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Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)

London and its environs in the nineteenth century

([1829, i.e. 1829-1831])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions160 p., [81] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22829212880008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Whitehaven and West Cumberland steeplechase, hurdle, & hunters' flat race... [Read more]

(1890)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 sheet ; 22 x 26 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Wm Walker & Son (Firm)

Wm. Walker & Son

(1891)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 sheet ([1] page) ; 29 x 22 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22937885690008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

Halfpenny, William, -1755

New designs for Chinese temples, triumphal arches, garden seats, palings... [Read more]

(1750-1752)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions4 pts. in 1 : ill. ; 19 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22862865370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?

Illuminated illustrations of Froissart

(1845)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensionsvi p., 36 leaves, [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22944515060008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

[Folded sheet of stationery with engraved satirical vignette at top]

(Octr 11, [18]51)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 folded sheet : illustrations ; 19 x 13 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22651367140008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Capper, Benjamin Pitts

Cambridgeshire

([1808])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 map ; 18 x 11 cm, on sheet 21 x 13 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22964538690008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

Havell, Robert, 1769–1832

An aeronautical view of London

(1831)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 sheet ([1] p.) : plan ; 43 x 112 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22961224780008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

The gift receive the deed approved

(mid-19th century)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22860052040008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

M. &. H. Corps

Billhead recording purchase by Mrs. Harman from M. & H. Corps

([1848])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 sheet : illustration, 18 x 16 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22943837480008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793

The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy

(1786)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[2], 16 p., [72] leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Stevens, Thomas, 1828–1888

For life or death

([1880])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 silk picture : color ; 5 x 15 cm, in mount 13 x 21 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22831378640008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794

Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire

(MDCCXCVI [1796])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 30 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22948829200008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

[Birthday card with floral illustration]

([approximately 1874])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 birthday card : chromolithograph ; 13 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22946562280008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Waring, J. B. (John Burley), 1823–1875

Masterpieces of industrial art & sculpture at the International... [Read more]

(1863)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions3 volumes ([8], 14, [200]; [204]; [2], 14, [202] pages, 300 (i.e. 301) plates) : illustrations (some color) ; 44 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22819424320008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Mathiss, Madeleine

Album of pressed seaweed specimens

(1869)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 volume (30 leaves) ; 24 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22918845820008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Clarke, J., active 1820

J. Clarke

([approximately 1820?])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 trade card : engraving ; 6 x 9 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22795100750008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

In memory of the late John Distance

(1854)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 embossed print : letterpress ; 80 x 120 mm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22658448680008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Ogilby, John, 1600–1676

Africa

(MDC LXX [1670])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[18], 38, [2], 39-146, [2], 147-281, [3], 283-304, [2], 305-314, [2], 315-488, [2], 489-632, [2], 633-658, [2], 659-767, [1] pages, [98] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 41 cm (folio)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22827087340008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

The art of drawing without a master

([1768])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[20] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 12 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22846708690008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Passions of the soul and the anatomy of the human face

(1815)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22770790490008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rocque, John, -1762

Plan du chateau, jardin et parc de Wilton

(1754)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 map : ill. ; 29 x 30 cm., on sheet 47 x 61 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Seebohm, Henry, 1832–1895

Henry Seebohm ornithological notebook and diary

(1860-1866)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 volume (140 pages) ; 27 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22687619500008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Moore, Henry, 1898–1986

Henry Moore shelter-sketch-book

([1967])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[7] p., 81 leaves : ill. ; 40 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22853723290008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833

Antiquities of London and its environs

(1791-[1800])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[96] leaves : chiefly ill., ports. ; 40 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Sallis, William, 1782–1865

Sallis's comic play grammar

([ca. 1850?])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 card game (41 cards) : illustrations ; each card 9.8 x 7 cm, in box 10.5 x 7.3 x 3 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22894748810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

May mutual loves count us blest

(mid-19th century)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 card ; 22 x 19 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22860057450008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Kirby, John Joshua, 1716–1774

Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy,

(1754)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions2 v. in 1. front., 50 plates. 27 cm. (in case 29 cm.)
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Skelton, William, 1763–1848

Skelton, copper plate printer

([approximately 1800?])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 trade card ; 10 x 13 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22699030670008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Reliance Rubber Company

Plastic gold

(1889-1939 [that is, 1939])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions63, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22717917740008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

[Almanac for 1881]

([1880])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 91 x 60 mm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22685486900008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Map of North America

(not before 1634)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 map : pen and ink and watercolor, on parchment ; 21.9 x 42.8 cm, on sheet 23.5 x 45.8 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22717293090008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820–1877

Views of the Crystal Palace and Park, Sydenham

(1854)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions4 p. ., [7]-39 p. 24 [i. e. 23] col. plates. 38 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line

Taylor, William B. Sarsfield (William Benjamin Sarsfield), 1781–1850

History of the University of Dublin

([1819-1820])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions3 parts (72 p., [9] leaves of plates) : col. ill. ; 34 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22888688470008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Havell, Robert, 1769–1832

A series of picturesque views of noblemen's & gentlemen's seats

(1823)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions[42] pages, [21] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 49 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22617888730008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Field, William, 1854–1932

William Field scrapbook

(1895)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 v. (68 p.) ; 47 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22978578470008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727–1788

Thomas Gainsborough letter to William Jackson, 1773 January 29

(1773 January 29)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 item (4 pages) ; 23 x 38 cm, folded to 23 x 19 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22767534030008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Newman, Frederick

The curiosities and beauties of England displayed

([1795?])

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions2 p. l., 42, [376] p. front., pl. 40 cm.
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22666733160008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921

Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens

(1879-1880)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 volume ; 18 x 11 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22627342660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797

Joseph Wright notebook

(1775-1780)

• Materials & Techniques
• Dimensions1 v. : ill. ; 32 cm
• CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts
• Credit line22781594560008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Arthur Weyhe