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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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21,330
Reference Library
175
Creator
Christie & Manson
126
Christie, James, 1773–1831
118
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
111
Christie, Manson & Woods
77
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
70
Britton, John, 1771–1857
56
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
52
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
50
Clark, Thomas A
50
Dilnot, John
50
Rocque, John, -1762
49
Phillips, H., -1840
42
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
41
Bush, Tracey
39
Sackett, Colin
37
Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
33
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
32
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
31
Douglas, Helen, 1952–
31
Campbell, Ken, 1939–2022
30
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Unknown
1,015
On-site Access
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
21,330
Accessible by appointment in the Reference Library
175
Image Use
Under Certain Circumstances
20,183
Free to Use
1,147
Image Available
Unavailable
19,522
Available
1,808
New Additions
2024-2025
75
Classification
Books
17,085
Archives & Manuscripts
777
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
755
Prints
734
Maps & Atlas (printed)
483
Music (printed)
248
Periodicals
188
Articles & Chapters
174
Drawings & Watercolors
166
Postcards
131
Photographs
129
Visual Materials
73
Maps & Atlases (manuscript)
44
Videos
7
Musical Sound Recordings
6
Paintings
3
Computer Files
1
Dissertations & Theses
1
Kits
1
PrintsVisual Materials
1
Creator Gender
unknown
21,326
female
4
Period
19th century
11,788
20th century
4,078
18th century
2,765
21st century
902
17th century
547
15th century
326
16th century
202
14th century
2
13th century
1
Materials & Techniques
ceramic (material)
23
wove paper
22
throwing (pottery technique)
11
wood
10
wood engraving (process)
10
daguerreotype (process)
9
molding (forming)
9
watercolor (paint)
8
ink
6
albumen process
5
paper
5
engraving (action)
4
graphite (color)
4
silk (textile)
4
graphite (mineral)
3
lithography
3
transfer printing
3
weaving
3
cardboard
2
glue
2
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Work Type
wood engraving
1,883
engraving
1,493
lithograph
1,341
ephemera
1,231
aquatint
1,152
artists' book
898
auction catalog
780
chromolithograph
692
etching
622
map
465
woodcut
460
armorial bookplates (provenance)
396
recreation
339
accordion fold format (binding)
338
photograph
336
advertisement
317
private press books (publishing)
315
exhibition catalog
308
photomechanical print
306
watercolor
302
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Subject Terms
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
856
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs.
673
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
665
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate.
605
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
457
Painting, European -- Catalogs.
443
London Institution -- Ownership.
348
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph.
343
Incunabula in Yale Library.
300
Mourning customs -- Great Britain.
295
Drawing -- Technique.
276
Grief.
271
Painting, British -- Catalogs.
271
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
250
Women in natural history.
239
Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
237
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
226
Great Britain -- Description and travel.
197
Satire, English.
193
Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
184
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Subject Period
19th century
1,560
20th century
514
18th century
335
17th century
98
16th century
63
21st century
35
15th century
27
11th century
7
15th and 16th centuries
4
12th century
3
Alfred, 871-899
3
13th century
2
14th century
2
17th-18th centuries
2
Description and travel
2
Elizabeth II
2
Silurian
2
To 500
2
To 510 B.C
2
16th century,
1
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Associated Places
Great Britain
4,654
England
2,020
London
1,205
London (England)
529
France
316
United States
245
Italy
230
Scotland
195
Edinburgh (Scotland)
191
India
173
Ireland
131
Europe
130
Edinburgh
128
Wales
127
Oxford (England)
96
Germany
90
Waltham Saint Lawrence
76
Switzerland
75
Egypt
68
Spain
68
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Associated People
Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616
89
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901
85
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926–
41
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821
39
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792
39
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
37
Jesus Christ
32
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769–1852
32
Hogarth, William, 1697–1764
30
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
30
Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
29
Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841–1910
26
Scott, Walter, 1771–1832
25
Raphael, 1483–1520
24
Shirley Smith, Richard
24
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861
22
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762–1830
21
George VI, King of Great Britain, 1895–1952
21
Blackburne, Anna, 1726–1793
20
George V, King of Great Britain, 1865–1936
20
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Exhibition History
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
138
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
118
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
117
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977)
78
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
64
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
54
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
39
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)
25
Making History - Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007 (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-02-02 - 2012-05-27)
24
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08)
23
The Mapmaker's Art: 300 Years of British Cartography (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 1989-March 12, 1989)
23
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
19
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-09-27 - 2007-12-30)
15
Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 2019-May 23, 2019)
15
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08)
14
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
13
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11)
8
Art in Focus: John Goto's High Summer (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-04-06 - 2018-08-19)
8
Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars (Yale Center for British Art, May 24, 2006-September 10, 2006)
8
Crafting Worldviews: European Instruments of Art and Science from Yale University (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-02-17 - 2023-06-25)
8
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson
221
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977
175
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross
164
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss.
136
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.
133
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.
117
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
97
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Paul F. Walter.
91
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
79
Yale Center for British Art, acquired with funds from the Bequest of Daniel S. Kalk
73
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist
55
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972
51
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman
46
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jack W. C. Hagstrom, M.D.
44
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus.
38
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Duncan and Lisa Robinson
33
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus
32
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
32
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jules D. Prown, MAH 1971
27
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968
26
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Language
English
18,495
French
552
Latin
400
German
272
Italian
136
Dutch
51
No linguistic content
51
Undetermined
34
Spanish
25
English, Middle (1100-1500)
10
French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)
10
Swedish
10
Welsh
10
German, Middle High (ca. 1050-1500)
8
Multiple languages
7
Japanese
6
Efik
5
Portuguese
5
Russian
5
Danish
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11501
Jones, Shirley, 1934 November 14–
For Gladstone
[1988]
11502
Savage & Chong
[Earrings]
2011
11503
Reader, Edward Francis Stratton, -1872
A characteristic design for the arms of Buonaparte
1807
11504
The Boston gazette, and country journal
[ca. 1920?]
11505
Shirley, Miriam
Come birdie come
[188-?]
11506
Fisher, Jonathan, -1809
Scenery of Ireland
1795
11507
Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750–1823
Chart of the West Indies and Spanish Dominions in North America
[1810]
11508
Chalmers, Patrick R. (Patrick Reginald), 1872–1942
"A dozen dogs or so"
1928
11509
Ciurej, Barbara
Natural history
[2014]
11510
The Donnington run
[between 1821 and 1824]
11511
Carpenter & Westley
Camera lucida
late 19th century
11512
Pickering & Inglis
Promise box of Bible verses
late 19th century?
11513
Johnstone, Julie
Point of view
2012
11514
Sonech
The Vine Hunt
[ca. 1937]
11515
William Harland & Son
Monograms & heraldic designs
1893
11516
Keats, John, 1795–1821
Endymion
1947
11517
Seutter, Matthäus, 1678–1757
Atlas geographicus, oder, Accurate Vorstellung der ganzen Welt in den nothwendigsten und von dem hochberühmten hamburgischen Rectore
MDCCXX [1720]
11518
In affectionate remembrance of Barnabas Taylor
[1901]
11519
Meigh, Charles
Bacchanalian dance
1844
11520
Barry Woolf (Hair salon)
[Tag from Barry Woolf hair salon, Quadrant Arcade, London]
[approximately 1960?]
11521
Daal, Geert van
In de ban van de band
2018
11522
James I, King of England, 1566–1625
Letter from James I to an unidentified recipient
circa 1590?
11523
Shell collection
19th century
11524
The mistletoe bough, or, Young Lovel's bride
[approximately 1845]
11525
Matta
[1951]
11526
American cartoons
[London] :
11527
Four young artists
[London] :
11528
The album of Sheffield and neighbourhood
[circa 1880]
11529
Von der Kinthait vnnsers herren iesu cristi gena[n]t vita christi
Anno d[omi]ni .M. CCCC. XCiiij. [1494]
11530
Pugin family archive,
ca. 1790-1870
11531
Willans, Geoffrey, 1911–1958
How to be topp
1954
11532
Coxe, Peter, -1844
The catalogue of all the genuine and valuable collection of ancient and modern paintings of the late John Francis Rigaud, Esq. R.A.
[1811]
11533
Crabbe, George, 1754–1832
Peter Grimes
1982
11534
Harrop, Dorothy A.
The Old Stile Press, in the twentieth century
[2000]
11535
Porcher, Edwin A., 1824–1878
Edwin Augustus Porcher collection
1849-1861
11536
Maquereau, Louis A
Emmaline waltz
[189-?]
11537
Mills, A. J. (Arthur), 1871–1919
It's the poor that help the poor
1904
11538
Sheffield International Artist's Book Prize 2013
2013
11539
Winsor & Newton
Specimen tints of Winsor & Newton's artists' oil and water colours
[between 1880 and 1900?]
11540
Lowth, Thomas Henry, 1753 or 1754–1778
Rei nauticæ incrementa
[1776]
11541
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764–1834
Prospectus. The history of Little Johnny, the foundling of the late Doctor Syntax
[1821?]
