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Reference Library 4,208
Rare Books and Manuscripts 1,900
Archives 499
Prints and Drawings 42

Creator

Christie & Manson 123
Christie, James, 1773–1831 114
Christie, Manson & Woods 72
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803 64
Victoria and Albert Museum 42
Phillips, H., -1840 40
National Gallery (Great Britain) 33
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902– 33
Tate Gallery 27
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777–1857 26
Edward Foster (Firm) 17
Public Catalogue Foundation 17
British Institution 16
Mowl, Tim 15
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 13
Phillips, Mr. 13
Walker Art Gallery 13
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 13
Coxe, Peter, -1844 11
Foster and Son (London, England) 11
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery 10
Blake, William, 1757–1827 10
Courtauld Institute of Art 10
Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Foster (London, England) 10
Dulwich Picture Gallery 9
Fitzwilliam Museum 9
Manchester City Art Gallery 9
Marsh, Jan, 1942– 9
Mr. Langford and Son 9
Sotheby, Samuel, 1771–1842 9

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On-site Access

Accessible in the Reference Library 4,208
Accessible in the Study Room 2,441

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 6,610

Image Available

unavailable 6,610

Provenance

New Online Additions

2024 - 2025 14

Classification

Books 5,569
Archives and Manuscripts 499
Articles & Chapters 145
Periodicals 86
Prints 61
Videos 39
Maps & Atlas (printed) 38
Archives & Manuscripts 29
Postcards 29
Three-Dimensional Artifacts 27
Computer Files 16
Drawings & Watercolors 9
Photographs 9
Music (printed) 8
Posters 6
Maps & Atlases (manuscript) 4
Dissertations & Theses 2
Musical Sound Recordings 1
Visual Materials 1

Collective Title

Architectural Remains removed to Farnley, by Walter Fawkes Esqr. from Different Ancient Hall Houses in his Possession 1
Environs of London 1

Period

20th century 3,204
19th century 1,341
21st century 1,270
18th century 262
17th century 26
19th century-20th century 9
15th century 3
16th century 3
18th century-19th century 2
14th century 1

Materials & Techniques

etching (printing process) 23
laid paper 17
drypoint 12
wove paper 11
gelatin silver process 4
graphite 4
photographic paper 4
watercolor 3
brown ink 2
line engraving 2
pen 2
toning (photography) 2
Asian paper 1
card 1
contact printing 1
gouache 1
gum arabic 1
hand coloring 1
lithography 1
mezzotint 1

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Work Type

auction catalog 688
private press books (publishing) 188
wood engraving 148
catalog 126
engraving 120
exhibition catalog 116
ephemera 113
history 92
lithograph 76
aquatint 56
etching 45
photomechanical print 42
poem 37
auction catalogue 35
map 34
biographie 31
postcard 31
biography 30
advertisement 29
armorial bookplates (provenance) 29
prospectuse 29
drawing book 27
photograph 27
publisher's advertisement 27
intaglio print 26
chromolithograph 24
annotations (provenance) 23
criticism, interpretation, etc 20
fiction 19
publishers' advertisement 19

Genre

architectural subject 23
landscape 14
genre subject 10
cityscape 4
marine art 3
portrait 2
animal art 1
botanical subject 1
historical subject 1
sporting art 1

Subject Terms

Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 656
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 636
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. 538
Subways 476
Transportation 476
Painting, European -- Catalogs. 424
London Institution -- Ownership. 326
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph. 321
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 281
England. 259
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 170
Decorative arts -- Catalogs. 145
Drawing, European -- Catalogs. 137
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 132
Artists -- England -- Biography. 114
Architecture, Domestic -- England. 99
Painters -- England -- Biography. 99
Painting -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 91
Prints, European -- Catalogs. 87
England -- Description and travel. 82
Art -- Private collections. 76
Prints, British -- Catalogs. 69
Sculpture, European -- Catalogs. 65
Art -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 62
Gunnis, Rupert -- Bookplate. 62
Agar, James Charles Herbert Welbore Ellis, Earl of Normanton, 1818–1896 -- Bookplate. 61
England -- Social life and customs. 57
Pre-Raphaelitism -- England. 48
Art, English -- Exhibitions. 43
Country homes -- England. 43

Subject Period

19th century 469
20th century 340
18th century 312
17th century 169
16th century 92
21st century 24
15th century 10
17th-18th centuries 6
11th century 3
14th century 3
18th-19th centuries 2
Description and travel 2
Geschichte 2
Silurian 2
1789-1820 1
17th cenury 1
18th centtury 1
18th-20th centuries 1
England 1
London 1
Quaternary 1
Siglo XVI 1

