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Rare Books and Manuscripts
1,792
Reference Library
16
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
20
Burford, Robert, 1791–1861
16
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811–1863
13
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
12
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
11
Shirley Smith, Richard
11
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
10
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809–1892
10
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
8
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
7
Nimrod, 1778–1843
7
Britton, John, 1771–1857
6
Bunyan, John, 1628–1688
6
Coppard, A. E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878–1957
6
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
6
Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
6
Trollope, Anthony, 1815–1882
6
Bates, H. E. (Herbert Ernest), 1905–1974
5
Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
5
Gay, John, 1685–1732
5
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Unknown
9
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1,792
Accessible by appointment in the Reference Library
16
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Under Certain Circumstances
1,793
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1,793
New Additions
2023-2024
2
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Books
1,709
Periodicals
35
Prints
19
Archives & Manuscripts
11
Articles & Chapters
10
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
3
Music (printed)
2
Maps & Atlas (printed)
1
Creator Gender
unknown
1,793
Period
19th century
1,391
20th century
291
18th century
79
21st century
31
17th century
16
16th century
4
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wood engraving
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1,793
engraving
202
lithograph
196
private press books (publishing)
126
etching
122
chromoxylograph
121
chromolithograph
117
steel engraving
81
aquatint
66
stipple engraving
51
publisher's advertisement
34
armorial bookplates (provenance)
29
lithotint
29
extra-illustrated copies (provenance)
28
poem
25
publishers' advertisement
25
juvenile literature
23
advertisement
19
fiction
18
drawing book
17
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Ross, David and Judith -- Provenance.
87
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
77
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
63
Private press books -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence -- Specimens.
36
Scheuer, Gloria -- Provenance.
35
English poetry.
27
Voyages and travels.
27
Bradbury and Evans -- Printer.
23
Ross, David and Judith -- Provenance
23
Murray, John -- Publisher.
22
Satire, English.
21
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)
20
Day & Son -- Printer.
19
Drawing books -- Specimens.
19
Panoramas.
19
Drawing -- Study and teaching.
18
Chapman and Hall -- Publisher.
17
Drawing -- Technique.
17
Amusements -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
16
Children's stories.
16
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Subject Period
19th century
172
20th century
50
18th century
21
16th century
10
17th century
6
15th century
3
11th century
2
Alfred, 871-899
2
15th and 16th centuries
1
21st century
1
58 B.C.-511 A.D
1
Republic, 265-30 B.C
1
Silurian
1
[18--]
1
Associated Places
Great Britain
280
England
148
London
80
London (England)
44
Waltham Saint Lawrence
40
Edinburgh (Scotland)
33
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
31
United States
26
Italy
19
France
17
Glasgow (Scotland)
17
Alnwick (England)
13
Edinburgh
13
Europe
13
Ireland
11
Scotland
11
Brighton (England)
10
India
10
Liverpool (England)
10
Middle East
10
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Shirley Smith, Richard
17
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
13
Bewick, John, 1760–1795
6
Jesus Christ
6
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
6
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901
6
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
5
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
5
Bembo, Pietro, 1470–1547
4
Britton, John, 1771–1857
4
Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
4
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
4
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
4
Smith, Albert, 1816–1860
4
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
3
Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
2
Alfred, King of England, 849–899
2
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824
2
Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton, Viscount, 1780–1845
2
Coke, Thomas William, Earl of Leicester, 1752–1842
2
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Exhibition History
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
9
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
8
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
3
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08)
2
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
2
Picture Talking: James Northcote and the Fables (Yale Center for British Art, October 2, 2014-December 14, 2014)
2
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
2
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)
1
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11)
1
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
1
Victorian Idyll (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-01-24 - 2019-04-21)
1
“Endless forms”: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts (Yale Center for British Art, February 12, 2009-May 3, 2009)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross
127
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
87
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
37
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.
20
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
11
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bert Boyson
6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968
6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
6
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Peter Stansky Yale BA 1953.
4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist
4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.
3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Nigel Hamway.
3
Yale Center for British Art, Div copy Gift of Pequot Library;
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Doret, Yale BA 1968, and Linda Mitchell
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Susan Casteras
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Charles Ryskamp
1
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Language
English
1,736
French
19
German
15
Welsh
6
Italian
5
Latin
5
Portuguese
2
Scots
2
Danish
1
Spanish
1
Swedish
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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Illustrated excursions in Italy
MDCCCXLVI [1846]
2
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
The works of William Hogarth
1824
3
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
The analysis of beauty
1753
4
Blake, William, 1757–1827
Spring
1993
5
Keats, John, 1795–1821
La belle dame sans merci
MCXXXXVI [1906]
6
Richardson, Moses Aaron, 1793–1871
The borderer's table book, or, Gatherings of the local history and romance of the English and Scottish border
1846
7
Faulkner, Thomas, 1777–1855
History and antiquities of Kensington
1820
8
Diorama, Regent's Park
[1840]
9
Davis, Michael Justin, 1925–
To the cross
1984
10
Lawrence, John, 1753–1839
The sportsman's calendar, or, Monthly remembrancer of field diversions
1818
11
The first fleet
1937
12
Trollope, Anthony, 1815–1882
The small house at Allington
1864
13
The national memorial to His Royal Highness the Prince Consort
1873
14
Hamilton, Francis, 1762–1829
An account of the Kingdom of Nepal,
1819
15
Gibbs, William
The hand-book of alphabets, initials, and monograms
[1860]
16
Fergusson, Robert, 1750–1774
The poetical works of Robert Ferguson
[1814]
17
Bewick's Select fables of Aesop and others
1886
18
À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811–1856
The comic history of Rome
[1852]
19
The twa weavers
[18--]
20
Reynolds, Ernest Edwin, 1894–
The trial of St. Thomas More
1964
21
Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856
How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application
[1856]
22
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547–1616
The adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
1866
23
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811–1863
The history of Henry Esmond, Esq.
1888
24
Caesar, Julius
Julius Caesar's Commentaries
1951
25
À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811–1856
The comic history of England
MDCCCXLVII-MDCCCXLIX [1847-1848]
26
Ward, Mary, 1827–1869
Entomology in sport, and Entomology in earnest
[1859]
27
The new Bath guide; or, Useful pocket companion for all persons residing at or resorting to this ancient city.
1790
28
Kitto, John, 1804–1854
The pictorial Sunday-book
1845
29
Longman (Firm)
Works on antiquities ..
[1816]
30
Burnet, John, 1784–1868
A treatise on painting
1880
31
Catalogue of a scarce and curious collection of books and engravings formerly belonging to Thomas Bewick,
1884
32
Beattie, William, 1793–1875
The castles and abbeys of England,
[between 1852 and 1856]
33
Tenison, Louisa Mary Anne Anson, Lady, d. 1882
Castile and Andalucia
MDCCCLIII [1853]
34
Bates, H. E. (Herbert Ernest), 1905–1974
Down the river
1937
35
Violi, Paul, 1944–2011
The hazards of imagery
c1998
36
From the Third programme
1956
37
Scott, Michael, 1789–1835
Tom Cringle's log
1895
38
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809–1892
The poetical works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate
1881
39
Mott, Michael
Helmet and wasps
1964
40
Cat cuts
1999
41
Swain, Joseph, 1820–1909
New crowns for old ones!
April 15, 1876
42
Hoskins, G. A. (George Alexander), -1864
Travels in Ethiopia, above the second cataract of the Nile
1835
43
Burn, Robert Scott
The illustrated London drawing book ...
1853
44
Morton, John Chalmers, 1821–1888
The Prince Consort's farms
1863
45
Hone, William, 1780–1842
The every-day book and table book ;
1830
46
Rowe, Jacob
All sorts of wheel-carriage, improved
1734
47
Smith, Thomas, fl. 1825
The art of drawing in its various branches
1825
48
Hoskyns, Chandos Wren, 1812–1876
Talpa, or, The chronicles of a clay farm
1852
49
Meall, Louis A., -1859
Great Yarmouth illustrated
MDCCCXLVIII [1848]
50
Museum Disneianum
1846-1849
51
Foster, Myles Birket, 1825–1899
Beauties of English landscape
1874
52
Blashfield, John Marriott
Ancient and modern pottery
[1859]
53
The journal of design and manufactures ..
1849-1852
54
Gant, Roland
Steps to the river
c1995
55
Whitfield, Christopher, 1902–1967
Lady from yesterday
1939
56
Lindsley, Kathleen
Pub signs for Samuel Webster
April 1983
57
Baines, Edward, 1774–1848
History of the county palatine and duchy of Lancaster
1836
58
Stephens, Frederic George, 1828–1907
A memoir of George Cruikshank
1891
59
Borgia, Lucrezia, 1480–1519
Messer Pietro mio
1985
60
Walters, Eurof
The serpent's presence
1954
61
Billings, Robert William, 1813–1874
The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland
[1855]
62
Nicholson, Samuel, d. 1825
Plâs Newydd, and Vale Crucis Abbey,
1824
63
The world's fair;
[1851]
64
Webb, Harri, 1920–1994
A crown for Branwen
c1988
65
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Captain Macheath, or, The highwayman of a century since!
1842
66
Dodsley in miniature, or, The polite fabulist
1810
67
Bailie Nicol Jarvie's journey to Aberfoil
1829
68
Dodsley, Robert, 1704–1764
The oeconomy of human life
1772
69
Burnett, David, 1937–2023
Despatches
2006
70
Young, T., surveyor
Practical geometry, or, A new and easy method of treating that art
[1810]
71
[Panorama of Hamburg]
[1845]
72
The Harrogate alphabet for 1870
1870?
73
Hughes, John Ceiriog, 1832–1887
Caneuon Ceiriog detholiad
1925
74
Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
The country builder's estimator, or, The architect's companion for estimating of new buildings ... : to which is added several new tables ...
1755
75
Troili, Giulio, 1613–1685
Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiua senza saperla
1683
76
Vaux, Calvert, 1824–1895
Villas and cottages
1857
77
Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788–1845
The Ingoldsby legends, or, Mirth and marvels
1865
78
A form of prayer and thanksgiving
1805
79
Robin Hood
1832
80
Twiti, William, d. 1328
The art of hunting, or, Three hunting mss
1908
81
The Chester play of the deluge
1927
82
Percival, P
The land of the Veda
1854
83
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909
Lucretia Borgia
1942
84
Leighton, Clare, 1898–1989
Country matters
1937
85
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
[1872]
86
Mother Goose A B C and other jingles
[1901?]
87
Trollope, Anthony, 1815–1882
The last chronicle of Barset
1867
88
Moore, Thomas, 1779–1852
Lalla Rookh
1884
89
St. Aulaire, A. (Achille), 1801–ca. 1889
Voyage autour du monde
[beween 1866 and 1872]
90
Eardley-Wilmot, John E. (John Eardley), Sir, 1810–1892
Reminiscences of the late Thomas Assheton Smith, Esq.
MCMII [1902]
91
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.
The complete sportsman, or, Country gentleman's recreation
[1760?]
92
A catalogue of fine press printers in the British Isles
1986
93
Sketches,
1825
94
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797
A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole
1842
95
Burn, Robert Scott
The illustrated London drawing book ...
1852
96
A succinct description of that elaborate pile of art, call'd the microcosm
1760
97
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Christmas stories from "Household words" and "All the year round"
[between 1867 and 1881]
98
Wordsworth, William, 1770–1850
Poems of William Wordsworth
MDCCCLXVI [1866]
99
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
A Tale of Two Cities
1964
100
Dadd, George H., 1813–1868
The advocate of veterinary reform and outlines of anatomy and physiology of the horse
1850
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