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1. Description of the banquet given in honour of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel ... : on his election as lord rector of the University of Glasgow : detailing the proceedings at the election and inauguration, the addresses of various public bodies, and reports of the speeches at the dinner / corrected by Sir Robert Peel and the other speakers ; containing also pictorial illustrations, plans, and sections of the banqueting hall, and the common hall of the university ; with a list of the names of the noblemen and gentlemen who attended the festival.

Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: [6], 144 p., [6] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The science of beauty : as developed in nature and applied in art / by D.R. Hay.

Creator:: Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798–1866
Date:: 1856
Physical Description:: xi, 108 p., [23] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The carpenter and joiner, stair builder and hand-railer / by Robert Riddell ; with fifty-nine plates, comprising a series of card-board models.

Creator:: Riddell, Robert
Date:: [1870?]
Physical Description:: 125 p., 57 leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Wellington's address : to which are added the Banks of Clyde : The wells o' weary : Haud awa frae me Donald.

Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 8 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Sketches in Scotland / drawn from nature and on stone by S.D. Swarbreck.

Creator:: Swarbreck, S. D. (Samuel Dukinfield)
Date:: Sepr.1st, 1845
Physical Description:: [2] pages, [26] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Owain Miles and other inedited fragments of ancient English poetry.

Date:: MDCCCXXXVII [1837]
Physical Description:: [151] p. in various pagings : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Six engravings in illustration of The antiquary : for the members of the Royal association for promotion of the fine arts in Scotland. 1867.

Creator:: Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland
Physical Description:: [Edinburgh [Scotland] : Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, 1867].
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Coleman O. Parsons, Yale PhD 1931

8. A new sea and an old land : being papers suggested by a visit to Egypt at the end of 1869. / By W. G. Hamley ...

Creator:: Hamley, W. G. (William George), 1815–1893
Date:: MDCCCLXXI [1871]
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 318 p., [1], [7] leaves of plates, 1 p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Encyclopædia britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, &c. on a plan entirely new: by which, the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises or systems, comprehending the history, theory, and practice, of each, according to the latest discoveries and improvements; and full explanations given of the various detached parts of knowledge, whether relating to natural and artificial objects, or to matters ecclesiastical, civil, military, commercial, &c. Together with a description of all the countries, cities ... a general history, ancient and modern, of the different empires, kingdoms and states; and an account of the lives of the most eminent persons in every nation, from the earliest ages down to the present times ...

Date:: 1778-1783
Physical Description:: 10 v. fold. plates, fold. maps, fold. tables, fold. diagrs. (1 col.) 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The rudiments of architecture, or, the young workman's instructor : in two parts : ... with twenty three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary ...

Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 127, 6, [16] p., [49] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The gentle shepherd, a pastoral comedy; : with illustrations of the scenary: an appendix, containing memoirs of David Allan, the Scots Hogarth; besides original, and other poems connected with the illustrations: and a comprehensive glossary. To which are prefixed, an authentic life of Allan Ramsay, and an inquiry into the origin of pastoral poetry; the propriety of the rules prescribed for it; and the practice of Ramsay ...

Creator:: Ramsay, Allan, 1686–1758
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: 2 v., [16] leaves of plates (some folding) : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The crown glass cutter and glazier's manual. By William Cooper ...

Creator:: Cooper, William
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: x, [2], 125 p. front., ill., plates, fold. charts. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. An account of the Kingdom of Nepal, : and of the territories annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha. / By Francis Hamilton, (formerly Buchanan,) ... Illustrated with engravings.

Creator:: Hamilton, Francis, 1762–1829
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 364 p., [4], [8] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Painting, and the fine arts: being the articles under those heads contributed to the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia britannica, by B. R. Haydon ... and William Hazlitt.

Creator:: Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786–1846
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: 227 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The poetical works of James Thomson : illustrated / the text edited by Charles Cowden Clarke.

Creator:: Thomson, James, 1700–1748
Date:: 1869
Physical Description:: xx, 372, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Gerstäcker's travels : Rio de Janeiro - Buenos Ayres - Ride through the Pampas - Winter Journey across the Cordilleras-Chili-Valparaiso - California and the gold fields / translated from the German of Frederick Gerstäcker.

Creator:: Gerstäcker, Friedrich, 1816–1872
Date:: MDCCCLIV [1854]
Physical Description:: [3], viii-290 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. An introductory course of fencing.

Creator:: Roland, George
Date:: [1840?]
Physical Description:: 41 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Lothian's historical atlas of Scotland : consisting of five general maps.

Creator:: Lothian, John
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: 1 atlas [2] p. : 6 colored maps : 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. To the right honourable John, Earl of Rothes, &ca. these plates exhibiting the funeral solemnities observed at the internment of his grace John Duke of Rothes Lord High Chancelor of Scotland 23 of August 1681, are respectfully inscribed by his lordship's most obedient, & devoted humble servant, Thomas Sommers.

Date:: between 1700 and 1773]
Physical Description:: 4 plates. 48 x 56 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Fair Margaret's misfortunes : to which are added : A cogie of ale : The weary pund o'tow : Song in rosina.

Date:: [18--]
Physical Description:: 8 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Six engravings in illustration of Rob Roy : for the members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland. 1868.

Creator:: Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland
Date:: 1868]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves, [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Coleman O. Parsons, Yale PhD 1931

22. Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland : with an accurate travelling map : engraved charts and views of the scenery : plans of Edinburgh and Glasgow : and a copious itinerary.

Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: xi, 500 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Roderick, the last of the Goths. By Robert Southey, Esq. ...

Creator:: Southey, Robert, 1774–1843
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 2 v. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The traveller's guide through Scotland, and its islands. : Illustrated by maps, views of remarkable buildings, &c.

Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 2 v., [31] leaves of plates (some folding): ill., maps, plans; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Eight engravings of the ruins occasioned by the great fires in Edinburgh on the 15th, 16th, & 17th, Novr. 1824.

Date:: [1824?]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves (some folded) : all ill. ; 30 x 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Essays on the nature and principles of taste. By Archibald Alison ...

Creator:: Alison, Archibald, 1757–1839
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: 2 v. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Ancient streets and homesteads of England / by Alfred Rimmer ; and an introduction by the Very Rev. J.S. Howson ... ; with one hundred and fifty illustrations from drawings by the author ; engraved by J.D. Cooper.

Creator:: Rimmer, Alfred, 1829–1893
Date:: 1879
Physical Description:: xxii, 350 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Studies of trees in pencil and in water colors. By J. Needham. Second series. Sixteen examples in pencil. Nine examples in colors. With a description of each tree, and full instructions for drawing and painting by an experienced teacher.

Creator:: Needham, J
Date:: [1895]
Physical Description:: 1 p., 52 p. ill. (part mounted and col.) 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Gems of womanhood, or, Sketches of distinguished women in various ages and nations / by Samuel Mossman ...

Creator:: Mossman, Samuel
Date:: [1870]
Physical Description:: vi, 314 p., [4] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Antient Irish pavement tiles, exhibiting thirty-two patterns, : illustrated by forty engravings, after the originals, existing in St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Howth, Mellifont, and Newtown Abbeys. / With introductory remarks, by Thomas Oldham, ...

Creator:: Oldham, Thomas, 1816–1878
Date:: [1842]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [28] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The Edinburgh etching club portfolio : a collection of twelve original etchings by members of the club.

Creator:: Edinburgh Etching Club
Date:: 1881
Physical Description:: [xii] plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Address to the public, respecting the establishment of a lunatic asylum at Edinburgh.

Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: [2], 10, 9, [1], 15, [1] p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Report to the Right Honourable the Lord Provost, magistrates, and council of the city of Edinburth and the governors of George Heriot's Hospital, &c. &c : on the plans for laying out the grounds for buildings between Edinburgh and Leith / by William Stark.

Creator:: Stark, William, architect
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 21 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Picture of Edinburgh : containing a description of the city and its environs / by J. Stark ; with a new plan of the city and forty eight views of the principal buildings.

Creator:: Stark, J. (John)
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: 370 p., [16] leaves of plates :
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The Lady of the lake / by Sir Walter Scott ; illustrated by Birket Foster and John Gilbert.

Creator:: Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:: 1863
Physical Description:: 339 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Souvenir of Scotland; its cities, lakes, and mountains. One hundred and twenty chromo views.

Date:: 1889
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., 60 col. plates. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Oxford : a poem / by Robert Montgomery ...

Creator:: Montgomery, Robert, 1807–1855
Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: 258 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Six engravings in illustration of The heart of Midlothian : for the members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland.

Creator:: Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland
Date:: 1873]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Coleman O. Parsons, Yale PhD 1931

39. McDowall's new guide to Roslin : being a historically descriptive account of the chapel & castle of Roslin and Hawthornden : with engravings on steel.

Date:: [1839?]
Physical Description:: [2], 36 p., [2] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Of kings' treasuries / by John Ruskin.

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: 1902
Physical Description:: [4], 99 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Views of Edinburgh and its vicinity.

Date:: [18--]
Physical Description:: [1], [15] leaves : all ill. ; 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The history of Edinburgh, from the earliest accounts, to the year 1780 ... With an appendix ... To which is added, a sketch of the improvements of the city, from 1780-1816 ... By Hugo Arnot ...

Creator:: Arnot, Hugo, 1749–1786
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: xvi, 598 p. plan. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The hermit of Warkworth : a Northumberland ballad in three fits / by Dr. Thos. Percy ... ; with designs by Mr. Craig ; and engraved on wood by Mr. Bewick.

Creator:: Percy, Thomas, 1729–1811
Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: [v]-xiv, [15]-90 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The history of Sandford and Merton. / By Thomas Day. Six coloured engravings on steel.

Creator:: Day, Thomas, 1748–1789
Date:: [1867]
Physical Description:: iv, 532 p., [6] leaves of colored plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The banks o' the Devon : to which are added : The land o'the leal : Despairing Mary : The thorn : Sleeping Maggie : Fair Helen : Hal the Woodman.

Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 8 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Twelve etchings of views in Edinburgh / by an amateur.

Creator:: Amateur
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 15, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Scotland delineated : a series of views of the principal cities and towns, particularly of Edinburgh and its environs : of the cathedrals, abbeys, and other monastic remains : the castles and baronial mansions : the mountains and rivers, sea-coast : and other grand picturesque scenery : from drawings made expressly by Sir William Allan, F.R.S.A., Clarkson Stanfield, R.A., George Cattermole, W.L. Leitch, Thomas Creswick, A.R.A., David Roberts, R.A., J.D. Harding, Joseph Nash, Horatio Macculloch, R.S.A., J.M.W. Turner, R.A., D.O. Hill, R.A., W. Simpson, &c. &c. : accompanied by copious letterpress, comprising histories of the city and Castle of Edinburgh, and Palace of Holyrood : with historical and antiquarian notices, interspersed with curious and original anecdotes of the principal scenes and events illustrated thoughout the work / by John Parker Lawson, M.A.

Creator:: Lawson, John Parker, -1852
Date:: [1858]
Physical Description:: [6], 285 pages, [71] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Sair sair was my heart : to which are added The hero's orphant girls : The lass o'Ballochmyle : Allister M'Allister : The Highland plaid.

Date:: [18--]
Physical Description:: 8 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The life of Michel Angelo Buonarroti : with his poetry and letters / by R. Duppa ...

Creator:: Duppa, Richard, 1770–1831
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: xi, 468 p., [57] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., ports. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Travels through the Alps of Savoy and other parts of the Pennine Chain : with observations of the phenomena of glaciers / by James D. Forbes ...

Creator:: Forbes, James David, 1809–1868
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: xvi, 460 p., [14] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. To the honourable Archibald Douglas esqr. of Douglas ... these plates exhibiting the solemnities, and ceremonies used at the sitting down, & rising of the Scots Parliament, before the union with England, are most humbly enscribed, by his most obedient & devoted humble servt. Thomas Sommers.

Date:: 17--]
Physical Description:: 3 plates 48 x 56 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. The Scots compendium, or, Pocket peerage of Scotland : including the dormant, attainted, & extinct titles, with their descent, marriage, issue ...

Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., coats of arms ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. History of the town of Greenock / by Daniel Weir ...

Creator:: Weir, Daniel
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: viii, 126, [4] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Three years in California / by J.D. Borthwick ; with eight illustrations by the author.

Creator:: Borthwick, John David
Date:: MDCCCLVII [1857]
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 384,16 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. The chapel of St. Anthony the Eremite : at Murthly, Perthshire, the seat of Sir William Drummond Stewart of Grandtully, Bart. / lithographed by Schenck & Ghemar from the designs of James Gillespie Graham, Architect, and Alexr. Christie ...

Date:: 1850
Physical Description:: [20] leaves : ill. (some col.), plan ; 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Pictures and songs for children. by the author of "Rambling rhymes," &c.

Date:: [1856]
Physical Description:: 12 leaves. col. front., col. plates. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Description of Mr. Haydon's pictures : now exhibiting at Bruce's Rooms, Waterloo Place.

Creator:: Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786–1846
Date:: [1820]
Physical Description:: [16] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Elements of drawing and painting in water colours : being supplement to the Elements of drawing and perspective, published in Chambers's educational course / by John Clark.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 212 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Specimens of inlaid tiles : heraldic and geometrical, from Neath Abbey, Glamorganshire / the descriptive heraldic notices by the Revd. H.H. Knight ... ; the plates from original drawings by Mr. Egbert Moxham ...

Creator:: Knight, H. H
Date:: [1850]
Physical Description:: [6], 27 p., 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 x 56 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Rejected addresses: or, The new Theatrum poetarum ...

Creator:: Smith, James, 1775–1839
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., [v]-xiii p., 1 leaf, 127 p. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. A spring day, or, Contemplations on several occurrances which naturally strike the eye in that delightful season / by James Fisher.

Creator:: Fisher, James, 1759–
Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 11-207 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. British fresh-water fishes / by the Rev. W. Houghton ... Illustrated with a coloured figure of each species drawn from nature by A. F. Lydon, and numerous engravings.

Creator:: Houghton, W. (William), 1828–1895
Date:: [pref. 1879]
Physical Description:: 2 v. col. fronts., illus., col. plates. 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. 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

64. The geometric beauty of the human figure defined; to which is prefixed a system of aesthetic proportion applicable to architecture and the other formative arts, by D.R. Hay ...

Creator:: Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798–1866
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., [vii]-xiv p. 1 ., 68 p. diagrs. on xvi pl. 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Fac-simile of Burns' celebrated poem, entitled The jolly beggars. : From the original manuscript.

Creator:: Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:: MDCCCXXXVIII [1838]
Physical Description:: [3]-8, [2] p., [17] leaves of plates : ill., facsimiles ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Six engravings in illustration of A legend of Montrose : for the members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland. 1877.

Creator:: Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland
Date:: 1877]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Coleman O. Parsons, Yale PhD 1931

67. Etchings by Sir David Wilkie ... and by Andrew Geddes ... with biographical sketches by David Laing ...

Creator:: Laing, David, 1793–1878
Date:: 1875
Physical Description:: xii, 42 p., 2 l. plates (part mounted), ports. 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. A new guide to the city of Edinburgh : containing a description of all the public buildings, and a concise history of the city, from the earliest periods to the present time : embellished with elegant engravings of the principal public buildings.

Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: 118 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Tam O'Shanter / by Robert Burns.

Creator:: Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [5] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Coleman O. Parsons, Yale PhD 1931

70. Duncan's Itinerary of Scotland: with the principal roads to London, copious observations on each road, and an appendix, containing some account of the canals, lakes, mountains, harbours, and romantic scenery, deserving of the traveller's notice; together with a minute mineralogical sketch of the several counties of Scotland.

Creator:: Duncan, James, Scotch bookseller
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: xxii, [1], 116, 115, 47, [1] p., [2] leaves of colored folding plates : maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. The works of Robert Burns / with a complete life of the poet and an essay on his genius and character by Professor Wilson ; also numerous notes, annotations, and appendices ...

Creator:: Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:: 1850
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Essay on the origin and principles of gothic architecture / by Sir James Hall, Bart., F. R. & A. S.S. Edin. ; from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ; (read April 6, 1797).

Creator:: Hall, James, Sir, 1761–1832
Date:: 1798?]
Physical Description:: 27, [1] p., vi leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The laws of harmonious colouring, adapted to interior decorations, &c. to which is now added, An attempt to define æsthetical taste. By D. R. Hay ...

Creator:: Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798–1866
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: 103 p. ill. (diagrs.) plates (part col.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Modern Athenians : being portraits of eminent personages in the metropolis of Scotland.

Creator:: Crombie, Benjamin W. (Benjamin William), 1803–1847
Date:: MDCCCLI [1851]
Physical Description:: [4] p., 48 leaves of plates : ports. ; 28 x 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John E. Hankins

75. Portrait of Sir Walter Scott and five engravings in illustration of the Pirate, for the members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland. 1871.

Creator:: Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland
Date:: 1871.]
Physical Description:: [7] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Coleman O. Parsons, Yale PhD 1931

76. The traveller's guide through Scotland and its islands : illustrated by maps, views of remarkable buildings, &c.

Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 18cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. The story of the campaign of Sebastopol / written in the camp by Lieut. Col. E. Bruce Hamley ; with illustrations drawn in camp by the author.

Creator:: Hamley, Edward Bruce, Sir, 1824–1893
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: xv, 339 p. : ill., fold. map. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, or, A complete register of the hereditary honours, public offices, and persons in office, from the earliest periods to the present time / by Robert Beatson ...

Creator:: Beatson, Robert, 1742–1818
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 211, [1], 372, 117, [1] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Bewick's Select fables of Aesop and others : in three parts ... to which are prefixed The life of Aesop, and An essay upon fable / by Oliver Goldsmith ... ; with the original wood engravings by Thomas Bewick, and an illustrated preface by Edwin Pearson ; to which are added select supplementary illustrations of Bewick's genius.

Date:: 1879
Physical Description:: [4], xl, 384 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., ports ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Description of a bronze or cast-iron columnal light-house : with references to a model of one-fourth the full size : designed for the Wolf Rock, situated between the island of Scilly and the Land's-End, or the Skerry Vore, on the west coast of Scotland ... / by Samuel Brown ...

Creator:: Brown, Samuel, 1774–1852
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 28 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. The angler's garland, and fisher's delight, for 1871 : a right merrie wreath of old songs, secrets & suggestions in the art of angling / embellished with a few "canny" woodcuts by that lover of Tyneside, Thomas Bewick ; selected and arranged by Edwin Pearson.

Date:: 1871
Physical Description:: vi, [7]-24 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. The satchel. A miscellany of entertaining reading.

Date:: 1866
Physical Description:: 4 p. ., 64, [2] p. ill., plates (part. fold.) 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Proportion, or, The geometric principle of beauty, analysed / by D. R. Hay, decorative painter to the Queen, Edinburgh; author of "The laws of harmonious colouring adapted to interior decorations," "The natural principles and analogy of the harmony of form," etc.

Creator:: Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798–1866
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: [2], x, 78 p., [xvii] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The cottar's Saturday night / by Robert Burns ; illustrated by John Faed.

Creator:: Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: [12] leaves, [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 x 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Coleman O. Parsons, Yale PhD 1931

85. The history of Sandford and Merton: a book for the young. By Thomas Day.

Creator:: Day, Thomas, 1748–1789
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., [9]-408 p. front., plates. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Eight engravings in illustration of Waverley : for the members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland. 1865.

Creator:: Royal Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland
Date:: 1865]
Physical Description:: [10] leaves, [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Coleman O. Parsons, Yale PhD 1931

87. 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 ...

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

88. A spring day, or, Contemplations on several occurrences which naturally strike the eye in that delightful season / by James Fisher.

Creator:: Fisher, James, 1759–
Date:: MDCCCIII [1803]
Physical Description:: 338, [2] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Second book of drawing / by John Clark.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: 91 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. A practical guide for the tailor's cutting-room : being a treatise on measuring and cutting clothing in all styles, and for every period of life from childhood to old age / by Joseph Couts ; with numerous diagrams and pictorial illustrations.

Creator:: Couts, Joseph
Date:: [1848]
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 166 p., xxvii, 17 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Modern Athens! Displayed in a series of views: or Edinburgh in the nineteenth century: exhibiting the whole of the new buildings, modern improvements, antiquities, and picturesque scenery, of the Scottish metropolis and its environs, from original drawings, by Mr. Thomas H. Shepherd ...

Creator:: Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:: 1829 [i.e. 1831]
Physical Description:: 2 p.., [iii]-vi, 88 p., 1 leaf. plates. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. The Arab's ride to Cairo : a legend of the desert / by G.J. Whyte Melville ; illustrated and illuminated by Mrs. Wolfe Murray.

Creator:: Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John), 1821–1878
Date:: [1867]
Physical Description:: 14 leaves : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Souvenir of the North.

Date:: 1855?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([40] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 14 x 400 cm., folded to 14 x 10 cm., attached to boards 15 x 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The traveller's companion through the city of Edinburgh and suburbs: comprehending a concise history of the city, from the earliest accounts to the present period; with a description of the public buildings, illustrated with engravings. To which are added several views taken in the environs of the city.

Creator:: Kincaid, Alexander
Date:: M,DCC,XCIV [1794]
Physical Description:: [4], 138, XV leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., map, plan ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer : explaining, short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working ... / by B. and T. Langley.

Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 32 p., [100] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Jacobite correspondence of the Atholl family during the rebellion, MDCCXLV-MDCCXLVI : from the originals in the possession of James Erskine of Aberdona.

Date:: 1840
Physical Description:: xx, 258 p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. A descriptive catalogue of the antique statues, paintings, and other productions of the fine arts that existed in the Louvre at the time the allies took possession of Paris in July 1815 : to which are added some useful hints to those who intend to visit the memorable field of Waterloo.

Creator:: Musée du Louvre
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: ii, 229 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Record of the international exhibition of 1862 / by Robert Mallet ... ; assisted by a complete staff of eminent literary and scientific gentlemen.

Date:: [1862?]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Illustrations to the King's Quair, of King James I of Scotland : painted on the staircase of Penkill castle, Ayrshire / by William Bell Scott, June 1865 to August 1868 ; etched by him 1885.

Creator:: Scott, William Bell, 1811–1890
Date:: 1887
Physical Description:: 19 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The elements of drawing : containing the first principles of light and shade, colouring, and perspective, with engravings, and coloured examples of tints / by George Marshall Mather.

Creator:: Mather, George Marshall
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: 46 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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2. The science of beauty : as developed in nature and applied in art / by D.R. Hay.

3. The carpenter and joiner, stair builder and hand-railer / by Robert Riddell ; with fifty-nine plates, comprising a series of card-board models.

4. Wellington's address : to which are added the Banks of Clyde : The wells o' weary : Haud awa frae me Donald.

5. Sketches in Scotland / drawn from nature and on stone by S.D. Swarbreck.

6. Owain Miles and other inedited fragments of ancient English poetry.

7. Six engravings in illustration of The antiquary : for the members of the Royal association for promotion of the fine arts in Scotland. 1867.

8. A new sea and an old land : being papers suggested by a visit to Egypt at the end of 1869. / By W. G. Hamley ...

10. The rudiments of architecture, or, the young workman's instructor : in two parts : ... with twenty three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary ...

12. The crown glass cutter and glazier's manual. By William Cooper ...

13. An account of the Kingdom of Nepal, : and of the territories annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha. / By Francis Hamilton, (formerly Buchanan,) ... Illustrated with engravings.

14. Painting, and the fine arts: being the articles under those heads contributed to the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia britannica, by B. R. Haydon ... and William Hazlitt.

15. The poetical works of James Thomson : illustrated / the text edited by Charles Cowden Clarke.

16. Gerstäcker's travels : Rio de Janeiro - Buenos Ayres - Ride through the Pampas - Winter Journey across the Cordilleras-Chili-Valparaiso - California and the gold fields / translated from the German of Frederick Gerstäcker.

17. An introductory course of fencing.

18. Lothian's historical atlas of Scotland : consisting of five general maps.

20. Fair Margaret's misfortunes : to which are added : A cogie of ale : The weary pund o'tow : Song in rosina.

21. Six engravings in illustration of Rob Roy : for the members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland. 1868.

22. Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland : with an accurate travelling map : engraved charts and views of the scenery : plans of Edinburgh and Glasgow : and a copious itinerary.

23. Roderick, the last of the Goths. By Robert Southey, Esq. ...

24. The traveller's guide through Scotland, and its islands. : Illustrated by maps, views of remarkable buildings, &c.

25. Eight engravings of the ruins occasioned by the great fires in Edinburgh on the 15th, 16th, & 17th, Novr. 1824.

26. Essays on the nature and principles of taste. By Archibald Alison ...

27. Ancient streets and homesteads of England / by Alfred Rimmer ; and an introduction by the Very Rev. J.S. Howson ... ; with one hundred and fifty illustrations from drawings by the author ; engraved by J.D. Cooper.

28. Studies of trees in pencil and in water colors. By J. Needham. Second series. Sixteen examples in pencil. Nine examples in colors. With a description of each tree, and full instructions for drawing and painting by an experienced teacher.

29. Gems of womanhood, or, Sketches of distinguished women in various ages and nations / by Samuel Mossman ...

30. Antient Irish pavement tiles, exhibiting thirty-two patterns, : illustrated by forty engravings, after the originals, existing in St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Howth, Mellifont, and Newtown Abbeys. / With introductory remarks, by Thomas Oldham, ...

31. The Edinburgh etching club portfolio : a collection of twelve original etchings by members of the club.

32. Address to the public, respecting the establishment of a lunatic asylum at Edinburgh.

33. Report to the Right Honourable the Lord Provost, magistrates, and council of the city of Edinburth and the governors of George Heriot's Hospital, &c. &c : on the plans for laying out the grounds for buildings between Edinburgh and Leith / by William Stark.

34. Picture of Edinburgh : containing a description of the city and its environs / by J. Stark ; with a new plan of the city and forty eight views of the principal buildings.

35. The Lady of the lake / by Sir Walter Scott ; illustrated by Birket Foster and John Gilbert.

36. Souvenir of Scotland; its cities, lakes, and mountains. One hundred and twenty chromo views.

37. Oxford : a poem / by Robert Montgomery ...

38. Six engravings in illustration of The heart of Midlothian : for the members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland.

39. McDowall's new guide to Roslin : being a historically descriptive account of the chapel & castle of Roslin and Hawthornden : with engravings on steel.

40. Of kings' treasuries / by John Ruskin.

41. Views of Edinburgh and its vicinity.

42. The history of Edinburgh, from the earliest accounts, to the year 1780 ... With an appendix ... To which is added, a sketch of the improvements of the city, from 1780-1816 ... By Hugo Arnot ...

43. The hermit of Warkworth : a Northumberland ballad in three fits / by Dr. Thos. Percy ... ; with designs by Mr. Craig ; and engraved on wood by Mr. Bewick.

44. The history of Sandford and Merton. / By Thomas Day. Six coloured engravings on steel.

45. The banks o' the Devon : to which are added : The land o'the leal : Despairing Mary : The thorn : Sleeping Maggie : Fair Helen : Hal the Woodman.

46. Twelve etchings of views in Edinburgh / by an amateur.

48. Sair sair was my heart : to which are added The hero's orphant girls : The lass o'Ballochmyle : Allister M'Allister : The Highland plaid.

49. The life of Michel Angelo Buonarroti : with his poetry and letters / by R. Duppa ...

50. Travels through the Alps of Savoy and other parts of the Pennine Chain : with observations of the phenomena of glaciers / by James D. Forbes ...

51. To the honourable Archibald Douglas esqr. of Douglas ... these plates exhibiting the solemnities, and ceremonies used at the sitting down, & rising of the Scots Parliament, before the union with England, are most humbly enscribed, by his most obedient & devoted humble servt. Thomas Sommers.

52. The Scots compendium, or, Pocket peerage of Scotland : including the dormant, attainted, & extinct titles, with their descent, marriage, issue ...

53. History of the town of Greenock / by Daniel Weir ...

54. Three years in California / by J.D. Borthwick ; with eight illustrations by the author.

55. The chapel of St. Anthony the Eremite : at Murthly, Perthshire, the seat of Sir William Drummond Stewart of Grandtully, Bart. / lithographed by Schenck & Ghemar from the designs of James Gillespie Graham, Architect, and Alexr. Christie ...

56. Pictures and songs for children. by the author of "Rambling rhymes," &c.

57. Description of Mr. Haydon's pictures : now exhibiting at Bruce's Rooms, Waterloo Place.

58. Elements of drawing and painting in water colours : being supplement to the Elements of drawing and perspective, published in Chambers's educational course / by John Clark.

59. Specimens of inlaid tiles : heraldic and geometrical, from Neath Abbey, Glamorganshire / the descriptive heraldic notices by the Revd. H.H. Knight ... ; the plates from original drawings by Mr. Egbert Moxham ...

60. Rejected addresses: or, The new Theatrum poetarum ...

61. A spring day, or, Contemplations on several occurrances which naturally strike the eye in that delightful season / by James Fisher.

62. British fresh-water fishes / by the Rev. W. Houghton ... Illustrated with a coloured figure of each species drawn from nature by A. F. Lydon, and numerous engravings.

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

64. The geometric beauty of the human figure defined; to which is prefixed a system of aesthetic proportion applicable to architecture and the other formative arts, by D.R. Hay ...

65. Fac-simile of Burns' celebrated poem, entitled The jolly beggars. : From the original manuscript.

66. Six engravings in illustration of A legend of Montrose : for the members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland. 1877.

67. Etchings by Sir David Wilkie ... and by Andrew Geddes ... with biographical sketches by David Laing ...

68. A new guide to the city of Edinburgh : containing a description of all the public buildings, and a concise history of the city, from the earliest periods to the present time : embellished with elegant engravings of the principal public buildings.

69. Tam O'Shanter / by Robert Burns.

71. The works of Robert Burns / with a complete life of the poet and an essay on his genius and character by Professor Wilson ; also numerous notes, annotations, and appendices ...

72. Essay on the origin and principles of gothic architecture / by Sir James Hall, Bart., F. R. & A. S.S. Edin. ; from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ; (read April 6, 1797).

73. The laws of harmonious colouring, adapted to interior decorations, &c. to which is now added, An attempt to define æsthetical taste. By D. R. Hay ...

74. Modern Athenians : being portraits of eminent personages in the metropolis of Scotland.

75. Portrait of Sir Walter Scott and five engravings in illustration of the Pirate, for the members of the Royal Association for Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland. 1871.

76. The traveller's guide through Scotland and its islands : illustrated by maps, views of remarkable buildings, &c.

77. The story of the campaign of Sebastopol / written in the camp by Lieut. Col. E. Bruce Hamley ; with illustrations drawn in camp by the author.

78. A political index to the histories of Great Britain and Ireland, or, A complete register of the hereditary honours, public offices, and persons in office, from the earliest periods to the present time / by Robert Beatson ...

80. Description of a bronze or cast-iron columnal light-house : with references to a model of one-fourth the full size : designed for the Wolf Rock, situated between the island of Scilly and the Land's-End, or the Skerry Vore, on the west coast of Scotland ... / by Samuel Brown ...