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14201. The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs: or The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture. Illustrated by upwards of four hundred ... designs ... engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper plates, for piers, gates ... With an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams ... To which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio ... By B.L.

No cover image available
Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1745
Physical Description:
1 p.., 22 p. 200 plates (incl. diagrs.) 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14202. Views of Pompeii drawn on stone by J.D. Harding; after drawings by William Light ...

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Creator:
Light, William, 1785?-1839
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
[53] p. 25 plates, fold. plan. 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14203. Lane's telescopic view, of the ceremony of Her Majesty opening the Great Exhibition, of All Nations. Designed by Rawlins. 1851.

No cover image available
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
7 col. plates. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14204. Quiggin's illustrated guide and visitor's companion through the Isle of Man : with a directory for Douglas.

No cover image available
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
130 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14205. Science of drawing; being a progressive series of the characteristic forms of nature ... By Frank Howard.

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Creator:
Howard, Frank, 1805–1866
Date:
1839-
Physical Description:
v. front., plates. 16.5 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14206. Practical hints on decorative printing.

No cover image available
Creator:
Savage, William, 1770–1843
Date:
1818]
Physical Description:
1 p.., 52 p., 2 leaves. 18 col. plates. 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14207. ... History of Hardwicke Hall: illustrated by plans, elevations, and internal views of the apartments, from actual measurement. By P.F. Robinson ...

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Creator:
Robinson, P. F. (Peter Frederick), 1776–1858
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
1 p.., 30 p. ill., 10 plates (1 col.; incl. plan) 60 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14208. The ducal estate of Stowe, near Buckingham : the historical seat of the dukes of Buckingham and Chandos and for some years the residence of the late Comte de Paris : Messrs. Jackson Stops will sell by auction, at Stowe house, on Monday, July 4th, 1921, at 1 o'clock, the free hold of the historic mansion and estate, extending to about 1,400 acres, including the world famous grounds, and temples, surrounding park lands, and the picturesque village of Dadford : the estate will be first offered as a whole, and, and if not then sold, in 67 lots, including 24 first pasture farms and small holdings, chiefly with vacant possession : houses and freehold ground rents, at or near the town of Buckingham : on the eighteen days following (from July 5th to July 28th, excluding Saturdays at 11 o'clock precisely each day) will be sold the contents of the mansion, including the supremely valuable collection of heirloom pictures, tapestries and historic furniture, by the world's greatest masters, superb statuary and metal work, important collection of rare china, porcelain, an immense assortment of other objets d'art, the contents of the magnificent library, fine collection of historic letters and manuscripts, the valuable gold plate, carvings and panellings by Grinling Gibbons : famous classic temples and other buildings and bridges luxuriously built to designs by famous architects.

No cover image available
Date:
[1921]
Physical Description:
232 pages : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

14209. A new treatise on flower painting, or, Every lady her own drawing master: containing familiar and easy instructions for acquiring a perfect knowledge of drawing flowers with accuracy and taste: also complete directions for producing the various tints. By George Brookshaw ...

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Creator:
Brookshaw, George, 1751–1823.
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
1 p.., 36 p. col. front., plates (part col.) 31 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

14210. Glimpses and gatherings, during a voyage and visit to London and the Great Exhibition, in the summer of 1851. By William A. Drew, Commissioner of the State of Maine...

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Creator:
Drew, William Allen, 1798–1879
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
404 p. front. (port.) 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14211. Proposals for publishing by subscription, in twenty monthly numbers, forming two volumes, The history of the University of Oxford ... The first number to be published on the 1st of May, 1813 ... Subscriptions are received by R. Ackermann ...

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Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
[1813?]
Physical Description:
3 p. 35 cm. (in case 43 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14212. Pedigree of Lenthall, of Lenthale, & Hamton Richard, Co. Hereford, Lachford, & Burford Priory, Co. Oxon. & Besilsleigh, Co. Berks.

No cover image available
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
broadside. 35 x 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14213. Journal of a tour made in the years 1828-1829, through Styria, Carniola, and Italy, whilst accompanying the late Sir Humphry Davy. By J. J. Tobin, M. D.

No cover image available
Creator:
Tobin, J. J
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
vi, 242 p. front., plates. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14214. Studies of trees, by H. W. Burgess, author of the Eidodendron.

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Creator:
Burgess, Henry William, approximately 1792–1844
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
1 p., 10 plates, 1 leaf 29 x 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14215. Drawing from objects, being an abstract of lessons on linear drawing given at the home and colonial training schools. Chiefly designed for teachers. By Hannah Bolton ...

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Creator:
Bolton, Hannah
Date:
1850
Physical Description:
viii, 130 p. col. front., ill., plates (part. col.) 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14216. Proposals, for publishing by subscription in 24 monthly parts ... An English dance of death; : by the author of "Syntax" ... Number I. to appear on the 1st of April, 1814 ...

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Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
4 p. ; 22 cm. (in case 26 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14217. The works of James Barry ... : historical painter; ... Containing his correspondence from France and Italy with Mr. Burke ... To which is prefixed, some account of the life and writings of the author ...

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Creator:
Barry, James, 1741–1806
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14218. Life and times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: : with notices of some of his contemporaries. Commenced by Charles Robert Leslie, R. A., continued and concluded by Tom Taylor ... with portraits and illustrations.

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Creator:
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
Date:
1865
Physical Description:
2 v., [12] leaves of plates : ill. (some colored), ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

14219. Flowers from many lands : a Christian companion for hours of recreation.

No cover image available
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
iv, 251 p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14220. The new picture of Scotland : being an accurate guide to that part of the United Kingdoms with historical descriptive accounts of the principal buildings, curiosities and antiquities, divided into towns and districts, embellished with a map and plates : in two volumes ...

No cover image available
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14221. A descriptive catalogue of a collection of pictures, selected from the Roman, Florentine, Lombard, Venetian, Neapolitan, Flemish, French and Spanish schools : to which are added remarks on the principal painters and their works : with a catalogue of thirty-two drawings from capital paintings of greater masters / collected and drawn, during a journey of several years in Italy, by Robert Strange.

No cover image available
Creator:
Strange, Robert, Sir, 1721–1792
Date:
1769
Physical Description:
vii, 173 p. : 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14222. Atheniensia, or, Remarks on topography and buildings of Athens. By William Wilkins ...

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Creator:
Wilkins, William, 1778–1839
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
viii, [2] p., 1 l., 218 p. front. (fold. map) fold. plan. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14223. The parlour table-book, or, Pictorial miscellany : containing a choice collection of historical and landscape illustrations, finely engraved on steel.

No cover image available
Date:
[184-?]
Physical Description:
[2], 96, [42] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. (one col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14224. The Great Western, Cheltenham and Great Western, and Bristol and Exeter railway guides : containing a topographical, antiquarian, and geological account of the country and of the towns and villages in the neighbourhood of the railways : with a preliminary description of the construction of the Great Western and other railways : illustrated with numerous and accurate engravings on wood, and guides to Windsor, Reading, Oxford, Glocester, Hereford, Cheltenham, Bath, Wells, and Bristol.

No cover image available
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
xxxvi, 284 p. [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14225. Some account of the proposed improvements of the western part of London : by the formation of the Regent's Park, the new street, the new sewer, &c. &c. : illustrated by a variety of plans, and accompanied by explanatory and critical observations / by J. White.

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Creator:
White, John, approximately 1747–1813
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
xii, 99, xciv p., [7] leaves of folded plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14226. A memoir of Thomas Bewick / written by himself ; embellished by numerous wood engravings designed by the author for a work on British fishes.

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Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1887
Physical Description:
[iii]-xxxiii, [3], 393 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14227. A country zodiac / illustrated by Thomas Bewick.

No cover image available
Date:
1948
Physical Description:
54 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14228. [Catalogue of a selection of works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Benjamin West ..., and Sir Thomas Lawrence : the last three presidents of the Royal Academy : with which the proprietors have favoured the Institution.]

No cover image available
Creator:
British Institution
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
14 p. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14229. Catalogue of Mr. Strange's works : engraved after pictures of the most celebrated painters of the Roman, Florentine, Lombard, Venetian, and other schools : to be had at his house in Castle-Street, Leicester-Fields.

No cover image available
Creator:
Strange, Robert, Sir, 1721–1792
Date:
[1768?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14230. Memoir of Thomas Bewick / written by himself, 1822-1828 : with an introduction by Selwyn Image ... sixty-one illustrations.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
[1924]
Physical Description:
xxxi, 274 p. : port., ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14231. Catalogue of the Rudimentary series : in the arrangement of 1873 with Ruskin's comments of 1878 / John Ruskin ; edited, with an introduction, notes and appendix by Robert Hewison.

Catalogue of the Rudimentary series : in the arrangement of 1873 with Ruskin's comments of 1878 / John Ruskin ; edited, with an introduction, notes and appendix by Robert Hewison.
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1984
Physical Description:
222 p. : ill. (some col.), port. ; 46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14232. Gold : a dialogue connected with the subject of "Munera pulveris" / by John Ruskin ; edited by H. Buxton Forman ...

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Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1891
Physical Description:
26 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14233. The royal picture alphabet.

No cover image available
Creator:
Leighton, John, 1822–1912
Date:
[1846]
Physical Description:
[30] p., [26] leaves of plates : ill. (col.) ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14234. The history of the world, or, An account of time / compiled by the learned Dionisius Petavius ; and continued by others, to the year of our Lord, 1659 ; together with A geographicall description of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.

No cover image available
Creator:
Petau, Denis, 1583–1652
Date:
1659
Physical Description:
[10], [807] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : port., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14235. The history and antiquities of the church and city of Lichfield : containing its ancient and present state, civil and ecclesiastical : collected from various public records, and other authentic evidences / by the Rev. Thomas Harwood ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Harwood, Thomas, 1767–1842
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
vii, 574 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plan, geneal. table ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14236. The three colours of pre-raphaelitism.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Physical Description:
p. [925]-931, 1072-1082 ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14237. An history of the original parish of Whalley : and honor of Clitheroe, in the counties of Lancaster and York / by Thomas Dunham Whitaker ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, 1759–1821
Date:
1801
Physical Description:
[4], v [i.e. vii], 483, [7] p., [28] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map, geneal. tables ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14238. The picture of England, or, Historical and descriptive delineation of the most curious works of nature and art in each county : calculated as an agreeable companion to the tourist, or a class book for the student ... / by J.N. Brewer ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Brewer, J. N. (James Norris)
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 20cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14239. Tunbridge Wells.

No cover image available
Date:
19--?]
Physical Description:
[16] p. of illus. 18 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14240. The St. Helen's Crown Glass Company's trade book of patterns for ornamental window glass, with Designs for church, hall, staircase, and memorial windows, by Frank Howard.

No cover image available
Creator:
Pilkington Brothers, Ltd
Date:
1850
Physical Description:
x p., 50 plates (part col.) 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14241. Actinologia britannica. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals. By Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S.

No cover image available
Creator:
Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810–1888
Date:
1860
Physical Description:
xl, 362 p. illus., XII col. pl. (incl. front.) 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14242. 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

14243. Designs for lodges and entrances to parks, paddocks, and pleasure-grounds, in the Gothic, cottage, and fancy styles, with characteristic scenery and descriptive letter-press. On twenty plates. By T.D.W. Dearn ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Dearn, T. D. W. (Thomas Downes Wilmot)
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
4 p.., 19 p. 20 plates (part col., incl. plans) 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14244. An account of the Collegiate Chapel of Saint Stephen, at Westminster, shewing its first foundation in the reign of King Stephen; the rebuilding of the chapel by Edward I.; its subsequent destruction by fire, and the final completion of the structure by Edward the Third ... The whole compiled from the original records in the public archives in the Exchequer. By John Topham, esq., treasurer.

No cover image available
Creator:
Topham, John, 1746–1803
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
viii, 108 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14245. The artist's assistant, or new & improved drawing book; to which are added, the easiest and most comprehensive rules for the attainment of those truly useful and polite arts, etching, engraving, mezzotinto scraping, painting in water-colours, and on silks and satins; with instructions for mixing the different shades. The whole methodically digested, and adapted to the capacities of young beginners.

No cover image available
Date:
[1813]
Physical Description:
28 p. fold. front. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14246. Tallis's street views and pictorial directory, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with a faithful history and description of every object of interest, by William Gaspey ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Tallis, John, 1817–1876
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
2 p.., 3-88 p. front., ill., 18 double plans. 20 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14247. A guide to Burghley House, Northamptonshire, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter : containing a catalogue of all the paintings, antiquities, &c. : with biographical notices of the artists.

No cover image available
Creator:
Blore, Thomas, 1764–1818
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
x, 292, [4] pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.

14248. Three essays : On picturesque beauty, On picturesque travel, and On sketching landscape : to which is added a poem, On landscape painting / by William Gilpin ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
[4], iii, [1], viii, 88, v, [3], 44 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14249. Sketches in Spain and Morocco. By Sir Arthur de Capell Brooke, bart.

No cover image available
Creator:
Broke, Arthur de Capell, Sir, Bart., 1791–1858
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
2 v. front., plates. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14250. The painter and varnisher's guide; or, A treatise, both in theory and practice, on the art of making and applying varnishes, on the different kinds of painting; and on the method of preparing colours both simple and compound ... By P.F. Tingry ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Tingry, P. F. (Pierre François), 1743–1821
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
xlii p., 1 leaf, 540 p. 5 plates (3 fold.) fold. tab. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14251. The rural architect; consisting of various designs for country buildings, accompanied with ground plans, estimates, and descriptions. By Joseph Gandy ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Gandy, Joseph Michael, 1771–1843
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
2 p.., 27, [1] p. XLII plates. 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14252. Thirty years' facts against one reviewer's opinion in the year 1818; being an amicable antidote, proving the utility of the press, as an advocate of British genius--a vindicator of modern art--and a successful opponent of anti-contemporarian prejudice ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Carey, William, 1759–1839
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
20 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14253. The gallery of nature and art: or, A tour through creation and science. Comprising new and entertaining descriptions of the most surprising volcanoes, caverns, cataracts, whirlpools, waterfalls, earthquakes, and other wonderful and stupendous phenomena of nature. Forming a rich and comprehensive view of all that is interesting and curious in every part of the habitable world. By the Rev. E. Polehampton, and J.M. Good, F.R.S. Illustrated by one hundred engravings.

No cover image available
Creator:
Polehampton, Edward, 1777?-1830
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
6 v. fronts., ill., plates (part fold.) 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14254. Bibliography of William Hazlitt / by Geoffrey Keynes ; author of Bibliographies of John Donne, William Blake, Sir Thomas Browne, Jane Austen, etc.

No cover image available
Creator:
Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887–1982
Date:
1931
Physical Description:
xix, [2], 135, [3] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14255. A new song for Christmas 1856.

No cover image available
Date:
1858
Physical Description:
broadside. 22 x 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14256. Carry's rose; or, The magic of kindness. A tale for the young. By Mrs. George Cupples.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cupples, Ann Jane Dunn Douglas
Date:
1872
Physical Description:
72 p. col. front., ill. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14257. Books & MSS. bound by Bretherton, 28 Oct. 1850 [-2 November.

No cover image available
Date:
1850?]
Physical Description:
[2] p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14258. The tourist in Portugal, by W. H. Harrison ... Illustrated from paintings by James Holland ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Harrison, W. H. (William Henry), 1795?-1878
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
xi, [1] 290 p. front., plates. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14259. The history and antiquities of Bath Abbey Church : including biographical anecdotes of the most distinguished persons interred in that edifice; with an essay on epitaphs, in which its principal monumental inscriptions are recorded. Illustrated by a series of engravings ... / By John Britton ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
3 p. ., [v]-xii, 156 p. front., plates, plan. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14260. An historical and architectural essay relating to Redcliffe Church, Bristol: illustrated with plans, views, and architectural details: including an account of the monuments, and anecdotes of the eminent persons interred within its walls; also, and essay on the life and character of Thomas Chatterton. By J. Britton ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
xii, 40 p. XII plates (incl. front., plans) 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14261. Select illustrated topography of thirty miles round London; comprising views of various places within this circuit, engraved ... after original drawings of Charles Marshall, J.W. Allen, G.B. Campion, and other artists; with topographical and historical notices of each place. By William Edward Trotter.

No cover image available
Creator:
Trotter, William Edward
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
1 p.., vi, [2], 158 p. front., 32 plates, fold. map. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14262. Catalogue of printed maps, charts and plans. Corrections and additions.

Catalogue of printed maps, charts and plans. Corrections and additions.
Creator:
British Museum. Map Room
Date:
1968
Physical Description:
55 p. 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14263. History of British birds. The figures engraved on wood by T. Bewick.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1804 [i.e. 1814?, 1804]
Physical Description:
2 v. ill. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14264. 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

14265. The practical decorator and ornamentist; for the use of architects, practical painters, decorators, and designers. Containing one hundred plates in colours and gold. With descriptive notices, and an introductory essay on artistic and practical decoration. By George Ashdown Audsley ... and Maurice Ashdown Audsley, architect.

No cover image available
Creator:
Audsley, George Ashdown, 1838–1925
Date:
[1892]
Physical Description:
ix, [9]-36 p. ill., C (i.e. 102) plates (part. col.) 42 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14266. [Scotland illustrated, comprising the castles, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, picturesque and romantic scenery, &c., of Scotland: with interesting historical and topographical descriptions.

No cover image available
Creator:
Neale, J. P. (John Preston), 1780–1847
Date:
1831]
Physical Description:
17 pts. plates. 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14267. Richardson's catalogue. A large and curious collection of English and foreign portraits, topography and historical prints ... drawings, books, and books of prints, now selling, with the prices affixed to each, at Mr. Richardson's print warehouse ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Richardson, William, fl. 1778–1815
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
2 p.., 127 p. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14268. Needwood Forest.

No cover image available
Creator:
Mundy, Francis Noel Clarke, 1738 or 1739–1815
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
52 p. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14269. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of painting in water colours: with introductory illustrations on perspective and drawing with pencil.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
2 p.., 3-24, [7] p. plates (part col. and fold.) 24 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14270. Inventory of furniture, at 14 Stratford Place. 1830.

No cover image available
Date:
1830?]
Physical Description:
4 p. 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14271. Junius. Stat nominis umbra.

No cover image available
Creator:
Junius, active 18th century
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
xxxi, iii, 380 p. ports. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14272. The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresborough; and the Harrogate-visitors' guide, in which the medicinal springs, the most remarkable places, the antiquities, the elegant buildings, the ornamented grounds, and other singular productions of nature and art in the adjacent country, are minutely and accurately described, as they stand at the present time ... By E. Hargrove.

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Creator:
Hargrove, Ely, 1742–1818
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
iv, 318, ii p. front., ill., plates, fold. map. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14273. Description of Haydon's picture of The great meeting of delegates held at the Freemason's Tavern, June, 1840, Thomas Clarkson, esq. in the chair, for the purpose of abolishing slavery all over the world ... Now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly ...

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Creator:
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786–1846
Date:
[1841]
Physical Description:
13 p. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14274. Lectures on painting and design ... By B. R. Haydon ...

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Creator:
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786–1846
Date:
1844-1846
Physical Description:
2 v. fronts. (v. 2, port.) illus., plates (partly fold.) 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14275. Personal narrative of travels in Babylonia, Assyria, Media, and Scythia, in the year 1824. By Major, the Hon. George Keppel, F. S. A.

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Creator:
Albemarle, George Thomas Keppel, Earl of, 1799–1891
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
2 v. col. fronts., ill., col. plates, fold. map. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14276. A manual of fresco and encaustic painting containing ample instructions for executing works of these descriptions. With an historical memoir of these arts from the earliest periods. By W. B. Sarsfield Taylor ...

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Creator:
Taylor, William B. Sarsfield (William Benjamin Sarsfield), 1781–1850
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
xix, 214 p. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14277. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A portrait of the Right Rev. Father in God, Henry Bathurst, Lord Bishop of Norwich; : dedicated to Thomas William Coke ...

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Creator:
Edwards, W. C. (William Charles), 1900–1979
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
1 leaf ; 23 cm. (in case 30 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14278. The history and antiquities of Carlisle : with an account of the castles, gentlemen's seats, and antiquities, in the vicinity; and biographical memoirs of eminent men connected with the locality.

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Creator:
Jefferson, Samuel, 1809–1846
Date:
MDCCCXXXVIII [1838]
Physical Description:
xv, 459 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14279. A narrative of the minutes of evidence respecting the claim to the Berkeley peerage, as taken before the committee of privileges in 1811. Together with the entire evidence of the persons principally concerned. To which are added, facsimiles of the banns, and register of the marriage : extracted from the parish books of Berkeley. To the whole is prefixed a sketch of the proceedings of the committee on the Earl of Berkeley's pedigree in the year 1799.

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Creator:
Fitzhardinge, William Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Earl of, 1786–1857
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
xiii, 276, p. 2 facsim. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14280. The new cubic metamorphoses : der Thierbändiger Charles : neues Verwandlungsspiel mit Quatraten = le vainqueur d'animaux Charles : moderne jeu de métamorphoses aux carré.

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Date:
184-?]
Physical Description:
3 jigsaw puzzles (27 pieces) : wood, col. ; in box, 16 x 16 x 3 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14281. The poultry-keeper's manual : containing descriptions of all kinds of domestic poultry, with instructions for their management, and their treatment when diseased / by contributors to "The journal of horticulture and poultry chronicle" ...

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Date:
[1866?]
Physical Description:
141, [6] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), plans ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14282. The principles of beauty / by John Addington Symonds ... ; with illustrations.

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Creator:
Symonds, John Addington, 1840–1893
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
xvi, 72 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14283. The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes .../ collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

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Date:
1766
Physical Description:
8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14284. The history of Ben the sailor and Ned the soldier : containing numerous entertaining and interesting anecdotes and adventures of real life, vouched as genuine and authentic / by W.F. Sullivan ...

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Creator:
Sullivan, W. F. (William Francis), 1756–1830
Date:
1818
Physical Description:
58 p., [3] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14285. A voice from a picture / by a female artist of the present day ...

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Creator:
Arnold, Harriet, 1786 or 1787–1863
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
vii, 53, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14286. The history and adventures of Little Henry : exemplified in a series of figures.

The history and adventures of Little Henry : exemplified in a series of figures.
Date:
1977
Physical Description:
16 p. : col. ill. ; 14 cm. + 5 sheets
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14287. The British gallery of engravings : from pictures of the Italian, Flemish, Dutch and English schools : now in the possession of the king, and several noblemen and gentlemen of the United Kingdoms : with some account of each picture / by Edward Forster ...

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Creator:
Forster, Edward, 1769–1828
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
10, [2], 10, [2], [104] p., [52] leaves of plates : ill. ; 50 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14288. Incunabula typographica : a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century (1460-1500) in the library of Henry Walters.

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Creator:
Walters, Henry, 1848–1931
Date:
1906
Physical Description:
vii, 522 p., 1 leaf of plates : facsims. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14289. Church decoration : a practical manual of appropriate ornamentation / edited by a practical illuminator ...

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Date:
[1874]
Physical Description:
xvi, 84 p., 16 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14290. Poems / by Goldsmith and Parnell.

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Creator:
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
xxvii, 68 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14291. Historical sketches of Scalby, Burniston, and Cloughton : with descriptive notices of Hayburn Wyke, and Stainton Dale, in the county of York / by John Cole.

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Creator:
Cole, John, 1792–1848
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
[6], 68, 14, 83-91, [1], iii p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14292. Ruskin, Rossetti, preraphaelitism : papers, 1854 to 1862 / arranged and edited by William Michael Rossetti ...

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Date:
1899
Physical Description:
xxi, 327 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14293. Narratives of South America, illustrating manners, customs, and scenery : containing also numerous facts in natural history : collected during a four years' residence in tropical regions / by Charles Empson.

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Creator:
Empson, Charles
Date:
1836
Physical Description:
xvi, 322 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14294. The river Thames from Oxford to the sea / by the author of Handbook to the Isle of Wight, Windsor and Eton, ...

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Creator:
Author of Handbook to the Isle of Wight
Date:
1859
Physical Description:
viii, [9]-229 p., [13] leaves of plates : col. ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14295. A collection of plans of the principal cities of Great Britain and Ireland : with maps of the coast of the said kingdoms / drawn from the most accurate surveys ; in particular, those taken by the late Mr. J. Rocque ...

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Date:
[1764]
Physical Description:
1 atlas ([3], [22], [18] leaves) : 22 maps, 18 plans (some folded) ; 13 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14296. The history of Newcastle upon Tyne, or, The ancient and present state of that town / by ... Henry Bourne ...

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Creator:
Bourne, Henry, 1696–1733
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
[4], viii, 245, [6] p., one folded leaf of plates : plan ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14297. Nature and art.

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Physical Description:
2 v. illus., plates (part col.) 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14298. An exact surveigh of the streets, lanes and churches comprehend[e]d within the ruins of the city of London : first described in six plats 10 Decemr. Ao Dom. 1666 : by the order & directions of the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, & common councell of the said city / Iohn Leake, Iohn Iennings, Willm. Marr, Willm. Leybourn, Thomas Streete, Richard Shortgrave, surveyors ; & reduced into one intire plat by Iohn Leake, for the use of the commisioners for the regulation of streets, lanes, &ct.

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Creator:
Leake, John
Date:
[1723]
Physical Description:
1 map on 2 sheets ; 106 x 125 cm, sheets 55 x 72 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14299. Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, Esq., of Halston, Shropshire ... : with notices of his hunting, shooting, driving, racing, eccentric and extravagant exploits / by Nimrod ; with numerous illustrations by H. Alken and T.J. Rawlins.

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Creator:
Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
[2], ix, [3], 206, [2] pages, [19] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14300. Essai sur l'homme / par Monsieur Alexander Pope ; traduction françois en prose, par Mr. S****.

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Creator:
Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744
Date:
1745
Physical Description:
[iii]-xxiv, 116 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts