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

No cover image available
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

102. Blank page.

No cover image available
Date:
1988-1991
Physical Description:
6 volumes : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, John F. O'Brien Fund

103. Richard Long : Walking and sleeping.

No cover image available
Creator:
IvoryPress
Date:
[2004]
Physical Description:
12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ivorypress

104. The boke of Iford / compiled by me, Harold A. Peto of Iford Manor from all the sources available in 1917 ; with a historical introduction by Robin Whalley.

The boke of Iford / compiled by me, Harold A. Peto of Iford Manor from all the sources available in 1917 ; with a historical introduction by Robin Whalley.
Creator:
Peto, Harold A. (Harold Ainsworth), 1854–1933
Date:
1993
Physical Description:
53 p. col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

105. Plans, elevations, and sections of buildings : executed in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwicksire, Hertfordshire, et caetera / by John Soane, architect ; member of the Royal Academies of Parma and Florence.

No cover image available
Creator:
Soane, John, 1753–1837
Date:
MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Physical Description:
[6], 11, [35] pages, 47 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Brodie and Dowding
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

107. 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 ...

No cover image available
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
3 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

108. [Prospectus for Susan Allix's Small cakes : a selection containing brief histories, ingredients and recipes, poetic anecdotes and visual decorations].

No cover image available
Creator:
Allix, Susan, 1943–
Date:
2018
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([3] pages) : color photographs ; 12 x 32 cm, folded to 12 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

109. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

110. Prospectus for Richard Bawden, his life & work, by Malcolm Yorke.

No cover image available
Creator:
Fleece Press
Date:
2016
Physical Description:
[4] pages : color illustrations ; 11 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the Julian Francis Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books

111. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)
Date:
[1813]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
August 1, 1814
Physical Description:
iv pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

113. 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 ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
[1821]
Physical Description:
[4] p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

114. 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 ...

No cover image available
Date:
1813 [i.e. 1814]
Physical Description:
3 p. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Szirtes, George, 1948–
Date:
2008
Physical Description:
[8] p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. Books published by J. Taylor, High Holborn.

No cover image available
Creator:
Taylor, J
Date:
[1807]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. Interregnum.

No cover image available
Creator:
Aikin, John, 1747–1822
Date:
[18--]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

118. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
James Ballantyne and Co
Date:
30th June, 1814
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

119. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
[1812]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Robinson, P. F. (Peter Frederick), 1776–1858
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
3, [1] p. 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

121. 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. ...

No cover image available
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
4 p. ill. 58 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Davy, Henry, active 1829
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
[4], 12 pages, [70] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

123. Intervention and audience / Stephen Willats.

No cover image available
Creator:
Willats, Stephen, 1943–
Date:
1984
Physical Description:
[8] p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. 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."

No cover image available
Creator:
Craddock & Joy
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. Edes and Gill's North American Almanack.

No cover image available
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

126. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
[1817]
Physical Description:
2, [2] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

127. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
[1814]
Physical Description:
2, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Didot, Pierre, l'Aîné
Date:
1801]
Physical Description:
13 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

129. Album.

No cover image available
Date:
1970-[1971]
Physical Description:
12 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. 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. ; 28 cm. (in case 49 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

131. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Buchanan, William, 1777–1864
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
8, [1] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Nathan, Isaac, 1792–1864
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1]) page ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. 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.

No cover image available
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

134. 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

135. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
[1817?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

136. Preparing for the press, a new edition of The Saxon chronicle, with an English translation and notes by the Rev. J. Ingram ... : a reprint of that very valuable Romance of Morte Arthur, with an introduction and notes, in quarto ... : "The poeticall exercises at vacant houres of James the Sixt--King of Scotland," edited by R.P. Gillies, Esq.

No cover image available
Date:
[1822?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

137. Le Keux's memorials of Cambridge : a series of views of the colleges, halls, churches, and other public buildings, of the university and town of Cambridge : engraved by J. Le Keux, from original drawings, made expressly for the work : with historical and descriptive accounts of the buildings, &c. / by Thomas Wright.

No cover image available
Creator:
Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:
[1837?]
Physical Description:
[2], 16 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. Prospectus of a work entitled The costume of the original inhabitants of the British islands. By Samuel Rush Meyrick ... and Charles Hamilton Smith, esq.

No cover image available
Creator:
Meyrick, Samuel Rush, 1783–1848
Date:
[ca. 1814]
Physical Description:
broadside. 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

139. Prospectus du Voyage pittoresque de l'Italie.

No cover image available
Creator:
Saint Non, Jean Claude Richard de, 1727–1791
Date:
[1778]
Physical Description:
6 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. The life of James the Second, King of England : collected out of memoirs writ of his own hand : also, King James's advice to his son : and that monarch's last will, dated November 17, 1688 : the whole to be edited, by order of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, by the Rev. J.S. Clarke, L.L.B. F.R.S., historiographer to the King, chaplain of the household and librarian to His Royal Highness.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
[1] page ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. Prospectus of a weekly newspaper, to be entitled the Colchester Gazette : which will commence on Saturday, January 1, 1814.

No cover image available
Date:
[1813]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. Proposals for publishing by subscription, the History of the Kings of England from the arrival of the Saxons A.D. 449, to his own times, A.D. 1143 : by William of Malmsbury, collated with authentic mss. and translated from the original Latin with a preface, notes, and an index, by the Rev. John Sharpe, B.A. ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
Dec.15, 1813
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. Francis Bacon : detritus.

No cover image available
Creator:
IvoryPress
Date:
[2006]
Physical Description:
12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ivorypress

144. Prospectus of a Universal historical dictionary, : or, Explanation of the names of persons and places in the departments of biblical, political, and ecclesiastical history mythology, heraldry, biography, bibliography, geography, and numismatics : by George Crabb ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
Date:
[1825]
Physical Description:
2, [14] p. ; 22 cm. (in case 25 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. [Prospectus for Susan Allix's Sea Air : prints of the sea with poetic interludes and interventions].

No cover image available
Creator:
Allix, Susan, 1943–
Date:
2018
Physical Description:
4 pages, ([2] leaves of plates : color photographs ; 22 x 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

146. Marc Quinn : Thames River water atlas.

No cover image available
Creator:
IvoryPress
Date:
[2017]
Physical Description:
11 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ivorypress

147. This day is published, number XCIV, with a view of the city gates : (to be continued weekly, price six-pence) : the sixth edition of Stow's survey of London and Westminster : and of the borough of Southward : being the best topography of those cities : together with the distinct history of them : in two large volumes, folio : containing their original, antiquity, increase, present state, and government : written at first by John Stow, citizen and native of London ; several times reprinted and augmented, then corrected, and very much enlarged in the year 1720 by J. Strype, M.A. ; and the history and survey now brought down to this present time by careful hands ; illustrated with exact maps of all the wards and out-parishes both of London and Westminister ; with other draughts of the most eminent and public edifices and monuments.

No cover image available
Date:
November 29, 1755
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page (incomplete)) ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A series of prints exhibiting the most interesting scenes in London and Westminster : drawn from the most striking points of view, and executed in aquatinta, by T. Malton, Jun.

No cover image available
Date:
March, 1781
Physical Description:
[1] sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 x 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. Anish Kapoor : Wound.

No cover image available
Creator:
IvoryPress
Date:
2005
Physical Description:
12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elena Foster

150. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland : to be engraved by Thomas Milton, from original drawings, by the best masters.

No cover image available
Date:
November 25, 1782
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 24 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. Preparing for Re-publication. Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum : The history of the ancient abbies, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales. Also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries ... / By the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Harding, J. (John)
Date:
1812]
Physical Description:
3, [1] p. ; 27 cm. (in case 43 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. Nearly ready for publication, in two volumes ... An inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving on copper and wood : with an account of the most ancient engravers and their works, from the earliest period, to the middle of the sixteenth century : comprising observations on some of the first books ornaments with wood-cuts : by William Young Ottley, F.A.S.

No cover image available
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

153. Metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated by Mary M. Innes ; illustrations by Richard Shirley Smith.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:
1995
Physical Description:
xxix, 350 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

154. Mémories du Muséum d'histoire naturelle par les professeurs de cet établissement.

No cover image available
Date:
[1814?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. Proposals for publishing by subscription four prints : dedicated (by permission) to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, representing views of the action between the Java and the Constitution.

No cover image available
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (2 pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. Prospectus of a new edition of The history of Kent.

No cover image available
Date:
ca. 1886.]
Physical Description:
3, [1] p. ; 44 cm. (in case 48 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. William Kentridge : Tummelplatz.

No cover image available
Creator:
IvoryPress
Date:
[2017]
Physical Description:
8 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ivorypress

158. Nearly ready for publication, price eighteen shillings, Bertram : a poetical tale in four cantos by Sir Egerton Brydger, Bart. K.J. M.P.

No cover image available
Creator:
Private Press of Lee Priory
Date:
[1814]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

159. [Prospectus for Tracey Bush's artist book Dusk : British Moths].

No cover image available
Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Date:
[2016]
Physical Description:
1 print : illustrations ; 14 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk