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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.

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. 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

8. 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

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

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

10. 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. ...

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

11. 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. ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1822?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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 ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1811?]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

17. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
[1814?]
Physical Description:
2, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Prospectus of an improved mode of delineating estates.

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

20. 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.

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

21. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
[1812]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme
Date:
[1812]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. 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.

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

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

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

26. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
January, 1816
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Nichols, firm, printers (London, England)
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Portraits of celebrated painters.

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

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

No cover image available
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

30. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Nichols, firm, printers (London, England)
Date:
[ca. 1818?]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. 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."

No cover image available
Creator:
Lackington, Allen and Co
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Congdon, John
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. 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.

No cover image available
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

34. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Williams, John, Esq
Date:
December 15, 1813
Physical Description:
[1] sheet ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
[1813]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([3] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

No cover image available
Date:
1888
Physical Description:
12 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Rees, Richard (Publisher)
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
[1] page ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Campbell, Alexander, 1764–1824
Date:
[1815?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Youngman, George
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
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

43. 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

No cover image available
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Prospectus of a new general atlas.

No cover image available
Date:
[1814]
Physical Description:
2, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. 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 ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Whittingham and Rowland
Date:
[1812?]
Physical Description:
[4] p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780–1863
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co
Date:
[1812]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Bowyer, Robert, 1758–1834
Date:
1814]
Physical Description:
2 p. ; 26 cm. (in case 33 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
between 1812 and 1819]
Physical Description:
2 p. 27 cm. (in case 29 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:
[1814]
Physical Description:
1 sheet, ([2] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Date:
MDCCCXLIII [1843]
Physical Description:
[2], 4 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman (Firm)
Date:
1816]
Physical Description:
4 p. ; 43 cm. (in case 49 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
[4] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. 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. ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1815?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
[1814?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. 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.

No cover image available
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

57. 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.

No cover image available
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

58. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
September, 1815
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758–1842
Date:
[1800]
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
[1821?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Date:
[1814]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([4] pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

64. In the press, and speedily will be published, part I of Archaica, containing a reprint of scarce Old English tracts, with prefaces and notes, critical and biographical.

No cover image available
Date:
[1814?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. To be published by subscription, a treatise on theology written by Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson ... : to which will be added a letter from her to her daughter on the principles of the Christian religion : also the life of Mrs. Hutchinson written by herself, a fragment : from the original manuscripts.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
[1816?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. On December 1, 1814, will be published, dedicated by permission, to His Grace the Duke of Wellington, No. I of a highly embellished, splendid, and interesting work, to be entitled, The martial achievements of Great Britain and her allies, from the year 1800 to 1814 : illustrated with accurate representations of the numerous glorious victories in which they have been engaged : accompanied with the Gazette and other official documents of the defeats of their enemies.

No cover image available
Creator:
Jenkins, James, 1753–1831
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
2, [2] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Proposals for publishing by subscription, in three volumes, historical and literary botany : containing the qualities, anecdotes, and superstitions relative to these trees, plants, and flowers, which are mentioned in sacred and profane history : the particulars of some rare and curious plants which bear the names of celebrated persons : and also of those which are used in the religious worship and civil ceremonies of divers nations : together with the devices, proverbs, &c. which derive their original from those vegetables : concluding with a romantic story, entitled Flowers ; or the artists, from the French of Madame de Genlis : with explanatory notes, &c. &c. by Eliza P. Reid.

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Creator:
Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
Date:
[1826?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. A prospectus, &c. of the British School : His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, patron.

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Creator:
British School
Date:
[1802?]
Physical Description:
20 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. To be published on the twenty-third of April, 1816, (being the anniversary of the 2nd century after his decease), an engraved portrait of Shakspeare, from the monumental bust at Stratford-upon-Avon.

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Date:
[1816]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2 pages) ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. The late Earl of Beaconsfield.

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Creator:
Belt, Richard Claude, 1851–1920
Date:
[1881?]
Physical Description:
[4] p. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. On the 1st of May next, will be published, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, price £1:11:6, elegantly coloured, a series of original designs for shop-fronts by William Davison, architect.

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Date:
[1816]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. 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.

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Creator:
Hornor, Thomas, 1785–1844
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
31, [1] p., [3] folding leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. Proposals for publishing by subscription, an engraving from the historical picture painted by John Singleton Copley, R.A. : and now exhibiting in a pavilion, erected through the gracious permission of the King for the purpose, in the Green Park : this work ... is to be placed in the council chamber of Guildhall as a testimony of respect to the late Lord Heathfield, then governor of Gibralter, Earl Howe, commander of the fleet ... for their gallant conduct displayed in the defence and relief of that important fortress.

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Date:
[180-]
Physical Description:
[4] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Just published, in large folio, complete in sixty-four maps, price six guineas, half-bound, a new and greatly improved edition of Lavoisne's genealogical, historical, chronological, & geographical atlas, by C. Gros and J. Aspin : containing the creation, the dispersion of mankind, the origin of nations, the establishment, continuation, and decline of empires and states, the genealogy, direct and collateral, of all the sovereigns and potentates, from the beginning of time to the year 1813 : forming the most complete system of history and geography ever produced.

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Creator:
Barfield, John, active 1790–1842
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The remains of the ancient monastic architecture of England / by Joseph Potter, architect.

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Creator:
Potter, Joseph, approximately 1797–1875
Date:
MDCCCXLIV [1844]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, 23 leaves of plates in various numberings : illustrations ; 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Preparing for the press, an historical description of the cathedral church of Salisbury : including an account of the monuments, chiefly extracted from Gough's "Sepulchral Monuments," and other authentic documents : also, biographical memoirs of the Bishops of Salisbury, from the earliest period by W. Dodsworth, verger of the Cathedral.

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Creator:
Brodie and Dowding
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Preparing for publication : The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London : extracted out of original charters, records, leiger books, and other manuscripts / by Sir William Dugdale ... ; with additions and a continuation by Henry Ellis ...

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Date:
1813
Physical Description:
3 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. On the first of March, 1814, will be published, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row, price four shillings, No. I. (To be continued monthly) of Restituta, or, The titles and characters of old books in English literature and their authors, revived by Sir Egerton Brydges, K.J.

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Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Shakspeare's seven ages / etched by E. Goodall after original design by Daniel Maclise, R.A.

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Creator:
Maclise, Daniel, 1806–1870
Date:
MDCCCL [1850]
Physical Description:
[1] p,. [8] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. On the first of January next will be published in numbers, price 6d. each, to be continued weekly (or in parts containing eight numbers, prices 4s.), the whole intended to form two large volumes in quarto, The Holy Bible, including the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha : according to the authorised version, with notes, explanatory and practical.

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Creator:
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)
Date:
[1813]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Johnson's dictionary, edited by the Reverend H.J. Todd.

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Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
August 1, 1814
Physical Description:
iv pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Prospectus, The history of Johnny Quae Genus, the little foundling of the late Doctor Syntax : a poem, in eight monthly numbers : no. 1 was published on the 1st of August, and is continued monthly, price 2s. 6d. each : each part contains three coloured engravings / by T. Rowlandson, Esq., and thirty-two pages of letter press, by the author of the three tours of Doctor Syntax ...

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
[1821]
Physical Description:
[4] p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Preparing for publication : The history of St. Paul's Cathedral in London : extracted out of original charters, records, lieger books and other manuscripts / by Sir William Dugdale ...; with additions and a continuation by Henry Ellis ...

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Date:
1813 [i.e. 1814]
Physical Description:
3 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. The auto-biography of John Britton : ... in three parts ... copiously illustrated.

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Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1849-1850
Physical Description:
3 pt. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Interregnum.

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Creator:
Aikin, John, 1747–1822
Date:
[18--]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Proposals for printing a new and elegant edition of the life of King Robert Bruce, by John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen : and of the acts and deeds of Sir William Wallace, by Henry the Minstrel, commonly called Blind Harry with biographical sketches, notes, and a glossary by John Jamieson.

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Creator:
James Ballantyne and Co
Date:
30th June, 1814
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. This day are published, in three volumes, quarto, price £7:7s. boards, illustrated with 74 plates, printed chiefly from his manuscripts, under the direction of a select committee of civil engineers, Reports, estimates, and treatises, embracing the several subjects of canals, navigable rivers, harbours, piers, bridges, draining, embanking, lighthouses, machinery of various descriptions including fire engines, mills, &c. &c. with other miscellaneous papers drawn up in the course of his employment as a civil engineer, by the late Mr. John Smeaton, F.R.S.

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Date:
[1812]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Prospectus, address, and list of subscribers, to The Vitruvius britannicus. By P.F. Robinson ...

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Creator:
Robinson, P. F. (Peter Frederick), 1776–1858
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
3, [1] p. 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Prospectus and specimens of the wood engravings which will accompany the text of the Oriental album; or Historical, pictorial and ethnographical sketches illustrating the human families in the valley of the Nile. Their costumes, usages, habits, modes of life ... By E. Prisse, Esq. ...

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Date:
1847
Physical Description:
4 p. ill. 58 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. A series of etchings illustrative of the architectural antiquities of Suffolk : accompanied with an historical index / the whole drawn and etched by Henry Davy ...

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Creator:
Davy, Henry, active 1829
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
[4], 12 pages, [70] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. This day is published, in a thick 8vo volumes of upwards of one thousand pages, price twenty shillings extra boards, or twenty-two shillings calf gilt, Pietas Londinensis : the history, design, and present state of the various public charities in and near London : in six parts, by A. Highmore, Esq., Ely Place, author of "The law of Mortmain and charitable uses, &c."

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Creator:
Craddock & Joy
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Proposals for publishing by subscription the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorised version, accompanied with a new translation, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts.

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Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
2, [2] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. In the press, and speedily will be published, The dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations, by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed a history of the language and an English grammar by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. : with numerous corrections, and with the addition of many thousand words, by the Rev. Henry J. Todd.

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Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
[1814]
Physical Description:
2, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte pendant l'éxpedition du Général Bonaparte. Par le citoyen Denon ... : Prospectus ...

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Creator:
Didot, Pierre, l'Aîné
Date:
1801]
Physical Description:
13 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Prospectus of A general history of the County of York. By Thomas Dunham Whitaker ...

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Creator:
Longman (Firm)
Date:
1816.]
Physical Description:
4 p. ; 28 cm. (in case 49 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Prospectus of a work of engravings of twelve in number upon the scale of Sir Robert Strange's largest works : and of a smaller work, consisting of fifteen portraits, or single figures, on the scale of Vandyke's Book of Heads : to be executed by the most eminent artists of the present period : both works to be under the direction of William Buchanan, Esq.

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Creator:
Buchanan, William, 1777–1864
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
8, [1] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. Just published, (no. I), price one guinea, a selection of Hebrew melodies, with appropriate symphonies and accompaniments by Mr. Braham and Mr. Nathan : the poetry written expressly for the work, by the Right Honourable Lord Bryon.

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Creator:
Nathan, Isaac, 1792–1864
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1]) page ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. A history of Madeira : with a series of twenty-seven coloured engravings, illustrative of the costumes, manners, and occupations of the inhabitants of that island.

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Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
v, [3], 118 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. To be published by subscription, two coloured engravings, with descriptive letter-press, of the procession and ceremony of the installation of the Knights of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, from the drawings by Mr. Frederic Nash.

No cover image available
Date:
[June 1, 1812]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Preparing for the press, Memoirs of John, Duke of Marlborough : chiefly drawn from his private correspondence and family documents, preserved at Blenheim : as well as from other authentic sources never before published : by William Cox, Archdeacon of Wilts. : with portraits, maps, plans, genealogical tables, coats of arms, and fac-similes of the hand-writing of the most illustrious persons, whose letters appear in this work : in two volumes, quarto.

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Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
[1817?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts