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1. Old Humphrey's walks in London : and its neighbourhood.

Creator:: Old Humphrey, 1787–1854
Date:: [1843?]
Physical Description:: viii, 355 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Proposals of a new model for rebuilding the city of London : with houses, streets and wharfs, to be forthwith set out by His Majesty's and the city surveyors : with the advantages that will accrue by the building the same accordingly, viz. I. The owners satisfied for their ground, the builder for building, and the poor inhabitants their losses by the fire. II. The city built stately with large streets, the houses not in danger of fire, and the ground all put to the best profit. III. The people will walk easy and dry, the houses-of-office and streets kept sweet and clean; and goods delivered much cheaper. IV. Convenient houses, shops, warehouses and wharfs not dear. V. Advanced to His Majesty by fines 372670 l. VI. A revenue for ever settled upon the crown of per ann. 223517 l. 10 s.

Creator:: Knight, Val. (Valentine)
Date:: [1666]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 29 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

Creator:: Leigh, Samuel
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: vi, [iii]-iv, iv p., 1 leaf, 524, 36 p. plates (part col., part fold.) fold. map, fold. plan. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A scramble through London & Brighton / by E. Nelson Haxell ...

Creator:: Haxell, Edward Nelson
Date:: [1884]
Physical Description:: [10], 122, [6] p., [2] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. London, or, Interesting memorials of its rise, progress and present state / by Sholto & Reuben Percy ...

Creator:: Percy, Sholto, 1788–1852
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill., port., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. On the construction and decoration of the shop fronts of London : illustrated with eighteen coloured representations exhibiting the varied styles of the present period, for the use of builders, carpenters, shopkeepers, &c. / by N. Whittock ; forming an appendix to The decorative painter and glazier's guide, by the same author.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: 1840
Physical Description:: [4], 12, 4 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Resolutions of the Associated Architects : with the report of a committee by them appointed to consider the causes of the frequent fires and the best means of preventing the like in future.

Creator:: Association of Architects (London, England)
Date:: [1793]
Physical Description:: [4], iii, [5]-31 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. On wet docks, quays, and warehouses, for the port of London; with hints respecting trade. Pt. I.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 27 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Ambulator, or, A pocket companion in a tour round London : within the circuit of twenty-five miles : describing whatever is most remarkable for antiquity, grandeur, elegance, or rural beauty : including new catalogues of pictures, and illustrated by historical and bibliographical observations : to which are prefixed a concise description of the metropolis, and a map of the country described.

Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: [4], 312 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Zoological Society's gardens, Regent's Park. Saturday, August 21st, 1897. Admit one.

Creator:: Zoological Society of London
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: 1 admission ticket ; 70 x 80 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Johnstone's London commercial guide, and street directory: in four parts ...

Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: [v]-xxxii p., 956 columns, 957-1114, 151, [1] p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex : which are not described in the Environs of London / by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S & F.S.A.

Creator:: Lysons, Daniel, 1762–1834
Date:: MDCCC [1800]
Physical Description:: [2], viii, [2], 316, [2] p., [17] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A description of the Colosseum as re-opened in M.DCCC.XLV. under the patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, and H.R.H. Prince Albert. With numerous illustrations, and eight coloured sections of the panorama of London, embossed by messrs. Dobbs, Bailey, & Co. This catalogue has been prepared for the proprietor by messrs. Kronheim and Skirving, engravers and designers, and the illustrations and letter-press are printed from stereotype plates cast by the patent process of messrs. Kronheim & Co., 3, Earl-street, Blackfriars.

Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: 24 p. ill., 21 plates (part col.) 20 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, on the subject of the intended new docks to be established at Wapping.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: iv, [5]-46 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. 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

16. London : the City and the East End.

Date:: [1871]
Physical Description:: 48 p., [12] cards : ill. ; 11 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

17. An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round : begun in 1741, finished in 1745, and published in 1746, according to act of Parliament / by John Rocque ... ; engrav'd by Richard Parr and printed by W. Pratt ... = Urbium maxime insignium Londini et Westmonasterii nec non municipii Sudovercencis, regionumque ad decem quasi milliaria circumjacentium : delineatio ichnographica anno 1741 incohata 1745 absoluta / a Johanne Rocque ... = Carte topographique des villes de Londres, Weatminster, et bourg de Southwark et de leurs environs : levée très exactement sur les lieux, en 1741, achevée en 1745, et publieé selon un acte de Parlement en 1746 / par Jean Rocque.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: [1747]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2], [32] leaves) : maps ; 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Costume of the lower orders of London : painted and engraved from nature / by T.L. Busby.

Creator:: Busby, Thomas Lord
Date:: [1820]
Physical Description:: iv, [24] p., [24] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. 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

20. Further report and memorials of the commissioners for executing the Act 46 Geo. III. c. 89 : for improvement of streets and places near to Westminster-Hall and the two Houses of Parliament : to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's treasury.

Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: 48, [2] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A new and compleat history and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent : from the earliest accounts, to the beginning of the year 1770 ... / by a society of gentlemen ; revised, corrected, and improved by Henry Chamberlain ...

Date:: [1769]
Physical Description:: [2], 682, [10] p., [68] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., ports., map, plans ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

Creator:: Saunders, George, 1762–1839
Date:: MDCCXC [1790 ]
Physical Description:: x, [4], 94 p., XIII leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Felix Summerly's hand-book for Westminster Abbey.

Creator:: Cole, Henry, Sir, 1808–1882
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: 35 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A series of views in Islington and Pentonville : from original drawings, made in the year 1818 / by Augustus Pugin ; with a description of each subject, by Edward Wedlake Brayley.

Creator:: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773–1854
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [2], 21, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Some account of the hospital and parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex / by John Parton ...

Creator:: Parton, John, d. 1821
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 427, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map, plan ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. How to enjoy London, or, The elegant economist : showing the various means of enjoying London on incomes of from 25 to 500 a year : adapted equally to the married and the single / arranged with great care according to the existing state of the metropolis, and the present modes of life by the author of the "Book of economy".

Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 36 p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. History and description of the parish of Clerkenwell, embellished with numerous engravings, by J. & H. S. Storer. The historical department by T. Cromwell ...

Creator:: Cromwell, Thomas, 1792–1870
Date:: [1828]
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., [iii]-viii, 448, v p. front., plates, fold. maps. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Report from the committee appointed to inspect Lords journals, respecting the improvements in Westminster.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: 4 p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Answer to objections against the London-docks.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 21 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A popular account of St. Paul's Cathedral : including a brief history and description of the old and new cathedral : with explanations of the monumental designs and other interesting particulars.

Creator:: Hackett, Maria, 1783–1874
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 104 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. 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

32. A month in London; or, Some of its modern wonders described. By Jefferys Taylor ...

Creator:: Taylor, Jefferys, 1792–1853
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., 182 p. front., plate. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. The universal British directory of trade and commerce ; : comprehending lists of the inhabitants of London, Westminster, and borough of Southwark; ... with the mails, and other coaches, stage-waggons, hoys, packets, and trading vessels. ... : To which is added, a genuine account of the drawbacks and duties chargeable at the custom-house on all goods and merchandize ... with a particular of the public houses of every denomination ... with the whole body of liverymen, and places of residence, together with an historical and particular detail of the trade, polity, and manufactures, of each city, town, and village ...

Creator:: Barfoot, Peter
Date:: MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:: 5 v. ; 22 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The history and antiquities of London / by Thomas Pennant.

Creator:: Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: vi, 381 p. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : all ill. (some col.) ; 17 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The antiquities of St. Peter's, or, The abbey-church of Westminster : containing all the inscriptions, epitaphs, &c. upon the tombs and grave-stones : with the lives, marriages and issue of the most eminent personages therein reposited and their coats of arms truly emblazon'd : adorn'd with draughts of the tombs, curiously engraven ...

Creator:: Crull, Jodocus, -1713?
Date:: 1713
Physical Description:: [10], 351, [15] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. 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

38. Report from the Committee on petition of the Ministers, Churchwardens and vestry of St. Margaret's, Westminster.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Date:: [1813]
Physical Description:: 10 p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. 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

40. The original picture of London : enlarged and improved : being a correct guide for the stranger, as well as for the inhabitant, to the metropolis of the British empire : together with a description of the environs.

Creator:: Feltham, John, fl. 1797–1799
Date:: [1829?]
Physical Description:: liv, 498 p., [30] leaves of plates (2 fold.) : ill., map, plan ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952

41. A chart illustrating the architecture of Westminster Abbey / by F. Bedford.

Creator:: Bedford, Francis, 1816–1894
Date:: [1840?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : chiefly ill. ; 56 x 44 cm., folded to 20 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Report from the Committee appointed to inspect the several houses and other buildings immediately adjoining to Westminster Hall, and the two Houses of Parliament, and the offices thereto belonging : (July 22d, 1789.) : Ordered to be printed 16th February 1790.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Date:: Printed in the year MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:: 9, [1] p. ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Illustrations of the public buildings of London : with descriptive accounts of each edifice : supplement : containing the new subjects and descriptions incorporated in the second edition / by W.H. Leeds.

Creator:: Leeds, W. H. (William Henry), 1786–1866
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: xii, 136 p., [18] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Reflections occasioned by the frequency of fires in the metropolis : with thoughts on measures for adding to public security, and remarks on the law of arson. Addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Kenyon, Lord Chief Justice of England / by Philanthropos.

Creator:: Stonestreet, George Griffin
Date:: MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:: [3], vi-xii, 44 p. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The four Indian kings.

Date:: [1780?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 22 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The picture of London for 1807 : being a correct guide to all the curiosities, amusements, exhibitions, public establishments, and remarkable objects, in and near London : with a collection of appropriate tables, two large maps, and several views.

Date:: [1807]
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 420 p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Great exhibition of doings in London for 1851. B. Clayton inv., del et sculpsit.

Creator:: Clayton, B
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 19 leaves. col. ill. 15 x 467 cm. fold. to 15 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Tallis's London street views, exhibiting upwards of one hundred buildings in each number, elegantly engraved on steel; with a commercial directory corrected every month, the whole forming a complete stranger's guide through London ... To which is added an index map of the streets ...

Creator:: Tallis, John, 1817–1876
Date:: [1838-40]
Physical Description:: 88 pts. ill., double plans. 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The antiquities of London and Westminster. Being an account of whatsoever is ancient, curious or remarkable, as to palaces, towers, castles, walls, gates, bridges ... and many other curious matters in antiquity, whereby will plainly appear the difference between the ancient and present state of these two famous cities. By N.B.

Creator:: Bailey, N. (Nathan), d. 1742
Date:: 1722
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 244 p. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Tallis's illustrated London : in commemoration of the Great exhibition of all nations in 1851 : forming a complete guide to the British metropolis and its environs : illustrated by upwards of two hundred steel engraving from original drawings and daguerreotypes / with historical and descriptive letterpress by William Gaspey, Esq. Vol. I <-II>.

Creator:: Gaspey, William, 1812–1888
Date:: <1851-52>
Physical Description:: 2 v. (vii, <1>, 320 p., <74> leaves of plates (1 folded); vii, <1>, 304 p., <86> leaves of plates (2 folded)) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. 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

52. The A B C guide to London : Chas. Baker & Co.'s large pocket map of London, in 15 sections : with alphabetical list of places of interest in and near London &c.

Date:: [1887?]
Physical Description:: 58 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Cha cha cha / Stephen Willats.

Creator:: Willats, Stephen, 1943–
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: [52] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster : containing the original, antiquity, increase, modern estate and government of those cities / written at first in the year MDXCVIII ... since ... augmented by the author, and afterwards by A.M., H.D., and others ; now lastly corrected ... and ... brought down from ... 1633 ... to the present time by John Strype ... ; to which is prefixed the life of the author, writ by the editor ... added an appendix ... concerning the state of the city of London ...

Creator:: Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:: MDCCXX [1720]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., port., maps, plans ; 41 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. The curiosities of London and Westminster : described in four volumes : embellished with elegant copper plates.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys, &c : contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark ... / engraved by John Pine ... ; from an actual survey made by John Roque [sic] ...

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: 1747
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 46, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. An historical description of Westminster Abbey : its monuments and curiosities designed chiefly as a guide to strangers.

Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: 198 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life and every-day people / with thirty-four illustrations by F. Barnard.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: [1876]
Physical Description:: viii, 240 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

59. London scenes, or, A visit to Uncle William in town : containing a description of the most remarkable buildings and curiosities in the British metropolis : illustrated by seventy-eight copperplate engravings ...

Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: xvi, 211 p., [23] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. The history of London, and its environs : containing an account of the origin of the city, its state under the Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, its rise and progress to its present state of commercial greatness : likewise an account of all the towns, villages, and country, within twenty-five miles of London.

Creator:: Hunter, Henry, 1741–1802
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: 2 v. ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. 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

62. 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

63. Characters at the west end of the town / drawn and etched by Richard Dighton.

Creator:: Dighton, Richard, 1795–1880
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [46] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Escort card.

Date:: late 19th century
Physical Description:: 1 card : illustrations ; 40 x 76 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. 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

66. An historical description of Westminster Abbey, its monuments and curiosities : designed chiefly as a guide to strangers.

Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: 189, [4], [1], [2] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. A brief account of the Colosseum : in the Regent's Park, London: comprising a description of the building; the panoramic view from the top of St. Paul's Cathedral; the conservatory, &c.

Creator:: Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: 8 p. : 8 plates. ; 28 x 41 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Ambulator, or, A pocket companion in a tour round London : within the circuit of twenty-five miles : describing whatever is most remarkable for antiquity, grandeur, elegance, or rural beauty : including new catalogs of pictures, and illustrated by historical and biographical observations : to which are prefixed concise description of the metropolis, and a map of the country described ...

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: ix, [1], 324 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Observations on the design for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as executed in the year 1812 : accompanied by plans, elevation, & sections, of the same : engraved on eighteen plates / by Benjamin Wyatt, F.S.A. architect.

Creator:: Wyatt, Benjamin Dean, 1775–1855
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: xii, 77 p.,18 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Progress of inebriety.

Creator:: Wilson, T. C
Date:: ca. 1830]
Physical Description:: [10] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Site-unseen.

Creator:: Smith, Terry
Date:: 1997
Physical Description:: [46] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Barnaby Rudge : a tale of the riots of 'eighty / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: [1874]
Physical Description:: x, 322 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

73. [Notice. Lost gold girdle and other items].

Creator:: Pyne, Benjamin, -1732
Date:: June 16, 1731
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 9 x 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. A description of the Colosseum as re-opened in M.DCCC.XLV. under the patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, and H.R.H. Prince Albert. With numerous illustrations, and eight coloured sections of the panorama of London, embossed by messrs. Dobbs, Bailey, & Co. This catalogue has been prepared for the proprietor by messrs. Kronheim and Skirving, engravers and designers, and the illustrations and letter-press are printed from stereotype plates cast by the patent process of messrs. Kronheim & Co., 3, Earl-street, Blackfriars.

Date:: [1845]
Physical Description:: 24 p. ill., 22 plates (part col.) 20 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Oliver Twist.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xxviii, 418, [2] pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Sunday scenes in London and its suburbs / by Percy Cruikshank.

Creator:: Cruikshank, Percy, active 1840–1860
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: 63, [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Can you forgive her? / by Anthony Trollope ; with illustrations by H.K. Browne.

Creator:: Trollope, Anthony, 1815–1882
Date:: [1876?]
Physical Description:: 334, [2] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

78. London snow / Robert Bridges.

Creator:: Bridges, Robert, 1844–1930
Date:: 1988
Physical Description:: [8] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. 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

80. Designs for public and private buildings / by John Soane, Knt. ...

Creator:: Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:: MDCCCXXXII [1832]
Physical Description:: [9], viii-xiv, [4], 61, [1] pages, LVI [i.e. 78] leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. The London tradesman : being an historical account of all the trades, professions, arts, both liberal and mechanic, now practised in the cities of London and Westminster, calculated for the instruction of youth in their choice of business ... ; to which is added, an appendix, containing many useful particulars relative to the foregoing / by R. Campbell ...

Creator:: Campbell, R
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: xii, 340 pages ; 18 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Progress of sobriety.

Creator:: Wilson, T. C
Date:: ca. 1830]
Physical Description:: [2] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Angliæ metropolis, or, The present state of London : with memorials comprehanding a full and succinct account of the ancient and modern state thereof ... / first written by ... Tho. Delaune ... and continued to the present year by a careful hand ...

Creator:: Delaume, Thomas, d. 1685
Date:: 1690
Physical Description:: [10], 444 p. : coats of arms ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. An account of what seem'd most remarkable in the five days peregrination of the five following persons vizt. Messieurs Tothall, Scott, Hogarth, Thornhill & Forrest : begun on Saturday, May 27th, 1723 and finished on the 31st of the same month / with an introduction by Nick Savage and vinyl engravings by Michaela Kidney.

Creator:: Forrest, Ebenezer, active 1774
Date:: 1989
Physical Description:: [36] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. The history of London: illustrated by views in London & Westminster engraved by John Woods, from original drawings by Shepherd, Garland, Salmon, Topham, Clarke, Browne, Roberts, &c. Edited by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and (in continuation) by Thomas Harral ...

Creator:: Fearnside, W. G. (William Gray)
Date:: 184-?]
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 203, [1] p., 1 leaf, vi, [2], ii, 158 p. front., plates. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. 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

87. The comic history of London : from the earliest period : illustrated with numerous engravings.

Date:: [18--]
Physical Description:: 366 p., [1] leaf of plate : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Barnaby Rudge.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xix, [3], 685, [3] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. London's lost rivers / Paul Talling.

Creator:: Talling, Paul
Date:: 2011
Physical Description:: 190, [2] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Cruchley's illustrated London.

Creator:: Cruchley, G. F
Date:: 1854]
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 46 col. plates. 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Views within twelve miles round London / drawn and engraved by James Peller Malcolm ; this work tends to preserve the perishable forms of many a building and monument of antiquity, whose fate has been pronounced, and whose remembrance shall only be had from this and similar works.

Creator:: Malcolm, James Peller, 1767–1815
Date:: [180-?]
Physical Description:: [30] leaves : all ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. The Thames Tunnel : open to the public every day (Sundays excepted) from eight in the morning, until eight in the evening.

Date:: [1827?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustrations ; 32 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Bird's eye views of London, beautifully embossed on eight sheets, and printed in colours, with explanatory woodcuts, containing 300 references to public buildings.

Date:: ca. 1850]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark : containing the original, antiquity, increase, present state and government of those cities : written at first in the year 1698 [i.e. 1598] / by John Stow ... ; corrected, improved, and very much enlarged, in the year 1720, by John Strype ..., the survey and history brought down to the present time ... ; the life of the author, written by Mr. Strype is prefixed ... added, an appendix of certain tracts, discourses, and remarks on the state of the city of London ...

Creator:: Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:: 1754-1755
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places / by Walter Thornbury.

Creator:: Thornbury, Walter, 1828–1876
Date:: [1873-1878]
Physical Description:: 6 v. : ill., ports., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. The picture of London for 1815 : being a correct guide to all the curiosities, amusements, exhibitions, public establishments, and remarkable objects in and near London : with a collection of appropriate tables, two large maps, and various other engravings.

Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: x, 458 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans, maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Metro-land : British Empire Exhibition number : containing a general description of the British Empire Exhibition, how to get about London, and a comprehensive & descriptive review of the various districts served by Metropolitan Tailway.

Date:: 1924?]
Physical Description:: 118 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Stairwell / Stephen Willats.

Creator:: Willats, Stephen, 1943–
Date:: 1990
Physical Description:: [15] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. An historical memento, representing the different scenes of public rejoicing, which took place the first of August, in St. James's and Hyde Parks, London, in celebration of the glorious peace of 1814, and of the centenary of the accession of the illustrious House of Brunswick to the throne of these kingdoms.

Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 64 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Views in London and its vicinity / complete in forth-eight plates, engraved on copper by George Cooke ; from drawing by Calcott, R.A., Stanfield, A.R.A., Prout, Roberts, Stark, Harding, Cotman, Havell, &c. &c. ; after original sketches made on the spot by Edward W. Cooke.

Creator:: Cooke, George, 1781–1834
Date:: [1826]-1834
Physical Description:: 12 pt. (48 prints, [3], 7 p.) : ill. : 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Old Humphrey's walks in London : and its neighbourhood.

3. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

4. A scramble through London & Brighton / by E. Nelson Haxell ...

5. London, or, Interesting memorials of its rise, progress and present state / by Sholto & Reuben Percy ...

7. Resolutions of the Associated Architects : with the report of a committee by them appointed to consider the causes of the frequent fires and the best means of preventing the like in future.

8. On wet docks, quays, and warehouses, for the port of London; with hints respecting trade. Pt. I.

10. Zoological Society's gardens, Regent's Park. Saturday, August 21st, 1897. Admit one.

11. Johnstone's London commercial guide, and street directory: in four parts ...

12. An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex : which are not described in the Environs of London / by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S & F.S.A.

14. A letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, on the subject of the intended new docks to be established at Wapping.

16. London : the City and the East End.

18. Costume of the lower orders of London : painted and engraved from nature / by T.L. Busby.

20. Further report and memorials of the commissioners for executing the Act 46 Geo. III. c. 89 : for improvement of streets and places near to Westminster-Hall and the two Houses of Parliament : to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's treasury.

21. A new and compleat history and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent : from the earliest accounts, to the beginning of the year 1770 ... / by a society of gentlemen ; revised, corrected, and improved by Henry Chamberlain ...

22. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

23. Felix Summerly's hand-book for Westminster Abbey.

24. A series of views in Islington and Pentonville : from original drawings, made in the year 1818 / by Augustus Pugin ; with a description of each subject, by Edward Wedlake Brayley.

25. Some account of the hospital and parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex / by John Parton ...

27. History and description of the parish of Clerkenwell, embellished with numerous engravings, by J. & H. S. Storer. The historical department by T. Cromwell ...

28. Report from the committee appointed to inspect Lords journals, respecting the improvements in Westminster.

29. Answer to objections against the London-docks.

30. A popular account of St. Paul's Cathedral : including a brief history and description of the old and new cathedral : with explanations of the monumental designs and other interesting particulars.

31. The new album of London.

32. A month in London; or, Some of its modern wonders described. By Jefferys Taylor ...

34. The history and antiquities of London / by Thomas Pennant.

35. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

37. 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.

38. Report from the Committee on petition of the Ministers, Churchwardens and vestry of St. Margaret's, Westminster.

40. The original picture of London : enlarged and improved : being a correct guide for the stranger, as well as for the inhabitant, to the metropolis of the British empire : together with a description of the environs.

41. A chart illustrating the architecture of Westminster Abbey / by F. Bedford.

42. Report from the Committee appointed to inspect the several houses and other buildings immediately adjoining to Westminster Hall, and the two Houses of Parliament, and the offices thereto belonging : (July 22d, 1789.) : Ordered to be printed 16th February 1790.

43. Illustrations of the public buildings of London : with descriptive accounts of each edifice : supplement : containing the new subjects and descriptions incorporated in the second edition / by W.H. Leeds.

44. Reflections occasioned by the frequency of fires in the metropolis : with thoughts on measures for adding to public security, and remarks on the law of arson. Addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Kenyon, Lord Chief Justice of England / by Philanthropos.

45. The four Indian kings.

46. The picture of London for 1807 : being a correct guide to all the curiosities, amusements, exhibitions, public establishments, and remarkable objects, in and near London : with a collection of appropriate tables, two large maps, and several views.

47. Great exhibition of doings in London for 1851. B. Clayton inv., del et sculpsit.

48. Tallis's London street views, exhibiting upwards of one hundred buildings in each number, elegantly engraved on steel; with a commercial directory corrected every month, the whole forming a complete stranger's guide through London ... To which is added an index map of the streets ...

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

52. The A B C guide to London : Chas. Baker & Co.'s large pocket map of London, in 15 sections : with alphabetical list of places of interest in and near London &c.

53. Cha cha cha / Stephen Willats.

55. The curiosities of London and Westminster : described in four volumes : embellished with elegant copper plates.

56. An alphabetical index of the streets, squares, lanes, alleys, &c : contained in the Plan of the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark ... / engraved by John Pine ... ; from an actual survey made by John Roque [sic] ...

57. An historical description of Westminster Abbey : its monuments and curiosities designed chiefly as a guide to strangers.

58. Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life and every-day people / with thirty-four illustrations by F. Barnard.

59. London scenes, or, A visit to Uncle William in town : containing a description of the most remarkable buildings and curiosities in the British metropolis : illustrated by seventy-eight copperplate engravings ...

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

63. Characters at the west end of the town / drawn and etched by Richard Dighton.

64. Escort card.

66. An historical description of Westminster Abbey, its monuments and curiosities : designed chiefly as a guide to strangers.

67. A brief account of the Colosseum : in the Regent's Park, London: comprising a description of the building; the panoramic view from the top of St. Paul's Cathedral; the conservatory, &c.

69. Observations on the design for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as executed in the year 1812 : accompanied by plans, elevation, & sections, of the same : engraved on eighteen plates / by Benjamin Wyatt, F.S.A. architect.

70. Progress of inebriety.

71. Site-unseen.

72. Barnaby Rudge : a tale of the riots of 'eighty / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard.

73. [Notice. Lost gold girdle and other items].

75. Oliver Twist.

76. Sunday scenes in London and its suburbs / by Percy Cruikshank.

77. Can you forgive her? / by Anthony Trollope ; with illustrations by H.K. Browne.

78. London snow / Robert Bridges.

80. Designs for public and private buildings / by John Soane, Knt. ...

82. Progress of sobriety.

83. Angliæ metropolis, or, The present state of London : with memorials comprehanding a full and succinct account of the ancient and modern state thereof ... / first written by ... Tho. Delaune ... and continued to the present year by a careful hand ...

85. The history of London: illustrated by views in London & Westminster engraved by John Woods, from original drawings by Shepherd, Garland, Salmon, Topham, Clarke, Browne, Roberts, &c. Edited by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and (in continuation) by Thomas Harral ...

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

87. The comic history of London : from the earliest period : illustrated with numerous engravings.

88. Barnaby Rudge.

89. London's lost rivers / Paul Talling.

90. Cruchley's illustrated London.

91. Views within twelve miles round London / drawn and engraved by James Peller Malcolm ; this work tends to preserve the perishable forms of many a building and monument of antiquity, whose fate has been pronounced, and whose remembrance shall only be had from this and similar works.

92. The Thames Tunnel : open to the public every day (Sundays excepted) from eight in the morning, until eight in the evening.

93. Bird's eye views of London, beautifully embossed on eight sheets, and printed in colours, with explanatory woodcuts, containing 300 references to public buildings.