Period: 18th century / Associated Places: Great Britain / Image Available: Unavailable / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Classification: Books

1. Biographia britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, to the present times : collected from the best authorities, printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary.

Date:: 1778-1793
Physical Description:: 5 v. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, in England and Wales / by the most eminent British artists : with a description of each seat.

Date:: [1786-1788]
Physical Description:: [101] leaves, [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The carpenter's companion for Chinese railing and gates : containing thirty-three entire new and beautiful designs ... : the whole correctly and neatly engraved on sixteen copper plates from the original drawings of J.H. Morris ... and J. Crunden.

Creator:: Morris, J. H
Date:: 1765
Physical Description:: [2], [16] plates : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The elegant repository and new-print magazine : including engravings from original pictures of the most pleasing subjects, furnished by the art of design.

Date:: [1791-1792]
Physical Description:: XII parts ([48] p., [37] leaves of plates ) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. An Act for the better preservation of the game in that part of Great Britain called England.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [2], 683-686 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A correct view of the telegraph : with the cabin, and manner of working explained / engraved and sold, by Mr. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

Creator:: Orme, Daniel, b. 1767
Date:: [1796]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill. ; 15 cm. + [1] plate.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Rural architecture, or, Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa / including some of which have been executed by the author, John Plaw.

Creator:: Plaw, John, 1744 or 5–1820
Date:: 1790
Physical Description:: 8, viii, [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. An account of Roman antiquities discovered at Woodchester in the county of Gloucester / by Samuel Lysons ...

Creator:: Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [6], 20, [4], 21, [1] p., XL leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), map, plans ; 59 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Bowles's polite recreation in drawing : containing picturesque portraits of fashionable faces that frequent the genteel watering places : including fifty-two well known heads and the animals they resemble.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: [1779]
Physical Description:: [1], [26] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

Date:: 1771 [i.e. 1772]
Physical Description:: [2], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Remarks made in a tour from London to the lakes of Westmoreland and Cumberland in the summer of M.DCC.XCI. Originally published in the Whitehall Evening Post, and now reprinted with additions and corrections. To which is annexed, A sketch of the police, religion, arts, and agriculture of France, made in an excursion to Paris in M.DCC.LXXXV. By A. Walker, ...

Creator:: Walker, A. (Adam), 1730 or 31–1821
Date:: M,DCC,XCII [1792]
Physical Description:: [6], 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The acts of Parliament relating to the building fifty new churches in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and for making provision for the ministers thereof, as also His Majesty's letters patent, appointing commissioners for the purposes aforesaid.

Creator:: Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc
Date:: 1721
Physical Description:: 179, [21] p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Britannicarum gentium historiae antiquae scriptores tres : Ricardus Corinensis, Gildas Badonicus, Nennius Banchorensis / recensuit notisque & indice auxit Carolus Bertramus.

Creator:: Bertram, Charles, 1723–1765
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: 198 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A political and satirical history of the years 1756 and 1757 : in a series of seventy-five humourous and entertaining prints : containing all the most remarkable transactions, characters and caricaturas of those two memorable years : to which is annexed, an explanatory account or key to every print, which renders the whole full and significant.

Date:: [1758?]
Physical Description:: 15, [1] p., 75 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. An Act more effectually to prevent the stealing of deer, and to repeal several former statutes made for the like purpose.

Creator:: Great Britain
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: [2], 839-854 p. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Letters concerning the present state of England. Particularly respecting the politics, arts, manners, and literature of the times.

Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., ii, 9-402 p. 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for publick and private buildings / publish'd by William Kent, with some additional designs.

Creator:: Jones, Inigo, 1573–1652
Date:: MDCCXXVII [1727]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 46-52 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A letter to George, Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries, &c. &c. &c. : read to the Society Feb. 7, 1788 / from John Henniker, Esq., ...

Creator:: Henniker, John Henniker-Major, Baron, 1752–1821
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: 64 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

19. An answer to certain assertions : contained in the appendix to a pamphlet entitled Minutes of the proceedings on the court martial held at Portsmouth, August 12, 1792, on ten persons charged with mutiny on board His Majesty's Ship the Bounty / by Captain William Bligh.

Creator:: Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [2], 31, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A tour through the Isle of Man : to which is subjoined a review of the Manks history / by David Robertson, Esq.

Creator:: Robertson, David, active 1794
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [12], 233, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

Creator:: Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718–1785
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Ogilby's and Morgan's Pocket-book of the roads : with their computed and measured distances, and the distinction of market and post towns : also a table for the ready finding any road, city, or market-town, and its distance from London : a sheet-map of England, fitted to bind with the book : and an exact account of all the fairs, both fixed and movable, in alphabetical order, shewing the days on which they are held / by William Morgan ...

Creator:: Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: [40], 17-166 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. [Rural views].

Creator:: John Bluck, active 1791–1819
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The antiquities of England and Wales / by Francis Grose ...

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1773-1787
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill., maps, port., plans ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Designs in perspective for villas in the ancient castle and Grecian styles / by Robert Morison ; part the first.

Creator:: Morison, Robert
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [8] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Museum Britannicum, or, A display in thirty two plates, in antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk ...

Creator:: Rymsdyk, Jan van, active 1750–1788
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: [2], 2, 2, [8], xvii, [1], 88 pages, XXX leaves of plates : illustrations ; 48 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. An Act for better preservation of the game, within that part of Great Britain called England.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: [2], 347-350 p. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1744
Physical Description:: 2 p.l., 180 [i.e. 186] p., [1] l. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The chair-maker's guide : being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain ... / by Robert Manwaring, ... ; and others ; the whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper plates.

Creator:: Manwaring, Robert
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: [2] p., [75] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. [Artificial slate roofs].

Creator:: Searles, Michael, fl. 1779–1781
Date:: 178-?]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England, now existing, either by tenure, summons or creation : their descents and collateral lines : their births, marriages, and issues ... : also their paternal coats of arms, crests, and supporters ... : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities / by Arthur Collins ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1741
Physical Description:: 4 v. : coats of arms ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

Date:: 1766-1769
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Select views in Great Britain / engrav'd by S. Middiman ; from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions.

Creator:: Middiman, Samuel, approximately 1750–1831
Date:: [1784-1792]
Physical Description:: [112] p., 49 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales .../ by Daniel Paterson ...

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xxxv, [1] p., 390 columns, 391-406 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

Creator:: Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: MDCCLXXXI [1776]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, ii, 11, [5] pages, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The young ladies school of arts : containing a great variety of practical receipts, in gum-flowers, filligree, japanning, shell-work, gilding ... : also a great many curious receipts both useful and entertaining, never published / by Mrs. Hannah Robertson.

Creator:: Robertson, Hannah
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: xx, [2], 182 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The itinerant : a select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland / engraved from original paintings & drawings, by eminent artists.

Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [101] leaves : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Prospects of all the cathedral & collegiate churches of England & Wales , neatly engraved = Veues de toutes les eglises, cathedrals et collegiats d'Angleterre et de Galle, proprement gravée.

Date:: [ca. 1720?]
Physical Description:: [9] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The complete sportsman, or, Country gentleman's recreation : containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game cocks, with the best methods of fighting them : of rearing and backing colts : of managing race-horses, hunters, &c. : of horse-racing : of bowling : of hare-hunting : of fox-hunting : of buck-hunting : of otter-hunting : of coursing : of breeding and ordering dogs for the gun or chase, &c. : of angling in all its various branches : of breeding pigeons, rabbets, canary birds, &c. : of finding the haunts of partridges, pheasants, and all manner of game : of shooting, and of shooting flying, &c. : together, with several other equally curious articles, too numerous to be mentioned in this title page / by Thomas Fairfax, Esq.

Creator:: Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.
Date:: [1760?]
Physical Description:: vi, [1], 8-240, [1], 2-24 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Magnae Britanniae Notitia : or, The present state of Great Britain; with divers remarks upon the antient state thereof. / By John Chamberlayne, ...

Creator:: Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616–1703
Date:: MDCCXXIII (1723)
Physical Description:: [4], vi, [12], 672, 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. A list of the peers existing at the time of King James I : his accession to the crown, and of those who have since been advanced to the peerage by claim of ancient right, by writ, or by patent : as also of the several peers extinct in his and the succeeding reigns.

Date:: Printed in the year MDCCLXII [1772]
Physical Description:: 16 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 33 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A succinct description of that elaborate pile of art, call'd the microcosm.

Date:: 1760
Physical Description:: 32 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. An heroic postscript to the public, occasioned by their favourable reception of a late heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... By the author of that epistle ...

Creator:: Mason, William, 1725–1797
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 14 p. 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England ... : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities / by Arthur Collins ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1735
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 4 : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... / originally begun by the celebrated Daniel De Foe, continued by the late Mr. Richardson ... and brought down to the present time by gentlemen of eminence in the literary world.

Creator:: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Date:: 1779
Physical Description:: 4 v. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

Creator:: Longmate, Barak, 1738–1793
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. A catalogue and description of King Charles the First's capital collection of pictures, limnings, statures, bronzes, medals and other curiosities : now first published from an original manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford / the whole transcribed and prepared for the Press, and a great part of it printed, by the late ingenious Mr. Vertue, and now finished form his papers.

Creator:: Van der Doort, Abraham, -1640–
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [2], iv, 202 p. ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

Creator:: Boswell, James, 1740–1795
Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: 43 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo).
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. 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. Engraved on thirty plates. To which is added, an introduction, containing many useful observations on this class of building; tending to the comfort of the poor and advantage of the builder : with calculations of expences / by the late Mr. J. Wood, of Bath, Architect.

Creator:: Wood, John, -1782
Date:: MDCCXCII (1792)
Physical Description:: [2], 38 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The curiosities, natural and artificial, of the island of Great Britain : containing a full and accurate description of whatever is remarkable and worthy of notice in the works of nature and art in the several counties, cities, towns, villages &c. of England, Wales and Scotland : the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, public buildings, places of resort and entertainment, &c. : carefully and faithfully displayed.

Date:: [1780?]
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. At a special committee of the Light-Horse Volunteers, held the 25th of October 1798.

Creator:: Great Britain. Army. London and Westminster Light House Volunteers
Date:: [1798]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The elements of clock and watch-work : adapted to practice : in two essays / by Alexander Cumming.

Creator:: Cumming, Alexander, 1733–1814
Date:: 1766
Physical Description:: 192, [14] p., [16] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. An Act for making the Act of the fifth year of Her Majesties reign, for the better preservation of the game, perpetual, and for making the same more effectual.

Creator:: Great Britain
Date:: [1711]
Physical Description:: [2], 531-533, [1] p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. The ode for the opening of the new exhibition room of the Royal Incorporated Society of Artists of Great Britain.

Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 8 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Letters and memorials of state : in the reigns of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles the First, part of the reign of King Charles the Second, and Oliver's usurpation / written and collected by Sir Henry Sydney, the famous Sir Philip Sydney, and his brother Sir Robert Sydney ..., Robert, the second earl of Leicester ..., Philip, lord viscount Lisle ... and of his brother, Colonel Algernon Sydney ... ; together with letters of the other ministers of state, with whom they held a correspondence ; the whole containing the antient state of Ireland, with characters and private memoirs ; also, the antient government of the principality of Wales, the wars between the Spaniards, and the States-General in the Netherlands, negotiations between the courts of England, France, &c., the intriegues of the several courts of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charles the First ; with other remarkable transactions, both at home and abroad, during those times, not hitherto known, faithfully transcribed from the originals ; whereunto is added, genealogical and historical observations, also memoirs of the lives and actions of the Sydneys, and their noble ancestors, the Dudleys, Grey, Talbot,

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1746
Physical Description:: 2 v. : port. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The gentleman and farmer's architect : a new work, containing a great variety of useful and genteel designs : being correct plans and elevations of parsonage and farm houses, lodges for parks, pinery, peach, hot and green houses, with the fire-wall, tan-pit, &c. particularly described : dutch, and other barns, cow-houses, stables, sheep-cots, huts, facades : with all offices appertaining to a well regulated farm : their situations rendered convenient, and aspects agreeable : with scales and tables of reference, describing the several parts, with their just dimensions and use / designed and drawn by T. Lightoler, Architect ; and well engraved on twenty-five folio copper plates.

Creator:: Lightoler, T. (Timothy), 18th cent
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 25 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. A tour to the west of England, in 1788 / By the Rev. S. Shaw, ...

Creator:: Shaw, Stebbing, 1762–1802
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: viii, 602 p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. The peerage of England : or, An historical and genealogical account of the present nobility : containing the descent, original creations, and most remarkable actions of them and their respective ancestors : also, the chief titles of honour, and preferment they now enjoy ... To which is prefix'd An introduction to the present royal family of Great Britain ...

Creator:: Collins, Arthur, 1682?-1760
Date:: 1710
Physical Description:: [10], 408, 158 p., [2] leaves of plates : portraits, coats of arms ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Memoirs of the Royal academicians; being an attempt to improve the national taste. By Anthony Pasquin ...

Creator:: Williams, John, 1754–1818?
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 3 p.., [5]-148 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Remarks on the different constructions of bridges, and improvements to secure their foundations on the different soils where they are intended to be built : which hitherto seems to have been a thing not sufficiently consider'd.

Creator:: Marquand, Charles
Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: 15 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Designs, and estimates, of farm houses, &c. for the county of York, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Bishoprick of Durham / by Daniel Garret.

Creator:: Garret, Daniel, -1753
Date:: MDCCLIX [1759]
Physical Description:: [4], 11, [1] p., [8] folded leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Cantabrigia illustrata : contenant: les vûës de la ville de Cambridge, avec ses edifices, & ses maisons de campagne, comme aussi des autres lieux circonvoisins; representées en tailles-douces très exactes, avec des explications dessous chaque planche.

Creator:: Loggan, David, 1635–1700?
Date:: [ca. 1700]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [44] leaves of plates, [1] folded : ill., maps ; 20 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Original designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for villas, mansions, town-houses, &c., and a new design for a theatre : with descriptions, and explanations of the plates, and an introduction to the work / by James Lewis = Disegni originali di architettura : consistenti in piante, elevazioni, e spaccati di varie case di campagna, et di città : con un projetto di un teatro : preceduti da una introduzione, ed accompagnati dalle necessaire spiegazioni / da Giacomo Lewis.

Creator:: Lewis, James, 1750 or 1751–1820
Date:: MDCCLXXX [1780]-1797
Physical Description:: 2 v. : chiefly ill. ; 60 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The English baronetage : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English baronets, now existing ... illustrated with their coats of arms ... to which are added, an account of such Nova-Scotia baronets as are of English families, now resident in England : and a list of such persons names who were deemed fit and qualifiwed at the restoration, to be made Knights of the Royal Oak ...

Creator:: Wotton, Thomas, d. 1766
Date:: 1741
Physical Description:: 4 v. in 5 : coats of arms ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Minutes of the proceedings at a court-martial assembled for the trial of the Honourable Admiral Augustus Keppel : on a charge exhibited against him by Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, as taken by George Jackson, Esq; Judge-Advocate of His Majesty's Fleet. Published by order of the Right Honourble the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. : With an appendix containing all the letters and papers that have any relation to the trial.

Creator:: Keppel, Augustus Keppel, Viscount, 1725–1786
Date:: MDCCLXIX [1779]
Physical Description:: [4], 182 p. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The nobleman and gentleman's director and assistant, in the true choice of their wheel-carriages : being entire new designs for travelling-coaches, post-coaches, landaus both open and close, chariots, post-chariots, calashes, post-chaises, phaetons, and other vehicles, &c. curiously hung on steel springs. Being a work of universal use, not only to gentlemen, but coach-makers and spring-makers in general. The wheels and axle-trees are made of a proper height, so as to enable the horses to draw freely and with the greatest ease; many a fine horse having been totally spoiled by going up great ascents, and all owing to fixing improperly the wheels and axis. The whole drawn from original designs, executed and correctly engraved on thirty-six copper plates.

Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: [2] p., 36 leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

Creator:: Shebbeare, John, 1709–1788
Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. More lyric odes to the Royal academicians / by Peter Pindar, esquire ; a distant relation of the poet of Thebes, and laureat to the academy.

