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

This work, comprising a series of the most interesting views of old halls, buildings &c. in Manchester and the neighbourhood : is by permission most respectfully dedicated to Sir Oswald Mosley Bart. Lord of the Manor of Manchester / by his obliged and obedient servant H.G. James.
Creator:
James, H. G. (Henry Gould), -1842
Date:
[1821]
Physical Description:
6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Concerning velveteen.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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