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1. The repository of arts, literature, fashions, &c.

Date:: [1809-1829]
Physical Description:: 41 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Vere Foster's Copy books : Original series.

Creator:: Foster, Vere, 1819–1900
Date:: [approximately 1897?]
Physical Description:: [24] pages : illustrations ; 17 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The complete sportsman, or, Country gentleman's recreation : containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game cocks, with the best methods of fighting them : of rearing and backing colts : of managing race-horses, hunters, &c. : of horse-racing : of bowling : of hare-hunting : of fox-hunting : of buck-hunting : of otter-hunting : of coursing : of breeding and ordering dogs for the gun or chase, &c. : of angling in all its various branches : of breeding pigeons, rabbets, canary birds, &c. : of finding the haunts of partridges, pheasants, and all manner of game : of shooting, and of shooting flying, &c. : together, with several other equally curious articles, too numerous to be mentioned in this title page / by Thomas Fairfax, Esq.

Creator:: Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.
Date:: [1760?]
Physical Description:: vi, [1], 8-240, [1], 2-24 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The Britain we want : Labour shows the way / Labour Party.

Creator:: Labour Party (Great Britain)
Date:: [approximately 1959?]
Physical Description:: 32 pages ; 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

5. Catalogue of the portraits of distinguished naval commanders and represenations of their warlike achievements : exhibited in the Naval Gallery of Greenwich hospital.

Creator:: Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich
Date:: MDCCXLI [1851]
Physical Description:: 35 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Delftware : the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles : a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum / Michael Archer.

Creator:: Archer, Michael, 1936–
Date:: 1997
Physical Description:: xv, 772 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer

7. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

Creator:: Richardson, George, ca.1738–ca.1813
Date:: MDCCLXXXI [1776]
Physical Description:: [2], ii, ii, 11, [5] pages, [50] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A series of postcards : illustrations of English history : sixteenth century (II).

Date:: [197-?]
Physical Description:: 15 postcards ; 15 x 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

9. The form and order of the service that is to be performed and the ceremonies that are to be observed in the coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in the Abbey Church of S. Peter, Westminster on Wednesday, the 12th day of May, 1937.

Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: vi, 143, [1] pages : music ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Melville and Naomi Stone.

10. Art as communication : an exhibition of paintings made in the Art Therapy Departments of psychiatric hospitals and clinics.

Date:: [1964]
Physical Description:: 12 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The Illustrated London News : coronation Week double number, May 30, 1953.

Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: 2, xvi, [1], 854-900, xvii-xxxii, 3-4 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt

12. Let's get rid of all this! : insanitary conditions ; overcrowding ; evictions ; rent increases ; Rachmanism!.

Creator:: Labour Party (Great Britain)
Date:: [approximately 1963?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

13. Edward Bawden : editioned prints / Jeremy Greenwood ; with an introduction by Elspeth Moncrieff.

Creator:: Greenwood, Jeremy
Date:: 2005
Physical Description:: 134, [2] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Peter Stansky Yale BA 1953.

14. The Coronation book of Queen Elizabeth II / including contributions by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Hector Bolitho, C.F.J. Hankinson, A.L. Rowse, Malcolm Thomson and Sir Thomas White.

Date:: [1953?]
Physical Description:: 159, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Duncan and Lisa Robinson

15. Police gazette, or Hue and cry / published by authority.

Physical Description:: volumes ; 45 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The Prince and Princess of Wales' wedding day /

Date:: 1981
Physical Description:: 32 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Strong, Yale MFA 1967.

17. Statements : a review of British abstract art in 1956.

Date:: 1957
Physical Description:: 13 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The present peerage of the United Kingdom : with the arms of the peers and baronets ; to which are prefixed, the established order of precedency, and an English translation of the mottos ; and subjoined is a list of the baronets of Great Britain, with reference to their arms.

Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 179 pages, 80, 37 pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Prince William / Valerie Garner.

Creator:: Garner, Valerie
Date:: 1998
Physical Description:: 95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Strong, Yale MFA 1967.

20. Full circle : wood engravings / Hilary Paynter.

Creator:: Paynter, Hilary, born 1943
Date:: 2010
Physical Description:: 260 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hilary Paynter.

21. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:: viii, xxiii, [1] pages, 238 columns, [1] page, [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 18 cm (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The royal kalendar and court and city register, for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America for the year 1817 : including a complete and correct list of the 6th Imperial Parliament of Great Britain summoned to meet for their first session in Nov. 1812 : upon a new and more extensive plan than any hitherto offered to the public containing: England : lists of both Houses of Parliament : all the state, law, revenue, and public, offices, at the Court, in the City of London, and different parts of the Kingdom : the army and navy ; baronets, universities, hospitals, &c. &c. Scotland : II. All the peers, baronets : state, law, revenue, and public, offices : universities, physicians, &c. Ireland : III. All the peers, baronets ; all the law, state, revenue, and public, offices ; bankers, deans &c. &c. Colonies : IV. Governors, law and revenue officers, &c. &c. : carefully corrected at the respective offices.

Date:: [1817]
Physical Description:: 396 , 142, 168, 12, 37, [1], 170-178 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Design in everyday things / The British Broadcasting Corporation.

Creator:: British Broadcasting Corporation
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 15 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.

24. Engravings / Ravilious ; Jeremy Greenwood ; with an introduction by John Craig.

Creator:: Ravilious, Eric William, 1903–1942
Date:: [2008]
Physical Description:: 287, [1] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Peter Stansky Yale BA 1953.

25. The Royal Family pop-up book / Patrick Montague-Smith ; [illustrated by Roger Payne ; paper-engineering by Vic Duppa-Whyte].

Creator:: Montague-Smith, Patrick W.
Date:: [1984]
Physical Description:: 12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William S. Reese, Yale BA 1977

26. The young fogey handbook : a guide to backward mobility / edited by Suzanne Lowry.

Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: 96 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

27. Follies / edited by Sir Hugh Casson.

Creator:: Casson, Hugh, 1910–1999
Date:: 1965
Physical Description:: 124 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

28. Britania, or, A geographical description of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the isles and territories thereto belonging : and for the better perfecting of the said work, there is added an alphabetical table of the names, titles, and seats of the nobility and gentry that each county of England and Wales is, or lately was, enobled with : Illustrated with a map of each county of England, besides several general ones : the like never before published.

Creator:: Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:: MDCLXXII [1673]
Physical Description:: [14], 464 pages, [63] leaves of plates (50 folded) : coats of arms, maps ; 36 cm (fol. in 4s)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The British imperial calendar for the year of Our Lord 1821 : being the first after bissextile or leap year, and the 2nd year of the reign of His present Majesty (till the 29th January,) : containing a general register of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and its colonies : also lists of both Houses of Parliament, the Peerage, the Privy Council, all the official departments of the state, and branches of public service ; the army and navy ; the church ; the law ; national, scientific, or commercial companies and institutions ; with many additional articles of public utility / by John Debrett ...

Creator:: Debrett, John, -1822
Date:: [1821]
Physical Description:: xiv, 390 [i.e. 398], viii, 112 pages ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The Royal Veterinary College, London : a bicentenery history / by Ernest Cotchin ; edited by Valerie Carter.

Creator:: Cotchin, Ernest
Date:: 1990
Physical Description:: 232 p. : ill., ports.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. British delft at Williamsburg / by John C. Austin.

Creator:: Austin, John C. (John Cecil), 1931–
Date:: ©1994
Physical Description:: 299 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James N. Spencer and Kathleen Moretto Spencer

32. William Day's reminiscences of the turf : with anecdotes and recollections of its principal celebrities during the present reign.

Creator:: Day, William, 1823–1908
Date:: 1886
Physical Description:: xiv, 466 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Debrett's peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland.

Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (cliv, 1308 pages) : illustrations, coats of arms, portrait ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The Queen's Silver Jubilee : a pictorial souvenir to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne and to pay tribute to Her Majesty for her inestimable services to Great Britain and the Commonwealth / written by Olwen Hedley ; edited by Jane Pugh ; designed by R.E. Willson.

The Queen's Silver Jubilee : a pictorial souvenir to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne and to pay tribute to Her Majesty for her inestimable services to Great Britain and the Commonwealth / written by Olwen Hedley ; edited by Jane Pugh ; designed by R.E. Willson.

Creator:: Hedley, Olwen
Date:: 1976
Physical Description:: 32 pages, [4] folded pages of plates : color illustrations, color coat of arms, genealogical table, portraits ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Racing and steeple-chasing.

Date:: 1886
Physical Description:: xiv, 454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. The Illustrated London news coronation ceremony number : EIIR

Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: xii, [A]-B, 901-964, C-D, ix-xvi pages : illustrations (some color) ; 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David W.P. Jewitt

37. The Maclise portrait gallery of illustrious literary characters : with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical, and anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century / by William Bates, B.A.

Creator:: Bates, William, -1884
Date:: 1898
Physical Description:: xv, 540 pages, [85] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

38. The analysis of the hunting field / by R.S. Surtees ; illus. by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805–1864
Date:: 1966
Physical Description:: 326 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Wanderings and pencillings amongst ruins of the olden time, a series of seventy-three etchings, by George Cuitt. With descriptive letterpress.

Creator:: Cuit, George, 1743–1818
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 38 pages frontispiece, mounted illustrations, plates 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Description of the iron bridges of suspension now erecting over the strait of Menai, at Bangor, and over the river Conway, in North Wales : with two views, also some account of the different bridges of suspension in England and Scotland, particularly of Captain S. Brown's iron bar bridge over the river Tweed : with remarks on the proposed suspension bridge over the river Mercy, at Runcorn Gap, and some calculations of the strength of malleable iron, founded on experiments / by T.G. Cumming, surveyor.

Creator:: Cumming, T. G
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 55, [3] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. You look awfully like the Queen : wit and wisdom from the House of Windsor / Thomas Blaikie ; illustrated by Gill Tyler.

Creator:: Blaikie, Thomas
Date:: 2002
Physical Description:: viii, 104 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

42. Cheffins's map of the English & Scotch railways.

Creator:: Cheffins, Charles F
Date:: [1843]
Physical Description:: 1 map : color ; 67 x 69 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. William & Catherine : their romance and royal wedding in photographs : including a brief photographic history of British royal weddings / created by David Elliot Cohen ; foreword by Robert Jobson.

William & Catherine : their romance and royal wedding in photographs : including a brief photographic history of British royal weddings / created by David Elliot Cohen ; foreword by Robert Jobson.

Creator:: Cohen, David, 1955–
Physical Description:: 224 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Thomas Strong, Yale MFA 1967.

44. The sphere.

Date:: 1900-1964
Physical Description:: 257 v. : ill. ; 37-47 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Public works of Great Britain : consisting of railways, rails, chairs, blocks, cuttings, embankments, tunnels, oblique arches, viaducts, bridges, stations, locomotive engines &c : cast iron bridges, iron and gas works : canals, lock gates, centering, masonry and brick work for canal tunnels, canal boats, the London and Liverpool docks, plans and dimensions, dock gates, walls, quays and their masonry, mooring chains : plan of the harbour and port of London, and other important engineering works with descriptions and specifications : the whole rendered of the utmost utility to the civil engineer, to the nobility and gentry, as monuments of the useful arts in this country and as examples to the foreign engineer / edited by F.W. Simms, C.E. ; 153 plates.

Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [5], viii-xii, 72, 32, 24, 70 pages, [142] leaves of plates in various foliations : illustrations, maps, plans ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Painting into textiles / an exhibition sponsored by the Ambassador, the British Export Magazine.

Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: 18 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. The coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2 June 1953.

Date:: [1953]
Physical Description:: 31, [1] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Melville and Naomi Stone.

48. Ed Byrne's racing year [in photographs] / by Ed Byrne.

Creator:: Byrne, Ed
Date:: 1982
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Advising the householder on protection against nuclear attack / [prepared by the Home Office and the Central Office of Information].

Creator:: Great Britain. Home Office
Physical Description:: 24 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Baronagium genealogicum; or, The pedigrees of the English peers, deduced from the earliest times, of which there are any attested accounts including, as well collateral as lineal descents. Originally comp. from the publick records and most authentic evidences; by Sr. William Segar ... and continued to the present time, by Joseph Edmondson.

Creator:: Segar, William, Sir, -1633
Date:: [1764-84]
Physical Description:: 5 volumes genealogical tables, coats of arms 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. The repository of arts, literature, fashions, &c.

2. Vere Foster's Copy books : Original series.

4. The Britain we want : Labour shows the way / Labour Party.

5. Catalogue of the portraits of distinguished naval commanders and represenations of their warlike achievements : exhibited in the Naval Gallery of Greenwich hospital.

6. Delftware : the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles : a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum / Michael Archer.

7. A book of ceilings : composed in the style of the antique grotesque / designed and etched by George Richardson, architect = Livre de plat-fonds : composés d'après les grotesques antiques / dessinés et gravés par George Richardson, architecte.

8. A series of postcards : illustrations of English history : sixteenth century (II).

9. The form and order of the service that is to be performed and the ceremonies that are to be observed in the coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in the Abbey Church of S. Peter, Westminster on Wednesday, the 12th day of May, 1937.

10. Art as communication : an exhibition of paintings made in the Art Therapy Departments of psychiatric hospitals and clinics.

11. The Illustrated London News : coronation Week double number, May 30, 1953.

12. Let's get rid of all this! : insanitary conditions ; overcrowding ; evictions ; rent increases ; Rachmanism!.

13. Edward Bawden : editioned prints / Jeremy Greenwood ; with an introduction by Elspeth Moncrieff.

14. The Coronation book of Queen Elizabeth II / including contributions by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Hector Bolitho, C.F.J. Hankinson, A.L. Rowse, Malcolm Thomson and Sir Thomas White.

15. Police gazette, or Hue and cry / published by authority.

16. The Prince and Princess of Wales' wedding day /

17. Statements : a review of British abstract art in 1956.

18. The present peerage of the United Kingdom : with the arms of the peers and baronets ; to which are prefixed, the established order of precedency, and an English translation of the mottos ; and subjoined is a list of the baronets of Great Britain, with reference to their arms.

19. Prince William / Valerie Garner.

20. Full circle : wood engravings / Hilary Paynter.

21. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in Great Britain ... : the whole executed on a plan entirely new, and far preferable to that of any work of the kind extant / by Daniel Paterson, assistant to the quarter-master-general of His Majesty’s forces.

23. Design in everyday things / The British Broadcasting Corporation.

24. Engravings / Ravilious ; Jeremy Greenwood ; with an introduction by John Craig.

25. The Royal Family pop-up book / Patrick Montague-Smith ; [illustrated by Roger Payne ; paper-engineering by Vic Duppa-Whyte].

26. The young fogey handbook : a guide to backward mobility / edited by Suzanne Lowry.

27. Follies / edited by Sir Hugh Casson.

30. The Royal Veterinary College, London : a bicentenery history / by Ernest Cotchin ; edited by Valerie Carter.

31. British delft at Williamsburg / by John C. Austin.

32. William Day's reminiscences of the turf : with anecdotes and recollections of its principal celebrities during the present reign.

33. Debrett's peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland.

35. Racing and steeple-chasing.

36. The Illustrated London news coronation ceremony number : EIIR

37. The Maclise portrait gallery of illustrious literary characters : with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical, and anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century / by William Bates, B.A.

38. The analysis of the hunting field / by R.S. Surtees ; illus. by Henry Alken.

39. Wanderings and pencillings amongst ruins of the olden time, a series of seventy-three etchings, by George Cuitt. With descriptive letterpress.

41. You look awfully like the Queen : wit and wisdom from the House of Windsor / Thomas Blaikie ; illustrated by Gill Tyler.

42. Cheffins's map of the English & Scotch railways.

43. William & Catherine : their romance and royal wedding in photographs : including a brief photographic history of British royal weddings / created by David Elliot Cohen ; foreword by Robert Jobson.

44. The sphere.

46. Painting into textiles / an exhibition sponsored by the Ambassador, the British Export Magazine.

47. The coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2 June 1953.

48. Ed Byrne's racing year [in photographs] / by Ed Byrne.

49. Advising the householder on protection against nuclear attack / [prepared by the Home Office and the Central Office of Information].