Language: English / Work Type: prospectuse / Classification: Books

1. [Prospectus for Somerset Struben de Chair's The silver crescent]

Creator:: Golden Cockerel Press
Date:: [1943]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 17 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. [Prospectus for Susan Allix's Sea Air : prints of the sea with poetic interludes and interventions].

Creator:: Allix, Susan, 1943–
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 4 pages, ([2] leaves of plates : color photographs ; 22 x 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

3. [Prospectus for Susan Allix's Small cakes : a selection containing brief histories, ingredients and recipes, poetic anecdotes and visual decorations].

Creator:: Allix, Susan, 1943–
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([3] pages) : color photographs ; 12 x 32 cm, folded to 12 x 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

4. [Prospectus for Tracey Bush's artist book Dusk : British Moths].

Creator:: Bush, Tracey
Date:: [2016]
Physical Description:: 1 print : illustrations ; 14 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk

5. A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland / engraved by Thomas Milton. From original drawings, by the best masters.

A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland / engraved by Thomas Milton. From original drawings, by the best masters.

Creator:: Milton, Thomas, 1743?-1827
Date:: [1783-1793]
Physical Description:: xlvii, [5] p., xxiv leaves of plates : ill ; 21 x 27cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A history of Madeira : with a series of twenty-seven coloured engravings, illustrative of the costumes, manners, and occupations of the inhabitants of that island.

Creator:: Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: v, [3], 118 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A prospectus, &c. of the British School : His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, patron.

Creator:: British School
Date:: [1802?]
Physical Description:: 20 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A series of etchings illustrative of the architectural antiquities of Suffolk : accompanied with an historical index / the whole drawn and etched by Henry Davy ...

Creator:: Davy, Henry, active 1829
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: [4], 12 pages, [70] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats : with historical and descriptive accounts of each subject / engraved in aquatinta by R. Havell & Son.

A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats : with historical and descriptive accounts of each subject / engraved in aquatinta by R. Havell & Son.

Creator:: Havell, Robert, 1769–1832
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: [42] pages, [21] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A Venetian story / by Lord Byron ; with illustrations from eighteenth century copper-plate engravings selected and introduced by Eleanor M. Garvey and Philip Hofer.

Creator:: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824
Date:: 1963
Physical Description:: 39 leaves : ill. ; 35 x 51 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A Venetian story [prospectus] / by Lord Byron.

Creator:: Allen Press
Date:: [1963]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([4] p.) ; 40 x 25 cm., folded to13 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Anish Kapoor : Wound.

Creator:: IvoryPress
Date:: 2005
Physical Description:: 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elena Foster

13. Azrael & other poems / Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Creator:: Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893–1978
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: [18] p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

14. Bibliotheca Peirsoniana, or, Catalogue raisonné : (adapted to serve as a perpetual Vade mecum for young clergy-men and students in Divinity) of the very valuable and extensive library of the Rev. Thomas Peirson, D.D. Senior Minster of the Established English Church, in the City of Amsterdam.

Creator:: Peirson, Thomas
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: [2], xi, [1], 219, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Blank page.

Date:: 1988-1991
Physical Description:: 6 volumes : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund

16. Bligh's voyage in the Resource from Coupang to Batavia : together with the log of his subsequent passage to England in the Dutch Vlydt Packet : and his remarks on Morrison's Journal : all printed for the first time from the manuscripts in the Mitchell Library of New South Wales : with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter : The Golden Cockerel Press 1937.

Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Brandt nudes : a new perspective / with a commentary by Mark Haworth-Booth.

Creator:: Brandt, Bill, 1904–1983
Date:: 2004
Physical Description:: 155, [5] p. : chiefly ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Code of health and longevity : the third edition : in one volume, octavo / by the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart.

Creator:: Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754–1835
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 2, 3, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Domestic manners of the Americans / by Mrs. Trollope.

Creator:: Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780–1863
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. For the use of schools ... The young artist's complete magazine, for the instruction of the youth of both sexes ...

Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (2 pages) ; 23 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Forty sheets to the wind : a new portfolio of old typefaces.

Date:: 1999
Physical Description:: 1 portfolio : illustrations (some color), samples ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

22. Francis Bacon : detritus.

Creator:: IvoryPress
Date:: [2006]
Physical Description:: 12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ivorypress

23. Going, going ... gone! / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

Creator:: King, Ronald, 1932–
Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: 7 folded leaves in portfolio : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Going, going ... gone! : [prospectus] / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

Creator:: King, Ronald, 1932–
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustration ; 26 x 45 cm, folded to 26 x 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ronald King

25. Historical epitome of the several counties and islands in the United Kingdom : the county of Southampton forming the second volume of this work, is now in immediate preparation, and will be published within six calendar months of this date ... / the work will be illustrated ... by C. Greenwood, author of the large atlas of the counties of England and Wales, &c., under whose superintendence and management this work is conducted.

Creator:: Greenwood, C. (Christopher), 1786–1855
Date:: 1838?]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. History of the University of Dublin / by W.B. Taylor.

Creator:: Taylor, William B. Sarsfield (William Benjamin Sarsfield), 1781–1850
Date:: [1819-1820]
Physical Description:: 3 parts (72 p., [9] leaves of plates) : col. ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. In the course of the ensuing winter will be published, a reprint of the Morte d'Arthur.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1816?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. In the course of the present month, will be published Part I. of Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions by Edmund Lodge, ESQ. Lancaster Herald, F.S.A. author of the biographical tracts attached to the "Holbein Heads."

Creator:: Lackington, Allen and Co
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. In the press and speedily will be published, in two volumes, royal quarto, with superb embellishments, an historical survey of the country of Cornwall by C.S. Gilbert.

Creator:: Congdon, John
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. In the press, and speedily will be published, part I of Archaica, containing a reprint of scarce Old English tracts, with prefaces and notes, critical and biographical.

Date:: [1814?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. In the press, and speedily will be published, The dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations, by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed a history of the language and an English grammar by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. : with numerous corrections, and with the addition of many thousand words, by the Rev. Henry J. Todd.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. In the press, and speedily will be published, The history of Richard the Third, King of England. etc., composed in five books by Sir George Buck : now first printed entire from the original ms. in the possession of the editor : with an appendix of notes and documents by Charles Yarnold, Esq.

Creator:: Rees, Richard (Publisher)
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: [1] page ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. In the press, and to be published immediately, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, dedicated by permission, to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, the entire works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt, the elder, by G.F. Nott, D.D.F.S.A., late fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. In the press, The history and antiquities of the county of Hertford : volume the first, containing the hundreds of cashio and dacorum : compiled from the best printed authorities and original records, preserved in private collections and public repositories : embellished with views of the most curious monuments of antiquities : drawn and engraven by the most eminent British artists : and illustrated with a map of the county by Robert Clutterbuck, of Watford, Esq. F.S.A.

Creator:: Nichols, firm, printers (London, England)
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Introduction to the Original delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, intituled The beauties of England and Wales : comprising observations on the history and antiquities of the Britons ... : together with remarks on the progress of ... architecture in succeeding ages / by J. Norris Brewer.

Creator:: Brewer, J. N. (James Norris)
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: xl, 676 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Johnson's dictionary, edited by the Reverend H.J. Todd.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: August 1, 1814
Physical Description:: iv pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Just published, (no. I), price one guinea, a selection of Hebrew melodies, with appropriate symphonies and accompaniments by Mr. Braham and Mr. Nathan : the poetry written expressly for the work, by the Right Honourable Lord Bryon.

Creator:: Nathan, Isaac, 1792–1864
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1]) page ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Just published, in large folio, complete in sixty-four maps, price six guineas, half-bound, a new and greatly improved edition of Lavoisne's genealogical, historical, chronological, & geographical atlas, by C. Gros and J. Aspin : containing the creation, the dispersion of mankind, the origin of nations, the establishment, continuation, and decline of empires and states, the genealogy, direct and collateral, of all the sovereigns and potentates, from the beginning of time to the year 1813 : forming the most complete system of history and geography ever produced.

Creator:: Barfield, John, active 1790–1842
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Le Keux's memorials of Cambridge : a series of views of the colleges, halls, churches, and other public buildings, of the university and town of Cambridge : engraved by J. Le Keux, from original drawings, made expressly for the work : with historical and descriptive accounts of the buildings, &c. / by Thomas Wright.

Creator:: Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:: [1837?]
Physical Description:: [2], 16 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Marc Quinn : Thames River water atlas.

Creator:: IvoryPress
Date:: [2017]
Physical Description:: 11 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ivorypress

41. Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: 46, [66] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

42. Metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated by Mary M. Innes ; illustrations by Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:: 1995
Physical Description:: xxix, 350 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

43. Michael Angelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel : ... facsimiles of original drawings, from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, made at the time of the paintings, and before the execution of the Last Judgment / ... engraved and published by J. Linnell.

Creator:: Linnell, John, 1792–1882
Date:: [1833-1835]
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [42] leaves of plates : all illustrations ; 30 x 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Mr. Bowyer's prospectus of a splendid national portrait of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, from an original picture painted by Thomas Lawrence ...

Creator:: Bowyer, Robert, 1758–1834
Date:: 1814]
Physical Description:: 2 p. ; 26 cm. (in case 33 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Narrative of a journey to the falls of the Cavery : with an historical and descriptive account of the Neilgherry hills / by Lieutenant H. Jervis.

Creator:: Jervis, H. (Humphrey)
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: x, 144, [16] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Nearly ready for publication, in two volumes ... An inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving on copper and wood : with an account of the most ancient engravers and their works, from the earliest period, to the middle of the sixteenth century : comprising observations on some of the first books ornaments with wood-cuts : by William Young Ottley, F.A.S.

Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Nearly ready for publication, price eighteen shillings, Bertram : a poetical tale in four cantos by Sir Egerton Brydger, Bart. K.J. M.P.

Creator:: Private Press of Lee Priory
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. New medical journal : on the 1st of January, 1814, will be published, in 8vo, no. I, to be continued monthly, of The London medical, surgical, and pharmaceutical repository, or, The surgeon-apothecary's and apothecary's journal and review / conducted by George Man Burrows ... William Royston ... Anthony Todd Thomson ... Robert Masters Kerrison ; ... assisted by a society of general practitioners.

Date:: [1813]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([3] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Now publishing in numbers, price 1s. and in monthly parts, at 2s. each, Commemoration of Hogarth by an edition of his works, commenced exactly a century after their first appearance.

Now publishing in numbers, price 1s. and in monthly parts, at 2s. each, Commemoration of Hogarth by an edition of his works, commenced exactly a century after their first appearance.

Creator:: Jones and Co. (London, England)
Date:: [1833?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. On December 1, 1814, will be published, dedicated by permission, to His Grace the Duke of Wellington, No. I of a highly embellished, splendid, and interesting work, to be entitled, The martial achievements of Great Britain and her allies, from the year 1800 to 1814 : illustrated with accurate representations of the numerous glorious victories in which they have been engaged : accompanied with the Gazette and other official documents of the defeats of their enemies.

Creator:: Jenkins, James, 1753–1831
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. [Prospectus for Somerset Struben de Chair's The silver crescent]

2. [Prospectus for Susan Allix's Sea Air : prints of the sea with poetic interludes and interventions].

3. [Prospectus for Susan Allix's Small cakes : a selection containing brief histories, ingredients and recipes, poetic anecdotes and visual decorations].

4. [Prospectus for Tracey Bush's artist book Dusk : British Moths].

5. A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland / engraved by Thomas Milton. From original drawings, by the best masters.

6. A history of Madeira : with a series of twenty-seven coloured engravings, illustrative of the costumes, manners, and occupations of the inhabitants of that island.

7. A prospectus, &c. of the British School : His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, patron.

8. A series of etchings illustrative of the architectural antiquities of Suffolk : accompanied with an historical index / the whole drawn and etched by Henry Davy ...

9. A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats : with historical and descriptive accounts of each subject / engraved in aquatinta by R. Havell & Son.

10. A Venetian story / by Lord Byron ; with illustrations from eighteenth century copper-plate engravings selected and introduced by Eleanor M. Garvey and Philip Hofer.

11. A Venetian story [prospectus] / by Lord Byron.

12. Anish Kapoor : Wound.

13. Azrael & other poems / Sylvia Townsend Warner.

14. Bibliotheca Peirsoniana, or, Catalogue raisonné : (adapted to serve as a perpetual Vade mecum for young clergy-men and students in Divinity) of the very valuable and extensive library of the Rev. Thomas Peirson, D.D. Senior Minster of the Established English Church, in the City of Amsterdam.

15. Blank page.

17. Brandt nudes : a new perspective / with a commentary by Mark Haworth-Booth.

18. Code of health and longevity : the third edition : in one volume, octavo / by the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart.

19. Domestic manners of the Americans / by Mrs. Trollope.

20. For the use of schools ... The young artist's complete magazine, for the instruction of the youth of both sexes ...

21. Forty sheets to the wind : a new portfolio of old typefaces.

22. Francis Bacon : detritus.

23. Going, going ... gone! / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

24. Going, going ... gone! : [prospectus] / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

26. History of the University of Dublin / by W.B. Taylor.

27. In the course of the ensuing winter will be published, a reprint of the Morte d'Arthur.

29. In the press and speedily will be published, in two volumes, royal quarto, with superb embellishments, an historical survey of the country of Cornwall by C.S. Gilbert.

30. In the press, and speedily will be published, part I of Archaica, containing a reprint of scarce Old English tracts, with prefaces and notes, critical and biographical.

32. In the press, and speedily will be published, The history of Richard the Third, King of England. etc., composed in five books by Sir George Buck : now first printed entire from the original ms. in the possession of the editor : with an appendix of notes and documents by Charles Yarnold, Esq.

36. Johnson's dictionary, edited by the Reverend H.J. Todd.

37. Just published, (no. I), price one guinea, a selection of Hebrew melodies, with appropriate symphonies and accompaniments by Mr. Braham and Mr. Nathan : the poetry written expressly for the work, by the Right Honourable Lord Bryon.

40. Marc Quinn : Thames River water atlas.

41. Messer Pietro mio : letters between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo / translation & preface, Hugh Shankland ; wood engravings, Richard Shirley Smith.

42. Metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated by Mary M. Innes ; illustrations by Richard Shirley Smith.

43. Michael Angelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel : ... facsimiles of original drawings, from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, made at the time of the paintings, and before the execution of the Last Judgment / ... engraved and published by J. Linnell.

44. Mr. Bowyer's prospectus of a splendid national portrait of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, from an original picture painted by Thomas Lawrence ...

45. Narrative of a journey to the falls of the Cavery : with an historical and descriptive account of the Neilgherry hills / by Lieutenant H. Jervis.

47. Nearly ready for publication, price eighteen shillings, Bertram : a poetical tale in four cantos by Sir Egerton Brydger, Bart. K.J. M.P.

49. Now publishing in numbers, price 1s. and in monthly parts, at 2s. each, Commemoration of Hogarth by an edition of his works, commenced exactly a century after their first appearance.