Creator Gender: unknown / Work Type: publishers' advertisement

1. Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body, with that of a tyger and a common fowl : in thirty tables, two copper-plates to each table, 20 inches by 15 : forming six numbers, ten plates to each number / the whole executed by George Stubbs, author of "The anatomy of the horse."

Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body, with that of a tyger and a common fowl : in thirty tables, two copper-plates to each table, 20 inches by 15 : forming six numbers, ten plates to each number / the whole executed by George Stubbs, author of "The anatomy of the horse."

Creator:: Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:: [1802]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 29 x 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The Illustrated London news Colosseum view of London.

Date:: [1843]
Physical Description:: 1 print (2 sheets) : wood engraving ; full sheet 30 x 254 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.

Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Gibbon, Edward, 1737–1794
Date:: MDCCXCVI [1796]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The stones of Venice / by John Ruskin ; with illustrations drawn by the author.

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: 1851-1853
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond [graphic] : exhibiting every object on both banks of the river : with a concise description of the most remarkable places and a general view of London.

Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond [graphic] : exhibiting every object on both banks of the river : with a concise description of the most remarkable places and a general view of London.

Creator:: Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770–1863
Date:: [1824]
Physical Description:: 1 print : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 22 x 168 cm, accordion folded to 22 x 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A collection of landscapes / drawn by P. Sandby, Esq. R.A. and engraved by Mr. Rooker, and Mr. Watts, with descriptions.

Creator:: Sandby, Paul, 1731–1809
Date:: MDCCLXXVII [1777]
Physical Description:: [4], 39, [1] p., 32 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Views in the eastern archipelago : Borneo, Sarawak, Labuan &c. &c. &c. : from drawings made on the spot by Captn. Drinkwater Bethune, R.N.C., Commander L.G. Heath, R.N., and others / the descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John, Esqr., author of manners & customs of the Ancient Greek ; drawn on stone by J.W. Giles.

Views in the eastern archipelago : Borneo, Sarawak, Labuan &c. &c. &c. : from drawings made on the spot by Captn. Drinkwater Bethune, R.N.C., Commander L.G. Heath, R.N., and others / the descriptive letter-press by James Augustus St. John, Esqr., author of manners & customs of the Ancient Greek ; drawn on stone by J.W. Giles.

Creator:: St. John, James Augustus, 1795–1875
Date:: Augt., 1847
Physical Description:: 3 portfolios : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland / engraved by Thomas Milton. From original drawings, by the best masters.

A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland / engraved by Thomas Milton. From original drawings, by the best masters.

Creator:: Milton, Thomas, 1743?-1827
Date:: [1783-1793]
Physical Description:: xlvii, [5] p., xxiv leaves of plates : ill ; 21 x 27cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Floral tableaux / drawn and coloured by James Andrews ; with poetical illustrations.

Creator:: Andrews, James, 1806–1876
Date:: MDCCCXLVII [1847]
Physical Description:: [9] leaves, [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Portraits of the princes & people of India / by the Honble. Miss Eden ; drawn on the stone by L. Dickinson.

Creator:: Eden, Emily, 1797–1869
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: 24, [1] leaves, [26] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 56 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Description of the ruins of an ancient city : discovered near Palenque, in the kingdom of Guatemala, in Spanish America / translated from the original manuscript report of Captain Don Antonio del Rio ; followed by Teatro critico americano, or, A critical investigation and research into the history of the Americans / by Doctor Paul Felix Cabrera, of the City of New Guatemala.

Description of the ruins of an ancient city : discovered near Palenque, in the kingdom of Guatemala, in Spanish America / translated from the original manuscript report of Captain Don Antonio del Rio ; followed by Teatro critico americano, or, A critical investigation and research into the history of the Americans / by Doctor Paul Felix Cabrera, of the City of New Guatemala.

Creator:: Rio, Antonio del
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: xiii, [1], 128 pages, [16] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. 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

13. Journals of a landscape painter in southern Calabria, &c. / by Edward Lear ...

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: xx, [4], 284 pages, [22] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Fores's sporting notes & sketches; a quarterly magazine descriptive of British, Indian, Colonial and foreign sport.

Physical Description:: 29 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. More lyric odes to the Royal academicians / by Peter Pindar, esquire ; a distant relation of the poet of Thebes, and laureat to the academy.

Creator:: Pindar, Peter, 1738–1819
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: 35, [1] p. ; 29 cm. (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Qualified horses and unqualified riders, or, The reverse of sporting phrases taken from the work entitled Indispensable accomplishments ... / Ben Tally Ho.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 28 x 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Picturesque views of the Severn : with historical and topographical illustrations / by Thomas Harral ; the embellishments from designs of the late Samuel Ireland ...

Creator:: Harral, Thomas, -1853
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 2 v. : (viii, 288 p., [51] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. A descriptive guide of Tunbridge Wells and its environs : in which is delineated every particular interesting to the visitor and resident : embellished with a map of the roads round the place ...

Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: x ,124 p., ([1] folded leaf of plates) : col. map ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The story of Rosina : and other verses / by Austin Dobson ; illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

Creator:: Dobson, Austin, 1840–1921
Date:: 1895
Physical Description:: xvii, 120 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bert Boyson

20. The life of a soldier : a narrative and descriptive poem : with eighteen engravings / by William Heath.

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:: MDCCCXXIII [1823]
Physical Description:: [8], 150, [2] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Studies from the stage, or The vicissitudes of life

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:: [1823]
Physical Description:: [23] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Specimen of the wood cuts to Northcote's Fables : second series.

Creator:: Northcote, James, 1746–1831
Date:: [1833]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. On imitative art, its principles and progress : with preliminary remarks on beauty, sublimity, and taste / by Thomas H. Dyer ...

Creator:: Dyer, Thomas Henry, 1804–1888
Date:: 1882
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 392 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as the use of the tramel for groins, angle-brackets, niches, &c. semi-circular arches on flewing jambs, the preparing and making their soffits : rules of carpentry, to find the length and backing of hips, strait or curves, trusses for roofs, domes &c., trussing of girders, sections of flooors, &c. : the proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts, gluing of columns, stair-cases with their ramp and twist rails, fixing the carriages, newels, &c. : frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, architraves, &c. in the newest taste : with plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. / by William Pain, architect and joiner ; engraved on eighty-three plates.

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Physical Description:: [16] p., LXXXIII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. The nobleman and gentleman's director and assistant, in the true choice of their wheel-carriages : being entire new designs for travelling-coaches, post-coaches, landaus both open and close, chariots, post-chariots, calashes, post-chaises, phaetons, and other vehicles, &c. curiously hung on steel springs. Being a work of universal use, not only to gentlemen, but coach-makers and spring-makers in general. The wheels and axle-trees are made of a proper height, so as to enable the horses to draw freely and with the greatest ease; many a fine horse having been totally spoiled by going up great ascents, and all owing to fixing improperly the wheels and axis. The whole drawn from original designs, executed and correctly engraved on thirty-six copper plates.

Date:: 1763
Physical Description:: [2] p., 36 leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 19 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Works on the fine arts.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1814?]
Physical Description:: 8 pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Something new from Aunt Mary / by Mary Hughes, author of "The ornaments discovered" &c. &c.

Creator:: Hughs, Mrs. (Mary)
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: 107, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. A visit to the exhibition : in eight changeable pictures, showing its beautiful objects of art and how they were made.

Date:: [approximately 1855]
Physical Description:: 8 leaves : 8 color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. How Jhos Jefferson Jenkins got a start in the world.

Creator:: Jones, Major
Date:: [1876?]
Physical Description:: 24 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The gentleman's farriery, or, A practical treatise, on the diseases of horses : wherein the best writers on that subject have been consulted, and M. La Fosse's method of trepanning glander'd horses is particularly consider'd and improved : also, a new method of nicking horses is recommended ; with a copper-plate and description of the machine / by J. Bartlet, surgeon.

Creator:: Bartlet, J. (John), 1716?-1772
Date:: MDCCLIV [1754]
Physical Description:: [2], xxiv, 357, [11] pages, [3] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Heads, after various artists / on stone by E. Morton ; each part containing four subjects.

Creator:: Morton, Edward, 19th cent.
Date:: [1840?]
Physical Description:: v. : all ill. ; 20 x 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The old huntsman : and other poems / by Siegfried Sassoon.

Creator:: Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886–1967
Date:: 1917
Physical Description:: ix, [1], 109, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William S. Reese, Yale BA 1977, in honor of Elisabeth Fairman.

33. An illustration and mensuration of solid geometry in seven books: : containing forty-two moveable copper-plate schemes for forming the various kinds of solids and their sections; by which the doctrine of solids in general, and those in the eleventh, twelfth, and fifteenth books of Euclid are elucidated, and rendered more easy to learners than by any work hitherto published.... / By the late John Lodge Cowley, F.R.S. professor of the mathematics in the Royal Academy at Woolwich.

Creator:: Cowley, John Lodge, 1719–1797
Date:: MDCCLXXXVII [i.e. 1787]
Physical Description:: 32 XLVII leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The Tunbridge Wells guide, or, An account of the ancient and present state of that place : with a particular description of all the town, villages, antiquities, natural curiosities, ancient & modern seats, founderies &c. : within the circumference of sixteen miles with accurate views of the principal objects.

Creator:: Sprange, J. (Jasper), 1746–1823
Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: xx, 332 p., [14] leaves of plates ([9] folded) : ill., chart ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The churchyard manual : intended chiefly for rural districts / by W. Hastings Kelke, A.B., Rector of Drayton Beauchamp ; with designs for churchyard memorials kindly furnished by G.G. Scott, Esq., and W. Slater, Esq., architects.

Creator:: Kelke, William Hastings, -1865
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: xii, 154, [1] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Fables / by John Gay ; with a life of the author, and embellished with seventy plates.

Creator:: Gay, John, 1685–1732
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Lectures on architecture and painting : delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 / by John Ruskin ... with illustrations drawn by the author.

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: vi, [2], 239, [1] pages, XV leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. A plain and easy account of the British ferns : together with their classification, arrangement of genera, structure, and functions ; and a glossary of technical and other terms / edited by Mrs. Lankester ; with illustrations.

Creator:: Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900
Date:: [1859]
Physical Description:: [5], viii-xv, [1], 108, [4] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806 : by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern ... : in two volumes / translated from the original German, by Richard Belgrave Hoppner.

Creator:: Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich, 1770–1846
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. The history of Scotland : during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI, till his accession to the Crown of England, with a review of the Scottish history previous to that period and an appendix containing original papers / by William Robertson.

Creator:: Robertson, William, 1721–1793
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Scenes during the snow storm, December, 1836 : four tinted plates / on stone by G.B. Campion ; from drawings by J. Pollard.

Creator:: Campion, George Bryant, 1796–1870
Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: 4 leaves : illustrations ; 33 x 46 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The history and antiquities of London. / By Thomas Pennant, Esq.

Creator:: Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: vi, 381 pages ; 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The seats of the nobility and gentry : in a collection of the most interesting & picturesque views / engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.

Creator:: Watts, William, 1752–1851
Date:: January 1st, 1779 [i.e. 1779-1786]
Physical Description:: [172] p., LXXXIV leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. A sequel to the adventures of Baron Munchausen : containing his expedition into Africa ... : humbly dedicated to Mr. Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller ...

Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: xvii, [2], 26-184 pages, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. This day is published, The morbid anatomy of the liver : being an inquiry into the anatomical character, symptoms, and treatment of certain diseases which impair or destroy the structure of that viscus : order 1, tumours, part I, on the Tubera Circumscripta and Tubera Diffusa : in imperial quarto, illustrated by coloured engravings, price 15s. : by J.R. Farre, M.D.

Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. A losing game of poker.

Creator:: Jones, Major
Date:: [1876?]
Physical Description:: 24 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. The Holy Grail : and other poems / by Alfred Tennyson., D.C.L., Poet Laureate.

Creator:: Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809–1892
Date:: 1870
Physical Description:: [8], 222, [2] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Constance Clement

48. Anecdotes respecting Cranbourn Chase, with a very concise account of it : together with the rural amusements it afforded our ancestors in the days of yore / by William Chafin, clerk ; written in September 1816.

Creator:: Chafin, William, 1733–1818
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: [4], 56 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Mona antiqua restaurata : An archæological discourse on the antiquities, natural and historical, of the isle of Anglesey, the ancient seat of the British druids. In two essays. With an appendix, containing a comparative table of primitive words, and the derivatives of them in several of the tongues of Europe; with remarks upon them. Together with some letters, and three catalogues / By Henry Rowlands, Vicar of Llanidan, in the Isle of Anglesey.

Creator:: Rowlands, Henry, 1655–1723
Date:: MDCCLXXVI [1766]
Physical Description:: xi, [5], 357, [3] p., XII leaves of plates : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Eight implemental heads in colours / with lines by Thomas Hood.

Creator:: Cooke, William Bernard, 1778–1855
Date:: [1834]
Physical Description:: 8 prints : engraving, hand-colored ; sheet 27 x 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Panorama prise au sommet du Mont Rigi / par Henry Keller.

Creator:: Keller, Heinrich, 1778–1862
Date:: [1827]
Physical Description:: 1 print on 2 sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; 19 x 94 cm, accordion folded to 20 x 11 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Graphic illustrations of animals : showing their utility to man, in their employments during life, and uses after death.

Creator:: Hawkins, W., active 1793–1821
Date:: [between 1831 and 1842]
Physical Description:: 3 pt. (15 leaves of plates) : all col. ill. (hand-colored lithographs) ; 39 x 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Geographical recreation, or, A voyage round the habitable globe.

Date:: publish'd Octr. 1st 1809
Physical Description:: 1 game (1 board) : paper mounted on linen, colored illustrations ; 59 x 53 cm folded to 20 x 13 cm. + 1 rule and instruction booklet ([8], 35, [5] pages ; 17 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The horse and the hound : their various uses and treatment, including practical illustrations in horsemanship and a treatise on horse-dealing / by Nimrod.

Creator:: Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:: MDCCCXLII [1842]
Physical Description:: viii, 524 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. New Year's day : a winter's tale / by Mrs. Gore ; with illustrations by Geo. Cruikshank.

Creator:: Gore, Mrs. (Catherine Grace Frances), 1799–1861
Date:: [1846]
Physical Description:: [4], 203, [1], [8] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

56. The history of Dover Castle / by the Revd. Wm. Darell, chaplain to Queen Elizabeth ; illustrated with 10 views, and a plan of the castle.

Creator:: Darell, William, -1580
Date:: 1797
Physical Description:: [2], viii, 71, [1] p., [9] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., plan ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Schottland in Bildern / nach der Natur gezeichnet von T. Allom und W.H. Bartlett ; und mit beschreibendem Text von Wilhelm Beattie ... ; aus dem Englischen uebersetzt von Johann von Horn.

Creator:: Beattie, William, 1793–1875
Date:: [1838]
Physical Description:: [2] v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Model men / modelled by Horace Mayhew ; sculptured by H.G. Hine.

Creator:: Mayhew, Horace, 1816–1872
Date:: [1848?]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes in 1 (x, [3], 14-114; viii, [1], 10-114, [6] pages) : illustratons ; 16 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bert Boyson

59. A treatise on the proper condition for all horses / by Harry Hieover.

Creator:: Hieover, Harry, 1796–1859
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: xiv, [2], 204, [2] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean : illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait during the summer of 1817 / by Bernard O'Reilly ; with charts and numerous plates, from drawings of the author taken on the spot.

