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1. Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England : being examples of antique furniture, plate, church decorations, objects of historical interest, etc. / drawn and etched by William B. Scott, Government School of Design, Newcastle.

Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England : being examples of antique furniture, plate, church decorations, objects of historical interest, etc. / drawn and etched by William B. Scott, Government School of Design, Newcastle.
Creator:
Scott, William Bell, 1811–1890
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
18 p., 38 leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Ancient topography of London : containing not only views of buildings, which in many instances no longer exist, and for the most part were never before published, but some account of places and customs either unknown, or overlooked by the London historians / by John Thomas Smith.

Ancient topography of London : containing not only views of buildings, which in many instances no longer exist, and for the most part were never before published, but some account of places and customs either unknown, or overlooked by the London historians / by John Thomas Smith.
Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
[4], 82 p., [33] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A narrative of the cruise of the yacht Maria among the Feroe Islands in the summer of 1854 : with illustrations.

A narrative of the cruise of the yacht Maria among the Feroe Islands in the summer of 1854 : with illustrations.
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
89 p., [11] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The Historical and local new Bath guide, containing an accurate description of the public buildings, institutions, and amusements of the city; with observations on the medicinal use of the Bath waters, by Sir George Smith Gibbes, M. D. ...

The Historical and local new Bath guide, containing an accurate description of the public buildings, institutions, and amusements of the city; with observations on the medicinal use of the Bath waters, by Sir George Smith Gibbes, M. D. ...
Date:
[ca. 1832]
Physical Description:
1 p. ., 176 (i. e. 182), [4] p. fold. front (map) plates, fold. plan. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Cocking and its votaries.

Cocking and its votaries.
Creator:
Taylor, S. A
Date:
1885]
Physical Description:
36, i-iv p., [29] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. London interiors: a grand national exhibition of the religious, regal, and civic solemnities, public amusements, scientific meetings, and commercial scenes of the British capital; beautifully engraved on steel, from drawings made expressly for this work ... With descriptions written by official authorities.

London interiors: a grand national exhibition of the religious, regal, and civic solemnities, public amusements, scientific meetings, and commercial scenes of the British capital; beautifully engraved on steel, from drawings made expressly for this work ... With descriptions written by official authorities.
Date:
[1841-1844]
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. front., ill., plates. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Plans, elevations, sections, and details of the Alhambra / from drawings taken on the spot in 1834 by Jules Goury, and in 1834 and 1837 by Owen Jones ; with a complete translation of the Arabic inscriptions, and an historical notice of the kings of Granada from the conquest of that city by the Arabs to the expulsion of the Moors, by Pasqual de Gayangos.

Plans, elevations, sections, and details of the Alhambra / from drawings taken on the spot in 1834 by Jules Goury, and in 1834 and 1837 by Owen Jones ; with a complete translation of the Arabic inscriptions, and an historical notice of the kings of Granada from the conquest of that city by the Arabs to the expulsion of the Moors, by Pasqual de Gayangos.
Creator:
Goury, Jules, 1803–1834
Date:
1842-1845
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 60 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A voyage to the South Sea, and round the world, perform'd in the years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711, by the ships Duke and Dutchess of Bristol : containing a journal of all memorable transactions during the said voyage : the winds, currents, and variation of the compass : the taking of the towns of Puna and Guayaquil, and several prizes, one of which a rich Acapulco ship : a description of the American coasts, from Tierra del Fuego in the south, to California in the north, (from the Coasting-pilot, a Spanish manuscript) : wherein an account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk, his manner of living and taming some wild beasts during the four years and four months he liv'd upon the uninhabited Island of Juan Fernandes : illustrated with cuts and maps : in two volumes / by Capt. Edward Cooke.

A voyage to the South Sea, and round the world, perform'd in the years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711, by the ships Duke and Dutchess of Bristol : containing a journal of all memorable transactions during the said voyage : the winds, currents, and variation of the compass : the taking of the towns of Puna and Guayaquil, and several prizes, one of which a rich Acapulco ship : a description of the American coasts, from Tierra del Fuego in the south, to California in the north, (from the Coasting-pilot, a Spanish manuscript) : wherein an account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk, his manner of living and taming some wild beasts during the four years and four months he liv'd upon the uninhabited Island of Juan Fernandes : illustrated with cuts and maps : in two volumes / by Capt. Edward Cooke.
Creator:
Cooke, Edward, Captain
Date:
MDCCXII [1712]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Conversations on geology : comprising a familiar explanation of the Huttonian and Wernerian systems ; the Mosaic geology / as explained by Granville Penn ; and the late discoveries of Professor Buckland, Humboldt, Dr. MacCulloch and others.

Conversations on geology : comprising a familiar explanation of the Huttonian and Wernerian systems ; the Mosaic geology / as explained by Granville Penn ; and the late discoveries of Professor Buckland, Humboldt, Dr. MacCulloch and others.
Creator:
Penn, Granville, 1761–1844
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
xxii, [2], 371 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. : during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 / by Sir Robert Ker Porter ; with numerous engravings of portraits, costumes, antiquities, &c.

Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. : during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820 / by Sir Robert Ker Porter ; with numerous engravings of portraits, costumes, antiquities, &c.
Creator:
Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777–1842
Date:
1821-1822
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps, port. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste / by William Hogarth.

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Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1753
Physical Description:
xxii, [4], 153, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The works of William Hogarth : containing one hundred and fifty-eight engravings / by Mr. Cooke, and Mr. Davenport ; with descriptions, in which are pointed out many beauties that have hitherto escaped notice ; with a comment on their moral tendency ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The history, antiquities, and topography of the county of Sussex. By Thomas Walker Horsfield ...

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Creator:
Horsfield, Thomas Walker, -1837
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
2 v., front., plates, port., folded maps, plans. 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The gentleman's new pocket farrier : comprising a general description of the noble and useful animal, the horse; together with the quickest and simplest mode of fattening : necessary treatment while undergoing excessive fatigue : also, a concise account of the diseases to which the horse is subject : with such remedies as long experience has proved to be effectual / by Richard Mason.

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Creator:
Mason, Richard, active 1808–1861?
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
300 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. History and antiquities of Kensington : interspersed with biographical anecdotes of royal and distinguished personages, and a descriptive catalogue of the collection of pictures in the palace, from a survey made by the late B. West ... by command of His Majesty / by Thomas Faulkner ...

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Creator:
Faulkner, Thomas, 1777–1855
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
xvi, [2], 624, [11] p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans, geneal. tables ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The history and antiquities of London / by Thomas Pennant.

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Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
vi, 381 p. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Views of the seats of noblemen and gentlemen : in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland / by J. P. Neale. 2d series....

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Creator:
Neale, John Preston, 1780–1847
Date:
1824-1829
Physical Description:
5 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. London : being an accurate history and description of the British metropolis and its neighbourhood : to thirty miles extent, from an actual perambulation / by David Hughson ...

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Creator:
Hughson, David, active 19th century
Date:
1805-1809
Physical Description:
6 v. : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank : but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke ...

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Creator:
Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:
1833-1838
Physical Description:
4 v. : coats of arms, ports. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The wards of London : containing a historical and topograhical description of every object of importance within the boundaries of the city : with an account of all the companies, institutions, buildings, ancient remains, &c. &c : and biographical sketches of all eminent persons connected therewith / by Henry Thomas.

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Creator:
Thomas, Henry, fl. 1828–1830
Date:
1828-1830
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Solomon Gessner, "the Swiss Theocritus" / with six illustrations and extra portrait from the original copper-plates engraved in 1802 by Robert Cromek from drawings by Thomas Stothard, R.A. and a preface by John Oldcastle ...

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Creator:
Gessner, Salomon, 1730–1788
Date:
1886]
Physical Description:
26, [2] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner / with introductory verses by Bernard Barton, and illustrated with numerous engravings from drawings by George Cruikshank expressly designed for this edition.

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Creator:
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

23. A memoir, explanatory of the chart and survey of the county of London-Derry, Ireland / by the Rev. George Vaughan Sampson.

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Creator:
Sampson, George Vaughan
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, 359 p., [8] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic ; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain. Accompanied with descriptions.

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Creator:
Storer, James, 1771–1853
Date:
1815-1818
Physical Description:
7 v. : pl. ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The official illustrated guide to the South-Eastern Railway and its branches : including the North Kent and Greenwich lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with two hundred engravings and map.

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Creator:
Measom, George S
Date:
[1858]
Physical Description:
[16], 324 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Histories of noble British families : with biographical notices of the most distinguished individuals in each : illustrated by their armorial bearings, portraits, monuments, seals, etc.

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Creator:
Drummond, Henry, 1786–1860
Date:
1842-1846
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Cottage scenes : being a collection of pastoral tales, illustrative of rural manners : and calculated for the improvement of juvenile readers / by Anne Elizabeth Oulton.

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Creator:
Oalton, Ann Elizabeth
Date:
[1825?]
Physical Description:
88, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The Art Student : an illustrated monthly magazine of the fine & industial arts and guide to their principles and practice.

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Date:
1864-1865
Physical Description:
17 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The pictorial history of the county of Lancaster : with 170 illustrations and a map.

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Date:
1844
Physical Description:
238 [i.e. 338], xlviii p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The visitor's guide to Knole, in the county of Kent : with catalogues of the pictures contained in the mansion, and biographical notices of the principal persons whose portraits form part of the collection / by John H. Brady, F.R.A.S.

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Creator:
Brady, John Henry
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
xx, 258, [2] pages, [5] leaves of plates, ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

31. The history of Wisbech, and the Fens. / By Neil Walker, and Thomas Craddock ...

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Creator:
Walker, Neil
Date:
1849
Physical Description:
viii, 564 p., [18] leaves of plates (some folding) : ill., charts, map ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The history and antiquities of Dartford, with topographical notices of the neighbourhood, by Ino. Dunkin ...

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Creator:
Dunkin, John, 1782–1846
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
xxvi, [2], 478 p., [15] leaves of plates (1 folded). ill., port. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Two views of the ruins of Furness Abbey / from drawings by Mr. Crosthwaite, of Ulverston ; and Mr. Shaw, of London ; in lithotint by Mr. Walton, of London ; with a compendious account of the monastery.

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Date:
[1843]
Physical Description:
9, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities : illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others : and a new complete map, engraved by Lowry.

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Creator:
Weale, John, 1791–1862
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
910 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The universities : Le Keux's memorials of Cambridge : a series of views of the colleges, Halls, and public buildings : engraved by J. Le Keux / with historical and descriptive accounts by Thomas Wright ... and the Rev. H. Longueville Jones.

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Creator:
Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:
1841-42
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824-1825 / Captain the Right Hon. Lord Byron, commander.

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Date:
MDCCCXXVI [1826]
Physical Description:
x, [2], 260 pages, [15] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The Comic almanack; an ephemeris in jest and earnest, containing merry tales, humorous poetry, quips, and oddities. By Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert À Beckett, the brothers Mayhew ... With many hundred illustrations by George Cruikshank and other artists.

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Date:
[between 1863 and 1873]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

38. Perspective made easie, or, The art of representing all manner of objects as they appear to the eye in all scituations : containing the elements of designing and painting : illustrated with above fifty figures in copper / written originally in French by Bernard Lamy, Priest of the Oratory, and faithfully translated into English, by an officer of Her Majesties Ordnance.

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Creator:
Lamy, Bernard, 1640–1715
Date:
MDCCX [1710]
Physical Description:
[16], 174, [8] p., 31 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Iohn Huighen van Linschoten, his Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies : deuided into foure Bookes.

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Creator:
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van, 1563–1611
Date:
[1598]
Physical Description:
[10], 197, [4], 198-259 [i.e. 295], [3], 307-462 p., [23] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 30 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The Imperial journal of art, science, mechanics, and engineering : embracing treatises on anatomy and physiology, architecture, astronomy, agriculture ... : also, the arts of dyeing and bleaching ... : and a series of practical papers on the steam-engine : illustrated by beautiful drawings of land, marine, and locomotive engines.

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Date:
[1840]
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. (some folded) ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum : late the Allan, formerly the Tunstall, or Wycliffe Museum : to which are prefixed memoirs of Mr. Tunstall, the founder, and of Mr. Allan, the late proprietor, of the collection : with occasional remarks on the species, by those gentlemen and the editor / by George Townshend Fox ...

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Creator:
Fox, George Townshend, 1781–1846
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
xxii, [2], 312, [2] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill., port., geneal. tables ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The Liverpool guide : including a sketch of the environs : with a map of the town and directions for sea bathing / by W. Moss.

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Creator:
Moss, William G. (William George), 1943–
Date:
1801
Physical Description:
[4], 192 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., plan ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The history and antiquities of Filey, in the covnty of York. By John Cole.

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Creator:
Cole, John, 1792–1848
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
2 p. ., vi, 160 p. front., illus., 3 pl. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. A visit to London: containing a description of the principal curiosities in the British metropolis. By the author of "The visit to a farm-house."

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Date:
[1838?]
Physical Description:
vi, 192 p. front., ill., plates. 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A history of Hartlepool / by Sir Cuthbert Sharp ...

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Creator:
Sharp, Cuthbert, Sir, 1781–1849
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
vi, 180, [iii]-xxvi p., [3], [1], [23] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plates, plans, geneal. tables ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Sketches, illustrative of the topography and history of New and Old Sleaford, in the county of Lincoln, and of several places in the surrounding neighbourhood ...

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Date:
1825
Physical Description:
2 p. ., ii, [8], 378, [6] p. front., ill., plates, geneal. tab. (part. fold.) 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Travels to the seat of war in the East, through Russia and the Crimea, in 1829 : with sketches of the Imperial Fleet and Army, personal adventures, and characteristic anecdotes / by Captain James Edward Alexander.

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Creator:
Alexander, James Edward, Sir, 1803–1885
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. The Chichester guide : containing the history and antiquities of the city, and other interesting objects of curiosity : a description of the Cathedral and its monuments and of the minor churches : together with some account of the antiquities and gentlemen's seats in the neighbourhood / by Richard Dally.

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Creator:
Dally, Richard
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
124 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Carthage and her remains : being an account of the excavations and researches on the site of the Phoenician metropolis in Africa, and other adjacent places / conducted under the auspices of Her Majesty's government by Dr. N. Davis ...

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Creator:
Davis, N. (Nathan), 1812–1882
Date:
1861
Physical Description:
504, [2] p., [25] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts : also, a catalogue of engravers who have been born or resided in England / collected by the late George Vertue ; digested and published from his original mss. by Horace Walpole ; with additions by the Rev. James Dallaway ; ... in three volumes.

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1849
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts