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1. 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."

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

2. Prospectus and catalogue of the British School : instituted for the perpetual exhibition and sale of the original works of modern artists : under the patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ...

Prospectus and catalogue of the British School : instituted for the perpetual exhibition and sale of the original works of modern artists : under the patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ...
Creator:
British School
Date:
1802
Physical Description:
45 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The architectural antiquities of Great Britain : represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of various ancient English edifices : with historical and descriptive accounts of each / by John Britton.

The architectural antiquities of Great Britain : represented and illustrated in a series of views, elevations, plans, sections, and details, of various ancient English edifices : with historical and descriptive accounts of each / by John Britton.
Creator:
Britton, John, 1771-1857
Date:
1807-1826
Physical Description:
5 v. : ill., plans ; 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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.

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

5. Skute Awabo [Awabo Skute] / written, designed and printed by Ken Campbell, London 1992.

Skute Awabo [Awabo Skute] / written, designed and printed by Ken Campbell, London 1992.
Creator:
Campbell, Ken, 1939-2022
Date:
1992
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 51 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The Waterloo banquet at Apsley House / by William Salter.

The Waterloo banquet at Apsley House / by William Salter.
Creator:
Moon, Francis Graham, 1796-1871
Date:
[1846?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 29 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Proposals for publishing by subscription, original poems : with translations from the French, Italian, and Spanish : and a play, in five acts : by Charlotte Nooth, daughter to the late James Nooth, Esq. ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Nooth, Charlotte
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1822?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Proposals for publishing by subscription, twelve engravings of a series of views, of interesting scenes and achievements of the British Army in Spain and Portugal : under the command of His Excellency Lieutenant General the Marquis of Wellington, &c. &c. &c. : from original drawings made on the spot, by Major St. Clair, 21st Portuguese Infantry, and Captain Royal Scotts ; engraved by C. Turner ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1811?]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Bligh's voyage in the Resource from Coupang to Batavia : together with the log of his subsequent passage to England in the Dutch Vlydt Packet : and his remarks on Morrison's Journal : all printed for the first time from the manuscripts in the Mitchell Library of New South Wales : with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter : The Golden Cockerel Press 1937.

No cover image available
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Prospectus of an improved mode of delineating estates.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hornor, Thomas, 1785-1844
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
[1], 6 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. This day is published, The morbid anatomy of the liver : being an inquiry into the anatomical character, symptoms, and treatment of certain diseases which impair or destroy the structure of that viscus : order 1, tumours, part I, on the Tubera Circumscripta and Tubera Diffusa : in imperial quarto, illustrated by coloured engravings, price 15s. : by J.R. Farre, M.D.

No cover image available
Date:
[1812]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. In the press, and to be published immediately, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, dedicated by permission, to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, the entire works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Sir Thomas Wyatt, the elder, by G.F. Nott, D.D.F.S.A., late fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

No cover image available
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Historical epitome of the several counties and islands in the United Kingdom : the county of Southampton forming the second volume of this work, is now in immediate preparation, and will be published within six calendar months of this date ... / the work will be illustrated ... by C. Greenwood, author of the large atlas of the counties of England and Wales, &c., under whose superintendence and management this work is conducted.

No cover image available
Creator:
Greenwood, C. (Christopher), 1786-1855
Date:
1838?]
Physical Description:
[4] p. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. In the course of the ensuing winter will be published, a reprint of the Morte d'Arthur.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
[1816?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Prospectus and specimen of an history of marine architecture : drawn from the best authorities, and chronologically deduced from the earliest period to the present time ; illustrated by upwards of one hundred plates : exhibiting at least a thousand figures : accurately engraved by the most eminent artists : in three volumes Royal Quarto / by John Charnock, Esq.

No cover image available
Creator:
Charnock, John, 1756-1807
Date:
1796
Physical Description:
[2], 20, 2 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. 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."

No cover image available
Creator:
Lackington, Allen and Co
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
2, 3, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Somerville, William, 1675-1742
Date:
June 1, 1812
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Prospectus of a work, (the first part of which will be published on the first of August next) to be entitled, The interregnum; or A history of the civil wars in Great Britain, from their commencement, in the seventeenth year of King Charles I. to the restoration of King Charles II. By John Aikin, M. D.

No cover image available
Date:
between 1812 and 1819]
Physical Description:
2 p. 27 cm. (in case 29 cm.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Specimens of James Nisbet & Company's illustrated books.

No cover image available
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
[4] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Preparing for publication, Des. Erasimi Rot. Concio de puero Iesu : olim pronunciata a puero in schola Iohannis Coleti Londini instituta in qua praesidebat imago pueri Iesu docentis specie : Editio nova : Londoni, Typis I. et I.B. Nichols, et S. Bentley, MDCCCXV.

No cover image available
Date:
September, 1815
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. 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.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758-1842
Date:
[1800]
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Szirtes, George, 1948-
Date:
2008
Physical Description:
1 portfolio (unpaged, unbound) : ill. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
Date:
[1814]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([4] pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
October 1, 1783
Physical Description:
[1] sheet ([1] p.) ; 26 x 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
[1814?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A prospectus, &c. of the British School : His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, patron.

No cover image available
Creator:
British School
Date:
[1802?]
Physical Description:
20 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The late Earl of Beaconsfield.

No cover image available
Creator:
Belt, Richard Claude, 1851-1920
Date:
[1881?]
Physical Description:
[4] p. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. John Christie archive, 1975-1995.

No cover image available
Creator:
Christie, John, 1945-
Date:
1975-1995
Physical Description:
1 linear foot (2 boxes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Christie

32. On the 1st of May next, will be published, by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, price £1:11:6, elegantly coloured, a series of original designs for shop-fronts by William Davison, architect.

No cover image available
Date:
[1816]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Ken Campbell archive, 1975-2003.

No cover image available
Creator:
Campbell, Ken, 1939-2022
Date:
1975-2003
Physical Description:
30 linear feet
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ken Campbell

34. Richard Long : Walking and sleeping.

No cover image available
Creator:
IvoryPress
Date:
[2004]
Physical Description:
12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ivorypress

35. [Prospectus for Susan Allix's Small cakes : a selection containing brief histories, ingredients and recipes, poetic anecdotes and visual decorations].

No cover image available
Creator:
Allix, Susan, 1943-
Date:
2018
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([3] pages) : color photographs ; 12 x 32 cm, folded to 12 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.

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

No cover image available
Creator:
Szirtes, George, 1948-
Date:
2008
Physical Description:
[8] p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
[1812]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Intervention and audience / Stephen Willats.

No cover image available
Creator:
Willats, Stephen, 1943-
Date:
1984
Physical Description:
[8] p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
[June 1, 1812]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
[1822?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. The life of James the Second, King of England : collected out of memoirs writ of his own hand : also, King James's advice to his son : and that monarch's last will, dated November 17, 1688 : the whole to be edited, by order of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, by the Rev. J.S. Clarke, L.L.B. F.R.S., historiographer to the King, chaplain of the household and librarian to His Royal Highness.

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
[1] page ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Proposals for publishing by subscription, the History of the Kings of England from the arrival of the Saxons A.D. 449, to his own times, A.D. 1143 : by William of Malmsbury, collated with authentic mss. and translated from the original Latin with a preface, notes, and an index, by the Rev. John Sharpe, B.A. ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
Dec.15, 1813
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

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

No cover image available
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.

44. Anish Kapoor : Wound.

No cover image available
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

45. 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.

No cover image available
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. [Prospectus for Tracey Bush's artist book Dusk : British Moths].

No cover image available
Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Date:
[2016]
Physical Description:
1 print : illustrations ; 14 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk