Creator Gender: unknown / Period: 19th century / Associated Places: Manchester

1. This work, comprising a series of the most interesting views of old halls, buildings &c. in Manchester and the neighbourhood : is by permission most respectfully dedicated to Sir Oswald Mosley Bart. Lord of the Manor of Manchester / by his obliged and obedient servant H.G. James.

This work, comprising a series of the most interesting views of old halls, buildings &c. in Manchester and the neighbourhood : is by permission most respectfully dedicated to Sir Oswald Mosley Bart. Lord of the Manor of Manchester / by his obliged and obedient servant H.G. James.

Creator:: James, H. G. (Henry Gould), -1842
Date:: [1821]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Billhead of James Sedgwick, Manchester clothier, for purchases by John Davenport, 1811.

Creator:: Sedgwick, James
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustration, 32 x 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Eastwood and Taylor : St. John Street, Manchester : decorators for banquets, balls, and bazaars, wedding celebrations, and coming-of-age festivals : stage scenery for amateur dramatic performances.

Eastwood and Taylor : St. John Street, Manchester : decorators for banquets, balls, and bazaars, wedding celebrations, and coming-of-age festivals : stage scenery for amateur dramatic performances.

Creator:: Eastwood and Taylor (Firm)
Date:: [approximately 1870]
Physical Description:: 1 folded card : color illustrations ; 14 x 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

4. C. J. Syrett : modern style printer : 67 & 37a, Oxford Street, Manchester : and North Pier, Blackpool.

Creator:: C. J. Syrett (Firm)
Date:: [1891?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustrations ; 15 x 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

5. An account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway : comprising a history of the parliamentary proceedings preparatory to the passing of the act, a description of the railway in an excursion from Liverpool to Manchester, and a popular illustration of the mechanical principles applicable to railways : also, an abstract of the expenditure from the commencement of the undertaking, with observations on the same / by Henry Booth, Treasurer to the Company.

Creator:: Booth, Henry, 1788–1869
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: [2], 104 p., [4] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The horse guards / by the two mounted sentries ; with twelve coloured illustrations.

Creator:: Hort, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1803 or 4–1857
Date:: 1850
Physical Description:: viii, 104 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. This work, comprising a series of the most interesting views of old halls, buildings &c. in Manchester and the neighbourhood : is by permission most respectfully dedicated to Sir Oswald Mosley Bart. Lord of the Manor of Manchester / by his obliged and obedient servant H.G. James.

Creator:: James, H. G. (Henry Gould), -1842
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [36] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Descriptive geometry models : for the use of students in schools & colleges / designed by Thomas Jones, gold medallist, member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Creator:: Jones, Thomas, 1844–1926
Date:: [between 1887 and 1900?]
Physical Description:: 12 unnumbered pages ; 20 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The celebrated double anchor excelsior Swiss silk bolting cloth double twist : manufactured by John Staniar & Co. silk merchants &c. : Manchester Wire Works, Manchester and Switzerland.

Creator:: John Staniar & Co. (Firm)
Date:: [approximately 1880]
Physical Description:: [12] pages : silk samples ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A handbook to the water colours, drawings, and engravings in the Art Treasures Exhibition : being a reprint of critical notices originally published in The Manchester Guardian.

Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 66 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. [Bill of A. & M. Bradley Dresses, Manchester, for purchases by Mrs. Davenport].

Creator:: A. & M. Bradley (Firm : Manchester)
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ; 17 x 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Percy Bros., general printers, Manchester.

Creator:: Fletcher, T.
Date:: [1890?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : color illustrations ; 23 x 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

13. John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition : containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French and German schools, with biographical sketches of the painters, and critical notices of their productions.

Creator:: Cassell, John, 1817–1865
Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: viii, 512 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A handbook to the gallery of British paintings in the Art Treasures Exhibition : being a reprint of critical notices originally published in The Manchester Guardian.

Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 127 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. A handbook to the paintings by ancient masters in the Art Treasures Exhibition : being a reprint of critical notices originally published in The Manchester Guardian.

Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 84 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Concerning velveteen.

Creator:: Henry Bannerman & Sons
Date:: [not before 1892]
Physical Description:: 130 pages : illustrations, samples ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. 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.

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

18. A leap-year's proposal / illustrated and written by Harry B. Neilson.

Creator:: Neilson, Harry B. (Harry Bingham), 1861–
Date:: [1889]
Physical Description:: [48] pages : illustrations ; 18 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Staffordshire : general & commercial directory for 1818, part second : containing the cy of Lichfield : the boroughs of Stafford and Tamworth : and the following market towns, viz. Abbots, Bromley, Burton as Trent, Cheadle, Eccleshall, Longnor, Penkridge, Rugeley, Stone, and Uttoxeter : with the neighboring villages : presenting an alphabetical list of the merchants, manufacturers, and inhabitants in general : to which is prefixed a continuation of the history of the countu of Stafford : compiled by the proprietors, Messrs. W. Parson and T. Bradshaw.

Date:: [1818]
Physical Description:: [4], ci-clxxii, [1], 132-274, 20 pages ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Every man his own printer, or, Lithography made easy : being an essay upon lithography in all its branches, showing more particularly the advantages of the "patent autographic press."

Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: 50 pages, [1], 9 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Human passions delineated in above 120 figures : droll, satyrical, and humorous : designed in the Hogarthian style, very useful for young practitioners in drawing / by Timothy Bobbin.

Creator:: Bobbin, Tim, 1708–1786
Date:: [1858]
Physical Description:: [33] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John E. Hankins

22. A handbook to the museum of ornamental art in the Art Treasures Exhibition / by J.B. Waring ... ; to which is added The armoury by J.R. Planché ... ; being a reprint of critical notices originally published in The Manchester Guardian.

Creator:: Waring, J. B. (John Burley), 1823–1875
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 80 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The art-treasures examiner : a pictorial, critical, and historical record of the Art-Treasures Exhibition, at Manchester, in 1857 : illustrated by upwards of 150 engravings on wood / by W.J. Linton, H. Linton, F.J. Smythe, R. Langton, W. Morton, T.S. Jewsbury, M. Carbonneau, M. Facnion, &c., &c.

Date:: [1857]
Physical Description:: vii, 300 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The pictorial record of the Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Manchester, 1887 / by Walter Tomlinson ; with special articles by Thomas W. Harris, Charles Estcourt and Joseph Nodal ; edited by John H. Nodal with illustrations by Hal Hurst and other artists.

Creator:: Tomlinson, Walter, b.1849
Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: xi, 148 p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. This work, comprising a series of the most interesting views of old halls, buildings &c. in Manchester and the neighbourhood : is by permission most respectfully dedicated to Sir Oswald Mosley Bart. Lord of the Manor of Manchester / by his obliged and obedient servant H.G. James.

2. Billhead of James Sedgwick, Manchester clothier, for purchases by John Davenport, 1811.

3. Eastwood and Taylor : St. John Street, Manchester : decorators for banquets, balls, and bazaars, wedding celebrations, and coming-of-age festivals : stage scenery for amateur dramatic performances.

4. C. J. Syrett : modern style printer : 67 & 37a, Oxford Street, Manchester : and North Pier, Blackpool.

6. The horse guards / by the two mounted sentries ; with twelve coloured illustrations.

7. This work, comprising a series of the most interesting views of old halls, buildings &c. in Manchester and the neighbourhood : is by permission most respectfully dedicated to Sir Oswald Mosley Bart. Lord of the Manor of Manchester / by his obliged and obedient servant H.G. James.

8. Descriptive geometry models : for the use of students in schools & colleges / designed by Thomas Jones, gold medallist, member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

9. The celebrated double anchor excelsior Swiss silk bolting cloth double twist : manufactured by John Staniar & Co. silk merchants &c. : Manchester Wire Works, Manchester and Switzerland.

10. A handbook to the water colours, drawings, and engravings in the Art Treasures Exhibition : being a reprint of critical notices originally published in The Manchester Guardian.

11. [Bill of A. & M. Bradley Dresses, Manchester, for purchases by Mrs. Davenport].

12. Percy Bros., general printers, Manchester.

13. John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition : containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French and German schools, with biographical sketches of the painters, and critical notices of their productions.

14. A handbook to the gallery of British paintings in the Art Treasures Exhibition : being a reprint of critical notices originally published in The Manchester Guardian.

15. A handbook to the paintings by ancient masters in the Art Treasures Exhibition : being a reprint of critical notices originally published in The Manchester Guardian.

16. Concerning velveteen.

18. A leap-year's proposal / illustrated and written by Harry B. Neilson.

20. Every man his own printer, or, Lithography made easy : being an essay upon lithography in all its branches, showing more particularly the advantages of the "patent autographic press."

21. Human passions delineated in above 120 figures : droll, satyrical, and humorous : designed in the Hogarthian style, very useful for young practitioners in drawing / by Timothy Bobbin.

22. A handbook to the museum of ornamental art in the Art Treasures Exhibition / by J.B. Waring ... ; to which is added The armoury by J.R. Planché ... ; being a reprint of critical notices originally published in The Manchester Guardian.

24. The pictorial record of the Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Manchester, 1887 / by Walter Tomlinson ; with special articles by Thomas W. Harris, Charles Estcourt and Joseph Nodal ; edited by John H. Nodal with illustrations by Hal Hurst and other artists.