Associated Places

England 6,610

London 2,357
Great Britain 591
London (England) 489
Wales 68
Birmingham 58
Oxford 40
Liverpool 36
United Kingdom 34
Oxfordshire 30
Yorkshire 30
Manchester 29
Europe 26
Norfolk 26
Cambridge 25
Bristol 18
Leeds 18
Saint Ives (Cornwall) 18
Derbyshire 16
Kent 16
Devon 15
Greater London 13
Hampshire 13
Scotland 12
Surrey 12
Warwickshire 12
Buckinghamshire 11
Cornwall (County) 11
Norwich 11
Gloucestershire 10

Associated People

Art on the Underground (Program) 476
London Regional Transport (Agency) 476
London Underground Limited 476
Transport for London (Organization) 476
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 44
Blake, William, 1757–1827 35
Morris, William, 1834–1896 35
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 32
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 30
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 22
Gaskin, Arthur, 1862-1928 21
Hodson, Laurence W., 1864-1933 21
New Gallery (London, England) 21
Southall, Joseph E. 21
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 19
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792, 17
Constable, John, 1776–1837 16
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 16
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 15
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 12
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606–1669 12
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641 12
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 12
Beckford, William, 1760–1844 11
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882 11
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577–1640 11
Soane, John, Sir, 1753–1837 11
Vanbrugh, John, Sir, 1664–1726 11
Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730–1795 11
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 10

Exhibition History

Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 4
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 3
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 2
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978) 2
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 2
The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989) 2
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 1
Art for All - British Posters for Transport (Musée de l'Imprimerie, 2010-10-13 - 2011-02-15) 1
Art for All - British Posters for Transport (The Wolfsonian Museum, 2011-04-15 - 2011-08-14) 1
Art for All - British Posters for Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 2010-05-27 - 2010-08-15) 1
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17) 1
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) 1
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Historic Royal Palaces, 2017-06-22 - 2017-11-12) 1
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-02-02 - 2017-04-30) 1
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27) 1
Photographs | Contemporary Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-06-20 - 2019-09-08) 1
The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World (Yale Center for British Art, February 15, 2018-May 27, 2018) 1
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 1
“Endless forms”: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts (Yale Center for British Art, February 12, 2009-May 3, 2009) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 11
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 8
22653444280008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 7
22709619660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709639120008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 6
22709619420008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965 5
22709620320008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22711725610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22826534440008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer 3
22709601630008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22709619600008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22709619630008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22709619720008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22709620170008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22709620290008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22711724970008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22711725370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22711725670008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22738131370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter 2
22770966170008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22781089790008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22818957730008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22818971350008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 2
22960434330008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 2
Yale Center for British Art; Yale University Art Gallery Collection 2
221196231760008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
221197978380008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1

Language

English 5,928
French 28
German 26
Latin 9
Russian 7
Italian 5
Japanese 5
Spanish 5
Undetermined 4
Swedish 2
Dutch 1
English, Middle (1100-1500) 1
English, Old (ca. 450-1100) 1
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600) 1

Archival Collections

British transportation ephemera collection 476
Joseph Southall archive 21
Hester Lynch Piozzi Letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray 1
Jones family archive 1

Archival Collection Level

object 496
collection 3

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Wilson, Richard

Creating paradise

c2000
Image not yet available

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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery, from the drawings and... [Read more]

[1819?]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

The letters of Thomas Gainsborough

2001
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery from the drawings and... [Read more]

1819
Image not yet available

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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough

1962
Accessible in the Reference Library
Nicholson, Ben, 1894–1982

Ben Nicholson, prints 1928-1968

[2007]
Image not yet available

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Nicholson, Ben, 1894–1982

Ben Nicholson

c1969
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888

Edward Lear in the Levant

1988
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

Discourses delivered to the students of the Royal Academy

1905
Image not yet available

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Blake, William, 1757–1827

The note-book of William Blake

MCMXXXV [1935]
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Reference Library
Blake, William, 1757–1827

Pencil drawings by William Blake

1927
Image not yet available

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Blake, William, 1757–1827

Blake's pencil drawings

1956
Image not yet available

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Blake, William, 1757–1827

The letters of William Blake

c1956
Accessible in the Reference Library
Blake, William, 1757–1827

The letters of William Blake;

1968
Image not yet available

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Blake, William, 1757–1827

The letters of William Blake

1980
Image not yet available

Accessible in the Study Room
Blake, William, 1757–1827

The writings of William Blake

MCMXXV [1925]
Image not yet available

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Blake, William, 1757–1827

The complete writings of William Blake

MCMLVII [1957]
Image not yet available

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Blake, William, 1757–1827

The illustrations of William Blake for Thornton's Virgil

1937
Image not yet available

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Blake, William, 1757–1827

Poetry and prose of William Blake

1935
Accessible in the Reference Library
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851

Turner's picturesque views in England and Wales, 1825-1838

1979
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Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851

Turner's birds

1988
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Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851

The harbours of England

1856
Accessible in the Reference Library
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851

The 'Ideas of Folkstone' sketchbook, 1845

1987
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Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851

Picturesque views in England and Wales

MDCCCXXXVIII [1838]
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Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851

Turner's rivers of England

1883
Image not yet available

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Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851

Collected correspondence of J. M. W. Turner

1980
Image not yet available

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British transportation ephemera collection

1912-2019
Image not yet available

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Southall, Joseph E.

Joseph Southall archive

1898-1910
Image not yet available

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Jones family

Jones family archive

1805-1945
Accessible in the Reference Library
Gainsborough [videorecording]

2000
Image not yet available

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Tate Gallery

Tatereport

c2002-
Image not yet available

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Exhibition of 18th and 19th century English watercolours from 15th June until... [Read more]

1965
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Metropolitan Railway Electric Train, London

[approximately 1907]
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Photo Precision Limited

Blenheim Palace and Grand Bridge from Rosamund's Well

[approximately 1960?]
Accessible in the Reference Library
Constable[videorecording]

2000
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The story of English furniture

1986, c1981
Accessible in the Reference Library
Wentworth Castle Conference (2010)

Wentworth Castle and Georgian political gardening

2012
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Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

c1999
Accessible in the Reference Library
The English masters

[2006]
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Ashmolean Museum

English drawings in the Ashmolean Museum

[195-?]
Image not yet available

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A History of England

c1983
Accessible in the Reference Library
Blake

2000
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William Henry Fox Talbot

c1995
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Age of chivalry

1987
Accessible in the Reference Library
The English masters

c2000
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Fine Art Society

The John Scott collection

2014
Accessible in the Reference Library
The English masters

2006
Accessible in the Reference Library
The English masters

[2006]
Accessible in the Reference Library
Judge, Roy

May day in England

1988
Accessible in the Reference Library
The English masters

[2006]
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British drawings and watercolours

2015
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Leonardo da Vinci

c1991
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Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818

TEST RECORD Designs for the pavillon at Brighton

1808
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British drawings and watercolours

2013
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Sense & sensation

c2003
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Morris, Michael (Michael Thomas)

Cowled creatures

c1985
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Reynolds

2000
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East Anglian farming scenes

[199-?]
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Southall, Joseph E.

Joseph Southall archive,

1898-1910
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The Eglinton Tournament 1839

2009
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British drawings and watercolours

2014
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William Wordsworth and the age of English romanticism

1988
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A History of England

<c1988-
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Abbot Hall Art Gallery

Four Kendal portrait painters

1973
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To the lighthouse

c1997
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Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths

The Review

1980
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The East Wing exhibition

1996
Accessible in the Reference Library
Turner

2000
Accessible in the Reference Library
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

c1999
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Henry Moore

[2000]
Accessible in the Reference Library
Hogarth

2000
Accessible in the Reference Library
Middleton, Bernard C., 1924–2019

A history of English craft bookbinding technique

1988
Accessible in the Reference Library
Rigold, S. E.

Totnes Castle

1979
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Matter painting

[1960]
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Richard Hamilton, Victor Pasmore, Lawrence Alloway

[1957]
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Phillips, H., -1840

A catalogue of the magnificent, rare, and valuable library, (of 20,000 volumes)

[1823]
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Charles Lewsen in How pleasant to know Mr Lear
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Flood, Luke Thomas, 1775–1860

Diaries of Luke Thomas Flood during travels in England and Wales

1824-1828
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Bath, Michael

Speaking pictures

1994
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Phillips, H., -1840

Catalogue of the highly estimable collection of Italian, Dutch, and... [Read more]

[1829]
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Nussey, Helen G

London gardens of the past

[1948]
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St Dunstan

1992
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Jaffe, Michael, 1923–

Old master drawings from Chatsworth

c1987
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The secret life of things

c2007
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Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870

Reprinted pieces

1938
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Noyes, Alfred, 1880–1958

William Morris

1971
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Yeates, John

Michael Lyne

1992
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Boyd, Rachel

Mary Fedden, 1915-2012

©2013
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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Annual report

[1969?]-
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Orfèvrerie anglaise, 1660-1830

1958
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Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803

A catalogue of a most superb, capital, and valuable collection of Italian, French,... [Read more]

[1802]
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Wycherley, William, 1640–1716

The complete works of William Wycherley

MCMXXIV [1924]
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Pery, Jenny

The affectionate eye

1995
Image not yet available

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Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825

A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads... [Read more]

1784
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Christie, Manson & Woods

Catalogue of the very choice collection of old Sevres, Chelsea, Dresden, and Oriental... [Read more]

[1870]
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Browne, William, 1590–approximately 1645

Circe and Ulysses

1954
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Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792–1872

In a cartulary of Selby

1871]
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Turnbaugh, Douglas Blair

Duncan Grant and the Bloomsbury Group

c1987
Accessible in the Reference Library
Witt, John Clermont, Sir, 1907–

William Henry Hunt (1790-1864)

1982
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Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898

Edward Burne-Jones

c2009

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