Associated Places: Great Britain / Work Type: armorial bookplates (provenance) / Image Use: Under Certain Circumstances / Classification: Books

1. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

Creator:: Cokayne, Thomas, Sir, approximately 1519–1592
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: [8], iv, [32] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forrest : wherin is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forrestes: and what a forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such thinges as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art, as more at large doth appeare in the table in the beginning of this booke. Also a treatise of the purallee, declaring what purallee is, how the same first began, what a purallee man may doe, how he may hunt and vse his owne purallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his chase, together with the lymits and boundes, as well of the forrest, as the puralley. Collected and gathered together, as well out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundry learned auncient aucthors, and out of the Assises and Iters of Pickring and Lancaster / by Iohn Manwood.

Creator:: Manwood, John, -1610
Date:: 1598
Physical Description:: [8], 167, [7] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The union of honovr : containing the armes, matches and issves of the kings, dukes, marquesses and earles of England from the conquest, untill this present yeere, 1640 : with the armes of the English viscounts and barons now being : and of the gentry of Lincolnshire : whereunto is annexed, a briefe of all the battels which have beene fought and maintained by the English since the conquest, till the yeere 1602 / collected out of the most approved authours, former or moderne, by James Yorke, black-Smith.

Creator:: Yorke, James, fl. 1640
Date:: 1640
Physical Description:: 16, 331, 52, 76 p. : coats of arms ; 31 cm. (folio)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The life of Ælfred the Great / by Sir John Spelman Kt. ; from the original manuscript in the Bodleian Library ; with considerable additions, and several historial remarks by the publisher Thomas Hearne, M.A..

Creator:: Spelman, John, Sir, 1594–1643
Date:: MDCCIX [1709]
Physical Description:: [6], 238, [10] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Le cabinet des plus beaux portraits des plusieurs princes & princesses, hommes illustres, fameux peintres & autres / faits par le fameux Antoine Van Dyck, Chevalier et Peintre du Roi, quel l'auteur a fait graver à ses propres dépens, par les meilleurs graveurs de son temps ; cette ouvrage peut aussi servir pour supplement au Cabinet du fameux van Dyck, imprimez à Anvers.

Creator:: Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641
Date:: MDCCXXVIII [1728]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [49] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Biographia britannica, or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, down to the present times : collected from the best authorities, both printed and manuscript, and digested in the manner of Mr. Bayle's Historical and critical dictionary ...

Date:: 1747-1766
Physical Description:: 6 v. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Rural architecture : consisting of regular designs of plans and elevations for buildings in the country : in which the purity and simplicity of the art of designing are variously exemplified : with such remarks and explanations as are conducive to render the subject agreeable : illustrated with fifty quarto copper-plates / by Robert Morris, surveyor.

Creator:: Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:: MDCCL [1750]
Physical Description:: [12], 8, iv p., 50 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters: containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints. With reflexions on the works of the most celebrated masters, and of several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern ... Tr. from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English school.

Creator:: Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:: [1754?]
Physical Description:: 8 p.l., 439 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A catalogue and description of King Charles the First's capital collection of pictures, limnings, statures, bronzes, medals and other curiosities : now first published from an original manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford / the whole transcribed and prepared for the Press, and a great part of it printed, by the late ingenious Mr. Vertue, and now finished form his papers.

Creator:: Van der Doort, Abraham, -1640–
Date:: MDCCLVII [1757]
Physical Description:: [2], iv, 202 p. ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Horda angel-cynnan, or, A compleat view of the manners, customs, arms, habits, &c. of the inhabitants of England : from the arrival of the Saxons, till the reign of Henry the Eighth : with a short account of the Britons, during the government of the Romans : in two volumes / by Joseph Strutt ; author of the regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: MDCCLXXV-MDCCLXXVI [1775-1776]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A collection of one hundred and fifty select views in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland / drawn by Paul Sandby, Esq. R.A. = Receuil de cent et cinquante vues choisies en Angleterre, le Pays de Galles, Ecosse, et Irelande / dessiné par Paul Sandby, Ecuyer, R.A.

Creator:: Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:: 1782-1783
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Proposal for county naval free-schools : to be built on waste lands, giving such effectual instructions to poor boys, as may nurse them for the sea service : teaching them also to cultivate the earth, that in due time tey may furnish their own food : & to spin, knit, weave, make shoes, etc. with a view to provide their own raiment, while good regulations and discipline, diffuse a moral & religious oeconomy through the land.

Creator:: Hanway, Jonas, 1712–1786
Date:: [1783]
Physical Description:: [2], iv, [1], x-xxii, [2], 2, 90, [4], 91-120, [2], 121-141, [1], 48, [4], v, [3], 67, [1] pages, 9 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

Creator:: Matthews, John, lieutenant in the Royal Navy
Date:: MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description:: 24 pages, [21] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. 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

15. An historical account of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich : MDCCLXXXIX.

Creator:: Cooke, John, 1738–1823
Date:: [1789]
Physical Description:: viii, 120, 125-132, *129-*132, 133-142, [2] p., [4] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Delices de la Grande Bretagne / engraved and published by William Birch, enamel painter, Hampstead-Heath.

Creator:: Birch, William, 1760–1794?
Date:: [1791]
Physical Description:: [8] pages, x, [36] leaves, [36] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. New designs of vases and tripods decorated in the antique taste / by Geo. Richardson, archt. and son ; on XXV plates.

Creator:: Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: Septr. 5th, 1793
Physical Description:: [25] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Biographical sketches of eminent persons, whose portraits form part of the Duke of Dorset's collection at Knole : with a brief description of the place : embellished with a front and east view of Knole.

Date:: 1795
Physical Description:: xxiii, [1], 164, [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

19. The antient bee-master's farewell, or, Full and plain directions for the management of bees to the greatest advantage : Disclosing further improvements of the hives, boxes and other instruments, to facilitate the operations; especially that of separating double and treble hives or boxes; with certainty and safety, without injuring the bees; interspersed with new but important observations: the whole judiously adapted to general use; with an appropriate method for the curious. Also brief remarks on Schirach, and other distinguished apiators on the continent. Deduced from a series of experiments during thirty years. Illustrated with plates / by John Keys, of Bee-Hall, Near Pembroke.

Creator:: Keys, John
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: xvi, 273, [1] p., II leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. An account of Roman antiquities discovered at Woodchester in the county of Gloucester / by Samuel Lysons ...

Creator:: Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [6], 20, [4], 21, [1] p., XL leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), map, plans ; 59 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Remarks on rural scenery : with twenty etchings of cottages, from nature : and some observations and precepts relative to the pictoresque [sic] / by John Thomas Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 27, [3] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Loyal Volunteers of London & environs, infantry & cavalry in their respective uniforms : representing the whole of the manual, platoon & funeral exercise, in 87 plates / designed & etch'd by T. Rowlandson, and dedicated by permission to His Royal Highness the Duke of Glocester.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: 1799]
Physical Description:: [2], viii, [92] p., 77, [8], [1] leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Military antiquities respecting a history of the English army : from the conquest to the present time / by Francis Grose Esq. F. A. S.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Plans, and views in perspective, with descriptions, of buildings erected in England and Scotland : and also an essay, to elucidate the Grecian, Roman and Gothic architecture, accompanied with designs / by Robert Mitchell, architect = Plans, descriptions, et vues en perspective, des édifices érigés en Angleterre et en Écosse: suivis d'un essai sur l'architecture greque, romaine et gothique, avec des desseins illustratifs / par Robert Mitchell, architecte.

Creator:: Mitchell, Robert, active 1800
Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: [4], 32 pages, 18 leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 54 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The new Vitruvius Britannicus : consisting of plans and elevations of modern buildings, public and private, erected in Great Britain by the most celebrated architects : engraved on LXXII plates, from original drawings = Le nouveau Vitruve Britannique; qui comprend les plan et élévations de bâtimens modernes, tant publics que particuliers, érigés dans la Grande Bretagne par les plus célèbres architectes : contenant LXXII planches, gravées d'après des desseins origineaux / by George Richardson, architect.

Creator:: Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: MDCCCII-MDCCCVIII [1802-1808]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illlustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. The itinerant : a select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland / engraved from original paintings & drawings, by eminent artists.

Date:: [not before 1803]
Physical Description:: [182] leaves : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. An essay on rural architecture : illustrated with original and oeconomical designs : being an attempt, also, to refute, by analogy, the principles of Mr. James Malton's essay "British cottage architecture," supported by several designs : to which are added rural retreats and villas, in the Gothic, castle, Roman and Grecian styles of architecture : with ideas for park-entrances, a mausoleum, and a design for the naval pillar, to immortalize British naval heroism : the whole comprising thirty plates, in aquatinta / designed by Richard Elsam, architect.

Creator:: Elsam, Richard, Esq
Date:: MDCCCIII [1803]
Physical Description:: [12], ii, 52 p., 33 [i.e. 31] leaves of plates [2 folded] : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. 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

29. The history and delineation of the horse, in all his varieties : comprehending the appropriate uses, management, and progressive improvement of each : with a particular investigation of the character of the race-horse, and the business of the turf : illustrated by anecdotes and biographical notices of distinguished sportsmen : the engravings from original paintings : with instructions for breeding, breaking, training, and the general management of the horse, both in a state of health and of disease / by John Lawrence, author of "A philosophical and practical treatise on horses," &c. &c.

Creator:: Lawrence, John, 1753–1839
Date:: 1809
Physical Description:: iv, [1], 6-288, [4] pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Memoirs of Count Grammont / by Count A. Hamilton ; translated from the French, with notes and illustrations. In three volumes.

Creator:: Hamilton, Anthony, Count, ca. 1646–1720
Date:: 1809
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Memoirs of Count Grammont / by Anthony Hamilton ; to which are prefixed, a biographical sketch of Count Hamilton, and a translation of the epistle to Count Grammont ; illustrated with sixty-four portraits, engraved by Edward Scriven, &c.

Creator:: Hamilton, Anthony, Count, approximately 1646–1720
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Collins's Peerage of England : genealogical, biographical, and historical / greatly augmented, and continued to the preent time, by Sir Egerton Brydges ...

Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 9 v. : coats of arms ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The fine arts of the English school : illustrated by a series of engravings, from paintings, sculpture, and architecture, of eminent English artists : with ample biographical, critical, and descriptive essays, by various authors / edited, and partly written by John Britton, F.S.A.

Creator:: Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: [128] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae : containing figures of Roman antiquities discovered in various parts of England.

Creator:: Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:: 1813-1817
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. (some col.), port., plans, map ; 59 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. An account of the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent : with Their Imperial and Royal Majesties the Emperor of all the Russias and the King of Prussia, to the Corporation of London, in June 1814.

Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 101, 59 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Selections of the ancient costume of Great Britain & Ireland : from the seventh to the sixteenth century, out of the collection in the possession of the author / by Charles Hamilton Smith, Esq.

Creator:: Smith, Charles Hamilton
Date:: 1814 [i.e. 1815?]
Physical Description:: [6], viii, [iv], [120] p., [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38-46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The history of the Charter-House : dedicated by permission to the Rev. W. Fisher, D.D. Master of the Charter-House, and prependary of Norwich.

Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 32 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Sporting sketches : consisting of subjects relating to sports of the field, as horses, dogs, live and dead game, wild fowl, fox hunting, shooting, coursing, fishing, &c. &c. &c. : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1817-1818]
Physical Description:: 8 pt. : all ill. (engravings) ; 31 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Historical account [of Beleigh Abbey, Essex].

Creator:: Draper, George, approximately 1796–
Date:: [1818]
Physical Description:: 5 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. 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

41. Doing the thing and the thing done : in a series of sporting plates / by Ben Tally-Ho ; author of "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of driving," and "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of hunting," &c. &c.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1818]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : all ill., 28 x 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The history of the royal residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House and Frogmore / by W.H. Pyne ; illustrated by one hundred highly finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings by the most eminent artists.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: MDCCCXIX [1819]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The old English 'squire : "a jovial gay fox hunter, bold, frank and free" : a poem in ten cantos / by John Careless, Esq. ; illustrated with plates by one of the family.

Creator:: Chatto, William Andrew, 1799–1864
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: viii, 136 pages, [24] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Regal heraldry : the armorial insignia of the kings and queens of England, from coeval authorities / by Thomas Willement, heraldic artist to His Majesty King George the Fourth.

Creator:: Willement, Thomas, 1786–1871
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [5], viii-x, [2], 116 pages, XXXVI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Views of the cathedral churches of England and Wales : with descriptions / by John Chessell Buckler.

Creator:: Buckler, John Chessell, 1793–1894
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: [180] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Symptoms of being amused. Vol. 1 / by Hy. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [42] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. The melange of humour : a series of fifty coloured engravings, comprising a great variety of comic subjects / by the most popular artists of the present day.

Date:: [1824?]
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [50] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The laws relating to horses : considered as the subject of property, sale, hire, wager, distress, heriot, or of criminal charge : and intended for practical as well as professional reference.

Creator:: Jeremy, Henry
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: viii, 111, [1] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. An academy for grown horsemen : containing the completest instructions, for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling / illustrated with copper plates, and adorned with a portrait of the author / by Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. ; Riding Master, Master of the Horse, and Grand Equerry to the Doge of Venice.

Creator:: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:: 1st Jany. 1825
Physical Description:: xxvii, [2], 30-75, [4], lxxx-xcix, [2], 102-201, [1] pages, [27] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. A catalogue of the extensive, valuable, and highly interesting collection of prints, the property of Thomas Lloyd, Esq. ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. George Jones ... 1st July, 1825 ...

Creator:: Lloyd, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: 1825]
Physical Description:: 72 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. An account of the grand musical festival, held in September, 1823, in the cathedral church of York : for the benefit of the York County Hospital, and the general infirmaries at Leeds, Hull, and Sheffield : to which is prefixed, a sketch of the rise and progress of musical festivals in Great Britain : with biographical and historical notes / by John Crosse, F.S.A., F.R.S.L., M.G.S. ...

Creator:: Crosse, John, 1786–1833
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 436, xxvi, [2] p., [5] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Observations on fox-hunting and the management of hounds in the kennel and the field : addressed to a young sportsman, about to undertake a hunting establishment / by Colonel Cook, H.P. 28th Dragoons.

Creator:: Cook, John, 1773–1829
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: xvi, 292 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Cheerful pastimes for merry-making parties : descriptive of the various domestic amusements resorted to in youthful and genteel society, tending to occupy the mind, and while away the winter evenings in hilarity / illustrated by Cruikshank.

Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: xxi, 185 p., 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

54. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [42] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions : illustrated by maps of the different counties and islands : a map of England shewing the principal towns, roads, railways, navigable rivers, and canals : and a plan of London and its environs : and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishoprics, universities, colleges, corporate towns, and boroughs : and of the seals of the several municipal corporations / by Samuel Lewis.

Creator:: Lewis, Samuel, -1865
Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: 4 volumes ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Pierce Egan's book of sports, and mirror of life : embracing the turf, the chase, the ring, and the stage / interspersed with original memoirs of sporting men, etc.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: iv, 414 pages : illustrations. ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The field book, or, Sports and pastimes of the United Kingdom : compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern / by the author of "Wild sports of the West."

Creator:: Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792–1850
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: viii, 616 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Gore's Directory and view of Liverpool and its environs.

Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: [104], 426, 124 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. A comparative view of the form and character of the English racer and saddle-horse during the last and present centuries : illustrated by eighteen plates of horses.

Date:: . Hookham,
Physical Description:: v, [1],155, [1] pages, 18 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. A complete view of the dress and habits of the people of England : from the establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time : illustrated by engravings taken from the most authentic remains of antiquity : to which is prefixed an introduction, containing a general description of the ancient habits in use among mankind, from the earliest period of time to the conclusion of the seventh century / by Joseph Strutt.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: MDCCCXLII [1842]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. A critical inquiry into antient armour : as it existed in Europe, particularly in Great Britain from the Norman conquest to the reign of King Charles II ... / by Samuel Rush Meyrick.

Creator:: Meyrick, Samuel Rush, 1783–1848
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Ladies' botany, or, A familiar introduction to the study of the natural system of botany / by John Lindley.

