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1. An illustrated lecture on sketching from nature in pencil and water colour : with hints on light and shadow, on a method of study, etc., to be practically illustrated, when possible, by a series of lessons out of doors / by George Stubbs, of Alexander Square, Brompton ; with seventeen plates in tinted and chromo-lithography.

Creator:: Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:: [between 1862 and 1868]
Physical Description:: 12 pages, 17 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. All draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in ten instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life, 10. history : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: [177-?]
Physical Description:: [2], 16 p., [62] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Perspective made easie, or, The art of representing all manner of objects as they appear to the eye in all scituations : containing the elements of designing and painting : illustrated with above fifty figures in copper / written originally in French by Bernard Lamy, Priest of the Oratory, and faithfully translated into English, by an officer of Her Majesties Ordnance.

Creator:: Lamy, Bernard, 1640–1715
Date:: MDCCX [1710]
Physical Description:: [16], 174, [8] p., 31 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Principles of perspective : with a sketch of some Irish antiquities : and a few thoughts on rustic embellishment and the picturesque : as connected, and contrasted, with each other.

Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: [27], 24-30 pages, [1], 9 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 x 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The principles of design : for the curious young gentleman and ladies, who study and practice the noble and commendable art of drawing, colouring and japanning : or a new and complete drawing book consisting of [a] variety of whole figures in divers positions, and all the several parts of the human body from head to foot, &c. in fifty copper-plates, neatly engraved: designed chiefly for young beginners, very necessary and useful for all drawing-schools, boarding-schools, &c. ; to which is prefixed An introduction to drawing ... / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse.

Creator:: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 58 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 13 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The new descriptive lesson for carbonic drawing / by Rawson Walker ; carbonic drawing is the only known mode of drawing that can imitate the photographs, calotypes, or sun pictures.

Creator:: Walker, John Rawson, 1796–1873
Date:: [ca. 1847]
Physical Description:: 4 p. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. [Landscape views].

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: 6 prints : etching ; 17 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass or, The young man's time well spent.

Date:: 1731
Physical Description:: 21, [1] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. An introduction to perspective, drawing, and painting : in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues between the author's children : illustrated by appropriate plates and diagrams, and a sufficiency of practical geometry, and a compendium of genuine instruction, comprising a progressive and complete body of information, carefully adapted for the instruction of females, and suited equally to the simplicity of youth and mental maturity / by Mr. Hayter, portrait painter, in miniature and crayons, and teacher of the principal elements of the art.

Creator:: Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: xi, [5], 197, [3] p., [xvii] leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Sketching landscape scenery, part 2nd.

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: not before 1825
Physical Description:: 1 volume (24 leaves) ; 29 x 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. M. Stanley's drawing book.

Creator:: Stanley, Montague, 1809–1844
Date:: [1841?]
Physical Description:: [25] leaves : all illustrations ; 26 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding ; formerly teacher of landscape painting in the family of His Late Majesty the King of the French.

Creator:: Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856
Date:: [1856]
Physical Description:: 54 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Progressive studies in cattle / by Dennis Dighton ; dedicated by permission to the Right Honourable the Earl of Glengall by his most obedient & obliged servants, the publisher.

Creator:: Dighton, Denis, 1792–1827
Date:: May, 1820
Physical Description:: [6] pt. : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Useful hints on drawing and painting; intended to facilitate the improvement of young persons. By J.C. Burgess ...

Creator:: Burgess, John Cart, 1798–1863
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: vii, 54 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Process of sketching a landscape.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 34 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. An introduction to the general art of drawing, wherein is set forth the grounds and properties, which of this infallible and judicious art are necessary to be known and understood ... with an illustration of 25 copper prints ... Likewise, An excellent treatise of the art of limning in which the true grounds and the perfect use of water-colours ... are ... taught. Formerly set out by ... Gerhard of Brugge. And now much augmented and amended, with some observations, touching ... the colouring and painting with water-colours. Truly tr. into English by J. L.

Creator:: Goeree, Willem, 1635–1711
Date:: 1674
Physical Description:: 2 pts. plates. 24 cm. (4 to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Bacon's Excelsior first grade drawing cards : freehand for standard V / designed by Frank Steeley & Bernard H. Trotman.

Creator:: Steeley, Frank
Date:: [1893?]
Physical Description:: 36 cards : illustrations ; each 19 x 14 cm, in slipcase 20 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. An epitome of perspective / by John Wells, drawing master to the school of Christ's Hopsital.

Creator:: Wells, John, 1757 or 1758–1843
Date:: 1817]
Physical Description:: [2], 10 leaves : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1788
Physical Description:: 38 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

Creator:: Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. A book of landskips & buildings pleasant & useful for youth to draw after.

Creator:: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637–1714
Date:: [between 1726 and 1736]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The art of painting and drawing in coloured crayons : being a course of instruction for the execution of portraiture and landscape / by Henry Murray, F.S.A.

Creator:: Murray, Henry, F.S.A.
Date:: [between 1906 and 1916]
Physical Description:: 60, 64 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: iv, 26 p., 64 leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometric principles : and a mechanical method of perspective and designing ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of copper-plate figures.

Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [2], 31 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The illustrated London drawing book ... / edited and arranged by Robert Scott Burn ...

Creator:: Burn, Robert Scott
Date:: 1853
Physical Description:: [8], [5]-145 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. [Drawing book of wild boars].

Date:: [ca. 1770?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : all ill. ; 14 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Hints to young practitioners, in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

Creator:: Alston, J. W. (J. William)
Physical Description:: [6], 67, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: ii p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Introductory lessons with familiar examples in landscape : for the use of those who are desirous of gaining some knowledge of the pleasing art of painting in water colours : to which are added some clear and simple rules, exemplified by suitable sketches and more finished painting : as this work is chiefly intended for the mere beginner, the rules are both familiar and progressive : to which are added, instructions for executing transparencies, in a style both novel and easy / by James Roberts.

Creator:: Roberts, James, 1753–approximately 1809
Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: [4], 36 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. J.D. Harding's early drawing-book.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [2] p., 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The school of Raphael, or, The student's guide to expression in historical painting : illustrated by examples engraved by Duchange, and others, under the inspection of Sir Nicholas Dorigny, from his own drawings, after the most celebrated heads in the cartoons at the Queen's palace : to which are now added, the outlines of each head, and also several plates of the most celebrated antique statues, engraved by an eminent artist : with instructions for young students in the art of designing : and the passions, as characterised by Raphael in the cartons / described and explained by Benjamin Ralph.

Creator:: Ralph, Benjamin, active 1763–1770
Date:: MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Physical Description:: 21, [1] pages, [102] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning. Painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures ... Collected from the writings of the ablest masters, both antient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...

Date:: 1668
Physical Description:: 8 p.., 121 p. ill., fold. plates. 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Hannah Bolton's first drawing book : a walk through a house shown by scenes in the journey.

Creator:: Bolton, Hannah
Date:: [1853]
Physical Description:: [5] pt. : chiefly ill. ; 27 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. Rudiments of drawing the human figure : from Cipriani, Guido, Poussin, Rubens / drawn & engraved by T. Cheesman.

Creator:: Cheesman, Thomas, 1760–
Date:: [1816]
Physical Description:: [11] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 26 x 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. A compendium of the theory and practice of drawing and painting : illustrated by the technical terms in art : with practical observations on the essential lines and the forms connected with them : adapted to the earliest state of instruction for the use of school or private tuition : to which is added, the practice of the pencil, chalk, tinted, and water-colour drawing / by R. Dagley ; author of "Select gems from the antique".

Creator:: Dagley, Richard, d. 1841
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: xvi, 79 p., 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Perspective practical, or, A plain and easie method of true and lively representing all things to the eye at a distance, by the exact rules of art ... / by a religious person of the Society of Jesus, a Parisien ; faithfully translated out of French, and illustrated with 150 copper cuts ; set forth in English by Robert Pricke for the lovers of art.

Creator:: Dubreuil, Jean, 1602–1670
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [15], 150, 150, [6] p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. The English academy : a drawing book containing variety of examples of the external parts of men, women, and childrens bodies : with the shapes of several creatures frequently used amongst heralds, gold-smiths, &c. : likewise the arts of drawing, etching, engraving in copper and wood, painting and limning ... / P.L., H.G., P.R., H.B.

Creator:: P. L
Date:: 1672
Physical Description:: [4], 36 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1819]
Physical Description:: [2] pt. : all ill. ; 28 x 45 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

Creator:: Ferguson, James, 1710–1776
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: xii, 123 p., 9 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Heads of a second set of lectures, on the polite arts / by Francis Fitzgerald.

Creator:: Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756–1823
Date:: 1778
Physical Description:: 228 p., [16] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Practical hints on portrait painting: illustrated by examples from the works of Vandyke and other masters. By John Burnet ...

Creator:: Burnet, John, 1784–1868
Date:: 1850
Physical Description:: iv p., 1 l., 54 p. XII pl. (8 port.) incl. front. 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. A specimen of sketching landscapes, in a free and masterly manner, with a pen or pencil : exemplified in thirty-eight etchings, from the original drawings of Lucatelli, after nature, in and about Rome.

Creator:: Austin, William, 1721–1820
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 6, [2] p., [30] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm. x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Instructions in the art of drawing and painting : for the book-case of instruction and delight.

Date:: [between 1782 and 1807]
Physical Description:: 32 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 10 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Precepts of landscape drawing, exemplified in fifteen views : with instructions to young artists / by John Varley.

Creator:: Varley, John, 1778–1842
Date:: 1818]
Physical Description:: [2] double plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The school perspective : being a progressive course of instruction in Linear Perspective, both theoretical and practical : specially designed for the use of schools / by J.R. Dicksee, principal drawing master to the city of London School, to The Normal College for training teachers of the British and Foreign School Society, &c. ; illustrated with many woodcuts and forty engraved plates.

Creator:: Dicksee, J. R. (John Robert), 1817–1905
Date:: [1862]
Physical Description:: xiv, 79, [1] p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Ward's progressive book of landscape drawing : in thirteen parts / by J. H. Burgess.

Creator:: Burgess, J. Howard (James Howard), 1817–1890
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 13 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. 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.

Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. First drawing book.

Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: 11 pages, XLVIII leaves of plates ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The artist's assistant in drawing, perspective, etching in copper and steel, engraving, metzotinto scraping, painting on glass, in crayons, in water-colours, and on silks and satins ... : containing the easiest and most comprehensive rules for the attainment of those truly useful and polite arts : methodically digested, and adapted to the capacities of young beginners : illustrated with suitable examples, engraved on copper.

Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 48 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Elementary art, or, The use of the lead pencil advocated and explained / by J.D. Harding.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: iv, 80 p., [28] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. The rudiments of drawing cabinet and upholstery furniture: comprehending concise and explicit instructions for designing and delineating the different articles of those branches perspectively and geometrically ... Illustrated by appropriate diagrams ... By Richard Brown ...

Creator:: Brown, Richard, architect
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: vi p., 1 ., [vii]-xii, 52 p. 25 plates (part col.) 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Practical illustration of Gilpin's day : representing the various effects on landscape scenery from morning till night, in thirty designs from nature / by the Rev. Wm. Gilpin ... ; with instructions in, and explanation of, the improved method of colouring, and painting in water colours, by John Heaviside Clark ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: [6], vi, [31] p., 30 leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. L'art de dessiner / par Jean Cousin ; revu, corrigé et augmenté de plusieurs morceaux d'après l'antique ; avec leurs mesures & proportions ; d'une description exacte des os & muscles du corps humain, & de leurs offices & usages ; avec une instruction facile pour apprendre à dessiner toutes ces figures, selon les différens aspects qu'elles peuvent avoir.

Creator:: Cousin, Jehan, ca. 1522–ca. 1593
Date:: MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:: 72 p. : ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. Young ladies' drawing book, or, complete instructor in drawing and colouring flowers, fruits & shells; with directions for purchasing and using all the materials connected with that fine art.

Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: [1], 24 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. A guide to pictorial art : how to use the black lead pencil, chalks, and water colours : the capabilities of these materials, with every information necessary to put the student on the proper course for attaining excellence in the fine arts / by H. O'Neill.

Creator:: O'Neill, Henry, 1798–1880
Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: xii, 94 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. For the curious young gentlemen and ladies that study and practice the commendable art of drawing, colouring, etc. : a new and compleat drawing book ... / being the close study ... of the late Mr. Lens ... in sixty-two copper-plates, engrav'd by himself ... ; to which is prefixed an introduction to drawing ; ... translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy.

Creator:: Lens, Bernard, 1682–1740
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: [3], [1], 42 p., [62] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. A series of easy lessons in landscape drawing : contained in forty plates, arranged progressively from the first principles in the chalk manner to the finished landscape colours / by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 4 p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Easy lessons in landscape drawing : contained in forty plates, arranged progressively, from the first principles in the chalk manner to the finished landscape colours / by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: [1819]
Physical Description:: 40 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. The art of drawing, and painting in water-colours. Wherein the principles of drawing are laid down, after a natural and easy manner; and youth directed in everything that relates to this useful art, according to the practice of the best masters ...

Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. IV fold. plates. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. The first booke of drawing & limning.

Creator:: Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576–approximately 1643
Date:: circa 1700?
Physical Description:: 1 v. (5-129, [1] leaves) : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. T.C. Dibdin's Pleasing self instructor in the art of drawing : comprised in a series of progressive lessons carefully engraved and simplified with printed letterpress directions : by which a child 9 years old may teach itself the art without the pressure of a master / by T.C. Dibdin ...

Creator:: Dibdin, Thomas Colman, 1810–1893
Date:: [185-?]
Physical Description:: [2], 8, [2], 40 p., 8, 32 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. An introduction to perspective, drawing, and painting in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues between the author's children : illustrated by appropriate plates and diagrams, and a sufficiency of practical geometry : and a compendium of genuine instruction comprising a progressive and complete body of information carefully adopted for the instructions of females : and suited equally to the simplicity of youth and mental maturity / by Charles Hayter.

Creator:: Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: xviii, 263 p., [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Studies from nature : arranged as progressive lessons for instruction in the art of drawing landscape / drawn and engraved by William Orme.

Creator:: Orme, William, active 1797–1819
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: [22] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. A treatise of perspective, demonstrative and practical : illustrated with copper cutts / by Humphrey Ditton ....

Creator:: Ditton, Humphry, 1675–1715
Date:: 1712
Physical Description:: [4], xvi, 173 p., 6 leaves of folded plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. William Orme's Rudiments of landscape drawing, and perspective / dedicated to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c. &c.

Creator:: Orme, William, active 1797–1819
Date:: [1802]
Physical Description:: [2], [19], [2], 3 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 33 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. The progress of a water-coloured drawing : wherein is represented to the Learner the various gradation through which a drawing passes from the outline to its finished state : this work, consisting of fourteen tinted lessons, imitative of the original drawings which were made for the purpose of it by John Laporte ...

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [ca. 1811]
Physical Description:: vii, [22] p., [1], 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Elements of painting with crayons / by John Russell.

Creator:: Russell, John, 1745–1806
Date:: MDCCLXXII [1772]
Physical Description:: [8], 46 p. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. 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.

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

69. A familiar treatise on perspective : designed for ladies, and those who are unacquainted with the principles of optics and geometry : whereby, in a few days, sufficient of this useful science may be learned, to enable any person, accumstomed to the use of the pencil, to draw landscapes, and the simpler objects of art : with perspective accuracy / by W. Daniel.

Creator:: Daniell, William, 1769–1837
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: 43, [1] p., 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Orme's New sketch book.

Date:: [1801?]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 20 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. A familiar treatise on perspective, designed for ladies, and those who are unacquainted with the principles of optics and geometry ... By W. Daniel.

Creator:: Daniell, William, 1769–1837
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 46 p. 16 plates. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Landscape animals : in a series of progressive studies / W.M. Craig.

Creator:: Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764–1829
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: [2], 6 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 x 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. [Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]

Creator:: John Bluck, active 1791–1819
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: [4], 8 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:: [1828]
Physical Description:: [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. Progressive lessons in drawings / by J. Powell, No. 14 Allsops buildings, New Road, Marylebone.

Creator:: Powell, Joseph, 1780–1834
Date:: 1820-1821
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : all illustrations ; 23 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: [1829]
Physical Description:: [4] p., plates 25-36 : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Second drawing book of heads / engraved from the original designs of Bernard Picart.

Creator:: Picart, Bernard, 1673–1733
Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. The gentlemans exercise, or, An exquisite practise : as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures : as also the making of all kinds of colors, to be used in limming, painting, tricking, and blazon of coates, and armes, with divers other most delightfull and pleasurable observations for all young gentlemen and others : as also serving for the necessary use and generall benefit of diuers trades-men and artificers ... / by Henry Peacham ...

Creator:: Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:: 1634
Physical Description:: [8], 163 p. : ill., coats of arms ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. A New drawing book.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: [4] leaves : all ill. ; 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Elementary art, or, The use of the chalk and lead pencil advocated and explained / by J.D. Harding.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: [1854]
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 97, [3] p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. A drawing book of figures and animals from Berghem.

Creator:: Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620–1683
Date:: [ca. 1790]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. A new drawing book engrav'd from the curious designs of that great master M. Poilly : very proper for all to draw after who are willing to excel in the noble arts of painting, engraving, &c.

Date:: [approximately 1730]
Physical Description:: 11 leaves : illustrations ; 20 x 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. A new drawing-book of out-lines &c. : very proper for the first-practice of all who are willing to excell in that noble-art = Nouveau livres pour apprendre les premiers principes du dessein : tres-utile à ceux qui souhaitent d'exceller dans ce bel art.

Date:: 1722
Physical Description:: [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 20 cm. x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: ii, 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29-33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. An introduction to the study of painting : arranged under three heads, viz. geometry, perspective, and light and shadow : elucidated by question and answer / by E. Rudge ...

Creator:: Rudge, Edward
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: [4], ii, [4], 85 p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing to which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature: being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

Date:: [ca. 1760]
Physical Description:: 16 pages, [1], 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. British small birds : Vere Foster's drawing book, embracing every description of drawing, with paper for copying : animals / by Harrison Weir & other artists ; in twelve books (O to O11)

Date:: [188-]
Physical Description:: 16 p. : chiefly ill. ; 17 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. [Drawing book of trees]

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1821.]
Physical Description:: [32] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures ... Collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...

Date:: 1688
Physical Description:: 1 p. ., [11], 123 p. front., illus., plates (part fold.) 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Artist's sketchbook, circa 1809?.

Date:: circa 1809?
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([14] leaves) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... to which is added, a method of casting amber ...

Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. plate. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. A new drawing book, in the manner of chalk : containing twelve views in the west of England as follows : Glastonbury, Tavistock, ditto, Lynmouth, Exmouth, East-Bourne, Ide, ditto, Chagford, Exeter, Pennycross, Dartmoor / drawn and engraved by Samuel Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. An essay on mechanical drawing : comprising an elementary course of practice in the perspective delineation of machinery / illustrated in numerous plates by Charles Blunt.

Creator:: Blunt, Charles
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: [4], 91, [1] p., [63] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Elementary art, or, The use of the chalk and lead pencil advocated and explained / by J.D. Harding.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: 1846
Physical Description:: iv, 97 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Perspective explained in a series of dialogues between the author's children George, Ann, Eliza and John.

Creator:: Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:: circa 1820
Physical Description:: 1 v. (120 p.) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Etchings of rustic figures : for the embellishment of landscape / by W.H. Pyne.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [60] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book : containing a series of progressive lessons with instructions for drawing rural scenery, architecture, the human figure, animals &c. / illustrated with upwards of one hundred engravings by N. Whittock.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: iv, 108 p., [104] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Lessons on trees / by J.D. Harding ; author of "Lessons on Art," "Elementary Art," "The Principles and practice of Art," &c. &c.

Creator:: Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:: MDCCCL [1850]
Physical Description:: [6] p., 30 leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Proportion, or, The geometric principle of beauty, analysed / by D. R. Hay, decorative painter to the Queen, Edinburgh; author of "The laws of harmonious colouring adapted to interior decorations," "The natural principles and analogy of the harmony of form," etc.

Creator:: Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798–1866
Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: [2], x, 78 p., [xvii] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. A treatise on the art of mezzotinto pencilling : also observations on painting on glass, satin, velvet, and wood / by B.W. Gilbert ; embellished with examples and specimens in the art first named : the work is intended chiefly for pupils in the absence of the master, for governesses, and families who reside in the country and will form a companion to the Hints on Oriental painting by the same author.

Creator:: Gilbert, B. W
Date:: [183-?]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves, [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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4. Principles of perspective : with a sketch of some Irish antiquities : and a few thoughts on rustic embellishment and the picturesque : as connected, and contrasted, with each other.

6. The new descriptive lesson for carbonic drawing / by Rawson Walker ; carbonic drawing is the only known mode of drawing that can imitate the photographs, calotypes, or sun pictures.

7. [Landscape views].

8. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass or, The young man's time well spent.

10. Sketching landscape scenery, part 2nd.

11. M. Stanley's drawing book.

12. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding ; formerly teacher of landscape painting in the family of His Late Majesty the King of the French.

13. Progressive studies in cattle / by Dennis Dighton ; dedicated by permission to the Right Honourable the Earl of Glengall by his most obedient & obliged servants, the publisher.

14. Useful hints on drawing and painting; intended to facilitate the improvement of young persons. By J.C. Burgess ...

15. Process of sketching a landscape.

17. Bacon's Excelsior first grade drawing cards : freehand for standard V / designed by Frank Steeley & Bernard H. Trotman.

18. An epitome of perspective / by John Wells, drawing master to the school of Christ's Hopsital.

19. Rules for drawing caricaturas : with an essay on comic painting.

20. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

21. A book of landskips & buildings pleasant & useful for youth to draw after.

22. The art of painting and drawing in coloured crayons : being a course of instruction for the execution of portraiture and landscape / by Henry Murray, F.S.A.

23. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

24. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometric principles : and a mechanical method of perspective and designing ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of copper-plate figures.

25. The illustrated London drawing book ... / edited and arranged by Robert Scott Burn ...

26. [Drawing book of wild boars].

27. Hints to young practitioners, in the study of landscape painting : illustrated by five engravings intended to show the different stages of the neutral tint / by J.W. Alston ; to which are added instructions in the art of painting on velvet.

28. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

30. J.D. Harding's early drawing-book.

33. Hannah Bolton's first drawing book : a walk through a house shown by scenes in the journey.

34. Rudiments of drawing the human figure : from Cipriani, Guido, Poussin, Rubens / drawn & engraved by T. Cheesman.

38. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

39. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

40. Heads of a second set of lectures, on the polite arts / by Francis Fitzgerald.

41. Practical hints on portrait painting: illustrated by examples from the works of Vandyke and other masters. By John Burnet ...

42. A specimen of sketching landscapes, in a free and masterly manner, with a pen or pencil : exemplified in thirty-eight etchings, from the original drawings of Lucatelli, after nature, in and about Rome.

43. Instructions in the art of drawing and painting : for the book-case of instruction and delight.

44. Precepts of landscape drawing, exemplified in fifteen views : with instructions to young artists / by John Varley.

46. Ward's progressive book of landscape drawing : in thirteen parts / by J. H. Burgess.

48. First drawing book.

50. Elementary art, or, The use of the lead pencil advocated and explained / by J.D. Harding.

51. The rudiments of drawing cabinet and upholstery furniture: comprehending concise and explicit instructions for designing and delineating the different articles of those branches perspectively and geometrically ... Illustrated by appropriate diagrams ... By Richard Brown ...

54. Young ladies' drawing book, or, complete instructor in drawing and colouring flowers, fruits & shells; with directions for purchasing and using all the materials connected with that fine art.

55. A guide to pictorial art : how to use the black lead pencil, chalks, and water colours : the capabilities of these materials, with every information necessary to put the student on the proper course for attaining excellence in the fine arts / by H. O'Neill.

57. A series of easy lessons in landscape drawing : contained in forty plates, arranged progressively from the first principles in the chalk manner to the finished landscape colours / by Samuel Prout.

58. Easy lessons in landscape drawing : contained in forty plates, arranged progressively, from the first principles in the chalk manner to the finished landscape colours / by Samuel Prout.

59. The art of drawing, and painting in water-colours. Wherein the principles of drawing are laid down, after a natural and easy manner; and youth directed in everything that relates to this useful art, according to the practice of the best masters ...

60. The first booke of drawing & limning.

61. T.C. Dibdin's Pleasing self instructor in the art of drawing : comprised in a series of progressive lessons carefully engraved and simplified with printed letterpress directions : by which a child 9 years old may teach itself the art without the pressure of a master / by T.C. Dibdin ...

63. Studies from nature : arranged as progressive lessons for instruction in the art of drawing landscape / drawn and engraved by William Orme.

64. A treatise of perspective, demonstrative and practical : illustrated with copper cutts / by Humphrey Ditton ....

65. William Orme's Rudiments of landscape drawing, and perspective / dedicated to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c. &c.

67. Elements of painting with crayons / by John Russell.

68. 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.

70. Orme's New sketch book.

71. A familiar treatise on perspective, designed for ladies, and those who are unacquainted with the principles of optics and geometry ... By W. Daniel.

72. Landscape animals : in a series of progressive studies / W.M. Craig.

73. [Progressive lessons for drawing landscapes]

74. Thirty four lessons for drawing the human figure : engraved from the original drawings of Bartolozzi and adapted to the use of students in the polite arts.

75. Progressive lessons in drawings / by J. Powell, No. 14 Allsops buildings, New Road, Marylebone.

76. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

77. Second drawing book of heads / engraved from the original designs of Bernard Picart.

79. A New drawing book.

80. Elementary art, or, The use of the chalk and lead pencil advocated and explained / by J.D. Harding.

81. A drawing book of figures and animals from Berghem.

82. A new drawing book engrav'd from the curious designs of that great master M. Poilly : very proper for all to draw after who are willing to excel in the noble arts of painting, engraving, &c.

83. A new drawing-book of out-lines &c. : very proper for the first-practice of all who are willing to excell in that noble-art = Nouveau livres pour apprendre les premiers principes du dessein : tres-utile à ceux qui souhaitent d'exceller dans ce bel art.

84. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

85. An introduction to the study of painting : arranged under three heads, viz. geometry, perspective, and light and shadow : elucidated by question and answer / by E. Rudge ...

87. British small birds : Vere Foster's drawing book, embracing every description of drawing, with paper for copying : animals / by Harrison Weir & other artists ; in twelve books (O to O11)

88. [Drawing book of trees]

90. Artist's sketchbook, circa 1809?.

91. The art of drawing, in perspective ... To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... to which is added, a method of casting amber ...

92. A new drawing book, in the manner of chalk : containing twelve views in the west of England as follows : Glastonbury, Tavistock, ditto, Lynmouth, Exmouth, East-Bourne, Ide, ditto, Chagford, Exeter, Pennycross, Dartmoor / drawn and engraved by Samuel Prout.

93. An essay on mechanical drawing : comprising an elementary course of practice in the perspective delineation of machinery / illustrated in numerous plates by Charles Blunt.

94. Elementary art, or, The use of the chalk and lead pencil advocated and explained / by J.D. Harding.

95. Perspective explained in a series of dialogues between the author's children George, Ann, Eliza and John.

96. Etchings of rustic figures : for the embellishment of landscape / by W.H. Pyne.

97. The youth's new London self-instructing drawing book : containing a series of progressive lessons with instructions for drawing rural scenery, architecture, the human figure, animals &c. / illustrated with upwards of one hundred engravings by N. Whittock.

98. Lessons on trees / by J.D. Harding ; author of "Lessons on Art," "Elementary Art," "The Principles and practice of Art," &c. &c.