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

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

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

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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

3. A description of the correct method of waltzing : the truly fashionable species of dancing. That, from the graceful and pleasing beauty of its movements, has obtained on ascendancy over every other department of that polite branch of education. Part I. Containing a correct explanatory description of the several movements and attitudes in German and French waltzing / by Thomas Wilson , dance-master, (from the King's Theatre, Opera House. Author of "The analysis of country dancing," "The treasures of Terpischore," and a variety of other works on music and dancing. Illustrated by engravings, from original designs and drawings, by J.H.A. Randall.

A description of the correct method of waltzing : the truly fashionable species of dancing. That, from the graceful and pleasing beauty of its movements, has obtained on ascendancy over every other department of that polite branch of education. Part I. Containing a correct explanatory description of the several movements and attitudes in German and French waltzing / by Thomas Wilson , dance-master, (from the King's Theatre, Opera House. Author of "The analysis of country dancing," "The treasures of Terpischore," and a variety of other works on music and dancing. Illustrated by engravings, from original designs and drawings, by J.H.A. Randall.
Creator:
Wilson, Thomas, dancing master
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
[2], lxi, [62]-113, [5] leaves, [7] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., music ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

7. 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.

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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

8. Antiquities of London and its environs / engraved and published by John Thomas Smith ; dedicated to Sir James Winter Lake ... ; containing views of houses, monuments, statues, and other curious remains of antiquity engraved from original drawings, communicated by several members of the Society of Antiquaries ; with remarks and references to the historical works of Pennant, Lysons, Stowe, Weaver, Camden, Maitland, &c.

Antiquities of London and its environs / engraved and published by John Thomas Smith ; dedicated to Sir James Winter Lake ... ; containing views of houses, monuments, statues, and other curious remains of antiquity engraved from original drawings, communicated by several members of the Society of Antiquaries ; with remarks and references to the historical works of Pennant, Lysons, Stowe, Weaver, Camden, Maitland, &c.
Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1791-[1800]
Physical Description:
[96] leaves : chiefly ill., ports. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Book for a rainy day, or, Recollections of the events of the last sixty-six years / by John Thomas Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
306 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

10. 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.

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

11. Lucas' progressive drawing book, in three parts : ... consisting chiefly of original views of American scenery, and embracing the latest and best improvements in the mode of instruction.

Lucas' progressive drawing book, in three parts : ... consisting chiefly of original views of American scenery, and embracing the latest and best improvements in the mode of instruction.
Creator:
Lucas, Fielding, Jr., 1781–1854
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 1 : illustrations ; 24 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Magna Britannia : being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain / by ... Daniel Lysons ... and Samuel Lysons ...

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Creator:
Lysons, Daniel, 1762–1834
Date:
1806-1822
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill. (some col.), maps, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. 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 ...

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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

14. Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : includung observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings / by James Forbes ; ... in four volumes.

Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : includung observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings / by James Forbes ; ... in four volumes.
Creator:
Forbes, James, 1749–1819
Date:
1813 [i.e. 1839]
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. 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.

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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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

19. The draughtsman's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : features and limbs, profiles and ovals, whole figures, drapery, light and shade, landscapes, perspective, enlarging and contracting, imitation of life, &c. &c. : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs : neatly engraved on seventy-two copper plates : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on designs, as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.

The draughtsman's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : features and limbs, profiles and ovals, whole figures, drapery, light and shade, landscapes, perspective, enlarging and contracting, imitation of life, &c. &c. : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs : neatly engraved on seventy-two copper plates : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on designs, as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.
Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
[ca. 1801]
Physical Description:
[2], 16 p., [72] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on seventy-two copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practice / by the author of The artist's assistant.

The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on seventy-two copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practice / by the author of The artist's assistant.
Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
[2], 16 p., [72] leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The history and antiquities of Shrewsbury : from its first foundation to the present time : comprising a recital of occurrences and remarkable events for above twelve hundred years : with an appendix containing several particulars relative to castles, monasteries, &c. in Shropshire / by Thomas Phillips.

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Creator:
Phillips, Thomas, d. 1815
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. 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.

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

23. The itinerary of Greece : with a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country : compiled in the years 1801-06 / by W. Gell Esq. M.A. F.R.S. F.S.A.

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Creator:
Gell, William, Sir, 1777–1836
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
[6], 171, [9] p., 28 leaves of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The principles of drawing and painting : laid down in the most easy and simple manner, according to the practice of the best masters : with a view to the instruction of youth in this useful and elegant art : with twenty-eight copperplates, after Volpato, Vandyke, Morland, &c. / engraved by Mitchell.

The principles of drawing and painting : laid down in the most easy and simple manner, according to the practice of the best masters : with a view to the instruction of youth in this useful and elegant art : with twenty-eight copperplates, after Volpato, Vandyke, Morland, &c. / engraved by Mitchell.
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
20 p., 28 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The progress of a water-coloured drawing : wherein is represented to the Learner the various gradation through which a drawing passes from the outline to its finished state : this work, consisting of fourteen tinted lessons, imitative of the original drawings which were made for the purpose of it by John Laporte ...

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Creator:
Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:
[ca. 1811]
Physical Description:
vii, [22] p., [1], 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Travels in Sicily, Greece & Albania / by the Rev. Thos. Smart Hughes.

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Creator:
Hughes, T. S. (Thomas Smart), 1786–1847
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. 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.

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

28. 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.

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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