:: Bone, Stephen, 1904–1958
Date:: [1949]
Physical Description:: x, 148 p. illus. (part col.) 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

25. This unknown island ...

Creator:: Mais, S. P. B. (Stuart Petre Brodie), 1885–1975
Date:: [1932]
Physical Description:: xx, 390 p. illus. (maps) plates. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

26. The quiet places. With 66 plates by the author.

Creator:: Collier, Basil
Date:: [1957]
Physical Description:: 64 p. illus. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

27. A literary pilgrim : an illustrated guide to Britain's literary heritage / Edward Thomas ; edited and with an introduction by Michael Justin Davis, with photographs by Simon McBride.

A literary pilgrim : an illustrated guide to Britain's literary heritage / Edward Thomas ; edited and with an introduction by Michael Justin Davis, with photographs by Simon McBride.

Creator:: Thomas, Edward, 1878–1917
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: 224 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

28. Sovereign Britain.

Creator:: Reynolds, James, 1891–1957
Date:: [c1955]
Physical Description:: xvi, 368 p. illus. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

29. Over here / Raymond Seitz.

Creator:: Seitz, Raymond
Date:: c1998
Physical Description:: xii, 372 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

30. Photographing in old England : with some snap shots in Scotland and Wales / by W.I. Lincoln Adams ; illustrated with photographs from nature, by the author and others.

Creator:: Adams, W. I. Lincoln (Washington Irving Lincoln), 1865–1946
Date:: 1910
Physical Description:: 111 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

31. The discovery of Britain : the English tourists, 1540-1840 / Esther Moir.

Creator:: Moir, Esther
Date:: 1964
Physical Description:: xvi, 183 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

32. Untrodden English ways, by Henry C. Shelley. With ... illus. from drawings by H.C. Colby and from photographs by the author.

Creator:: Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles)
Date:: 1910
Physical Description:: xv, 341 p. illus. (part col.) 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

33. 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

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1. Roaming Britain; 8,000 miles through England, Scotland, and Wales. Illustrated with a map and photo. by the author.

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

3. British hills and mountains / Peter Bicknell.

4. Westminster Abbey / by Mrs. A. Murray Smith (E.T. Bradley) and Lady Birchenough (M.C. Bradley) ; drawings and architectural chapter by A.J. Grahame ; plans by J.O. Cheadle ; photographs taken by David Weller and others ; with introductory chapter by Dean Bradley.

5. A handbook for London : past and present / by Peter Cunningham.

6. Visits to remarkable places. Illus. designed and executed by Samuel Williams.

7. Literary landscapes of the British Isles : a narrative atlas / David Daiches & John Flower.

8. Recording Britain : a pictorial Domesday of pre-war Britain / David Mellor, Gill Saunders, Patrick Wright.

9. A prospect of Britain , [by] Andrew Young, with 20 photographs by J. Allan Cash.

10. A voyage round Great Britain, undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, and commencing from the Land's-End, Cornwall, by Richard Ayton. With a series of views, illustrative of the character and prominent features of the coast, drawn and engraved by William Daniell, A.R.A.

11. The British heritage; the people, their crafts and achievements as recorded in their buildings and on the face of the countryside.

12. The railroad book of England: historical, topographical, and picturesque; descriptive of the cities, towns, country seats and other subject s of local interest.

13. The rail road book of England: historical, topographical and picturesque; descriptive of the cities, towns, country seats, and other subjects of local interest, with a brief sketch of the lines in Scotland and Wales.

14. Discovering cottage architecture / Christopher Powell.

15. Writers at home.

16. The National trust book of long walks in England, Scotland, and Wales / Adam Nicolson ; photographs by Charlie Waite.

17. The counties of Britain : a Tudor atlas / by John Speed ; introduction by Nigel Nicholson ; county commentaries by Alasdair Hawkyrd.

18. The age of exuberance, 1550-1700 / Michael Reed.

19. A tour through the whole island of Great Britain / Daniel Defoe ; abridged and edited by P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens; picture research by A.J. Coulson.

20. British highways and byways from a motor car, being a record of a five thousand mile tour in England, Wales and Scotland, by Thos. D. Murphy. With sixteen illustrations in colour and thirty-two duogravures from photographs; also two descriptive maps.

21. The real counties of Britain / Russell Grant.

22. England, Scotland, & Ireland, a picturesque survey of the United Kingdom and its institutions, by P. Villars; tr. by Henry Frith. With six hundred illustrations.

23. AA guide to National Trust properties in Britain.

24. The landscapes of Britain. With 24 plates in colour from the author's paintings

25. This unknown island ...

26. The quiet places. With 66 plates by the author.

27. A literary pilgrim : an illustrated guide to Britain's literary heritage / Edward Thomas ; edited and with an introduction by Michael Justin Davis, with photographs by Simon McBride.

28. Sovereign Britain.

29. Over here / Raymond Seitz.

30. Photographing in old England : with some snap shots in Scotland and Wales / by W.I. Lincoln Adams ; illustrated with photographs from nature, by the author and others.

31. The discovery of Britain : the English tourists, 1540-1840 / Esther Moir.

32. Untrodden English ways, by Henry C. Shelley. With ... illus. from drawings by H.C. Colby and from photographs by the author.

33. 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.