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1. Peep egg viewer of Weymouth, Dorset.

Peep egg viewer of Weymouth, Dorset.
Date:
ca. 1855
Physical Description:
1 item : painted alabaster and glass ; 62 mm in diameter, 110 mm long
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22719191590008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

2. Crowquills and goosequills.

Crowquills and goosequills.
Date:
circa 1855-1857
Physical Description:
2 volumes (104, 108 pages) : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22943227660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

3. Crystal Palace season ticket, 1855.

Crystal Palace season ticket, 1855.
Creator:
Crystal Palace Company (Sydenham, London, England)
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
1 admission ticket ; 47 x 86 mm, in folded wallet 55 x 92 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22832255010008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

4. The task, a poem by William Cowper. Illustrated by Birket Foster.

The task, a poem by William Cowper. Illustrated by Birket Foster.
Creator:
Cowper, William, 1731–1800
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
8 p.., 263 p. ill. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

Lessons on trees / by J. D. Harding ; author of "Lessons on Art," "Guide and Companion to Lessons on Art," "Elementary Art," "The Principles and practice of Art," &c. &c.
Creator:
Harding, James Duffield, 1798–1863
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
[8] p., 30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22862831260008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Notes on some of the principal pictures exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy : 1855 / by the author of Modern painters.

Notes on some of the principal pictures exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy : 1855 / by the author of Modern painters.
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
30 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22961225710008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Why, what, and because, or, The road to the temple of knowledge / T.H. Jones, del. et litho.

Why, what, and because, or, The road to the temple of knowledge / T.H. Jones, del. et litho.
Date:
[approximately 1855]
Physical Description:
1 game : hand-colored lithograph ; 33 x 44 cm folded to 33 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22677625660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

8. [Billhead of John R. Barklie, Proprietor, 99 Grafton Street, Dublin for items purchased by Mrs. Brewster of 9 Prince Edwards Terrace on March 15/55].

[Billhead of John R. Barklie, Proprietor, 99 Grafton Street, Dublin for items purchased by Mrs. Brewster of 9 Prince Edwards Terrace on March 15/55].
Creator:
Barklie, John R., no_linkage
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 30 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22668911590008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

9. Studio portraits of two women.

Studio portraits of two women.
Date:
Great Britain,
Physical Description:
2 photographs : ambrotypes, in leather case ; visible images approximately 55 x 45 mm (ninth plate format), in case 75 x 60 x 15 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22710135160008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

10. In memory of Lord Raglan, Commander in Chief of the British Forces in the Crimea : born 1788, died June 28th 1855.

In memory of Lord Raglan, Commander in Chief of the British Forces in the Crimea : born 1788, died June 28th 1855.
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
1 embossed print : letterpress ; 80 x 120 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22956001750008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

11. Portrait plate of Albert Smith.

Portrait plate of Albert Smith.
Creator:
W.T. Copeland & Sons
Date:
circa [1859?]
Physical Description:
1 plate : ceramic, transferware ; 23 cm in diameter
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22794298240008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

12. A narrative of the cruise of the yacht Maria among the Feroe Islands in the summer of 1854 : with illustrations.

A narrative of the cruise of the yacht Maria among the Feroe Islands in the summer of 1854 : with illustrations.
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
89 p., [11] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22867912980008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Photogram of ferns.

Photogram of ferns.
Date:
1860s?
Physical Description:
1 photograph : albumen print, photogram ; 33 x 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22911138950008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

14. Dean's steam-boat alphabet : a companion to the Railway alphabet.

Dean's steam-boat alphabet : a companion to the Railway alphabet.
Date:
[1855?]
Physical Description:
1 scroll : illustrations ; in box 18 x 23 x 5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22954768690008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Album of landscape drawings and compiled by W.B. Stapley.

Album of landscape drawings and compiled by W.B. Stapley.
Creator:
Stapley, W. B., no_linkage
Date:
1855-1870
Physical Description:
1 v. ([42] leaves) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22716633350008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

16. The battles of Balaklava and Inkerman : a military spectacle, in two acts : written expressly for and adapted to Webb's characters & scenes in the same.

The battles of Balaklava and Inkerman : a military spectacle, in two acts : written expressly for and adapted to Webb's characters & scenes in the same.
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
18 pages ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22811201380008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus

17. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland / illustrated by Robert William Billings, architect, 1845-52 ; in four volumes.

No cover image available
Creator:
Billings, Robert William, 1813–1874
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22753174860008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The magic ring : a merry game.

No cover image available
Date:
[between 1855 and 1870]
Physical Description:
1 game (56 playing cards, 1 game board, 1 sheet of instructions) ; in box 19 x 17 x 4 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22728233100008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

19. Visitors' souvenir of the sea side.

No cover image available
Creator:
Onwhyn, Thomas, 1814–1886
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
[12] leaves : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22814360230008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Neues Panorama des Rheins und seiner nächsten Umgebungen von Mainz bis Coeln : auf's Neue nach der Natur gezeichnet und mit den interessantesten architektonischen und geschichtlichen Denkmälern als Randbilder geziert = Nouveau panorama du Rhin et de ses environs depuis Mayence jusqu'a Cologne : nouvellement dessiné d'après nature et enrichi des esquisses des monuments, ruines et édifices les plus remarquables, situés sur les deux rives / Friedr. Wilh. Delkeskamp.

No cover image available
Creator:
Delkeskamp, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1794–1872
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
1 map ; 27 x 215 cm, folded in cover to 27 x 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22689185720008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1855]
Physical Description:
8 leaves : 8 color illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22917011970008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. A series of fourteen sketches made during the voyage up Wellington channel in search of Sir John Franklin, K.C.H. and the missing crews of H.M. Discovery-ships Erebus and Terror : together with a short account of each drawing / by Commander Walter W. May, R.N., late Lieutenant of H. M. Discovery-ship Assistance (Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B.)

No cover image available
Creator:
May, Walter W.
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
6, [1] p., [xiv] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22708679900008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Hunter's Ottawa scenery in the vicinity of Ottawa City, Canada.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hunter, William S., 1823–1894
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
19, [1] pages, [16] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illlustrations, map ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22757396940008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Sketches of Malvern.

No cover image available
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 11 x 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22719264120008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

25. The art of transparent painting on glass : comprising the method of painting, and an account of the implements and materials employed in producing subjects for dissolving views, magic lanterns, etc., chromatropes, and mechanical slides and contrivances for obtaining effects of motion and colour / by Edward Groom.

No cover image available
Creator:
Groom, Edward, no_linkage
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
55 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22676487410008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

26. Eight years' wanderings in Ceylon / by S.W. Baker.

No cover image available
Creator:
Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821–1893
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 423 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22675440300008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

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

28. Photographic pleasures : popularly portrayed with pen and pencil / by Cuthbert Bede, B.A., author of "Verdant Green," &c. &c. &c.

No cover image available
Creator:
Bede, Cuthbert, 1827–1889
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
[9], 14-83, [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22648301950008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Sporting adventures in the new world, or, Days and nights of moose-hunting in the pine forests of Acadia / by Lieut. Campbell Hardy, Royal Artillery ; in two volumes.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hardy, Campbell
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22824520710008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Assignatio dotis Elizabethæ Comitissæ de Ferrers anno 29 H. VI.

No cover image available
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
1 p.., 7 p. 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22677390720008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Illustrated military hand-book : giving a familiar description of a fortress, the method of besieging it, and an explanation of all military terms.

No cover image available
Creator:
Old Soldier. no_linkage
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
25, [4] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22815322110008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

32. Aunt Jane's verses for children / by Jane Crewdson ; illustrated ; from the second London edition.

No cover image available
Creator:
Crewdson, T. D., Mrs., 1808–1863
Date:
[1855?]
Physical Description:
144 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22717823950008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

33. Transparency painting on linen : for decorative purposes, panoramic and dioramic effects, ornamental blinds : with instructions for the preparation of the linen, the combination and transfer of ornamental designs, combined surfaces, &c. / by W. Williams ; with illustrations by Charles Sibley ; engraved by Dalziel.

No cover image available
Creator:
Williams, W., no_linkage
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
viii, [9]-52, [1] pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22653395040008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

34. Shadows of the East, or, Slight sketches of scenery, persons, and customs : from observations during a tour in 1853 and 1854, in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Greece / by Catherine Tobin ; with maps and illustrations.

No cover image available
Creator:
Tobin, Catherine, Lady. no_linkage
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
xiv, 256, ix p., [21] leaves of plates : col. ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22744647620008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. The rose and the ring; or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo. A fire-side pantomine for great and small children. By Mr. M. A. Titmarsh [pseud.] ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811–1863
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
iv, 128 p. front., illus., plates. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Stanford's map of the roads &c. between Odessa, Nikolaief, Perekop, Simferopol and Sebastopol / compiled from Russian maps in possession of the Royal Geographical Society, the Admiralty Charts, and other documents.

No cover image available
Creator:
Stanford, Edward, 1827–1904
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
1 map : col. ; 74.3 x 64.5 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22826887450008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

37. Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah / by Richard F. Burton.

No cover image available
Creator:
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821–1890
Date:
1855-1856
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22615407850008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Cruchley's railway & telegraphic map of Somerset [cartographic material] : showing all the railways & names of stations, also the telegraph lines & stations ; improved from the Ordnance Surveys.

No cover image available
Date:
[between 1855 and 1875?]
Physical Description:
1 map : col. ; 46.0 x 52.7 cm, folded to 25.5 x 20.0 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22960444690008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Colbran's new guide for Tunbridge Wells, being a full and accurate description of the Wells and its neighbourhood within a circuit of nearly twenty miles, and notices of the London and Dover railway; illustrated with plates, wood engravings, etc. of most of the principal places.

No cover image available
Creator:
Phippen, James. no_linkage
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
3 p.., [v]-x, 353, [1], 4, 28 p. front., ill., plates (part fold.) fold. map. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22692854960008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

40. Wanderings and pencillings amongst ruins of the olden time, a series of seventy-three etchings, by George Cuitt. With descriptive letterpress.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cuit, George, 1743–1818
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
38 pages frontispiece, mounted illustrations, plates 51 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22776611610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Sketches in Egypt & in the Holy Land / by the Right Honorable Lord Wharncliffe ; taken during the year 1855.

No cover image available
Creator:
Wharncliffe, John Stuart-Wortley, Baron, 1801–1855
Date:
[1855?]
Physical Description:
[1] page, [18] leaves of plates : 19 color illustrations (lithographs) ; 58 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22941628160008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Engelsmännens senaste upptäcktsresor till trakterna kring nordpolen, den Franklinska expeditionens hemlighetsfulla försvinnande, försöken till dess tillrättafinnande samt upptäcken af den nordvestliga genomfarten. Af Dr. Carl Brandes ... Öfversättning från tyskan med några tillägg.

No cover image available
Creator:
Brandes, Karl Heinrich. no_linkage
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
2 p.., 339, [2] p. front., fold. map. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The campaign in the Crimea: an historical sketch, by George Brackenbury ... Illustrated by forty plates, from drawings taken on the spot by William Simpson.

No cover image available
Creator:
Brackenbury, George. no_linkage
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
1 p.., [iii]-viii, 112 p. 40 col. plates. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. Fred. Adam Schwartz & Co. Solenhofen Bavaria : principal owners of the quarries of superior lithographic stones : Vulcan Wharf, 14, Earl Street, Blackfriars, London.

No cover image available
Creator:
Frederick Adam Schwartz & Co.
Date:
[approximately 1855?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 8 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22639310610008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

45. Wheatsheaf.

No cover image available
Creator:
Dudson, James, 1812–1882
Date:
ca. 1860
Physical Description:
1 jug : relief-molded white stoneware, glazed ; height 21 cm, width 13 cm (including handle), depth 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22968466330008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

46. Hand-book for young painters / by C.R. Leslie ... ; with illustrations.

No cover image available
Creator:
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794–1859
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
xiii, [1], 315 p., [1], 32 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. A catalogue of a collection of pictures, the works of first-class living artists : particularly Dumblane Cathedral, by D. Roberts, R.A. : View on the Scheldt, by E. Cooke, A.R.A. : Two other works, by the same Master : Falstaff and Pistol, by A. Egg, A.R.A. : A pair of river views, by F. Lee, R.A. : Summer Noon ... by S. Cooper, A.R.A. ... : The Thistle, by Frank Stone : The Lattice, by W. Etty, R.A. : specimens of J. D. Harding, F. Stone, E.W. Cooke, T. Faed Groonland, F. Danby, D. Roberts, Sir A. Calcott, F.R. Le, T.S. Cooper, A.L. Egg, W. Etty : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Foster and Son, at the Galery, 54, Pall Mall, on Thursday, the 15th of February, 1855 (after the sale of Mr. Birch's Pictures, at three o'clock in the afternoon)

No cover image available
Creator:
Foster and Son (London, England)
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
21-30 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22982185710008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. Tam O'Shanter / by Robert Burns.

No cover image available
Creator:
Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
[5] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22615362910008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Coleman O. Parsons, Yale PhD 1931

49. Hand-book of water-colours : a brief treatise on their qualities and effects when employed in painting : with some account of the general nature of colours / by W. Winsor and H.C. Newton ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Winsor, W. no_linkage
Date:
[ca. 1855]
Physical Description:
34, [8] p. ; 19 cm. in folder 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22981821890008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

50. Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours : avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources à consulter / publiée par MM. Firmin Didot frères, sous la direction de M. le Dr Hoefer.

No cover image available
Date:
1855-1866
Physical Description:
46 volumes ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22908861470008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Greening : tanner, currier, saddler, collar and harness maker : Dorchester.

No cover image available
Date:
ca. 1855?
Physical Description:
1 printing plate : copper ; 90 x 70 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22956476620008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

52. Catalogue of the celebrated collection of works of art, from the Byzantine period to that of Louis Seize, of that distinguished collector, Ralph Bernal ... : also, of the beautiful decorative furniture and service plate : which ... will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie & Manson, at the mansion, No. 93, Eaton Square, commencing on Monday, March the 5th, 1855, at one o'clock precisely.

No cover image available
Creator:
Christie & Manson
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
357 pages, [33] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22773162490008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. History, gazetteer, and directory of Suffolk; : comprising, under a lucid arrangement of subjects, a general survey of the county, and separate histories, & statistical & topographical descriptions of all the hundreds, liberties, unions, ... showing their extent and population ... in one volume, with a map of the county. / By William White ...

No cover image available
Creator:
White, William M. no_linkage
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
[9]-823, [1] p. : 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The natural history of man : comprising inquiries into the modifying influence of physical and moral agencies on the different tribes of the human family / by James Cowles Pritchard ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Prichard, James Cowles, 1786–1848
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22858983630008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. Studio portrait of a woman.

No cover image available
Date:
Great Britain,
Physical Description:
1 photograph : ambrotype, in leather case ; visible image approximately 7.2 x 5.8 cm (sixth plate format), in case 9.5 x 8.3 x 0.8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22952394200008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

56. Christmas with the poets : a collection of songs, carols, and descriptive verses relating to the festival of Christmas : from the Anglo-Norman period to the present time / embellished with fifty-three tinted ilustrations by Birket Foster ; and with initial letters and other ornaments.

No cover image available
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
x, [2], 202 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. Milton's L'allegro and Il penseroso / illustrated with etchings on steel by Birket Foster.

No cover image available
Creator:
Milton, John, 1608–1674
Date:
MDCCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:
[2], 24 leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22856059710008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. An account of the history and manufacture of ancient and modern terra cotta : and of its use in architecture as a durable and elegant material for decoration / by J.M. Blashfield ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Blashfield, John Marriott. no_linkage
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
32 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22757476930008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

59. Horses and hounds : a practical treatise on their management / by "Scrutator" ; illustrated by Harrison Weir.

No cover image available
Creator:
Horlock, Knightley William, 1802–1882
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
xii, 302 pages, [4] leaves of plates ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22620822720008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. The arms of the colleges of Oxford / by Henry Shaw, F.S.A. author of Dress and decoration of the Middle Ages, &c. &c. ; with historical notices of the colleges by John W. Burgon, M.A. Fellow of Oriel College.

No cover image available
Creator:
Shaw, Henry, 1800–1889
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
[206] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22958191540008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. [Plan of a camp at Sevastopol, and plate of Purley font.

No cover image available
Date:
ca. 1855]
Physical Description:
2 plates. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22677452890008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. Scutari and its hospitals / by the Hon. and Rev. Sydney Godolphin Osborne.

No cover image available
Creator:
Osborne, Sidney Godolphin, Lord, 1808–1889
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
vii, 54 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22705382970008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. John Samuel Enys album of cartes de visite.

No cover image available
Creator:
Enys, John Samuel, 1796–1872. no_linkage
Date:
circa 1860-1885?
Physical Description:
1 album (58 cartes de visite) : albumen prints ; 16 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22911249540008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

64. Catlin's North American Indian portfolio : hunting scenes and amusements of the Rocky Mountains and prairies of America / from drawings and notes of the author made during eight years' travel amongst forty-eight of the wildest and most remote tribes of savages in North America.

No cover image available
Creator:
Catlin, George, 1796–1872
Date:
[not before 1855]
Physical Description:
12 pages, [25] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 60 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22893142990008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. The gathered lilies / the illuminations designed by Mrs. Howard Vyse and Miss Fanny Greville ; the original poem by F.H.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hodgson, Frances S., no_linkage
Date:
not after 1857
Physical Description:
[11] leaves : illustrations ; 22 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22729512170008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

66. A catalogue of a collection of twenty English pictures, of high merit and great importance, being a portion of the well-known collection of Charles Birch, esq. of Westfield House, Edgbaston, near Birmingham, whose cabinet of British art has justly obtained a more than local celebrity : including Waiting for the deer to rise, by Sir Edwin Landseer, R. A. : Alfred in the Danish Camp, by D. Baclise : The Lock, by ... J.M.W. Turner : A Pyrenean Pass, with smugglers, C. Stanfield, R. A. : Spezzia Bay by ... Sir Augustus Calcot, R. A. : The first ear ring by ... Sir David Wilkie, R.A., engraved : Beating for recruits, by Thomas Webster, R. A. : The Lock, by ... J. Consable, R. A. : The Mountain Pass, by P. F. Poole, A.R.A. : Dolly Varden, by W. P. Frith, R.A. : The Tambourine Player, by J. Uwine, R.S. : A Golden Landscape, Linnell : ... The Fleur De Lis, by ... William Etty, R.A. : Which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Foster and Son, at the Gallery, 54, Pall Mall, on Thursday, February 15th, 1855, at two precisely.

No cover image available
Creator:
Foster and Son (London, England)
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
18, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22982225410008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. Album and commonplace book.

No cover image available
Creator:
H. C. B. no_linkage
Date:
circa 1855
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 70 leaves) ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22826239650008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

68. List of colours and materials for drawing and water colour painting : manufactured and sold by Winsor and Newton, no. 38, Rathbone Place, London.

No cover image available
Creator:
Winsor & Newton
Date:
[1855?]
Physical Description:
32 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22653395040008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

69. The seat of war in the East by William Simpson ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Brackenbury, George. no_linkage
Date:
1855-1856
Physical Description:
2 v. 81 col. plates. 57 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. A practical treatise on mine engineering. By G.C. Greenwell ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Greenwell, George Clementson, 1821–1900
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
3 p.., 204 p. double col. front., illus., 61 col. plates (part double, incl. maps, plans, diagrs.) 31 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22941400160008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. D'Albert's Album : 1855.

No cover image available
Creator:
Albert, Charles d', 1809–1886
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
117 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., music ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22709713190008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. New palace (Westminster) : return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 10 May 1855, for, "Copies of so much of the plans of the architect of the new palace at Westminster as will show the manner in which he purposes to extend the buildings from the clock tower westwards, along Bridge-Street and around New Palace Yard, together with a statement of the purposes for which such buildings are proposed, and a report thereon from the Board of Works.".

No cover image available
Date:
21 June 1855
Physical Description:
7, [3] p., 5, [1] folding leaves of plates : ill, plans. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22920711250008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. Blackwood's comic Zadkiel : an almanac at once prophetical and profitable, logical and astrological, quizzical and physical, ombrological and symbolical, astronomically comical and comically astronomical, for the year 1855 : a work devoted to all the "ologies" except tautology, and containing full prophecies upon everything which nobody wishes to know : and truthfully foretelling every future event, from the winner of the Derby to the next revolution in the wheel of time / edited by Hain Friswell, author of "The shadow of St. Paul's," "Twelve insides," "Houses with the fronts off," "The Russian empire," etc. etc. ; and illustrated by William McConnell.

No cover image available
Date:
MDCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:
[10], [v]-viii, [9]-96 p., [7] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22686294040008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. The Royal Patriotic Jug

No cover image available
Creator:
Samuel Alcock & Co
Date:
January 1, 1855
Physical Description:
1 jug : white ironstone transferware; 21 cm high x 16 cm in diameter (18 cm including handle)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22952852580008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961

75. English Gothic architecture, or, Suggestions relative to the designing of domestic buildings, ornaments, church-yard memorials, chimney pieces, and alphabets / by John Gibbs ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Gibbs, John, architect. no_linkage
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
13 p., 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22666778380008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

76. The grammar of form.

No cover image available
Creator:
Green, Benjamin Richard, 1808–1876
Date:
[1855?]
Physical Description:
XXIV leaves : all ill. : 29 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22653885690008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

77. The geological staircase : containing the steps of rocks and floors of alluvium / by Professor Donaldson ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Donaldson, John, 1799–1876
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
ix, 525 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), charts ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Landscape scenery : illustrating Sydney, Paramatta, Richmond, Maitland, Windsor, and Port Jackson, New South Wales.

No cover image available
Creator:
Terry, Frederick Charles, 1826–1869
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
[39] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22611276520008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. A companion to the new rifle musket : comprising, practical information on the cleaning and management of arms, and on the making of cartridges ; illustrated by tinted plates.

No cover image available
Creator:
Browne, S. Bertram. no_linkage
Date:
MDCCCLV [1855]
Physical Description:
38, [6], 41-56, 61-62, [2] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22981657440008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

80. Biographical memoir of John Montagu : with a sketch of some of the public affairs connected with the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, during his administration as colonial secretary, from 1843 to 1853 / by W.A. Newman.

No cover image available
Creator:
Newman, William Abiah, 1811–1864
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
xvi, 612 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22914486040008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. Ashbee and Dangerfield, lithographic artists & printers in colors, ornamental designers and engravers on wood & copper : 22 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ashbee & Dangerfield
Date:
[between 1855 and 1860]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 32 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22743877880008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

82. The music master : a love story ; and two series of day and night songs / by William Allingham ; with nine woodcuts, seven designed by Arthur Hughes, one by D. G. Rossetti, and one by John E. Millais, A.R.A.

No cover image available
Creator:
Allingham, William, 1824–1889
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
xiii, [2], 221, [3] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22881116310008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Alicia Faxon in memory of Richard B. Faxon, Yale BA 1949

83. Voyage aux pays aurifères Afrique, Mexique, Californie, Pérou, Chili, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Australie, Russie par le capitaine A.C. de La Carrières. Illustré de 12 gravures à deux teintes et d'un très-grand nombre de vignettes sur bois. Par J.B. Arnout père.

No cover image available
Creator:
La Carrières, A. C. de. no_linkage
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
2 p. l., 328 p. front., ill., 11 plates. 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Norge fremstillet i Tegninger med oplysende text.

No cover image available
Creator:
Tønsberg, Chr. (Christian), 1813–1897
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
72 unnumbered pages plates (some color) 26 x 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22744657240008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. Album.

No cover image available
Date:
circa 1855-circa 1880
Physical Description:
1 volume (144 pages) ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22658676430008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

86. Mosaic amusement.

No cover image available
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
50 tiles : wood, black & yellow ; in wooden box 14 x 14 x 2 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22867163930008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

87. The coinage of the British Empire : an outline of the progress of the coinage in Great Britain and her dependencies : from the earliest period to the present time / by Henry Noel Humphreys ... ; illustrated by facsimiles of the coins of each period, worked in gold, silver, and copper.

No cover image available
Creator:
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
160 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. The history of Sandford and Merton: a book for the young. By Thomas Day.

No cover image available
Creator:
Day, Thomas, 1748–1789
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
3 p. ., [9]-408 p. front., plates. 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. The Sportsman's portfolio of American field sports.

No cover image available
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
43, [1] p. : illus. ; 21 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22614550290008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. The poetical works of Lord Byron.

No cover image available
Creator:
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824
Date:
1855-1856
Physical Description:
6 v. : port. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22982098150008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. Assault of Sevastopol : two topographical & panoramic sketches, representing the advanced lines of attack, and the Russian defences, in front of Sevastopol : with a description and remarks / the sketches by Captain M.A. Biddulph.

No cover image available
Creator:
Biddulph, Michael Anthony Shrapnel. no_linkage
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
3 pt. : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22700283300008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

92. Brick and marble in the Middle Ages : notes of a tour in the north of Italy / by George Edmund Street.

No cover image available
Creator:
Street, George Edmund, 1824–1881
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
xx, 287, 32 p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22795217470008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. Lights along the line : a geographical and topographical description of the salubrious city of Southport, its literature and its art : with geological, historical, and metaphorical pencillings by the way / by Yrneh Koorbezarg.

No cover image available
Creator:
Koorbezarg, Yrneh. no_linkage
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
[7]-60, [4] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22940498770008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

94. Hints on bivouac & camp life : issued by the authority of His Excellency Major General Sir Gaspard Le Marchant, for the guidance of young officers in the Halifax garrison while under canvas for the summer months at the north west arm, Point Pleasant / by Captain Wilford Brett, 76th Regt., aide-de camp.

No cover image available
Creator:
Brett, Wilford, 1824–1901
Date:
[1855]
Physical Description:
[6], 101, [1] p., [29] leaves of plates ([5] folded) : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22621094310008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. Four short chapters on horses, hunting, and the turf / by the late Major Rose, 55th Regiment.

No cover image available
Creator:
Rose, Major (John Baillie), 1809–1854
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, vii p., [1] leaf, 50 p. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22788367200008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. Art of landscape painting in water colours / by Thomas Rowbotham and Thomas L. Rowbotham.

No cover image available
Creator:
Rowbotham, Thomas Leeson, 1783–1853
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
vii, 2, 47 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22679379470008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

97. Catalogue of the very choice collection of pictures, of the highest class, by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French, and English masters, of S.M. Mawson, esq., by whom they have been selected with great taste and judgment, chiefly on the continent : they are now dispersed, without reserve, in consequence of his retiring from business :which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Chistie & Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, May 19, 1855, at one o'clock precisely.

No cover image available
Creator:
Christie & Manson
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
16 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22751395100008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Sutcliffe, J. V. (John V.) no_linkage
Date:
[1855?]
Physical Description:
[24] leaves : ill. ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22835414770008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

99. Alliance ribbon, produced to commemorate the Crimean War.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hart, James, active 1850s-1870s
Date:
circa 1855
Physical Description:
1 ribbon : machine-woven silk ; 34.5 x 5.5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton, 1855-1875.

No cover image available
Creator:
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882
Date:
1855-1875
Physical Description:
53 letters (1 box)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22620240210008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection