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1. Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body, with that of a tyger and a common fowl : in thirty tables, two copper-plates to each table, 20 inches by 15 : forming six numbers, ten plates to each number / the whole executed by George Stubbs, author of "The anatomy of the horse."

Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body, with that of a tyger and a common fowl : in thirty tables, two copper-plates to each table, 20 inches by 15 : forming six numbers, ten plates to each number / the whole executed by George Stubbs, author of "The anatomy of the horse."
Creator:
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:
[1802]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 29 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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

3. Views in the eastern archipelago : Borneo, Sarawak, Labuan &c. &c. &c. : from drawings made on the spot by Captn. Drinkwater Bethune, R.N.C., Commander L.G. Heath, R.N., and others / the descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John, Esqr., author of manners & customs of the Ancient Greek ; drawn on stone by J.W. Giles.

Views in the eastern archipelago : Borneo, Sarawak, Labuan &c. &c. &c. : from drawings made on the spot by Captn. Drinkwater Bethune, R.N.C., Commander L.G. Heath, R.N., and others / the descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John, Esqr., author of manners & customs of the Ancient Greek ; drawn on stone by J.W. Giles.
Creator:
St. John, James Augustus, 1795–1875
Date:
Augt., 1847
Physical Description:
3 portfolios : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Prospectus and catalogue of the British School : instituted for the perpetual exhibition and sale of the original works of modern artists : under the patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ...

Prospectus and catalogue of the British School : instituted for the perpetual exhibition and sale of the original works of modern artists : under the patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ...
Creator:
British School
Date:
1802
Physical Description:
45 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. The architectural antiquities of Great Britain : represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of various ancient English edifices : with historical and descriptive accounts of each / by John Britton.

The architectural antiquities of Great Britain : represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of various ancient English edifices : with historical and descriptive accounts of each / by John Britton.
Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1807-1826
Physical Description:
5 v. : ill., plans ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country, taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's Cathedral; to be published in four engravings. By Thomas Hornor.

Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country, taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's Cathedral; to be published in four engravings. By Thomas Hornor.
Creator:
Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
31 p. 3 fold. plates (incl. front.) 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The Waterloo banquet at Apsley House / by William Salter.

The Waterloo banquet at Apsley House / by William Salter.
Creator:
Moon, Francis Graham, 1796–1871
Date:
[1846?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 29 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Skute Awabo [Awabo Skute] / written, designed and printed by Ken Campbell, London 1992.

Skute Awabo [Awabo Skute] / written, designed and printed by Ken Campbell, London 1992.
Creator:
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022
Date:
1992
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 51 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Specimen of the wood cuts to Northcote's Fables : second series.

No cover image available
Creator:
Northcote, James, 1746–1831
Date:
[1833]
Physical Description:
8 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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.

15. Prospectus for publishing by subscription, Laporte's progressive lessons in landscape, from nature, in imitation of pencil, from the original drawings : to be contained in six numbers, price to subscribers nine shillings each.

No cover image available
Creator:
Griffiths, Thomas (Publisher)
Date:
February, 1815
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Proposals for publishing by subscription, twelve engravings of a series of views, of interesting scenes and achievements of the British Army in Spain and Portugal : under the command of His Excellency Lieutenant General the Marquis of Wellington, &c. &c. &c. : from original drawings made on the spot, by Major St. Clair, 21st Portuguese Infantry, and Captain Royal Scotts ; engraved by C. Turner ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1811?]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Peter Biegel's racing pictures.

Peter Biegel's racing pictures.
Creator:
Biegel, Peter
Date:
1983
Physical Description:
160 p. : col. ill. ; 25 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Books published by J. Taylor, High Holborn.

No cover image available
Creator:
Taylor, J
Date:
[1807]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Barfield, John, active 1790–1842
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
[180-]
Physical Description:
[4] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Prospectus for publishing in subscription The Oxford portfolio : offered to the nobility and gentry of the university / by G. Cooper.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cooper, George, active 1792–1830
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1822?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Proposals for publishing by subscription, original poems : with translations from the French, Italian, and Spanish : and a play, in five acts : by Charlotte Nooth, daughter to the late James Nooth, Esq. ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Nooth, Charlotte
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Proposals, for publishing by subscription, in ten monthly parts, forming one handsome volume, the Costume of Yorkshire : illustrated by forty highly-finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings, descriptive of the peculiar dress, occupation and manners of various inhabitants of that extensive and populous County : the first part to be published on the first of September, 1813.

No cover image available
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. This day are published, parts first and second, of Architectura ecclesiastica Londini, or the Ecclesiastical architecture of London.

No cover image available
Creator:
Booth, John (Bookseller)
Date:
January 25, 1814
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The remains of the ancient monastic architecture of England / by Joseph Potter, architect.

No cover image available
Creator:
Potter, Joseph, approximately 1797–1875
Date:
MDCCCXLIV [1844]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, 23 leaves of plates in various numberings : illustrations ; 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Golden Cockerel Press
Date:
[1943]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 17 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The boke of Iford / compiled by me, Harold A. Peto of Iford Manor from all the sources available in 1917 ; with a historical introduction by Robin Whalley.

The boke of Iford / compiled by me, Harold A. Peto of Iford Manor from all the sources available in 1917 ; with a historical introduction by Robin Whalley.
Creator:
Peto, Harold A. (Harold Ainsworth), 1854–1933
Date:
1993
Physical Description:
53 p. col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

30. Blank page.

No cover image available
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

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

No cover image available
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

32. Preparing for the press, an historical description of the cathedral church of Salisbury : including an account of the monuments, chiefly extracted from Gough's "Sepulchral Monuments," and other authentic documents : also, biographical memoirs of the Bishops of Salisbury, from the earliest period by W. Dodsworth, verger of the Cathedral.

No cover image available
Creator:
Brodie and Dowding
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Wood engravings : a selection, 1960 to 1977 / Richard Shirley Smith ; with a foreword by Laurence Whistler.

No cover image available
Creator:
Shirley Smith, Richard
Date:
1983
Physical Description:
73 p. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

34. To be published on the twenty-third of April, 1816, (being the anniversary of the 2nd century after his decease), an engraved portrait of Shakspeare, from the monumental bust at Stratford-upon-Avon.

No cover image available
Date:
[1816]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The late Earl of Beaconsfield.

No cover image available
Creator:
Belt, Richard Claude, 1851–1920
Date:
[1881?]
Physical Description:
[4] p. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Azrael & other poems / Sylvia Townsend Warner.

No cover image available
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.

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

No cover image available
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.

38. On the first of January next will be published in numbers, price 6d. each, to be continued weekly (or in parts containing eight numbers, prices 4s.), the whole intended to form two large volumes in quarto, The Holy Bible, including the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha : according to the authorised version, with notes, explanatory and practical.

No cover image available
Creator:
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)
Date:
[1813]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Proposals for printing a new and elegant edition of the life of King Robert Bruce, by John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen : and of the acts and deeds of Sir William Wallace, by Henry the Minstrel, commonly called Blind Harry with biographical sketches, notes, and a glossary by John Jamieson.

No cover image available
Creator:
James Ballantyne and Co
Date:
30th June, 1814
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

41. The burning of the books : a poem sequence / by George Szirtes ; based on Elias Canetti's novel "Auto da Fé ; illustrated by Ron King.

No cover image available
Creator:
Szirtes, George, 1948–
Date:
2008
Physical Description:
[8] p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The left-handed Punch : a new version of the comical tragedy of Punch and Judy / written by Roy Fisher ; designed and printed by Ronald King ; to be published by the Circle Press.

No cover image available
Creator:
Fisher, Roy, 1930–
Date:
1986
Physical Description:
[4] p. : ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. 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.

No cover image available
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

44. Twelve views in Corsica / drawn, etched, and published by W. Cowen ; dedicated, by permision, to Earl Fitzwilliam.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cowen, William, 1797–1860
Date:
MDCCCXLIII [1843]
Physical Description:
[2] p., [12] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. This day is published, part I. to VII. (to be continued quarterly) ... of The Border antiquities of England and Scotland : comprising specimens of architecture and sculpture, and other vestiges of former ages, from the earliest time to the union of the crown : accompanied by a sketch of border history : together with illustrations of remarkable incidents in border history and tradition : and much original poetry by Walter Scott, Esq.

No cover image available
Creator:
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:
[1814]
Physical Description:
1 sheet, ([2] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. 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.

No cover image available
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

47. Preparing for publication : The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London : extracted out of original charters, records, leiger books, and other manuscripts / by Sir William Dugdale ... ; with additions and a continuation by Henry Ellis ...

No cover image available
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
3 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
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.

49. Prospectus of A general history of the county of York. By Thomas Dunham Whitaker ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman (Firm)
Date:
1816]
Physical Description:
4 p. ; 43 cm. (in case 49 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Prospectus of an entire new and splendid publication, price 7s. 6d. each part, The virtuoso, or, Monthly preceptor of drawing : forming an elegant compendium of art, science, and amusement, on a new and attractive plan, calculated to instruct the mind, improve the talents, and gratify the taste.

No cover image available
Date:
[1814?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts