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Reference Library 36,544
Rare Books and Manuscripts 16,176

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Christie, Manson & Woods 214
Sotheby's (Firm) 158
Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm) 150
Victoria and Albert Museum 145
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 130
Christie & Manson 126
Christie, James, 1773–1831 121
John Murray (Firm) 103
Blake, William, 1757–1827 81
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) 80
Karl Baedeker (Firm) 73
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803 70
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 69
Ward, Lock & Co 63
Britton, John, 1771–1857 53
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 53
Arts Council of Great Britain 52
Fine Art Society 52
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 52
Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc 51
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 50
Tate Gallery 50
Hockney, David, born 1937 48
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir, 1902– 47
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 47
Bonhams (Firm : 2001) 43
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870 43
Phillips, H., -1840 42
National Trust (Great Britain) 40
Riley, Bridget, born 1931 40

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Accessible in the Reference Library 36,544
Accessible in the Study Room 16,176

Image Use

Under Certain Circumstances 52,556
Free to Use 4

Image Available

unavailable 52,560

Provenance

New Online Additions

2025 - 2026 106

Classification

Books 52,560

Collective Title

Period

20th century 24,414
21st century 14,007
19th century 10,434
18th century 2,172
17th century 362
15th century 304
16th century 143
13th century 1
14th century 1

Materials & Techniques

Height [cm]

Width [cm]

Work Type

wood engraving 1,708
exhibition catalog 1,291
auction catalog 1,096
engraving 952
aquatint 942
lithograph 926
artists' book 735
history 619
chromolithograph 446
catalog 418
etching 415
woodcut 390
armorial bookplates (provenance) 330
private press books (publishing) 313
ephemera 300
incunabula 257
drawing book 249
fragments (object portions) 245
chromoxylograph 227
accordion fold format (binding) 215
photomechanical print 211
criticism, interpretation, etc 191
exhibition catalogue 182
steel engraving 175
biographie 165
prospectuse 164
auction catalogue 159
publishers' advertisement 145
map 139
publisher's advertisement 137

Genre

Subject Terms

Painting, European -- Catalogs. 1,074
Painting, British -- Catalogs. 857
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Catalogs. 747
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. 680
Artists' books -- Great Britain. 676
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. 664
Rare books -- Catalogs. 649
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. 600
Great Britain. 561
Art, British -- Catalogs. 491
Furniture -- Catalogs. 428
Drawing, British -- Catalogs. 380
London Institution -- Ownership. 344
Auction catalogs. 340
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph. 339
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 324
Art auctions -- Catalogs. 320
Incunabula in Yale Library. 293
Drawing, European -- Catalogs. 282
England. 261
Art, British -- Exhibitions. 259
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. 246
Art -- Catalogs. 239
Decoration and ornament -- Catalogs. 239
Drawing -- Technique. 239
Silver -- Catalogs. 228
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. 224
Sculpture, European -- Catalogs. 219
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851. 217
Manuscripts -- Catalogs. 215

Subject Period

20th century 3,288
19th century 3,236
18th century 1,313
17th century 652
21st century 317
16th century 260
15th century 56
17th-18th centuries 22
15th and 16th centuries 20
11th century 14
12th century 8
14th century 6
Geschichte 5
13th century 3
Alfred, 871-899 3
Civil War, 49-45 B.C 3
To 500 3
19th-20th centuries 2
Description and travel 2
Early church, ca. 30-600 2
Elizabeth II 2
To 400 2
To 510 B.C 2
10e siècle 1
16th-18th centuries 1
17th cenury 1
17th-18th century 1
17th-19th century 1
18e siècle 1
18h century 1

Associated Places

Great Britain 7,473
England 5,568
London 1,757
London (England) 956
Scotland 615
United States 551
Europe 444
Ireland 421
France 387
Italy 326
India 264
Australia 228
Wales 228
Edinburgh (Scotland) 189
Edinburgh 170
England London 157
Germany 118
Middle East 116
Oxford (England) 112
Canada 102
Netherlands 79
New York (State) 78
Oxford 77
Bath (England) 76
Waltham Saint Lawrence 76
Spain 75
Dublin 74
Egypt 73
Switzerland 73
Devon (England) 70

Associated People

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 412
Blake, William, 1757–1827 336
Constable, John, 1776–1837 172
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900 170
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 166
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764 160
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792 143
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788 136
Mellon, Paul, 1907–1999 126
Moore, Henry, 1898–1986 121
Morris, William, 1834–1896 119
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834–1903 112
Kahn, Louis I., 1901–1974 111
Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 107
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806 77
West, Benjamin, 1738–1820 77
Hockney, David, born 1937 74
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882 72
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898 67
Sickert, Walter, 1860–1942 66
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926– 65
Freud, Lucian, 1922–2011 64
Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784 62
Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599–1641 62
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828 59
Riley, Bridget, born 1931 56
Caro, Anthony, Sir, 1924–2013 55
Palmer, Samuel, 1805–1881 54
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901 50
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 50

Exhibition History

Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978) 120
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 69
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 41
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) 34
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) 26
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) 25
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 13
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27) 12
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08) 11
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) 9
Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2026-01-08 - 2026-05-31) 7
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08) 7
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30) 4
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) 3
Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars (Yale Center for British Art, May 24, 2006-September 10, 2006) 3
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) 3
Eileen Hogan : Personal Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-05-09 - 2019-08-11) 2
Picture Talking: James Northcote and the Fables (Yale Center for British Art, October 2, 2014-December 14, 2014) 2
Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21) 2
“Endless forms”: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts (Yale Center for British Art, February 12, 2009-May 3, 2009) 2
“The Poet of Them All”: William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert (Yale Center for British Art, June 16, 2016-August 21, 2016) 2
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 1
Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10) 1
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19) 1
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17) 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
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Pera Museum, 2008-09-26 - 2009-01-11) 1
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Sharjah Art Museum, 2009-02-18 - 2009-04-30) 1
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Tate Britain, 2008-06-04 - 2008-08-31) 1

Credit Line

22960487070008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 15
22968197670008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 13
22709619840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 12
22738171720008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9
22770980730008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 9
22711752960008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 7
22709619660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709619750008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22709639120008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 6
22960434330008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 6
22709619420008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22709621880008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22709624340008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22809639860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22809664000008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22836619370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 5
22861662870008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund 5
22644345570008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22709619930008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22709620320008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22711768080008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22738129860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jane L. Jervis, Yale PhD 1978 4
22809659210008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22826513210008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer 4
22826544530008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 4
22651990110008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22651992110008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22653444540008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22709613400008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3
22711725610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 3

Language

English 48,758
French 809
German 558
Latin 313
Italian 247
Dutch 78
Spanish 69
Undetermined 44
Japanese 43
Russian 26
Welsh 18
Multiple languages 17
Portuguese 13
Swedish 13
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600) 8
Polish 8
Chinese 7
German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500) 7
English, Middle (1100-1500) 6
Hebrew 6
Danish 4
Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 4
Low German 4
Estonian 3
Norwegian 3
Scots 3
Dakota 2
Hungarian 2
Icelandic 2
Romance (Other) 2

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Goldsmith, William

Copy of the poll for knights of the shire for the county of Bedford

1784?]
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Broke, Arthur de Capell, Sir, Bart., 1791–1858

Sketches in Spain and Morocco

1831
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Post-war and contemporary (Evening Sale)

2005
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Kapoor, Anish, Sir, born 1954

Anish Kapoor

2004
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Churchill, Winston, 1874–1965

Painting as a pastime

[1985?]
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Spink & Son

English paintings, watercolours and prints

1977
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Fine old master paintings

1995
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Library disaster planning and recovery handbook

c2000
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Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)

Rules and orders of the Society instituted at London, for the encouragement... [Read more]

1774
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Garrould, Ann

Henry Moore tapestries

1988
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Haenel, Gustav Friedrich, 1792–1878

Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum, qui in bibliothecis Galliae, Helvetiae,... [Read more]

1830
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The McCormick collection of Victorian paintings

c1989
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Greenfield, Jane

Conservation and preservation at Yale

1980-1981
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Harrison, W. H. (William Henry), 1795?-1878

The tourist in Portugal,

1839
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Rogers, Malcolm

Museums and galleries of London

1983
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Blunt, Anthony, 1907–1983

Nicolas Poussin

1967
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Low, D. A. (Donald Anthony), 1927–

The Regency underworld

2000
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Second skin

2002
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Twiti, William, d. 1328

The art of hunting

1843
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Church of England. Book of common prayer. 1717

The Book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other... [Read more]

[1717]
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Coldwell, Paul

A research journey through pictures, postcards, objects and words

[2023]
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Bold, John

Wilton House and English Palladianism

1988
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British Association for the Advancement of Science

Portfolio of lithographic drawings of the principal articles of... [Read more]

1849
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Morris, William, 1834–1896

William Morris by himself

1988
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Dearn, T. D. W. (Thomas Downes Wilmot), 1777–1853

Designs for lodges and entrances to parks, paddocks, and pleasure-grounds,

1811
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Trevelyan, Raleigh

A Pre-Raphaelite circle

1978
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Topham, John, 1746–1803

An account of the Collegiate Chapel of Saint Stephen, at Westminster,

1834
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Great Britain. War Office

Siege of Sebastopol

1859
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Lomax, James

John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian age

c1979
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Christie & Manson

Catalogue of a valuable small collection of capital pictures, by Italian,... [Read more]

[1852]
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Sikander, Shahzia, 1969–

Roots and wings

[2021]
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Bower, Peter, 1950–

The papers used by John Downman
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Church, Michael, 1936–

The classic pedigree 1776-1989

c1990
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Hyslop, Jane

An experiment

2010
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Pilkington Brothers, Ltd

The St. Helen's Crown Glass Company's trade book of patterns for ornamental window... [Read more]

1850
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Brown, David Blayney

Romantic landscape

c2000
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Wolbers, Richard

Cleaning painted surfaces

2000
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Fellman, Bruce

Back to the BAC

1999
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Marine

2005
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Ferguson, George, 1899–1973

Signs & symbols in Christian art

[1954]
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West, Benjamin, 1738–1820

Catalogue of pictures representing Christ rejected, Christ healing in the... [Read more]

1815
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Robinson, P. F. (Peter Frederick), 1776–1858

Prospectus, address, and list of subscribers,

1835
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Reports and memorials of the commissioners for executing the several Acts for... [Read more]

[1810]
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Willett, John

Art in a city

2007
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Ormerod, George, 1785–1873

Additions and index to Parentalia and genealogical memoirs

MDCCCLVI [1856]
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Sotheby's (Firm)

Prints & multiples

[2018]
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Tricolour

[1975?]
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Sotheby's Belgravia (Firm)

Victorian drawings and watercolours

[1981]
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Hare, Bill

Scottish art and artists in historical and contemporary context

2024
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Mudie, Robert, 1777–1842

Man, as a moral and accountable being

1840

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