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1. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery, from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert, Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

Creator:: Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:: [1819?]
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, [60] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

Creator:: Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, [60] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A few ideas, caught on Easter Monday.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Moments of fancy and whim / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 14 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 29 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les années 1803, 1804, 1805 et 1806 : par les ordres de Sa Majesté Impériale, Alexandre Ier, Empereur de Russie, sur les vaisseaux la Nadriedjeda et la Neva / commandés par M. de Krusenstern, traduit de l'aveu et avec des additions de l'auteur ; la traduction revué par M. J.-B-B. Eyriès.

Creator:: Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich, 1770–1846
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Studies of cottages and rural scenery : drawn and etched in imitation of chalk / by Samuel Prout ; the work will consist of four numbers, to be published monthly, commencing the first of May, 1816 ; and is intended as a companion to the 'Studies of boats and coast scenery', also contained in four numbers by the same artist, just published.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 4 pts : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: ii p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Memoirs of the life of the late George Morland : with critical and descriptive observations on the whole of his works hitherto before the public / by J. Hassell ...

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), 1767–1825
Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: [2], vii, [1], 204 p, [8] leaves of plates : ill., port.; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 30 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

Creator:: Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Studies of cows from life : forming the first rudiments of sketching cattle from nature / H. M. Milbourne, in. et fec.

Creator:: Milbourne, Henry, 1781–ca. 1826
Date:: [1805]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm. x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Etchings of views and antiquities in the county of Gloucestershire : hitherto imperfectly or never engraved.

Creator:: Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:: [1791]
Physical Description:: [26] p., [106] leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms ; 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. An accurate description and history of the metropolitan and cathedral churches of Canterbury and York : from their first foundation to the present year : illustrated with one hundred and seventeen copper-plates, consisting of different views, plans, monuments, antiquities, arms, &c.

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: [4], 144, [4] p., [91] leaves of plates : ill., plans, map, coats of arms ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; fifty engravings, with descriptions.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: vi p., [53] p., [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A selection from the drawings and studies in land and seascape of British artists : imitated from the originals / by Louis Francia, and others.

Creator:: Francia, François-Thomas-Louis, 1772–1839
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [2] p., [59] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

Creator:: Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: iv, 26 p., 64 leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Process of sketching a landscape.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 34 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Lessons on drawing trees / by Geo. Harley.

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: [1829]
Physical Description:: [1], 16 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 35 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Process of sketching a landscape.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : all ill. ; 38 x 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Lewina the maid of Snowdon. A tale. By George Cumberland. With etchings by the author.

Creator:: Cumberland, George, 1754–1848
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., 32 p., 1 leaf. plate. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Throwing off, not so easy / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The elements of drawing, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty-one engravings, plain and coloured, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton, drawing-master.

Creator:: Hamilton, George, writer on art
Date:: 1812
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Involuntary thoughts.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823-1824
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Illustrations to popular songs / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, [43] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Studies of landscapes : by T. Gainsborough, J. Hoppner, R. A., T. Girtin, Wm. Owen R.A., A. Callcot, A.S. Owen, J. Varley, J.S. Hayward, and L. Francia / imitated from the originals by L. Francia.

Creator:: Francia, François Louis Thomas, 1772–1839
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: [34] leaves plates : all ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Picturesque scenery in the Holy Land and Syria : delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800 / by F.B. Spilsbury ...

Creator:: Spilsbury, F. B. (Francis B.)
Date:: 1803
Physical Description:: [4], iv, 42, [2] pages, [1], 1, II-X, XII, XII, XIV, XIV, 18, [1], XVII, 20, XVI leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 50 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be whips.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

Creator:: Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views, (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty) : illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire, in three books ... / by William Gilpin ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1791
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. [Drawing book of trees]

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1821.]
Physical Description:: [32] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain : particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste, along the coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew : with an account of her subsequent shipwreck / by John M'Leod.

Creator:: M'Leod, John, 1777?-1820
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: 323 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West coast of America : to which are prefixed, an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the ship Nootka : observations on the probable existence of a North West Passage : and some account of the trade between the North West Coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain / by John Meares, Esq.

Creator:: Meares, John, 1756?-1809
Date:: MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:: viii, [12], xcv, [1], 372, [108] pages, ([28] leaves of plates, [4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Travels in the western Caucasus, including a tour through Imeritia, Mingrelia, Turkey, Moldavia, Galicia, Silesia, and Moravia, in 1836. By Edmund Spencer ...

Creator:: Spencer, Edmund
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: 2 v. fronts., ill. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Greenwood's studies of forest trees.

Creator:: Greenwood, George, 1799–1875
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. [Sporting dogs].

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: [6] prints : soft-ground etchings ; plate marks 13 x 20 cm, on sheets 14 x 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Illustrations for landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Progressive lessons / P. S. M.

Creator:: Munn, Paul Sandby, 1773–1845
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 4 leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm. x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The Artist's repository, or, Encyclopedia of the fine arts : exhibiting the principles, and explaining the practice in all their various branches ....

Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 4 v. in 8 : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Chalon's drawing book of animals and birds of every description : studies from nature.

Creator:: Chalon, Henry Bernard, 1770–1849
Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 x 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Journal of a trip to Paris by the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, July MDCCCXIV.

Creator:: Rutland, John Henry Manners, Duke of, 1778–1857
Date:: 1814]
Physical Description:: [4], 30 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: [6], 48 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. (part col.) ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The complete aquatinter : being the whole process of etching and engraving in aquatinta : the method of using the aquafortis, with all the necessary tools : to which are added upwards of sixty of the best receipts for grounds, varnishes, &c. : collected from near a hundred that are most in use : the difficulties which may possibly occur, are point out, and the method of obviating them : the whole rendered clear and practical.

Creator:: Green, J. H. (John Hippisley)
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: viii, 25, [3] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Ten mezzo-tinto engravings : from original drawings ... / by Her Majesty's dutiful, grateful & affectionate servant, Carolina Courtenay Boyle ; engraved by Louis Marvy.

Creator:: Boyle, Carolina Courtenay, 1803–1883
Date:: [circa 1849?]
Physical Description:: 1 portfolio (10 prints) ; sheets 31 x 44 cm, in portfolio 31 x 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. [Etchings of lake scenery in Cumberland].

Creator:: Green, William, 1760–1823
Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: [29] leaves : all ill. ; 76 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Six studies of trees : the oak, the ash, the fir, the lopped elm, the willow, weeping willow / drawn and engraved in imitation of chalk-drawing by Harriet Gouldsmith.

Creator:: Arnold, Harriet, 1786 or 1787–1863
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : soft-ground etchings ; 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Caledonia : illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for the work / by W.H. Bartlett, T. Allom and others ; the descriptive text by William Beattie.

Creator:: Beattie, William, 1793–1875
Date:: [1838]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. A collection of Gloucestershire antiquities / by Samuel Lysons ...

Creator:: Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: [4], iv, 38, [4] p., 110 leaves of plates : ill., coats of arms ; 58 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

52. The Byron gallery ; a series of historical embellishments to illustrate the poetical works of Lord Byron.

Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: [3] p., [31] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be Meltonians.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1825 [i.e.1826]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

55. Studies of trees / by J.C. Deeley.

Creator:: Deeley, J. C
Date:: [1840?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. A check, 12 o'clock, tipping for the swine / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Russian cries : in correct portraiture from drawings done on the spot by G. Orlowski, and now in the possession of the Rt. Honble. Lord Kinnaird.

Creator:: Orlovskiĭ, Aleksandr Osipovich, 1777–1832
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [9] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Studies of trees sketched from nature.

Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: 4 prints : soft-ground etchings ; plate marks approximately 21 x 29 cm, on sheets 25 x 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. A guide to landscape figure drawing / by N. E. Green ; woodcuts by James D. Cooper, from drawing by the author.

Creator:: Green, N. E. (Nathaniel Everett), 1823–1899
Date:: [1891]
Physical Description:: 56 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Footsteps to drawing, according to the rules of perspective : explained in familiar dialogues, for the use of children and young persons, and illustrated by a series of progressive lessons in twenty plates of examples, calculated to combine a knowledge of perspective with the practice of drawing, and to lead the beginner imperceptibly to an acquaintance with the principal rules of that useful art. / by John George Wood, F.S.A., lecturer on perspective, &c.

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [4], 12 p., 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. The history of Buxton : and visitor's guide to the curiosities of the Peak, including a descriptive itinerary of excursions usually made, and a set of botanical tables exhibiting the places of growth, &c. of the most remarkable plants found wild in the neighbourhood of Buxton / by A. Jewitt ...

Creator:: Jewitt, A. (Arthur)
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: vii, [2], 12-222, xxvii, [3] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. A new drawing book, in the manner of chalk : containing twelve views in the west of England as follows : Glastonbury, Tavistock, ditto, Lynmouth, Exmouth, East-Bourne, Ide, ditto, Chagford, Exeter, Pennycross, Dartmoor / drawn and engraved by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. The three voyages of Captain James Cook round the world : complete in seven volumes : with map and other plates.

Creator:: Cook, James, 1728–1779
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 7 v. in 6 : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Tutors assistant / Hy. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all col. ill. ; 28 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. 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

66. Recueil d'essais lithographiques dans les differents genres de dessin tels que manière de crayon, de la plume, du pinceau et de lavis / exécutés par le procédé de G. Engelmann, directeur de la Société lithographique de Mulhouse.

Creator:: Engelmann, G. (Godefroy), 1788–1839
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. The history of Java / by Thomas Stamford Raffles, Esq., late Lieut.-Governor of that Island and its dependencies, F.R.S. and A.S., member of that Asiatic Society at Calcutta, Honorary Member of the Literary Society at Bombay, and late President of the Society of Arts and Science at Batavia ; in two volumes ; with a map and plates.

Creator:: Raffles, Thomas Stamford, Sir, 1781–1826
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Specimens of riding near London / drawn from life by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [3] pt. : all ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

70. Two essays : one on the author's mode of executing rough sketches : the other on the principles on which they are composed : to these are added three plates of figures by Sawrey Gilpin ... / by William Gilpin.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: 43 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. The progress of a water-coloured drawing : wherein is represented to the reader the various gradation through which a drawing passes : from the outline to the finished state : the intention of this little work is to enable young people, where an eminent Master cannot be had, to cultivate the delightful art of drawing in colours with system and advantage.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [ca. 1807?]
Physical Description:: vii, [22] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. A touch at the fine arts : illustrated by twelve plates, with descriptions / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [16] leaves, 12 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1819]
Physical Description:: [2] pt. : all ill. ; 28 x 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Sporting notions / by H. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1831-1833]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : all col ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Drawing book of landscapes, shipping & animals : from designs by Westall, Girtin, Smith, Marlow, Wheatly, Ibbotson, Hill, Anderson / etched by W.P. Sherlock.

Creator:: Sherlock, William P., 1775–
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [3] parts, [12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 x 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple and easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts. / by John George Wood, F.S.A. ...

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1813-[1815]
Physical Description:: 4 pt. (18, 16, 8, 14 p., 16, 16, 16, 16, leaves of plates) : ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Travels in Switzerland, and in the country of the Grisons : in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq. / from William Coxe, M.A. F.R.S. F.A.S. Rector of Bemerton; and domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

Creator:: Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. And a year ago, I commemorated a missed encounter--.

Creator:: Bustin, Jane
Date:: 2000
Physical Description:: [7] double leaves : ill. ; 35 x 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R.A. / by William Hazlitt.

Creator:: Northcote, James, 1746–1831
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: [2], 328 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

80. [Plates from William Coxe's Travels in Switzerland]

Creator:: Coxe, William, 1747–1828
Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves ([1] folded) : all ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Histoire des philosophes modernes : avec leur portrait gravé dans le goût du crayon, d'apres les desseins des plus grands peintres / par M. Saverien.

Creator:: Savérien, Alexandre, 1720–1805
Date:: [1760-1769?]
Physical Description:: 8 volumes : illustrations ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Sporting scrap book / by Henry Alken, containing fifty plates, designed and engraved by himself.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: 50 prints, 1 leaf of letterpress in 1 volume : soft-ground etchings ; plate marks 15 x 22 cm, on sheets 19 x 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Fores's new chalk drawing-book of studies of trees, landscape, animals, figures, buildings, &c. : from original drawings by Le Cave : a most improving work for students, & well selected.

Creator:: La Cave, P. (Peter)
Date:: [1801]
Physical Description:: v. : all ill. ; 29 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. In full cry, hard work / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. British galleries of painting and sculpture : comprising a general historical and critical catalogue, with separate notices of every work of fine art in the principal collections / by C.M. Westmacott.

Creator:: Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy), 1787 or 1788–1868
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: viii, 240 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

Creator:: Green, Benjamin, 1739–1798
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm. x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. The principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple and easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts. / by John George Wood, F.S.A., author of Lectures on perspective, delivered at the Royal Institution in the years 1807, 1808, and 1809 ...

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Going to hunt, an easy job / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Six studies from nature / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by William Crotch.

Creator:: Crotch, William, 1775–1847
Date:: 1809
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : all ill. ; 36 x 51 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Narrative of a voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste, to the Yellow Sea, along the coast of Corea, and through its numerous hitherto undiscovered islands, to the Island of Lewchew : with an account of her shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar / by John M'Leod.

Creator:: M'Leod, John, 1777?-1820
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: 288 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China; : comprising a correct narrative of the public transactions of the embassy, of the voyage to and from China, and of the journey from the mouth of the Pei-Ho to the return to Canton. Interspersed wih observations upon the face of the country, the polity, moral character, and manners of the Chinese nation. The whole illustrated by maps and drawings / by Henry Ellis. Third commissioner of the embassy.

Creator:: Ellis, Henry, Sir, 1777–1869
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 526, [2] p., [11] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Landscape animals : in a series of progressive studies / W.M. Craig.

Creator:: Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: [2], 6 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Sketches of animals from nature / etched by George Garrard.

Creator:: Garrard, George, 1760–1826
Date:: March 1st, 1794
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 30 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: ii, 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29-33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Going home, apology for damage done / Hy. Alken delt.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Il perfetto cavaliere : opera corredata di stampe miniate rappresentanti le varie specie de' cavalli, incominciando dal selvaggio, co' loro differenti mantelli, ed accompagnata dalla Storia naturale del cavallo scritta da Buffon; dalla Scuola di cavalleria di Guerinière, contenente la conoscenza, l'instruzione e la conservazione del medesimo, con nuove aggiunte tratte da più recenti autori; da alcune osservazioni sul tipo di bellezza fissatogli da più celebri artisti sì antichi che moderni, da tutti i migliori squarci con cui celebrollo la poesia : ed infine da notizie storiche de' più famosi cavalli.

Date:: MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:: 2 v. ([8], 567 p.; [2] p., 24, 52 leaves of plates) : ill. (some col.), plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Studies of the horse, and other animals, landscape-figures, &c. / by H. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1841]
Physical Description:: 29 prints in 1 volume : soft-ground etchings, lithographs ; sheet 18 x 26 cm, in volume 20 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. William Orme's Rudiments of landscape drawing, and perspective / dedicated to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c. &c.

Creator:: Orme, William, active 1797–1819
Date:: [1802]
Physical Description:: [2], [19], [2], 3 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 33 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. A series of progressive lessons : intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours : with introductory illustrations on perspective.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 30 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. 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

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1. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery, from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert, Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

2. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

3. A few ideas, caught on Easter Monday.

4. Moments of fancy and whim / by Henry Alken.

7. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

8. Memoirs of the life of the late George Morland : with critical and descriptive observations on the whole of his works hitherto before the public / by J. Hassell ...

9. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

10. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

11. Studies of cows from life : forming the first rudiments of sketching cattle from nature / H. M. Milbourne, in. et fec.

12. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

13. Etchings of views and antiquities in the county of Gloucestershire : hitherto imperfectly or never engraved.

14. An accurate description and history of the metropolitan and cathedral churches of Canterbury and York : from their first foundation to the present year : illustrated with one hundred and seventeen copper-plates, consisting of different views, plans, monuments, antiquities, arms, &c.

15. The national sports of Great Britain / by Henry Alken ; fifty engravings, with descriptions.

16. A selection from the drawings and studies in land and seascape of British artists : imitated from the originals / by Louis Francia, and others.

17. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

18. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

19. Process of sketching a landscape.

20. Lessons on drawing trees / by Geo. Harley.

21. Process of sketching a landscape.

22. Lewina the maid of Snowdon. A tale. By George Cumberland. With etchings by the author.

23. Throwing off, not so easy / Hy. Alken delt.

24. The elements of drawing, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty-one engravings, plain and coloured, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton, drawing-master.

25. Involuntary thoughts.

26. Illustrations to popular songs / by Henry Alken.

27. Studies of landscapes : by T. Gainsborough, J. Hoppner, R. A., T. Girtin, Wm. Owen R.A., A. Callcot, A.S. Owen, J. Varley, J.S. Hayward, and L. Francia / imitated from the originals by L. Francia.

28. Picturesque scenery in the Holy Land and Syria : delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800 / by F.B. Spilsbury ...

29. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be whips.

30. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

31. Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views, (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty) : illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire, in three books ... / by William Gilpin ...

32. [Drawing book of trees]

33. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain : particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

34. Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste, along the coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew : with an account of her subsequent shipwreck / by John M'Leod.

36. Travels in the western Caucasus, including a tour through Imeritia, Mingrelia, Turkey, Moldavia, Galicia, Silesia, and Moravia, in 1836. By Edmund Spencer ...

37. Greenwood's studies of forest trees.

38. [Sporting dogs].

39. Illustrations for landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

40. Progressive lessons / P. S. M.

41. The Artist's repository, or, Encyclopedia of the fine arts : exhibiting the principles, and explaining the practice in all their various branches ....

42. Chalon's drawing book of animals and birds of every description : studies from nature.

43. Journal of a trip to Paris by the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, July MDCCCXIV.

44. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

46. Ten mezzo-tinto engravings : from original drawings ... / by Her Majesty's dutiful, grateful & affectionate servant, Carolina Courtenay Boyle ; engraved by Louis Marvy.

47. [Etchings of lake scenery in Cumberland].

48. Six studies of trees : the oak, the ash, the fir, the lopped elm, the willow, weeping willow / drawn and engraved in imitation of chalk-drawing by Harriet Gouldsmith.

49. Caledonia : illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for the work / by W.H. Bartlett, T. Allom and others ; the descriptive text by William Beattie.

50. A collection of Gloucestershire antiquities / by Samuel Lysons ...

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

52. The Byron gallery ; a series of historical embellishments to illustrate the poetical works of Lord Byron.

53. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be Meltonians.

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

55. Studies of trees / by J.C. Deeley.

56. A check, 12 o'clock, tipping for the swine / Hy. Alken delt.

57. Russian cries : in correct portraiture from drawings done on the spot by G. Orlowski, and now in the possession of the Rt. Honble. Lord Kinnaird.

58. Studies of trees sketched from nature.

59. A guide to landscape figure drawing / by N. E. Green ; woodcuts by James D. Cooper, from drawing by the author.

61. The history of Buxton : and visitor's guide to the curiosities of the Peak, including a descriptive itinerary of excursions usually made, and a set of botanical tables exhibiting the places of growth, &c. of the most remarkable plants found wild in the neighbourhood of Buxton / by A. Jewitt ...

62. A new drawing book, in the manner of chalk : containing twelve views in the west of England as follows : Glastonbury, Tavistock, ditto, Lynmouth, Exmouth, East-Bourne, Ide, ditto, Chagford, Exeter, Pennycross, Dartmoor / drawn and engraved by Samuel Prout.

63. The three voyages of Captain James Cook round the world : complete in seven volumes : with map and other plates.

64. Tutors assistant / Hy. Alken.

65. 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.

66. Recueil d'essais lithographiques dans les differents genres de dessin tels que manière de crayon, de la plume, du pinceau et de lavis / exécutés par le procédé de G. Engelmann, directeur de la Société lithographique de Mulhouse.

68. Specimens of riding near London / drawn from life by Henry Alken.

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

70. Two essays : one on the author's mode of executing rough sketches : the other on the principles on which they are composed : to these are added three plates of figures by Sawrey Gilpin ... / by William Gilpin.

72. A touch at the fine arts : illustrated by twelve plates, with descriptions / by Henry Alken.

73. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

74. Sporting notions / by H. Alken.

75. Drawing book of landscapes, shipping & animals : from designs by Westall, Girtin, Smith, Marlow, Wheatly, Ibbotson, Hill, Anderson / etched by W.P. Sherlock.

76. The principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple and easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts. / by John George Wood, F.S.A. ...

77. Travels in Switzerland, and in the country of the Grisons : in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq. / from William Coxe, M.A. F.R.S. F.A.S. Rector of Bemerton; and domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

78. And a year ago, I commemorated a missed encounter--.

79. Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R.A. / by William Hazlitt.

80. [Plates from William Coxe's Travels in Switzerland]