<< YCBA Home Yale Center for British Art Yale Center for British Art << YCBA Home

YCBA Collections Search

Search Constraints

Start Over
You searched for:

Period 19th century

Remove constraint Period: 19th century

Associated Places London (England)

Remove constraint Associated Places: London (England)

Subject Terms London (England) -- Description and travel.

Remove constraint Subject Terms: London (England) -- Description and travel.

Search Results

1. A companion from London to Brighthelmston, in Sussex : consisting of a set of topographical maps from actual surveys, on a scale of two inches to a mile ... / by J. Edwards, topographer.

A companion from London to Brighthelmston, in Sussex : consisting of a set of topographical maps from actual surveys, on a scale of two inches to a mile ... / by J. Edwards, topographer.
Creator:
Edwards, James, 1756–1816
Date:
1801
Physical Description:
[3],viii, [1], 31, 86, [3] p., [15] leaves of plates, ([2] folded) : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The microcosm of London : this work already honoured ...

The microcosm of London : this work already honoured ...
Date:
[1808-10]
Physical Description:
3 v. : col. ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Ancient topography of London : containing not only views of buildings, which in many instances no longer exist, and for the most part were never before published, but some account of places and customs either unknown, or overlooked by the London historians / by John Thomas Smith.

Ancient topography of London : containing not only views of buildings, which in many instances no longer exist, and for the most part were never before published, but some account of places and customs either unknown, or overlooked by the London historians / by John Thomas Smith.
Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
[4], 82 p., [33] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. London : a pilgrimage / by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold.

London : a pilgrimage / by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold.
Creator:
Jerrold, Blanchard, 1826–1884
Date:
1872
Physical Description:
[14], xii, 191, [1] p., [52] leaves of plates ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. London interiors: a grand national exhibition of the religious, regal, and civic solemnities, public amusements, scientific meetings, and commercial scenes of the British capital; beautifully engraved on steel, from drawings made expressly for this work ... With descriptions written by official authorities.

London interiors: a grand national exhibition of the religious, regal, and civic solemnities, public amusements, scientific meetings, and commercial scenes of the British capital; beautifully engraved on steel, from drawings made expressly for this work ... With descriptions written by official authorities.
Date:
[1841-1844]
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. front., ill., plates. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Modern London : being the history and present state of the British metropolis : illustrated with numerous copper plates.

Modern London : being the history and present state of the British metropolis : illustrated with numerous copper plates.
Creator:
Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir, 1767–1840
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
viii, 571 p., [23] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., plan : 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Metropolitan improvements, or, London in the nineteenth century : displayed in a series of engravings of the new buildings, improvements, &c., by the most eminent artists, from original drawings taken from the objects themselves expressly for this work / by Mr. Thos. H. Shepherd ; comprising the palaces, parks, new churches, bridges, streets, river scenery, public offices and institutions, gentlemen's seats and mansions, and every other object worthy of notice throughout the metropolis and its environs, with historical, topographical, and critical illustrations, by James Elmes ...

Metropolitan improvements, or, London in the nineteenth century : displayed in a series of engravings of the new buildings, improvements, &c., by the most eminent artists, from original drawings taken from the objects themselves expressly for this work / by Mr. Thos. H. Shepherd ; comprising the palaces, parks, new churches, bridges, streets, river scenery, public offices and institutions, gentlemen's seats and mansions, and every other object worthy of notice throughout the metropolis and its environs, with historical, topographical, and critical illustrations, by James Elmes ...
Creator:
Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)
Date:
1828 [i.e. 1827-1830]
Physical Description:
vi, ii, 172 p., [80] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. 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.

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:
1822
Physical Description:
31 p. 3 fold. plates (incl. front.) 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
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

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

No cover image available
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. 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.

No cover image available
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

12. 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".

No cover image available
Date:
1836
Physical Description:
36 p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
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

14. 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.

No cover image available
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

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Enault, Louis, 1824–1900
Date:
1876
Physical Description:
[4], 434 p. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
vi, 381 p. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Taylor, Jefferys, 1792–1853
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
3 p. ., 182 p. front., plate. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
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

19. 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.

No cover image available
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

20. 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 ...

No cover image available
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

21. 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 ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Tallis, John, 1817–1876
Date:
[1838-40]
Physical Description:
88 pts. ill., double plans. 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., port., plans ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Letters from London.

No cover image available
Date:
1808
Physical Description:
[2], 52 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Metropolitan improvements, or, London in the nineteenth century : displayed in a series of engravings of the new buildings, improvements, &c., by the most eminent artists, from original drawings taken from the objects themselves expressly for this work / by Mr. Thos. H. Shepherd ; comprising the palaces, parks, new churches, bridges, streets, river scenery, public offices and institutions, gentlemen's seats and mansions, and every other object worthy of notice throughout the metropolis and its environs, with historical, topographical, and critical illustrations, by James Elmes ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)
Date:
1827 [i.e. 1827-1830]
Physical Description:
vi, ii, 172 p., [80] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Descriptive particulars of the ancient and present state of the palace of the Savoy : now the scite of the bridge of Waterloo : the greatest in the world, with the dimensions of the same / by B. Johnson ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Johnson, B
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
19 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. in folder 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
910, [2] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Thornbury, Walter, 1828–1876
Date:
[1873-1878]
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill., ports., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
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

29. Walks through London : including Westminster and the borough of Southwark with the surrounding suburbs : ... forming a complete guide to the British metropolis / by David Hughson ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Hughson, David, active 19th century
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
2 v. (414 p., [97] leaves of plates) : ill., plans, folded map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. An entire new plan of the cities of London and Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1812.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mogg, Edward
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 46 x 91 c., folded to 16 x 12 cm., in case 17 x 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. 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 ...

No cover image available
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

32. 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.

No cover image available
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

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Lambert, B
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Weale, John, 1791–1862
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
910 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. 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>.

No cover image available
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

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

No cover image available
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

37. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Robert Wilkinson (Publisher)
Date:
1819-25
Physical Description:
2 v., pl. : plans. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. An antiquarian ramble in the streets of London : with anecdotes of their more celebrated residents / by John Thomas Smith ; edited by Charles Mackay.

No cover image available
Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1846
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. London : being an accurate history and description of the British metropolis and its neighbourhood : to thirty miles extent, from an actual perambulation / by David Hughson ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Hughson, David, active 19th century
Date:
1805-1809
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. London exhibited in 1852 : elucidating its natural and physical characteristics, antiquity and architecture, arts, manufactures, trade, and organization, social, literary, and scientific institutions, and numerous galleries of fine art / with two hundred and five 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 ; edited and published by John Weale.

No cover image available
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
910 p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., port., plans, map ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Londinium redivivum, or, An ancient history and modern description of London / compiled from parochial records, archives of various foundations, the Harleian mss. and other authentic sources ... by James Peller Malcolm.

No cover image available
Creator:
Malcolm, James Peller, 1767–1815
Date:
1803-07
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., map, port. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. A survey of London, by a party of tarry-at-home travellers : a new game to amuse & instruct a company of friends.

No cover image available
Date:
[1820]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored engraving ; 50 x 40 cm, folded to 17 x 14 cm, in slipcase 18 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Malcolm, James Peller, 1767–1815
Date:
[180-?]
Physical Description:
[30] leaves : all ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. 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 ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1824]
Physical Description:
xvi, 211 p., [23] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Holmes's Great metropolis : or, Views and history of London in the nineteenth century. Being a grand national exhibition of the British capital. With historical and topographical notices of each place / Ed. by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and Thomas Harrel [!] ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Fearnside, W. G. (William Gray)
Date:
[1851?]
Physical Description:
3 p.., 211 p. 34 pl. incl. front. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Knight's cyclopaedia of London, 1851.

No cover image available
Date:
[1851]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Views and history of London in the nineteenth century : being a series of illustrations of the most interesting objects in the British metropolis and its vicinity / from original drawings by Thomas H. Shepherd.

No cover image available
Creator:
Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)
Date:
[183-?]
Physical Description:
316, xlii p., [40] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Tallis's street views and pictorial directory, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with a faithful history and description of every object of interest, by William Gaspey ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Tallis, John, 1817–1876
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
2 p.., 3-88 p. front., ill., 18 double plans. 20 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. William Stringer diary, 1881-1885.

No cover image available
Creator:
Stringer, William, 1858–1892
Date:
1881-1885
Physical Description:
1 volume (90 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Metropolitan improvements, or, London in the nineteenth century : displayed in a series of engravings of the new buildings, improvements, &c., by the most eminent artists, from original drawings taken from the objects themselves expressly for this work / by Mr. Thos. H. Shepherd ; comprising the palaces, parks, new churches, bridges, streets, river scenery, public offices and institutions, gentlemen's seats and mansions, and every other object worthy of notice throughout the metropolis and its environs, with historical, topographical, and critical illustrations, by James Elmes ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
vi, ii, 172 p., [80] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts