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1. Sir, there is a scheme set on foot for erecting a publick academy for the improvement of the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture ...

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Date:
1753
Physical Description:
[2] sheets ([2] p.) ; 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. This day is published, number XCIV, with a view of the city gates : (to be continued weekly, price six-pence) : the sixth edition of Stow's survey of London and Westminster : and of the borough of Southward : being the best topography of those cities : together with the distinct history of them : in two large volumes, folio : containing their original, antiquity, increase, present state, and government : written at first by John Stow, citizen and native of London ; several times reprinted and augmented, then corrected, and very much enlarged in the year 1720 by J. Strype, M.A. ; and the history and survey now brought down to this present time by careful hands ; illustrated with exact maps of all the wards and out-parishes both of London and Westminister ; with other draughts of the most eminent and public edifices and monuments.

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Date:
November 29, 1755
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page (incomplete)) ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Proposals for printing in weekly numbers, Eden, or, a compleat body of curious and useful gardening.

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Creator:
T. Osborne and J. Shipton (Firm)
Date:
August 21, 1756
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Prospectus du Voyage pittoresque de l'Italie.

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Creator:
Saint Non, Jean Claude Richard de, 1727–1791
Date:
[1778]
Physical Description:
6 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A series of prints exhibiting the most interesting scenes in London and Westminster : drawn from the most striking points of view, and executed in aquatinta, by T. Malton, Jun.

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Date:
March, 1781
Physical Description:
[1] sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 x 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland : to be engraved by Thomas Milton, from original drawings, by the best masters.

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Date:
November 25, 1782
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 24 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. To be published by subscription, A collection of select views in Great Britain : from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists : to be engraved by S. Middiman.

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Date:
October 1, 1783
Physical Description:
[1] sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 x 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Avis aux souscripteurs : sur cette dernière livraison du Voyage pittoresque

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Creator:
Saint Non, Jean Claude Richard de, 1727–1791
Date:
[1786]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

10. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

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Creator:
Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:
[6], 11, [35] pages, 47 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The Polygraphic Society, to the patrons and admirers of the polite arts.

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Creator:
Polygraphic Society (London, England)
Date:
ca. 1789.]
Physical Description:
[4] p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Prospectus and specimen of an history of marine architecture : drawn from the best authorities, and chronologically deduced from the earliest period to the present time ; illustrated by upwards of one hundred plates : exhibiting at least a thousand figures : accurately engraved by the most eminent artists : in three volumes Royal Quarto / by John Charnock, Esq.

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Creator:
Charnock, John, 1756–1807
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
[2], 20, 2 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Proposals for publishing by subscription, an engraving from the historical picture painted by John Singleton Copley, R.A. : and now exhibiting in a pavilion, erected through the gracious permission of the King for the purpose, in the Green Park : this work ... is to be placed in the council chamber of Guildhall as a testimony of respect to the late Lord Heathfield, then governor of Gibralter, Earl Howe, commander of the fleet ... for their gallant conduct displayed in the defence and relief of that important fortress.

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Date:
[180-]
Physical Description:
[4] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Interregnum.

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Creator:
Aikin, John, 1747–1822
Date:
[18--]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Proposals for publishing by subscription, in the course of the next spring, in one volume quarto, accompanied with seventeen plates, An Account and explanation of the paintings and other ornaments and decorations, discovered in the month of September last on the walls of the present House of Commons : including also, besides the history of these decorations and the building itself, a variety of original particulars as to the ancient state of the City of Westminster, and the Palace and other buildings there : and the principles and history of painting and Gothic architecture / by John Sidney Hawkins, Esq. F.A.A. ; the plates engraven by Mr. John Thomas Smith, from drawings made by himself on the spot.

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Creator:
Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758–1842
Date:
[1800]
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts