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1. The coinage of the British Empire : an outline of the progress of the coinage in Great Britain and her dependencies : from the earliest period to the present time / by Henry Noel Humphreys ... ; illustrated by facsimiles of the coins of each period, worked in gold, silver, and copper.

Creator:: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 160 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The magic ring : a merry game.

Date:: [between 1855 and 1870]
Physical Description:: 1 game (56 playing cards, 1 game board, 1 sheet of instructions) ; in box 19 x 17 x 4 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Greening : tanner, currier, saddler, collar and harness maker : Dorchester.

Date:: ca. 1855?
Physical Description:: 1 printing plate : copper ; 90 x 70 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

4. Exhibition of water-colour drawings and pictures by amateur artists : and art contributions in aid of the Fund for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of British Officers Engaged in the War with Russia : gallery, 121, Pall Mall, opposite the opera colonnade.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 52 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Album and commonplace book.

Creator:: H. C. B
Date:: ca. 1855?
Physical Description:: 1 v. (approximately 70 leaves) ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The visit of Their Imperial Majesties, the Emperor and Empress of the French, to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, April, l855. From drawings executed, at the command of Her Majesty, by Louis Haghe, Edouard Morin, and George Thomas, with letter-press descriptions by Shirley Brooks.

Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 1 p.l., 5, [1] p., 8 col. pl. 63 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Illustrations of the British paper manufacture / manufactured by Mr. T. H. Saunders ...

Creator:: Saunders, T. H
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [20] leaves, [3] leaves of plates (1 folding) : ill. ; 70 cm. + 123, [6] paper samples
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Wanderings and pencillings amongst ruins of the olden time, a series of seventy-three etchings, by George Cuitt. With descriptive letterpress.

Creator:: Cuit, George, 1743–1818
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 38 pages frontispiece, mounted illustrations, plates 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Ashbee and Dangerfield, lithographic artists & printers in colors, ornamental designers and engravers on wood & copper : 22 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C.

Creator:: Ashbee & Dangerfield
Date:: [between 1855 and 1860]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 32 x 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Hand-book of water-colours : a brief treatise on their qualities and effects when employed in painting : with some account of the general nature of colours / by W. Winsor and H.C. Newton ...

Creator:: Winsor, W
Date:: [ca. 1855]
Physical Description:: 34, [8] p. ; 19 cm. in folder 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton, 1855-1875.

Creator:: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882
Date:: 1855-1875
Physical Description:: 53 letters (1 box)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Art of landscape painting in water colours / by Thomas Rowbotham and Thomas L. Rowbotham.

Creator:: Rowbotham, Thomas Leeson, 1783–1853
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: vii, 2, 47 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Alliance ribbon, produced to commemorate the Crimean War.

Creator:: Hart, James, active 1850s-1870s
Date:: circa 1855
Physical Description:: 1 ribbon : machine-woven silk ; 34.5 x 5.5 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The flowering plants and ferns of Great Britain. By Anne Pratt ...

Creator:: Pratt, Anne, 1806–1893
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 5 v. front. (v. 1) col. plates. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Souvenir of the North.

Date:: 1855?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([40] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 14 x 400 cm., folded to 14 x 10 cm., attached to boards 15 x 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Embossed picture cards.

Creator:: Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: 16 cards : color illustrations ; each 10 x 7 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Studio portrait of a woman.

Date:: Great Britain,
Physical Description:: 1 photograph : ambrotype, in leather case ; visible image approximately 7.2 x 5.8 cm (sixth plate format), in case 9.5 x 8.3 x 0.8 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Photographic pleasures : popularly portrayed with pen and pencil / by Cuthbert Bede, B.A., author of "Verdant Green," &c. &c. &c.

Creator:: Bede, Cuthbert, 1827–1889
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: [9], 14-83, [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Visitors' souvenir of the sea side.

Creator:: Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. John Samuel Enys album of cartes de visite.

Creator:: Enys, John Samuel, 1796–1872
Date:: circa 1860-1885?
Physical Description:: 1 album (58 cartes de visite) : albumen prints ; 16 x 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Mosaic amusement.

Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 50 tiles : wood, black & yellow ; in wooden box 14 x 14 x 2 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Royal Marionette Theatre : Lowther Arcade, West Strand : this elegant theatre is open every evening at eight o'clock, and on Monday, Wednesday, & Friday at three, with a grand moving diorama by some of the first artists, strikingly illustrating the principal events of the Russian War : comprising 30 brilliant pictures, to which is added, a great pictorial map of the seat of war : a descriptive lecture will be given with each representation, by W. Knight, Esq., (lecturer at the Turkish Museum), accompanied with military vocal & instrumental music.

Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([4] pages) ; 34 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Illustrated military hand-book : giving a familiar description of a fortress, the method of besieging it, and an explanation of all military terms.

Creator:: Old Soldier
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: 25, [4] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Nests and eggs of familiar British birds : described and illustrated, with an account of the haunts and habits of the feathered architects : and their times and modes of building / by H.G. Adams ... ; with eight coloured plates of eggs, containing forty-eight different species.

Creator:: Adams, H. G. (Henry Gardiner), 1811 or 1812–1881
Date:: 1855
Physical Description:: iv, 78, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts