Period: 19th century / Associated Places: London (England) / Language: English / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Classification: Books

1. John R. Purssell & Comp., 20, Ludgate Hill, opposite the Old Bailey : French and Italian ices to-day.

Creator:: John R. Purssell & Comp.
Date:: [between 1850 and 1875?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustration ; 23 x 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Zoological Society's gardens, Regent's Park. Sunday, December 14th, 1879. Admit one.

Creator:: Zoological Society of London
Date:: 1879
Physical Description:: 1 admission ticket ; 70 x 80 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Cyder Cellars, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden.

Date:: [early 19th century]
Physical Description:: 1 advertisement : illustration ; 18 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Eleventh anniversary of the United Society of Master Chimney Sweeps : (established June 15th, 1825,) for the benefit of their apprentices.

Creator:: United Society of Master Chimney Sweeps (London, England)
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 27 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Establishment for the education of young ladies conducted by the Misses Sadler, Chignell House, near the turnpike, Uxbridge road, Ealing W.

Date:: [approximately 1850]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ; 19 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. [Program for performance by Marion Hood in Dorothy at the Prince of Wales theatre]

Creator:: Prince of Wales Theatre (London, England)
Date:: [approximately 1887]
Physical Description:: [8] pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Miss Cooper educates a limited number of young ladies.

Creator:: Cooper, Miss, active 19th century
Date:: [approximately 1850]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([2] leaves) ; 19 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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

45. Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life and every-day people / with thirty-four illustrations by F. Barnard.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: [1876]
Physical Description:: viii, 240 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

46. London scenes, or, A visit to Uncle William in town : containing a description of the most remarkable buildings and curiosities in the British metropolis : illustrated by seventy-eight copperplate engravings ...

Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: xvi, 211 p., [23] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. The history of London, and its environs : containing an account of the origin of the city, its state under the Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, its rise and progress to its present state of commercial greatness : likewise an account of all the towns, villages, and country, within twenty-five miles of London.

Creator:: Hunter, Henry, 1741–1802
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: 2 v. ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Cruchley's picture of London : comprising the history, rise and progress of the metropolis to the present period : with a full description of Windsor Castle, Hampton Court, Woolwich, Greenwich, Chelsea, and other places in the environ, useful to the visitor : the whole embellished with fifty-nine engravings of public buildings : a route for viewing the whole in seven days : to which is annexed a new and superior map, with references to the principal streets, omnibus routes, railway stations, etc.

Creator:: Cruchley, G. F
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: xii, 294, 14, [1] p. : ill., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. London : what to see, and how to see it : with numerous illustrations.

Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 208 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Characters at the west end of the town / drawn and etched by Richard Dighton.

Creator:: Dighton, Richard, 1795–1880
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [46] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Escort card.

Date:: late 19th century
Physical Description:: 1 card : illustrations ; 40 x 76 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. 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

53. 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

54. 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

55. 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

56. Progress of inebriety.

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

57. 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

58. 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., 22 plates (part col.) 20 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Sunday scenes in London and its suburbs / by Percy Cruikshank.

Creator:: Cruikshank, Percy, active 1840–1860
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: 63, [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Can you forgive her? / by Anthony Trollope ; with illustrations by H.K. Browne.

Creator:: Trollope, Anthony, 1815–1882
Date:: [1876?]
Physical Description:: 334, [2] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

61. Cruchley's picture of London : comprising the history, rise, and progress of the metropolis to the present time : embellished with numerous engravings of public buildings, ground plans of St. Paul's Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey, with its chapel, aisles, etc. : descriptions of Windsor Castle, Hampton Court, Kew Gardens, Greenwich, Woolwich, Gravesend, etc. : to which is annexed a superior coloured map of London : with references to the principal streets, omnibus routes, railway stations, etc.

Creator:: Cruchley, G. F
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: vii, [xix]-xxiv, 324, [12] p., [1] folded leaf of plate : ill., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Designs for public and private buildings / by John Soane, Knt. ...

Creator:: Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:: MDCCCXXXII [1832]
Physical Description:: [9], viii-xiv, [4], 61, [1] pages, LVI [i.e. 78] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Progress of sobriety.

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

64. The history of London: illustrated by views in London & Westminster engraved by John Woods, from original drawings by Shepherd, Garland, Salmon, Topham, Clarke, Browne, Roberts, &c. Edited by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and (in continuation) by Thomas Harral ...

Creator:: Fearnside, W. G. (William Gray)
Date:: 184-?]
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 203, [1] p., 1 leaf, vi, [2], ii, 158 p. front., plates. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. 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

66. 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

67. Cruchley's illustrated London.

Creator:: Cruchley, G. F
Date:: 1854]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 46 col. plates. 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Views within twelve miles round London / drawn and engraved by James Peller Malcolm ; this work tends to preserve the perishable forms of many a building and monument of antiquity, whose fate has been pronounced, and whose remembrance shall only be had from this and similar works.

Creator:: Malcolm, James Peller, 1767–1815
Date:: [180-?]
Physical Description:: [30] leaves : all ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. The Thames Tunnel : open to the public every day (Sundays excepted) from eight in the morning, until eight in the evening.

Date:: [1827?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustrations ; 32 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Bird's eye views of London, beautifully embossed on eight sheets, and printed in colours, with explanatory woodcuts, containing 300 references to public buildings.

Date:: ca. 1850]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places / by Walter Thornbury.

Creator:: Thornbury, Walter, 1828–1876
Date:: [1873-1878]
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill., ports., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. The picture of London for 1815 : 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 various other engravings.

Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: x, 458 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans, maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. An historical memento, representing the different scenes of public rejoicing, which took place the first of August, in St. James's and Hyde Parks, London, in celebration of the glorious peace of 1814, and of the centenary of the accession of the illustrious House of Brunswick to the throne of these kingdoms.

Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 64 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Views in London and its vicinity / complete in forth-eight plates, engraved on copper by George Cooke ; from drawing by Calcott, R.A., Stanfield, A.R.A., Prout, Roberts, Stark, Harding, Cotman, Havell, &c. &c. ; after original sketches made on the spot by Edward W. Cooke.

Creator:: Cooke, George, 1781–1834
Date:: [1826]-1834
Physical Description:: 12 pt. (48 prints, [3], 7 p.) : ill. : 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Panorama of London.

Date:: ca. 1860]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. 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

77. 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

78. 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

79. London in 1850-1851 : from the geographical dictionary of J.R. McCulloch.

Creator:: McCulloch, J. R. (John Ramsay), 1789–1864
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 132 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Part of the visitation of London, 1634. Copied by Baruch Longmate. (Mss. Phillipps, no. 9774.)

Creator:: St. George, Henry, Sir, 1625–1715
Date:: 1840?]
Physical Description:: 6 p. 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. The public buildings of the city of London described. : With twelve engravings. / By the author of "Public buildings of Westminster described."

Creator:: Johnstone, C. I. (Christian Isobel), 1781–1857
Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: [8], 259 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Literary and historical memorials of London / by J. Henage Jesse.

Creator:: Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. 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

84. 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

85. 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

86. 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

87. 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

88. Domestic union, or, London as it should be : containing observations on the present state of the municipality of London;--with hints for it's extention and improvement ; together with remarks on the West-India Docks in the Ilse of Dogs;--the Wapping Docks;--the projects for improving London Bridge, and for making a new iron bridge across the Thames; the canal on the south side of the river, and the several new streets under present contemplation. / By the author of the Portentous Globe.

Creator:: Stonestreet, George Griffin
Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: [4], 67, [1] p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. London exhibited in 1851 : elucidating its natural and physical characteristics, its antiquity and architecture : its arts, manufactures, trade, and organization : its social, literary, and scientific institutions : and its numerous galleries of fine art : with 205 illustrations, executed by Mr. Robert Branston, Mr. O. Jewitt, Mr. J.R. Jobbins, and others : including a newly-constructed map, engraved by Mr. Wilson Lowry.

Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 910, [2] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. 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

91. 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

92. 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

93. 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

94. 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

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

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

96. 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

97. 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

98. 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

99. 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

100. 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

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1. John R. Purssell & Comp., 20, Ludgate Hill, opposite the Old Bailey : French and Italian ices to-day.

2. Zoological Society's gardens, Regent's Park. Sunday, December 14th, 1879. Admit one.

3. Cyder Cellars, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden.

4. Eleventh anniversary of the United Society of Master Chimney Sweeps : (established June 15th, 1825,) for the benefit of their apprentices.

5. Establishment for the education of young ladies conducted by the Misses Sadler, Chignell House, near the turnpike, Uxbridge road, Ealing W.

6. [Program for performance by Marion Hood in Dorothy at the Prince of Wales theatre]

7. Miss Cooper educates a limited number of young ladies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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.

18. London : the City and the East End.

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

21. 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.

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

23. 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.

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

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

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

28. 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.

29. The new album of London.

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

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

32. 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.

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

35. 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.

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

37. 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.

38. 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.

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

40. 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 ...

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

43. 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.

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

45. Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life and every-day people / with thirty-four illustrations by F. Barnard.

46. London scenes, or, A visit to Uncle William in town : containing a description of the most remarkable buildings and curiosities in the British metropolis : illustrated by seventy-eight copperplate engravings ...

49. London : what to see, and how to see it : with numerous illustrations.

50. Characters at the west end of the town / drawn and etched by Richard Dighton.

51. Escort card.

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

54. 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.

55. 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.

56. Progress of inebriety.

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

59. Sunday scenes in London and its suburbs / by Percy Cruikshank.

60. Can you forgive her? / by Anthony Trollope ; with illustrations by H.K. Browne.

62. Designs for public and private buildings / by John Soane, Knt. ...

63. Progress of sobriety.

64. The history of London: illustrated by views in London & Westminster engraved by John Woods, from original drawings by Shepherd, Garland, Salmon, Topham, Clarke, Browne, Roberts, &c. Edited by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and (in continuation) by Thomas Harral ...

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

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

67. Cruchley's illustrated London.

68. Views within twelve miles round London / drawn and engraved by James Peller Malcolm ; this work tends to preserve the perishable forms of many a building and monument of antiquity, whose fate has been pronounced, and whose remembrance shall only be had from this and similar works.

69. The Thames Tunnel : open to the public every day (Sundays excepted) from eight in the morning, until eight in the evening.

70. Bird's eye views of London, beautifully embossed on eight sheets, and printed in colours, with explanatory woodcuts, containing 300 references to public buildings.

71. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places / by Walter Thornbury.

72. The picture of London for 1815 : 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 various other engravings.

74. Views in London and its vicinity / complete in forth-eight plates, engraved on copper by George Cooke ; from drawing by Calcott, R.A., Stanfield, A.R.A., Prout, Roberts, Stark, Harding, Cotman, Havell, &c. &c. ; after original sketches made on the spot by Edward W. Cooke.

75. Panorama of London.

76. 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.

77. 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.

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

79. London in 1850-1851 : from the geographical dictionary of J.R. McCulloch.

80. Part of the visitation of London, 1634. Copied by Baruch Longmate. (Mss. Phillipps, no. 9774.)

81. The public buildings of the city of London described. : With twelve engravings. / By the author of "Public buildings of Westminster described."

82. Literary and historical memorials of London / by J. Henage Jesse.

83. Annals of the Regency.

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