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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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

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

6. A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster : the public buildings, palaces, gardens, squares, &c. : with an alphabetical list of all the streets, squares, courts, lanes, and alleys, &c. within the bills of mortality : to which are added some proper cautions to the merchants, tradesmen and shop-keepers ... / by Sir John Fielding ...

Creator:: Fielding, John, Sir, 1721–1780
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: xxxiii, [3], 161, 90 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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

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

12. 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

13. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

Creator:: Noorthouck, John, 1746?-1816
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 ([4], viii, [4], 902, [42] p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded)) : ill., map, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. 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

15. The survey of London : contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe : with a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publike and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors, as also all the ancient and moderne monuments erected in the churches, not onely of those two famous cites, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) foure miled compasse / begunne first by the paines and industry of Iohn Stow, in the yeere 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the yeere 1618 ; and now completely finished by the study and labour of A.M. ; H.D., and others, this present yeere 1633, whereunto, besides many additions (as appeares by the contents) are annexed divers alphabeticall tables, especially two ; the first, an index of things ; the second, a concordance of names.

Creator:: Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:: 1633
Physical Description:: [16], 534, 527-652, 655-770, 773-939, [29] p. : illustrations 35 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The official illustrated guide to the London and South-Western, North and South Devon, Cornwall, and West Cornwall railway : including descriptions of some of the most important manufactories in the towns on the lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with 280 engravings and map.

Creator:: Measom, George S
Date:: [1864]
Physical Description:: lii, 475, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. Real life in London, or, The rambles and adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and his cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, through the metropolis : exhibiting a living picture of fashionable characters, manners, and amusements in high and low life / by an amateur ; embellished and illustrated with a series of coloured prints, designed and engraved by Messrs. Alken, Dighton, Brooke, Rowlandson &c.

Date:: 1821-1822
Physical Description:: 56 pt. in 33 pt.. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Description de Londres et de ses édifices, avec un précis historique et des observations sur le caractère de leur architecture, et sur les principaux objects d'art et de curiosité qu'ils renferment; par J.-B. Barjaud, et C.P. Landon ...

Creator:: Barjaud, Jean Baptiste Benoît, 1785–1813
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 1 p.., [v]-viii, 239, 4 p. : front. (fold. map) plates, ports. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. [Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of ... engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions ...

Creator:: Storer, James, 1771–1853
Date:: 1804-5]
Physical Description:: 2 v. 12 ill., 60 plates. 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

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. London's gratitude: or, An account of such pieces of sculpture and painting as have been placed in Guildhall at the expense of the city of London. To which is added, A list of those distinguished persons to whom the freedom of the city has been presented for public services since the year MDCCLVIII. With engravings of the sculptures, & c.

Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: 50 p. plates (incl. port., coats of arms) 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Londres / par Louis Énault ; illustré de 174 gravures sur bois par Gustave Doré.

Creator:: Enault, Louis, 1824–1900
Date:: 1876
Physical Description:: [4], 434 p. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44. 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

45. The South Bank Exhibition : a guide to the story it tells / by Ian Cox.

Creator:: Cox, Ian H. (Ian Herbert), 1910–
Date:: [1951]
Physical Description:: 95, lviv pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Sequoia Miller.

46. Annals of the Regency.

Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: [14] disc-shaped sheets : illustrations ; each 8 cm in diameter, in case 9 x 9 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country : taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's cathedral : to be published in four engravings / by Thomas Hornor.

Creator:: Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 31, [1] p., [3] folding leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Pigot and Co.'s London & provincial new commercial directory for 1827-8 : containing a classification of, and alphabetical reference to the merchants, manufacturers and traders of the metropolis ... : in addition to which is compiled ... a directory of the county of Middlesex, with every town and village within twelve miles of the metropolis, and in the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex ... : this volume is embellished with a new series of elegant maps of the above-named counties ... [and] a large map of London ...

Creator:: J. Pigot & Co
Date:: [1827?]
Physical Description:: cxvi, 384, 104, 742 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Sunday in London / illustrated in fourteen cuts by George Cruikshank ; and a few words by a friend of his ; with a copy of Sir Andrew Agnew's bill.

Creator:: Wight, J. (John)
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: iv, 105 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

50. Reports relating to the entertainment of Her Majesty the Queen, in the Guildhall of the City of London on Lord Mayor's Day, 1837.

Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [4], 35, [3], 7, [1], 79, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. 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

52. 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

53. 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

54. 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

55. Site-unseen.

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

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

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

57. 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

58. A new critical review of the publick buildings, statues and ornaments, in and about London and Westminster. With some reflections on the use of sepulchral monuments; as also a scheme shewing the dimensions of St. Peter's Church at Rome and St. Paul's Cathedral at London; and a preface, being an essay on taste. To all which is added, an Appendix, containing a dispute between the Weekly miscellany and the author; and a compleat Alphabetical index.

Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: 3 p. l., vi, 91, [5] p. fold. table. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. 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

60. 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

61. Further reports and memorials of the Commissioners for executing the several Acts 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 : together with their accounts of receipt and expenditure : from 8th May 1811 to 31st December 1813.

Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: p. [119]-[150] ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Panorama of London.

Date:: ca. 1860]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. 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

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

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

65. Domestic union, or, London as it should be : containing observations on the present state of the municipality of London;--with hints for it's extention and improvement ; together with remarks on the West-India Docks in the Ilse of Dogs;--the Wapping Docks;--the projects for improving London Bridge, and for making a new iron bridge across the Thames; the canal on the south side of the river, and the several new streets under present contemplation. / By the author of the Portentous Globe.

Creator:: Stonestreet, George Griffin
Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: [4], 67, [1] p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. [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

67. The Connoisseur. By Mr. Town, critic and censor-general.

Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 4 v. front. (port.), plates. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. 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

69. 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

70. The carriers cosmographie, or, A briefe relation, of the innes ordinaries, hosteries, and other lodgings, in and neere London : where the carriers, waggons, foote-posts and higglers, doe usually come, from any parts, townes, shires, and countries, of the kingdoms of England, principality of Wales, as also from the kingdomes of Scotland and Ireland : with nomination of what daies of the weeke they do come to London and on what daies they returne, whereby all sorts of people may find direction how to receiue or send, goods or letters, into such places as their occasions may require : as also where the ships, hoighs, barkes, t[i]ltboats, barges and wherries, do usually attend to carry passengers ... / by Iohn Taylor.

Creator:: Taylor, John, 1580–1653
Date:: 1637
Physical Description:: 24 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. 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

72. 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

73. 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

74. 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

75. 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

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. 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

78. The history and antiquities of the Tower of London : with biographical anecdotes of royal and distinguished persons, deduced from records, state papers, and manuscripts, and from other original and authentic sources / by John Bayley, Esq., F.S.A. of the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple, and one of His Majesty's Sub-Commissioners on the Public Records ; in two parts ; Part I[-II].

Creator:: Bayley, John, -1869
Date:: 1821-1825
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the great / by Henry Fielding ; with seven etchings on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.

Creator:: Fielding, Henry, 1707–1754
Date:: 1932
Physical Description:: viii, 278, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. 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

81. 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

82. Escort card.

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

83. 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

84. 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

85. 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

86. 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

87. 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

88. 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

89. Reasons in favour of the London-docks.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: 1 p.., 9 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Cooke, George, 1781–1834
Date:: [1826-1834]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [48] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Metropolitan improvements, or, London in the nineteenth century : displayed in a series of engravings of the new buildings, improvements, &c., by the most eminent artists, from original drawings taken from the objects themselves expressly for this work / by Mr. Thos. H. Shepherd ; comprising the palaces, parks, new churches, bridges, streets, river scenery, public offices and institutions, gentlemen's seats and mansions, and every other object worthy of notice throughout the metropolis and its environs, with historical, topographical, and critical illustrations, by James Elmes ...

Creator:: Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)
Date:: 1827 [i.e. 1827-1830]
Physical Description:: vi, ii, 172 p., [80] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. 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 : (June 3d, 1788).

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Date:: Printed in the year MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:: 4 p. ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Letters from London.

Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: [2], 52 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. The exhibition and grand London sights.

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

95. Knight's cyclopaedia of London, 1851.

Date:: [1851]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. 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

97. 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

98. 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

99. Holmes's Great metropolis : or, Views and history of London in the nineteenth century. Being a grand national exhibition of the British capital. With historical and topographical notices of each place / Ed. by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and Thomas Harrel [!] ...

Creator:: Fearnside, W. G. (William Gray)
Date:: [1851?]
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 211 p. 34 pl. incl. front. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark and parts adjacent ... / by Robert Seymour ... ; the whole being an improvement of Mr. Stow's and other surveys, by adding whatever alterations have happened in the said cities, i.e. to the present year ...

Creator:: Mottley, John, 1692–1750
Date:: 1734-1735
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., coats of arms, map ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

9. The new album of London.

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

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

13. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

14. Answer to objections against the London-docks.

16. The official illustrated guide to the London and South-Western, North and South Devon, Cornwall, and West Cornwall railway : including descriptions of some of the most important manufactories in the towns on the lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with 280 engravings and map.

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

18. 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.

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

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

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

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

27. London : the City and the East End.

28. 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.

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

31. Description de Londres et de ses édifices, avec un précis historique et des observations sur le caractère de leur architecture, et sur les principaux objects d'art et de curiosité qu'ils renferment; par J.-B. Barjaud, et C.P. Landon ...

32. [Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of ... engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions ...

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

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

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

40. Londres / par Louis Énault ; illustré de 174 gravures sur bois par Gustave Doré.

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

42. 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.

43. 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.

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

45. The South Bank Exhibition : a guide to the story it tells / by Ian Cox.

46. Annals of the Regency.

47. Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country : taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's cathedral : to be published in four engravings / by Thomas Hornor.

49. Sunday in London / illustrated in fourteen cuts by George Cruikshank ; and a few words by a friend of his ; with a copy of Sir Andrew Agnew's bill.

50. Reports relating to the entertainment of Her Majesty the Queen, in the Guildhall of the City of London on Lord Mayor's Day, 1837.

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

52. 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.

53. 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.

55. Site-unseen.

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

57. 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 ...

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

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

62. Panorama of London.

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

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

67. The Connoisseur. By Mr. Town, critic and censor-general.

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

71. 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 ...

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

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

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

79. The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the great / by Henry Fielding ; with seven etchings on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.

80. 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 ...

82. Escort card.

83. Cruchley's illustrated London.

84. 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.

85. 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.

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

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

89. Reasons in favour of the London-docks.

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

92. 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 : (June 3d, 1788).

93. Letters from London.

94. The exhibition and grand London sights.

95. Knight's cyclopaedia of London, 1851.

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

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

98. Oliver Twist.

99. Holmes's Great metropolis : or, Views and history of London in the nineteenth century. Being a grand national exhibition of the British capital. With historical and topographical notices of each place / Ed. by William Gray Fearnside, esq., and Thomas Harrel [!] ...

100. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark and parts adjacent ... / by Robert Seymour ... ; the whole being an improvement of Mr. Stow's and other surveys, by adding whatever alterations have happened in the said cities, i.e. to the present year ...