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101. Rural sports, a poem, by William Somerville, author of "The Chase" : to be published, by subscription, by R. Ackermann, No. 101, Strand.

Creator:: Somerville, William, 1675–1742
Date:: June 1, 1812
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

102. Virtuoso--advt.

Date:: 1814
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

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

104. Daniel King Circle Press archive, 1967-2003.

Creator:: King, Ron, 1932–
Date:: 1967-2003
Physical Description:: 30 linear feet
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ron King and Willow Legge

105. Just published, (no. I), price one guinea, a selection of Hebrew melodies, with appropriate symphonies and accompaniments by Mr. Braham and Mr. Nathan : the poetry written expressly for the work, by the Right Honourable Lord Bryon.

Creator:: Nathan, Isaac, 1792–1864
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1]) page ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

106. A history of Madeira : with a series of twenty-seven coloured engravings, illustrative of the costumes, manners, and occupations of the inhabitants of that island.

Creator:: Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: v, [3], 118 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

107. To be published by subscription, two coloured engravings, with descriptive letter-press, of the procession and ceremony of the installation of the Knights of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, from the drawings by Mr. Frederic Nash.

Date:: [June 1, 1812]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

108. Prospectus, address, and list of subscribers, to The Vitruvius britannicus. By P.F. Robinson ...

Creator:: Robinson, P. F. (Peter Frederick), 1776–1858
Date:: 1835
Physical Description:: 3, [1] p. 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

109. Sir, there is a scheme set on foot for erecting a publick academy for the improvement of the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture ...

Date:: 1753
Physical Description:: [2] sheets ([2] p.) ; 42 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

110. A Venetian story / by Lord Byron ; with illustrations from eighteenth century copper-plate engravings selected and introduced by Eleanor M. Garvey and Philip Hofer.

Creator:: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824
Date:: 1963
Physical Description:: 39 leaves : ill. ; 35 x 51 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

111. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A series of prints exhibiting the most interesting scenes in London and Westminster : drawn from the most striking points of view, and executed in aquatinta, by T. Malton, Jun.

Date:: March, 1781
Physical Description:: [1] sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

112. [Prospectus for Susan Allix's Sea Air : prints of the sea with poetic interludes and interventions].

Creator:: Allix, Susan, 1943–
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 4 pages, ([2] leaves of plates : color photographs ; 22 x 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

113. Marc Quinn : Thames River water atlas.

Creator:: IvoryPress
Date:: [2017]
Physical Description:: 11 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ivorypress

114. This day is published, number XCIV, with a view of the city gates : (to be continued weekly, price six-pence) : the sixth edition of Stow's survey of London and Westminster : and of the borough of Southward : being the best topography of those cities : together with the distinct history of them : in two large volumes, folio : containing their original, antiquity, increase, present state, and government : written at first by John Stow, citizen and native of London ; several times reprinted and augmented, then corrected, and very much enlarged in the year 1720 by J. Strype, M.A. ; and the history and survey now brought down to this present time by careful hands ; illustrated with exact maps of all the wards and out-parishes both of London and Westminister ; with other draughts of the most eminent and public edifices and monuments.

Date:: November 29, 1755
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page (incomplete)) ; 43 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

115. Mémories du Muséum d'histoire naturelle par les professeurs de cet établissement.

Date:: [1814?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (4 pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

116. Proposals for publishing by subscription four prints : dedicated (by permission) to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, representing views of the action between the Java and the Constitution.

Date:: [1813?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (2 pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

117. Preparing for the press, Memoirs of John, Duke of Marlborough : chiefly drawn from his private correspondence and family documents, preserved at Blenheim : as well as from other authentic sources never before published : by William Cox, Archdeacon of Wilts. : with portraits, maps, plans, genealogical tables, coats of arms, and fac-similes of the hand-writing of the most illustrious persons, whose letters appear in this work : in two volumes, quarto.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1817?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

118. Bibliotheca Peirsoniana, or, Catalogue raisonné : (adapted to serve as a perpetual Vade mecum for young clergy-men and students in Divinity) of the very valuable and extensive library of the Rev. Thomas Peirson, D.D. Senior Minster of the Established English Church, in the City of Amsterdam.

Creator:: Peirson, Thomas
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: [2], xi, [1], 219, [1] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

119. Preparing for the press, a new edition of The Saxon chronicle, with an English translation and notes by the Rev. J. Ingram ... : a reprint of that very valuable Romance of Morte Arthur, with an introduction and notes, in quarto ... : "The poeticall exercises at vacant houres of James the Sixt--King of Scotland," edited by R.P. Gillies, Esq.

Date:: [1822?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

120. Prospectus of a new edition of The history of Kent.

Date:: ca. 1886.]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] p. ; 44 cm. (in case 48 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

121. William Kentridge : Tummelplatz.

Creator:: IvoryPress
Date:: [2017]
Physical Description:: 8 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ivorypress

122. Prospectus of A general history of the County of York. By Thomas Dunham Whitaker ...

Creator:: Longman (Firm)
Date:: 1816.]
Physical Description:: 4 p. ; 28 cm. (in case 49 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

123. Proposals for publishing by subscription, two prints, from pictures painted expressly to commemorate the glorious victories of Vittoria and the Pyrenees.

Creator:: Hassell and Rickards
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

124. To be published by subscription, A collection of select views in Great Britain : from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists : to be engraved by S. Middiman.

Date:: October 1, 1783
Physical Description:: [1] sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 x 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

125. In the press, and speedily will be published, part I of Archaica, containing a reprint of scarce Old English tracts, with prefaces and notes, critical and biographical.

Date:: [1814?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

126. Proposals for publishing by subscription, in three volumes, historical and literary botany : containing the qualities, anecdotes, and superstitions relative to these trees, plants, and flowers, which are mentioned in sacred and profane history : the particulars of some rare and curious plants which bear the names of celebrated persons : and also of those which are used in the religious worship and civil ceremonies of divers nations : together with the devices, proverbs, &c. which derive their original from those vegetables : concluding with a romantic story, entitled Flowers ; or the artists, from the French of Madame de Genlis : with explanatory notes, &c. &c. by Eliza P. Reid.

Creator:: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
Date:: [1826?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

127. Prospectus. The history of Little Johnny, the foundling of the late Doctor Syntax : a poem in eight monthly numbers.

Creator:: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Date:: [1821?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

128. Proposals for publishing by subscription, in the course of the next spring, in one volume quarto, accompanied with seventeen plates, An Account and explanation of the paintings and other ornaments and decorations, discovered in the month of September last on the walls of the present House of Commons : including also, besides the history of these decorations and the building itself, a variety of original particulars as to the ancient state of the City of Westminster, and the Palace and other buildings there : and the principles and history of painting and Gothic architecture / by John Sidney Hawkins, Esq. F.A.A. ; the plates engraven by Mr. John Thomas Smith, from drawings made by himself on the spot.

Creator:: Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758–1842
Date:: [1800]
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

129. Narrative of a journey to the falls of the Cavery : with an historical and descriptive account of the Neilgherry hills / by Lieutenant H. Jervis.

Creator:: Jervis, H. (Humphrey)
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: x, 144, [16] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

130. Perfect and imperfect enjoyments : poems / by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester ; with an introduction by Christopher Hibbert ; and illustrated with paintings by Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647–1680
Date:: 1992
Physical Description:: 109, [3] p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

131. Proposals for publishing by subscription, Elements of chemical science, as applied to the arts and manufactures, and natural phaenomena, by J. Murray, "corresponding" member of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, member of the Norwich Philosophical Society, &c.

Creator:: Youngman, George
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

132. Orme's collection of British field sports : illustrated in twenty beautifully coloured engravings from designs by S. Howitt.

Creator:: Howitt, Samuel, 1765?-1822
Date:: [1955]
Physical Description:: [2] leaves, 20 leaves of plates : facsims. ; 45 x 55 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

133. Avis aux souscripteurs : sur cette dernière livraison du Voyage pittoresque

Creator:: Saint Non, Jean Claude Richard de, 1727–1791
Date:: [1786]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

134. Proposals for publishing by subscription the memoirs of Zerah Colburn : in one volume quarto, embellished with a portrait : a child of just nine years of age who possesses the singular faculty of solving a great variety of arithmetical questions by the mere operation of the mind, and without the usual assistance of any visible symbol or contrivance

Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

135. Prospectus of a new general atlas.

Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

136. Ravilious at war : the complete work of Eric Ravilious, September 1939-September 1942 / edited by Anne Ullmann ; with contributions from Barry and Saria Viney, Christopher Whittick and Simon Lawrence ; and a foreword by Brian Sewell.

Creator:: Ravilious, Eric William, 1903–1942
Date:: 2002
Physical Description:: 283 p. : ill. ; 25 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

137. Racing at home and abroad : an authoritative treatise on racing in four volumes / by Charles Richardson, the Hon. George Lambton, H.A. Brown, Lieut.-Col. F.F. Maccabe, Thomas E. Healy, and other well-known writers ; original paintings and drawings by Major G.D. Giles, Lynwood Palmer, Alfred Bright, & Charles Simpson.

Creator:: London & Counties Press Association Limited
Date:: [1923?]
Physical Description:: [4] p. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

138. Going, going ... gone! : [prospectus] / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

Creator:: King, Ronald, 1932–
Date:: [2013]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : illustration ; 26 x 45 cm, folded to 26 x 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ronald King

139. Prospectus of a work now ready for the press, which under the title of Hibernia, proposes to treat, in an ample manner, of the ecclesiastical, topographical, and monastic antiquities of Ireland : by W. Monck Mason, Esq.

Creator:: Nichols, firm, printers (London, England)
Date:: [ca. 1818?]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

140. The Polygraphic Society, to the patrons and admirers of the polite arts.

Creator:: Polygraphic Society (London, England)
Date:: ca. 1789.]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

141. To be published by subscription, a treatise on theology written by Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson ... : to which will be added a letter from her to her daughter on the principles of the Christian religion : also the life of Mrs. Hutchinson written by herself, a fragment : from the original manuscripts.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1816?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

142. On December 1, 1814, will be published, dedicated by permission, to His Grace the Duke of Wellington, No. I of a highly embellished, splendid, and interesting work, to be entitled, The martial achievements of Great Britain and her allies, from the year 1800 to 1814 : illustrated with accurate representations of the numerous glorious victories in which they have been engaged : accompanied with the Gazette and other official documents of the defeats of their enemies.

Creator:: Jenkins, James, 1753–1831
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

143. Landseer. [Editado por Cândido Guinle de Paula Machado. Texto de Alberto Rangel.]

Creator:: Landseer, Charles, 1799 or 1800–1879
Date:: 1972]
Physical Description:: 162 p. (chiefly col. illus. part fold.) 40 x 41 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

144. In the course of the present month, will be published Part I. of Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions by Edmund Lodge, ESQ. Lancaster Herald, F.S.A. author of the biographical tracts attached to the "Holbein Heads."

Creator:: Lackington, Allen and Co
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 7, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

145. Prospectus for publishing by subscription : A work consisting of original academical studies from the human figure : and historical compositions selected from the works of the English School : interspersed with specimens from the Italian masters, particularly Raffaello d'Urbino ... / by James Minasi ...

Creator:: Whittingham and Rowland
Date:: [1812?]
Physical Description:: [4] p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

146. Domestic manners of the Americans / by Mrs. Trollope.

Creator:: Trollope, Frances Milton, 1780–1863
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

147. Sixteen contemporary wood engravers : a collection of wood engravings printed from the original blocks to accompany an exhibition.

Date:: 1982
Physical Description:: [3], 16, [1] leaves : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

148. Going, going ... gone! / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

Creator:: King, Ronald, 1932–
Date:: 2013
Physical Description:: 7 folded leaves in portfolio : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

149. Proposals for publishing by subscription, a series of engravings of the principal military achievements of the British Army in Portugal : under the command of Lieut. General Lord Viscount Wellington.

Creator:: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co
Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

150. The burning of the books : a poem sequence / by George Szirtes ; based on Elias Canetti's novel "Auto da Fé ; illustrated by Ron King.

Creator:: Szirtes, George, 1948–
Date:: 2008
Physical Description:: 1 portfolio (unpaged, unbound) : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

151. On the 1st of February, 1814, was published, no. I, price two shillings, of The new monthly magazine.

Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([4] pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

152. In the press and speedily will be published, in two volumes, royal quarto, with superb embellishments, an historical survey of the country of Cornwall by C.S. Gilbert.

Creator:: Congdon, John
Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

153. Picturesque tour of the Seine, from Paris to the sea : with particulars historical and descriptive / by M. Sauvan ; illustrated with twenty-four highly finished and coloured engravings, from drawings by A. Pugin and J. Gendall ; and accompanied by a map.

Creator:: Sauvan, Jean-Baptiste-Balthazar
Date:: MDCCCXXI [1821]
Physical Description:: [2], viii, 177 pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

154. Proposals for printing in weekly numbers, Eden, or, a compleat body of curious and useful gardening.

Creator:: T. Osborne and J. Shipton (Firm)
Date:: August 21, 1756
Physical Description:: 4 pages ; 44 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

155. The Highgrove florilegium : MMVIII [prospectus].

Date:: [2008]
Physical Description:: 1 v. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

156. Nearly ready for publication, price eighteen shillings, Bertram : a poetical tale in four cantos by Sir Egerton Brydger, Bart. K.J. M.P.

Creator:: Private Press of Lee Priory
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

157. The heart of the flute / Marco Antonio Montes de Oca ; translated by Laura Villaseñor ; introduction by Octavio Paz.

Creator:: Montes de Oca, Marco Antonio, 1932–2009
Date:: c1978
Physical Description:: [10], 60 p. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

158. Patrick Procktor : prints 1959-1985.

Creator:: Procktor, Patrick, 1936–2003
Date:: 1985
Physical Description:: 144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.

159. Proposals for publishing a picturesque voyage round Great Britain : illustrated with coloured engravings by William Daniell : to commence with a picturesque voyage from Land's End, towards Anglesea.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

160. New medical journal : on the 1st of January, 1814, will be published, in 8vo, no. I, to be continued monthly, of The London medical, surgical, and pharmaceutical repository, or, The surgeon-apothecary's and apothecary's journal and review / conducted by George Man Burrows ... William Royston ... Anthony Todd Thomson ... Robert Masters Kerrison ; ... assisted by a society of general practitioners.

Date:: [1813]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([3] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

161. Code of health and longevity : the third edition : in one volume, octavo / by the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart.

Creator:: Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754–1835
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: 2, 3, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

162. Mr. Bowyer's prospectus of a splendid national portrait of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, from an original picture painted by Thomas Lawrence ...

Creator:: Bowyer, Robert, 1758–1834
Date:: 1814]
Physical Description:: 2 p. ; 26 cm. (in case 33 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

163. Works by Mr. Ruskin / published by and to be had of George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent ... ; also to be obtained from the principal booksellers ...

Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: 12 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

164. The testament of Charlotte B. / edited & introduced by Marius Kociejowski ; decorated by Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Biggs, Charlotte, d. 1827
Date:: 1988
Physical Description:: 68 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

165. Themes in aquatint / Colin Franklin.

Creator:: Franklin, Colin
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: vii, 103 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

166. In the press, and speedily will be published, The history of Richard the Third, King of England. etc., composed in five books by Sir George Buck : now first printed entire from the original ms. in the possession of the editor : with an appendix of notes and documents by Charles Yarnold, Esq.

Creator:: Rees, Richard (Publisher)
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: [1] page ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

167. Prospectus of a national work entitled Albyn's anthology, or, a select collection of the more ancient melodies, and vocal poetry, of the lowland and highland districts of Scotland and the Isles, hitherto unpublished.

Creator:: Campbell, Alexander, 1764–1824
Date:: [1815?]
Physical Description:: [4] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

168. The legal and literary journal, and mercantile magazine : to be continued monthly, and number three to be published January 1st, 1814 / conducted by John Williams, Esq., author of the Laws of trade and Commerce, &c. &c. ; assisted by several literary and commercial gentlemen.

Creator:: Williams, John, Esq
Date:: December 15, 1813
Physical Description:: [1] sheet ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

169. Prospectus of a work of engravings of twelve in number upon the scale of Sir Robert Strange's largest works : and of a smaller work, consisting of fifteen portraits, or single figures, on the scale of Vandyke's Book of Heads : to be executed by the most eminent artists of the present period : both works to be under the direction of William Buchanan, Esq.

Creator:: Buchanan, William, 1777–1864
Date:: 1813
Physical Description:: 8, [1] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

170. Prospectus of a work entitled The costume of the original inhabitants of the British islands. By Samuel Rush Meyrick ... and Charles Hamilton Smith, esq.

Creator:: Meyrick, Samuel Rush, 1783–1848
Date:: [ca. 1814]
Physical Description:: broadside. 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

171. In the press, and speedily will be published, The dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations, by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed a history of the language and an English grammar by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. : with numerous corrections, and with the addition of many thousand words, by the Rev. Henry J. Todd.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

172. Prospectus du Voyage pittoresque de l'Italie.

Creator:: Saint Non, Jean Claude Richard de, 1727–1791
Date:: [1778]
Physical Description:: 6 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

173. Anish Kapoor : Wound.

Creator:: IvoryPress
Date:: 2005
Physical Description:: 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elena Foster

174. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland : to be engraved by Thomas Milton, from original drawings, by the best masters.

Date:: November 25, 1782
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 24 x 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

175. Preparing for Re-publication. Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum : The history of the ancient abbies, monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales. Also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries ... / By the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel ...

Creator:: Harding, J. (John)
Date:: 1812]
Physical Description:: 3, [1] p. ; 27 cm. (in case 43 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

176. Nearly ready for publication, in two volumes ... An inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving on copper and wood : with an account of the most ancient engravers and their works, from the earliest period, to the middle of the sixteenth century : comprising observations on some of the first books ornaments with wood-cuts : by William Young Ottley, F.A.S.

Date:: 1816
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

177. Metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated by Mary M. Innes ; illustrations by Richard Shirley Smith.

Creator:: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
Date:: 1995
Physical Description:: xxix, 350 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.

178. This day are published, in three volumes, quarto, price £7:7s. boards, illustrated with 74 plates, printed chiefly from his manuscripts, under the direction of a select committee of civil engineers, Reports, estimates, and treatises, embracing the several subjects of canals, navigable rivers, harbours, piers, bridges, draining, embanking, lighthouses, machinery of various descriptions including fire engines, mills, &c. &c. with other miscellaneous papers drawn up in the course of his employment as a civil engineer, by the late Mr. John Smeaton, F.R.S.

Date:: [1812]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

179. Edes and Gill's North American Almanack.

Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

180. Proposals for publishing by subscription the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorised version, accompanied with a new translation, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts.

Creator:: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:: [1817]
Physical Description:: 2, [2] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

181. Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte pendant l'éxpedition du Général Bonaparte. Par le citoyen Denon ... : Prospectus ...

Creator:: Didot, Pierre, l'Aîné
Date:: 1801]
Physical Description:: 13 p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

182. Album.

Date:: 1970-[1971]
Physical Description:: 12 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

183. A series of etchings illustrative of the architectural antiquities of Suffolk : accompanied with an historical index / the whole drawn and etched by Henry Davy ...

Creator:: Davy, Henry, active 1829
Date:: 1827
Physical Description:: [4], 12 pages, [70] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 47 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

184. Intervention and audience / Stephen Willats.

Creator:: Willats, Stephen, 1943–
Date:: 1984
Physical Description:: [8] p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

185. This day is published, in a thick 8vo volumes of upwards of one thousand pages, price twenty shillings extra boards, or twenty-two shillings calf gilt, Pietas Londinensis : the history, design, and present state of the various public charities in and near London : in six parts, by A. Highmore, Esq., Ely Place, author of "The law of Mortmain and charitable uses, &c."

Creator:: Craddock & Joy
Date:: 1814
Physical Description:: 3, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

186. Prospectus and specimens of the wood engravings which will accompany the text of the Oriental album; or Historical, pictorial and ethnographical sketches illustrating the human families in the valley of the Nile. Their costumes, usages, habits, modes of life ... By E. Prisse, Esq. ...

Date:: 1847
Physical Description:: 4 p. ill. 58 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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101. Rural sports, a poem, by William Somerville, author of "The Chase" : to be published, by subscription, by R. Ackermann, No. 101, Strand.

102. Virtuoso--advt.

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

104. Daniel King Circle Press archive, 1967-2003.

105. Just published, (no. I), price one guinea, a selection of Hebrew melodies, with appropriate symphonies and accompaniments by Mr. Braham and Mr. Nathan : the poetry written expressly for the work, by the Right Honourable Lord Bryon.

106. A history of Madeira : with a series of twenty-seven coloured engravings, illustrative of the costumes, manners, and occupations of the inhabitants of that island.

107. To be published by subscription, two coloured engravings, with descriptive letter-press, of the procession and ceremony of the installation of the Knights of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, from the drawings by Mr. Frederic Nash.

108. Prospectus, address, and list of subscribers, to The Vitruvius britannicus. By P.F. Robinson ...

109. Sir, there is a scheme set on foot for erecting a publick academy for the improvement of the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture ...

110. A Venetian story / by Lord Byron ; with illustrations from eighteenth century copper-plate engravings selected and introduced by Eleanor M. Garvey and Philip Hofer.

111. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A series of prints exhibiting the most interesting scenes in London and Westminster : drawn from the most striking points of view, and executed in aquatinta, by T. Malton, Jun.

112. [Prospectus for Susan Allix's Sea Air : prints of the sea with poetic interludes and interventions].

113. Marc Quinn : Thames River water atlas.

115. Mémories du Muséum d'histoire naturelle par les professeurs de cet établissement.

116. Proposals for publishing by subscription four prints : dedicated (by permission) to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, representing views of the action between the Java and the Constitution.

118. Bibliotheca Peirsoniana, or, Catalogue raisonné : (adapted to serve as a perpetual Vade mecum for young clergy-men and students in Divinity) of the very valuable and extensive library of the Rev. Thomas Peirson, D.D. Senior Minster of the Established English Church, in the City of Amsterdam.

120. Prospectus of a new edition of The history of Kent.

121. William Kentridge : Tummelplatz.

122. Prospectus of A general history of the County of York. By Thomas Dunham Whitaker ...

123. Proposals for publishing by subscription, two prints, from pictures painted expressly to commemorate the glorious victories of Vittoria and the Pyrenees.

124. To be published by subscription, A collection of select views in Great Britain : from pictures and drawings by the most eminent artists : to be engraved by S. Middiman.

125. In the press, and speedily will be published, part I of Archaica, containing a reprint of scarce Old English tracts, with prefaces and notes, critical and biographical.

127. Prospectus. The history of Little Johnny, the foundling of the late Doctor Syntax : a poem in eight monthly numbers.

129. Narrative of a journey to the falls of the Cavery : with an historical and descriptive account of the Neilgherry hills / by Lieutenant H. Jervis.

130. Perfect and imperfect enjoyments : poems / by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester ; with an introduction by Christopher Hibbert ; and illustrated with paintings by Richard Shirley Smith.

131. Proposals for publishing by subscription, Elements of chemical science, as applied to the arts and manufactures, and natural phaenomena, by J. Murray, "corresponding" member of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, member of the Norwich Philosophical Society, &c.

132. Orme's collection of British field sports : illustrated in twenty beautifully coloured engravings from designs by S. Howitt.

133. Avis aux souscripteurs : sur cette dernière livraison du Voyage pittoresque

135. Prospectus of a new general atlas.

136. Ravilious at war : the complete work of Eric Ravilious, September 1939-September 1942 / edited by Anne Ullmann ; with contributions from Barry and Saria Viney, Christopher Whittick and Simon Lawrence ; and a foreword by Brian Sewell.

138. Going, going ... gone! : [prospectus] / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

139. Prospectus of a work now ready for the press, which under the title of Hibernia, proposes to treat, in an ample manner, of the ecclesiastical, topographical, and monastic antiquities of Ireland : by W. Monck Mason, Esq.

140. The Polygraphic Society, to the patrons and admirers of the polite arts.

141. To be published by subscription, a treatise on theology written by Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson ... : to which will be added a letter from her to her daughter on the principles of the Christian religion : also the life of Mrs. Hutchinson written by herself, a fragment : from the original manuscripts.

143. Landseer. [Editado por Cândido Guinle de Paula Machado. Texto de Alberto Rangel.]

146. Domestic manners of the Americans / by Mrs. Trollope.

147. Sixteen contemporary wood engravers : a collection of wood engravings printed from the original blocks to accompany an exhibition.

148. Going, going ... gone! / verse by Richard Price ; illustrations by Ron King.

149. Proposals for publishing by subscription, a series of engravings of the principal military achievements of the British Army in Portugal : under the command of Lieut. General Lord Viscount Wellington.

150. The burning of the books : a poem sequence / by George Szirtes ; based on Elias Canetti's novel "Auto da Fé ; illustrated by Ron King.

151. On the 1st of February, 1814, was published, no. I, price two shillings, of The new monthly magazine.

152. In the press and speedily will be published, in two volumes, royal quarto, with superb embellishments, an historical survey of the country of Cornwall by C.S. Gilbert.

153. Picturesque tour of the Seine, from Paris to the sea : with particulars historical and descriptive / by M. Sauvan ; illustrated with twenty-four highly finished and coloured engravings, from drawings by A. Pugin and J. Gendall ; and accompanied by a map.

154. Proposals for printing in weekly numbers, Eden, or, a compleat body of curious and useful gardening.

155. The Highgrove florilegium : MMVIII [prospectus].

156. Nearly ready for publication, price eighteen shillings, Bertram : a poetical tale in four cantos by Sir Egerton Brydger, Bart. K.J. M.P.

157. The heart of the flute / Marco Antonio Montes de Oca ; translated by Laura Villaseñor ; introduction by Octavio Paz.

158. Patrick Procktor : prints 1959-1985.

159. Proposals for publishing a picturesque voyage round Great Britain : illustrated with coloured engravings by William Daniell : to commence with a picturesque voyage from Land's End, towards Anglesea.

161. Code of health and longevity : the third edition : in one volume, octavo / by the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart.

162. Mr. Bowyer's prospectus of a splendid national portrait of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, from an original picture painted by Thomas Lawrence ...

163. Works by Mr. Ruskin / published by and to be had of George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent ... ; also to be obtained from the principal booksellers ...

164. The testament of Charlotte B. / edited & introduced by Marius Kociejowski ; decorated by Richard Shirley Smith.

165. Themes in aquatint / Colin Franklin.

166. In the press, and speedily will be published, The history of Richard the Third, King of England. etc., composed in five books by Sir George Buck : now first printed entire from the original ms. in the possession of the editor : with an appendix of notes and documents by Charles Yarnold, Esq.

167. Prospectus of a national work entitled Albyn's anthology, or, a select collection of the more ancient melodies, and vocal poetry, of the lowland and highland districts of Scotland and the Isles, hitherto unpublished.

168. The legal and literary journal, and mercantile magazine : to be continued monthly, and number three to be published January 1st, 1814 / conducted by John Williams, Esq., author of the Laws of trade and Commerce, &c. &c. ; assisted by several literary and commercial gentlemen.

170. Prospectus of a work entitled The costume of the original inhabitants of the British islands. By Samuel Rush Meyrick ... and Charles Hamilton Smith, esq.

172. Prospectus du Voyage pittoresque de l'Italie.

173. Anish Kapoor : Wound.

174. Proposals for publishing by subscription, A collection of select views from the different seats of the nobility and gentry in the Kingdom of Ireland : to be engraved by Thomas Milton, from original drawings, by the best masters.

177. Metamorphoses / Ovid ; translated by Mary M. Innes ; illustrations by Richard Shirley Smith.

179. Edes and Gill's North American Almanack.

180. Proposals for publishing by subscription the Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorised version, accompanied with a new translation, and the original Hebrew and Greek texts.

181. Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte pendant l'éxpedition du Général Bonaparte. Par le citoyen Denon ... : Prospectus ...

182. Album.

183. A series of etchings illustrative of the architectural antiquities of Suffolk : accompanied with an historical index / the whole drawn and etched by Henry Davy ...

184. Intervention and audience / Stephen Willats.

186. Prospectus and specimens of the wood engravings which will accompany the text of the Oriental album; or Historical, pictorial and ethnographical sketches illustrating the human families in the valley of the Nile. Their costumes, usages, habits, modes of life ... By E. Prisse, Esq. ...