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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Beeton, Samuel Orchart, 1831–1877
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Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
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Burkitt, William, 1650–1703
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Bush, Tracey
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Dilnot, John
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Hodgman, Carolyn S. (Carolyn Stecher)
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Landers, Linda Anne
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Longstaff, William Hilton, 1792–1842
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Mudie, Robert, 1777–1842
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Schofield, Lucy May
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Thomson, David Croal, 1855–1930
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Van Houten (Firm)
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Books
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Prints
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Archives & Manuscripts
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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Drawings & Watercolors
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19th century
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21st century
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20th century
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18th century
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botanical illustration
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watercolor
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wood engraving
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artists' book
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chromolithograph
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chromoxylograph
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ink drawing
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lithograph
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accordion fold format (binding)
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advertisement
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albumen print
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alphabet book
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artist's book
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buttons (information artifacts)
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card game
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christmas card
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color wood engraving
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commonplace book
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cut-paper work
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die cutting
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Birds.
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Women in natural history.
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Flowers.
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Artists' books -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Alcuin Press -- Printer.
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Alphabet -- Juvenile literature.
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Alphabet books.
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Alphabet rhymes -- Juvenile literature.
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Alphabet rhymes.
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Alphabet.
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Amusements -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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Barbizon House -- Publisher.
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Barrett (R.) and Sons -- Printer.
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Beetles.
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Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828.
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Bible -- Commentaries.
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Birds -- Juvenile poetry.
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Birdsongs.
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Blackburne, Anna, 1726–1793.
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19th century
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Great Britain
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Alnwick (England)
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Brighton
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Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
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Blackburne, Anna, 1726–1793
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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Burdett family
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Cupid (Roman deity)
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Davidson family
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Hamilton family
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Houston family
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Lambert family
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Lambert, Alexander-Clendinning, 1805–1892
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Lambert, Emma Maria, 1824–1916
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Pendergrass family
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Prendergast, Eliza Emma, 1795–1883
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Prendergast, Guy Lennox, 1773–1845
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Prendergast, Harris, 1805–1878
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Exhibition History
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Burnett
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
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Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk
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English
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Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), male, with Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne
circa 1768
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Van Houten (Firm)
Trade cards for Van Houten's cocoa
[ca. 1880?]
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Prendergast family photograph album
late 1860s-1870s
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[Die cut Christmas card shaped like a purse]
[approximately 1880]
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Burkitt, William, 1650–1703
Excerpts from William Burkitt's Expository notes
circa [1850?]
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A natural history of foreign birds
[1814?]
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Hodgman, Carolyn S. (Carolyn Stecher)
A.B.C book of birds
1916
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Bush, Tracey
Button depicting a bird in a hat
2018
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Cut-paper work
circa 1840
10
Longstaff, William Hilton, 1792–1842
Selections from the mammalia and ornithology volumes of The naturalist's library
Great Britain,
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Schofield, Lucy May
Roadkill
[2006]
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Curiosities of ornithology
[1871]
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The bird-catcher
1857
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Thomson, David Croal, 1855–1930
The water-colour drawings of Thomas Bewick
1930
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Mudie, Robert, 1777–1842
The natural history of birds
1834
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Beeton, Samuel Orchart, 1831–1877
Beeton's book of birds
[187-?]
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Landers, Linda Anne
How do you know but ev'ry bird that cuts the airy way ...
2002
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Dilnot, John
Woodpecker wood
2012