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The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins and glands : in eighteen tables, all done from nature / by George Stubbs, painter.
Creator:
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:
1766
Physical Description:
[4], 47, [1] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 46 x 60 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22614588230008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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
Credit Line:
22907914890008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The anatomy of the horse : including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins, and glands / illustrated by twenty-four plates by George Stubbs, painter.
Creator:
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:
1853
Physical Description:
68 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. ; 46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22650119180008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Hogarth moralized : a complete edition of all the most capital and admired works of William Hogarth / accompanied with concise and comprehensive explanations of their moral tendency by ... Dr. Trusler ; an introduction, and many additional notes ...
Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
xxvi, 293 p., [55] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22666765200008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Picturesque views in England and Wales / from drawings by J.M.W. Turner, Esq. R.A. ; engraved under the superintendence of Mr. Charles Heath ; with descriptive and historic illustrations by H.E. Lloyd., Esq. ; in two volumes.
Creator:
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
Date:
MDCCCXXXVIII [1838]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 60 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22960448310008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts in possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton, esq. ; assisted by his son, J. Adey Repton, F.A.S.
Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
xii, 238, [2] pages, [43] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22652305190008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Principles of beauty, relative to the human head / by Alexander Cozens.
Creator:
Cozens, Alexander, 1717–1786
Date:
MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:
[6], 15, [5], 15, [1] p, [3], 2-17 leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 53 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22963724000008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The costume of Hindostan : elucidated by sixty coloured engravings / with descriptions in English and French, taken in the years 1798 and 1799 by Balt. Solvyns, of Calcutta.
Creator:
Solvyns, Balt. (Balthazar), 1760–1824
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
[132] pages, 60 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22811262050008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Travels to discover the source of the Nile : in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 ... / by James Bruce of Kinnaird ...
Creator:
Bruce, James, 1730–1794
Date:
1790
Physical Description:
5 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy, both in theory and practice. In two books ... By Joshua Kirby, painter. Illustrated with fifty copper plates; most of which are engrav'd by the author ...
Creator:
Kirby, John Joshua, 1716–1774
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1. front., plates, diagrs. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
[Price list for items produced and sold by Henry Urch, Saddle and Harness Manufacturer, 84, Long Acre, London].
Creator:
Urch, Henry, no_linkage
Date:
May, 1851
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22713894120008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The elements of gymnastics for boys and of calisthenics for young ladies : illustrated by forty-three engravings / by Gustavus Hamilton ...
Creator:
Hamilton, Gustavus. no_linkage
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
vi, [7]-72 p., [43] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22666730100008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Woodcuts of British fishes / engraved by Thomas Bewick.
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1878
Physical Description:
[25] leaves : all ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bethany seeds / wood engravings, Mandy Bonnell ; poem, Gabriel Gbadamosi.
Creator:
Bonnell, Mandy, no_linkage
Date:
2013
Physical Description:
[18] pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22778389230008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Monastic and baronial remains : with other interesting fragments of antiquity in England, Wales, and Scotland ... / by G.J.[!] Parkyns ...
Creator:
Parkyns, George Isham, approximately 1750–approximately 1820
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A fourth book, containing twelve imitations of drawings, of modern carriages : on a half inch scale to a foot.
Creator:
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
4 p., 12 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22846030990008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An overland journey to the Great Exhibition showing a few extra articles & visitors. By Richard Doyle.
Creator:
Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
Date:
[1851]
Physical Description:
14 col. plates. 13 x 275 cm. fold. to 13 x 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
An essay on light and shade, on colours, and on composition in general; by M. Gartside ...
Creator:
Gartside, Mary. no_linkage
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
2 p.., 43, [4] p. 11 plates (part col.) 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Lacey's railway companion and Liverpool and Manchester guide : describing all the scenery on, and contiguous to, the railway : and pointing out to the visitor at both places all that is interesting and necessary for business and pleasure / by Arthur Freeling.
Creator:
Freeling, Arthur. no_linkage
Date:
[1832]
Physical Description:
iv, 68 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22686338440008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work / by Henry Mayhew.
Creator:
Mayhew, Henry, 1812–1887
Date:
1851[-1861]
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22753035820008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The royal wedding official programme : the marriage of H.R.H. Prince William of Wales, K.G. with Miss Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey, 29th April, 2011.
Date:
2011
Physical Description:
27 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22671337140008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Catalogue of up to date suites & chairs in Chippendale, Sheraton, Queen Anne, Jacobean, Hepplewhite, & Louis Styles : frames only.
Creator:
T. C. L. (London, England)
Date:
[1890?]
Physical Description:
[28] leaves : illustrations ; 28 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22883777210008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Now publishing in numbers, price 1s. and in monthly parts, at 2s. each, Commemoration of Hogarth by an edition of his works, commenced exactly a century after their first appearance.
Creator:
Jones and Co. (London, England)
Date:
[1833?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22884381990008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The house that Paxton built. By G.A.S.
Creator:
Sala, George Augustus, 1828–1895
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
23 leaves. ill. 13 x 237 cm. fold. to 13 x 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Illuminated illustrations of Froissart : selected from the MS. in the British Museum / by H. N. Humphreys, Esq.
Creator:
Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
vi p., 36 leaves, [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22944515060008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
New designs for Chinese temples, triumphal arches, garden seats, palings &c. ... / by William Halfpenny.
Creator:
Halfpenny, William, -1755
Date:
1750-1752
Physical Description:
4 pts. in 1 : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22862865370008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Description of the various head dresses exhibited by Fredk. Brown, of 47, Fenchurch St. , in Section 18, no. 245, of the Exhibition Building, Hyde Park.
Creator:
Browne, Frederick, (Wig maker), no_linkage
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22830460180008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Wm. Walker & Son : family grocers & wine merchants : net cash : price list : 78 Main Street, Wexford.
Creator:
Wm Walker & Son (Firm)
Date:
1891
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 29 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22937885690008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
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
Credit Line:
22757401500008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
An aeronautical view of London / drawn & engraved by Robert Havell.
Creator:
Havell, Robert, 1769–1832
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : plan ; 43 x 112 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22961224780008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809 : descriptive of the character, domestic habits, and religious ceremonies, of the Mahrattas : with ten coloured engravings, from drawings by a native artist / by Thomas Duer Broughton, Esq., late Commander of the resident's escort at the Court of Scindia.
Creator:
Broughton, Thomas Duer, 1778–1835
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
[16], 358, [2] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22609480430008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A series of twenty-eight panoramic views of Calcutta : extending from Chandpaul Ghaut to the end of Chowringhee Road, together with the hospital, the two bridges, and the fort / by William Wood, jun.
Creator:
Wood, William, no_linkage
Date:
MDCCCXXXIII [1833]
Physical Description:
[2] pages, 28 leaves of plates (1 folded) : all illustrations ; 35 x 53 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22897378810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861 : to which are prefixed and added extracts from the same journal giving an account of earlier visits to Scotland and tours in England and yachting excursions / edited by Arthur Helps.
Creator:
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901
Date:
1868
Physical Description:
xvii, [3], 198 pages, 9 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22639094790008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler
Tender feet : the elastic enamelled cloth for boots & shoes for tender feet : invented by Richard Hall, manufacturer of elastic spring ankle boots, for ladies and gentlemen, of the same material.
Creator:
Hall, Richard, (Boot maker), no_linkage
Date:
[approximately 1851]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22830467450008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
W. Stevens's circulating library and general newspaper office : 23, Trinity Square, Tower HIll.
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 12 x 13 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22607489670008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Travels in the interior of southern Africa / by William J. Burchell ; with an entirely new map, and numerous engravings.
Creator:
Burchell, William J. (William John), 1781–1863
Date:
1822-1824
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22609498480008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The provincial antiquities and picturesque scenery of Scotland : with descriptive illustrations / by Walter Scott.
Creator:
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
Date:
1826
Physical Description:
2 v. (lii, 208 p., [2] leaves, [52] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22633300240008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Costumes of the Madras Army / drawn and colored by W. Hunsley.
Creator:
Hunsley, William, no_linkage
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
[40] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22944514810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Hortus ericaeus woburnensis, or, A catalogue of heaths, in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey : alphabetically and systematically arranged.
Creator:
Sinclair, George, 1786–1834
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
xiv, [2], 42 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22888638230008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Lucas' progressive drawing book, in three parts : ... consisting chiefly of original views of American scenery, and embracing the latest and best improvements in the mode of instruction.
Creator:
Lucas, Fielding, Jr., 1781–1854
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 1 : illustrations ; 24 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22633012170008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Switzerland in miniature : description of the grand model of Switzerland, by professor Gaudin, of Geneva, 26 feet by 21 feet, now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
iv, [1], 6-32 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
A history of British birds. By Thomas Bewick.
Creator:
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
Date:
1847
Physical Description:
2 v. ill. 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Modern London : being the history and present state of the British metropolis : illustrated with numerous copper plates.
Creator:
Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir, 1767–1840
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
viii, 571 p., [23] leaves of plates ([2] folded) : ill., plan : 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22897083580008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The last days of Lord Byron : with his lordship's opinions on various subjects, particularly on the state and prospects of Greece / by William Parry, Major of Lord Byron's Brigade, commanding officer of artillery, and engineer in the service of the Greeks.
Creator:
Parry, William, fl. 1825
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
xxiii, [1], 360 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22743727240008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Alice's adventures in Wonderland / by Lewis Carroll ; illustrated by Arthur Rackham ; with a proem by Austin Dobson.
Creator:
Carroll, Lewis, 1832–1898
Date:
[1907]
Physical Description:
xi, [1], 161, [3] pages, [13] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22809267190008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Sylvia Van Sinderen in honor of Elisabeth Fairman
Aunt Louisa's Alphabet book : comprising alphabet of fruits, country alphabet, London alphabet, alphabet of games & sports / with twenty-four pages of illustrations printed in colours by Evans and Kronheim.
Creator:
Valentine, L. (Laura), d. 1899
Date:
[1870?]
Physical Description:
[58] leaves : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22666770920008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Journal of the late campaign in Egypt : including descriptions of that country, and of Gibralter, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri : with an appendix, containing official papers and documents / by Thomas Walsh, Captain in His Majesty's ninety-third regiment of foot, aide-de-camp to Major-General Sir Eyre Coots, K. B. and K.c. M. P. &c. ; illustrated by numerous engravings of antiquities, views, costumes, plans, positions, &c.
Creator:
Walsh, Thomas, fl. 1801
Date:
1803
Physical Description:
viii, [20], 261, [7], *145, [1] p., 49 [i.e.41] leaves of plates ([9] folded) : ill., maps (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22684507150008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A new description of Blenheim : the seat of His Grace the Duke of Marlborough : containing a full and accurate account of the paintings, tapestry, and furniture : a picturesque tour of the gardens and park : and a general description of the china gallery, &c. : with a preliminary essay on landscape gardening.
Creator:
Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758–1837
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
vi, [2], 150 p., 4 leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., plan ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22735820290008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Some account of London / Thomas Pennant.
Creator:
Pennant, Thomas, 1726–1798
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
vi, [4], 479, [9] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill., plan ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22875768140008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
History of the Irish rebellion in 1798 : with memoirs of the union, and Emmett's insurrection in 1803 / by W. H. Maxwell ...
Creator:
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792–1850
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 477, [1] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22983927480008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
Zoography, or, The beauties of nature displayed : in select descriptions from the animal, and vegetable, with additions from the mineral kingdom : systematically arranged / by W. Wood, F.L.S. ; illustrated with plates, designed and engraved by Mr. William Daniell ; in three volumes.
Creator:
Wood, W. (William), 1774–1857
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22897373290008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Massa, you no understand it. &c. &c. &c.
Date:
[not before 1854?]
Physical Description:
8 pages : illustrations ; 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22679472820008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Branches / Chisato Tamabayashi.
Creator:
Tamabayashi, Chisato, 1975–
Date:
[2007]
Physical Description:
1 volume : illustrations ; 40 x 40 x 10 cm, folded to 11 x 11 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22635153050008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Modern ornamentation, being a series of original designs : for the patterns of textile fabrics, for the ornamentation of manufactures in wood, metal, pottery, &c.; also for the decoration of walls & ceilings and other flat surfaces / by Chr. Dresser, Ph.D., &c. ; (author of "The art of decorative design," "Japan : its architecture, arts," etc.)
Creator:
Dresser, Christopher, no_linkage
Date:
1886
Physical Description:
[8] pages, 50 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22805464470008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter
A picturesque voyage to India, by the way of China / by Thomas Daniell, R.A., and William Daniell, A.R.A.
Creator:
Daniell, Thomas, 1749–1840
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
[2], ii p., [50] leaves, [50] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22709725340008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Views of Trinidad from drawings / by M.J. Cazabon.
Creator:
Cazabon, Michel Jean, 1813–1888
Date:
1851
Physical Description:
[20] leaves of plates : all ill. (lithographs) ; 35 x 52 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22621929190008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Hull Mechanics' Institute : the public and the members are respectfully informed that, on Thursday next, April 3rd, 1845, Mr. John Mayfield will deliver his lecture, "On the impossibility of deducing from abstract mathematical principles several important arrangements in the solar system" : and, on Thursday, April 10th, E.V. Rippingille, Esq., will deliver a lecture on painting.
Creator:
Literary and Scientific Mechanics' Institute (Hull, England)
Date:
[1845]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 28 x 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22651207200008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Amateurs repository of Indian sketches. Pt. 1.
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
11 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 27 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22846087380008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Panharmonicon : designed as an illustration of an engraved plate, in which is attempted to be proved, that the principles of harmony more or less prevail throughout the whole system of nature, but more especially in the human frame and that where these principles can be applied to works of art, they excite the pleasing and satisfying ideas of proportion and beauty / by F. Webb.
Creator:
Webb, Francis, 1735–1815
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
45 p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22619186520008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the picturesque. A poem.
Creator:
Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
1 p.., iii, [1], 275 p., 1 leaf. 30 col. plates (incl. front.) 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Stencilled friezes.
Date:
[ca. 1900?]
Physical Description:
[17] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 13 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22958853790008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
A new and compendious treatise of anatomy and proportions of the human figure : adapted to the arts of designing, painting, and sculpture : illustrated with copper-plates : designed principally for the information of such ladies as practise the above arts : and absolutely necessary to all students, who wish to acquire correctness in the outline of the human figure / by W.F. Wells.
Creator:
Wells, William Frederick, 1762–1836
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
[4], 19, [1] page, [6] leaves of plates : illlustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22709309620008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Oriental memoirs : selected and abridged from a series of familiar letters written during seventeen years residence in India : includung observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a narrative of occurences in four India voyages : illustrated by engravings from original drawings / by James Forbes ; ... in four volumes.
Creator:
Forbes, James, 1749–1819
Date:
1813 [i.e. 1839]
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22704602780008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[Bill for food and drink, Tunstead, 1773]
Date:
2d Novr. 1773
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 13 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22629310200008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Kikkuli text on the training of horses (ca. 1350 B.C.) / translated from the German by Gerhard F. Probst ; illustrated by Carolyn Whitesel.
Creator:
Kikkuli, fl. ca. 1350 B.C
Date:
c1977
Physical Description:
[12] folders (4, xl p.), [2] fold. leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22800383710008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Field notes / by Helen Douglas.
Creator:
Douglas, Helen, 1952–
Date:
2006
Physical Description:
[72] p. : ill. ; 9 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22955254950008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Apolla Quadrille Party
Date:
[approximately 1860?]
Physical Description:
1 invitation : illustrations ; 6 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22670301920008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
In Disgraceful Memory of the Russian Navy, in their terrible encounter with nine unarmed fishing smacks.
Date:
[1904]
Physical Description:
1 folded card : illustrations ; 90 x 130 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22947882920008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
The ladies history of England : from the descent of Julius Cæsar, to the summer of 1780 : calculated for the use of the ladies of Great-Britain and Ireland : and likewise adapted to general use, entertainment, and instruction / by Charlotte Cowley ...
Creator:
Cowley, Charlotte. no_linkage
Date:
1780 [i.e. 1781]
Physical Description:
vi, 7-704, [12] p., [60] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., ports., maps. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Walter Crane's absurd A.B.C.
Creator:
Crane, Walter, 1845–1915
Date:
[1874?]
Physical Description:
8 leaves. col. ill. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22641342150008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The costume and customs of modern India : from a collection of drawings by Charles Doyley, Esq. : engraved by J.H. Clark and C. Dubourg / with a preface and copious descriptions, by Captain Thomas Williamson.
Creator:
Williamson, Thomas, Captain
Date:
[1813]
Physical Description:
xxiii, [76] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22734332880008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Six illustrations to Cowper's diverting history of John Gilpin / by George Cruikshank ; engraved on wood by Thompson, Branston, Wright, Slader, and White.
Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:
MDCCCXXVIII [1828]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22709742500008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Antmothbeetlemillipedespider / poems [by] Gabriel Gbadamosi ; etchings [by] Mandy Bonnell.
Creator:
Bonnell, Mandy. no_linkage
Date:
2006
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([22] p.) : ill. ; 35 x 770 cm, folded to 35 x 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22890210630008651|Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
The soldier's return.
Creator:
Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
Date:
[1793]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 page) ; 23 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22685485740008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
National Festival in honor of the Centenary Birthday of Scotland's immortal Bard, Robert Burns : City Hall, Glasgow, 25th, January, 1859.
Date:
[1859]
Physical Description:
1 card : color illustrations ; 12 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22685394080008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
M'Lagan & Cumming : chromo-lithographers and colour printers ... : Warriston Rd., Edinburgh : London Office ... Dudley House, Southampton Street, Strand.
Creator:
M'Lagan & Cumming (Firm)
Date:
[1908?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages : color illustrations ; 10 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22852433480008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
John Brown : plain and fancy lithographic writer : 37 Glassford Street, Glasgow.
Creator:
Brown, John, active 1861
Date:
[approximately 1861]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : engraved ; 7 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22835382000008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
[Billhead of S. Dixon, carver and gilder, looking glass and picture frame manufacturer, recording purchase made by Lady Hartland on May 25th, 1835]
Creator:
Dixon, S. (Carver), no_linkage
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 13 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22648535300008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Scenes in England : for the amusement and instruction of little tarry-at-home travellers / by the Rev. Isaac Taylor.
Creator:
Taylor, Isaac, 1759–1829
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
xvi, 152 p., [29] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22961238550008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton.
Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
16, 222, [2] p., [28] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., port., map, 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22795260130008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Kafir wars and the British settlers in South Africa / a series of picturesque views from original sketches by T.W. Bowler ; with descriptive letterpress by W.R. Thomson.
Creator:
Bowler, Thomas William, 1813–1869
Date:
1865
Physical Description:
24 leaves, [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22753081060008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ornamental groups, descriptive of flowers, birds, shells, fruit, insects, &c. and illustrative of a new theory of colouring, from designs and paintings by M. Gartside. The whole engraved and coloured under her immediate inspection ...
Creator:
Gartside, Mary. no_linkage
Date:
1808 [that is, 1811?]
Physical Description:
[4], 44 pages, [18] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 57 x 44 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22677446330008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : applied to the arts of smithing, joinery, carpentry, turning, bricklayery : to which is added Mechanick dyalling : shewing how to draw a true sun-dyal on any given plane ... / by Joseph Moxon, ...
Creator:
Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:
1703
Physical Description:
[viii], 287, [305]-352 p., [26] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22897136400008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
China, in a series of views : displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits, of that ancient empire / drawn, from original and authentic sketches, by Thomas Allom, esq. ; with historical and descriptive notices by the Rev. G.N. Wright, M.A.
Creator:
Allom, Thomas, 1804–1872
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22718859130008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777 : elucidating the history of that country ... with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea / by Captn. J. G. Stedman ...
Creator:
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744–1797
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps, plans ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22822451250008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection