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1. "Coming home" : a comic panorama / drawn by "Leech" ; delineating, with irresistible humour, the fun, mishaps, and queer occurrences, to which the votaries of the sports are subjected "Coming Home" from the races ; exhibiting the laughter-moving effects of this talented artist's comic pencil, presented to the public in a perfectly novel and unique style of elegance ; suitable for the drawing-room, and in price adapted to the cottage.

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Creator:
Leech, John, 1817–1864
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
[1] folded sheet ([15] p.): ill. ; 107 x 11 cm., folded to 11 x 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. "Hawbuck Grange," or, The sporting adventures of Thomas Scott, Esq. / by the author of "Handley Cross," "Sponge's Sporting Tour," etc., etc. ; with illustrations by Phiz.

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Creator:
Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805–1864
Date:
[1888?]
Physical Description:
[8], 329, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

3. 1851, or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family, who came up to London to "enjoy themselves," and to see the Great Exhibition / by Henry Mayhew, and George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Mayhew, Henry, 1812–1887
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
[4], 242 (i.e. 240) p., [10] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

4. [A cat playing with a ball of string].

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Creator:
Dobbs, Henry
Date:
[ca. 1820]
Physical Description:
1 card : color illustration ; 5 x 8 cm, on card 11 x 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. [Album card with cut paper lace overlay].

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Date:
[approximately 1875]
Physical Description:
1 album card : chromolithograph ; 130 x 90 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. [Album card with silver edged cut paper overlay].

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1875]
Physical Description:
1 album card : chromolithograph ; 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. [Album of views of Tenby, Wales]

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Date:
between 1899 and 1920?]
Physical Description:
[12] p. : chiefly ill. ; 11 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. [Batch of cakes]

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Date:
1818?]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. [Calling card for Colonel Lowther : 31, Bruton Street].

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Date:
[publisher not identified],
Physical Description:
1 card ; 4 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. [Calling card for Mr. Edmund Goodwin : Ducie House, Manchester].

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Date:
[publisher not identified],
Physical Description:
1 card ; 4 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. [Calling card for Mr. John A. May, Miss May, [... E. May] : The Brooklands.

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Date:
[publisher not identified],
Physical Description:
1 card ; 4 x 7 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. [Die-cut and embossed chromolithographed scrap-sheet of ships of the Royal Navy].

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Date:
[ca. 1895]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. [Die-cut and embossed chromolithographed scrap-sheet of the Drum and Fife Band of the Grenadier Guards].

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Date:
[approximately 1890]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. [Die-cut and embossed chromolithographed scrap].

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Date:
[approximately 1880]
Physical Description:
1 print : chromolithograph ; 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. [Die-cut embossed chromolithgraph scrap-sheet of the Mounted Troopers of the 1st Lifeguards].

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Date:
[approximately 1890]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. [Embossed album card with cut paper overlay].

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1860]
Physical Description:
1 album card : chromolithograph ; 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. [Embossed and metallic cut paper album card].

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1875]
Physical Description:
1 album card : chromolithograph ; 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. [Fire insurance policy for Mr. Thomas Mason, May 9th, 1891 from the Phœnix Fire Office]

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Creator:
Phœnix Fire Office (Firm : London, England)
Date:
1891-1892
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet : illustrations ; 52 x 38 cm, folded to 27 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. [Le beau monde].

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Date:
1823?]
Physical Description:
[19] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. [Paper quillwork picture of a flower vase] [realia]

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Date:
[ca. 1820?]
Physical Description:
1 paper quillwork picture ; 17 x 20 x 1 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. [Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]

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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

22. [Sketches of fairy land, or, A comparison between England & Lilliput].

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Creator:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760–1809
Date:
1810]
Physical Description:
[12] leaves : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. [The essayists]

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

24. [Victorian greeting card].

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Date:
[approximately 1880]
Physical Description:
1 folded greeting card : chromolithographs ; 100 x 80 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. [White and gold metallic cut paper card]

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1875]
Physical Description:
1 folded card : chromolithograph ; 70 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A course of water-colour painting / by R.P. Leitch.

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Creator:
Leitch, R. P. (Richard Pettigrew)
Date:
[1884?]
Physical Description:
36, [4] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 x 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A course of water-colour painting : with twenty-four coloured plates / from designs by R.P. Leitch.

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Creator:
Leitch, R. P. (Richard Pettigrew)
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
36 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. A day at the Derby.

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Date:
ca. 1835?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([9] panels) : ill. ; 10 x 130 cm., folded to 10 x 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A descriptive guide to Guy's Cliff : with an authentic catalogue of the paintings.

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Date:
MDCCCXLIV [1844]
Physical Description:
[2], 27, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

31. A few ideas, caught on Easter Monday.

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

32. A guide to sketching from nature in water colours / by Leonidas Clint Miles ; with numerous illustrations, drawn on stone and wood by the author.

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Creator:
Miles, Leonidas Clint
Date:
1868
Physical Description:
85, 48 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. A hundred years ago : Britain in the 1880s in words and photographs / by Colin Ford and Brian Harrison.

A hundred years ago : Britain in the 1880s in words and photographs / by Colin Ford and Brian Harrison.
Creator:
Ford, Colin, 1934–
Date:
1983
Physical Description:
335 p. : ill., ports. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

34. A leap-year's proposal / illustrated and written by Harry B. Neilson.

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Creator:
Neilson, Harry B. (Harry Bingham), 1861–
Date:
[1889]
Physical Description:
[48] pages : illustrations ; 18 x 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. 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.

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

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

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

37. A plain and easy account of the British ferns : together with their classification, arrangement of genera, structure, and functions ; and a glossary of technical and other terms / edited by Mrs. Lankester ; with illustrations.

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Creator:
Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900
Date:
[1859]
Physical Description:
[5], viii-xv, [1], 108, [4] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

40. 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.

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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

41. 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.

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

42. A series of sketches from nature of plant form / by F. Edward Hulme.

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Creator:
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841–1909
Date:
1868
Physical Description:
[2], 54 p., [100] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume / drawn and engraved by Henry Moses.

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Creator:
Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[30] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. A synoptical compend of British botany : (from the class Monandria to polygamia inclusive) arranged after the Linnean system : and containing the essential characters of the genera, the specific characters, English names, places of growth, soil and situation, colour of the flowers, times of flowering, duration, and references to figures / by John Galpine.

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Creator:
Galpine, John, 1769–1806
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
viii, [194] p. in various pagings : ill ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. 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.

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

46. A treatise on deportment, fencing, etc. : including the science of horsemanship; being a complete manual of instruction for the use of young persons, in the acquirement of those accomplishments; as well as a self-monitor in the exercise and duties of a cavalry soldier, for the use of gentlemen who are members of yeomanry corps : comprising likewise, instructions for the lance and carbine exercises. Also, the description of a military game resembling the game of chess, calculated to initiate young gentlemen who are designed for the army, in the science of tactics or military manœuvres. With copperplate engravings, illustrative of the various subjects described in the work / by Samuel Gribble, Regimental Serjeant-Major of the Corps of Sherwood Rangers.

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Creator:
Gribble, Samuel
Date:
[1829]
Physical Description:
viii, [1], 14-147, [3] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. A treatise on tennis / by a member of the Tennis Club.

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Creator:
Lukin, Robert, 1772–1835
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
viii, 120 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. A treatise on the theory and practice of the art of fencing : illustrated with 12 highly finished plates / by George Roland.

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Creator:
Roland, George
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
xi, 181 p., [12] plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. A treatise on the æropleustic art, or, Navigation in the air : by means of kites, or buoyant sails : with a description of the charvolant, or kite carriage : and containing numerous most amusing and interesting anecdotes connected with several extraordinary excursions both by sea and land : with characteristic illustrations, drawn on stone by Rose Gilbert ; from designs by David Cox, jun.

No cover image available
Creator:
Pocock, George
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
54 p., [7] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. A visit to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham.

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