Associated Places: Great Britain / Language: English / Work Type: prospectuse / Classification: Books

1. Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body, with that of a tyger and a common fowl : in thirty tables, two copper-plates to each table, 20 inches by 15 : forming six numbers, ten plates to each number / the whole executed by George Stubbs, author of "The anatomy of the horse."

Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body, with that of a tyger and a common fowl : in thirty tables, two copper-plates to each table, 20 inches by 15 : forming six numbers, ten plates to each number / the whole executed by George Stubbs, author of "The anatomy of the horse."

Creator:: Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:: [1802]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 29 x 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Now publishing in numbers, price 1s. and in monthly parts, at 2s. each, Commemoration of Hogarth by an edition of his works, commenced exactly a century after their first appearance.

Now publishing in numbers, price 1s. and in monthly parts, at 2s. each, Commemoration of Hogarth by an edition of his works, commenced exactly a century after their first appearance.

Creator:: Jones and Co. (London, England)
Date:: [1833?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Prospectus and catalogue of the British School : instituted for the perpetual exhibition and sale of the original works of modern artists : under the patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ...

Prospectus and catalogue of the British School : instituted for the perpetual exhibition and sale of the original works of modern artists : under the patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ...

Creator:: British School
Date:: 1802
Physical Description:: 45 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The architectural antiquities of Great Britain : represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of various ancient English edifices : with historical and descriptive accounts of each / by John Britton.

The architectural antiquities of Great Britain : represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of various ancient English edifices : with historical and descriptive accounts of each / by John Britton.

Creator:: Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:: 1807-1826
Physical Description:: 5 v. : ill., plans ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Skute Awabo [Awabo Skute] / written, designed and printed by Ken Campbell, London 1992.

Creator:: Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022
Date:: 1992
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 51 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The Waterloo banquet at Apsley House / by William Salter.

Creator:: Moon, Francis Graham, 1796–1871
Date:: [1846?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 29 x 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. 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

8. 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

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 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

11. 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

12. [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.

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. Specimens of James Nisbet & Company's illustrated books.

Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: [4] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. 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

18. The late Earl of Beaconsfield.

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

19. 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

20. 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

21. Introduction to the Original delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, intituled The beauties of England and Wales : comprising observations on the history and antiquities of the Britons ... : together with remarks on the progress of ... architecture in succeeding ages / by J. Norris Brewer.

Creator:: Brewer, J. N. (James Norris)
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: xl, 676 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. Shakspeare's seven ages / etched by E. Goodall after original design by Daniel Maclise, R.A.

Creator:: Maclise, Daniel, 1806–1870
Date:: MDCCCL [1850]
Physical Description:: [1] p,. [8] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. In the press, and speedily will be published, part I of Archaica, containing a reprint of scarce Old English tracts, with prefaces and notes, critical and biographical.

Date:: [1814?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. [Prospectus for Tracey Bush's artist book Dusk : British Moths].

Creator:: Bush, Tracey
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: 1 print : illustrations ; 14 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk

34. Proposals for publishing a picturesque voyage round Great Britain : illustrated with coloured engravings by William Daniell : to commence with a picturesque voyage from Land's End, towards Anglesea.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Code of health and longevity : the third edition : in one volume, octavo / by the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart.

Creator:: Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754–1835
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 2, 3, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. 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

37. Preparing for the press, a new edition of The Saxon chronicle, with an English translation and notes by the Rev. J. Ingram ... : a reprint of that very valuable Romance of Morte Arthur, with an introduction and notes, in quarto ... : "The poeticall exercises at vacant houres of James the Sixt--King of Scotland," edited by R.P. Gillies, Esq.

Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. The Polygraphic Society, to the patrons and admirers of the polite arts.

Creator:: Polygraphic Society (London, England)
Date:: ca. 1789.]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. To be published by subscription, two coloured engravings, with descriptive letter-press, of the procession and ceremony of the installation of the Knights of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, from the drawings by Mr. Frederic Nash.

Date:: [June 1, 1812]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Sir, there is a scheme set on foot for erecting a publick academy for the improvement of the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture ...

Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: [2] sheets ([2] p.) ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Anish Kapoor : Wound.

Creator:: IvoryPress
Date:: 2005
Physical Description:: 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elena Foster

45. Nearly ready for publication, in two volumes ... An inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving on copper and wood : with an account of the most ancient engravers and their works, from the earliest period, to the middle of the sixteenth century : comprising observations on some of the first books ornaments with wood-cuts : by William Young Ottley, F.A.S.

Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. This day are published, in three volumes, quarto, price £7:7s. boards, illustrated with 74 plates, printed chiefly from his manuscripts, under the direction of a select committee of civil engineers, Reports, estimates, and treatises, embracing the several subjects of canals, navigable rivers, harbours, piers, bridges, draining, embanking, lighthouses, machinery of various descriptions including fire engines, mills, &c. &c. with other miscellaneous papers drawn up in the course of his employment as a civil engineer, by the late Mr. John Smeaton, F.R.S.

Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. [Prospectus for Susan Allix's Sea Air : prints of the sea with poetic interludes and interventions].

Creator:: Allix, Susan, 1943–
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 4 pages, ([2] leaves of plates : color photographs ; 22 x 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

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2. Now publishing in numbers, price 1s. and in monthly parts, at 2s. each, Commemoration of Hogarth by an edition of his works, commenced exactly a century after their first appearance.

3. Prospectus and catalogue of the British School : instituted for the perpetual exhibition and sale of the original works of modern artists : under the patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ...

4. The architectural antiquities of Great Britain : represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of various ancient English edifices : with historical and descriptive accounts of each / by John Britton.

5. Skute Awabo [Awabo Skute] / written, designed and printed by Ken Campbell, London 1992.

6. The Waterloo banquet at Apsley House / by William Salter.

7. 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. ...

8. 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. ...

10. Prospectus of an improved mode of delineating estates.

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

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

15. Richard Long : Walking and sleeping.

16. Specimens of James Nisbet & Company's illustrated books.

17. 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.

18. The late Earl of Beaconsfield.

19. 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.

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

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

26. Shakspeare's seven ages / etched by E. Goodall after original design by Daniel Maclise, R.A.

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

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

31. 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.

32. In the press, and speedily will be published, part I of Archaica, containing a reprint of scarce Old English tracts, with prefaces and notes, critical and biographical.

33. [Prospectus for Tracey Bush's artist book Dusk : British Moths].

34. Proposals for publishing a picturesque voyage round Great Britain : illustrated with coloured engravings by William Daniell : to commence with a picturesque voyage from Land's End, towards Anglesea.

35. Code of health and longevity : the third edition : in one volume, octavo / by the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart.

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

41. The Polygraphic Society, to the patrons and admirers of the polite arts.

42. To be published by subscription, two coloured engravings, with descriptive letter-press, of the procession and ceremony of the installation of the Knights of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, from the drawings by Mr. Frederic Nash.

43. Sir, there is a scheme set on foot for erecting a publick academy for the improvement of the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture ...

44. Anish Kapoor : Wound.

47. [Prospectus for Susan Allix's Sea Air : prints of the sea with poetic interludes and interventions].