Image Available: Unavailable / Language: English / Work Type: aquatint / Subject Terms: Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

1. [Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]

Creator:: John Bluck, active 1791–1819
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: [4], 8 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Mirroir de la mode.

Date:: 1803
Physical Description:: 100 p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

4. The theatric tourist : being a genuine collection of correct views, with brief and authentic historical accounts of all the principal provincial theatres in the United Kingdom : replete with useful and necessary information to theatrical professors, whereby they may learn how to chuse [sic] and regulate their country engagements; and with numerous anecdoes to amuse the reader / by a theatric amateur.

Creator:: Winston, James, 1773–1843
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: [2], 72 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The cutter : in five lectures upon the art and practice of cutting friends, acquaintances, and relations.

Creator:: Evans, Arthur Benoni, 1781–1854
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: [8],104 p., [6] leaves of plates ([5] folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Groups of figures from cuttings in black paper : intended as lessons for instruction in paper cutting / designed and executed by Miss Barbara Anne Townshend.

Creator:: Townshend, Barbara Anne
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: [2] pt. : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A practical essay on flower painting in water colours / by Edward Pretty.

Creator:: Pretty, Edward, 1792–1865
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 28 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Glances at character.

Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: viii, 158 p., 8 [i.e. 7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain during the years 1810 and 1811 / by a French traveller; with remarks on the country, its arts, literature, and politics, and on the manners and customs of its inhabitants.

Creator:: Simond, L. (Louis), 1767–1831
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A practical treatise on gas-light : exhibiting a summary description of the apparatus and machinery best calculated for illuminating streets, houses, and manufactories, with carburetted hydrogen, or coal-gas; with remarks on the utility, safety, and general nature of this new branch of civil economy / by Frederick Accum, operative chemist, lecturer on practical chemistry, on mineralogy, and on chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures; member of the Royal Irish Academy, Fellow of the Linnæn Society, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, &c. &c.

Creator:: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: [2], iii, [1], v, [1], 186 p., VII leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

12. The age of intellect, or, Clerical showfolk, and wonderful layfolk : a series of poetical epistles between Bob Blazon in town, and Jack Jingle in the country : dedicated to the Fair Circassian : with notes critical, ethical, satirical, physiological, craniological, and astrological / by Francis Moore, physician, author of the celebrated work entitled Vox stellarum or, A loyal almanack.

Creator:: Moore, Francis, 1657–1714
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [4], ii, [v]-xxiii, [24]-172, [8] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

13. Epsom Races : the Derby Day.

Date:: [1819]
Physical Description:: 1 print on 4 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 6 x 180 cm, acordion folded to 6 x 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A nineteenth century, and familiar history of the lives, loves, and misfortunes of Abeillard and Heloisa : a matchless pair, who flourished in the twelfth century : a poem, in twelve cantos : illustrated with ten engravings / by Robert Rabelais, the younger.

Creator:: Rabelais, Robert, the younger
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: xvii, 384 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Going to Epsom Races : a ludicrious amusement, consisting of modern costume, characters, dandies, equipages, and horsemanship.

Physical Description:: 1 print on 4 joined sheets : aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 6 x 180 cm, rolled (in wooden case) to 6 x 4 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Lessons of thrift : published for general benefit / by a member of the Save-all Club.

Creator:: Member of the Save-all Club
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, 240 [i.e. 196], [2] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A treatise on adulterations of food, and culinary poisons : exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spiritous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles, and other articles employed in domestic economy, and methods of detecting them / by Fredrick Accum, operative chemist, lecturer on practical chemistry, mineralogy, and on chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures; member of the Royal Irish Academy; Fellow of the Linnean Society; member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Arts of Berlin, &c, &c.

Creator:: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, 372 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Fables in action : by means of moveable pictures, and dissected and coloured figures, with explanatory text.

Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [2], 18 p. : ill. ; 10 x 16 cm. + (1 col. ill. envelope and 24 col. ill. cut out figures.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Life in London, or, The day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthia Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis / by Pierce Egan, author of Walks through Bath, Sporting anecdotes, Pictures of the Fancy, Boxiana, &c. ; dedicated to His Most Gracious Majesty King George the Fourth ; embellished with thirty-six scenes from real life, designed and etched by I. R. & G. Cruikshank ; and enriched also with numerous original designs on wood, by the same artists.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: xvi, 376, [10] p., [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Fashion and folly, or, The buck's pilgrimage [graphic]

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:: [1822]
Physical Description:: 24 pictures on 1 joined sheet : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 617 cm, in cylindrical case 16 cm x 7 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The commercial tourist, or, Gentleman traveller : a satirical poem : in four cantos : embellished with colored engravings.

Creator:: Hempel, Charles William, 1777–1855
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: [4], 140 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The harmonist's preceptor, or, Treasury of mirth : being a new and extensive collection of modern and popular songs : in which will be found, distinctly arranged, English and Irish comic songs, Scotch songs, Yorkshire songs, Jews songs, love songs, and songs for the social board : with considerable additions, together with an entire new collection of toasts and sentiments, adapted to each song / written and selected by Mr. Bryant, of the Royal Cobourg theatre ; author of various dramatic pieces, poems, &c. &c.

Creator:: Bryant, Mr
Date:: [1822]
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 204 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Humorous designs / by M.E.

Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

25. Liston's characters : six coloured engravings.

Date:: 1826
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are / drawn by M.E. Esq.

Creator:: Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [23] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

28. Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are / drawn by M.E. Esq.

Creator:: Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 1 folded leaf ([16] p.) : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Life in the country, or, Eccentricities and oddities exhibiting real and original scenes of rural life / by an old sportsman.

Creator:: Old sportsman
Date:: [1825?]
Physical Description:: 48 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Collinso furioso, or, Matters "to tatters" / from drawings by M.E.

Date:: July. 1825
Physical Description:: [26] p., [1], 11, [1] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The life of an actor / by Pierce Egan, author of "Life in London," "Tom and Jerry," "A Musical Drama," etc. ; dedicated to Edmund Kean, Esq. ; the poetical descriptions by T. Greenwood ; embellished with twenty-seven characteristic scenes, etched by Theodore Lane ; enriched also with several original designs on wood, executed by Mr. Thompson.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: xvi, 272 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Paris lions and London tigers / by Harriette Wilson ; illustrated with twelve colored plates.

Creator:: Wilson, Harriette, 1786–1846
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 231, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Confessions of an Oxonian : in three volumes : embellished with thirty-six coloured plates.

Creator:: Moore, Thomas, 1779–1852
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: 3 v. ill. ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Pierce Egan's anecdotes (original and selected) of the turf, the chase, the ring, and the stage : the whole forming a complete panorama of the sporting world, uniting with it a book of reference and entertaining companion to the lovers of British sports / embellished with thirteen colored plates, designed from nature, and etched by Theodore Lane ; dedicated to Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: MDCCCXXVII [1827]
Physical Description:: viii, 304, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. A series of practical instructions in landscape painting in water colours : containing directions for sketching from nature, and the application of perspective, progressive lessons in drawing from the tinted sketch to the finished subject, and examples of the introduction of figures, architectural subjects, particular effects, &c. as connected with landscape scenery / by John Clark ; illustrated by fifty-five views from nature, descriptive objects, &c. mounted in imitation of drawings.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: 4 pt. : col. ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Olla Podrida / by M. Egerton, Esqre.

Creator:: Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: [2] p., [22] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. [The essayists]

Creator:: Lisle, Joe
Date:: [1828-1830]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

39. The grand steeple chace over Leicestershire on the 12th of March, 1829 / in a series of eight plates, beautifully coloured from the original paintings by Mr. Henry Alken ; giving portraits of the riders and horses that started on that celebrated day ; with remarks by that distinguished writer, Nimrod, who acted as umpired on the occasion.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: [2] p., VIII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 46 x 61 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The noble game of billiards : wherein are exhibited extraordinary & surprising strokes which have excited the admiration of most of the sovereigns of Europe / by Monsieur Mingaud.

Creator:: Mingaud, François, 1771–1847
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: [2], 7, [1] p., [1], 40 leaves leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Grand Leicestershire steeple chase, on the 12th of March, 1829.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: 8 prints : aquatint engraving ; 41 x 52 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips.

Creator:: Phillips, G. F. (Giles Firman), 1780–1867
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 28 p., [1], 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Principles of effect and colour : as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips, member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours.

Creator:: Phillips, G. F. (Giles Firman), 1780–1867
Date:: [ca. 1840]
Physical Description:: 30, [2] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Bacchus and the tee-totallers / by Rumfusticus Bibulus, Esq., president of the Anti-temperance society.

Creator:: Bibulus, Rumfusticus
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: 19, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A practical guide for the tailor's cutting-room : being a treatise on measuring and cutting clothing in all styles, and for every period of life from childhood to old age / by Joseph Couts ; with numerous diagrams and pictorial illustrations.

Creator:: Couts, Joseph
Date:: [1848]
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 166 p., xxvii, 17 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Fores's steeple chase scenes : illustrative of the sport : a series of six plates / from original drawings by H. Alken, sen.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1848]
Physical Description:: [2] p., 6 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 40 x 57 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

YCBA Collections Search

Refine your search

Search Constraints

Image Available Unavailable

Language English

Work Type aquatint

Subject Terms Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

Search Results

1. [Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]

2. Mirroir de la mode.

5. The cutter : in five lectures upon the art and practice of cutting friends, acquaintances, and relations.

6. Groups of figures from cuttings in black paper : intended as lessons for instruction in paper cutting / designed and executed by Miss Barbara Anne Townshend.

7. A practical essay on flower painting in water colours / by Edward Pretty.

8. Glances at character.

9. Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain during the years 1810 and 1811 / by a French traveller; with remarks on the country, its arts, literature, and politics, and on the manners and customs of its inhabitants.

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

13. Epsom Races : the Derby Day.

14. A nineteenth century, and familiar history of the lives, loves, and misfortunes of Abeillard and Heloisa : a matchless pair, who flourished in the twelfth century : a poem, in twelve cantos : illustrated with ten engravings / by Robert Rabelais, the younger.

15. Going to Epsom Races : a ludicrious amusement, consisting of modern costume, characters, dandies, equipages, and horsemanship.

16. Lessons of thrift : published for general benefit / by a member of the Save-all Club.

18. Fables in action : by means of moveable pictures, and dissected and coloured figures, with explanatory text.

20. Fashion and folly, or, The buck's pilgrimage [graphic]

21. The commercial tourist, or, Gentleman traveller : a satirical poem : in four cantos : embellished with colored engravings.

23. Humorous designs / by M.E.

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

25. Liston's characters : six coloured engravings.

26. Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are / drawn by M.E. Esq.

28. Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are / drawn by M.E. Esq.

29. Life in the country, or, Eccentricities and oddities exhibiting real and original scenes of rural life / by an old sportsman.

30. Collinso furioso, or, Matters "to tatters" / from drawings by M.E.

32. Paris lions and London tigers / by Harriette Wilson ; illustrated with twelve colored plates.

33. Confessions of an Oxonian : in three volumes : embellished with thirty-six coloured plates.

36. Olla Podrida / by M. Egerton, Esqre.

37. [The essayists]

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

40. The noble game of billiards : wherein are exhibited extraordinary & surprising strokes which have excited the admiration of most of the sovereigns of Europe / by Monsieur Mingaud.

41. Grand Leicestershire steeple chase, on the 12th of March, 1829.

42. Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips.

43. Principles of effect and colour : as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips, member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours.

44. Bacchus and the tee-totallers / by Rumfusticus Bibulus, Esq., president of the Anti-temperance society.

45. A practical guide for the tailor's cutting-room : being a treatise on measuring and cutting clothing in all styles, and for every period of life from childhood to old age / by Joseph Couts ; with numerous diagrams and pictorial illustrations.

46. Fores's steeple chase scenes : illustrative of the sport : a series of six plates / from original drawings by H. Alken, sen.