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

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

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

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

3. Evelyn Adams diary.

Creator:: Adams, Evelyn, fl. 1888–1925
Date:: 1888 May 24-1925 June 30
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([98] p.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Delineations of British field sports : together with the various methods of poachings / drawn in lithography by Samuel Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Samuel, 1756–1815
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: [14] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 x 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Modern horsemanship : a new method of teaching riding and training by means of pictures from the life / by Edward L. Anderson, author of 'A System of School Training for Horses,' 'The Gallop,' etc.

Creator:: Anderson, Edward L. (Edward Lowell), 1842–1916
Date:: MDCCCLXXXVI [1886]
Physical Description:: xiii, [3], 168, 20 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Lessons in flower painting. : a series of easy and progressive studies, drawn and coloured after nature. / by James Andrews.

Creator:: Andrews, James, 1806–1876
Date:: [1836]
Physical Description:: 4 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Now exhibiting in the second circle, a view of Edinburgh and the surrounding country : the contemplation of this grand and delightful scene, and an earnest desire to represent it entire, were the first circumstances which impressed Mr. Barker's mind with the idea of a panorama : the public may now form a judgment of the comparative excellence of three views, reckoned by men of taste the finest in Europe, namely, Constantinople and Plymouth, which have been exhibited, and Edinburgh, which is now open.

Creator:: Barker, Robert, 1739–1806
Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: 1 print : woodcut and letterpress ; 27.3 x 22.1 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:: [1828]
Physical Description:: [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:: [ca. 1828]
Physical Description:: [34] leavesof plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Weeds of witchery / by Thomas Haynes Bayly, Esq., author of the second volume of "Flowers of Loveliness," "Perfection," "The Barrack Room," "A Gentleman in Difficulties," &c.

Creator:: Bayly, Thomas Haynes, 1797–1839
Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: 32 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Particulars and recommendations of the stadium, or British National Arena : for manly and defensive exercises, equestrian, chivalric, and aquatic games, and skilful and amusing pastimes : at the residence of the late Lord Cremorne : on a space of twenty-four acres, extending from the King's Road, Chelsea, to the Thames, and distant less that 2 1/2 miles from Piccadilly.

Creator:: Beaufain, Charles Random de Bérenger, baron de
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: 36 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

20. Helps and hints how to protect life and property : with instructions in rifle and pistol shooting, &c. / by Lt. Col. baron de Berenger ; the embellishments by Mr. Bonner and others ; after designs by Messrs. G. and R. Cruikshank, Alken, Haghe, Fussell, and de Berenger.

Creator:: Beaufain, Charles Random de Bérenger, baron de
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 286, [2] p., [10] leaves of plates (two folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

21. Hunting / by his grace the Duke of Beaufort, and Mowbray Morris ; with contributions by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, E.W.L. Davies, Digby Collins, and Alfred E.T. Watson ; with illustrations by J. Sturgess and J. Charlton.

Creator:: Beaufort, Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, Duke of, 1824–1899
Date:: 1885
Physical Description:: xiv, 401 p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Photographic pleasures : popularly portrayed with pen and pencil / by Cuthbert Bede, B.A., author of "Verdant Green," &c. &c. &c.

Creator:: Bede, Cuthbert, 1827–1889
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [9], 14-83, [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Hardy ferns : how I collected and cultivated them / by Nona Bellairs ; with a frontispiece.

Creator:: Bellairs, Nona Maria Stephenson
Date:: 1865
Physical Description:: 128, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The history of the flea : with notes and observations / by L. Bertolotto.

Creator:: Bertolotto, L
Date:: [1835]
Physical Description:: 28 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

26. A visit to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham.

Creator:: Bishop, James
Date:: [between 1854 and 1856]
Physical Description:: 15, [1] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. [Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]

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

28. The whist-player : the laws and practice of short-whist explained and illustrated / by Lieut.-Colonel B****.

Creator:: Blyth, Augustus Frederick
Date:: MDCCCLVI [1856]
Physical Description:: 72 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The passions, humourously delineated / by Timothy Bobbin, Esq. author of the Lancashire Dialect : containing twenty-five plates, with his portrait, title plate, and poetical descriptions.

Creator:: Bobbin, Tim, 1708–1786
Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: [34] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. New cyclopædia of botany and complete book of herbs : forms a history and description of all plants, British or foreign.

Creator:: Brook, Richard, fl. 1847
Date:: [1860?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

32. Geoffrey Gambado's surprising feats in horsemanship : exemplified in a series of very laughable caricatures.

Creator:: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : all color illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Ward's progressive book of landscape drawing : in thirteen parts / by J. H. Burgess.

Creator:: Burgess, J. Howard (James Howard), 1817–1890
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 13 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Present pastimes of merrie England / interpreted from ancient mss. and annotated by F.C. Burnand ; with illustrations drawn from ye quicke by J.E. Rogers, author of "Ridicula rediviva".

Creator:: Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir, 1836–1917
Date:: one thousand eight hundred and seventy three [1873]
Physical Description:: [4], 32 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Nothing to wear : a poem of transatlantic origins : now especially edited for the ladies of England : with twelve illustrations.

Creator:: Butler, William Allen, 1825–1902
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: [4], 23, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The complete collection of Randolph Caldecott's contributions to the "Graphic" printed by Edmund Evans / with a preface by Arthur Locker ...

Creator:: Caldecott, Randolph, 1846–1886
Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: 339, [1] p. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John E. Hankins

37. Introduction to ornamental writing : for the use of artists, painters, and sculptors / from designs by G. Campion.

Creator:: Campion, G
Date:: [1830?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. The nose game : a series of five sets of types each set comprising ten different cards.

Creator:: Carreras, Ltd. (Firm)
Date:: [1927]
Physical Description:: [50] cigarette cards : color illustrations ; 70 x 40 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The whole art of dress, or, The road to elegance and fashion, at the enormous saving of thirty per cent!!! : being a treatise upon that essential and much-cultivated requisite of the present day, gentlemen's costume : explaining and clearly defining, by a series of beautifully engraved illustrations, the most becoming assortment of colours and style of dress and undress, in all their varieties; suited to different ages and complexions, so as to render the human figure most symmetrical and imposing to the eye : also, directions in the purchase of all kinds of wearing apparel: accompanied by hints for the toilette, containing a few valuable and original recipes; likewise, some advice to the improvement of defects in the person and carriage : together with a dissertation on uniform in general, and the selection of fancy dress / by a cavalry officer.

Creator:: Cavalry officer
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 100 p., 5 [i.e. 6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The drawing-room dances / by Cellarius.

Creator:: Cellarius, Henri
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: xii, 149, [1] p., viii leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Ferny combes : a ramble after ferns in the glens and valleys of Devonshire / by Charlotte Chanter.

Creator:: Chanter, Charlotte, 1828–1882
Date:: 1856
Physical Description:: 118 p., VIII, [1] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The little sketch book : a course of very easy lessons in landscapes, figures, &c. First series, for young beginners.

Creator:: Childs, George
Date:: [between 1832 and 1839]
Physical Description:: 28 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 14 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Child's advanced drawing book.

Creator:: Childs, George
Date:: ca. 1840]
Physical Description:: 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

45. An essay on warm, cold and vapour bathing : with practical observations on sea bathing, diseases of the skin, bilious, liver complaints, and dropsy / by Sir Arthur Clarke ...

Creator:: Clarke, Arthur, Sir, 1778–1857
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 232 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting.

Creator:: Collier, Jane, 1715?-1755
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: [8], 160 p., [5] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Reminiscences of a yachting cruise. / by Mrs. N.M. Condy ; illustrated by four lithographic drawing by T.G. Dutton, Esq., from sketches by the late N.M. Condy, Esq. ; with a portrait of that gentleman, from a painting by his father.

Creator:: Condy, Flora Ross
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: viii, 47, [1] p, [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The new guide to knitting & crochet / by Marie Jane Cooper.

Creator:: Cooper, Marie Jane
Date:: [1847]
Physical Description:: [4], 68 pages : illustrations ; 11 x 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The Victorian woman / Suzanne Fagence Cooper.

Creator:: Cooper, Suzanne Fagence
Date:: 2001
Physical Description:: 95 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

50. A narrative of the Grand Festival at Yarmouth on Tuesday, the 19th of April, 1814 : with an appendix containing copies of all the handbills which were published on the occasions : a list of the xubscribers : and an account of the expenditure.

Creator:: Cory, Robert
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 72 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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3. Evelyn Adams diary.

4. A few ideas, caught on Easter Monday.

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

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

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

8. Involuntary thoughts.

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

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

12. Delineations of British field sports : together with the various methods of poachings / drawn in lithography by Samuel Alken.

13. Modern horsemanship : a new method of teaching riding and training by means of pictures from the life / by Edward L. Anderson, author of 'A System of School Training for Horses,' 'The Gallop,' etc.

14. Lessons in flower painting. : a series of easy and progressive studies, drawn and coloured after nature. / by James Andrews.

16. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

17. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

18. Weeds of witchery / by Thomas Haynes Bayly, Esq., author of the second volume of "Flowers of Loveliness," "Perfection," "The Barrack Room," "A Gentleman in Difficulties," &c.

20. Helps and hints how to protect life and property : with instructions in rifle and pistol shooting, &c. / by Lt. Col. baron de Berenger ; the embellishments by Mr. Bonner and others ; after designs by Messrs. G. and R. Cruikshank, Alken, Haghe, Fussell, and de Berenger.

21. Hunting / by his grace the Duke of Beaufort, and Mowbray Morris ; with contributions by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, E.W.L. Davies, Digby Collins, and Alfred E.T. Watson ; with illustrations by J. Sturgess and J. Charlton.

22. Photographic pleasures : popularly portrayed with pen and pencil / by Cuthbert Bede, B.A., author of "Verdant Green," &c. &c. &c.

23. Hardy ferns : how I collected and cultivated them / by Nona Bellairs ; with a frontispiece.

24. The history of the flea : with notes and observations / by L. Bertolotto.

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

26. A visit to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham.

27. [Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]

28. The whist-player : the laws and practice of short-whist explained and illustrated / by Lieut.-Colonel B****.

29. The passions, humourously delineated / by Timothy Bobbin, Esq. author of the Lancashire Dialect : containing twenty-five plates, with his portrait, title plate, and poetical descriptions.

30. New cyclopædia of botany and complete book of herbs : forms a history and description of all plants, British or foreign.

32. Geoffrey Gambado's surprising feats in horsemanship : exemplified in a series of very laughable caricatures.

33. Ward's progressive book of landscape drawing : in thirteen parts / by J. H. Burgess.

34. Present pastimes of merrie England / interpreted from ancient mss. and annotated by F.C. Burnand ; with illustrations drawn from ye quicke by J.E. Rogers, author of "Ridicula rediviva".

35. Nothing to wear : a poem of transatlantic origins : now especially edited for the ladies of England : with twelve illustrations.

36. The complete collection of Randolph Caldecott's contributions to the "Graphic" printed by Edmund Evans / with a preface by Arthur Locker ...

37. Introduction to ornamental writing : for the use of artists, painters, and sculptors / from designs by G. Campion.

38. The nose game : a series of five sets of types each set comprising ten different cards.

40. The drawing-room dances / by Cellarius.

41. Ferny combes : a ramble after ferns in the glens and valleys of Devonshire / by Charlotte Chanter.

42. The little sketch book : a course of very easy lessons in landscapes, figures, &c. First series, for young beginners.

43. Child's advanced drawing book.

45. An essay on warm, cold and vapour bathing : with practical observations on sea bathing, diseases of the skin, bilious, liver complaints, and dropsy / by Sir Arthur Clarke ...

46. An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting.

47. Reminiscences of a yachting cruise. / by Mrs. N.M. Condy ; illustrated by four lithographic drawing by T.G. Dutton, Esq., from sketches by the late N.M. Condy, Esq. ; with a portrait of that gentleman, from a painting by his father.

48. The new guide to knitting & crochet / by Marie Jane Cooper.

49. The Victorian woman / Suzanne Fagence Cooper.

50. A narrative of the Grand Festival at Yarmouth on Tuesday, the 19th of April, 1814 : with an appendix containing copies of all the handbills which were published on the occasions : a list of the xubscribers : and an account of the expenditure.