Creator:: Lindley, John, 1799–1865
Date:: [ca. 1842?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. (xvi, 300; viii, 280 p.) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. George Selwyn and his contemporaries : with memoirs and notes / by John Heneage Jesse.

Creator:: Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:: 1843-1844
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The roadsters album.

Creator:: Newhouse, Charles B., ca. 1805–1877
Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: [17] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Passages in the life of a soldier, or, Military service in the East and West / by Lieut.-Colonel Sir James E. Alexander, Knt., K.C.L.S. ; fellow of the Royal Geographical and Asiatic Societies, etc. ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Alexander, James Edward, Sir, 1803–1885
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. A plain and easy account of the British ferns : together with their classification, arrangement of genera, structure, and functions ; and a glossary of technical and other terms / edited by Mrs. Lankester ; with illustrations.

Creator:: Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900
Date:: [1859]
Physical Description:: [5], viii-xv, [1], 108, [4] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Turf celebrities I have known / by William Day ; author of "The Racehorse in training," "Reminiscences of the turn," "The horse, how to breed and rear him," etc., etc.

Creator:: Day, William, 1823–1908
Date:: 1891
Physical Description:: [8], 290, [2], 18 pages ([1] leaf of plates) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. A history of caricature, by Bohun Lynch.

Creator:: Lynch, Bohun, 1884–1928
Date:: 1926
Physical Description:: xiv p., 1 l., 126 p., 21 leaves of plates : ill. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

69. Thoroughbred racing stock and its ancestors : the authentic origin of pure blood : many voices concerning the horses of the world, with additional chapters from the notes of the late Lady Anne Blunt (15th Baroness Wentworth) and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, on the Arabian breed, collected, edited, and enlarged, with a history of the thoroughbred racehorse and the horses of the east and west / by Lady Wentworth.

Creator:: Wentworth, Lady, 1873–
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: 475, [1] p., [394] p. of plates, [26] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (some col.), charts, map, ports. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. A short treatise of hunting / compyled for the delight of noblemen and gentlemen by Sir Thomas Cockaine, knight, 1591 ; presented to the Roxburghe Club by G.E. Cokayne.

4. The life of Ælfred the Great / by Sir John Spelman Kt. ; from the original manuscript in the Bodleian Library ; with considerable additions, and several historial remarks by the publisher Thomas Hearne, M.A..

11. A collection of one hundred and fifty select views in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland / drawn by Paul Sandby, Esq. R.A. = Receuil de cent et cinquante vues choisies en Angleterre, le Pays de Galles, Ecosse, et Irelande / dessiné par Paul Sandby, Ecuyer, R.A.

13. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

15. An historical account of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich : MDCCLXXXIX.

16. Delices de la Grande Bretagne / engraved and published by William Birch, enamel painter, Hampstead-Heath.

17. New designs of vases and tripods decorated in the antique taste / by Geo. Richardson, archt. and son ; on XXV plates.

18. Biographical sketches of eminent persons, whose portraits form part of the Duke of Dorset's collection at Knole : with a brief description of the place : embellished with a front and east view of Knole.

20. An account of Roman antiquities discovered at Woodchester in the county of Gloucester / by Samuel Lysons ...

21. Remarks on rural scenery : with twenty etchings of cottages, from nature : and some observations and precepts relative to the pictoresque [sic] / by John Thomas Smith.

22. Loyal Volunteers of London & environs, infantry & cavalry in their respective uniforms : representing the whole of the manual, platoon & funeral exercise, in 87 plates / designed & etch'd by T. Rowlandson, and dedicated by permission to His Royal Highness the Duke of Glocester.

23. Military antiquities respecting a history of the English army : from the conquest to the present time / by Francis Grose Esq. F. A. S.

26. The itinerant : a select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland / engraved from original paintings & drawings, by eminent artists.

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

30. Memoirs of Count Grammont / by Count A. Hamilton ; translated from the French, with notes and illustrations. In three volumes.

31. Memoirs of Count Grammont / by Anthony Hamilton ; to which are prefixed, a biographical sketch of Count Hamilton, and a translation of the epistle to Count Grammont ; illustrated with sixty-four portraits, engraved by Edward Scriven, &c.

32. Collins's Peerage of England : genealogical, biographical, and historical / greatly augmented, and continued to the preent time, by Sir Egerton Brydges ...

33. The fine arts of the English school : illustrated by a series of engravings, from paintings, sculpture, and architecture, of eminent English artists : with ample biographical, critical, and descriptive essays, by various authors / edited, and partly written by John Britton, F.S.A.

34. Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae : containing figures of Roman antiquities discovered in various parts of England.

35. An account of the visit of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent : with Their Imperial and Royal Majesties the Emperor of all the Russias and the King of Prussia, to the Corporation of London, in June 1814.

36. Selections of the ancient costume of Great Britain & Ireland : from the seventh to the sixteenth century, out of the collection in the possession of the author / by Charles Hamilton Smith, Esq.

37. The history of the Charter-House : dedicated by permission to the Rev. W. Fisher, D.D. Master of the Charter-House, and prependary of Norwich.

38. Sporting sketches : consisting of subjects relating to sports of the field, as horses, dogs, live and dead game, wild fowl, fox hunting, shooting, coursing, fishing, &c. &c. &c. : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

39. Historical account [of Beleigh Abbey, Essex].

41. Doing the thing and the thing done : in a series of sporting plates / by Ben Tally-Ho ; author of "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of driving," and "Sporting discoveries, or The miseries of hunting," &c. &c.

43. The old English 'squire : "a jovial gay fox hunter, bold, frank and free" : a poem in ten cantos / by John Careless, Esq. ; illustrated with plates by one of the family.

44. Regal heraldry : the armorial insignia of the kings and queens of England, from coeval authorities / by Thomas Willement, heraldic artist to His Majesty King George the Fourth.

45. Views of the cathedral churches of England and Wales : with descriptions / by John Chessell Buckler.

46. Symptoms of being amused. Vol. 1 / by Hy. Alken.

47. The melange of humour : a series of fifty coloured engravings, comprising a great variety of comic subjects / by the most popular artists of the present day.

48. The laws relating to horses : considered as the subject of property, sale, hire, wager, distress, heriot, or of criminal charge : and intended for practical as well as professional reference.

50. A catalogue of the extensive, valuable, and highly interesting collection of prints, the property of Thomas Lloyd, Esq. ... : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. George Jones ... 1st July, 1825 ...

52. Observations on fox-hunting and the management of hounds in the kennel and the field : addressed to a young sportsman, about to undertake a hunting establishment / by Colonel Cook, H.P. 28th Dragoons.

53. Cheerful pastimes for merry-making parties : descriptive of the various domestic amusements resorted to in youthful and genteel society, tending to occupy the mind, and while away the winter evenings in hilarity / illustrated by Cruikshank.

54. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

56. Pierce Egan's book of sports, and mirror of life : embracing the turf, the chase, the ring, and the stage / interspersed with original memoirs of sporting men, etc.

57. The field book, or, Sports and pastimes of the United Kingdom : compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern / by the author of "Wild sports of the West."

58. Gore's Directory and view of Liverpool and its environs.

59. A comparative view of the form and character of the English racer and saddle-horse during the last and present centuries : illustrated by eighteen plates of horses.

61. A critical inquiry into antient armour : as it existed in Europe, particularly in Great Britain from the Norman conquest to the reign of King Charles II ... / by Samuel Rush Meyrick.

62. Ladies' botany, or, A familiar introduction to the study of the natural system of botany / by John Lindley.

63. George Selwyn and his contemporaries : with memoirs and notes / by John Heneage Jesse.

64. The roadsters album.

65. Passages in the life of a soldier, or, Military service in the East and West / by Lieut.-Colonel Sir James E. Alexander, Knt., K.C.L.S. ; fellow of the Royal Geographical and Asiatic Societies, etc. ; in two volumes.

66. A plain and easy account of the British ferns : together with their classification, arrangement of genera, structure, and functions ; and a glossary of technical and other terms / edited by Mrs. Lankester ; with illustrations.

67. Turf celebrities I have known / by William Day ; author of "The Racehorse in training," "Reminiscences of the turn," "The horse, how to breed and rear him," etc., etc.

68. A history of caricature, by Bohun Lynch.