Creator:: Pindar, Peter, 1738–1819
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: 35, [1] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. All sorts of wheel-carriage, improved : wherein it is plainly made appear, that a much less than the usual draught of horses, &c. will be requir'd, in waggons, carts, coaches, and all other wheel vehicles, as likewise all water-mills, wind-mills and horse-mills ... The whole illustrated with copper plates ... And an explanation of the structure of a coach and cart, according to this method / by Jacob Rowe, Esq;.

Creator:: Rowe, Jacob
Date:: 1734
Physical Description:: [4], 38, [2] p. (last leaf blank), [5] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great-Britain ... / by Daniel Paterson ...

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: xvi p., 702 columns, [1], 704-759, lxii p., [2] leaves of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Le cabinet des plus beaux portraits des plusieurs princes & princesses, hommes illustres, fameux peintres & autres / faits par le fameux Antoine Van Dyck, Chevalier et Peintre du Roi, quel l'auteur a fait graver à ses propres dépens, par les meilleurs graveurs de son temps ; cette ouvrage peut aussi servir pour supplement au Cabinet du fameux van Dyck, imprimez à Anvers.

Creator:: Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641
Date:: MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [49] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The complete English traveller, or, A new survey and description of England and Wales : containing a full account of whatever is curious and entertaining in the several counties of England and Wales, the isles of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, and other islands adjoining to, and dependant on the crown of Great Britain ... : to which is added, a concise and accurate description of ... Scotland .../ by Nathaniel Spencer ...

Creator:: Sanders, Robert, 1727–1783
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: iv, 696 [i.e. 700], [12] p., [61] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. [Cost of artificial slate in roofing compared with that of plain tiles and that of slate].

Creator:: Searles, Michael, fl. 1779–1781
Date:: 1779?]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The beauties of England, or, A comprehensive view of the public structures, the seats of the nobility and gentry, the two universities, the cities, market towns, antiquities and curiosities, natural and artificial, for which this island is remarkable : including a circumstantial account of the curiosities of London and Westminster : divided into the respective counties and intended as a travelling pocket companion ...

Creator:: Luckombe, Philip, -1803
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: xxii, 344 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The new complete sportsman, or, The town and country gentleman's recreation : containing among the various diversions which are made plain and easy to every capacity ...: together with many other equally curious articles, too numerous to mention here, and including many useful directions to horse-feeders, grooms and others ...

Creator:: Fairfax, Thomas, Esq
Date:: 1770
Physical Description:: iv, 302 [i.e. 202], [2] p, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. An essay on design in gardening.

Creator:: Mason, George, 1735–1806
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: [iv], 54 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: [4], 75, [1] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. An abstract of the act of Parliament made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, King George III. intitled, An act for the further and better regulation of buildings and party-walls, and for the more effectually preventing mischief by fire, within the cities of London and Westminster ... Calculated for the use of builders, and workmen in general.

Creator:: Matthews, John, 1748–
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: viii, 76, [12] p. 3 fold. plates. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. A catalogue of the collection of pictures, &c. belonging to King James the Second : to which is added, A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the closet of the late Queen Caroline, with their exact measures, and also of the principal pictures in the palace at Kensington.

Creator:: Chiffinch, William, 1602?-1688
Date:: MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:: iv, 144, 51, [3] p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. A sure method of improving estates, by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice-woods, &c. : wherein is demonstrated the necessity and advantages thereof : their manner of raising, cultivating, felling, &c., in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improv'd : offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain / by Batty Langley, of Twickenham.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:: [10], xx, 274 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. A new display of the beauties of England, or, A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom.

Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Six new designs for convenient farm-houses : with their proper offices : ... both in in brick and stone : adapted more particularly to the western counties in England, and the whole principality of Wales ... : [part II] Six new designs for convenient farm-houses ... : adapted more particularly to the northern counties in England and all Scotland ... / by William Halfpenny ; ... published ... May 20th, 1751.

Creator:: Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: [2], 46 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. An account of the operations carried on for accomplishing a trigonometrical survey of England and Wales ...

Creator:: Mudge, William, 1762–1820
Date:: 1799-1811
Physical Description:: 3 v. plates (partly fold.) incl. maps, tables, diagrs. 29 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

Date:: [1776]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves, [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. The seats of the nobility and gentry : in a collection of the most interesting & picturesque views / engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.

Creator:: Watts, William, 1752–1851
Date:: January 1st, 1779 [i.e. 1779-1786]
Physical Description:: [172] p., LXXXIV leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Heraldry in miniature; containing all the arms, crests, supporters, and mottos, of the peers, peeresses, and bishops, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the baronets of Great Britain; and the insignia of the different orders of knighthood in the three kingdoms: also an introduction to the science of heraldry, a dictionary of heraldic terms ...

Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 36, [20] p. plates. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... / by Daniel Paterson ...

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: viii, xxiv p., 272 columns, [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Monastic remains and ancient castles in England and Wales / drawn on the spot by James Moore ... ; finished and etched by J. Schnebbelie ... ; aquatinted by G.J.[!] Parkyns ...

Creator:: Moore, James, 1762–1799
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 1 pt. ([6], 12 p., [6] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. The cocker : humbly inscribed to those gentlemen who are amateurs of the game cock, that prodigy of British valour / by a gentleman who has been in the habit of breeding these eight and twenty years.

Creator:: Sketchley, William
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 45, [28] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. The art of painting, and the lives of painters: containing, a compleat treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints ... Done from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English-school, with the lives and characters of above 100 painters.

Creator:: Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:: 1706
Physical Description:: 480 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. The balnea, or, An impartial description of all the popular watering places in England : interspersed with original sketches and incidental anecdotes ... : with observations on several ancient and respectable towns and cities leading to the above remarkable places / by George Saville Carey ...

Creator:: Carey, George Saville, 1743–1807
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: xii, 275 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The present state of Great Britain and North America : with regard to agriculture, population, trade, and manufactures, impartially considered : containing a particular account of the dearth and scarcity of the necessaries of life in England; the want of staple commodities in the Colonies; the decline of their trade; increase of people; and necessity of manufactures, as well as of a trade in them hereafter : in which the causes and consequences of there growing evils, and methods of preventing them, are suggested; the proper regulations for the Colonies, and the taxes imposed upon them, are considered, and compared with their condition and circumstances.

Creator:: Mitchell, John, 1711–1768
Date:: MDCCLXVII [1767]
Physical Description:: [8], xvi, 363, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. A complete history of English peerage : from the best authorities / by William Guthrie ... ; illustrated with elegant copper-plates of the arms of the nobility, blazoned in the heralds-office, by the proper officers, copper-plates of the premiers in their parliamentary robes ; and at the conclusion of the history of each family, vignets, and other ornaments, proper for the subject.

Creator:: Guthrie, William, 1708–1770
Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Tracts on practical agriculture and gardening : particularly addressed to the gentlemen-farmers in Great-Britain : with several useful improvements in stoves and green-houses : to which is added a chronological catalogue of English authors on agriculture, botany, gardening, &c. / by R. Weston ...

Creator:: Weston, Richard, 1733–1806
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: iv, xxxi, [1], 298, 136 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. A complete round of cyphers for the use of engravers, painters, sculptors, jewellers, hair workers, enamellers, pattern-drawers, &c. : consisting of six hundred examples for the forming of cyphers of every denomination. / designed and engraved by Garnet Terry.

Creator:: Terry, Garnet
Date:: [1795]
Physical Description:: 26, [1] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Plocacosmos, or, The whole art of hair dressing : wherein is contained, ample rules for the young artizan, more particularly for ladies women, valets, &c. &c. : as well as directions for persons to dress their own hair ... / by James Stewart. With an elegant frontispiece, and other copper-plates.

Creator:: Stewart, James
Date:: MDCCLXXII [1782]
Physical Description:: [6], 435, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Traité des édifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustensils des chinois : gravé sur les originaux dessinés a la Chine / par M. Chambers, architecte anglois ; compris une description de leurs temples, maisons, jardins, &c.

Creator:: Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: 30 p., XX leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Rules and instructions for playing at skittles / by a Society of gentlemen.

Creator:: Society of Arts (Great Britain). Society of Gentlemen
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) : illustration, plan ; 46 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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2. Picturesque views of the principal seats of the nobility and gentry, in England and Wales / by the most eminent British artists : with a description of each seat.

3. The carpenter's companion for Chinese railing and gates : containing thirty-three entire new and beautiful designs ... : the whole correctly and neatly engraved on sixteen copper plates from the original drawings of J.H. Morris ... and J. Crunden.

4. The elegant repository and new-print magazine : including engravings from original pictures of the most pleasing subjects, furnished by the art of design.

5. An Act for the better preservation of the game in that part of Great Britain called England.

6. A correct view of the telegraph : with the cabin, and manner of working explained / engraved and sold, by Mr. Orme, historical engraver to His Majesty, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

7. Rural architecture, or, Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa / including some of which have been executed by the author, John Plaw.

8. An account of Roman antiquities discovered at Woodchester in the county of Gloucester / by Samuel Lysons ...

9. Bowles's polite recreation in drawing : containing picturesque portraits of fashionable faces that frequent the genteel watering places : including fifty-two well known heads and the animals they resemble.

10. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

12. The acts of Parliament relating to the building fifty new churches in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and for making provision for the ministers thereof, as also His Majesty's letters patent, appointing commissioners for the purposes aforesaid.

13. Britannicarum gentium historiae antiquae scriptores tres : Ricardus Corinensis, Gildas Badonicus, Nennius Banchorensis / recensuit notisque & indice auxit Carolus Bertramus.

15. An Act more effectually to prevent the stealing of deer, and to repeal several former statutes made for the like purpose.

16. Letters concerning the present state of England. Particularly respecting the politics, arts, manners, and literature of the times.

17. The designs of Inigo Jones : consisting of plans and elevations for publick and private buildings / publish'd by William Kent, with some additional designs.

18. A letter to George, Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries, &c. &c. &c. : read to the Society Feb. 7, 1788 / from John Henniker, Esq., ...

19. An answer to certain assertions : contained in the appendix to a pamphlet entitled Minutes of the proceedings on the court martial held at Portsmouth, August 12, 1792, on ten persons charged with mutiny on board His Majesty's Ship the Bounty / by Captain William Bligh.

20. A tour through the Isle of Man : to which is subjoined a review of the Manks history / by David Robertson, Esq.

21. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

23. [Rural views].

24. The antiquities of England and Wales / by Francis Grose ...

25. Designs in perspective for villas in the ancient castle and Grecian styles / by Robert Morison ; part the first.

26. Museum Britannicum, or, A display in thirty two plates, in antiquities and natural curiosities, in that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : after the original designs from nature / by John and Andrew van Rymsdyk ...

27. An Act for better preservation of the game, within that part of Great Britain called England.

28. An account of the life of Mr Richard Savage, son of the Earl Rivers.

29. The chair-maker's guide : being upwards of two hundred new and genteel designs, both decorative and plain ... / by Robert Manwaring, ... ; and others ; the whole neatly engraved on seventy-five copper plates.

30. [Artificial slate roofs].

32. The chimney-piece-maker's daily assistant, or, A treasury of new designs for chimney-pieces.

33. Select views in Great Britain / engrav'd by S. Middiman ; from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions.

34. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales .../ by Daniel Paterson ...

35. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

36. The young ladies school of arts : containing a great variety of practical receipts, in gum-flowers, filligree, japanning, shell-work, gilding ... : also a great many curious receipts both useful and entertaining, never published / by Mrs. Hannah Robertson.

37. The itinerant : a select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland / engraved from original paintings & drawings, by eminent artists.

38. Prospects of all the cathedral & collegiate churches of England & Wales , neatly engraved = Veues de toutes les eglises, cathedrals et collegiats d'Angleterre et de Galle, proprement gravée.

40. Magnae Britanniae Notitia : or, The present state of Great Britain; with divers remarks upon the antient state thereof. / By John Chamberlayne, ...

41. A list of the peers existing at the time of King James I : his accession to the crown, and of those who have since been advanced to the peerage by claim of ancient right, by writ, or by patent : as also of the several peers extinct in his and the succeeding reigns.

42. The patriot : addressed to the electors of Great Britain.

43. A succinct description of that elaborate pile of art, call'd the microcosm.

44. An heroic postscript to the public, occasioned by their favourable reception of a late heroic epistle to Sir William Chambers ... By the author of that epistle ...

