Associated Places: Great Britain and London (England) / Classification: Books

1. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

Creator:: Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718–1785
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The new album of London.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. The exhibition and grand London sights.

Date:: [1856]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20. The British metropolis in 1851 : a classified guide to London, so arranged as to show, in separate chapters, every object in London interesting to special tastes and occupations.

Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: xx, 299, 16, [14] p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The new picture of London : being a complete guide & hand-book to all that can amuse, interest, and instruct in this vast metropolis : and a useful and entertaining companion to the exhibitions and public buildings, sights and amusements, for the stranger, resident, and visitor.

Date:: [1841]
Physical Description:: xii, 276 p., [11] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Kidd's new guide to the "lions" of London, or, The stranger's directory to the Tower, ST. Paul's, the parks, the theatres, the bazaars, the diorama, the colosseum, Thames tunnel, the Zoological gardens, Regent's park, the Surrey zoological gardens, Westminster abbey, etc. etc. : with numerous illustrations of the different places and objects, designed and engraved by G.W. Bonner.

Creator:: Kidd, William, 1803–1867
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 70, 8 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Hand-book of London : past and present / by Peter Cunningham.

Creator:: Cunningham, Peter, 1816–1869
Date:: 1850
Physical Description:: liv, 602 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Life in London, or, The day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthia Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis / by Pierce Egan, author of Walks through Bath, Sporting anecdotes, Pictures of the Fancy, Boxiana, &c. ; dedicated to His Most Gracious Majesty King George the Fourth ; embellished with thirty-six scenes from real life, designed and etched by I. R. & G. Cruikshank ; and enriched also with numerous original designs on wood, by the same artists.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: xvi, 376, [10] p., [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Picturesque sketches of London : past and present / by Thomas Miller ; with numerous engravings of churches, public buildings, antiquities, street views, &c.

Creator:: Miller, Thomas, 1807–1874
Date:: [1852]
Physical Description:: 306, [2] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Memories of London : a picture souvenir of the world's greatest city.

Date:: [1951]
Physical Description:: 32 pages : illustrations ; 13 x 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Sketches in London / by James Grant, the author of "Random recollections of the Lords and Commons," "The Great Metropolis," &c. &c. ; with twenty-four humorous illustrations, by "Phiz," and others.

Creator:: Grant, James, 1802–1879
Date:: [1837-1838]
Physical Description:: [12] pt. ([4], viii, 408 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. All about the Diamond Jubilee : with large-scale plan of London : fully illustrated.

Date:: [1897]
Physical Description:: [2], 77, [1] p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The campagna of London, or, Views in the different parishes within the circumference of twenty-five miles from that metropolis : with some account of the history and topography of each parish, and biographical anecdotes of persons who have resided in them. The whole collected from authentic records, and from local and personal information / by William Ellis ...

Creator:: Ellis, William, 1747–1810
Date:: [1791-1793]
Physical Description:: 152 p., 26 [i.e. 25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. 1851, or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family, who came up to London to "enjoy themselves," and to see the Great Exhibition / by Henry Mayhew, and George Cruikshank.

Creator:: Mayhew, Henry, 1812–1887
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: [4], 242 (i.e. 240) p., [10] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

31. Routledge's guide to London and its suburbs : comprising description of all its points of interest : with original illustrations, a map, and index.

Date:: [1871]
Physical Description:: xvi, 202 p., [17] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Guide du voyageur à Londres et dans ses environs : précédé d'un itinéraire topographique des diverses routes de Paris à Londres : et comprenant, 1 ̊une notice détaillée de Londres ... 2 ̊l'indication complète des hôtels, messageries, voitures de cette capitale, 3 ̊toutes les lignes de chemins de fer ... / par Lake ; revu et corrigé par Richard.

Creator:: Lake, J. W
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 563 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., col. maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The court and city register for the year 1751 ; containing 1. new and correct lists of both Houses of Parliament. II. The Court register. III. Lists of the Army and Navy.

Date:: [1751?]
Physical Description:: [8], 207, [1] p., [1] folded leaves of plates : ill. : 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The panorama of London, or, Visitor's guide / by T. Allen ; with numerous engravings.

Creator:: Allen, Thomas, 1803–1833
Date:: 1828]
Physical Description:: 318 p., [32] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., map ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Veuës de diverses belles maisons, eglises & cathedrales de la ville de Londres & d'Angleterre.

Physical Description:: [28] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 19 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. A handbook for London : past and present / by Peter Cunningham.

Creator:: Cunningham, Peter, 1816–1869
Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (933 pages) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Scott Wilcox.

37. The London of Elizabeth I / by M.R. Holmes.

Creator:: Holmes, Martin Rivington, 1905–
Date:: 1960
Physical Description:: 28 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

38. The London of Elizabeth I / by M.R. Holmes ; with an introduction by Sir John E. Meale.

Creator:: Holmes, Martin Rivington, 1905–
Date:: 1959
Physical Description:: 31 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

39. On exhibit : Victorians and their museums / Barbara J. Black.

Creator:: Black, Barbara J., 1962–
Date:: 2000
Physical Description:: viii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

40. James Gillray : prints by the eighteenth-century master of caricature / by Katherine W. Hart with the assistance of Laura Hacker.

Creator:: Hart, Katherine W
Date:: 1994
Physical Description:: 52 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

41. Holland house. By Princess Marie Liechtenstein.

Creator:: Liechtenstein, Marie Henriette Norberte, prinzessin von, 1843–
Date:: 1874
Physical Description:: 2 v. fronts., illus., ports, facsims. (part fold.) 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

42. St James's Palace : from Leper Hospital to Royal Court / Rufus Bird, Simon Thurley, Michael Turner ; edited by Simon Thurley.

Creator:: Bird, Rufus
Date:: 2022
Physical Description:: ix, 281 pages : illustrations (some color), color map, plans ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

43. On a bastion of London wall; or, Excavations in Camomile street, Bishopsgate. By John Edward Price ...

Creator:: Price, John Edward, d. 1892
Date:: 1880
Physical Description:: 1 p. l., ii, 3-95 p. front. (plan) illus., pl. 31 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

44. Court culture and the origins of a royalist tradition in early Stuart England / R. Malcolm Smuts.

Creator:: Smuts, R. Malcolm (Robert Malcolm)
Date:: 1987
Physical Description:: xiv, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

45. Victorian Babylon : people, streets, and images in nineteenth-century London / Lynda Nead.

Creator:: Nead, Lynda
Date:: c2000
Physical Description:: viii, 251 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

46. The outdoor monuments of London; statues, memorial buildings, tablets and war memorials, by C.S. Cooper, illustrated from photographs specially taken by Will. F. Taylor.

Creator:: Cooper, Charles Samuel, 1862–
Date:: [1928]
Physical Description:: 236 p. plates, ports. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

47. Colony Room Club, 1948-2008 : a history of Bohemian Soho / by Sophie Parkin.

Creator:: Parkin, Sophie
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 265 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

48. Roman London, A.D. 43-457.

Creator:: Home, Gordon, 1878–1969
Date:: 1948
Physical Description:: 302p. illus. 22cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

49. The Tower of London : cauldron of Britain's past / Plantagenet Somerset Fry.

Creator:: Somerset Fry, Plantagenet, 1931–1996
Date:: 1990
Physical Description:: x, 188 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 26 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.

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1. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

2. The new album of London.

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

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

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

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

13. The exhibition and grand London sights.

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

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

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

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

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

20. The British metropolis in 1851 : a classified guide to London, so arranged as to show, in separate chapters, every object in London interesting to special tastes and occupations.

21. The new picture of London : being a complete guide & hand-book to all that can amuse, interest, and instruct in this vast metropolis : and a useful and entertaining companion to the exhibitions and public buildings, sights and amusements, for the stranger, resident, and visitor.

23. Hand-book of London : past and present / by Peter Cunningham.

25. Picturesque sketches of London : past and present / by Thomas Miller ; with numerous engravings of churches, public buildings, antiquities, street views, &c.

26. Memories of London : a picture souvenir of the world's greatest city.

27. Sketches in London / by James Grant, the author of "Random recollections of the Lords and Commons," "The Great Metropolis," &c. &c. ; with twenty-four humorous illustrations, by "Phiz," and others.

28. All about the Diamond Jubilee : with large-scale plan of London : fully illustrated.

30. 1851, or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family, who came up to London to "enjoy themselves," and to see the Great Exhibition / by Henry Mayhew, and George Cruikshank.

31. Routledge's guide to London and its suburbs : comprising description of all its points of interest : with original illustrations, a map, and index.

33. The court and city register for the year 1751 ; containing 1. new and correct lists of both Houses of Parliament. II. The Court register. III. Lists of the Army and Navy.

34. The panorama of London, or, Visitor's guide / by T. Allen ; with numerous engravings.

35. Veuës de diverses belles maisons, eglises & cathedrales de la ville de Londres & d'Angleterre.

36. A handbook for London : past and present / by Peter Cunningham.

37. The London of Elizabeth I / by M.R. Holmes.

38. The London of Elizabeth I / by M.R. Holmes ; with an introduction by Sir John E. Meale.

39. On exhibit : Victorians and their museums / Barbara J. Black.

40. James Gillray : prints by the eighteenth-century master of caricature / by Katherine W. Hart with the assistance of Laura Hacker.

41. Holland house. By Princess Marie Liechtenstein.

42. St James's Palace : from Leper Hospital to Royal Court / Rufus Bird, Simon Thurley, Michael Turner ; edited by Simon Thurley.

43. On a bastion of London wall; or, Excavations in Camomile street, Bishopsgate. By John Edward Price ...

44. Court culture and the origins of a royalist tradition in early Stuart England / R. Malcolm Smuts.

45. Victorian Babylon : people, streets, and images in nineteenth-century London / Lynda Nead.

46. The outdoor monuments of London; statues, memorial buildings, tablets and war memorials, by C.S. Cooper, illustrated from photographs specially taken by Will. F. Taylor.

47. Colony Room Club, 1948-2008 : a history of Bohemian Soho / by Sophie Parkin.

48. Roman London, A.D. 43-457.

49. The Tower of London : cauldron of Britain's past / Plantagenet Somerset Fry.