Creator:: O'Reilly, Bernard
Date:: 1818
Physical Description:: vi, 293 p., XVIII, [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps, ports. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Doing' a sheriff.

Creator:: Jones, Major
Date:: [1876?]
Physical Description:: 24 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Letters addressed to a college friend during the years 1840-1845 / by John Ruskin.

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: 1894
Physical Description:: xiii, 210 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. The chace, the road, and the turf / by Nimrod.

Creator:: Nimrod, 1778–1843
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: xvi, 231 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The opening of the Crystal Palace : considered in some of its relations to the prospects of art / by John Ruskin.

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: 21 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The adventures of Oliver Twist, or, The parish boy's progress / by Charles Dickens ; with twenty-four illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: 1846 [i.e. 1855?]
Physical Description:: xii, 311 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

66. Ali-Baba and the 40 thieves : with five set scenes & nine trick changes.

Date:: [1881]
Physical Description:: 8, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Constance Clement

67. Landscape animals : sketched from nature / by Edward Purcell.

Creator:: Purcell, E. (Edward)
Date:: August 1, 1822 [i.e. 1829]
Physical Description:: 4 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 18 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Prospectus, The history of Johnny Quae Genus, the little foundling of the late Doctor Syntax : a poem, in eight monthly numbers : no. 1 was published on the 1st of August, and is continued monthly, price 2s. 6d. each : each part contains three coloured engravings / by T. Rowlandson, Esq., and thirty-two pages of letter press, by the author of the three tours of Doctor Syntax ...

Creator:: Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:: [1821]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Scenes on the road, or, A trip to Epsom and back : four coloured plates / after James Pollard.

Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: IV leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 44 x 59 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. The Christian chaplet : a wreath of prose, poetry, and art.

Date:: [1859]
Physical Description:: iv, 250 p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: [140] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. The mystery revealed, or, How all hands were most audaciously tuck in.

Creator:: Jones, Major
Date:: [1876?]
Physical Description:: 24 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The plain and painted picture play book for exercises in colouring : second series.

Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: [27] leaves : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Notes by John Ruskin on his drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. : exhibited at the Fine Art Society's galleries, 148, New Bond Street, 1878 & 1900.

Creator:: Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:: [1900]
Physical Description:: [4], 65, [3] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The fire hunt.

Creator:: Jones, Major
Date:: [1876?]
Physical Description:: 24 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi / edited by "Boz" ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank ; in two volumes.

Creator:: Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779–1837
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

77. Carolina sports, by land and water : including incidents of devil-fishing, &c. / by the Hon. W.M. Elliott, of Beaufort, S.C.

Creator:: Elliott, William, 1788–1863
Date:: 1846
Physical Description:: 172 pages ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Catalogue of the splendid, curious, and extensive library of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. : ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans ...

Creator:: Sykes, Mark Masterman, Sir, 1771–1823
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 3 volumes in 1, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Stable scenes / drawn on stone by J.W. Giles ; from paintings made expressly by R.B. Davis ... ; and printed in the improved methods of two tints.

Creator:: Davis, Richard Barrett, 1782–1854
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [4] p., 4 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 57 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Six coloured views on the London and Birmingham Railway, from drawings made on the line with the sanction of the company / by Mr. T.T. Bury. Part I.

Creator:: Bury, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1811–1877
Date:: 1837
Physical Description:: [2] p., [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. The history of the royal residences of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House and Frogmore / by W.H. Pyne ; illustrated by one hundred highly finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings by the most eminent artists.

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: MDCCCXIX [1819]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. 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

83. The scouring of the White Horse, or, The long vacation ramble of a London clerk / by the author of "Tom Brown's school days" ; illustrated by Richard Doyle.

Creator:: Hughes, Thomas, 1822–1896
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: xv, [1], 244, 16 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

84. A naturalist's sojourn in Jamaica / by Philip Henry Gosse, A.L.S., &c. ; assisted by Richard Hill, Esq., Cor. M.Z.S. Lond., Mem. Counc. Roy. Soc. Agric. of Jamaica.

Creator:: Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810–1888
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: xxiv, 508 p., [1], VII leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. Boss Ankles : the man what got blowed up with a sky racket.

Creator:: Jones, Major
Date:: [1876?]
Physical Description:: 24 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. The complete cattle-doctor : a treatise on diseases of horned cattle and calves / written in plain language, which those who can read may easily understand ; the whole being the result of seventy years extensive practice of the author, John C. Knowlson ...

Creator:: Knowlson, John C
Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 64 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. The Tunbridge Wells guide, or, An account of the ancient & present state of that place : with a particular description of all the towns, villages, antiquities, natural curiosities, ancient & modern seats, founderies, &c. within the circumference of sixteen miles, with accurate views of the principal objects.

Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: viii, 188 p., [14] leaves of plates ([3] folded) : ill., col. map ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The Tunbridge Wells guide, or, An account of the ancient & present state of that place : with a particular description of all the towns, villages, antiquities, natural curiosities, ancient & modern seats, founderies, &c. within the circumference of sixteen miles, with accurate views of the principal objects.

Date:: [1831?]
Physical Description:: viii, 188 p., [6] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., col. map ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. How Sally Hooter got snake-bit.

Creator:: Jones, Major
Date:: [1876?]
Physical Description:: 24 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Three blind mice : with mewsic and words from an early edition / illustrated by C.A. Doyle.

Date:: [1883]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves, [6] leaves of plates : col. ill., music ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Greenwood's studies of forest trees.

Creator:: Greenwood, George, 1799–1875
Date:: 1841
Physical Description:: [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Corn and poppies / by Cosmo Monkhouse.

Creator:: Monkhouse, W. Cosmo (William Cosmo), 1840–1901
Date:: 1890
Physical Description:: ix, 161 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. The new Bath guide, or, Memoirs of the B-n-r-d family : in a series of poetical epistles / by Christopher Anstey, esq.

Creator:: Anstey, Christopher, 1724–1805
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: lxxvi, 176 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

94. Catalogue of an extensive and valuable collection of books, antiquities, books of prints, and manuscripts, : being the family library of a gentleman of distinction (deceased) the collection of which commenced in the 17th century, and are (many of them) enriched with manuscript notes by the founder, who was a profound scholar and antiquary ... : also the northern part of the library of the late Rev. James Johnstone, chaplain to His Britannic Majesty's envoy extraordinary at the Court of Denmark and author of Antiquitates celto-normannicae; celto-scandicae, &c. / This library, the largest ever sold in Ireland ... will be sold by auction by Thomas Jones, (bookseller and auctioneer) at ... No. 6, Eustace-Street, Dublin, on Monday. April 16th, 1810 ... : to be viewed on Thursday April 12th, and two following days ... : catalogues price two shillings and six-pence ... : to be had at the place of sale, also of Mr. William Miller, bookseller, Albemarle Street, and Mr. Richard Priestly, bookseller, 143 High Holborn, London.

Creator:: Jones, Thomas (Auctioneer)
Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: [2], 219, [3] pages ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. The History of little Fanny : exemplified in a series of figures, engraved on copperplate.

Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 15, [1] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Smith, Elder, and Co. advertisements and prospectus.

Creator:: Smith, Elder, and Co
Date:: 1831-1834
Physical Description:: 3 items
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The coon hunt.

Creator:: Jones, Major
Date:: [1876?]
Physical Description:: 24 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. The lives of the most eminent English poets : with critical observations on their works / by Samuel Johnson : in four volumes.

Creator:: Johnson, Samuel, 1709–1784
Date:: 1781
Physical Description:: 4 v. : port. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Art's master-piece, or, A companion for the ingenious of either sex : in two parts.

Creator:: C. K.
Date:: 1792
Physical Description:: 144 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. A biographical dictionary of the living authors of Great Britain and Ireland : comprising literary memoirs and anecdotes of their lives : and a chronological register of their publications, with the number of editions printed : including notices of some foreign writers whose works have been occasionally published in England : illustrated by a variety of communications from persons of the first eminence in the world of letters.

Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: viii, 449, [1] pages ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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2. The Illustrated London news Colosseum view of London.

3. Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire : with memoirs of his life and writings / composed by himself ; illustrated from his letters, with occasional notes and narrative, by John Lord Sheffield ; in two volumes.

4. The stones of Venice / by John Ruskin ; with illustrations drawn by the author.

5. Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond [graphic] : exhibiting every object on both banks of the river : with a concise description of the most remarkable places and a general view of London.

6. A collection of landscapes / drawn by P. Sandby, Esq. R.A. and engraved by Mr. Rooker, and Mr. Watts, with descriptions.

8. A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland / engraved by Thomas Milton. From original drawings, by the best masters.

9. Floral tableaux / drawn and coloured by James Andrews ; with poetical illustrations.

10. Portraits of the princes & people of India / by the Honble. Miss Eden ; drawn on the stone by L. Dickinson.

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

13. Journals of a landscape painter in southern Calabria, &c. / by Edward Lear ...

14. Fores's sporting notes & sketches; a quarterly magazine descriptive of British, Indian, Colonial and foreign sport.

15. More lyric odes to the Royal academicians / by Peter Pindar, esquire ; a distant relation of the poet of Thebes, and laureat to the academy.

16. Qualified horses and unqualified riders, or, The reverse of sporting phrases taken from the work entitled Indispensable accomplishments ... / Ben Tally Ho.

17. Picturesque views of the Severn : with historical and topographical illustrations / by Thomas Harral ; the embellishments from designs of the late Samuel Ireland ...

18. A descriptive guide of Tunbridge Wells and its environs : in which is delineated every particular interesting to the visitor and resident : embellished with a map of the roads round the place ...

19. The story of Rosina : and other verses / by Austin Dobson ; illustrated by Hugh Thomson.

20. The life of a soldier : a narrative and descriptive poem : with eighteen engravings / by William Heath.

21. Studies from the stage, or The vicissitudes of life

22. Specimen of the wood cuts to Northcote's Fables : second series.

23. On imitative art, its principles and progress : with preliminary remarks on beauty, sublimity, and taste / by Thomas H. Dyer ...

26. Works on the fine arts.

27. Something new from Aunt Mary / by Mary Hughes, author of "The ornaments discovered" &c. &c.

28. A visit to the exhibition : in eight changeable pictures, showing its beautiful objects of art and how they were made.

29. How Jhos Jefferson Jenkins got a start in the world.

31. Heads, after various artists / on stone by E. Morton ; each part containing four subjects.

32. The old huntsman : and other poems / by Siegfried Sassoon.

35. The churchyard manual : intended chiefly for rural districts / by W. Hastings Kelke, A.B., Rector of Drayton Beauchamp ; with designs for churchyard memorials kindly furnished by G.G. Scott, Esq., and W. Slater, Esq., architects.

36. Fables / by John Gay ; with a life of the author, and embellished with seventy plates.

37. Lectures on architecture and painting : delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 / by John Ruskin ... with illustrations drawn by the author.

38. A plain and easy account of the British ferns : together with their classification, arrangement of genera, structure, and functions ; and a glossary of technical and other terms / edited by Mrs. Lankester ; with illustrations.

39. Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806 : by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern ... : in two volumes / translated from the original German, by Richard Belgrave Hoppner.

40. The history of Scotland : during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI, till his accession to the Crown of England, with a review of the Scottish history previous to that period and an appendix containing original papers / by William Robertson.

41. Scenes during the snow storm, December, 1836 : four tinted plates / on stone by G.B. Campion ; from drawings by J. Pollard.

42. The history and antiquities of London. / By Thomas Pennant, Esq.

43. The seats of the nobility and gentry : in a collection of the most interesting & picturesque views / engraved by W. Watts, from drawings by the most eminent artists ; with descriptions of each view.

44. A sequel to the adventures of Baron Munchausen : containing his expedition into Africa ... : humbly dedicated to Mr. Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller ...

46. A losing game of poker.

47. The Holy Grail : and other poems / by Alfred Tennyson., D.C.L., Poet Laureate.

48. Anecdotes respecting Cranbourn Chase, with a very concise account of it : together with the rural amusements it afforded our ancestors in the days of yore / by William Chafin, clerk ; written in September 1816.

50. Eight implemental heads in colours / with lines by Thomas Hood.

51. Panorama prise au sommet du Mont Rigi / par Henry Keller.

52. Graphic illustrations of animals : showing their utility to man, in their employments during life, and uses after death.

53. Geographical recreation, or, A voyage round the habitable globe.

54. The horse and the hound : their various uses and treatment, including practical illustrations in horsemanship and a treatise on horse-dealing / by Nimrod.

55. New Year's day : a winter's tale / by Mrs. Gore ; with illustrations by Geo. Cruikshank.

56. The history of Dover Castle / by the Revd. Wm. Darell, chaplain to Queen Elizabeth ; illustrated with 10 views, and a plan of the castle.

57. Schottland in Bildern / nach der Natur gezeichnet von T. Allom und W.H. Bartlett ; und mit beschreibendem Text von Wilhelm Beattie ... ; aus dem Englischen uebersetzt von Johann von Horn.

58. Model men / modelled by Horace Mayhew ; sculptured by H.G. Hine.

59. A treatise on the proper condition for all horses / by Harry Hieover.

60. Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean : illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait during the summer of 1817 / by Bernard O'Reilly ; with charts and numerous plates, from drawings of the author taken on the spot.

61. Doing' a sheriff.

62. Letters addressed to a college friend during the years 1840-1845 / by John Ruskin.

63. The chace, the road, and the turf / by Nimrod.

64. The opening of the Crystal Palace : considered in some of its relations to the prospects of art / by John Ruskin.

65. The adventures of Oliver Twist, or, The parish boy's progress / by Charles Dickens ; with twenty-four illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank.

66. Ali-Baba and the 40 thieves : with five set scenes & nine trick changes.

67. Landscape animals : sketched from nature / by Edward Purcell.

69. Scenes on the road, or, A trip to Epsom and back : four coloured plates / after James Pollard.

70. The Christian chaplet : a wreath of prose, poetry, and art.

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

72. The mystery revealed, or, How all hands were most audaciously tuck in.

73. The plain and painted picture play book for exercises in colouring : second series.

74. Notes by John Ruskin on his drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. : exhibited at the Fine Art Society's galleries, 148, New Bond Street, 1878 & 1900.

75. The fire hunt.

76. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi / edited by "Boz" ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank ; in two volumes.

77. Carolina sports, by land and water : including incidents of devil-fishing, &c. / by the Hon. W.M. Elliott, of Beaufort, S.C.

78. Catalogue of the splendid, curious, and extensive library of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. : ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Evans ...

79. Stable scenes / drawn on stone by J.W. Giles ; from paintings made expressly by R.B. Davis ... ; and printed in the improved methods of two tints.

80. Six coloured views on the London and Birmingham Railway, from drawings made on the line with the sanction of the company / by Mr. T.T. Bury. Part I.

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

83. The scouring of the White Horse, or, The long vacation ramble of a London clerk / by the author of "Tom Brown's school days" ; illustrated by Richard Doyle.

84. A naturalist's sojourn in Jamaica / by Philip Henry Gosse, A.L.S., &c. ; assisted by Richard Hill, Esq., Cor. M.Z.S. Lond., Mem. Counc. Roy. Soc. Agric. of Jamaica.

85. Boss Ankles : the man what got blowed up with a sky racket.

86. The complete cattle-doctor : a treatise on diseases of horned cattle and calves / written in plain language, which those who can read may easily understand ; the whole being the result of seventy years extensive practice of the author, John C. Knowlson ...