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1. Collins' national drawing books / designed by D. Mackinlay.

Date:: [ca. 1880]
Physical Description:: 36 pt. : ill. ; 19 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The instructive picture book, or, Lessons from the vegetable world / by the author of "The heir of Redclyffe" and "The herb of the field" ; illustrated with 31 colored plates ; arranged by Robert M. Stark, Fellow of The Botanical and Royal Physical Societies, Edinburgh, author of "A Popular History of British Mosses.".

Creator:: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823–1901
Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: 22, [2] p., xxxi leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The post and the paddock : with recollections of George IV, Sam Chifney and other turf celebrites / by the Druid.

Creator:: Dixon, Henry Hall, 1822–1870
Date:: 1862
Physical Description:: [8], 376, xxxii pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A collection of ornamental designs after the manner of the antique : composed for the use of architects, ornamental painters, statuaries, carvers, casters in metal, paper makers, carpet, silk, and calico manufacturers, and every trade dependent on the fine arts / by G. Smith ; engraved on forty-three plates.

Creator:: Smith, George, upholsterer to His Majesty
Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: [1], [43] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

Date:: [1776]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves, [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Rural sports / by the Rev. Wm. B. Daniel.

Creator:: Daniel, William Barker, 1753?-1833
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The official illustrated guide to the Great Eastern Railway (Colchester line) : including descriptions of some of the most important manufactories in the towns on the lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with numerous engravings and maps.

Creator:: Measom, George S
Date:: [1865]
Physical Description:: xxxii, 436 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The official illustrated guide to the South-Eastern Railway and its branches : including the North Kent and Greenwich lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with two hundred engravings and map.

Creator:: Measom, George S
Date:: [1858]
Physical Description:: [16], 324 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Life and adventures of Peter Porcupine : with other records of his early career in England & America : viz: Life & adventures, The scarecrow, Remarks of the pamphlets, Talleyrand: a spy, Farewell to America, A court-martial, A retrospect / by William Cobbett.

Creator:: Cobbett, William, 1763–1835
Date:: MCMXXVII [1927]
Physical Description:: [6], 163, [1] pages : color illustration ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Sketches of little girls : the good-natured little girl, the thoughtless, the vain, the orderly, the slovenly, the forward, the snappish, the persevering, the modest, and, the awkward little girl / by Solomon Lovechild.

Creator:: Lovechild, Mrs., 1743–1813
Date:: [ca. 1840]
Physical Description:: 63, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Country vignettes : descriptive passages selected from the writings of Richard Jefferies : with seven engravings by Anthony Christmas.

Creator:: Jefferies, Richard, 1848–1887
Date:: 1991
Physical Description:: [30] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. 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

13. Designs of fashionable furniture / by J. Taylor, upholsterer.

Creator:: Taylor, J
Date:: [18--?]
Physical Description:: [38] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The complete angler, or, The contemplative man's recreation : being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing / written by Isaac Walton ; and instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream by Charles Cotton ; with original memoirs and notes by Sir Harris Nicolas, K.C.M.G.

Creator:: Walton, Izaak, 1593–1683
Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The book of sports, games, and athletic exercises / by William Martin, author of The Parlour Book, &c. &c. &c.

Creator:: Martin, William, 1801–1867
Date:: [between 1837 and 1845]
Physical Description:: [4], 268 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The lady's economical assistant, or, The art of cutting out, and making the most useful articles of wearing apparel, without waste : explained by the clearest directions, and numerous engravings, of appropriate and tasteful patterns : designed for domestic use / by a Lady ; designed for domestic use.

Creator:: Lady
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 55, [9] p., XXVII folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Geoffrey Gambado's surprising feats in horsemanship : exemplified in a series of very laughable caricatures.

Creator:: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : all color illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Flower and fruit decoration : with some remarks on the treatment of town gardens, terraces, &c., and with many illustrations of colour and contrast applicable to both subjects / by T.C. March.

Creator:: March, T. C
Date:: 1862
Physical Description:: vii, 112, 16 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A collection of designs for modern embellishments : suitable to parlours, dining & drawing rooms, chimney pieces, varandas, frizes &c. : on 25 plates / by C.A. Busby, architect.

Creator:: Busby, C. A. (Charles Augustin), 1786–1834
Date:: [not before 1819]
Physical Description:: 25 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The history of the flea : with notes and observations / by L. Bertolotto.

Creator:: Bertolotto, L
Date:: [1835]
Physical Description:: 28 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. [Collection of 11 engravings and 5 original drawings].

Date:: 1818?]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves, [9] leaves of plate : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Sciography, or, Examples of shadows : with rules for their projection : intended for the use of architectural draughtsmen, and other artists : with twenty-four plates / by Joseph Gwilt.

Creator:: Gwilt, Joseph, 1784–1863
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: viii, 55, [1] pages, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Stokes, maker, 52 Cheapside.

Creator:: Stokes, Edward (Hatter)
Date:: [approximately 1830?]
Physical Description:: 1 trade card : illlustrations ; 50 x 40 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Cottage architecture : being a supplement to the first [-second] series of Goodwin's Rural architecture, lately published : this supplement contains designs of peasants' cottages, both plain and ornamental, separate and in groups, gate lodges, small dairy farm houses, &c. with specifications and estimates of each design : the whole planned and carefully revised in aid of the improving state of rural economy / by Francis Goodwin.

Creator:: Goodwin, Francis, 1784–1835
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The school perspective : being a progressive course of instruction in Linear Perspective, both theoretical and practical : specially designed for the use of schools / by J.R. Dicksee, principal drawing master to the city of London School, to The Normal College for training teachers of the British and Foreign School Society, &c. ; illustrated with many woodcuts and forty engraved plates.

Creator:: Dicksee, J. R. (John Robert), 1817–1905
Date:: [1862]
Physical Description:: xiv, 79, [1] p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Recollections of Bala and neighbourhood.

Date:: [184-?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([24] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 167 cm, folded to 19 x 14 cm, in covers 19 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Hood's drawing book / with designs and suggestions by an artist of long and varied experience.

Date:: C.I. Hood Co.,
Physical Description:: 21 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

28. Rowlandson's characteristic sketches of the lower orders : intended as a companion to the New picture of London : consisting of fifty-four plates neatly coloured.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: [1840?]
Physical Description:: iv pages, [54] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 x 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The manual of oil-painting, for young artists and amateurs : condensed from the works of Bouvier, Merimee, Montabert, and other distinguished Continental artists : with a glossary of terms of art.

Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 128 p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide, or, Repository of designs for every article of household furniture : in the newest and most approved taste, displaying a great variety of patterns ... : also the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture ... / from drawings by A. Heppelwhite and Co. cabinet-makers.

Creator:: A. Hepplewhite and Co
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: iv, 24, [1] p., 125 plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Rumley & Co.'s collection of ornaments.

Creator:: Rumley & Company
Date:: [1838]
Physical Description:: 20 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Silk and scarlet / by the Druid.

Creator:: Dixon, Henry Hall, 1822–1870
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: [2], iv, [4], 398, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The Instructive picture book, or, Progressive lessons from the natural history of animals and plants / edited by Adam White ; and Robert M. Stark ; vol. I, lessons from the animal world--fourfooted animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, with 10 elementary plates of miscellaneous objects.

Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 18 p., xxx double leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. To China and back : being a diary kept, out and home / by Albert Smith.

Creator:: Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: [2], ii, [1], 6-72 pages, [1] leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The elements of botany : with illustrations / by Mrs. E.E. Perkins, professor of botanical flower painting.

Creator:: Perkins, Elizabeth Steele
Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 268 p., [1], 18 leaves of plates ([1] folded) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The mirror of the graces, or, The English lady's costume : combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity, and economy with fashion in dress : and adapting the various articles of female embellishments to different ages, form, and complexions : to the seasons of the year, rank, and situation in life : with useful advice on female accomplishments, politeness, and manners : the cultivation of the mind and the disposition and carriage of the body : offering also the most efficacious means of preserving beauty, health, and loveliness : the whole according with the general principles of nature and rules of propriety / by a Lady of distinction ; who has witnessed and attentively studied what is esteemed truly graceful and elegant amongst the most refined nations of Europe.

Creator:: Lady of distinction, active 19th century
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: xii, 240 pages, 4 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Investigation, or, Travels in the boudoir / by Caroline A. Halsted, author of "The little botanist."

Creator:: Halsted, Caroline Amelia, -1851
Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: xiv, [2], 296 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Alfred Crowquill's guide to the watering places : with illustrations / by Alfred Crowquill.

Creator:: Crowquill, Alfred
Date:: [between 1830 and 1837]
Physical Description:: [2], 50, [10] p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. A journal of a voyage to, and residence in, the island of Jamaica, from 1801 to 1805 : and of subsequent events in England from 1805 to 1811 / by Maria, Lady Nugent ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Nugent, Maria, Lady, 1771?-1834
Date:: MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The Sampler, or, A system of teaching plain needlework in schools / by a Lady.

Creator:: Finch, Elizabeth, -1879
Date:: 1850
Physical Description:: 103, [3] p., [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possesion of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton, Esq.

Creator:: Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:: 1803
Physical Description:: 16, 222, [2] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., port., map ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Illustrations of the field movements of cavalry : in a series of copper plate engravings : with an introductory chapter, illustrated by engravings upon wood : intended for the use of yeomanry and volunteer cavalry : and also of noblemen and gentlemen, who, contemplating service in this force, or from whatever other motive, may wish to acquire a knowledge of cavalry tactics / by Captain John Bamford.

Creator:: Bamford, John, Captain
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: xvi, 18, [2] p., 13 leaves of plates : ill. ; 53 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A new and comprehensive gazetteer of England and Wales : presenting under each article respectively, the population of the towns and parishes, according to the Census of 1831 : and the state of the elective franchise, as fixed by the provisions of the Reform Bill / by James Bell ; illustrated by a series of maps, forming a complete county atlas of England.

Creator:: Bell, James, 1769–1833
Date:: 1835-1836
Physical Description:: 8 pts. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Hints on horsemanship, to a nephew and niece, or, Common sense and common errors in common riding / by Colonel George Greenwood ...

Creator:: Greenwood, George, 1799–1875
Date:: 1871
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 110, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. [Candelabra and glass chandelier pattern book].

Date:: [ca. 1834]
Physical Description:: [23] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Fashion and folly : illustrated in a series of twenty-one humorous coloured engravings / by W. Heath.

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:: [1822]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Female beauty, as preserved and improved by regimen, cleanliness and dress : and especially by the adaptation, colour and arrangement of dress, as variously influencing the forms, complexion, and expression of each individual, and rendering cosmetic impositions unnecessary / by Mrs. A. Walker ; all that regards regimen and health being furnished by medical friends ; and revised by Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S. Vice President of the College of Surgeons, &c. &c. &c. ; illustrated by coloured drawings of heads by J.W. Wright, and of figures by E.T. Parris.

Creator:: Walker, A., Mrs
Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: xxxvi, 432 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Rowlandson's characteristic sketches of the lower orders : intended as a companion to the New picture of London : consisting of fifty-four plates neatly coloured.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: iv p., [54] leaves of plates, [8] p. : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Joseph Wilson : umbrella & whip maker, to their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Wales & Dutchess of York : no. 33 near Villers Street, Strand.

Creator:: Wilson, Joseph, active 1802
Date:: [approximately 1802?]
Physical Description:: 1 trade card : illustrations ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Memoir of the life of William James Müller : a native of Bristol, landscape and figure painter, with original letters and an account of his travels and of his principal works / by N. Neal Solly ; author of "The Life of David Cox" ; illustrated with photographs from painting and sketches by the artist's own hand.

Creator:: Solly, N. Neal (Nathaniel Neal), 1811–1895
Date:: 1875
Physical Description:: xxii, 369, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

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1. Collins' national drawing books / designed by D. Mackinlay.

3. The post and the paddock : with recollections of George IV, Sam Chifney and other turf celebrites / by the Druid.

5. [Selections from a new book of landskips].

6. Rural sports / by the Rev. Wm. B. Daniel.

7. The official illustrated guide to the Great Eastern Railway (Colchester line) : including descriptions of some of the most important manufactories in the towns on the lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with numerous engravings and maps.

8. The official illustrated guide to the South-Eastern Railway and its branches : including the North Kent and Greenwich lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with two hundred engravings and map.

9. Life and adventures of Peter Porcupine : with other records of his early career in England & America : viz: Life & adventures, The scarecrow, Remarks of the pamphlets, Talleyrand: a spy, Farewell to America, A court-martial, A retrospect / by William Cobbett.

10. Sketches of little girls : the good-natured little girl, the thoughtless, the vain, the orderly, the slovenly, the forward, the snappish, the persevering, the modest, and, the awkward little girl / by Solomon Lovechild.

11. Country vignettes : descriptive passages selected from the writings of Richard Jefferies : with seven engravings by Anthony Christmas.

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

13. Designs of fashionable furniture / by J. Taylor, upholsterer.

15. The book of sports, games, and athletic exercises / by William Martin, author of The Parlour Book, &c. &c. &c.

17. Geoffrey Gambado's surprising feats in horsemanship : exemplified in a series of very laughable caricatures.

18. Flower and fruit decoration : with some remarks on the treatment of town gardens, terraces, &c., and with many illustrations of colour and contrast applicable to both subjects / by T.C. March.

19. A collection of designs for modern embellishments : suitable to parlours, dining & drawing rooms, chimney pieces, varandas, frizes &c. : on 25 plates / by C.A. Busby, architect.

20. The history of the flea : with notes and observations / by L. Bertolotto.

21. [Collection of 11 engravings and 5 original drawings].

22. Sciography, or, Examples of shadows : with rules for their projection : intended for the use of architectural draughtsmen, and other artists : with twenty-four plates / by Joseph Gwilt.

23. Stokes, maker, 52 Cheapside.

26. Recollections of Bala and neighbourhood.

27. Hood's drawing book / with designs and suggestions by an artist of long and varied experience.

28. Rowlandson's characteristic sketches of the lower orders : intended as a companion to the New picture of London : consisting of fifty-four plates neatly coloured.

29. The manual of oil-painting, for young artists and amateurs : condensed from the works of Bouvier, Merimee, Montabert, and other distinguished Continental artists : with a glossary of terms of art.

31. Rumley & Co.'s collection of ornaments.

32. Silk and scarlet / by the Druid.

33. The Instructive picture book, or, Progressive lessons from the natural history of animals and plants / edited by Adam White ; and Robert M. Stark ; vol. I, lessons from the animal world--fourfooted animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, with 10 elementary plates of miscellaneous objects.

34. To China and back : being a diary kept, out and home / by Albert Smith.

35. The elements of botany : with illustrations / by Mrs. E.E. Perkins, professor of botanical flower painting.

37. Investigation, or, Travels in the boudoir / by Caroline A. Halsted, author of "The little botanist."

38. Alfred Crowquill's guide to the watering places : with illustrations / by Alfred Crowquill.

39. A journal of a voyage to, and residence in, the island of Jamaica, from 1801 to 1805 : and of subsequent events in England from 1805 to 1811 / by Maria, Lady Nugent ; in two volumes.

40. The Sampler, or, A system of teaching plain needlework in schools / by a Lady.

44. Hints on horsemanship, to a nephew and niece, or, Common sense and common errors in common riding / by Colonel George Greenwood ...

45. [Candelabra and glass chandelier pattern book].

46. Fashion and folly : illustrated in a series of twenty-one humorous coloured engravings / by W. Heath.

48. Rowlandson's characteristic sketches of the lower orders : intended as a companion to the New picture of London : consisting of fifty-four plates neatly coloured.

49. Joseph Wilson : umbrella & whip maker, to their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Wales & Dutchess of York : no. 33 near Villers Street, Strand.