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1. To all who are possessed of a laudable curiosity : and are desirous of inspecting the striking parts of the creation : there is to be seen, at the [blank] the beautiful zebra, or wild ass ... : it was brought from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1762, by Sir Thomas Adams.

To all who are possessed of a laudable curiosity : and are desirous of inspecting the striking parts of the creation : there is to be seen, at the [blank] the beautiful zebra, or wild ass ... : it was brought from the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1762, by Sir Thomas Adams.
Date:
[1773]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joseph Reed, Yale BA 1954, and Kit Reed

2. Newmarket, Mildenhall, and Swaffham stage waggons : by Thomas Archer.

Newmarket, Mildenhall, and Swaffham stage waggons : by Thomas Archer.
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
1 handbill ; 11 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton.

Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton.
Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
16, 222, [2] p., [28] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., port., map, 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Miseries of human life / designed and etched by T. Rowlandson.

Miseries of human life / designed and etched by T. Rowlandson.
Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:
[1808]
Physical Description:
[50] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The art of dancing explained by reading and figures : whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method / being the original work, first design'd in the year 1724, and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ; in two books.

The art of dancing explained by reading and figures : whereby the manner of performing the steps is made easy by a new and familiar method / being the original work, first design'd in the year 1724, and now published by Kellom Tomlinson, dancing-master ; in two books.
Creator:
Tomlinson, Kellom
Date:
MDCCXXXV [1735]
Physical Description:
[22], 159, [1] p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Hinton & Lock : toy makers, at the sign of the Orange Tree, the corner of Craborn Alley, in Little Newport Street near Leicester Fields.

Hinton & Lock : toy makers, at the sign of the Orange Tree, the corner of Craborn Alley, in Little Newport Street near Leicester Fields.
Creator:
Darly, M. (Mary)
Date:
[not after 1778]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Musical and poetical relicks of the Welsh bards : preserved by tradition, and authentic manuscripts, from remote antiquity : never before published : to the tunes are added variations for the harp, harpsichord, violin, or flute : with a choice collecton of the pennillion, epigrammatic stanzas, or, native pastoral sonnets of Wales, with English translations : likewise a history of the bards from the earliest period to the present time : and an account of their music, poetry, and musical instruments, with a delineation of the latter / dedicated, by permission, to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, by Edward Jones, of Henblas, Llandderfel, Merionethihire.

Musical and poetical relicks of the Welsh bards : preserved by tradition, and authentic manuscripts, from remote antiquity : never before published : to the tunes are added variations for the harp, harpsichord, violin, or flute : with a choice collecton of the pennillion, epigrammatic stanzas, or, native pastoral sonnets of Wales, with English translations : likewise a history of the bards from the earliest period to the present time : and an account of their music, poetry, and musical instruments, with a delineation of the latter / dedicated, by permission, to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, by Edward Jones, of Henblas, Llandderfel, Merionethihire.
Creator:
Jones, Edward, 1752–1824
Date:
1784
Physical Description:
[8], 78 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Characters / by Williams.

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Creator:
Williams, Charles, active 1797–1830
Date:
ca. 1800?]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. [Album of cut paper work].

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Date:
[179-?]
Physical Description:
1 volume (ca. 33 p.) ; 12 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. [Le beau monde].

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Date:
1823?]
Physical Description:
[19] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. 24 caricatures / by several ladies gentlemen artists &c.

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Date:
1771 [i.e. 1772]
Physical Description:
[2], 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. [Sketches of fairy land, or, A comparison between England & Lilliput].

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Creator:
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760–1809
Date:
1810]
Physical Description:
[12] leaves : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Physiognomy : being a sketch only of a larger work upon the same plan : wherein the different tempers, passions, and manners of men, will be particularly considered ... / by the editor of The history and antiquities of Wheatfield in Suffolk.

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Creator:
Clubbe, John, 1702 or 3–1773
Date:
1763
Physical Description:
30 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Hints on the formation of gardens and pleasure grounds : with designs, in various styles of rural embellishment : comprising plans for laying out flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, and the arrangement of glass-houses, hot walls, and stoves : interspersed with remarks on various subjects of horticultural improvement : to which is added, a priced catalogue of fruit and forest trees, shrubs, and plants : adapted to villa grounds, from one perch to a hundred acres in extent.

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Creator:
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783–1843
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 70, [2] p., 20 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The art of fencing, or, The use of the small sword / translated from the French of the late celebrated Monsieur L'Abbat, master of that art at the Academy of Toulouse, by Andrew Mahon, professor of the small sword.

No cover image available
Creator:
Labat, maître d'armes
Date:
MDCCXXXV [1735]
Physical Description:
[2], x, 133, [3] p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Traité des édifices, meubles, habits, machines et ustensils des chinois : gravé sur les originaux dessinés a la Chine / par M. Chambers, architecte anglois ; compris une description de leurs temples, maisons, jardins, &c.

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Creator:
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723–1796
Date:
MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Physical Description:
30 p., XX leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Plocacosmos, or, The whole art of hair dressing : wherein is contained, ample rules for the young artizan, more particularly for ladies women, valets, &c. &c. : as well as directions for persons to dress their own hair ... / by James Stewart. With an elegant frontispiece, and other copper-plates.

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Creator:
Stewart, James
Date:
MDCCLXXII [1782]
Physical Description:
[6], 435, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Letters to his son / Philip Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield ; selected, edited and introduced by James Harding ; wood-engravings by Richard Shirley Smith.

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Creator:
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694–1773
Date:
1973
Physical Description:
201, [1] p., 1 leaf of plates : ill., facsims., ports. : 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

19. Every man his own brewer : a small treatise, explaining the art and mystery of brewing porter, ale, twopenny, and table-beer; recommending and proving the ease and possibility of every man's brewing his own beer, in any quantity from one peck to a hundred quarters of malt, calculated by exposing the deception in brewing; to reduce the expence of a family and lessen the destructive practice of public-house tipling / by Samuel Child, brewer.

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Creator:
Child, Samuel
Date:
[1794?]
Physical Description:
20, [4] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. [Flower groups].

No cover image available
Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Costumes of the time of George II : designed for Her Majesty's state ball / by J. & T. Onwhyn.

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Creator:
Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886
Date:
[1845]
Physical Description:
[11] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. A country dance / designed by John Nixon, Esqr.

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Creator:
Nixon, John, -1818
Date:
Dec. 1, 1789
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([9] p.) : all ill. ; 31 x 229 cm., folded to 31 x 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. To the Queen this book of etchings, from papers cut by the Right Honourable Lady Templeton in the collection of Her Majesty, is with permission most humbly dedicated / by most devoted and very much obliged serv. P. W. Tomkins.

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Creator:
Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759–1840
Date:
[1790]
Physical Description:
[2] p., [12] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Coaching days of England : containing an account of whatever was most remarkable for grandeur, elegance and curiosity in the time of the coaches of England, comprehending the year 1750 until 1850 : together with an historical commentary by Anthony Burgess, and in addition decorated and illustrated with a great number of drawings, prints, and views in perspective gathered on purpose for this work.

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Date:
1966
Physical Description:
[2], 96 p., 25 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), ports., maps, facsims. ; 39 x 53 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

25. Mirroir de la mode.

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Date:
1803
Physical Description:
100 p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. [Batch of cakes]

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Date:
1818?]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. [Pattern book for English knife and fork handles].

No cover image available
Date:
[ca. 1780?]
Physical Description:
[5] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The elegancies of fashion and general remembrancer of taste and manners, or, Impartial record of painting, music, elegant literature, the theatre, costume, and arts conducive to the ornament or amusement of polished life / by Florio Honeysuckle. Vol. I.

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Creator:
Honeysuckle, Florio
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
1 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

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Creator:
Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718–1785
Date:
1772
Physical Description:
2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Comforts of Bath.

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Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:
[1798]
Physical Description:
12 prints : aquatint ; 19 x 24 cm, mounted to leaves in an album 27 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. A day's journal of a sponge / by Peter Pasquin [pseud.].

No cover image available
Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Cupid's magick lantern / from designs by Woodward ; etch'd by Rowlandson.

No cover image available
Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
[12] leaves : ill. ; 23 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Bill of expenses incurred by John Lawford for the funeral of William Bodimeade : manuscript.

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Date:
1794
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 26 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The establishment of the yearly charge of our dyett, with incidents for housekeeping : also wages & boardwages to the officers & servants of our house, chamber, chappells, & stables, with provisions for horses : also allowances, stipends, and pentions to old & supernumerary servants and widows, to commence the first day of October, 1714.

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Creator:
George I, King of Great Britain, 1660–1727
Date:
1714-1716
Physical Description:
1 volume (159, [1] pages) ; 47 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Book for a rainy day, or, Recollections of the events of the last sixty-six years / by John Thomas Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
306 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

36. The necessary qualifications of a man of fashion : twelve plates / designed and etched by D. T. Egerton.

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Creator:
Egerton, Daniel Thomas, 1797–1842
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
12 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Botanical collages from the circle of Booth Grey.

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Creator:
Grey, Booth, 1740–1802
Date:
1790s
Physical Description:
40 linear feet (139 items)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

38. Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possesion of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton, Esq.

No cover image available
Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1803
Physical Description:
16, 222, [2] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., port., map ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The florist, or, An extensive and curious collection of flowers, for the imitation of young ladies, either in drawing, or in needle-work / by A. Heckle.

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Creator:
Heckel, Augustin, approximately 1690–1770
Date:
[1759]
Physical Description:
[1], 5 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Cross readings : in eight humorous plates / by Peter Pasquin.

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Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:
1826
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates : all col. ill. ; 27 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Botanical dialogues : between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry. Designed for the use of schools, / by a lady.

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Creator:
Jackson, Maria Elizabeth
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
[2], xlv, [1], 335, [3] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts