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1. A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : illustrated with copper-plates : designed principally for the information of such ladies as practise the above arts : and absolutely necessary to all students, who wish to acquire correctness in the outline of the human figure / by W.F. Wells.

A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : illustrated with copper-plates : designed principally for the information of such ladies as practise the above arts : and absolutely necessary to all students, who wish to acquire correctness in the outline of the human figure / by W.F. Wells.
Creator:
Wells, William Frederick, 1762–1836
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
[4], 19, [1] page, [6] leaves of plates : illlustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. George Cruikshank's omnibus : illustrated with one hundred engravings on steel and wood ... / edited by Laman Blanchard, Esq.

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Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
[2], vi, [2], 300 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

3. The elegant repository and new-print magazine : including engravings from original pictures of the most pleasing subjects, furnished by the art of design.

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Date:
[1791-1792]
Physical Description:
XII parts ([48] p., [37] leaves of plates ) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Memoirs of Count Grammont / by Anthony Hamilton ; to which are prefixed, a biographical sketch of Count Hamilton, and a translation of the epistle to Count Grammont ; illustrated with sixty-four portraits, engraved by Edward Scriven, &c.

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Creator:
Hamilton, Anthony, Count, approximately 1646–1720
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
2 volumes : portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Annals of horsemanship : containing accounts of accidental experiments, and experimental accidents, both successful and unsuccessful : communicated by various correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq., author of The academy for grown horsemen ; together with most instructive remarks thereon, and answers thereto, by that accomplished genius ; and now first published, by the editor of The academy for grown horsemen ; illustrated with cuts by the most eminent artists.

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Creator:
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:
1808
Physical Description:
xvii, [1], 81, [1] pages, [17] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions / by Edmund Lodge.

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Creator:
Lodge, Edmund, 1756–1839
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
12 v. in 6 : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

7. Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons : from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II. Collected from the most authentic accounts extant. / By James Caulfield ...

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Creator:
Caulfield, James, 1764–1826
Date:
1819-1820
Physical Description:
4 volumes : frontispiece, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Groups of fruit : accurately drawn and coloured after nature, with full directions for the young artist : designed as a companion to the treatises on flowers and birds / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.

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Creator:
Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[16] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Orme's graphic history of the life, exploits, and death of Horatio Nelson : Viscount and Baron Nelson of the Nile, and of Burnham-Thorpe and the county of Norfolk : Baron Nelson of the Nile and of Hilborough in the said county : Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath : Vice-Admiral of the White Squadron of the Fleet : also, Duke of Bronte in Sicily : Knight Grand Cross of the Sicilian Order of St. Ferdinand and of merit : member of the Ottoman Order of the Crescent : and Knight Grand Commander of the order of St. Joachim : containing fifteen engravings, and intended as an accompaniment to the three celebrated whole-sheet plates of His Lordship's splendid victories, viz. the battles of St. Vincent's, the Nile, and Trafalgar, which are explained by references and keys / the memoirs by Francis William Blagdon.

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Creator:
Blagdon, Francis William, 1778–1819
Date:
[1806]
Physical Description:
[4], 66, viii, [11] pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A brief account of the coronation of His Majesty, George IV, July 19, 1821.

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Date:
1821
Physical Description:
[2], 32 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Groups of flowers : drawn and accurately coloured after nature : with full directions for the young artist, designed as a companion to the treatise on flower painting / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Britannica, Treatise on flower painting, &c.

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Creator:
Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
20 p., [12] leaves of plates. : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Studies of flowers from nature ... : a selection of subjects from the choicest exotics, painted after nature, with a correct outline of each and instructions for producing a facsimile of the finished drawing / by Miss Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, Penelope
Date:
[ca. 1818]
Physical Description:
3 p., [20] leaves, [41] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke, Esq., author of "The history of the peerage and baronetage," "of the extinct and dormant peerage," &c.

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Creator:
Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:
MDCCCXXXIV-MDCCCXXXVIII [1834-1838]
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Orme's Graphic history of the life, exploits, and death of Horatio Nelson : Viscount and Baron Nelson of the Nile, and of Burnham-Thorpe in the county of Norfolk : Baron Nelson of the Nile and of Hilborough in the said county : Knight of the most honourable order of the Bath : Vice-Admiral of the White Squadron of the Fleet : also, Duke of Bronte in Sicily : Knight Grand Cross of the Sicilian Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit : Member of the Ottoman Order of the Crescent : and Knight Grand Commander of the Order of St. Joachim : embellished with a series of engravings, illustrative of his heroic achievements / the memoirs by Francis William Blagdon, Esq.

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Creator:
Blagdon, Francis William, 1778–1819
Date:
[1806]
Physical Description:
[3], 66 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Anecdotes of painting in England : with some account of the principal artists, and incidental notes on other arts : also, a catalogue of engravers who have been born or resided in England / collected by the late George Vertue ; digested and published from his original mss. by Horace Walpole ; with additions by the Rev. James Dallaway ; ... in three volumes.

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Creator:
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
Date:
1849
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The gallery of British artists : illustrated by upwards of one hundred steel engravings : from their most popular works, as exhibited at the National Gallery, Royal Academy ... / with biographical sketches and critical remarks by John Sherer ...

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Creator:
Sherer, John
Date:
[1879-1880]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The bibliographical decameron, or, Ten days pleasant discourse upon illuminated manuscripts, and subjects connected with early engraving, typography, and bibliography / by the Rev. T.F. Dibdin ...

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Creator:
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776–1847
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Reliquiae Britannico-Romanae : containing figures of Roman antiquities discovered in various parts of England.

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Creator:
Lysons, Samuel, 1763–1819
Date:
1813-1817
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. (some col.), port., plans, map ; 59 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank : but uninvested with heritable honours / by John Burke ...

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Creator:
Burke, John, 1787–1848
Date:
1833-1838
Physical Description:
4 v. : coats of arms, ports. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Old England's worthies: a gallery of portraits, from authentic copies, of the most eminent statesmen, lawyers, warriors, men of letters and science, and artists of our country. Accompanied by full and original biographies, with illustrative woodcuts, and twelve splendid illuminated engravings.

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Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 p. ., 272 p. col. front., col. plates, ports. 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The biographical mirrour : comprising a series of ancient and modern English portraits of eminent and distinguished persons, from original pictures and drawings.

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Creator:
Waldron, F. G. (Francis Godolphin), 1744–1818
Date:
1795-[1814]
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Memoirs of the life of David Garrick, esq. : interspersed with characters and anecdotes of his theatrical contemporaries : the whole forming a history of the stage, which includes a period of thirty-six years / by Thomas Davies.

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Creator:
Davies, Thomas, 1713–1785
Date:
1781
Physical Description:
2 v. : port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Typographical antiquities, or, The history of printing in England, Scotland and Ireland : containing memoirs of our ancient printers, and a register of the books printed by them / begun by the late Joseph Ames ... considerably augmented by William Herbert ... and now greatly enlarged with copious notes, and illustrated with appropriate engravings ; comprehending the history of English literature, and a view of the progress of the art of engraving in Great Britain by the Rev. Thomas Frognall Dibdin ...

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Creator:
Ames, Joseph, 1689–1759
Date:
1810-1819
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A journal of a voyage to, and residence in, the island of Jamaica, from 1801 to 1805 : and of subsequent events in England from 1805 to 1811 / by Maria, Lady Nugent ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Nugent, Maria, Lady, 1771?-1834
Date:
MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Six birds : accurately drawn and coloured after nature with full instructions for the young artist : intended as a companion to the treatise on flower painting / by George Brookshaw, Esq. ; author of the Pomona Brittanica, Treatise on flower painting, etc.

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Creator:
Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[18] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. [The coronation of George the Fourth]

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Date:
[1841]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 77 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Book for a rainy day, or, Recollections of the events of the last sixty-six years / by John Thomas Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
306 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971

28. Old England's worthies : a gallery of portraits, from authentic copies, of the most eminent statesmen, lawyers, warriors, men of letters and science, and artists of our country. Accompanied by full and original biographies / by Lord Brougham, and other distinguished authors.

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Date:
[1862?]
Physical Description:
5 p. ., vii-viii, lxxxiv, 272 p. front., ill., plates (part. col.) 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. An academy for grown horsemen : containing the completest instructions for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling : illustrated with copper plates, and adorned with a portrait of the author / by Geoffrey Gambado, Esq., riding master, master of the horse, and Grand Equerry to the Doge of Venice.

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Creator:
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:
1808
Physical Description:
xxiv, 36 pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The cabinet of the arts : a series of engravings by English artists : from original designs by Stothard, Harding, Van Assen, Cosway, Mather Brown, Burney, Corbould, Porter, Paul Sanby [i.e. Sandby], Catton ...

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Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[119] leaves : all ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The memoirs and travels of Sir John Reresby, bart. : the former containing anecdotes, and secret history, of the courts of Charles II. and James II : the latter (now first published) exhibiting a view of the governments and society in the principal states and courts of Europe during the time of Cromwell's usurpation.

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Creator:
Reresby, John, Sir, 1634–1689
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
xii, 160, 159-160, [161]-414, [32] p., [39] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possesion of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton, Esq.

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Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1803
Physical Description:
16, 222, [2] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., port., map ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts