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101. 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

102. 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

103. 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

104. A New drawing book.

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

105. 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

106. 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

107. 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

108. 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

109. 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

110. 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

111. 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

112. 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

113. [Drawing book of trees]

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

114. 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

115. Artist's sketchbook, circa 1809?.

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

116. 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

117. 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

118. 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

119. 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

120. 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

121. 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

122. 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

123. 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

124. 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

125. 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

126. 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.

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

127. The young artist's complete magazine, for the instruction of the young of both sexes, or, A complete body of the polite and useful arts : ... Comprising ... I. The art of designing : II. Complete compendium of colours : III. Painting in miniature, or water colours : IV. Painting in oil colours: V. Painting in crayons : illustrated with 72 copper plate cuts ...

Date:: [1785?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

128. 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:: 1823
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

129. Bowles's Passions of the soul : represented in several heads : engraved in the manner of drawing in chalk / from the designs of the late celebrated Monsieur Le Brun.

Creator:: Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:: [1800?]
Physical Description:: 4 p., 20 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. Ackermann's rudimental drawing-book, for beginners in landscape / by H. Bright ; complete in six numbers.

Creator:: Bright, Henry, 1810–1873
Date:: [1843]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm. x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

131. Elements of drawing and flower painting : in opaque and transparent water-colours / by Mrs. E.E. Perkins ; honored by the especial patronage of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

Creator:: Perkins, Elizabeth Steele
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: xvi, [1], 18-66, [6] pages, [14] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. 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.

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

133. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

Creator:: Green, Benjamin, 1739–1798
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm. x 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. Le Messurier's A.B.C. sketching frame.

Date:: circa 1900?
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 19 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

135. Buchanan's initiatory drawing lessons : for the use of writing academies & private families : engraved series, to be copied with the pen.

Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: 4 p., 43 leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

136. Two essays : one on the author's mode of executing rough sketches : the other on the principles on which they are composed : to these are added three plates of figures by Sawrey Gilpin ... / by William Gilpin.

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: 1804
Physical Description:: 43 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

137. Short and plain principles of linear perspective, adapted to naval architecture : containing rules to draw correctly the forms of ships in every possible position : the whole being rendered so clear that a complete knowledge of the art may be soon and easily attained : illustrated with five copper plates / by A. Cobin.

Creator:: Cobin, A
Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [8], 6, [3] p., V folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. The illustrated drawing-book : for the use of schools, students, and artisans ... / by Robert Scott Burn ...

Creator:: Burn, Robert Scott
Date:: [18--]
Physical Description:: vii, [8]-143 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

139. Marine sketches / drawn on stone by S. Prout.

Creator:: Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [24] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. The progress of a water-coloured drawing : wherein is represented to the reader the various gradation through which a drawing passes : from the outline to the finished state : the intention of this little work is to enable young people, where an eminent Master cannot be had, to cultivate the delightful art of drawing in colours with system and advantage.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: [ca. 1807?]
Physical Description:: vii, [22] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. The principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple and easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts. / by John George Wood, F.S.A., author of Lectures on perspective, delivered at the Royal Institution in the years 1807, 1808, and 1809 ...

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. Book of landscapes after Payne.

Creator:: Payne, William, active 1776–1809
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 27 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. The practice of drawing and painting landscape from nature, in water colours : exemplified in a series of instructions calculated to facilitate the progress of the learner, including the elements of perspective, their application in sketching from nature and the explanation of various processes of colouring, for producing from the outline a finished picture, with observations on the study of nature and various other matters relative to the arts / by Francis Nicholson.

Creator:: Nicholson, Francis, 1753–1844
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: iv, 91 p., [5] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

144. A new drawing book of modes / by B. Picart.

Creator:: Picart, Bernard, 1673–1733
Date:: [1733?]
Physical Description:: 13 leaves : all ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. A drawing book of landscapes.

Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

146. Neues und fassliches Lehrbuch zum Zeichnen und Mahlen nach richtigen Grundfässen. Nebst einer neuen Methode, Kinder zeichnen und mahlen lehren, von der Frau von Genlis. Mit 27 schwarzen und colorirten Kupfertafeln.

Creator:: Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de, 1746–1830
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: 56 p. plates (part col.) 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. Landscape & velvet painting.

Creator:: Watt, Alexander George
Date:: circa 1819?
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([3], 42, VI p., [3] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. 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, &c. / illustrated with upwards of one hundred engravings by N. Whittock.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: iv, 108 p., [104] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. The art of painting in miniature ... Translated from the original French. To which are now added I. Certain secrets of one of the greatest Italian painters for making the finest colours ... II. Some ... lessons for the art of drawing ... III. The usefulness and benefit of prints.

Date:: 1752
Physical Description:: 150 p. 2 plates. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. Elements of drawing and painting in water colours : being supplement to the Elements of drawing and perspective, published in Chambers's educational course / by John Clark.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 212 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction / by J.G. Chapman.

Creator:: Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808–1889
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 168 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. Arts companion, or A new assistant for the ingenious, in 3 pts. Pt. 1 containing the art of drawing in perspective ... Pt. II containing the art of drawing and painting in water-colours ... Pt. III containing the art of painting in miniature ... to which are added directions for shadowing, stipling, &c. ... likewise the preparation of an excellent polish and shell: the whole taken from some of the best Italian and other masters.

Date:: 1749
Physical Description:: 172 p. ill. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

153. Flower painting made easy : being a collection of correct outlines after nature / by Tho. Parkinson painter ; and well engrav'd on 72 copper plates, ...

Creator:: Parkinson, Thomas, active 1769–1789
Date:: [1760?]
Physical Description:: [72] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. Practical hints on portrait painting : illustrated by examples from works of Vandyke and other masters / by John Burnet ...

Creator:: Burnet, John, 1784–1868
Date:: 1860
Physical Description:: [iii]-vi, 63, [2] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. 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:: 1776 [i.e. 177-?]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. Shepherd's portable slate desk.

Creator:: Shepherd, Charles C
Date:: [1877?]
Physical Description:: 1 drawing slate : double sided ; 19 x 27 x 6 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. Bowles's new preceptor in drawing ... Being the close study, for a series of years, of the late Mr. Lens ... On sixty-two copper-plates, engraved by himself. Designed chiefly for young beginners ... To which is prefixed, An introduction to drawing ... Translated from the French of monsieur Gerard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C.A. du Fresnoy, Salmon, &c.

Date:: [ca. 1799]
Physical Description:: 20 p. 62 plates on 42 leaves. 20 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. Progressive sketches for the lead pencil / by G.F. Bragg.

Creator:: Bragg, G.. F
Date:: [1835?]
Physical Description:: 24 leaves : all ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

159. 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)
Date:: [1808?]
Physical Description:: 67, 16 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. Drawing book of horses in progressive lessons / by John Sutcliffe.

Creator:: Sutcliffe, J. V. (John V.)
Date:: [1855?]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves : ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. The elements of drawing, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty-one engravings, plain and coloured, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton, drawing-master.

Creator:: Hamilton, George, writer on art
Date:: 1812
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. Elements of drawing and painting in water colours; being supplement to the Elements of drawing and perspective, pub. in Chambers's educational course.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1848
Physical Description:: xii, 212 p. plates (part. col.) 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. 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:: 1815
Physical Description:: 16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. Rudiments of drawing, shadowing, and colouring flowers in water colours : contained in thirty-six instructive lessons, illustrated by twenty-nine plates from the outline of a single leaf progressively to the completion of a fine group : intended for beginners and students of this delightful art : with a description of colours used & the method of mixing them.

Date:: 1818 [i.e. 1817]
Physical Description:: [4], 36 p., [1], 29 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 x 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

165. An introduction to perspective, adapted to the capacities of youth, in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues, between the author's children : accompanied with illustrative plates, appropriate diagrams, and a sufficiency of practical geometry : to which is added, A compendium of genuine instruction in the art of drawing and painting : the whole comprising a body of information, adapted equally to the simplicity of youth, and to mental maturity ... / by Mr. Hayter ...

Creator:: Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: viii, 168 p., [1], XIV leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

166. Elements for drawing / designed and engraved by Francis Bartolozzi ... The originals in the possession of M. Bovi.

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. 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:: 1775
Physical Description:: xii, 123 p., 9 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens ... : with outlines to each plate ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred and thirteen copper plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, Chatelin, ... : to which are annexed proper instructions to youth ...

Date:: 1757
Physical Description:: [1], 8, [1] p., [100], [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. Drawing for schools : containing expositions of the method of teaching drawing in schools ; a full explanation of the practice of model drawing after the method of Dupuis, as first practised at the Battersea Training College ; the principles and practice of outline and perspective drawing : together with numerous illustrations and drawing exercises / by Thomas Tate, F.R.A.S., of Kneller Training College, Twickenham; late mathematical professor and lecturer on chemistry in the National Society's Training College, Battersea. Author of "The principles of the differential and integral calculus;" " A treatise on the strength of materials;" "The principles of geometry and mensuration," etc. etc.

Creator:: Tate, Thomas, 1807–1888
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: [4], 45, [3] p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. The young colorist.

Date:: [ca. 1880]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm. x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. Bacon's "Excelsior" drawing cards : freehand for Standards VI-VIII / 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

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

Creator:: Burn, Robert Scott
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: [8], iv, [5]-146 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. Chubb's drawing book, and artists' assistant : illustrated with nearly sixty well-executed copper plate engravings of the human figure.

Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 77, [3] pages, [50] leaves of plates (in various foliations) : illustrations ; 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

174. Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiua senza saperla : fiori, per facilitare l'intelligenza, frutti, per non operare alla cieca : cognitioni necessarie à pittori, scultori, architetti, ed à qualunque si diletta di disegno / dat' in luce da Giulio Troili da Spinlamberto detto Paradosso, pittore dell'illustriss. Senato di Bologna.

Creator:: Troili, Giulio, 1613–1685
Date:: 1683
Physical Description:: [8], 120; [4], 64 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

Creator:: Cox, David, 1783–1859
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 30 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

176. 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, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

Date:: 1660
Physical Description:: [5], 20 [i.e. 39] p. : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. Progressive lessons / P. S. M.

Creator:: Munn, Paul Sandby, 1773–1845
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 4 leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm. x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

178. A guide to sketching from nature in water colours / by Leonidas Clint Miles ; with numerous illustrations, drawn on stone and wood by the author.

Creator:: Miles, Leonidas Clint
Date:: 1868
Physical Description:: 85, 48 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

Date:: 1794
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : all ill. (some col.) ; 17 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. Studies of cows from life : forming the first rudiments of sketching cattle from nature / H. M. Milbourne, in. et fec.

Creator:: Milbourne, Henry, 1781–ca. 1826
Date:: [1805]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm. x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. Hassell's drawing magazine ...

Creator:: Hassell, J. (John), d. 1825
Date:: 1808-1811
Physical Description:: 4 v. plates 13 x 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. 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:: [1698]
Physical Description:: [3], 21 [i.e. 40] p. : ill., port. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

183. Footsteps to drawing, according to the rules of perspective : explained in familiar dialogues, for the use of children and young persons, and illustrated by a series of progressive lessons in twenty plates of examples, calculated to combine a knowledge of perspective with the practice of drawing, and to lead the beginner imperceptibly to an acquaintance with the principal rules of that useful art. / by John George Wood, F.S.A., lecturer on perspective, &c.

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [4], 12 p., 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: 40 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. The Art of drawing and painting in water-colours. Whereby a stranger to those arts may be immediately render'd capable of delineating any view or prospect with the utmost exactness ... With instructions for making transparent colours of every sort; partly from some curious personages in Holland, France, and Italy; but chiefly from a manuscript of the great Mr. Boyle ...

Date:: 1731
Physical Description:: 3 p.., 64 p. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

186. Illustrations of perspective : being a popular explanation of the science, and its application to design generally : especially adapted for the amateur / by Benj. R. Green.

Creator:: Green, Benjamin Richard, 1808–1876
Date:: [184-?]
Physical Description:: [54] p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

187. The Brighton drawing book / by Frederick Earp ; containing a series of progressive studies for advanced pupils ; being a continuation of the elementary drawing book by the same master ; in four parts, two shillings each.

Creator:: Earp, Frederick, 1827–1897
Date:: [184-?]
Physical Description:: 4 leaves : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Creator:: Harley, George, 1791–1871
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: [6], 48 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. (part col.) ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

189. The art of drawing in perspective: wherein the doctrine of perspectiv[e is] clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometrical principles; and a mechanical method of perspective and designing invented, for the benefit of such as are strangers to mathematics. Illustrated with variety [!] of copper-plate figures. To which are annexed, the art of painting upon glass, and drawing in crayons ... the art of etching, and that of japanning upon wood, or any metal ... and ... a method of casting amber ...

Date:: 1755
Physical Description:: iv, 92 p. fold. front. 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

190. Introduction to drawing ships.

Date:: [1788]
Physical Description:: 8 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

191. Copper plates used in Pyne's Etchings of rustic figures.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1814, April 1-July 1
Physical Description:: 18 plates ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

192. A new book of foliage : for the instruction of young artists / by M. Lock.

Creator:: Lock, Matthias, approximately 1710–1765
Date:: 1769
Physical Description:: 8 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 x 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

193. Studies of trees sketched from nature.

Date:: 1800
Physical Description:: 4 prints : soft-ground etchings ; plate marks approximately 21 x 29 cm, on sheets 25 x 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

194. 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:: 1810
Physical Description:: [4], vii, [1], [9]-124 p., 9 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

195. Principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple to easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts / by John George Wood.

Creator:: Wood, John George, 1768–1838
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: iv, 18, 16, 8, 14, [2] p., 16, 16, 16, 16 leaves of plates : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

196. The art of landscape drawing made easy : by specimens in the rual stile, intended for the use of those who wish to excell in that noble art : recommended to the use of schools.

Date:: [1794]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

197. A method to learn to design the passions : proposed in a conference on their general and particular expression / written in French and illustrated with a great many figures excellently designed by Mr. Le Brun, chief painter to the French king ... ; translated into English and all the designs engraved on copper by John Williams ...

Creator:: Le Brun, Charles, Sir, 1619–1690
Date:: 1734
Physical Description:: xii, [11]-58 p., [32] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

198. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of ... : illustrated with variety of copper-plate figures : to which are annexed the art of painting upon glass ... : to which is added a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: 92 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

199. Chalon's drawing book of animals and birds of every description : studies from nature.

Creator:: Chalon, Henry Bernard, 1770–1849
Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: [16] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 31 x 50 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

200. Process of sketching a landscape.

Creator:: Laporte, John, 1761–1839
Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : all ill. ; 38 x 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

104. A New drawing book.

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

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

107. 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.

108. 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.

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

110. 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 ...

112. 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)

113. [Drawing book of trees]

115. Artist's sketchbook, circa 1809?.

116. 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 ...

117. 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.

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

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

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

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

122. 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.

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

124. 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.

126. 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.

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

129. Bowles's Passions of the soul : represented in several heads : engraved in the manner of drawing in chalk / from the designs of the late celebrated Monsieur Le Brun.

130. Ackermann's rudimental drawing-book, for beginners in landscape / by H. Bright ; complete in six numbers.

131. Elements of drawing and flower painting : in opaque and transparent water-colours / by Mrs. E.E. Perkins ; honored by the especial patronage of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.

132. 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.

133. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

134. Le Messurier's A.B.C. sketching frame.

135. Buchanan's initiatory drawing lessons : for the use of writing academies & private families : engraved series, to be copied with the pen.

136. Two essays : one on the author's mode of executing rough sketches : the other on the principles on which they are composed : to these are added three plates of figures by Sawrey Gilpin ... / by William Gilpin.

138. The illustrated drawing-book : for the use of schools, students, and artisans ... / by Robert Scott Burn ...

139. Marine sketches / drawn on stone by S. Prout.

142. Book of landscapes after Payne.

144. A new drawing book of modes / by B. Picart.

145. A drawing book of landscapes.

146. Neues und fassliches Lehrbuch zum Zeichnen und Mahlen nach richtigen Grundfässen. Nebst einer neuen Methode, Kinder zeichnen und mahlen lehren, von der Frau von Genlis. Mit 27 schwarzen und colorirten Kupfertafeln.

147. Landscape & velvet painting.

148. 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, &c. / illustrated with upwards of one hundred engravings by N. Whittock.

149. The art of painting in miniature ... Translated from the original French. To which are now added I. Certain secrets of one of the greatest Italian painters for making the finest colours ... II. Some ... lessons for the art of drawing ... III. The usefulness and benefit of prints.

150. Elements of drawing and painting in water colours : being supplement to the Elements of drawing and perspective, published in Chambers's educational course / by John Clark.

151. The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction / by J.G. Chapman.

153. Flower painting made easy : being a collection of correct outlines after nature / by Tho. Parkinson painter ; and well engrav'd on 72 copper plates, ...

154. Practical hints on portrait painting : illustrated by examples from works of Vandyke and other masters / by John Burnet ...

156. Shepherd's portable slate desk.

158. Progressive sketches for the lead pencil / by G.F. Bragg.

159. 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.

160. Drawing book of horses in progressive lessons / by John Sutcliffe.

161. The elements of drawing, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty-one engravings, plain and coloured, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton, drawing-master.

162. Elements of drawing and painting in water colours; being supplement to the Elements of drawing and perspective, pub. in Chambers's educational course.

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

166. Elements for drawing / designed and engraved by Francis Bartolozzi ... The originals in the possession of M. Bovi.

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

168. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens ... : with outlines to each plate ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred and thirteen copper plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, Chatelin, ... : to which are annexed proper instructions to youth ...

170. The young colorist.

171. Bacon's "Excelsior" drawing cards : freehand for Standards VI-VIII / by Frank Steeley & Bernard H. Trotman ...

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

173. Chubb's drawing book, and artists' assistant : illustrated with nearly sixty well-executed copper plate engravings of the human figure.

175. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

176. 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, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

177. Progressive lessons / P. S. M.

178. A guide to sketching from nature in water colours / by Leonidas Clint Miles ; with numerous illustrations, drawn on stone and wood by the author.

179. Six well known views near London : for the use of those who delight in drawing.

180. Studies of cows from life : forming the first rudiments of sketching cattle from nature / H. M. Milbourne, in. et fec.

181. Hassell's drawing magazine ...

182. 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 ...

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

186. Illustrations of perspective : being a popular explanation of the science, and its application to design generally : especially adapted for the amateur / by Benj. R. Green.

187. The Brighton drawing book / by Frederick Earp ; containing a series of progressive studies for advanced pupils ; being a continuation of the elementary drawing book by the same master ; in four parts, two shillings each.

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

190. Introduction to drawing ships.

191. Copper plates used in Pyne's Etchings of rustic figures.

192. A new book of foliage : for the instruction of young artists / by M. Lock.

193. Studies of trees sketched from nature.

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