On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Work Type: prospectuse

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. 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

3. 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

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. 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

6. 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

7. Collection of Cabaret Theatre Club and Cave of the Golden Calf printed ephemera, 1912-1914.

Creator:: Cabaret Theatre Club (London, England)
Date:: 1912-1914
Physical Description:: .42 linear feet (1 box, 11 items)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

8. Advertisement [graphic] : All noble men and gentlemen that please to have their mansion houses design'd on copper plates, to be printed for composeing a volume of the prospects of the principall houses of England, may have them done by Mr Hen. Winstanley by way of subscription ...

Advertisement [graphic] : All noble men and gentlemen that please to have their mansion houses design'd on copper plates, to be printed for composeing a volume of the prospects of the principall houses of England, may have them done by Mr Hen. Winstanley by way of subscription ...

Creator:: Winstanley, Henry, 1644–1703
Date:: 1670s?]
Physical Description:: 1 print on laid paper : etching ; plate mark 35.2 x 40.9 cm., on sheet 35.4 x 47.5 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. 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

10. Proposal for printing by subscription L'ecole des armes, ou, L'explication generale des principales attitudes et positions concernent l'escrime / written the first edition in French, the second in English, by Mr. Angelo Tremamondo, fencing master to Their Royal Highnesses Prince William Henry & Prince Henry Frederick.

Proposal for printing by subscription L'ecole des armes, ou, L'explication generale des principales attitudes et positions concernent l'escrime / written the first edition in French, the second in English, by Mr. Angelo Tremamondo, fencing master to Their Royal Highnesses Prince William Henry & Prince Henry Frederick.

Creator:: Angelo, Domenico, 1717?-1802
Date:: circa 1763
Physical Description:: [2] sheets ([4] p.) ; 31 x 46 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. Prospectus for Pen, paper & a box of paints : Albert Rutherson, illustrator and designer for the stage, by Ian Rogerson.

Creator:: Fleece Press
Date:: [2015]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : color illustrations ; 19 x 33 cm, folded to 19 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Julian Francis Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books

17. 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. ...

Creator:: Nooth, Charlotte
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. 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. ...

Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. 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.

Creator:: Griffiths, Thomas (Publisher)
Date:: February, 1815
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Booth, John (Bookseller)
Date:: January 25, 1814
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Northcote, James, 1746–1831
Date:: [1833]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. 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

23. 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.

24. 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 ...

Date:: [1811?]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Cooper, George, active 1792–1830
Date:: [1817]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. 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.

Date:: [1813?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The paste papers of the Golden Hind Press / by James H. Fraser.

Creator:: Fraser, James H. (James Howard), 1934–2013
Date:: 1983
Physical Description:: 17 pages, [9] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

28. Prospectus of a history of the county palatine and of the city of Chester : by Geo. Ormerod of Chorlton, Esq. M.A.F.S.A. : dedicated (with permission) to His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, Earl of Chester ; including King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities.

Date:: [1814?]
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

30. 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.

Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Prospectus of an improved mode of delineating estates.

Creator:: Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: [1], 6 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Schottland in Bildern / nach der Natur gezeichnet von T. Allom und W.H. Bartlett ; und mit beschreibendem Text von Wilhelm Beattie ... ; aus dem Englischen uebersetzt von Johann von Horn.

Creator:: Beattie, William, 1793–1875
Date:: [1838]
Physical Description:: [2] v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. This day is published, The morbid anatomy of the liver : being an inquiry into the anatomical character, symptoms, and treatment of certain diseases which impair or destroy the structure of that viscus : order 1, tumours, part I, on the Tubera Circumscripta and Tubera Diffusa : in imperial quarto, illustrated by coloured engravings, price 15s. : by J.R. Farre, M.D.

Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. This day is published, the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha, with critical, philological, and explanatory notes by the Rev. John Hewlett, B.D.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme
Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. In the press, and to be published immediately, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, dedicated by permission, to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, the entire works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt, the elder, by G.F. Nott, D.D.F.S.A., late fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Historical epitome of the several counties and islands in the United Kingdom : the county of Southampton forming the second volume of this work, is now in immediate preparation, and will be published within six calendar months of this date ... / the work will be illustrated ... by C. Greenwood, author of the large atlas of the counties of England and Wales, &c., under whose superintendence and management this work is conducted.

Creator:: Greenwood, C. (Christopher), 1786–1855
Date:: 1838?]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. In the course of the ensuing winter will be published, a reprint of the Morte d'Arthur.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1816?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Westminster Abbey : in the summer of 1816 will be published part the first of the History and antiquities of the Abbey Church of St Peter's : the whole to be illustrated by fifty engravings by J.P. Neale : with ample biographical notices by J. Norris Brewer.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: January, 1816
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. In the press, The history and antiquities of the county of Hertford : volume the first, containing the hundreds of cashio and dacorum : compiled from the best printed authorities and original records, preserved in private collections and public repositories : embellished with views of the most curious monuments of antiquities : drawn and engraven by the most eminent British artists : and illustrated with a map of the county by Robert Clutterbuck, of Watford, Esq. F.S.A.

Creator:: Nichols, firm, printers (London, England)
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Portraits of celebrated painters.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

42. 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.

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

43. Prospectus of a work now ready for the press, which under the title of Hibernia, proposes to treat, in an ample manner, of the ecclesiastical, topographical, and monastic antiquities of Ireland : by W. Monck Mason, Esq.

Creator:: Nichols, firm, printers (London, England)
Date:: [ca. 1818?]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Landseer. [Editado por Cândido Guinle de Paula Machado. Texto de Alberto Rangel.]

Creator:: Landseer, Charles, 1799 or 1800–1879
Date:: 1972]
Physical Description:: 162 p. (chiefly col. illus. part fold.) 40 x 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. In the course of the present month, will be published Part I. of Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions by Edmund Lodge, ESQ. Lancaster Herald, F.S.A. author of the biographical tracts attached to the "Holbein Heads."

Creator:: Lackington, Allen and Co
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. In the press and speedily will be published, in two volumes, royal quarto, with superb embellishments, an historical survey of the country of Cornwall by C.S. Gilbert.

Creator:: Congdon, John
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Picturesque tour of the Seine, from Paris to the sea : with particulars historical and descriptive / by M. Sauvan ; illustrated with twenty-four highly finished and coloured engravings, from drawings by A. Pugin and J. Gendall ; and accompanied by a map.

Creator:: Sauvan, Jean-Baptiste-Balthazar
Date:: MDCCCXXI [1821]
Physical Description:: [2], viii, 177 pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

49. The Highgrove florilegium : MMVIII [prospectus].

Date:: [2008]
Physical Description:: 1 v. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

50. The legal and literary journal, and mercantile magazine : to be continued monthly, and number three to be published January 1st, 1814 / conducted by John Williams, Esq., author of the Laws of trade and Commerce, &c. &c. ; assisted by several literary and commercial gentlemen.

Creator:: Williams, John, Esq
Date:: December 15, 1813
Physical Description:: [1] sheet ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The heart of the flute / Marco Antonio Montes de Oca ; translated by Laura Villaseñor ; introduction by Octavio Paz.

Creator:: Montes de Oca, Marco Antonio, 1932–2009
Date:: c1978
Physical Description:: [10], 60 p. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Proposals for publishing a picturesque voyage round Great Britain : illustrated with coloured engravings by William Daniell : to commence with a picturesque voyage from Land's End, towards Anglesea.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. New medical journal : on the 1st of January, 1814, will be published, in 8vo, no. I, to be continued monthly, of The London medical, surgical, and pharmaceutical repository, or, The surgeon-apothecary's and apothecary's journal and review / conducted by George Man Burrows ... William Royston ... Anthony Todd Thomson ... Robert Masters Kerrison ; ... assisted by a society of general practitioners.

Date:: [1813]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([3] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Code of health and longevity : the third edition : in one volume, octavo / by the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart.

Creator:: Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754–1835
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 2, 3, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Works by Mr. Ruskin / published by and to be had of George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent ... ; also to be obtained from the principal booksellers ...

Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: 12 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. The testament of Charlotte B. / edited & introduced by Marius Kociejowski ; decorated by Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Biggs, Charlotte, d. 1827
Date:: 1988
Physical Description:: 68 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

57. Themes in aquatint / Colin Franklin.

Creator:: Franklin, Colin
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: vii, 103 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. In the press, and speedily will be published, The history of Richard the Third, King of England. etc., composed in five books by Sir George Buck : now first printed entire from the original ms. in the possession of the editor : with an appendix of notes and documents by Charles Yarnold, Esq.

Creator:: Rees, Richard (Publisher)
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: [1] page ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Prospectus of a national work entitled Albyn's anthology, or, a select collection of the more ancient melodies, and vocal poetry, of the lowland and highland districts of Scotland and the Isles, hitherto unpublished.

Creator:: Campbell, Alexander, 1764–1824
Date:: [1815?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Proposals for publishing by subscription, Elements of chemical science, as applied to the arts and manufactures, and natural phaenomena, by J. Murray, "corresponding" member of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, member of the Norwich Philosophical Society, &c.

Creator:: Youngman, George
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Orme's collection of British field sports : illustrated in twenty beautifully coloured engravings from designs by S. Howitt.

Creator:: Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822
Date:: [1955]
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, 20 leaves of plates : facsims. ; 45 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

63. Proposals for publishing by subscription the memoirs of Zerah Colburn : in one volume quarto, embellished with a portrait : a child of just nine years of age who possesses the singular faculty of solving a great variety of arithmetical questions by the mere operation of the mind, and without the usual assistance of any visible symbol or contrivance

Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Prospectus of a new general atlas.

Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. Ravilious at war : the complete work of Eric Ravilious, September 1939-September 1942 / edited by Anne Ullmann ; with contributions from Barry and Saria Viney, Christopher Whittick and Simon Lawrence ; and a foreword by Brian Sewell.

Creator:: Ravilious, Eric William, 1903–1942
Date:: 2002
Physical Description:: 283 p. : ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. Racing at home and abroad : an authoritative treatise on racing in four volumes / by Charles Richardson, the Hon. George Lambton, H.A. Brown, Lieut.-Col. F.F. Maccabe, Thomas E. Healy, and other well-known writers ; original paintings and drawings by Major G.D. Giles, Lynwood Palmer, Alfred Bright, & Charles Simpson.

Creator:: London & Counties Press Association Limited
Date:: [1923?]
Physical Description:: [4] p. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Going, going ... gone! : [prospectus] / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

Creator:: King, Ronald, 1932–
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustration ; 26 x 45 cm, folded to 26 x 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ronald King

68. Prospectus for publishing by subscription : A work consisting of original academical studies from the human figure : and historical compositions selected from the works of the English School : interspersed with specimens from the Italian masters, particularly Raffaello d'Urbino ... / by James Minasi ...

Creator:: Whittingham and Rowland
Date:: [1812?]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Domestic manners of the Americans / by Mrs. Trollope.

Creator:: Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780–1863
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Sixteen contemporary wood engravers : a collection of wood engravings printed from the original blocks to accompany an exhibition.

Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: [3], 16, [1] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

71. Going, going ... gone! / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

Creator:: King, Ronald, 1932–
Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: 7 folded leaves in portfolio : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Proposals for publishing by subscription, a series of engravings of the principal military achievements of the British Army in Portugal : under the command of Lieut. General Lord Viscount Wellington.

Creator:: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co
Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Rural sports, a poem, by William Somerville, author of "The Chase" : to be published, by subscription, by R. Ackermann, No. 101, Strand.

Creator:: Somerville, William, 1675–1742
Date:: June 1, 1812
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Virtuoso--advt.

Date:: 1814
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. A collection of advertisements and a prospectus for Smith, Elder, and Co.

Creator:: Smith, Elder, and Co
Date:: 1831-1834
Physical Description:: 3 items
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Daniel King Circle Press archive, 1967-2003.

Creator:: King, Ron, 1932–
Date:: 1967-2003
Physical Description:: 30 linear feet
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ron King and Willow Legge

77. Mr. Bowyer's prospectus of a splendid national portrait of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, from an original picture painted by Thomas Lawrence ...

Creator:: Bowyer, Robert, 1758–1834
Date:: 1814]
Physical Description:: 2 p. ; 26 cm. (in case 33 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Prospectus of a work, (the first part of which will be published on the first of August next) to be entitled, The interregnum; or A history of the civil wars in Great Britain, from their commencement, in the seventeenth year of King Charles I. to the restoration of King Charles II. By John Aikin, M. D.

Date:: between 1812 and 1819]
Physical Description:: 2 p. 27 cm. (in case 29 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Perfect and imperfect enjoyments : poems / by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester ; with an introduction by Christopher Hibbert ; and illustrated with paintings by Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647–1680
Date:: 1992
Physical Description:: 109, [3] p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

80. Patrick Procktor : prints 1959-1985.

Creator:: Procktor, Patrick
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: 144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.

81. 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.

Creator:: Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet, ([2] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Specimen of The vicar of Wakefield : with thirty-two illustrations, engraved by John Thompson, from designs by William Mulready, R.A.

Creator:: Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Date:: MDCCCXLIII [1843]
Physical Description:: [2], 4 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Messer Pietro mio : the engravings / Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Shirley Smith, Richard
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: [12] prints : wood engravings ; 31 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

84. Prospectus for Drawings, by Michael Craig-Martin.

Creator:: Craig–Martin, Michael, Sir, born 1941
Date:: [2015?]
Physical Description:: 10 cards : chiefly illustrations ; cardboard sleeve 16 x 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Longman (Firm)
Date:: 1816]
Physical Description:: 4 p. ; 43 cm. (in case 49 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Specimens of James Nisbet & Company's illustrated books.

Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: [4] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Preparing for publication, by subscription, in one volume folio, illustrated with numerous engravings, a new edition of Thoresby's Ducatus leodiensis, by Thomas Dunham Whitaker, LL.D. F.S.A. ...

Date:: [1815?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The green book : a quarterly review of the visual and literary arts. Autumn 1985.

Date:: [1985]
Physical Description:: [64] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

89. 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.

Date:: [1814?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (2 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Michael Angelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel : ... facsimiles of original drawings, from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, made at the time of the paintings, and before the execution of the Last Judgment / ... engraved and published by J. Linnell.

Creator:: Linnell, John, 1792–1882
Date:: [1833-1835]
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [42] leaves of plates : all illustrations ; 30 x 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Introduction to the Original delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, intituled The beauties of England and Wales : comprising observations on the history and antiquities of the Britons ... : together with remarks on the progress of ... architecture in succeeding ages / by J. Norris Brewer.

Creator:: Brewer, J. N. (James Norris)
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: xl, 676 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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.

93. Preparing for publication, Des. Erasimi Rot. Concio de puero Iesu : olim pronunciata a puero in schola Iohannis Coleti Londini instituta in qua praesidebat imago pueri Iesu docentis specie : Editio nova : Londoni, Typis I. et I.B. Nichols, et S. Bentley, MDCCCXV.

Date:: September, 1815
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. 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.

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

95. Narrative of a journey to the falls of the Cavery : with an historical and descriptive account of the Neilgherry hills / by Lieutenant H. Jervis.

Creator:: Jervis, H. (Humphrey)
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: x, 144, [16] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Prospectus. The history of Little Johnny, the foundling of the late Doctor Syntax : a poem in eight monthly numbers.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: [1821?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Szirtes, George, 1948–
Date:: 2008
Physical Description:: 1 portfolio (unpaged, unbound) : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. On the 1st of February, 1814, was published, no. I, price two shillings, of The new monthly magazine.

Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([4] pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Course of lectures delivered at the Surry institution--advt.

Creator:: Landseer, John, 1769–1852
Date:: 1815
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Proposals for publishing by subscription, two prints, from pictures painted expressly to commemorate the glorious victories of Vittoria and the Pyrenees.

Creator:: Hassell and Rickards
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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2. 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.

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

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 ...

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Collection of Cabaret Theatre Club and Cave of the Golden Calf printed ephemera, 1912-1914.

8. Advertisement [graphic] : All noble men and gentlemen that please to have their mansion houses design'd on copper plates, to be printed for composeing a volume of the prospects of the principall houses of England, may have them done by Mr Hen. Winstanley by way of subscription ...

11. 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.

12. 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.

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

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

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

16. Prospectus for Pen, paper & a box of paints : Albert Rutherson, illustrator and designer for the stage, by Ian Rogerson.

17. 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. ...

18. 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. ...

19. 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.

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

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

22. Peter Biegel's racing pictures.

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

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

27. The paste papers of the Golden Hind Press / by James H. Fraser.

28. Prospectus of a history of the county palatine and of the city of Chester : by Geo. Ormerod of Chorlton, Esq. M.A.F.S.A. : dedicated (with permission) to His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, Earl of Chester ; including King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities.

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

31. Prospectus of an improved mode of delineating estates.

32. Schottland in Bildern / nach der Natur gezeichnet von T. Allom und W.H. Bartlett ; und mit beschreibendem Text von Wilhelm Beattie ... ; aus dem Englischen uebersetzt von Johann von Horn.

34. This day is published, the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha, with critical, philological, and explanatory notes by the Rev. John Hewlett, B.D.

37. In the course of the ensuing winter will be published, a reprint of the Morte d'Arthur.

38. Westminster Abbey : in the summer of 1816 will be published part the first of the History and antiquities of the Abbey Church of St Peter's : the whole to be illustrated by fifty engravings by J.P. Neale : with ample biographical notices by J. Norris Brewer.

40. Portraits of celebrated painters.

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

43. Prospectus of a work now ready for the press, which under the title of Hibernia, proposes to treat, in an ample manner, of the ecclesiastical, topographical, and monastic antiquities of Ireland : by W. Monck Mason, Esq.

44. Landseer. [Editado por Cândido Guinle de Paula Machado. Texto de Alberto Rangel.]

46. In the press and speedily will be published, in two volumes, royal quarto, with superb embellishments, an historical survey of the country of Cornwall by C.S. Gilbert.

47. Picturesque tour of the Seine, from Paris to the sea : with particulars historical and descriptive / by M. Sauvan ; illustrated with twenty-four highly finished and coloured engravings, from drawings by A. Pugin and J. Gendall ; and accompanied by a map.

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

49. The Highgrove florilegium : MMVIII [prospectus].

50. The legal and literary journal, and mercantile magazine : to be continued monthly, and number three to be published January 1st, 1814 / conducted by John Williams, Esq., author of the Laws of trade and Commerce, &c. &c. ; assisted by several literary and commercial gentlemen.

51. The heart of the flute / Marco Antonio Montes de Oca ; translated by Laura Villaseñor ; introduction by Octavio Paz.

52. Proposals for publishing a picturesque voyage round Great Britain : illustrated with coloured engravings by William Daniell : to commence with a picturesque voyage from Land's End, towards Anglesea.

54. Code of health and longevity : the third edition : in one volume, octavo / by the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart.

55. Works by Mr. Ruskin / published by and to be had of George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent ... ; also to be obtained from the principal booksellers ...

56. The testament of Charlotte B. / edited & introduced by Marius Kociejowski ; decorated by Richard Shirley Smith.

57. Themes in aquatint / Colin Franklin.

58. In the press, and speedily will be published, The history of Richard the Third, King of England. etc., composed in five books by Sir George Buck : now first printed entire from the original ms. in the possession of the editor : with an appendix of notes and documents by Charles Yarnold, Esq.

59. Prospectus of a national work entitled Albyn's anthology, or, a select collection of the more ancient melodies, and vocal poetry, of the lowland and highland districts of Scotland and the Isles, hitherto unpublished.

60. Proposals for publishing by subscription, Elements of chemical science, as applied to the arts and manufactures, and natural phaenomena, by J. Murray, "corresponding" member of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, member of the Norwich Philosophical Society, &c.

61. Orme's collection of British field sports : illustrated in twenty beautifully coloured engravings from designs by S. Howitt.

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

64. Prospectus of a new general atlas.

65. Ravilious at war : the complete work of Eric Ravilious, September 1939-September 1942 / edited by Anne Ullmann ; with contributions from Barry and Saria Viney, Christopher Whittick and Simon Lawrence ; and a foreword by Brian Sewell.

67. Going, going ... gone! : [prospectus] / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

69. Domestic manners of the Americans / by Mrs. Trollope.

70. Sixteen contemporary wood engravers : a collection of wood engravings printed from the original blocks to accompany an exhibition.

71. Going, going ... gone! / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

72. Proposals for publishing by subscription, a series of engravings of the principal military achievements of the British Army in Portugal : under the command of Lieut. General Lord Viscount Wellington.

73. Rural sports, a poem, by William Somerville, author of "The Chase" : to be published, by subscription, by R. Ackermann, No. 101, Strand.

74. Virtuoso--advt.

75. A collection of advertisements and a prospectus for Smith, Elder, and Co.

76. Daniel King Circle Press archive, 1967-2003.

77. Mr. Bowyer's prospectus of a splendid national portrait of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, from an original picture painted by Thomas Lawrence ...

79. Perfect and imperfect enjoyments : poems / by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester ; with an introduction by Christopher Hibbert ; and illustrated with paintings by Richard Shirley Smith.

80. Patrick Procktor : prints 1959-1985.

82. Specimen of The vicar of Wakefield : with thirty-two illustrations, engraved by John Thompson, from designs by William Mulready, R.A.

83. Messer Pietro mio : the engravings / Richard Shirley Smith.

84. Prospectus for Drawings, by Michael Craig-Martin.

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

86. Specimens of James Nisbet & Company's illustrated books.

87. Preparing for publication, by subscription, in one volume folio, illustrated with numerous engravings, a new edition of Thoresby's Ducatus leodiensis, by Thomas Dunham Whitaker, LL.D. F.S.A. ...

88. The green book : a quarterly review of the visual and literary arts. Autumn 1985.

90. Michael Angelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel : ... facsimiles of original drawings, from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, made at the time of the paintings, and before the execution of the Last Judgment / ... engraved and published by J. Linnell.

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

93. Preparing for publication, Des. Erasimi Rot. Concio de puero Iesu : olim pronunciata a puero in schola Iohannis Coleti Londini instituta in qua praesidebat imago pueri Iesu docentis specie : Editio nova : Londoni, Typis I. et I.B. Nichols, et S. Bentley, MDCCCXV.

95. Narrative of a journey to the falls of the Cavery : with an historical and descriptive account of the Neilgherry hills / by Lieutenant H. Jervis.