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1. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

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Creator:
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, [60] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A collection of prints illustrative of English scenery, from the drawings and sketches of Thos. Gainsborough, R.A. : in the various collections of the Right Honourable Baroness Lucas, Viscount Palmerston, George Hibbert, Esq., Dr. Monro, and several other gentlemen.

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Creator:
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788
Date:
[1819?]
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, [60] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 43 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The young artist's companion, or, Drawing-book of studies and landscape embellishments : comprising a great variety of the most picturesque objects required in the various compositions of landscape scenery, arranged as progressive lessons / by David Cox , author of 'A treatise on landscape-painting and effect in water-colours,' &c. &c.

The young artist's companion, or, Drawing-book of studies and landscape embellishments : comprising a great variety of the most picturesque objects required in the various compositions of landscape scenery, arranged as progressive lessons / by David Cox , author of 'A treatise on landscape-painting and effect in water-colours,' &c. &c.
Creator:
Cox, David, 1783-1859
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[2], 15 p., 64 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Antiquities of London and its environs / engraved and published by John Thomas Smith ; dedicated to Sir James Winter Lake ... ; containing views of houses, monuments, statues, and other curious remains of antiquity engraved from original drawings, communicated by several members of the Society of Antiquaries ; with remarks and references to the historical works of Pennant, Lysons, Stowe, Weaver, Camden, Maitland, &c.

Antiquities of London and its environs / engraved and published by John Thomas Smith ; dedicated to Sir James Winter Lake ... ; containing views of houses, monuments, statues, and other curious remains of antiquity engraved from original drawings, communicated by several members of the Society of Antiquaries ; with remarks and references to the historical works of Pennant, Lysons, Stowe, Weaver, Camden, Maitland, &c.
Creator:
Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833
Date:
1791-[1800]
Physical Description:
[96] leaves : chiefly ill., ports. ; 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A collection of portraits sketched from the life since the year 1793 / by George Dance ... ; and engraved in imitation of the original drawings by William Daniell ...

A collection of portraits sketched from the life since the year 1793 / by George Dance ... ; and engraved in imitation of the original drawings by William Daniell ...
Creator:
Dance, George, 1741-1825
Date:
1809-1814
Physical Description:
2 v. : 72 ports. ; 47 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Herman W. Liebert

6. Progressive lessons tending to elucidate the character of trees : with the process of sketching, and painting them in water colours / by Ls. Francia, member of the Liverpool Academy, painter in water colours to H.R.H. the Dutchess of York, and secretary to the Associated Painters in Water Colours.

Progressive lessons tending to elucidate the character of trees : with the process of sketching, and painting them in water colours / by Ls. Francia, member of the Liverpool Academy, painter in water colours to H.R.H. the Dutchess of York, and secretary to the Associated Painters in Water Colours.
Creator:
Francia, François-Thomas-Louis, 1772-1839
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
[24] p., 1, [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The beauties & defects in the figure of the horse / comparatively delineated by H. Alken in a series of coloured plates.

The beauties & defects in the figure of the horse / comparatively delineated by H. Alken in a series of coloured plates.
Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
[1816]
Physical Description:
2, [18] pages, 19 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A description of the correct method of waltzing : the truly fashionable species of dancing. That, from the graceful and pleasing beauty of its movements, has obtained on ascendancy over every other department of that polite branch of education. Part I. Containing a correct explanatory description of the several movements and attitudes in German and French waltzing / by Thomas Wilson , dance-master, (from the King's Theatre, Opera House. Author of "The analysis of country dancing," "The treasures of Terpischore," and a variety of other works on music and dancing. Illustrated by engravings, from original designs and drawings, by J.H.A. Randall.

A description of the correct method of waltzing : the truly fashionable species of dancing. That, from the graceful and pleasing beauty of its movements, has obtained on ascendancy over every other department of that polite branch of education. Part I. Containing a correct explanatory description of the several movements and attitudes in German and French waltzing / by Thomas Wilson , dance-master, (from the King's Theatre, Opera House. Author of "The analysis of country dancing," "The treasures of Terpischore," and a variety of other works on music and dancing. Illustrated by engravings, from original designs and drawings, by J.H.A. Randall.
Creator:
Wilson, Thomas, dancing master
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
[2], lxi, [62]-113, [5] leaves, [7] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., music ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. 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.

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

10. The principles of drawing and painting : laid down in the most easy and simple manner, according to the practice of the best masters : with a view to the instruction of youth in this useful and elegant art : with twenty-eight copperplates, after Volpato, Vandyke, Morland, &c. / engraved by Mitchell.

The principles of drawing and painting : laid down in the most easy and simple manner, according to the practice of the best masters : with a view to the instruction of youth in this useful and elegant art : with twenty-eight copperplates, after Volpato, Vandyke, Morland, &c. / engraved by Mitchell.
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
20 p., 28 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on seventy-two copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practice / by the author of The artist's assistant.

The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on seventy-two copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practice / by the author of The artist's assistant.
Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
[2], 16 p., [72] leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. 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.

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

13. The draughtsman's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : features and limbs, profiles and ovals, whole figures, drapery, light and shade, landscapes, perspective, enlarging and contracting, imitation of life, &c. &c. : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs : neatly engraved on seventy-two copper plates : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on designs, as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.

The draughtsman's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : features and limbs, profiles and ovals, whole figures, drapery, light and shade, landscapes, perspective, enlarging and contracting, imitation of life, &c. &c. : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs : neatly engraved on seventy-two copper plates : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on designs, as well in regard to theory as practise / by the author of The artist's assistant.
Creator:
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793
Date:
[ca. 1801]
Physical Description:
[2], 16 p., [72] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The costume of China : illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings / by William Alexander.

The costume of China : illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings / by William Alexander.
Creator:
Alexander, William, 1767-1816
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
[10] pages, [48] leaves, [48] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Sketches representing the native tribes, animals, and scenery of southern Africa / from drawings made by the late Mr. Samuel Daniell, engraved by William Daniell.

Sketches representing the native tribes, animals, and scenery of southern Africa / from drawings made by the late Mr. Samuel Daniell, engraved by William Daniell.
Creator:
Daniell, Samuel, 1775-1811
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
[6] p., 48 leaves, [48] leaves of plates : ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. An essay on trees in landscape, or, An attempt to shew the propriety and importance of characteristic expression in this branch of art, and the means of producing it, with examples / by Edward Kennion.

An essay on trees in landscape, or, An attempt to shew the propriety and importance of characteristic expression in this branch of art, and the means of producing it, with examples / by Edward Kennion.
Creator:
Kennion, E
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
x, 48 p., L, [II] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Studies of cottages and rural scenery : drawn and etched in imitation of chalk / by Samuel Prout ; the work will consist of four numbers, to be published monthly, commencing the first of May, 1816 ; and is intended as a companion to the 'Studies of boats and coast scenery', also contained in four numbers by the same artist, just published.

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Creator:
Prout, Samuel, 1783-1852
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
4 pts : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Process of sketching a landscape.

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Creator:
Laporte, John, 1761-1839
Date:
1805
Physical Description:
[4] leaves : all ill. ; 34 x 48 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804
Date:
1789
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Throwing off, not so easy / Hy. Alken delt.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Lewina the maid of Snowdon. A tale. By George Cumberland. With etchings by the author.

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Creator:
Cumberland, George, 1754-1848
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
1 p. ., 32 p., 1 leaf. plate. 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les années 1803, 1804, 1805 et 1806 : par les ordres de Sa Majesté Impériale, Alexandre Ier, Empereur de Russie, sur les vaisseaux la Nadriedjeda et la Neva / commandés par M. de Krusenstern, traduit de l'aveu et avec des additions de l'auteur ; la traduction revué par M. J.-B-B. Eyriès.

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Creator:
Kruzenshtern, Ivan Fedorovich, 1770-1846
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A few ideas, caught on Easter Monday.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

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Creator:
Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756-1823
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Rudiments of landscape in progressive studies / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by Samuel Prout.

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Creator:
Prout, Samuel, 1783-1852
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
iv, 26 p., 64 leaves of plates : ill. ; 33 x 48 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Moments of fancy and whim / by Henry Alken.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
14 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 29 x 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

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Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
ii p., 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Recueil d'essais lithographiques dans les differents genres de dessin tels que manière de crayon, de la plume, du pinceau et de lavis / exécutés par le procédé de G. Engelmann, directeur de la Société lithographique de Mulhouse.

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Creator:
Engelmann, G. (Godefroy), 1788-1839
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
[10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Ideas, accidental and incidental to hunting and other sports : caught in Leicestershire, &c. / by Henry Alken.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
[1830]
Physical Description:
[2] p., [42] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Travels in the western Caucasus, including a tour through Imeritia, Mingrelia, Turkey, Moldavia, Galicia, Silesia, and Moravia, in 1836. By Edmund Spencer ...

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Creator:
Spencer, Edmund
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
2 v. fronts., ill. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. [Sporting dogs].

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
[6] prints : soft-ground etchings ; plate marks 13 x 20 cm, on sheets 14 x 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. A touch at the fine arts : illustrated by twelve plates, with descriptions / by Henry Alken.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[16] leaves, 12 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Sketches of cattle : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
[1819]
Physical Description:
[2] pt. : all ill. ; 28 x 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The history of Buxton : and visitor's guide to the curiosities of the Peak, including a descriptive itinerary of excursions usually made, and a set of botanical tables exhibiting the places of growth, &c. of the most remarkable plants found wild in the neighbourhood of Buxton / by A. Jewitt ...

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Creator:
Jewitt, A. (Arthur)
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
vii, [2], 12-222, xxvii, [3] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Involuntary thoughts.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
1823-1824
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Illustrations to popular songs / by Henry Alken.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[2] leaves, [43] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. A few ideas : being hints to all would-be whips.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Sketches of animals from nature / etched by George Garrard.

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Creator:
Garrard, George, 1760-1826
Date:
March 1st, 1794
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 30 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. A series of easy lessons in landscape drawing : contained in forty plates, arranged progressively from the first principles in the chalk manner to the finished landscape colours / by Samuel Prout.

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Creator:
Prout, Samuel, 1783-1852
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
4 p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Easy lessons in landscape drawing : contained in forty plates, arranged progressively, from the first principles in the chalk manner to the finished landscape colours / by Samuel Prout.

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Creator:
Prout, Samuel, 1783-1852
Date:
[1819]
Physical Description:
40 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Sketches from nature / by G. Morland.

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Creator:
Morland, George, 1763-1804
Date:
1796-1797
Physical Description:
2 pts. (6, 4 leaves) : all ill. ; 23 x 32-27 x 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. Studies from nature : arranged as progressive lessons for instruction in the art of drawing landscape / drawn and engraved by William Orme.

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Creator:
Orme, William, active 1797-1819
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
[22] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. William Orme's Rudiments of landscape drawing, and perspective / dedicated to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c. &c.

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Creator:
Orme, William, active 1797-1819
Date:
[1802]
Physical Description:
[2], [19], [2], 3 leaves : chiefly ill. ; 33 x 48 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. A series of progressive lessons : intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours : with introductory illustrations on perspective.

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Creator:
Cox, David, 1783-1859
Date:
1820
Physical Description:
30 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. A practical essay on the art of colouring and painting landscapes in water colours : accompanied with ten engravings / by John Heaviside Clark.

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Creator:
Clark, John Heaviside, approximately 1770-1863
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
25 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The progress of a water-coloured drawing : wherein is represented to the Learner the various gradation through which a drawing passes from the outline to its finished state : this work, consisting of fourteen tinted lessons, imitative of the original drawings which were made for the purpose of it by John Laporte ...

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Creator:
Laporte, John, 1761-1839
Date:
[ca. 1811]
Physical Description:
vii, [22] p., [1], 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. Thirty-two etchings of cattle, &c. &c. / by Thomas Harvey, Esq. ; not published.

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Creator:
Harvey, Thomas, 1748-1820
Date:
[approximately 1811?]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [32] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Sketches illustrative of picturesque scenery of Norfolk / drawn and engraved by Robt. Dixon.

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Creator:
Dixon, R. J., 1780-1815
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
[36] leaves : all ill. ; 25 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Landscape animals : in a series of progressive studies / W.M. Craig.

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Creator:
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
[2], 6 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 30 x 48 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Progressive lessons in drawings / by J. Powell, No. 14 Allsops buildings, New Road, Marylebone.

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Creator:
Powell, Joseph, 1780-1834
Date:
1820-1821
Physical Description:
3 volumes : all illustrations ; 23 x 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Thirty-five years in the East : adventures, discoveries, experiements, and historical sketches, relating to the Punjab and Cashmere : in connection with medicine, botany, pharmacy, etc. : together with an original materia medica; and a medical vocabulary, in four European and five eastern languages / by John Martin Honigberger ...

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Creator:
Honigberger, John Martin, 1795-1869
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Four subjects of horses / drawn by Alken and engraved by Sutherland.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[4] plates : chiefly ill ; 36 x 53 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Symptoms of being amused. Vol. 1 / by Hy. Alken.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [42] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 x 36 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The history and antiquities of Shrewsbury : from its first foundation to the present time : comprising a recital of occurrences and remarkable events for above twelve hundred years : with an appendix containing several particulars relative to castles, monasteries, &c. in Shropshire / by Thomas Phillips.

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Creator:
Phillips, Thomas, d. 1815
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. W.H. Pyne on rustic figures : in imitation of chalk.

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Creator:
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
ii, 36 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29-33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

56. Going home, apology for damage done / Hy. Alken delt.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The melange of humour : a series of fifty coloured engravings, comprising a great variety of comic subjects / by the most popular artists of the present day.

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Date:
[1824?]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, [50] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. The history of Java / by Thomas Stamford Raffles, Esq., late Lieut.-Governor of that Island and its dependencies, F.R.S. and A.S., member of that Asiatic Society at Calcutta, Honorary Member of the Literary Society at Bombay, and late President of the Society of Arts and Science at Batavia ; in two volumes ; with a map and plates.

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Creator:
Raffles, Thomas Stamford, Sir, 1781-1826
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. [Drawing book of trees]

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Creator:
Laporte, John, 1761-1839
Date:
1821.]
Physical Description:
[32] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. A new drawing book, in the manner of chalk : containing twelve views in the west of England as follows : Glastonbury, Tavistock, ditto, Lynmouth, Exmouth, East-Bourne, Ide, ditto, Chagford, Exeter, Pennycross, Dartmoor / drawn and engraved by Samuel Prout.

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Creator:
Prout, Samuel, 1783-1852
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Specimens of riding near London / drawn from life by Henry Alken.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
[3] pt. : all ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Studies of landscapes : by T. Gainsborough, J. Hoppner, R. A., T. Girtin, Wm. Owen R.A., A. Callcot, A.S. Owen, J. Varley, J.S. Hayward, and L. Francia / imitated from the originals by L. Francia.

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Creator:
Francia, François Louis Thomas, 1772-1839
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
[34] leaves plates : all ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. Picturesque scenery in the Holy Land and Syria : delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800 / by F.B. Spilsbury ...

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Creator:
Spilsbury, F. B. (Francis B.)
Date:
1803
Physical Description:
[4], iv, 42, [2] pages, [1], 1, II-X, XII, XII, XIV, XIV, 18, [1], XVII, 20, XVI leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. Illustrations for landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, 24 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. The three voyages of Captain James Cook round the world : complete in seven volumes : with map and other plates.

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Creator:
Cook, James, 1728-1779
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
7 v. in 6 : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

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Creator:
Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756-1823
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. British galleries of painting and sculpture : comprising a general historical and critical catalogue, with separate notices of every work of fine art in the principal collections / by C.M. Westmacott.

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Creator:
Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy), 1787 or 1788-1868
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
viii, 240 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. Sporting notions / by H. Alken.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
[1831-1833]
Physical Description:
6 pt. : all col ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Going to hunt, an easy job / Hy. Alken delt.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. A drawing book of landscapes / by Benj. Green ; drawing master of Christ's Hospital.

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Creator:
Green, Benjamin, 1739-1798
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
[8] leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm. x 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Two essays : one on the author's mode of executing rough sketches : the other on the principles on which they are composed : to these are added three plates of figures by Sawrey Gilpin ... / by William Gilpin.

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
43 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Travels in Switzerland, and in the country of the Grisons : in a series of letters to William Melmoth, Esq. / from William Coxe, M.A. F.R.S. F.A.S. Rector of Bemerton; and domestic chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.

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Creator:
Coxe, William, 1747-1828
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. And a year ago, I commemorated a missed encounter--.

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Creator:
Bustin, Jane
Date:
2000
Physical Description:
[7] double leaves : ill. ; 35 x 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Facts and faces : being an enquiry into the connection between linear and mental portraiture : with a dissertation on personal and relative beauty / by Thomas Woolnoth.

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Creator:
Woolnoth, Thomas, 1785-
Date:
1854
Physical Description:
v, [2], 269 p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
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75. Narrative of a voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste, to the Yellow Sea, along the coast of Corea, and through its numerous hitherto undiscovered islands, to the Island of Lewchew : with an account of her shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar / by John M'Leod.

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Creator:
M'Leod, John, 1777?-1820
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
288 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. The history of Richmond in the county of York : including a description of the castle, friary, Caseby-Abbey and other remains of antiquity in the neighbourhood.

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Creator:
Clarkson, Christopher, 1758-1833
Date:
1814
Physical Description:
436 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Six studies from nature / drawn and etched in imitation of chalk by William Crotch.

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Creator:
Crotch, William, 1775-1847
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : all ill. ; 36 x 51 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. The progress of a water-coloured drawing : wherein is represented to the reader the various gradation through which a drawing passes : from the outline to the finished state : the intention of this little work is to enable young people, where an eminent Master cannot be had, to cultivate the delightful art of drawing in colours with system and advantage.

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Creator:
Laporte, John, 1761-1839
Date:
[ca. 1807?]
Physical Description:
vii, [22] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The principles and practice of sketching landscape scenery from nature : systematically arranged, and illustrated by numerous examples, from simple and easy subjects, to the more complicated and difficult combinations of objects : in four parts. / by John George Wood, F.S.A., author of Lectures on perspective, delivered at the Royal Institution in the years 1807, 1808, and 1809 ...

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Creator:
Wood, John George, 1768-1838
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China; : comprising a correct narrative of the public transactions of the embassy, of the voyage to and from China, and of the journey from the mouth of the Pei-Ho to the return to Canton. Interspersed wih observations upon the face of the country, the polity, moral character, and manners of the Chinese nation. The whole illustrated by maps and drawings / by Henry Ellis. Third commissioner of the embassy.

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Creator:
Ellis, Henry, Sir, 1777-1869
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 526, [2] p., [11] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views, (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty) : illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire, in three books ... / by William Gilpin ...

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804
Date:
1791
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Greenwood's studies of forest trees.

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Creator:
Greenwood, George, 1799-1875
Date:
1841
Physical Description:
[2] p., [24] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain : particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... / by William Gilpin ...

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Creator:
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. A guide to landscape figure drawing / by N. E. Green ; woodcuts by James D. Cooper, from drawing by the author.

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Creator:
Green, N. E. (Nathaniel Everett), 1823-1899
Date:
[1891]
Physical Description:
56 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

85. A check, 12 o'clock, tipping for the swine / Hy. Alken delt.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
1 printing plate : copper ; 26 x 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. Journal of a trip to Paris by the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, July MDCCCXIV.

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Creator:
Rutland, John Henry Manners, Duke of, 1778-1857
Date:
1814]
Physical Description:
[4], 30 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Sporting sketches : consisting of subjects relating to sports of the field, as horses, dogs, live and dead game, wild fowl, fox hunting, shooting, coursing, fishing, &c. &c. &c. : the whole illustrative of landscape scenery / by Henry Alken.

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Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Date:
[1817-1818]
Physical Description:
8 pt. : all ill. (engravings) ; 31 x 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Studies of trees / by J.C. Deeley.

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Creator:
Deeley, J. C
Date:
[1840?]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country : taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely erected over the cross of St. Paul's cathedral : to be published in four engravings / by Thomas Hornor.

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Creator:
Hornor, Thomas, 1785-1844
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
31, [1] p., [3] folding leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. The elements of drawing, for the use of students : illustrated by fifty-one engravings, plain and coloured, containing several hundred examples from the works of the greatest masters / by George Hamilton, drawing-master.

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Creator:
Hamilton, George, writer on art
Date:
1812
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. A familiar treatise on drawing, for youth : being an elementary introduction to the fine arts ... / by Charles Taylor ; illustrated by thirty three engravings.

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Creator:
Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756-1823
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
16 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Lessons on drawing trees / by Geo. Harley.

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Creator:
Harley, George, 1791-1871
Date:
[1829]
Physical Description:
[1], 16 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 35 x 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Memoirs of the life of the late George Morland : with critical and descriptive observations on the whole of his works hitherto before the public / by J. Hassell ...

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Creator:
Hassell, J. (John), 1767-1825
Date:
1806
Physical Description:
[2], vii, [1], 204 p, [8] leaves of plates : ill., port.; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. A series of progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of landscape painting in water colours.

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Creator:
Cox, David, 1783-1859
Date:
1812
Physical Description:
30 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Progressive lessons / P. S. M.

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Creator:
Munn, Paul Sandby, 1773-1845
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
4 leaves of plates. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm. x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Studies of cows from life : forming the first rudiments of sketching cattle from nature / H. M. Milbourne, in. et fec.

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Creator:
Milbourne, Henry, 1781-ca. 1826
Date:
[1805]
Physical Description:
[6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm. x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The Artist's repository, or, Encyclopedia of the fine arts : exhibiting the principles, and explaining the practice in all their various branches ....

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Date:
1813
Physical Description:
4 v. in 8 : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Footsteps to drawing, according to the rules of perspective : explained in familiar dialogues, for the use of children and young persons, and illustrated by a series of progressive lessons in twenty plates of examples, calculated to combine a knowledge of perspective with the practice of drawing, and to lead the beginner imperceptibly to an acquaintance with the principal rules of that useful art. / by John George Wood, F.S.A., lecturer on perspective, &c.

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Creator:
Wood, John George, 1768-1838
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
[4], 12 p., 20 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. First principles of landscape drawing / by Geo. Harley.

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Creator:
Harley, George, 1791-1871
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
[6], 48 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. (part col.) ; 19 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. Ten mezzo-tinto engravings : from original drawings ... / by Her Majesty's dutiful, grateful & affectionate servant, Carolina Courtenay Boyle ; engraved by Louis Marvy.

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Creator:
Boyle, Carolina Courtenay, 1803-1883
Date:
[circa 1849?]
Physical Description:
1 portfolio (10 prints) ; sheets 31 x 44 cm, in portfolio 31 x 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts