Subject Terms: Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

101. Liston's characters : six coloured engravings.

Date:: 1826
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. Celebrated & extraordinary exhibition, patronized by the royal families of England, France, Belgium, &c. &c. &c. of the industrious fleas : from Regent Street, is now exhibiting at Somerset Gallery, Strand.

Date:: [183-?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1]) p.) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

103. An historical description of the tower of London and its curiosities : giving an account 1. Of its foundation, gradual increase, and present state. 2. Of its government, customs, and privileges. 3. Of its antiquities, records, and curiosities. 4. Of the lions, and other wild beasts kept there. 5. Of the spoils of the Spanish Armada, with the history of the Spanish Invasion in 1588. 6. Of the small armory, in which are arms for 100,000 men. 7. Of the Royal Train of Artillery, comprehending a variety of cannon, mortars, &c. &c. 8. Of the horse armory; with a concise history of the Kings fitting there on horseback, in full armour, from William the Conqueror to George II. 9. Of the Jewel-Office, and the regalia used at coronations, with a full account of Colonel Blood's attempt to steal them. 10. Of the mint, and the manner of stamping money : written principally to direct the attention of strangers to what is most curious in this Repository, and to enable them afterwards to describe what they have seen.

Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: 60 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

104. Entomology in sport, and Entomology in earnest / by the Honorable Mrs. W. and Lady M.

Creator:: Ward, Mary, 1827–1869
Date:: [1859]
Physical Description:: 20, 48 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

105. Collins' national drawing books / designed by D. Mackinlay.

Date:: [ca. 1880]
Physical Description:: 36 pt. : ill. ; 19 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. Das Kreisrätsel = The circular puzzle.

Creator:: F. Ad. Richter & Co
Date:: [between 1891 and 1900]
Physical Description:: [8], 42 pages : illustrations ; 84 x 79 mm, in box 92 x 92 x 15 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

107. Talpa, or, The chronicles of a clay farm : an agricultural fragment / by C.W.H.

Creator:: Hoskyns, Chandos Wren, 1812–1876
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: viii, 237, [3], 4 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

108. The training of a craftsman / written by Fred Miller ; illustrated by many workers in the art crafts.

Creator:: Miller, Fred, decorative artist
Date:: 1898
Physical Description:: x, 249, [1], 9, [1] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

109. 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

110. H. Molyneux (wholesale & retail) : linen & woollen draper, silk mercer & hoster.

Creator:: H. Molyneux (Firm)
Date:: [between 1820-1825]
Physical Description:: 1 trade card : illustrations ; 7 x 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

111. The boat race and who went to it.

Date:: [between 1868 and 1885]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([16] panels) : illustrations ; 29 x 89 cm, folded to 15 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

112. [Album card with cut paper lace overlay].

Date:: [approximately 1875]
Physical Description:: 1 album card : chromolithograph ; 130 x 90 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

113. A visit to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham.

Creator:: Bishop, James
Date:: [between 1854 and 1856]
Physical Description:: 15, [1] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

114. [Die-cut and embossed chromolithographed scrap-sheet of ships of the Royal Navy].

Date:: [ca. 1895]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

115. Practical hints on church floral decorations / by a lady ; with an introduction by the Revd. W. Gresley.

Creator:: Lady, A
Date:: [1869]
Physical Description:: xiv, 62 p., [2], 21 leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. The book of sports, games, and athletic exercises / by William Martin, author of The Parlour Book, &c. &c. &c.

Creator:: Martin, William, 1801–1867
Date:: [between 1837 and 1845]
Physical Description:: [4], 268 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: [2] p., [42] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

118. A series of sketches from nature of plant form / by F. Edward Hulme.

Creator:: Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841–1909
Date:: 1868
Physical Description:: [2], 54 p., [100] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

119. The funnyshire fox chace : a new game.

Date:: [ca. 1830?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([1] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 40 x 53 cm. folded to 18 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

120. Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips.

Creator:: Phillips, G. F. (Giles Firman), 1780–1867
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 28 p., [1], 7 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

121. Diorama, Regent's Park : two views: Ruins of Holyrood Chapel, A Moonlight Scene, Painted by M. Daguerre, Knight of the Legion of Honor : and the Cathedral of Chartres, painted by M. Bouton.

Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (8, [4] p.) ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

122. A series of practical instructions in landscape painting in water colours : containing directions for sketching from nature, and the application of perspective, progressive lessons in drawing from the tinted sketch to the finished subject, and examples of the introduction of figures, architectural subjects, particular effects, &c. as connected with landscape scenery / by John Clark ; illustrated by fifty-five views from nature, descriptive objects, &c. mounted in imitation of drawings.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: 4 pt. : col. ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

123. A narrative of the Grand Festival at Yarmouth on Tuesday, the 19th of April, 1814 : with an appendix containing copies of all the handbills which were published on the occasions : a list of the xubscribers : and an account of the expenditure.

Creator:: Cory, Robert
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 72 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. An account of the grand musical festival, held in September, 1823, in the cathedral church of York : for the benefit of the York County Hospital, and the general infirmaries at Leeds, Hull, and Sheffield : to which is prefixed, a sketch of the rise and progress of musical festivals in Great Britain : with biographical and historical notes / by John Crosse, F.S.A., F.R.S.L., M.G.S. ...

Creator:: Crosse, John, 1786–1833
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 436, xxvi, [2] p., [5] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. Hunting / by his grace the Duke of Beaufort, and Mowbray Morris ; with contributions by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, E.W.L. Davies, Digby Collins, and Alfred E.T. Watson ; with illustrations by J. Sturgess and J. Charlton.

Creator:: Beaufort, Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, Duke of, 1824–1899
Date:: 1885
Physical Description:: xiv, 401 p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

126. [Sketches of fairy land, or, A comparison between England & Lilliput].

Creator:: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760–1809
Date:: 1810]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

127. A treatise on adulterations of food, and culinary poisons : exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spiritous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles, and other articles employed in domestic economy, and methods of detecting them / by Fredrick Accum, operative chemist, lecturer on practical chemistry, mineralogy, and on chemistry applied to the arts and manufactures; member of the Royal Irish Academy; Fellow of the Linnean Society; member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Arts of Berlin, &c, &c.

Creator:: Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769–1838
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, 372 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

128. [A cat playing with a ball of string].

Creator:: Dobbs, Henry
Date:: [ca. 1820]
Physical Description:: 1 card : color illustration ; 5 x 8 cm, on card 11 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

129. Reminiscences of a yachting cruise. / by Mrs. N.M. Condy ; illustrated by four lithographic drawing by T.G. Dutton, Esq., from sketches by the late N.M. Condy, Esq. ; with a portrait of that gentleman, from a painting by his father.

Creator:: Condy, Flora Ross
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: viii, 47, [1] p, [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. The age of intellect, or, Clerical showfolk, and wonderful layfolk : a series of poetical epistles between Bob Blazon in town, and Jack Jingle in the country : dedicated to the Fair Circassian : with notes critical, ethical, satirical, physiological, craniological, and astrological / by Francis Moore, physician, author of the celebrated work entitled Vox stellarum or, A loyal almanack.

Creator:: Moore, Francis, 1657–1714
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [4], ii, [v]-xxiii, [24]-172, [8] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

131. A course of water-colour painting / by R.P. Leitch.

Creator:: Leitch, R. P. (Richard Pettigrew)
Date:: [1884?]
Physical Description:: 36, [4] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. Marriage a-la-mode.

Creator:: Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (10 p.) : ill. ; 15 x 150 cm., folded to 15 x 15 cm., attached to boards 16 x 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. Conversations on botany : with plates.

Creator:: Fitton, Sarah Mary
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: xix, [1], 278 p., 21 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. Involuntary thoughts.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823-1824
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

135. Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are / drawn by M.E. Esq.

Creator:: Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [23] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

136. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be whips.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

137. Hints on the formation of gardens and pleasure grounds : with designs, in various styles of rural embellishment : comprising plans for laying out flower, fruit, and kitchen gardens, and the arrangement of glass-houses, hot walls, and stoves : interspersed with remarks on various subjects of horticultural improvement : to which is added, a priced catalogue of fruit and forest trees, shrubs, and plants : adapted to villa grounds, from one perch to a hundred acres in extent.

Creator:: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783–1843
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 70, [2] p., 20 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. The betting-book / by George Cruikshank ; with cuts.

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: 31, [1] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

139. 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

140. Horse and man / by C.S. March Phillipps ; author of Jurisprudence etc.

Creator:: Phillipps, Charles Spencer March
Date:: 1869
Physical Description:: xiv, 131 ; 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. 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

142. Der Kopfzerbrecher = The anchor puzzle.

Creator:: F. Ad. Richter & Co.
Date:: [1891 or 1892]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 8 cm, in box 8 x 8 x 2 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting.

Creator:: Collier, Jane, 1715?-1755
Date:: 1808
Physical Description:: [8], 160 p., [5] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

144. Snapshots of St. Albans.

Date:: 187-?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([8] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 15 x 48 cm, folded to 15 x 12 cm, attached to wrappers 17 x 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. The practical paper fruit maker : a new and original kindergarten occupation for girls and infants / by Veronica Vassey, author of "The practical paper flower maker."

Creator:: Vassey, Veronica
Date:: [approximately 1900]
Physical Description:: xi, [2], 14-52, [12] pages, [8] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

146. [Embossed and metallic cut paper album card].

Date:: [approximately 1875]
Physical Description:: 1 album card : chromolithograph ; 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. A day at the Derby.

Date:: ca. 1835?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([9] panels) : ill. ; 10 x 130 cm., folded to 10 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

148. Hood's drawing book / with designs and suggestions by an artist of long and varied experience.

Date:: C.I. Hood Co.,
Physical Description:: 21 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

149. The theatric tourist : being a genuine collection of correct views, with brief and authentic historical accounts of all the principal provincial theatres in the United Kingdom : replete with useful and necessary information to theatrical professors, whereby they may learn how to chuse [sic] and regulate their country engagements; and with numerous anecdoes to amuse the reader / by a theatric amateur.

Creator:: Winston, James, 1773–1843
Date:: 1805
Physical Description:: [2], 72 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. Glances at character.

Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: viii, 158 p., 8 [i.e. 7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. Lessons in flower and fruit modelling in wax / by J.H. Mintorn ; with practical illustrations.

Creator:: Mintorn, J. H. (John Haynes)
Date:: [185-?]
Physical Description:: 124, [2], 16 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. The wreath, or, Ornamental artist : containing instructions for making flowers of wax, rice-paper, lamb's-wool, and cambric, with a great variety of articles : for charitable repositories / by a Lady.

Creator:: Lady
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: [2], ii, 92, [2] pages, [22] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

153. Trade card for the Leather Bottle Hotel, Cobham, Kent.

Date:: 1860s?
Physical Description:: 1 trade card ; 9.1 x 12.6 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. The history of the Charter-House : dedicated by permission to the Rev. W. Fisher, D.D. Master of the Charter-House, and prependary of Norwich.

Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 32 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. Child's advanced drawing book.

Creator:: Childs, George
Date:: ca. 1840]
Physical Description:: 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

156. The noble game of billiards : wherein are exhibited extraordinary & surprising strokes which have excited the admiration of most of the sovereigns of Europe / by Monsieur Mingaud.

Creator:: Mingaud, François, 1771–1847
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: [2], 7, [1] p., [1], 40 leaves leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. Sketches of pumps / handled by Robert Cruikshank with some temperate spouting by Alfred Crowquill ; illustrated in glyphography.

Creator:: Crowquill, Alfred
Date:: 1846
Physical Description:: [2], 16 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. The school of design drawing book : a collection of authentic drawings of different periods and styles of ornaments as applied to decorative art, forming a series of most interesting & instructive studies in freehand drawing, copies from the best models to be found in the various museums and art galleries of the continent / by M.J. Fitschen ; in four books, each containing six studies, price sixpence each book ; also printed on cards suitable for drawing classes, in packets of six in wrapper, price ninepence each packet.

Creator:: Fitschen, M. J
Date:: [1882]
Physical Description:: 4 pt. : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

159. Sketches at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition / by John Dinsdale.

Creator:: Dinsdale, John, active 1884–1890
Date:: [1886]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 14 x 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. Journal of the operations of the Belvoir fox-hounds.

Physical Description:: v. 24-25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are / drawn by M.E. Esq.

Creator:: Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 1 folded leaf ([16] p.) : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. Elementary studies of river craft and shipping / by A. Montague.

Creator:: Montague, Alfred, d. 1883
Date:: [1835]
Physical Description:: [4] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 20 x 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. Waterloo Bridge dissected into 151 pieces.

Date:: [ca. 1830?]
Physical Description:: 1 set of building blocks (151 pieces) : wood ; various sizes, in wooden box 18 x 35 x 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. Hints on horsemanship, to a nephew and niece, or, Common sense and common errors in common riding / by an Officer of the Household Brigade of Cavalry.

Creator:: Greenwood, George, 1799–1875
Date:: MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:: [6], 105, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

165. The poets of the nineteenth century / selected and edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, incumbent of Bearwood ; illustrated with one hundred engravings, drawn by eminent artists, and engraved by the brothers Dalziel

Creator:: Willmott, Robert Aris, 1809–1863
Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 398, [2] p. ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Alicia Faxon in memory of Richard B. Faxon, Yale BA 1949

166. The album of Ilfracombe and North Devon views.

Date:: 188-?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([12] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 256 cm, folded to 21 x 16 cm, in boards 23 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. Decorative painting : a practical handbook on painting and etching various objects and materials for the decoration of our homes / by B.C. Saward.

Creator:: Saward, Blanche C
Date:: [1897]
Physical Description:: xx, 216, [20] p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. The magazine of the beau monde, or, Monthly journal of fashion.

Date:: 1831-1843
Physical Description:: 13 v. : illustrations ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. Felix on the bat : being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat : together with the history and use of the catapulta : also the laws of cricket, as revised by the Marylebone Club, 1845.

Creator:: Felix, Nicholas, 1804–1876
Date:: MDCCCXLV [1845]
Physical Description:: 40, [8] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. Life at the seaside : illustrated in twelve original sketches.

Date:: [1879]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : chiefly ill. ; 9 x 180 cm. folded to 9 x 15 cm. attached to boards 11 x 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. Ephemera relating to St. Chrysostom's Schools' entertainment for working men.

Creator:: St. Chrysostom's School (Liverpool, England)
Date:: 1866-1867
Physical Description:: 7 items
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

172. The art of portrait painting in oil colours : with observations on setting and painting the figure / by Henry Murray.

Creator:: Murray, Henry, F.S.A
Date:: 1856
Physical Description:: iv, 68 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. Hints on horsemanship, to a nephew and niece, or, Common sense and common errors in common riding / by Colonel George Greenwood ...

Creator:: Greenwood, George, 1799–1875
Date:: 1871
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 110, [2] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

174. Brooklands : a sporting biography / by Herbert Byng Hall, K.S.F. ... ; in two vols.

Creator:: Hall, H. Byng (Herbert Byng), 1805–1883
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. An essay on warm, cold and vapour bathing : with practical observations on sea bathing, diseases of the skin, bilious, liver complaints, and dropsy / by Sir Arthur Clarke ...

Creator:: Clarke, Arthur, Sir, 1778–1857
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 232 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

176. A treatise on tennis / by a member of the Tennis Club.

Creator:: Lukin, Robert, 1772–1835
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: viii, 120 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. New readings of old authors : Shakespeare / designed and drawn on stone by the late Robert Seymour.

Creator:: Seymour, Robert, 1798–1836
Date:: [1841]
Physical Description:: [120] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

178. "Hawbuck Grange," or, The sporting adventures of Thomas Scott, Esq. / by the author of "Handley Cross," "Sponge's Sporting Tour," etc., etc. ; with illustrations by Phiz.

Creator:: Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805–1864
Date:: [1888?]
Physical Description:: [8], 329, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

179. H. Simpkins's illustrated pocket keepsake and book of amusements for 1882 : contains almanack for 1882, tide-table, historical events, pretty songs, parlour pastimes, funny tales, jokes and conundrums, ball room companion, with many interesting illustrations.

Date:: [1881]
Physical Description:: [32] pages : illustrations ; 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. Olla Podrida / by M. Egerton, Esqre.

Creator:: Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: [2] p., [22] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. What I saw at the worlds fair, or, Notes of the Great Exhibition / by Mr. Comic-eye.

Creator:: Onwhyn, Thomas, 1811?-1886
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([14] p.) : all ill. ; 161 x 15 cm. folded to 15 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. Investigation, or, Travels in the boudoir / by Caroline A. Halsted, author of "The little botanist."

Creator:: Halsted, Caroline Amelia, -1851
Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: xiv, [2], 296 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

183. The commercial tourist, or, Gentleman traveller : a satirical poem : in four cantos : embellished with colored engravings.

Creator:: Hempel, Charles William, 1777–1855
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: [4], 140 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. The manual of oil-painting, for young artists and amateurs : condensed from the works of Bouvier, Merimee, Montabert, and other distinguished Continental artists : with a glossary of terms of art.

Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 128 p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. The Album of Bath views.

Date:: [187-?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([21] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 256 cm, folded to 21 x 16 cm, in boards 23 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

186. The mirror of the graces, or, The English lady's costume : combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity, and economy with fashion in dress : and adapting the various articles of female embellishments to different ages, form, and complexions : to the seasons of the year, rank, and situation in life : with useful advice on female accomplishments, politeness, and manners : the cultivation of the mind and the disposition and carriage of the body : offering also the most efficacious means of preserving beauty, health, and loveliness : the whole according with the general principles of nature and rules of propriety / by a Lady of distinction ; who has witnessed and attentively studied what is esteemed truly graceful and elegant amongst the most refined nations of Europe.

Creator:: Lady of distinction, active 19th century
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: xii, 240 pages, 4 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

187. The whist-player : the laws and practice of short-whist explained and illustrated / by Lieut.-Colonel B****.

Creator:: Blyth, Augustus Frederick
Date:: MDCCCLVI [1856]
Physical Description:: 72 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

188. The Instructive picture book, or, Progressive lessons from the natural history of animals and plants / edited by Adam White ; and Robert M. Stark ; vol. I, lessons from the animal world--fourfooted animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, with 10 elementary plates of miscellaneous objects.

Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 18 p., xxx double leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

189. The artificial florist, or, The art of making artificial flowers, in easy progressive lessons / by John Foster.

Creator:: Foster, John
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: 26, [18] p., 6 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

190. [Victorian greeting card].

Date:: [approximately 1880]
Physical Description:: 1 folded greeting card : chromolithographs ; 100 x 80 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

191. Our lace sampler : second series / by Mrs. Mee & Miss Austin ...

Creator:: Mee, Cornelia, 1815–1875
Date:: [approximately 1870]
Physical Description:: 16, [4] pages, [4] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

192. A nineteenth century, and familiar history of the lives, loves, and misfortunes of Abeillard and Heloisa : a matchless pair, who flourished in the twelfth century : a poem, in twelve cantos : illustrated with ten engravings / by Robert Rabelais, the younger.

Creator:: Rabelais, Robert, the younger
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: xvii, 384 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

193. Brush drawing as applied to natural forms and common objects : over 300 examples in monochrome and colour / by May Mallam.

Creator:: Mallam, May
Date:: 1905
Physical Description:: [48] p. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

194. One thousand characters suitable for fancy costume balls / described by Mme. Marie Schild.

Creator:: Schild, Marie
Date:: [approximately 1884]
Physical Description:: 141, [5] pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

195. The archer's guide : containing full instructions for the use of that ancient and noble instrument the bow; directions for the choice of arrows; and all information essential to the attainment of theoretical proficiency in the graceful, manly, and fashionable pastime of archery : accompanied by a sketch of the history of the long-bow, whether as a weapon of war or an instrument of amusement / by an old toxophilite ; illustrated with plates of the costume and paraphernalia, position in shooting, etc. by R. Cruikshank, Esq., member of the Brompton Club of Archers.

Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 23, [1], xi, [1], 178, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

196. [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

197. The Royal album of views of Bournemouth and neighbourhood.

Date:: 187-?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([21] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 329 cm, folded to 21x 16 cm, in boards 22 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

198. The comic album : a book for every table.

Date:: 1843
Physical Description:: [138] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

199. 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

200. 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

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101. Liston's characters : six coloured engravings.

102. Celebrated & extraordinary exhibition, patronized by the royal families of England, France, Belgium, &c. &c. &c. of the industrious fleas : from Regent Street, is now exhibiting at Somerset Gallery, Strand.

104. Entomology in sport, and Entomology in earnest / by the Honorable Mrs. W. and Lady M.

105. Collins' national drawing books / designed by D. Mackinlay.

106. Das Kreisrätsel = The circular puzzle.

107. Talpa, or, The chronicles of a clay farm : an agricultural fragment / by C.W.H.

108. The training of a craftsman / written by Fred Miller ; illustrated by many workers in the art crafts.

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

110. H. Molyneux (wholesale & retail) : linen & woollen draper, silk mercer & hoster.

111. The boat race and who went to it.

112. [Album card with cut paper lace overlay].

113. A visit to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham.

114. [Die-cut and embossed chromolithographed scrap-sheet of ships of the Royal Navy].

115. Practical hints on church floral decorations / by a lady ; with an introduction by the Revd. W. Gresley.

116. The book of sports, games, and athletic exercises / by William Martin, author of The Parlour Book, &c. &c. &c.

117. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

118. A series of sketches from nature of plant form / by F. Edward Hulme.

119. The funnyshire fox chace : a new game.

120. Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting : illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art / by G.F. Phillips.

121. Diorama, Regent's Park : two views: Ruins of Holyrood Chapel, A Moonlight Scene, Painted by M. Daguerre, Knight of the Legion of Honor : and the Cathedral of Chartres, painted by M. Bouton.

123. A narrative of the Grand Festival at Yarmouth on Tuesday, the 19th of April, 1814 : with an appendix containing copies of all the handbills which were published on the occasions : a list of the xubscribers : and an account of the expenditure.

125. Hunting / by his grace the Duke of Beaufort, and Mowbray Morris ; with contributions by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, E.W.L. Davies, Digby Collins, and Alfred E.T. Watson ; with illustrations by J. Sturgess and J. Charlton.

126. [Sketches of fairy land, or, A comparison between England & Lilliput].

128. [A cat playing with a ball of string].

129. Reminiscences of a yachting cruise. / by Mrs. N.M. Condy ; illustrated by four lithographic drawing by T.G. Dutton, Esq., from sketches by the late N.M. Condy, Esq. ; with a portrait of that gentleman, from a painting by his father.

131. A course of water-colour painting / by R.P. Leitch.

132. Marriage a-la-mode.

133. Conversations on botany : with plates.

134. Involuntary thoughts.

135. Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are / drawn by M.E. Esq.

136. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be whips.

138. The betting-book / by George Cruikshank ; with cuts.

140. Horse and man / by C.S. March Phillipps ; author of Jurisprudence etc.

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

142. Der Kopfzerbrecher = The anchor puzzle.

143. An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting.

144. Snapshots of St. Albans.

145. The practical paper fruit maker : a new and original kindergarten occupation for girls and infants / by Veronica Vassey, author of "The practical paper flower maker."

146. [Embossed and metallic cut paper album card].

147. A day at the Derby.

148. Hood's drawing book / with designs and suggestions by an artist of long and varied experience.

150. Glances at character.

151. Lessons in flower and fruit modelling in wax / by J.H. Mintorn ; with practical illustrations.

152. The wreath, or, Ornamental artist : containing instructions for making flowers of wax, rice-paper, lamb's-wool, and cambric, with a great variety of articles : for charitable repositories / by a Lady.

153. Trade card for the Leather Bottle Hotel, Cobham, Kent.

154. The history of the Charter-House : dedicated by permission to the Rev. W. Fisher, D.D. Master of the Charter-House, and prependary of Norwich.

155. Child's advanced drawing book.

156. The noble game of billiards : wherein are exhibited extraordinary & surprising strokes which have excited the admiration of most of the sovereigns of Europe / by Monsieur Mingaud.

157. Sketches of pumps / handled by Robert Cruikshank with some temperate spouting by Alfred Crowquill ; illustrated in glyphography.

159. Sketches at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition / by John Dinsdale.

160. Journal of the operations of the Belvoir fox-hounds.

161. Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are / drawn by M.E. Esq.

162. Elementary studies of river craft and shipping / by A. Montague.

163. Waterloo Bridge dissected into 151 pieces.

164. Hints on horsemanship, to a nephew and niece, or, Common sense and common errors in common riding / by an Officer of the Household Brigade of Cavalry.

165. The poets of the nineteenth century / selected and edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, incumbent of Bearwood ; illustrated with one hundred engravings, drawn by eminent artists, and engraved by the brothers Dalziel

166. The album of Ilfracombe and North Devon views.

167. Decorative painting : a practical handbook on painting and etching various objects and materials for the decoration of our homes / by B.C. Saward.

168. The magazine of the beau monde, or, Monthly journal of fashion.

169. Felix on the bat : being a scientific inquiry into the use of the cricket bat : together with the history and use of the catapulta : also the laws of cricket, as revised by the Marylebone Club, 1845.

170. Life at the seaside : illustrated in twelve original sketches.

171. Ephemera relating to St. Chrysostom's Schools' entertainment for working men.

172. The art of portrait painting in oil colours : with observations on setting and painting the figure / by Henry Murray.

173. Hints on horsemanship, to a nephew and niece, or, Common sense and common errors in common riding / by Colonel George Greenwood ...

174. Brooklands : a sporting biography / by Herbert Byng Hall, K.S.F. ... ; in two vols.

175. An essay on warm, cold and vapour bathing : with practical observations on sea bathing, diseases of the skin, bilious, liver complaints, and dropsy / by Sir Arthur Clarke ...

176. A treatise on tennis / by a member of the Tennis Club.

177. New readings of old authors : Shakespeare / designed and drawn on stone by the late Robert Seymour.

178. "Hawbuck Grange," or, The sporting adventures of Thomas Scott, Esq. / by the author of "Handley Cross," "Sponge's Sporting Tour," etc., etc. ; with illustrations by Phiz.

179. H. Simpkins's illustrated pocket keepsake and book of amusements for 1882 : contains almanack for 1882, tide-table, historical events, pretty songs, parlour pastimes, funny tales, jokes and conundrums, ball room companion, with many interesting illustrations.

180. Olla Podrida / by M. Egerton, Esqre.

181. What I saw at the worlds fair, or, Notes of the Great Exhibition / by Mr. Comic-eye.

182. Investigation, or, Travels in the boudoir / by Caroline A. Halsted, author of "The little botanist."

183. The commercial tourist, or, Gentleman traveller : a satirical poem : in four cantos : embellished with colored engravings.

184. The manual of oil-painting, for young artists and amateurs : condensed from the works of Bouvier, Merimee, Montabert, and other distinguished Continental artists : with a glossary of terms of art.