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1. Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: 46, [66] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

2. Prospectus of an improved mode of delineating estates.

Creator:: Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: [1], 6 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Prospectus of a history of the county palatine and of the city of Chester : by Geo. Ormerod of Chorlton, Esq. M.A.F.S.A. : dedicated (with permission) to His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, Earl of Chester ; including King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities.

Date:: [1814?]
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The paste papers of the Golden Hind Press / by James H. Fraser.

Creator:: Fraser, James H. (James Howard), 1934–2013
Date:: 1983
Physical Description:: 17 pages, [9] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

5. Proposals, for publishing by subscription, in ten monthly parts, forming one handsome volume, the Costume of Yorkshire : illustrated by forty highly-finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings, descriptive of the peculiar dress, occupation and manners of various inhabitants of that extensive and populous County : the first part to be published on the first of September, 1813.

Date:: [1813?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Specimen of the wood cuts to Northcote's Fables : second series.

Creator:: Northcote, James, 1746–1831
Date:: [1833]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. This day are published, parts first and second, of Architectura ecclesiastica Londini, or the Ecclesiastical architecture of London.

Creator:: Booth, John (Bookseller)
Date:: January 25, 1814
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Bligh's voyage in the Resource from Coupang to Batavia : together with the log of his subsequent passage to England in the Dutch Vlydt Packet : and his remarks on Morrison's Journal : all printed for the first time from the manuscripts in the Mitchell Library of New South Wales : with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter : The Golden Cockerel Press 1937.

Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Proposals for publishing by subscription, twelve engravings of a series of views, of interesting scenes and achievements of the British Army in Spain and Portugal : under the command of His Excellency Lieutenant General the Marquis of Wellington, &c. &c. &c. : from original drawings made on the spot, by Major St. Clair, 21st Portuguese Infantry, and Captain Royal Scotts ; engraved by C. Turner ...

Date:: [1811?]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Prospectus for publishing by subscription, Laporte's progressive lessons in landscape, from nature, in imitation of pencil, from the original drawings : to be contained in six numbers, price to subscribers nine shillings each.

Creator:: Griffiths, Thomas (Publisher)
Date:: February, 1815
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Proposals for publishing by subscription, original poems : with translations from the French, Italian, and Spanish : and a play, in five acts : by Charlotte Nooth, daughter to the late James Nooth, Esq. ...

Creator:: Nooth, Charlotte
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The boke of Iford / compiled by me, Harold A. Peto of Iford Manor from all the sources available in 1917 ; with a historical introduction by Robin Whalley.

The boke of Iford / compiled by me, Harold A. Peto of Iford Manor from all the sources available in 1917 ; with a historical introduction by Robin Whalley.

Creator:: Peto, Harold A. (Harold Ainsworth), 1854–1933
Date:: 1993
Physical Description:: 53 p. col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

14. Just published, in large folio, complete in sixty-four maps, price six guineas, half-bound, a new and greatly improved edition of Lavoisne's genealogical, historical, chronological, & geographical atlas, by C. Gros and J. Aspin : containing the creation, the dispersion of mankind, the origin of nations, the establishment, continuation, and decline of empires and states, the genealogy, direct and collateral, of all the sovereigns and potentates, from the beginning of time to the year 1813 : forming the most complete system of history and geography ever produced.

Creator:: Barfield, John, active 1790–1842
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The burning of the books : a poem sequence / by George Szirtes ; based on Elias Canetti's novel "Auto da Fé ; illustrated by Ron King.

Creator:: Szirtes, George, 1948–
Date:: 2008
Physical Description:: [8] p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The remains of the ancient monastic architecture of England / by Joseph Potter, architect.

Creator:: Potter, Joseph, approximately 1797–1875
Date:: MDCCCXLIV [1844]
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, 23 leaves of plates in various numberings : illustrations ; 50 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Preparing for the press, an historical description of the cathedral church of Salisbury : including an account of the monuments, chiefly extracted from Gough's "Sepulchral Monuments," and other authentic documents : also, biographical memoirs of the Bishops of Salisbury, from the earliest period by W. Dodsworth, verger of the Cathedral.

Creator:: Brodie and Dowding
Date:: [1813?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Prospectus for Pen, paper & a box of paints : Albert Rutherson, illustrator and designer for the stage, by Ian Rogerson.

Creator:: Fleece Press
Date:: [2015]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : color illustrations ; 19 x 33 cm, folded to 19 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Julian Francis Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books

19. On the first of March, 1814, will be published, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row, price four shillings, No. I. (To be continued monthly) of Restituta, or, The titles and characters of old books in English literature and their authors, revived by Sir Egerton Brydges, K.J.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1813?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Proposals for publishing by subscription, an engraving from the historical picture painted by John Singleton Copley, R.A. : and now exhibiting in a pavilion, erected through the gracious permission of the King for the purpose, in the Green Park : this work ... is to be placed in the council chamber of Guildhall as a testimony of respect to the late Lord Heathfield, then governor of Gibralter, Earl Howe, commander of the fleet ... for their gallant conduct displayed in the defence and relief of that important fortress.

Date:: [180-]
Physical Description:: [4] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Blank page.

Date:: 1988-1991
Physical Description:: 6 volumes : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund

22. [Prospectus for Susan Allix's Small cakes : a selection containing brief histories, ingredients and recipes, poetic anecdotes and visual decorations].

Creator:: Allix, Susan, 1943–
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([3] pages) : color photographs ; 12 x 32 cm, folded to 12 x 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

23. Books published by J. Taylor, High Holborn.

Creator:: Taylor, J
Date:: [1807]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Preparing for publication : The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London : extracted out of original charters, records, leiger books, and other manuscripts / by Sir William Dugdale ... ; with additions and a continuation by Henry Ellis ...

Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 3 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Richard Long : Walking and sleeping.

Creator:: IvoryPress
Date:: [2004]
Physical Description:: 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ivorypress

26. Prospectus for publishing in subscription The Oxford portfolio : offered to the nobility and gentry of the university / by G. Cooper.

Creator:: Cooper, George, active 1792–1830
Date:: [1817]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Peter Biegel's racing pictures.

Creator:: Biegel, Peter
Date:: 1983
Physical Description:: 160 p. : col. ill. ; 25 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

Creator:: Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: [6], 11, [35] pages, 47 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. To be published on the twenty-third of April, 1816, (being the anniversary of the 2nd century after his decease), an engraved portrait of Shakspeare, from the monumental bust at Stratford-upon-Avon.

Date:: [1816]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (2 pages) ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Martial achievements prospectus.

Creator:: Jenkins, James, 1753–1831
Date:: 1815
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. On the 1st of May next, will be published, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, price £1:11:6, elegantly coloured, a series of original designs for shop-fronts by William Davison, architect.

Date:: [1816]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Azrael & other poems / Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Creator:: Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893–1978
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: [18] p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

33. The late Earl of Beaconsfield.

Creator:: Belt, Richard Claude, 1851–1920
Date:: [1881?]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. 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

35. Brandt nudes : a new perspective / with a commentary by Mark Haworth-Booth.

Creator:: Brandt, Bill, 1904–1983
Date:: 2004
Physical Description:: 155, [5] p. : chiefly ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Interregnum.

Creator:: Aikin, John, 1747–1822
Date:: [18--]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. On the first of January next will be published in numbers, price 6d. each, to be continued weekly (or in parts containing eight numbers, prices 4s.), the whole intended to form two large volumes in quarto, The Holy Bible, including the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha : according to the authorised version, with notes, explanatory and practical.

Creator:: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)
Date:: [1813]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. John Christie archive, 1975-1995.

Creator:: Christie, John, 1945–
Date:: 1975-1995
Physical Description:: 1 linear foot (2 boxes)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Christie

39. Proposals for publishing by subscription, in three volumes, historical and literary botany : containing the qualities, anecdotes, and superstitions relative to these trees, plants, and flowers, which are mentioned in sacred and profane history : the particulars of some rare and curious plants which bear the names of celebrated persons : and also of those which are used in the religious worship and civil ceremonies of divers nations : together with the devices, proverbs, &c. which derive their original from those vegetables : concluding with a romantic story, entitled Flowers ; or the artists, from the French of Madame de Genlis : with explanatory notes, &c. &c. by Eliza P. Reid.

Creator:: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
Date:: [1826?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Prospectus of a work, (the first part of which will be published on the first of August next) to be entitled, The interregnum; or A history of the civil wars in Great Britain, from their commencement, in the seventeenth year of King Charles I. to the restoration of King Charles II. By John Aikin, M. D.

Date:: between 1812 and 1819]
Physical Description:: 2 p. 27 cm. (in case 29 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Perfect and imperfect enjoyments : poems / by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester ; with an introduction by Christopher Hibbert ; and illustrated with paintings by Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647–1680
Date:: 1992
Physical Description:: 109, [3] p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

42. To be published by subscription, a treatise on theology written by Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson ... : to which will be added a letter from her to her daughter on the principles of the Christian religion : also the life of Mrs. Hutchinson written by herself, a fragment : from the original manuscripts.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1816?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. In the course of the ensuing winter will be published, a reprint of the Morte d'Arthur.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1816?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. In the press, The history and antiquities of the county of Hertford : volume the first, containing the hundreds of cashio and dacorum : compiled from the best printed authorities and original records, preserved in private collections and public repositories : embellished with views of the most curious monuments of antiquities : drawn and engraven by the most eminent British artists : and illustrated with a map of the county by Robert Clutterbuck, of Watford, Esq. F.S.A.

Creator:: Nichols, firm, printers (London, England)
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. On December 1, 1814, will be published, dedicated by permission, to His Grace the Duke of Wellington, No. I of a highly embellished, splendid, and interesting work, to be entitled, The martial achievements of Great Britain and her allies, from the year 1800 to 1814 : illustrated with accurate representations of the numerous glorious victories in which they have been engaged : accompanied with the Gazette and other official documents of the defeats of their enemies.

Creator:: Jenkins, James, 1753–1831
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Ravilious at war : the complete work of Eric Ravilious, September 1939-September 1942 / edited by Anne Ullmann ; with contributions from Barry and Saria Viney, Christopher Whittick and Simon Lawrence ; and a foreword by Brian Sewell.

Creator:: Ravilious, Eric William, 1903–1942
Date:: 2002
Physical Description:: 283 p. : ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Rural sports, a poem, by William Somerville, author of "The Chase" : to be published, by subscription, by R. Ackermann, No. 101, Strand.

Creator:: Somerville, William, 1675–1742
Date:: June 1, 1812
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Virtuoso--advt.

Date:: 1814
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Proposals for publishing by subscription, a series of engravings of the principal military achievements of the British Army in Portugal : under the command of Lieut. General Lord Viscount Wellington.

Creator:: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co
Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Works by Mr. Ruskin / published by and to be had of George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent ... ; also to be obtained from the principal booksellers ...

Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: 12 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Themes in aquatint / Colin Franklin.

Creator:: Franklin, Colin
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: vii, 103 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. In the press, and speedily will be published, The history of Richard the Third, King of England. etc., composed in five books by Sir George Buck : now first printed entire from the original ms. in the possession of the editor : with an appendix of notes and documents by Charles Yarnold, Esq.

Creator:: Rees, Richard (Publisher)
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: [1] page ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The testament of Charlotte B. / edited & introduced by Marius Kociejowski ; decorated by Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Biggs, Charlotte, d. 1827
Date:: 1988
Physical Description:: 68 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

54. Prospectus of a national work entitled Albyn's anthology, or, a select collection of the more ancient melodies, and vocal poetry, of the lowland and highland districts of Scotland and the Isles, hitherto unpublished.

Creator:: Campbell, Alexander, 1764–1824
Date:: [1815?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. To be published by subscription, A collection of select views in Great Britain : from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists : to be engraved by S. Middiman.

Date:: October 1, 1783
Physical Description:: [1] sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Ken Campbell archive, 1975-2003.

Creator:: Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022
Date:: 1975-2003
Physical Description:: 30 linear feet
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ken Campbell

57. The left-handed Punch : a new version of the comical tragedy of Punch and Judy / written by Roy Fisher ; designed and printed by Ronald King ; to be published by the Circle Press.

Creator:: Fisher, Roy, 1930–2017
Date:: 1986
Physical Description:: [4] p. : ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Forty sheets to the wind : a new portfolio of old typefaces.

Date:: 1999
Physical Description:: 1 portfolio : illustrations (some color), samples ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

59. Prospectus of a work now ready for the press, which under the title of Hibernia, proposes to treat, in an ample manner, of the ecclesiastical, topographical, and monastic antiquities of Ireland : by W. Monck Mason, Esq.

Creator:: Nichols, firm, printers (London, England)
Date:: [ca. 1818?]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Portraits of celebrated painters.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Proposals for publishing by subscription, two prints, from pictures painted expressly to commemorate the glorious victories of Vittoria and the Pyrenees.

Creator:: Hassell and Rickards
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Racing at home and abroad : an authoritative treatise on racing in four volumes / by Charles Richardson, the Hon. George Lambton, H.A. Brown, Lieut.-Col. F.F. Maccabe, Thomas E. Healy, and other well-known writers ; original paintings and drawings by Major G.D. Giles, Lynwood Palmer, Alfred Bright, & Charles Simpson.

Creator:: London & Counties Press Association Limited
Date:: [1923?]
Physical Description:: [4] p. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Avis aux souscripteurs : sur cette dernière livraison du Voyage pittoresque

Creator:: Saint Non, Jean Claude Richard de, 1727–1791
Date:: [1786]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. In the press and speedily will be published, in two volumes, royal quarto, with superb embellishments, an historical survey of the country of Cornwall by C.S. Gilbert.

Creator:: Congdon, John
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. A prospectus, &c. of the British School : His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, patron.

Creator:: British School
Date:: [1802?]
Physical Description:: 20 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. This day is published, the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha, with critical, philological, and explanatory notes by the Rev. John Hewlett, B.D.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme
Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. In the press, and to be published immediately, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, dedicated by permission, to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, the entire works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt, the elder, by G.F. Nott, D.D.F.S.A., late fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Proposals for publishing by subscription, in the course of the next spring, in one volume quarto, accompanied with seventeen plates, An Account and explanation of the paintings and other ornaments and decorations, discovered in the month of September last on the walls of the present House of Commons : including also, besides the history of these decorations and the building itself, a variety of original particulars as to the ancient state of the City of Westminster, and the Palace and other buildings there : and the principles and history of painting and Gothic architecture / by John Sidney Hawkins, Esq. F.A.A. ; the plates engraven by Mr. John Thomas Smith, from drawings made by himself on the spot.

Creator:: Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758–1842
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Narrative of a journey to the falls of the Cavery : with an historical and descriptive account of the Neilgherry hills / by Lieutenant H. Jervis.

Creator:: Jervis, H. (Humphrey)
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: x, 144, [16] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Proposals for printing a new and elegant edition of the life of King Robert Bruce, by John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen : and of the acts and deeds of Sir William Wallace, by Henry the Minstrel, commonly called Blind Harry with biographical sketches, notes, and a glossary by John Jamieson.

Creator:: James Ballantyne and Co
Date:: 30th June, 1814
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Preparing for publication : The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London : extracted out of original charters, records, lieger books and other manuscripts / by Sir William Dugdale ...; with additions and a continuation by Henry Ellis ...

Date:: 1813 [i.e. 1814]
Physical Description:: 3 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. This day is published, The morbid anatomy of the liver : being an inquiry into the anatomical character, symptoms, and treatment of certain diseases which impair or destroy the structure of that viscus : order 1, tumours, part I, on the Tubera Circumscripta and Tubera Diffusa : in imperial quarto, illustrated by coloured engravings, price 15s. : by J.R. Farre, M.D.

Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Historical epitome of the several counties and islands in the United Kingdom : the county of Southampton forming the second volume of this work, is now in immediate preparation, and will be published within six calendar months of this date ... / the work will be illustrated ... by C. Greenwood, author of the large atlas of the counties of England and Wales, &c., under whose superintendence and management this work is conducted.

Creator:: Greenwood, C. (Christopher), 1786–1855
Date:: 1838?]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Prospectus of an entire new and splendid publication, price 7s. 6d. each part, The virtuoso, or, Monthly preceptor of drawing : forming an elegant compendium of art, science, and amusement, on a new and attractive plan, calculated to instruct the mind, improve the talents, and gratify the taste.

Date:: [1814?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (2 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. This day is published, part I. to VII. (to be continued quarterly) ... of The Border antiquities of England and Scotland : comprising specimens of architecture and sculpture, and other vestiges of former ages, from the earliest time to the union of the crown : accompanied by a sketch of border history : together with illustrations of remarkable incidents in border history and tradition : and much original poetry by Walter Scott, Esq.

Creator:: Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet, ([2] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Michael Angelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel : ... facsimiles of original drawings, from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, made at the time of the paintings, and before the execution of the Last Judgment / ... engraved and published by J. Linnell.

Creator:: Linnell, John, 1792–1882
Date:: [1833-1835]
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [42] leaves of plates : all illustrations ; 30 x 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Prospectus and specimen of an history of marine architecture : drawn from the best authorities, and chronologically deduced from the earliest period to the present time ; illustrated by upwards of one hundred plates : exhibiting at least a thousand figures : accurately engraved by the most eminent artists : in three volumes Royal Quarto / by John Charnock, Esq.

Creator:: Charnock, John, 1756–1807
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [2], 20, 2 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Twelve views in Corsica / drawn, etched, and published by W. Cowen ; dedicated, by permision, to Earl Fitzwilliam.

Creator:: Cowen, William, 1797–1860
Date:: MDCCCXLIII [1843]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [12] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The burning of the books : a poem sequence / by George Szirtes ; based on Elias Canetti's novel "Auto da Fé ; illustrated by Ron King.

Creator:: Szirtes, George, 1948–
Date:: 2008
Physical Description:: 1 portfolio (unpaged, unbound) : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. On the 1st of February, 1814, was published, no. I, price two shillings, of The new monthly magazine.

Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([4] pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Prospectus. The history of Little Johnny, the foundling of the late Doctor Syntax : a poem in eight monthly numbers.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: [1821?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Prospectus, The history of Johnny Quae Genus, the little foundling of the late Doctor Syntax : a poem, in eight monthly numbers : no. 1 was published on the 1st of August, and is continued monthly, price 2s. 6d. each : each part contains three coloured engravings / by T. Rowlandson, Esq., and thirty-two pages of letter press, by the author of the three tours of Doctor Syntax ...

Creator:: Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:: [1821]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Prospectus for Richard Bawden, his life & work, by Malcolm Yorke.

Creator:: Fleece Press
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: [4] pages : color illustrations ; 11 x 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Julian Francis Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books

84. In the course of the present month, will be published Part I. of Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions by Edmund Lodge, ESQ. Lancaster Herald, F.S.A. author of the biographical tracts attached to the "Holbein Heads."

Creator:: Lackington, Allen and Co
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Preparing for publication, by subscription, in one volume folio, illustrated with numerous engravings, a new edition of Thoresby's Ducatus leodiensis, by Thomas Dunham Whitaker, LL.D. F.S.A. ...

Date:: [1815?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Specimen of The vicar of Wakefield : with thirty-two illustrations, engraved by John Thompson, from designs by William Mulready, R.A.

Creator:: Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Date:: MDCCCXLIII [1843]
Physical Description:: [2], 4 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Schottland in Bildern / nach der Natur gezeichnet von T. Allom und W.H. Bartlett ; und mit beschreibendem Text von Wilhelm Beattie ... ; aus dem Englischen uebersetzt von Johann von Horn.

Creator:: Beattie, William, 1793–1875
Date:: [1838]
Physical Description:: [2] v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Westminster Abbey : in the summer of 1816 will be published part the first of the History and antiquities of the Abbey Church of St Peter's : the whole to be illustrated by fifty engravings by J.P. Neale : with ample biographical notices by J. Norris Brewer.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: January, 1816
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Johnson's dictionary, edited by the Reverend H.J. Todd.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: August 1, 1814
Physical Description:: iv pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Preparing for publication, Des. Erasimi Rot. Concio de puero Iesu : olim pronunciata a puero in schola Iohannis Coleti Londini instituta in qua praesidebat imago pueri Iesu docentis specie : Editio nova : Londoni, Typis I. et I.B. Nichols, et S. Bentley, MDCCCXV.

Date:: September, 1815
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. The life of James the Second, King of England : collected out of memoirs writ of his own hand : also, King James's advice to his son : and that monarch's last will, dated November 17, 1688 : the whole to be edited, by order of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, by the Rev. J.S. Clarke, L.L.B. F.R.S., historiographer to the King, chaplain of the household and librarian to His Royal Highness.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: [1] page ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Prospectus of a weekly newspaper, to be entitled the Colchester Gazette : which will commence on Saturday, January 1, 1814.

Date:: [1813]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Proposals for publishing by subscription, the History of the Kings of England from the arrival of the Saxons A.D. 449, to his own times, A.D. 1143 : by William of Malmsbury, collated with authentic mss. and translated from the original Latin with a preface, notes, and an index, by the Rev. John Sharpe, B.A. ...

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: Dec.15, 1813
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Prospectus of a Universal historical dictionary, : or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics : by George Crabb ...

Creator:: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
Date:: [1825]
Physical Description:: 2, [14] p. ; 22 cm. (in case 25 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. The legal and literary journal, and mercantile magazine : to be continued monthly, and number three to be published January 1st, 1814 / conducted by John Williams, Esq., author of the Laws of trade and Commerce, &c. &c. ; assisted by several literary and commercial gentlemen.

Creator:: Williams, John, Esq
Date:: December 15, 1813
Physical Description:: [1] sheet ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Francis Bacon : detritus.

Creator:: IvoryPress
Date:: [2006]
Physical Description:: 12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ivorypress

97. Course of lectures delivered at the Surry institution--advt.

Creator:: Landseer, John, 1769–1852
Date:: 1815
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Prospectus for publishing by subscription : A work consisting of original academical studies from the human figure : and historical compositions selected from the works of the English School : interspersed with specimens from the Italian masters, particularly Raffaello d'Urbino ... / by James Minasi ...

Creator:: Whittingham and Rowland
Date:: [1812?]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Domestic manners of the Americans / by Mrs. Trollope.

Creator:: Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780–1863
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Going, going ... gone! / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

Creator:: King, Ronald, 1932–
Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: 7 folded leaves in portfolio : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.

2. Prospectus of an improved mode of delineating estates.

3. Prospectus of a history of the county palatine and of the city of Chester : by Geo. Ormerod of Chorlton, Esq. M.A.F.S.A. : dedicated (with permission) to His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, Earl of Chester ; including King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities.

4. The paste papers of the Golden Hind Press / by James H. Fraser.

6. Specimen of the wood cuts to Northcote's Fables : second series.

7. This day are published, parts first and second, of Architectura ecclesiastica Londini, or the Ecclesiastical architecture of London.

10. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

11. Prospectus for publishing by subscription, Laporte's progressive lessons in landscape, from nature, in imitation of pencil, from the original drawings : to be contained in six numbers, price to subscribers nine shillings each.

12. Proposals for publishing by subscription, original poems : with translations from the French, Italian, and Spanish : and a play, in five acts : by Charlotte Nooth, daughter to the late James Nooth, Esq. ...

13. The boke of Iford / compiled by me, Harold A. Peto of Iford Manor from all the sources available in 1917 ; with a historical introduction by Robin Whalley.

15. The burning of the books : a poem sequence / by George Szirtes ; based on Elias Canetti's novel "Auto da Fé ; illustrated by Ron King.

16. The remains of the ancient monastic architecture of England / by Joseph Potter, architect.

18. Prospectus for Pen, paper & a box of paints : Albert Rutherson, illustrator and designer for the stage, by Ian Rogerson.

21. Blank page.

22. [Prospectus for Susan Allix's Small cakes : a selection containing brief histories, ingredients and recipes, poetic anecdotes and visual decorations].

23. Books published by J. Taylor, High Holborn.

24. Preparing for publication : The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London : extracted out of original charters, records, leiger books, and other manuscripts / by Sir William Dugdale ... ; with additions and a continuation by Henry Ellis ...

25. Richard Long : Walking and sleeping.

26. Prospectus for publishing in subscription The Oxford portfolio : offered to the nobility and gentry of the university / by G. Cooper.

27. Peter Biegel's racing pictures.

28. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

29. To be published on the twenty-third of April, 1816, (being the anniversary of the 2nd century after his decease), an engraved portrait of Shakspeare, from the monumental bust at Stratford-upon-Avon.

30. Martial achievements prospectus.

31. On the 1st of May next, will be published, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, price £1:11:6, elegantly coloured, a series of original designs for shop-fronts by William Davison, architect.

32. Azrael & other poems / Sylvia Townsend Warner.

33. The late Earl of Beaconsfield.

34. 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.

35. Brandt nudes : a new perspective / with a commentary by Mark Haworth-Booth.

36. Interregnum.

38. John Christie archive, 1975-1995.

41. Perfect and imperfect enjoyments : poems / by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester ; with an introduction by Christopher Hibbert ; and illustrated with paintings by Richard Shirley Smith.

42. To be published by subscription, a treatise on theology written by Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson ... : to which will be added a letter from her to her daughter on the principles of the Christian religion : also the life of Mrs. Hutchinson written by herself, a fragment : from the original manuscripts.

43. In the course of the ensuing winter will be published, a reprint of the Morte d'Arthur.

46. Ravilious at war : the complete work of Eric Ravilious, September 1939-September 1942 / edited by Anne Ullmann ; with contributions from Barry and Saria Viney, Christopher Whittick and Simon Lawrence ; and a foreword by Brian Sewell.

47. Rural sports, a poem, by William Somerville, author of "The Chase" : to be published, by subscription, by R. Ackermann, No. 101, Strand.

48. Virtuoso--advt.

49. Proposals for publishing by subscription, a series of engravings of the principal military achievements of the British Army in Portugal : under the command of Lieut. General Lord Viscount Wellington.

50. Works by Mr. Ruskin / published by and to be had of George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent ... ; also to be obtained from the principal booksellers ...

51. Themes in aquatint / Colin Franklin.

52. In the press, and speedily will be published, The history of Richard the Third, King of England. etc., composed in five books by Sir George Buck : now first printed entire from the original ms. in the possession of the editor : with an appendix of notes and documents by Charles Yarnold, Esq.

53. The testament of Charlotte B. / edited & introduced by Marius Kociejowski ; decorated by Richard Shirley Smith.

54. Prospectus of a national work entitled Albyn's anthology, or, a select collection of the more ancient melodies, and vocal poetry, of the lowland and highland districts of Scotland and the Isles, hitherto unpublished.

55. To be published by subscription, A collection of select views in Great Britain : from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists : to be engraved by S. Middiman.

56. Ken Campbell archive, 1975-2003.

57. The left-handed Punch : a new version of the comical tragedy of Punch and Judy / written by Roy Fisher ; designed and printed by Ronald King ; to be published by the Circle Press.

58. Forty sheets to the wind : a new portfolio of old typefaces.

59. Prospectus of a work now ready for the press, which under the title of Hibernia, proposes to treat, in an ample manner, of the ecclesiastical, topographical, and monastic antiquities of Ireland : by W. Monck Mason, Esq.

60. Portraits of celebrated painters.

61. Proposals for publishing by subscription, two prints, from pictures painted expressly to commemorate the glorious victories of Vittoria and the Pyrenees.

63. Avis aux souscripteurs : sur cette dernière livraison du Voyage pittoresque

64. In the press and speedily will be published, in two volumes, royal quarto, with superb embellishments, an historical survey of the country of Cornwall by C.S. Gilbert.

65. A prospectus, &c. of the British School : His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, patron.

66. This day is published, the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha, with critical, philological, and explanatory notes by the Rev. John Hewlett, B.D.

69. Narrative of a journey to the falls of the Cavery : with an historical and descriptive account of the Neilgherry hills / by Lieutenant H. Jervis.

70. Proposals for printing a new and elegant edition of the life of King Robert Bruce, by John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen : and of the acts and deeds of Sir William Wallace, by Henry the Minstrel, commonly called Blind Harry with biographical sketches, notes, and a glossary by John Jamieson.

71. Preparing for publication : The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London : extracted out of original charters, records, lieger books and other manuscripts / by Sir William Dugdale ...; with additions and a continuation by Henry Ellis ...

76. Michael Angelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel : ... facsimiles of original drawings, from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, made at the time of the paintings, and before the execution of the Last Judgment / ... engraved and published by J. Linnell.

78. Twelve views in Corsica / drawn, etched, and published by W. Cowen ; dedicated, by permision, to Earl Fitzwilliam.

79. The burning of the books : a poem sequence / by George Szirtes ; based on Elias Canetti's novel "Auto da Fé ; illustrated by Ron King.

80. On the 1st of February, 1814, was published, no. I, price two shillings, of The new monthly magazine.

81. Prospectus. The history of Little Johnny, the foundling of the late Doctor Syntax : a poem in eight monthly numbers.

83. Prospectus for Richard Bawden, his life & work, by Malcolm Yorke.

85. Preparing for publication, by subscription, in one volume folio, illustrated with numerous engravings, a new edition of Thoresby's Ducatus leodiensis, by Thomas Dunham Whitaker, LL.D. F.S.A. ...

86. Specimen of The vicar of Wakefield : with thirty-two illustrations, engraved by John Thompson, from designs by William Mulready, R.A.

87. Schottland in Bildern / nach der Natur gezeichnet von T. Allom und W.H. Bartlett ; und mit beschreibendem Text von Wilhelm Beattie ... ; aus dem Englischen uebersetzt von Johann von Horn.

88. Westminster Abbey : in the summer of 1816 will be published part the first of the History and antiquities of the Abbey Church of St Peter's : the whole to be illustrated by fifty engravings by J.P. Neale : with ample biographical notices by J. Norris Brewer.

89. Johnson's dictionary, edited by the Reverend H.J. Todd.

90. Preparing for publication, Des. Erasimi Rot. Concio de puero Iesu : olim pronunciata a puero in schola Iohannis Coleti Londini instituta in qua praesidebat imago pueri Iesu docentis specie : Editio nova : Londoni, Typis I. et I.B. Nichols, et S. Bentley, MDCCCXV.

92. Prospectus of a weekly newspaper, to be entitled the Colchester Gazette : which will commence on Saturday, January 1, 1814.

94. Prospectus of a Universal historical dictionary, : or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics : by George Crabb ...

95. The legal and literary journal, and mercantile magazine : to be continued monthly, and number three to be published January 1st, 1814 / conducted by John Williams, Esq., author of the Laws of trade and Commerce, &c. &c. ; assisted by several literary and commercial gentlemen.

96. Francis Bacon : detritus.

97. Course of lectures delivered at the Surry institution--advt.

99. Domestic manners of the Americans / by Mrs. Trollope.