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1. Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions / by Edmund Lodge.

Creator:: Lodge, Edmund, 1756–1839
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: 12 v. in 6 : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

2. The works of James Gillray, the caricaturist : with the story of his life and times / edited by Thomas Wright ; with over four hundred illustrations.

Creator:: Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:: [1873]
Physical Description:: [2], 376 p., [81] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

3. Memoirs and recollections of the late Abraham Raimbach, esq., engraver ... Including a Memoir of Sir David Wilkie, R.A.: ed. by M.T.S. Raimbach ...

Creator:: Raimbach, Abraham, 1776–1843
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: viii, 203 p. front. (port.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

4. Decoration & furniture of town houses; a series of Cantor lectures delivered before the Society of Arts, 1880, amplified and enl., by Robert W. Edis, with 29 full-page illustrations and numerous sketches.

Creator:: Edis, Robert W. (Robert William), 1839–1927
Date:: 1881
Physical Description:: xvi, 292 p. front., illus., 28 pl. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

5. British mezzotint portraits; being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century. Arranged according to the engravers; the incriptions given at full length; and the variations of state precisely set forth; accompanied by biographical notes, and appendix of a selection of the prices produced at public sales by some of the specimens, down to the present time. By John Chaloner Smith ...

Creator:: Smith, John Chaloner, 1827–1895
Date:: 1884
Physical Description:: 4 v. fronts., illus., diagrs. 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

6. The Germ: thoughts towards nature in poetry, literature, andart. With an introd. by William Michael Rossetti.

Date:: [1965]
Physical Description:: 192 p. illus. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

7. A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. By Sir Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1854-55
Physical Description:: 2 v. front., plates, coats of arms. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

8. The peerage and baronetage of the British empire as at present existing / Arranged and printed from the personal communications of the nobility... By Edmund Lodge... With the arms of the peers.

Creator:: Lodge, Edmund, 1756–1839
Date:: 1874
Physical Description:: lxv, 869 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

9. A general catalogue of books / offered to the public at the affixed prices by Bernard Quaritch.

Creator:: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Date:: 1880
Physical Description:: x, 2395 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

10. A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography / by William Upcott ; with a new introd. by Jack Simmons.

Creator:: Upcott, William, 1779–1845
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: ca. 200 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

11. A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British empire, by John Burke, esq.

Creator:: Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: 2 v. front. (port.) illus. (coats of arms) 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

12. Treasures of art in Great Britain : being an account of the chief collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, illuminated mss., &c. &c. / by Dr. Waagen ...

Creator:: Waagen, Gustav Friedrich, 1794–1868
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: 3 volumes ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

13. Visits to remarkable places. Illus. designed and executed by Samuel Williams.

Creator:: Howitt, William, 1792–1879
Date:: 1891
Physical Description:: xvi, 468 p. illus. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

14. The story of my life / Augustus J.C. Hare.

Creator:: Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834–1903
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: 6 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

15. Vicissitudes of families, and other essays. By Sir Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1861
Physical Description:: vi, 437 p. 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

16. Lives of the engineers, with an account of their principal works: comprising also a history of inland communication in Britain. By Samuel Smiles ...

Creator:: Smiles, Samuel, 1812–1904
Date:: 1861-62
Physical Description:: 3 v. fronts., illus. (incl. maps, plans) plates, ports. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

17. A handbook for London : past and present / by Peter Cunningham.

Creator:: Cunningham, Peter, 1816–1869
Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (933 pages) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Scott Wilcox.

18. A history of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. [microform] / by Algernon Graves, F.S.A., and William Vine Cronin ...

Creator:: Graves, Algernon
Date:: 1899-1901
Physical Description:: 4 v. : fronts., 154 pl. (incl. ports., facsims.) ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19. Historical & descriptive account of the caricatures of James Gillray; comprising a political and humorous history of the latter part of the reign of George the Third [by] Thomas Wright and R. H. Evans.

Creator:: Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:: 1968
Physical Description:: xv, 496 p. port. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

20. A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire. By Sir Bernard Burke ...

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1866
Physical Description:: x, 636 p. front., coats of arms. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

21. Summary of progress of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum of Practical Geology.

Creator:: Geological Survey of Great Britain
Physical Description:: v. ill. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

22. A century of anecdote from 1760 to 1860, by John Timbs.

Creator:: Timbs, John, 1801–1875
Date:: [1873?]
Physical Description:: xxxi, 597 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

23. James Holmes and John Varley / by Alfred T. Story.

Creator:: Story, Alfred Thomas, 1842–1934
Date:: 1894
Physical Description:: x, 303 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

24. Memorials, by Roundell Palmer, earl of Selborne.

Creator:: Selborne, Roundell Palmer, Earl of, 1812–1895
Date:: 1896-98
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 4. 4 pl., 11 port. (incl. fronts.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

25. Beautiful Britain : the scenery and splendors of the United Kingdom, royal residences, homes of princes and noblemen, palaces, castles and stately houses, beauties of mountain, lake and river ...

Date:: 1895
Physical Description:: 384 p. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

26. English eccentrics and eccentricities. By John Timbs ...

Creator:: Timbs, John, 1801–1875
Date:: 1866
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

27. Le Neve's pedigrees of the knights made by King Charles II., King James II., King William III. and Queen Mary, King William alone, and Queen Anne. Ed. by George W. Marshall.

Creator:: Le Neve, Peter, 1661–1729
Date:: 1873
Physical Description:: ix, 546 p., 1 l. 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

28. The lost possessions of England; essays in imperial history, by Walter Frewen Lord ...

Creator:: Lord, Walter Frewen, 1861–1927
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: vii pp., 1 l., 326 pp. 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

29. Catalogue of the tombs in the churches of the city of London, A.D. 1666. By Major Payne Fisher, B.A.

Creator:: Fisher, Payne, 1616–1693
Date:: Printed 1668, Privately reprinted 1885
Physical Description:: vii, 94, [1] p. 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

30. Patronage of British art: an historical sketch, comprising an account of the rise and progress of art and artists in London, from the beginning of the reign of George the Second, together with a history of the Society for the Management and Distribution of the Artists' Fund ... London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845.

Patronage of British art: an historical sketch, comprising an account of the rise and progress of art and artists in London, from the beginning of the reign of George the Second, together with a history of the Society for the Management and Distribution of the Artists' Fund ... London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845.

Creator:: Pye, John, 1782–1874
Date:: 1970]
Physical Description:: [19], viii, 422, [1] p. (1 fold.). illus., facsims., ports. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

31. A history of the 'Old water-colour' society, now the Royal society of painters in water colours; with biographical notices of its older and of all deceased members and associates, preceded by an account of English water-colour art and artists in the eighteenth century, by John Lewis Roget.

Creator:: Roget, John Lewis, 1828–1908
Date:: 1891
Physical Description:: 2 v. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

32. Exhibition of drawings in water colours by artists born anterior to 1800, and now deceased, illustrative of the progress and development of that branch of the fine arts in Great Britain.

Creator:: Burlington Fine Arts Club
Date:: 1871
Physical Description:: 80 p. 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

33. British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood.

Date:: 1881
Physical Description:: vi, 162 p. 80 pl. 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

34. The Birth of "The Studio" 1893-1895.

Date:: [1976]
Physical Description:: [1], 176, [1] p. : ill., facsims., plans, ports. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

35. Memorials of Millbank, and chapters in prison history / by Arthur Griffiths ; with illustrations by R. Goff and the author.

Creator:: Griffiths, Arthur, 1838–1908
Date:: 1884
Physical Description:: x, 468 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

36. A series of letters of the first Earl of Malmesbury : his family and friends from 1745 to 1820 / edited, with notes &c., by his grandson the Right Hon. the Earl of Malmesbury, G.C.B. ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Malmesbury, James Harris, Earl of, 1746–1820
Date:: MDCCCLXX [1870]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

37. Catalogue of a few finished original pictures, particularly the First Installation of the Order of the Garter : one of the most elaborate works of the late Benjamin West, Esq. P.R.A. ... / which will be sold by auction by Mr. Geo. Robins ... the 20th and 22d June, 1829.

Creator:: West, Benjamin, 1738–1820
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: 16 p. ; 22 cm. in folder 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Holland house. By Princess Marie Liechtenstein.

Creator:: Liechtenstein, Marie Henriette Norberte, prinzessin von, 1843–
Date:: 1874
Physical Description:: 2 v. fronts., illus., ports, facsims. (part fold.) 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

39. The English school of painting. By Ernest Chesneau. Tr. by Lucy N. Etherington. With a preface by Professor Ruskin.

Creator:: Chesneau, Ernest, 1833–1890
Date:: 1885
Physical Description:: xliii, 339 p. illus. 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

40. History of England : comprising the reign of Queen Anne until the peace of Utrecht / by Earl Stanhope.

Creator:: Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl, 1805–1875
Date:: 1870
Physical Description:: xxii, 584 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

41. A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1863
Physical Description:: 2 v. (1267 p.) coats of arms. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

42. A historical description of Westminster Abbey, its monuments and curiosities.

Creator:: Westminster Abbey
Date:: [1870?]
Physical Description:: 132 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

43. Studies in English art. By Frederick Wedmore.

Creator:: Wedmore, Frederick, Sir, 1844–1921
Date:: 1876
Physical Description:: xi p., 2 l., [3]-239, [1] p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

44. Seats of the nobility and gentry in Great Britain and Wales / William Angus.

Creator:: Angus, William, 1752–1821
Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: [157] p. : ill. ; 19 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

45. The book of British topography. A classified catalogue of the topographical works in the library of the British museum relating to Great Britain and Ireland. By John P. Anderson ...

Creator:: Anderson, John Parker, 1841–
Date:: 1881
Physical Description:: xvi, 472 p. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

46. Galleries and cabinets of art in Great Britain : being an account of more than forty collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, mss., &c. &c. visited in 1854 and 1856, and now for the first time described / By Dr. Waagen ... Forming a supplemental volume to the Treasures of art in Great Britain ...

Creator:: Waagen, Gustav Friedrich, 1794–1868
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: vii, 560 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

47. Vanity fair album: a show of sovereigns, statesmen, judges, and men of the day. With biographical and critical notices ...

Date:: 1869-19
Physical Description:: v. col. ports. 37-39 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

48. Last homes of departed genius; with biographical sketches of poets, painters, and players. By T.P. Grinsted ..

Creator:: Grinsted, T. P
Date:: 1867
Physical Description:: xiii, 304 p. front., plates. 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

49. A series of plans for cottages or habitations of the labourer, either in husbandry or the mechanic arts, adapted as well to towns as to the country ..., by the late J. Wood.

A series of plans for cottages or habitations of the labourer, either in husbandry or the mechanic arts, adapted as well to towns as to the country ..., by the late J. Wood.

Creator:: Wood, John, -1782
Date:: 1972
Physical Description:: 31 p., 30 leaves. illus., plans. 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

50. Vicissitudes of families, by Sir Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1869
Physical Description:: 2 v. 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

51. The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. By Sir Bernard Burke ... With a supplement.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1969
Physical Description:: cxxx, 1185 p. 18 p. illus. 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

52. Supplemental papers by the Church-goer, making the fourth collection from the same source.

Creator:: Leech, Joseph
Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: x, 186 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

53. A second series of vicissitudes of families / by Sir Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1861
Physical Description:: 436 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

54. The gallery of modern sculpture. Ed. by S.C. Hall, esq. ...

Creator:: Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800–1889
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: [178] p. 77 pl. 36 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

55. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. A list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards, worth Ł3,000 a year, in England, Scotland, Ireland & Wales, their income from land, avreage, colleges, clubs, and services, culled from The modern Domesday book. Corrected in the vast majority of cases by the owners themselves.

Creator:: Bateman, John
Date:: 1879
Physical Description:: xxviii, 488, 31 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

56. The book of dignities; containing rolls of the official personages of the British Empire ... from the earliest periods to the present time ... together with the sovereigns of Europe, from the foundation of their respective states; the peerage of England and Great Britain ... by Joseph Haydn ...

Creator:: Haydn, Joseph, 1786 or 1787–1856
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 2 v. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

57. Biographical catalogue of the pictures at Woburn Abbey. Compiled by Adeline Marie Tavistock and Ela M. S. Russell.

Creator:: Bedford, Adeline Marie Somers-Cocks Russell, Duchess of, 1852–1920
Date:: 1890-[1892?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. illus. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

58. The railroad book of England: historical, topographical, and picturesque; descriptive of the cities, towns, country seats and other subject s of local interest.

Creator:: Churton, Edward, d. 1885
Date:: 1851]
Physical Description:: xxxiv, 590 p. incl. front., illus. fold. map. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

59. An account of the portraits of the Dilettanti Society, 1885.

Creator:: Society of Dilettanti (London, England)
Date:: 1885?]
Physical Description:: 8 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

60. The rail road book of England: historical, topographical and picturesque; descriptive of the cities, towns, country seats, and other subjects of local interest, with a brief sketch of the lines in Scotland and Wales.

Creator:: Churton, Edward, d. 1885
Date:: 1973-
Physical Description:: v. illus., map. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

61. The genealogical magazine : a journal of family history, heraldry, and pedigrees.

Date:: 1898-1904
Physical Description:: 8 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

62. Debrett's House of commons. Illustrated with ... armorial engravings.

Physical Description:: illus. 19-27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

63. A history of England from the first invasion by the Romans continued down to the year 1863; with conversations at the end of each chapter, by Mrs. Markham. For the use of young persons.

Creator:: Penrose, Elizabeth Cartwright, 1780–1837
Date:: 1869
Physical Description:: x, 510 p. illus. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

64. The chronicles of Newgate, by Arthur Griffiths ...

Creator:: Griffiths, Arthur, 1838–1908
Date:: 1884
Physical Description:: 2 v. fronts., illus., plates, ports., plans. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

65. Opie and his works: being a catalogue of 760 pictures by John Opie,R.A., preceded by a biographical sketch by John Jope Rogers ...

Creator:: Rogers, John Jope, 1816–1880
Date:: 1878
Physical Description:: xv, 247 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

66. The peerage, baronetage, and knightage of the British Empire for 1881 / By Joseph Foster.

Creator:: Foster, Joseph, 1844–1905
Date:: 1881?
Physical Description:: 2 v. : coats of arms. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

67. Memoir of the life of William James Müller : a native of Bristol, landscape and figure painter, with original letters and an account of his travels and of his principal works / by N. Neal Solly ; author of "The Life of David Cox" ; illustrated with photographs from painting and sketches by the artist's own hand.

Creator:: Solly, N. Neal (Nathaniel Neal), 1811–1895
Date:: 1875
Physical Description:: xxii, 369, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules David Prown.

68. A history of England in the eighteenth century / by William Edward Hartpole Lecky.

Creator:: Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, 1838–1903
Date:: 1892
Physical Description:: 7 v. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

69. Blaeu's Atlas of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland [cartographic material] / with an introduction by R.V. Tooley and 115 maps of which 5 are coloured and Blaeu's title pages in colour.

Blaeu's Atlas of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland [cartographic material] / with an introduction by R.V. Tooley and 115 maps of which 5 are coloured and Blaeu's title pages in colour.

Creator:: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571–1638
Date:: [1970]
Physical Description:: 16 p., 230 plates : 2 col. illus., coats of arms, maps. ; 54 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

70. A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland / by John Burke and John Bernard Burke.

A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland / by John Burke and John Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: 644 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

71. The chronicles of crime, or, The new Newgate calendar. Being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841 ... Including a number of curious cases never before published. Embellished with engravings, from original drawings by "Phiz" / By Camden Pelham.

Creator:: Pelham, Camden, pseud
Date:: 1886
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

72. The Huth library. A catalogue of the printed books, manuscripts, autograph letters, and engravings, collected by Henry Huth, with collations and bibliographical descriptions ...

Creator:: Huth, Henry, 1815–1878
Date:: 1880
Physical Description:: 5 v. front. (port.) 2 double pl. 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

73. Catalogue of the ... exhibition ...

Creator:: Norwich Art Circle
Date:: 1885-
Physical Description:: v. illus. (incl. facsim.) plates, ports. 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

74. The life and letters of Lord Macaulay / by George Otto Trevelyan.

Creator:: Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838–1928
Date:: 1877
Physical Description:: 2 v. : port. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

75. Homes of family names in Great Britain.

Creator:: Guppy, H. B. (Henry Brougham), 1854–1926
Date:: 1968
Physical Description:: lxv, 601 p. maps. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

76. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke.

A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke.

Creator:: Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

77. A dictionary of artists of the English school: painters, sculptors, architects, engravers and ornamentists: with notices of their lives and works by Samuel Redgrave.

Creator:: Redgrave, Samuel, 1802–1876
Date:: 1874
Physical Description:: vii, 473 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

78. The earlier English water-colour painters, by Cosmo Monkhouse.

Creator:: Monkhouse, W. Cosmo (William Cosmo), 1840–1901
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: xiv, 270 pp., 1 l. front., pl. 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

79. Great Britain [microform] : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker.

Creator:: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Date:: 1894
Physical Description:: lxiv, 547 p. front., pl., maps, plans. 16 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

80. British miniature painters and their works, by J. J. Foster.

Creator:: Foster, J. J. (Joshua James), 1847–1923
Date:: 1898
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., xii p., 1 ., 124, 146, [6] p. LIX (i. e. 60) pl. incl. front. 32 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

81. Contributions towards a dictionary of English book-collectors, as also of some foreign collectors whose libraries were incorporated in English collections or whose books are chiefly met with in England, by Edward Burbidge [and others]

Creator:: Quaritch, Bernard, 1819–1899
Date:: [1968]
Physical Description:: 14 pts. in 1 v. illus., facsims., ports. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

82. The Paget papers; diplomatic and other correspondence of the Right Hon. Sir Arthur Paget, G.C.B., 1794-1807. <With two appendices 1808 & 1821-1829> Arranged and ed. by his son, the Right Hon. Sir Augustus B. Paget ... With notes by Mrs. J.R. Green. Twenty-four portraits.

Creator:: Paget, Arthur, Sir, 1771–1840
Date:: 1896
Physical Description:: 2 v. fronts., pl., ports. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

83. History from marble. Comp. in the reign of Charles II. by Thomas Dingley, gent. Printed in photolithography by Vincent Brooks, from the original in the possession of Sir Thomas E. Winnington, bart. With an introduction and descriptive table of contents by John Gough Nichols.

Creator:: Dingley, Thomas, d. 1695
Date:: 1867-1868
Physical Description:: 2 v. illus. 23 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

84. Chronicles of the tombs. A select collection of epitaphs, preceded by an essay on epitaphs, preceded by an essay on epitaphs and other monumentalinscriptions on sepulchral antiquities. By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew ...

Creator:: Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph, 1791–1865
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: v, 529 p. illus. 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

85. Life of Thomas Gainsborough. By the late George Williams Fulcher, edited by his son.

Creator:: Fulcher, G. W. (George Williams), 1795–1855
Date:: 1856
Physical Description:: viii, 239 p. illus.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. A correct catalogue of the works of Mr. West.

Collection:: Reference Library

87. Catalogue of autograph letters, historical and literary documents, engraved portraits forming part of the collection of a member of the Incorporated law society, exhibited by the society at meetings held in their hall on the evenings of July 8, 10, and 11, 1862.

Creator:: [Young, John], 1805–1874
Date:: 1862]
Physical Description:: 3 p. l., [5]-82 p. 28 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

88. A book for a rainy day; or, Recollections of the events of the years 1766-1833.

Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:: 1861
Physical Description:: iv, 315 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

89. Eighteenth century vignettes / by Austin Dobson.

Creator:: Dobson, Austin, 1840–1921
Date:: 1892
Physical Description:: 261, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (folded) ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

90. A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain. By John Bernard Burke.

Creator:: Burke, Bernard, 1814–1892
Date:: 1852-53
Physical Description:: 2 v. front., plates, coats of arms. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

91. Exhibition of drawings in water colours by artists born in or subsequent to 1800, and now deceased, or who, born previous to that date, have died since the exhibition of the Club in 1871, illustrative of the progress and development of that branch of the fine arts in Great Britain.

Creator:: Burlington Fine Arts Club
Date:: 1880
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 55 p. 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

92. British contemporary artists / by Cosmo Monkhouse.

Creator:: Monkhouse, W. Cosmo (William Cosmo), 1840–1901
Date:: 1899
Physical Description:: xxi, 266 p. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

93. Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica.

Physical Description:: v. ill. 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

94. A portion of the journal kept by Thomas Raikes from 1831 to 1847, comprising reminiscences of social and political life in London and Paris during the period.

Creator:: Raikes, Thomas, 1777–1848
Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: 2 v. illus. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

95. A century of painters of the English school, by Richard Redgrave and Samuel Redgrave.

Creator:: Redgrave, Richard, 1804–1888
Date:: [pref. 1890]
Physical Description:: xxiv, 479 p. illus. 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

96. Old country life, by S. Baring Gould. With illus. by W. Parkinson, F.D. Bedford, and F. Masey.

Creator:: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834–1924
Date:: 1895
Physical Description:: viii, 358 p. illus. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

97. Vitruvius Britannicus : the classic of eighteenth-century British architecture / Colen Campbell.

Creator:: Campbell, Colen, 1676–1729
Date:: 2007
Physical Description:: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

98. Social life in the reign of Queen Anne : taken from original sources / by John Ashton.

Creator:: Ashton, John, 1834–1911
Date:: 1882
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

99. British mezzotinto portraits : being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century : arranged according to the engravers, the inscriptions given at full length, and the variations of state precisely set forth : accompanied by biographical notes, and appendix of a selection of the prices produced at public sales by some of the specimens, down to the present time / by John Chaloner Smith.

Creator:: Smith, John Chaloner, 1827–1895
Date:: 2004
Physical Description:: 4 v. in 2 ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

100. The Field.

Date:: 1853-
Physical Description:: v. : ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions / by Edmund Lodge.

2. The works of James Gillray, the caricaturist : with the story of his life and times / edited by Thomas Wright ; with over four hundred illustrations.

3. Memoirs and recollections of the late Abraham Raimbach, esq., engraver ... Including a Memoir of Sir David Wilkie, R.A.: ed. by M.T.S. Raimbach ...

4. Decoration & furniture of town houses; a series of Cantor lectures delivered before the Society of Arts, 1880, amplified and enl., by Robert W. Edis, with 29 full-page illustrations and numerous sketches.

6. The Germ: thoughts towards nature in poetry, literature, andart. With an introd. by William Michael Rossetti.

7. A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. By Sir Bernard Burke.

8. The peerage and baronetage of the British empire as at present existing / Arranged and printed from the personal communications of the nobility... By Edmund Lodge... With the arms of the peers.

9. A general catalogue of books / offered to the public at the affixed prices by Bernard Quaritch.

10. A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography / by William Upcott ; with a new introd. by Jack Simmons.

11. A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British empire, by John Burke, esq.

12. Treasures of art in Great Britain : being an account of the chief collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, illuminated mss., &c. &c. / by Dr. Waagen ...

13. Visits to remarkable places. Illus. designed and executed by Samuel Williams.

14. The story of my life / Augustus J.C. Hare.

15. Vicissitudes of families, and other essays. By Sir Bernard Burke.

16. Lives of the engineers, with an account of their principal works: comprising also a history of inland communication in Britain. By Samuel Smiles ...

17. A handbook for London : past and present / by Peter Cunningham.

18. A history of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. [microform] / by Algernon Graves, F.S.A., and William Vine Cronin ...

19. Historical & descriptive account of the caricatures of James Gillray; comprising a political and humorous history of the latter part of the reign of George the Third [by] Thomas Wright and R. H. Evans.

20. A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire. By Sir Bernard Burke ...

21. Summary of progress of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum of Practical Geology.

22. A century of anecdote from 1760 to 1860, by John Timbs.

23. James Holmes and John Varley / by Alfred T. Story.

24. Memorials, by Roundell Palmer, earl of Selborne.

25. Beautiful Britain : the scenery and splendors of the United Kingdom, royal residences, homes of princes and noblemen, palaces, castles and stately houses, beauties of mountain, lake and river ...

26. English eccentrics and eccentricities. By John Timbs ...

27. Le Neve's pedigrees of the knights made by King Charles II., King James II., King William III. and Queen Mary, King William alone, and Queen Anne. Ed. by George W. Marshall.

28. The lost possessions of England; essays in imperial history, by Walter Frewen Lord ...

29. Catalogue of the tombs in the churches of the city of London, A.D. 1666. By Major Payne Fisher, B.A.

31. A history of the 'Old water-colour' society, now the Royal society of painters in water colours; with biographical notices of its older and of all deceased members and associates, preceded by an account of English water-colour art and artists in the eighteenth century, by John Lewis Roget.

32. Exhibition of drawings in water colours by artists born anterior to 1800, and now deceased, illustrative of the progress and development of that branch of the fine arts in Great Britain.

33. British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood.

34. The Birth of "The Studio" 1893-1895.

35. Memorials of Millbank, and chapters in prison history / by Arthur Griffiths ; with illustrations by R. Goff and the author.

36. A series of letters of the first Earl of Malmesbury : his family and friends from 1745 to 1820 / edited, with notes &c., by his grandson the Right Hon. the Earl of Malmesbury, G.C.B. ; in two volumes.

37. Catalogue of a few finished original pictures, particularly the First Installation of the Order of the Garter : one of the most elaborate works of the late Benjamin West, Esq. P.R.A. ... / which will be sold by auction by Mr. Geo. Robins ... the 20th and 22d June, 1829.

38. Holland house. By Princess Marie Liechtenstein.

39. The English school of painting. By Ernest Chesneau. Tr. by Lucy N. Etherington. With a preface by Professor Ruskin.

40. History of England : comprising the reign of Queen Anne until the peace of Utrecht / by Earl Stanhope.

41. A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire.

42. A historical description of Westminster Abbey, its monuments and curiosities.

43. Studies in English art. By Frederick Wedmore.

44. Seats of the nobility and gentry in Great Britain and Wales / William Angus.

45. The book of British topography. A classified catalogue of the topographical works in the library of the British museum relating to Great Britain and Ireland. By John P. Anderson ...

47. Vanity fair album: a show of sovereigns, statesmen, judges, and men of the day. With biographical and critical notices ...

48. Last homes of departed genius; with biographical sketches of poets, painters, and players. By T.P. Grinsted ..

49. A series of plans for cottages or habitations of the labourer, either in husbandry or the mechanic arts, adapted as well to towns as to the country ..., by the late J. Wood.

50. Vicissitudes of families, by Sir Bernard Burke.

51. The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. By Sir Bernard Burke ... With a supplement.

52. Supplemental papers by the Church-goer, making the fourth collection from the same source.

53. A second series of vicissitudes of families / by Sir Bernard Burke.

54. The gallery of modern sculpture. Ed. by S.C. Hall, esq. ...

56. The book of dignities; containing rolls of the official personages of the British Empire ... from the earliest periods to the present time ... together with the sovereigns of Europe, from the foundation of their respective states; the peerage of England and Great Britain ... by Joseph Haydn ...

57. Biographical catalogue of the pictures at Woburn Abbey. Compiled by Adeline Marie Tavistock and Ela M. S. Russell.

58. The railroad book of England: historical, topographical, and picturesque; descriptive of the cities, towns, country seats and other subject s of local interest.

59. An account of the portraits of the Dilettanti Society, 1885.

60. The rail road book of England: historical, topographical and picturesque; descriptive of the cities, towns, country seats, and other subjects of local interest, with a brief sketch of the lines in Scotland and Wales.

61. The genealogical magazine : a journal of family history, heraldry, and pedigrees.

62. Debrett's House of commons. Illustrated with ... armorial engravings.

63. A history of England from the first invasion by the Romans continued down to the year 1863; with conversations at the end of each chapter, by Mrs. Markham. For the use of young persons.

64. The chronicles of Newgate, by Arthur Griffiths ...

65. Opie and his works: being a catalogue of 760 pictures by John Opie,R.A., preceded by a biographical sketch by John Jope Rogers ...

66. The peerage, baronetage, and knightage of the British Empire for 1881 / By Joseph Foster.

68. A history of England in the eighteenth century / by William Edward Hartpole Lecky.

69. Blaeu's Atlas of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland [cartographic material] / with an introduction by R.V. Tooley and 115 maps of which 5 are coloured and Blaeu's title pages in colour.

70. A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland / by John Burke and John Bernard Burke.

72. The Huth library. A catalogue of the printed books, manuscripts, autograph letters, and engravings, collected by Henry Huth, with collations and bibliographical descriptions ...

73. Catalogue of the ... exhibition ...

74. The life and letters of Lord Macaulay / by George Otto Trevelyan.

75. Homes of family names in Great Britain.

76. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke.

77. A dictionary of artists of the English school: painters, sculptors, architects, engravers and ornamentists: with notices of their lives and works by Samuel Redgrave.

78. The earlier English water-colour painters, by Cosmo Monkhouse.

79. Great Britain [microform] : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker.