Period: 19th century / Associated Places: London (England) / Image Available: Unavailable

1. A panorama of London [graphic] / taken from nature by R. Havell, Jun.

Creator:: Havell, Robert, -1832
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 1 print on 6 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 9 x 420 cm, rolled (in wooden case) to 9 x 6 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Cruchley's New plan of London : shewing all the new and intended improvements to the present time.

Creator:: Cruchley, G. F
Date:: [1834]
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 45 x 62 cm., folded to 15 x 11 cm., in case 15 x 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A series of views in Islington and Pentonville : from original drawings, made in the year 1818 / by Augustus Pugin ; with a description of each subject, by Edward Wedlake Brayley.

Creator:: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773–1854
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [2], 21, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Old Humphrey's walks in London : and its neighbourhood.

Creator:: Old Humphrey, 1787–1854
Date:: [1843?]
Physical Description:: viii, 355 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Albert Smith token.

Creator:: Pinches (Medallists)
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: 1 token : copper ; 22 mm in diameter
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. An historical description of the tower of London and its curiosities : giving an account 1. Of its foundation, gradual increase, and present state. 2. Of its government, customs, and privileges. 3. Of its antiquities, records, and curiosities. 4. Of the lions, and other wild beasts kept there. 5. Of the spoils of the Spanish Armada, with the history of the Spanish Invasion in 1588. 6. Of the small armory, in which are arms for 100,000 men. 7. Of the Royal Train of Artillery, comprehending a variety of cannon, mortars, &c. &c. 8. Of the horse armory; with a concise history of the Kings fitting there on horseback, in full armour, from William the Conqueror to George II. 9. Of the Jewel-Office, and the regalia used at coronations, with a full account of Colonel Blood's attempt to steal them. 10. Of the mint, and the manner of stamping money : written principally to direct the attention of strangers to what is most curious in this Repository, and to enable them afterwards to describe what they have seen.

Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: 60 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Report from the committee appointed to inspect Lords journals, respecting the improvements in Westminster.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: 4 p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. History and description of the parish of Clerkenwell, embellished with numerous engravings, by J. & H. S. Storer. The historical department by T. Cromwell ...

Creator:: Cromwell, Thomas, 1792–1870
Date:: [1828]
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., [iii]-viii, 448, v p. front., plates, fold. maps. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Reports relating to the entertainment of Her Majesty the Queen, in the Guildhall of the City of London on Lord Mayor's Day, 1837.

Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [4], 35, [3], 7, [1], 79, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A chart illustrating the architecture of Westminster Abbey / by F. Bedford.

Creator:: Bedford, Francis, 1816–1894
Date:: [1840?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : chiefly ill. ; 56 x 44 cm., folded to 20 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The picture of London for 1807 : being a correct guide to all the curiosities, amusements, exhibitions, public establishments, and remarkable objects, in and near London : with a collection of appropriate tables, two large maps, and several views.

Date:: [1807]
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 420 p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Great exhibition of doings in London for 1851. B. Clayton inv., del et sculpsit.

Creator:: Clayton, B
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 19 leaves. col. ill. 15 x 467 cm. fold. to 15 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Observations on the design for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as executed in the year 1812 : accompanied by plans, elevation, & sections, of the same : engraved on eighteen plates / by Benjamin Wyatt, F.S.A. architect.

Creator:: Wyatt, Benjamin Dean, 1775–1855
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: xii, 77 p.,18 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The original picture of London : enlarged and improved : being a correct guide for the stranger, as well as for the inhabitant, to the metropolis of the British empire : together with a description of the environs.

Creator:: Feltham, John, fl. 1797–1799
Date:: [1829?]
Physical Description:: liv, 498 p., [30] leaves of plates (2 fold.) : ill., map, plan ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952

15. Hydraulia; an historical and descriptive account of the water works of London, : and the contrivances for supplying other great cities, in different ages and countries. / By William Matthews ...

Creator:: Matthews, William, 1771–1836
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: xx, 454, [1] p., [21] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, plans, port. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The new London cries, or, Humorous alphabet.

Date:: [182-?]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The history and survey of London and its environs : from the earliest period to the present time ... / by B. Lambert ...

Creator:: Lambert, B
Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country : taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's cathedral : to be published in four engravings / by Thomas Hornor.

Creator:: Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 31, [1] p., [3] folding leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Gall & Inglis' pocket map of the suburbs of London [cartographic material].

Creator:: Gall & Inglis
Date:: [ca. 1897?]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 51.3 x 63.3 cm, folded in covers 15 x 9 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. London : the City and the East End.

Date:: [1871]
Physical Description:: 48 p., [12] cards : ill. ; 11 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

21. An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex : which are not described in the Environs of London / by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S & F.S.A.

Creator:: Lysons, Daniel, 1762–1834
Date:: MDCCC [1800]
Physical Description:: [2], viii, [2], 316, [2] p., [17] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. A new pocket plan of the cities of London and Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1812.

Creator:: Faden, William, 1749–1836
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 46 x 92 cm., folded to 16 x 12 cm., in case 16 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A popular account of St. Paul's Cathedral : including a brief history and description of the old and new cathedral : with explanations of the monumental designs and other interesting particulars.

Creator:: Hackett, Maria, 1783–1874
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 104 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The Langham Hotel guide to London / prepared for the use of visitors to that establishment by James M. Sanderson.

Creator:: Sanderson, James M
Date:: 1867
Physical Description:: 132, 87 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The new album of London.

Date:: [ca. 1882?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([12] p.) : all ill. ; 17 x 163 cm, folded to 17 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

26. Survey of the country around London : to the distance of thirty-two miles from St. Paul's.

Creator:: Laurie, Richard Holmes
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 61 x 80 cm., folded to 22 x 13 cm., in case 23 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The Post office London directory.

Physical Description:: v. maps. 18-27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

Creator:: Leigh, Samuel
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: vi, [iii]-iv, 524, 36 p. fold. front., fold. plates, fold. map, fold. plan. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Progress of inebriety.

Creator:: Wilson, T. C
Date:: ca. 1830]
Physical Description:: [10] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The city of London, in the time of the Saxons (about the year 1000) [cartographic material] : compiled from the most authentic documents.

Date:: April 25th, 1817
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 40 x 53 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. St. Paul's Cathedral : its history and architecture : with engravings of all the monuments : a hand-book guide for visitors.

Date:: [1870?]
Physical Description:: 58 [i.e. 72], [8] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities : illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others : and a new complete map, engraved by Lowry.

Creator:: Weale, John, 1791–1862
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: 910 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. An historical description of Westminster Abbey, its monuments and curiosities : designed chiefly as a guide to strangers.

Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: 189, [4], [1], [2] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The life of a nobleman.

Creator:: Dawe, George, 1781–1829
Date:: [ca. 1825]
Physical Description:: [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. A brief account of the Colosseum : in the Regent's Park, London: comprising a description of the building; the panoramic view from the top of St. Paul's Cathedral; the conservatory, &c.

Creator:: Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: 8 p. : 8 plates. ; 28 x 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Barnaby Rudge : a tale of the riots of 'eighty / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: [1874]
Physical Description:: x, 322 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

37. Tallis's London street views, exhibiting upwards of one hundred buildings in each number, elegantly engraved on steel; with a commercial directory corrected every month, the whole forming a complete stranger's guide through London ... To which is added an index map of the streets ...

Creator:: Tallis, John, 1817–1876
Date:: [1838-40]
Physical Description:: 88 pts. ill., double plans. 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Costume of the lower orders of London : painted and engraved from nature / by T.L. Busby.

Creator:: Busby, Thomas Lord
Date:: [1820]
Physical Description:: iv, [24] p., [24] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. London, or, Interesting memorials of its rise, progress and present state / by Sholto & Reuben Percy ...

Creator:: Percy, Sholto, 1788–1852
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill., port., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. A description of the Colosseum as re-opened in M.DCCC.XLV. under the patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, and H.R.H. Prince Albert. With numerous illustrations, and eight coloured sections of the panorama of London, embossed by messrs. Dobbs, Bailey, & Co. This catalogue has been prepared for the proprietor by messrs. Kronheim and Skirving, engravers and designers, and the illustrations and letter-press are printed from stereotype plates cast by the patent process of messrs. Kronheim & Co., 3, Earl-street, Blackfriars.

Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: 24 p. ill., 21 plates (part col.) 20 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Johnstone's London commercial guide, and street directory: in four parts ...

Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: [v]-xxxii p., 956 columns, 957-1114, 151, [1] p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The official illustrated guide to the London and South-Western, North and South Devon, Cornwall, and West Cornwall railway : including descriptions of some of the most important manufactories in the towns on the lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with 280 engravings and map.

Creator:: Measom, George S
Date:: [1864]
Physical Description:: lii, 475, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. R. Ackermann's series [graphic]

Creator:: Picken, Thomas, -1870
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 10 prints : hand-colored lithographs ; image 20 x 29 cm, on sheet 28 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Pigot and Co.'s London & provincial new commercial directory for 1827-8 : containing a classification of, and alphabetical reference to the merchants, manufacturers and traders of the metropolis ... : in addition to which is compiled ... a directory of the county of Middlesex, with every town and village within twelve miles of the metropolis, and in the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex ... : this volume is embellished with a new series of elegant maps of the above-named counties ... [and] a large map of London ...

Creator:: J. Pigot & Co
Date:: [1827?]
Physical Description:: cxvi, 384, 104, 742 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Sunday in London / illustrated in fourteen cuts by George Cruikshank ; and a few words by a friend of his ; with a copy of Sir Andrew Agnew's bill.

Creator:: Wight, J. (John)
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: iv, 105 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

46. Pierce Egan's Finish to the adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, in their pursuits through life in and out of London / illustrated by the pencil of Mr. Robert Cruikshank, in 36 scenes from real life, & enriched with several designs on wood by the same artist ; dedicated to His Most Gracious Majesty King George the Fourth.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: xvi, 368 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Souvenirs de Londres.

Creator:: Lami, Eugène Louis, 1800–1890
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 24 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Annals of the Regency.

Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: [14] disc-shaped sheets : illustrations ; each 8 cm in diameter, in case 9 x 9 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. New picture of London, or, A view of the political, religious,medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis : presenting a luminous guide to the stranger, on all subjects connected with general information, business, or amusement, to which is subjoined, a description of the environs.

Creator:: Leigh, Samuel
Physical Description:: viii, 496 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. A day's journal of a sponge / by Peter Pasquin [pseud.].

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The grand procession of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert : accompanied by the civic authorities, to the opening of the Royal Exchange, on Monday, October 28th, 1844.

Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: 1 print on 5 joined sheets : hand-colored lithograph ; sheets end-to-end 11 x 365 cm, accordion folded to 11 x 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. The graphic.

Date:: [not before 1869]-[not after 1932]
Physical Description:: volumes : illustrations ; 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

53. Report from the Committee on petition of the Ministers, Churchwardens and vestry of St. Margaret's, Westminster.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Date:: [1813]
Physical Description:: 10 p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. [Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of ... engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions ...

Creator:: Storer, James, 1771–1853
Date:: 1804-5]
Physical Description:: 2 v. 12 ill., 60 plates. 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Real life in London, or, The rambles and adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and his cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, through the metropolis : exhibiting a living picture of fashionable characters, manners, and amusements in high and low life / by an amateur ; embellished and illustrated with a series of coloured prints, designed and engraved by Messrs. Alken, Dighton, Brooke, Rowlandson &c.

Date:: 1821-1822
Physical Description:: 56 pt. in 33 pt.. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Leigh's new picture of London, or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis : presenting a luminous guide to the stranger, on all subjects connected with general information, business, or amusement, to which is subjoined, a description of the environs.

Creator:: Leigh, Samuel
Date:: 1825-5
Physical Description:: vii, 520, 35 p., [40] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. London : illustrated by twenty bird's-eye views of the principal streets : also a map showing its chief suburbs and environs : and by a street-map of central London by Herbert Fry.

Creator:: Fry, Herbert, 1830–1885
Date:: 1889
Physical Description:: xviii, 286, viii, [22] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The history and antiquities of London / by Thomas Pennant.

Creator:: Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: vi, 381 p. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Zoological Society's gardens, Regent's Park. Saturday, August 21st, 1897. Admit one.

Creator:: Zoological Society of London
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: 1 admission ticket ; 70 x 80 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Some account of the hospital and parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex / by John Parton ...

Creator:: Parton, John, d. 1821
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 427, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map, plan ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. How to enjoy London, or, The elegant economist : showing the various means of enjoying London on incomes of from 25 to 500 a year : adapted equally to the married and the single / arranged with great care according to the existing state of the metropolis, and the present modes of life by the author of the "Book of economy".

Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 36 p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Further report and memorials of the commissioners for executing the Act 46 Geo. III. c. 89 : for improvement of streets and places near to Westminster-Hall and the two Houses of Parliament : to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's treasury.

Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: 48, [2] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Felix Summerly's hand-book for Westminster Abbey.

Creator:: Cole, Henry, Sir, 1808–1882
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: 35 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Diary of Charles Leathley.

Creator:: Leathley, Charles
Date:: circa 1833
Physical Description:: 1 v. (16, 30 p.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. London in 1842 : taken from the summit of the Duke of York's column.

Date:: [1843]
Physical Description:: 1 print : wood engraving ; 91 x 133 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Striking likenesses, handsomely framed, only 1s. each, taken at 114, Strand, opposite Exeter 'Change.

Date:: [approximately 1820?]
Physical Description:: 1 trade card : portrait ; 81 x 45 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The cries of London; exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times. Copied from rare engravings, or drawn from the life. With a memoir and portrait of the author.

Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xv, 99 p. plates, port. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. A month in London; or, Some of its modern wonders described. By Jefferys Taylor ...

Creator:: Taylor, Jefferys, 1792–1853
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., 182 p. front., plate. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Views in London : consisting of the most remarkable buildings : with an historical description of each.

Date:: [1820?]
Physical Description:: 26, 11 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. The "District Railway" miniature map of London [cartographic material].

Creator:: W.J. Adams & Sons
Date:: [ca. 1887?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : col. ; 17.7 x 25.3 cm., folded in cover 14.1 x 9.2 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

71. Description de Londres et de ses édifices, avec un précis historique et des observations sur le caractère de leur architecture, et sur les principaux objects d'art et de curiosité qu'ils renferment; par J.-B. Barjaud, et C.P. Landon ...

Creator:: Barjaud, Jean Baptiste Benoît, 1785–1813
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 1 p.., [v]-viii, 239, 4 p. : front. (fold. map) plates, ports. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. A new map of metropolitan railways, tramways & miscellaneous improvements : deposited at the Private Bill Office Nov. 29, 1873, for session 1874.

Creator:: Stanford, Edward, 1827–1904
Date:: January 1st, 1874
Physical Description:: 1 map : color ; 66 x 84 cm, on sheet 73 x 87 cm, folded in cover 19 x 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Illustrations of the public buildings of London : with descriptive accounts of each edifice : supplement : containing the new subjects and descriptions incorporated in the second edition / by W.H. Leeds.

Creator:: Leeds, W. H. (William Henry), 1786–1866
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: xii, 136 p., [18] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. On the construction and decoration of the shop fronts of London : illustrated with eighteen coloured representations exhibiting the varied styles of the present period, for the use of builders, carpenters, shopkeepers, &c. / by N. Whittock ; forming an appendix to The decorative painter and glazier's guide, by the same author.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: 1840
Physical Description:: [4], 12, 4 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Cruchley's New plan of London improved : including the East and West India docks.

Creator:: Cruchley, G. F
Date:: [1847]
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 51 x 100 cm., folded to 17 x 11 cm., in case 18 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

Creator:: Leigh, Samuel
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: vi, [iii]-iv, iv p., 1 leaf, 524, 36 p. plates (part col., part fold.) fold. map, fold. plan. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. A scramble through London & Brighton / by E. Nelson Haxell ...

Creator:: Haxell, Edward Nelson
Date:: [1884]
Physical Description:: [10], 122, [6] p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Londres / par Louis Énault ; illustré de 174 gravures sur bois par Gustave Doré.

Creator:: Enault, Louis, 1824–1900
Date:: 1876
Physical Description:: [4], 434 p. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. [Billheads of Edward Petty and William Wood, grocers, of London, for purchases made by Colonel Alexander Campbell, 1822]

Creator:: Edward Petty & William Wood, (Grocers)
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 3 sheets ; 17 x 21 cm, 13 x 21 cm, and 11 x 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. A visit to London: containing a description of the principal curiosities in the British metropolis. By the author of "The visit to a farm-house."

Date:: [1838?]
Physical Description:: vi, 192 p. front., ill., plates. 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. The history and antiquities of London / by Thomas Pennant.

Creator:: Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., port., plans ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Strange's pocket scrap book for young ladies and gentlemen : containing views of all the public places of amusement, watering places, etc. etc. : part IV.

Date:: [between 1841 and 1849]
Physical Description:: pt. : chiefly ill. ; 11 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. The finish to the adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic : in their pursuits through life in and out of London / by Pierce Egan ; with numerous illustrations by Robert Cruikshank.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: 1889
Physical Description:: xvi, 321 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent / by Thomas Allen.

Creator:: Allen, Thomas, 1803–1833
Date:: 1827-1828
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Pigot & Co.'s metropolitan guide & book of reference : to every street, court, lane, passage, alley and public building : in the cities of London & Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and their respective suburbs.

Creator:: J. Pigot & Co
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 154 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. To the Right Honble. Lord Hawksbury, &c. &c., this perspective sketch illustrating a design submitted to the consideration of the House of Commons on the improvement of the port of London, is inscribed by his obedient humble servant, Geo. Dance / designed by Geo. Dance ... ; Willm. Daniell fecit.

Creator:: Dance, George, 1741–1825
Date:: Novr. 10, 1800
Physical Description:: 1 print : aquatint with hand-colouring ; platemark 40 x 69 cm, on sheet 54 x 70
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. A visit to London : containing a description of the principal curiosities in the British metropolis / by S.W. ; with six copper plates.

Creator:: S. W., active 1801–1820?
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 2, 196 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The comic history of London : from the earliest period : illustrated with numerous engravings.

Date:: [18--]
Physical Description:: 366 p., [1] leaf of plate : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Progress of sobriety.

Creator:: Wilson, T. C
Date:: ca. 1830]
Physical Description:: [2] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Londina illustrata : Graphic and historic memorials of monasteries, churches, chapels, schools, charitable foundations, palaces, halls, courts, processions, places of early amusement and modern & present theaters, in the city and suburbs of London & Westminster.

Creator:: Robert Wilkinson (Publisher)
Date:: 1819-25
Physical Description:: 2 v., pl. : plans. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Further reports and memorials of the Commissioners for executing the several Acts for improvement of streets and places near to Westminster Hall and the two Houses of Parliament : to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury : together with their accounts of receipt and expenditure : from 8th May 1811 to 31st December 1813.

Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: p. [119]-[150] ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. London and its environs : a practical guide to the metropolis and its vicinity : illustrated by maps, plans, and views.

Date:: 1862
Physical Description:: xv, 391, 16 p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Tallis's illustrated London : in commemoration of the Great exhibition of all nations in 1851 : forming a complete guide to the British metropolis and its environs : illustrated by upwards of two hundred steel engraving from original drawings and daguerreotypes / with historical and descriptive letterpress by William Gaspey, Esq. Vol. I <-II>.

Creator:: Gaspey, William, 1812–1888
Date:: <1851-52>
Physical Description:: 2 v. (vii, <1>, 320 p., <74> leaves of plates (1 folded); vii, <1>, 304 p., <86> leaves of plates (2 folded)) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. London and its environs : including excursions to Brighton, the Isle of Wight, etc. : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker.

Creator:: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Date:: 1878
Physical Description:: x, 366 p., [5] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., maps ; 17 cm.+ [1] folded map (73 x 94 cm, folded to 15 x 10 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

95. The A B C guide to London : Chas. Baker & Co.'s large pocket map of London, in 15 sections : with alphabetical list of places of interest in and near London &c.

Date:: [1887?]
Physical Description:: 58 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Survey of London made in the year 1745.

Date:: [between 1884 and 1887?]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 78 x 103 cm, folded to 20 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. An historical description of Westminster Abbey : its monuments and curiosities designed chiefly as a guide to strangers.

Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: 198 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. The picture of London for 1802 : being a correct guide to all the curiosities, amusements, exhibitions, public establishments and remarkable objects, in and near London : with a collection of appropriate tables for the use of strangers, foreigners, and all persons who are not intimately acquainted with the British metropolis.

Date:: [1802]
Physical Description:: xii, 420 p., [4] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., maps ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. A panoramic view of London / drawn & engraved by J.H. Banks ... [cartographic material].

Creator:: Banks, John Henry, 1816–1879
Date:: [1845]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; image 39 x 101 cm, on sheet 45 x 105 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Rural retreats : a collection of views of gentlemen's seats in the neighbourhood of London.

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: [36] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. A panorama of London [graphic] / taken from nature by R. Havell, Jun.

2. Cruchley's New plan of London : shewing all the new and intended improvements to the present time.

3. A series of views in Islington and Pentonville : from original drawings, made in the year 1818 / by Augustus Pugin ; with a description of each subject, by Edward Wedlake Brayley.

4. Old Humphrey's walks in London : and its neighbourhood.

5. Albert Smith token.

7. Report from the committee appointed to inspect Lords journals, respecting the improvements in Westminster.

8. History and description of the parish of Clerkenwell, embellished with numerous engravings, by J. & H. S. Storer. The historical department by T. Cromwell ...

9. Reports relating to the entertainment of Her Majesty the Queen, in the Guildhall of the City of London on Lord Mayor's Day, 1837.

10. A chart illustrating the architecture of Westminster Abbey / by F. Bedford.

11. The picture of London for 1807 : being a correct guide to all the curiosities, amusements, exhibitions, public establishments, and remarkable objects, in and near London : with a collection of appropriate tables, two large maps, and several views.

12. Great exhibition of doings in London for 1851. B. Clayton inv., del et sculpsit.

13. Observations on the design for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as executed in the year 1812 : accompanied by plans, elevation, & sections, of the same : engraved on eighteen plates / by Benjamin Wyatt, F.S.A. architect.

14. The original picture of London : enlarged and improved : being a correct guide for the stranger, as well as for the inhabitant, to the metropolis of the British empire : together with a description of the environs.

15. Hydraulia; an historical and descriptive account of the water works of London, : and the contrivances for supplying other great cities, in different ages and countries. / By William Matthews ...

16. The new London cries, or, Humorous alphabet.

17. The history and survey of London and its environs : from the earliest period to the present time ... / by B. Lambert ...

18. Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country : taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's cathedral : to be published in four engravings / by Thomas Hornor.

19. Gall & Inglis' pocket map of the suburbs of London [cartographic material].

20. London : the City and the East End.

21. An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex : which are not described in the Environs of London / by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S & F.S.A.

22. A new pocket plan of the cities of London and Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1812.

23. A popular account of St. Paul's Cathedral : including a brief history and description of the old and new cathedral : with explanations of the monumental designs and other interesting particulars.

24. The Langham Hotel guide to London / prepared for the use of visitors to that establishment by James M. Sanderson.

25. The new album of London.

26. Survey of the country around London : to the distance of thirty-two miles from St. Paul's.

27. The Post office London directory.

28. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

29. Progress of inebriety.

30. The city of London, in the time of the Saxons (about the year 1000) [cartographic material] : compiled from the most authentic documents.

31. St. Paul's Cathedral : its history and architecture : with engravings of all the monuments : a hand-book guide for visitors.

33. An historical description of Westminster Abbey, its monuments and curiosities : designed chiefly as a guide to strangers.

34. The life of a nobleman.

35. A brief account of the Colosseum : in the Regent's Park, London: comprising a description of the building; the panoramic view from the top of St. Paul's Cathedral; the conservatory, &c.

36. Barnaby Rudge : a tale of the riots of 'eighty / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard.

37. Tallis's London street views, exhibiting upwards of one hundred buildings in each number, elegantly engraved on steel; with a commercial directory corrected every month, the whole forming a complete stranger's guide through London ... To which is added an index map of the streets ...

38. Costume of the lower orders of London : painted and engraved from nature / by T.L. Busby.

39. London, or, Interesting memorials of its rise, progress and present state / by Sholto & Reuben Percy ...

41. Johnstone's London commercial guide, and street directory: in four parts ...

42. The official illustrated guide to the London and South-Western, North and South Devon, Cornwall, and West Cornwall railway : including descriptions of some of the most important manufactories in the towns on the lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with 280 engravings and map.

43. R. Ackermann's series [graphic]

45. Sunday in London / illustrated in fourteen cuts by George Cruikshank ; and a few words by a friend of his ; with a copy of Sir Andrew Agnew's bill.

47. Souvenirs de Londres.

48. Annals of the Regency.

50. A day's journal of a sponge / by Peter Pasquin [pseud.].

51. The grand procession of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert : accompanied by the civic authorities, to the opening of the Royal Exchange, on Monday, October 28th, 1844.

52. The graphic.

53. Report from the Committee on petition of the Ministers, Churchwardens and vestry of St. Margaret's, Westminster.

54. [Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of ... engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions ...

57. London : illustrated by twenty bird's-eye views of the principal streets : also a map showing its chief suburbs and environs : and by a street-map of central London by Herbert Fry.

58. The history and antiquities of London / by Thomas Pennant.

59. Zoological Society's gardens, Regent's Park. Saturday, August 21st, 1897. Admit one.

60. Some account of the hospital and parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex / by John Parton ...

62. Further report and memorials of the commissioners for executing the Act 46 Geo. III. c. 89 : for improvement of streets and places near to Westminster-Hall and the two Houses of Parliament : to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's treasury.

63. Felix Summerly's hand-book for Westminster Abbey.

64. Diary of Charles Leathley.

65. London in 1842 : taken from the summit of the Duke of York's column.

66. Striking likenesses, handsomely framed, only 1s. each, taken at 114, Strand, opposite Exeter 'Change.

67. The cries of London; exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times. Copied from rare engravings, or drawn from the life. With a memoir and portrait of the author.

68. A month in London; or, Some of its modern wonders described. By Jefferys Taylor ...

69. Views in London : consisting of the most remarkable buildings : with an historical description of each.

70. The "District Railway" miniature map of London [cartographic material].

71. Description de Londres et de ses édifices, avec un précis historique et des observations sur le caractère de leur architecture, et sur les principaux objects d'art et de curiosité qu'ils renferment; par J.-B. Barjaud, et C.P. Landon ...

72. A new map of metropolitan railways, tramways & miscellaneous improvements : deposited at the Private Bill Office Nov. 29, 1873, for session 1874.

73. Illustrations of the public buildings of London : with descriptive accounts of each edifice : supplement : containing the new subjects and descriptions incorporated in the second edition / by W.H. Leeds.

75. Cruchley's New plan of London improved : including the East and West India docks.

76. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

77. A scramble through London & Brighton / by E. Nelson Haxell ...

78. Londres / par Louis Énault ; illustré de 174 gravures sur bois par Gustave Doré.

79. [Billheads of Edward Petty and William Wood, grocers, of London, for purchases made by Colonel Alexander Campbell, 1822]

80. A visit to London: containing a description of the principal curiosities in the British metropolis. By the author of "The visit to a farm-house."

81. The history and antiquities of London / by Thomas Pennant.

82. Strange's pocket scrap book for young ladies and gentlemen : containing views of all the public places of amusement, watering places, etc. etc. : part IV.

83. The finish to the adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic : in their pursuits through life in and out of London / by Pierce Egan ; with numerous illustrations by Robert Cruikshank.