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1. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Peter Biegel's racing pictures.

Creator:: Biegel, Peter
Date:: 1983
Physical Description:: 160 p. : col. ill. ; 25 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Prospectus for publishing in subscription The Oxford portfolio : offered to the nobility and gentry of the university / by G. Cooper.

Creator:: Cooper, George, active 1792–1830
Date:: [1817]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Proposals for publishing by subscription, original poems : with translations from the French, Italian, and Spanish : and a play, in five acts : by Charlotte Nooth, daughter to the late James Nooth, Esq. ...

Creator:: Nooth, Charlotte
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Allix, Susan, 1943–
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([3] pages) : color photographs ; 12 x 32 cm, folded to 12 x 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

6. Prospectus of an improved mode of delineating estates.

Creator:: Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: [1], 6 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Bligh's voyage in the Resource from Coupang to Batavia : together with the log of his subsequent passage to England in the Dutch Vlydt Packet : and his remarks on Morrison's Journal : all printed for the first time from the manuscripts in the Mitchell Library of New South Wales : with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter : The Golden Cockerel Press 1937.

Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Specimen of the wood cuts to Northcote's Fables : second series.

Creator:: Northcote, James, 1746–1831
Date:: [1833]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. This day are published, parts first and second, of Architectura ecclesiastica Londini, or the Ecclesiastical architecture of London.

Creator:: Booth, John (Bookseller)
Date:: January 25, 1814
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Proposals, for publishing by subscription, in ten monthly parts, forming one handsome volume, the Costume of Yorkshire : illustrated by forty highly-finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings, descriptive of the peculiar dress, occupation and manners of various inhabitants of that extensive and populous County : the first part to be published on the first of September, 1813.

Date:: [1813?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Prospectus of a history of the county palatine and of the city of Chester : by Geo. Ormerod of Chorlton, Esq. M.A.F.S.A. : dedicated (with permission) to His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, Earl of Chester ; including King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities.

Date:: [1814?]
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Proposals for publishing by subscription, an engraving from the historical picture painted by John Singleton Copley, R.A. : and now exhibiting in a pavilion, erected through the gracious permission of the King for the purpose, in the Green Park : this work ... is to be placed in the council chamber of Guildhall as a testimony of respect to the late Lord Heathfield, then governor of Gibralter, Earl Howe, commander of the fleet ... for their gallant conduct displayed in the defence and relief of that important fortress.

Date:: [180-]
Physical Description:: [4] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Books published by J. Taylor, High Holborn.

Creator:: Taylor, J
Date:: [1807]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A Venetian story [prospectus] / by Lord Byron.

Creator:: Allen Press
Date:: [1963]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([4] p.) ; 40 x 25 cm., folded to13 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The boke of Iford / compiled by me, Harold A. Peto of Iford Manor from all the sources available in 1917 ; with a historical introduction by Robin Whalley.

The boke of Iford / compiled by me, Harold A. Peto of Iford Manor from all the sources available in 1917 ; with a historical introduction by Robin Whalley.

Creator:: Peto, Harold A. (Harold Ainsworth), 1854–1933
Date:: 1993
Physical Description:: 53 p. col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

16. On the first of March, 1814, will be published, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row, price four shillings, No. I. (To be continued monthly) of Restituta, or, The titles and characters of old books in English literature and their authors, revived by Sir Egerton Brydges, K.J.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1813?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Landseer. [Editado por Cândido Guinle de Paula Machado. Texto de Alberto Rangel.]

Creator:: Landseer, Charles, 1799 or 1800–1879
Date:: 1972]
Physical Description:: 162 p. (chiefly col. illus. part fold.) 40 x 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Narrative of a journey to the falls of the Cavery : with an historical and descriptive account of the Neilgherry hills / by Lieutenant H. Jervis.

Creator:: Jervis, H. (Humphrey)
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: x, 144, [16] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Prospectus of a work now ready for the press, which under the title of Hibernia, proposes to treat, in an ample manner, of the ecclesiastical, topographical, and monastic antiquities of Ireland : by W. Monck Mason, Esq.

Creator:: Nichols, firm, printers (London, England)
Date:: [ca. 1818?]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. In the course of the present month, will be published Part I. of Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions by Edmund Lodge, ESQ. Lancaster Herald, F.S.A. author of the biographical tracts attached to the "Holbein Heads."

Creator:: Lackington, Allen and Co
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Schottland in Bildern / nach der Natur gezeichnet von T. Allom und W.H. Bartlett ; und mit beschreibendem Text von Wilhelm Beattie ... ; aus dem Englischen uebersetzt von Johann von Horn.

Creator:: Beattie, William, 1793–1875
Date:: [1838]
Physical Description:: [2] v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1816?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Westminster Abbey : in the summer of 1816 will be published part the first of the History and antiquities of the Abbey Church of St Peter's : the whole to be illustrated by fifty engravings by J.P. Neale : with ample biographical notices by J. Norris Brewer.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: January, 1816
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. This day is published, The morbid anatomy of the liver : being an inquiry into the anatomical character, symptoms, and treatment of certain diseases which impair or destroy the structure of that viscus : order 1, tumours, part I, on the Tubera Circumscripta and Tubera Diffusa : in imperial quarto, illustrated by coloured engravings, price 15s. : by J.R. Farre, M.D.

Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Prospectus. The history of Little Johnny, the foundling of the late Doctor Syntax : a poem in eight monthly numbers.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: [1821?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Preparing for publication : The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London : extracted out of original charters, records, lieger books and other manuscripts / by Sir William Dugdale ...; with additions and a continuation by Henry Ellis ...

Date:: 1813 [i.e. 1814]
Physical Description:: 3 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Prospectus and specimen of an history of marine architecture : drawn from the best authorities, and chronologically deduced from the earliest period to the present time ; illustrated by upwards of one hundred plates : exhibiting at least a thousand figures : accurately engraved by the most eminent artists : in three volumes Royal Quarto / by John Charnock, Esq.

Creator:: Charnock, John, 1756–1807
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [2], 20, 2 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Twelve views in Corsica / drawn, etched, and published by W. Cowen ; dedicated, by permision, to Earl Fitzwilliam.

Creator:: Cowen, William, 1797–1860
Date:: MDCCCXLIII [1843]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [12] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Prospectus of an entire new and splendid publication, price 7s. 6d. each part, The virtuoso, or, Monthly preceptor of drawing : forming an elegant compendium of art, science, and amusement, on a new and attractive plan, calculated to instruct the mind, improve the talents, and gratify the taste.

Date:: [1814?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (2 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Michael Angelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel : ... facsimiles of original drawings, from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, made at the time of the paintings, and before the execution of the Last Judgment / ... engraved and published by J. Linnell.

Creator:: Linnell, John, 1792–1882
Date:: [1833-1835]
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [42] leaves of plates : all illustrations ; 30 x 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Prospectus for Drawings, by Michael Craig-Martin.

Creator:: Craig–Martin, Michael, Sir, born 1941
Date:: [2015?]
Physical Description:: 10 cards : chiefly illustrations ; cardboard sleeve 16 x 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

33. Prospectus of A general history of the county of York. By Thomas Dunham Whitaker ...

Creator:: Longman (Firm)
Date:: 1816]
Physical Description:: 4 p. ; 43 cm. (in case 49 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Prospectus for publishing by subscription, Laporte's progressive lessons in landscape, from nature, in imitation of pencil, from the original drawings : to be contained in six numbers, price to subscribers nine shillings each.

Creator:: Griffiths, Thomas (Publisher)
Date:: February, 1815
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Proposals for publishing by subscription, twelve engravings of a series of views, of interesting scenes and achievements of the British Army in Spain and Portugal : under the command of His Excellency Lieutenant General the Marquis of Wellington, &c. &c. &c. : from original drawings made on the spot, by Major St. Clair, 21st Portuguese Infantry, and Captain Royal Scotts ; engraved by C. Turner ...

Date:: [1811?]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([4] pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Portraits of celebrated painters.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Course of lectures delivered at the Surry institution--advt.

Creator:: Landseer, John, 1769–1852
Date:: 1815
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Proposals for publishing by subscription, in the course of the next spring, in one volume quarto, accompanied with seventeen plates, An Account and explanation of the paintings and other ornaments and decorations, discovered in the month of September last on the walls of the present House of Commons : including also, besides the history of these decorations and the building itself, a variety of original particulars as to the ancient state of the City of Westminster, and the Palace and other buildings there : and the principles and history of painting and Gothic architecture / by John Sidney Hawkins, Esq. F.A.A. ; the plates engraven by Mr. John Thomas Smith, from drawings made by himself on the spot.

Creator:: Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758–1842
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Szirtes, George, 1948–
Date:: 2008
Physical Description:: 1 portfolio (unpaged, unbound) : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Proposals for publishing by subscription, two prints, from pictures painted expressly to commemorate the glorious victories of Vittoria and the Pyrenees.

Creator:: Hassell and Rickards
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Forty sheets to the wind : a new portfolio of old typefaces.

Date:: 1999
Physical Description:: 1 portfolio : illustrations (some color), samples ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

43. Prospectus, The history of Johnny Quae Genus, the little foundling of the late Doctor Syntax : a poem, in eight monthly numbers : no. 1 was published on the 1st of August, and is continued monthly, price 2s. 6d. each : each part contains three coloured engravings / by T. Rowlandson, Esq., and thirty-two pages of letter press, by the author of the three tours of Doctor Syntax ...

Creator:: Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:: [1821]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Prospectus for Richard Bawden, his life & work, by Malcolm Yorke.

Creator:: Fleece Press
Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: [4] pages : color illustrations ; 11 x 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Julian Francis Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books

45. On the first of January next will be published in numbers, price 6d. each, to be continued weekly (or in parts containing eight numbers, prices 4s.), the whole intended to form two large volumes in quarto, The Holy Bible, including the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha : according to the authorised version, with notes, explanatory and practical.

Creator:: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)
Date:: [1813]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Interregnum.

Creator:: Aikin, John, 1747–1822
Date:: [18--]
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Proposals for printing a new and elegant edition of the life of King Robert Bruce, by John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen : and of the acts and deeds of Sir William Wallace, by Henry the Minstrel, commonly called Blind Harry with biographical sketches, notes, and a glossary by John Jamieson.

Creator:: James Ballantyne and Co
Date:: 30th June, 1814
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Johnson's dictionary, edited by the Reverend H.J. Todd.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: August 1, 1814
Physical Description:: iv pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. To be published by subscription, A collection of select views in Great Britain : from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists : to be engraved by S. Middiman.

Date:: October 1, 1783
Physical Description:: [1] sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

51. To be published by subscription, a treatise on theology written by Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson ... : to which will be added a letter from her to her daughter on the principles of the Christian religion : also the life of Mrs. Hutchinson written by herself, a fragment : from the original manuscripts.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1816?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. On December 1, 1814, will be published, dedicated by permission, to His Grace the Duke of Wellington, No. I of a highly embellished, splendid, and interesting work, to be entitled, The martial achievements of Great Britain and her allies, from the year 1800 to 1814 : illustrated with accurate representations of the numerous glorious victories in which they have been engaged : accompanied with the Gazette and other official documents of the defeats of their enemies.

Creator:: Jenkins, James, 1753–1831
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

54. The auto-biography of John Britton : ... in three parts ... copiously illustrated.

Creator:: Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:: 1849-1850
Physical Description:: 3 pt. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: 46, [66] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

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

Creator:: Szirtes, George, 1948–
Date:: 2008
Physical Description:: [8] p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. In the press, The history and antiquities of the county of Hertford : volume the first, containing the hundreds of cashio and dacorum : compiled from the best printed authorities and original records, preserved in private collections and public repositories : embellished with views of the most curious monuments of antiquities : drawn and engraven by the most eminent British artists : and illustrated with a map of the county by Robert Clutterbuck, of Watford, Esq. F.S.A.

Creator:: Nichols, firm, printers (London, England)
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Historical epitome of the several counties and islands in the United Kingdom : the county of Southampton forming the second volume of this work, is now in immediate preparation, and will be published within six calendar months of this date ... / the work will be illustrated ... by C. Greenwood, author of the large atlas of the counties of England and Wales, &c., under whose superintendence and management this work is conducted.

Creator:: Greenwood, C. (Christopher), 1786–1855
Date:: 1838?]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Proposals for publishing by subscription, in three volumes, historical and literary botany : containing the qualities, anecdotes, and superstitions relative to these trees, plants, and flowers, which are mentioned in sacred and profane history : the particulars of some rare and curious plants which bear the names of celebrated persons : and also of those which are used in the religious worship and civil ceremonies of divers nations : together with the devices, proverbs, &c. which derive their original from those vegetables : concluding with a romantic story, entitled Flowers ; or the artists, from the French of Madame de Genlis : with explanatory notes, &c. &c. by Eliza P. Reid.

Creator:: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
Date:: [1826?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Blank page.

Date:: 1988-1991
Physical Description:: 6 volumes : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund

61. Just published, in large folio, complete in sixty-four maps, price six guineas, half-bound, a new and greatly improved edition of Lavoisne's genealogical, historical, chronological, & geographical atlas, by C. Gros and J. Aspin : containing the creation, the dispersion of mankind, the origin of nations, the establishment, continuation, and decline of empires and states, the genealogy, direct and collateral, of all the sovereigns and potentates, from the beginning of time to the year 1813 : forming the most complete system of history and geography ever produced.

Creator:: Barfield, John, active 1790–1842
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. The paste papers of the Golden Hind Press / by James H. Fraser.

Creator:: Fraser, James H. (James Howard), 1934–2013
Date:: 1983
Physical Description:: 17 pages, [9] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

63. Preparing for publication : The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London : extracted out of original charters, records, leiger books, and other manuscripts / by Sir William Dugdale ... ; with additions and a continuation by Henry Ellis ...

Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 3 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Wood engravings : a selection, 1960 to 1977 / Richard Shirley Smith ; with a foreword by Laurence Whistler.

Creator:: Shirley Smith, Richard
Date:: 1983
Physical Description:: 73 p. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

65. Preparing for publication, Des. Erasimi Rot. Concio de puero Iesu : olim pronunciata a puero in schola Iohannis Coleti Londini instituta in qua praesidebat imago pueri Iesu docentis specie : Editio nova : Londoni, Typis I. et I.B. Nichols, et S. Bentley, MDCCCXV.

Date:: September, 1815
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

67. The legal and literary journal, and mercantile magazine : to be continued monthly, and number three to be published January 1st, 1814 / conducted by John Williams, Esq., author of the Laws of trade and Commerce, &c. &c. ; assisted by several literary and commercial gentlemen.

Creator:: Williams, John, Esq
Date:: December 15, 1813
Physical Description:: [1] sheet ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Going, going ... gone! : [prospectus] / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

Creator:: King, Ronald, 1932–
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustration ; 26 x 45 cm, folded to 26 x 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ronald King

69. Prospectus for publishing by subscription : A work consisting of original academical studies from the human figure : and historical compositions selected from the works of the English School : interspersed with specimens from the Italian masters, particularly Raffaello d'Urbino ... / by James Minasi ...

Creator:: Whittingham and Rowland
Date:: [1812?]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Domestic manners of the Americans / by Mrs. Trollope.

Creator:: Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780–1863
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Mr. Bowyer's prospectus of a splendid national portrait of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, from an original picture painted by Thomas Lawrence ...

Creator:: Bowyer, Robert, 1758–1834
Date:: 1814]
Physical Description:: 2 p. ; 26 cm. (in case 33 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

74. Marc Quinn : Thames River water atlas.

Creator:: IvoryPress
Date:: [2017]
Physical Description:: 11 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ivorypress

75. Richard Long : Walking and sleeping.

Creator:: IvoryPress
Date:: [2004]
Physical Description:: 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ivorypress

76. On the 1st of May next, will be published, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, price £1:11:6, elegantly coloured, a series of original designs for shop-fronts by William Davison, architect.

Date:: [1816]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. To be published on the twenty-third of April, 1816, (being the anniversary of the 2nd century after his decease), an engraved portrait of Shakspeare, from the monumental bust at Stratford-upon-Avon.

Date:: [1816]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (2 pages) ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. The late Earl of Beaconsfield.

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

79. Azrael & other poems / Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Creator:: Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893–1978
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: [18] p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

80. Preparing for the press, an historical description of the cathedral church of Salisbury : including an account of the monuments, chiefly extracted from Gough's "Sepulchral Monuments," and other authentic documents : also, biographical memoirs of the Bishops of Salisbury, from the earliest period by W. Dodsworth, verger of the Cathedral.

Creator:: Brodie and Dowding
Date:: [1813?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Prospectus for Pen, paper & a box of paints : Albert Rutherson, illustrator and designer for the stage, by Ian Rogerson.

Creator:: Fleece Press
Date:: [2015]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : color illustrations ; 19 x 33 cm, folded to 19 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Julian Francis Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books

82. The left-handed Punch : a new version of the comical tragedy of Punch and Judy / written by Roy Fisher ; designed and printed by Ronald King ; to be published by the Circle Press.

Creator:: Fisher, Roy, 1930–
Date:: 1986
Physical Description:: [4] p. : ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Brandt nudes : a new perspective / with a commentary by Mark Haworth-Booth.

Creator:: Brandt, Bill, 1904–1983
Date:: 2004
Physical Description:: 155, [5] p. : chiefly ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. 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

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

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

86. Picturesque tour of the Seine, from Paris to the sea : with particulars historical and descriptive / by M. Sauvan ; illustrated with twenty-four highly finished and coloured engravings, from drawings by A. Pugin and J. Gendall ; and accompanied by a map.

Creator:: Sauvan, Jean-Baptiste-Balthazar
Date:: MDCCCXXI [1821]
Physical Description:: [2], viii, 177 pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Perfect and imperfect enjoyments : poems / by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester ; with an introduction by Christopher Hibbert ; and illustrated with paintings by Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647–1680
Date:: 1992
Physical Description:: 109, [3] p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

88. Orme's collection of British field sports : illustrated in twenty beautifully coloured engravings from designs by S. Howitt.

Creator:: Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822
Date:: [1955]
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, 20 leaves of plates : facsims. ; 45 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Works by Mr. Ruskin / published by and to be had of George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent ... ; also to be obtained from the principal booksellers ...

Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: 12 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The testament of Charlotte B. / edited & introduced by Marius Kociejowski ; decorated by Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Biggs, Charlotte, d. 1827
Date:: 1988
Physical Description:: 68 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

91. Prospectus of a work, (the first part of which will be published on the first of August next) to be entitled, The interregnum; or A history of the civil wars in Great Britain, from their commencement, in the seventeenth year of King Charles I. to the restoration of King Charles II. By John Aikin, M. D.

Date:: between 1812 and 1819]
Physical Description:: 2 p. 27 cm. (in case 29 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Proposals for publishing by subscription, Elements of chemical science, as applied to the arts and manufactures, and natural phaenomena, by J. Murray, "corresponding" member of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, member of the Norwich Philosophical Society, &c.

Creator:: Youngman, George
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Going, going ... gone! / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

Creator:: King, Ronald, 1932–
Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: 7 folded leaves in portfolio : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Virtuoso--advt.

Date:: 1814
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. In the press and speedily will be published, in two volumes, royal quarto, with superb embellishments, an historical survey of the country of Cornwall by C.S. Gilbert.

Creator:: Congdon, John
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. The Highgrove florilegium : MMVIII [prospectus].

Date:: [2008]
Physical Description:: 1 v. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

97. Themes in aquatint / Colin Franklin.

Creator:: Franklin, Colin
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: vii, 103 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. In the press, and speedily will be published, The history of Richard the Third, King of England. etc., composed in five books by Sir George Buck : now first printed entire from the original ms. in the possession of the editor : with an appendix of notes and documents by Charles Yarnold, Esq.

Creator:: Rees, Richard (Publisher)
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: [1] page ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Prospectus of a national work entitled Albyn's anthology, or, a select collection of the more ancient melodies, and vocal poetry, of the lowland and highland districts of Scotland and the Isles, hitherto unpublished.

Creator:: Campbell, Alexander, 1764–1824
Date:: [1815?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Proposals for printing in weekly numbers, Eden, or, a compleat body of curious and useful gardening.

Creator:: T. Osborne and J. Shipton (Firm)
Date:: August 21, 1756
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

2. Peter Biegel's racing pictures.

3. Prospectus for publishing in subscription The Oxford portfolio : offered to the nobility and gentry of the university / by G. Cooper.

4. Proposals for publishing by subscription, original poems : with translations from the French, Italian, and Spanish : and a play, in five acts : by Charlotte Nooth, daughter to the late James Nooth, Esq. ...

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

6. Prospectus of an improved mode of delineating estates.

8. Specimen of the wood cuts to Northcote's Fables : second series.

9. This day are published, parts first and second, of Architectura ecclesiastica Londini, or the Ecclesiastical architecture of London.

11. Prospectus of a history of the county palatine and of the city of Chester : by Geo. Ormerod of Chorlton, Esq. M.A.F.S.A. : dedicated (with permission) to His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, Earl of Chester ; including King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities.

13. Books published by J. Taylor, High Holborn.

14. A Venetian story [prospectus] / by Lord Byron.

15. The boke of Iford / compiled by me, Harold A. Peto of Iford Manor from all the sources available in 1917 ; with a historical introduction by Robin Whalley.

17. Landseer. [Editado por Cândido Guinle de Paula Machado. Texto de Alberto Rangel.]

18. Narrative of a journey to the falls of the Cavery : with an historical and descriptive account of the Neilgherry hills / by Lieutenant H. Jervis.

19. Prospectus of a work now ready for the press, which under the title of Hibernia, proposes to treat, in an ample manner, of the ecclesiastical, topographical, and monastic antiquities of Ireland : by W. Monck Mason, Esq.

21. Schottland in Bildern / nach der Natur gezeichnet von T. Allom und W.H. Bartlett ; und mit beschreibendem Text von Wilhelm Beattie ... ; aus dem Englischen uebersetzt von Johann von Horn.

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

23. Westminster Abbey : in the summer of 1816 will be published part the first of the History and antiquities of the Abbey Church of St Peter's : the whole to be illustrated by fifty engravings by J.P. Neale : with ample biographical notices by J. Norris Brewer.

25. Prospectus. The history of Little Johnny, the foundling of the late Doctor Syntax : a poem in eight monthly numbers.

26. Preparing for publication : The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London : extracted out of original charters, records, lieger books and other manuscripts / by Sir William Dugdale ...; with additions and a continuation by Henry Ellis ...

28. Twelve views in Corsica / drawn, etched, and published by W. Cowen ; dedicated, by permision, to Earl Fitzwilliam.

30. Michael Angelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel : ... facsimiles of original drawings, from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, made at the time of the paintings, and before the execution of the Last Judgment / ... engraved and published by J. Linnell.

31. Prospectus for Drawings, by Michael Craig-Martin.

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

33. Prospectus of A general history of the county of York. By Thomas Dunham Whitaker ...

34. Prospectus for publishing by subscription, Laporte's progressive lessons in landscape, from nature, in imitation of pencil, from the original drawings : to be contained in six numbers, price to subscribers nine shillings each.

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

37. Portraits of celebrated painters.

38. Course of lectures delivered at the Surry institution--advt.

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

41. Proposals for publishing by subscription, two prints, from pictures painted expressly to commemorate the glorious victories of Vittoria and the Pyrenees.

42. Forty sheets to the wind : a new portfolio of old typefaces.

44. Prospectus for Richard Bawden, his life & work, by Malcolm Yorke.

46. Interregnum.

47. Proposals for printing a new and elegant edition of the life of King Robert Bruce, by John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen : and of the acts and deeds of Sir William Wallace, by Henry the Minstrel, commonly called Blind Harry with biographical sketches, notes, and a glossary by John Jamieson.

48. Johnson's dictionary, edited by the Reverend H.J. Todd.

49. To be published by subscription, A collection of select views in Great Britain : from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists : to be engraved by S. Middiman.

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

51. To be published by subscription, a treatise on theology written by Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson ... : to which will be added a letter from her to her daughter on the principles of the Christian religion : also the life of Mrs. Hutchinson written by herself, a fragment : from the original manuscripts.

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

54. The auto-biography of John Britton : ... in three parts ... copiously illustrated.

55. Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.

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

60. Blank page.

62. The paste papers of the Golden Hind Press / by James H. Fraser.

63. Preparing for publication : The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London : extracted out of original charters, records, leiger books, and other manuscripts / by Sir William Dugdale ... ; with additions and a continuation by Henry Ellis ...

64. Wood engravings : a selection, 1960 to 1977 / Richard Shirley Smith ; with a foreword by Laurence Whistler.

65. Preparing for publication, Des. Erasimi Rot. Concio de puero Iesu : olim pronunciata a puero in schola Iohannis Coleti Londini instituta in qua praesidebat imago pueri Iesu docentis specie : Editio nova : Londoni, Typis I. et I.B. Nichols, et S. Bentley, MDCCCXV.

67. The legal and literary journal, and mercantile magazine : to be continued monthly, and number three to be published January 1st, 1814 / conducted by John Williams, Esq., author of the Laws of trade and Commerce, &c. &c. ; assisted by several literary and commercial gentlemen.

68. Going, going ... gone! : [prospectus] / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

70. Domestic manners of the Americans / by Mrs. Trollope.

71. Mr. Bowyer's prospectus of a splendid national portrait of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, from an original picture painted by Thomas Lawrence ...

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

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

74. Marc Quinn : Thames River water atlas.

75. Richard Long : Walking and sleeping.

76. On the 1st of May next, will be published, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, price £1:11:6, elegantly coloured, a series of original designs for shop-fronts by William Davison, architect.

77. To be published on the twenty-third of April, 1816, (being the anniversary of the 2nd century after his decease), an engraved portrait of Shakspeare, from the monumental bust at Stratford-upon-Avon.

78. The late Earl of Beaconsfield.

79. Azrael & other poems / Sylvia Townsend Warner.

81. Prospectus for Pen, paper & a box of paints : Albert Rutherson, illustrator and designer for the stage, by Ian Rogerson.

82. The left-handed Punch : a new version of the comical tragedy of Punch and Judy / written by Roy Fisher ; designed and printed by Ronald King ; to be published by the Circle Press.

83. Brandt nudes : a new perspective / with a commentary by Mark Haworth-Booth.

84. 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.

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

86. Picturesque tour of the Seine, from Paris to the sea : with particulars historical and descriptive / by M. Sauvan ; illustrated with twenty-four highly finished and coloured engravings, from drawings by A. Pugin and J. Gendall ; and accompanied by a map.

87. Perfect and imperfect enjoyments : poems / by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester ; with an introduction by Christopher Hibbert ; and illustrated with paintings by Richard Shirley Smith.

88. Orme's collection of British field sports : illustrated in twenty beautifully coloured engravings from designs by S. Howitt.

89. Works by Mr. Ruskin / published by and to be had of George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent ... ; also to be obtained from the principal booksellers ...

90. The testament of Charlotte B. / edited & introduced by Marius Kociejowski ; decorated by Richard Shirley Smith.

92. Proposals for publishing by subscription, Elements of chemical science, as applied to the arts and manufactures, and natural phaenomena, by J. Murray, "corresponding" member of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, member of the Norwich Philosophical Society, &c.

93. Going, going ... gone! / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

94. Virtuoso--advt.