45. The peerage of England : containing a genealogical and historical account of all the peers of England ... : collected from records, old wills, authentick manuscripts, our most approv'd historians, and other authorities / by Arthur Collins ...

46. A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ... / originally begun by the celebrated Daniel De Foe, continued by the late Mr. Richardson ... and brought down to the present time by gentlemen of eminence in the literary world.

47. The pocket peerage of England, Scotland, & Ireland : containing the descent and present state of every noble family : with the extinct, forfeited and dormant titles of the three kingdoms : also, indexes with the arms emblazoned and mottoes translated / by B. Longmate.

49. A letter to the people of Scotland, on the present state of the nation / by James Boswell ...

52. At a special committee of the Light-Horse Volunteers, held the 25th of October 1798.

53. The elements of clock and watch-work : adapted to practice : in two essays / by Alexander Cumming.

54. An Act for making the Act of the fifth year of Her Majesties reign, for the better preservation of the game, perpetual, and for making the same more effectual.

55. The ode for the opening of the new exhibition room of the Royal Incorporated Society of Artists of Great Britain.

58. A tour to the west of England, in 1788 / By the Rev. S. Shaw, ...

60. Memoirs of the Royal academicians; being an attempt to improve the national taste. By Anthony Pasquin ...

61. Remarks on the different constructions of bridges, and improvements to secure their foundations on the different soils where they are intended to be built : which hitherto seems to have been a thing not sufficiently consider'd.

62. Designs, and estimates, of farm houses, &c. for the county of York, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Bishoprick of Durham / by Daniel Garret.

63. Cantabrigia illustrata : contenant: les vûës de la ville de Cambridge, avec ses edifices, & ses maisons de campagne, comme aussi des autres lieux circonvoisins; representées en tailles-douces très exactes, avec des explications dessous chaque planche.

68. Letters on the English nation: by Batista Angeloni [pseud.], a Jesuit, who resided many years in London. Translated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage act a novel [John Shebbeare] ...

69. More lyric odes to the Royal academicians / by Peter Pindar, esquire ; a distant relation of the poet of Thebes, and laureat to the academy.

71. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great-Britain ... / by Daniel Paterson ...

74. [Cost of artificial slate in roofing compared with that of plain tiles and that of slate].

77. An essay on design in gardening.

78. Thoughts on the late transactions respecting Falkland's Islands.

80. A catalogue of the collection of pictures, &c. belonging to King James the Second : to which is added, A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the closet of the late Queen Caroline, with their exact measures, and also of the principal pictures in the palace at Kensington.

81. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

83. A new display of the beauties of England, or, A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom.

85. An account of the operations carried on for accomplishing a trigonometrical survey of England and Wales ...

86. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

87. The seats of the nobility and gentry : in a collection of the most interesting & picturesque views / engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.

89. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... / by Daniel Paterson ...

90. Monastic remains and ancient castles in England and Wales / drawn on the spot by James Moore ... ; finished and etched by J. Schnebbelie ... ; aquatinted by G.J.[!] Parkyns ...

91. The cocker : humbly inscribed to those gentlemen who are amateurs of the game cock, that prodigy of British valour / by a gentleman who has been in the habit of breeding these eight and twenty years.

92. The art of painting, and the lives of painters: containing, a compleat treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints ... Done from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English-school, with the lives and characters of above 100 painters.

93. The balnea, or, An impartial description of all the popular watering places in England : interspersed with original sketches and incidental anecdotes ... : with observations on several ancient and respectable towns and cities leading to the above remarkable places / by George Saville Carey ...

97. A complete round of cyphers for the use of engravers, painters, sculptors, jewellers, hair workers, enamellers, pattern-drawers, &c. : consisting of six hundred examples for the forming of cyphers of every denomination. / designed and engraved by Garnet Terry.

99. Traité des édifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustensils des chinois : gravé sur les originaux dessinés a la Chine / par M. Chambers, architecte anglois ; compris une description de leurs temples, maisons, jardins, &c.

100. Rules and instructions for playing at skittles / by a Society of gentlemen.