11542
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales
[1901?]
11543
Holland, Laurence Gifford
A descriptive & historical catalogue of the collection of pictures at Hatfield House and 20 Arlington Street
1891
11544
Matal, Jean, 1520–1597
Africa ad artis geographicae regulas tabulis aeri incisis descripta
anno MDC [1600]
11545
[Fox hunting at Wynnstay]
[ca. 1898?]
11546
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
William Shakespeare commemorative ceramic mug
1964
11547
The King and Queen with Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and Mr. Churchill on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE-Day
1945
11548
The New bookbinder
©1981-
11549
In loving memory of Frank, the beloved son of Joseph and Jane Mellor, of Barmoor, Dove Holes
[1918]
11550
Letters from London
1808
11551
Sutton, Emily
Transferware treasures
2014
11552
Edwin Parson & Sons
[1901]
11553
Portland, James
Carnival dance hats
[approximately 1930?]
11554
Squibb, Mr.
A catalogue of original finished paintings in portraits, sketches and landscapes, by Sir Joshua Reynolds
[1808]
11555
Onwhyn, Thomas, 1814–1886
[Rock & Co. caricatures of cartes de visite]
[1860s?]
11556
Portable light screen
mid-19th century
11557
Clarke, Edward Daniel, 1769–1822
Greek marbles brought from the shores of the Euxine, Archipelago, and Mediterranean
1809
11558
Pawson, Mark
Passive school of cultural inertia
[1995?]
11559
Armour, G. D. (George Denholm), 1864–1949
Pastime with good company
1914
11560
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747–1829
Essays on the picturesque, as compared with the sublime and the beautiful;
1810
11561
Rose, Thomas, topographer
Cumberland; its lake and mountain scenery, etc., etc
[1849]
11562
Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy), 1787 or 1788–1868
British galleries of painting and sculpture
1824
11563
Ramsay, Allan, 1713–1784
A letter to the right honourable Earl of -----
1753
11564
Southward, John, 1840–1902
Artistic printing
1892
11565
Collins, William, d. 1812
Memoirs of that celebrated, original and eccentric genius the late George Morland, an eminent painter
1806
11566
Kératry, A. H. (Auguste Hilarion), 1769–1859
Examen philosophique des Considérations sur le sentiment du sublime et du beau,
1823
11567
Englefield, Henry, Sir, 1752–1822
Additions to Mr. King's account of Lincoln Castle
11568
Gregory, John, 1724–1773
A father's legacy to his daughters
1800
11569
Earle, John, 1601?-1665
Micro-cosmographie, or, A piece of the world discovered in essayes and characters
MCMXXVIII [1928]
11570
Farrer, Julia
Lo
2001
11571
Wentworth, Lady, 1873–
The swift runner;
[1957]
11572
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Sporting notions
[1831-1833]
11573
British sporting prints
1955
11574
Pilkington, Matthew, 1701–1784
A dictionary of painters from the revival of the art to the present period;
1810
11575
Bobinski, Kazimierz
Tablice rodowe koni wyscigowych
MCMLIII [1953-1990]
11576
Parker, Eric
Game birds, beasts and fishes
[1935]
11577
Davis, Richard Barrett, 1782–1854
Stable scenes
1838
11578
Geo. Dalton & Co (Firm)
Geo. Dalton & Co.
[1899?]
11579
Burgess, William, of Dover, 1805–1861
Sketches of Dover
[1844]
11580
Stuart, Robert, 1812–1848
Caledonia romana
11581
Caus, Isaac de, 1590–1648
Wilton Garden
[1645?]
11582
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Cruikshankiana
1835
11583
Everybody's album
1834
11584
The pocket magazine
1827-
11585
Heath, H. (Henry)
Illustrations of Harriette Wilson's Memoirs
1825
11586
Pyne, George, 1800?-1884
A rudimentary and practical treatise on perspective for beginners
1857
11587
Ryff, Walther Hermann, -1548
Der furnembsten, notwendigsten, der gantzen Architectur angehörigen mathematischen vnd mechanischen Künst, eygentlicher Bericht, vnd vast klare, verstendliche Vnterrichtung
Anno 1547
11588
Roget, John Lewis, 1828–1908
Familiar illustrations of the language of mathematics, or, A new picture-alphabet for well-behaved undergraduates
1850
11589
Irby, Charles Leonard, 1789–1845
Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor, during the years 1817 & 1818
1823
11590
Smirke, Miss
Views in Wales
[1808?]
11591
Smith, G. L. (Godfrey L.)
The laboratory, or, School of arts
1738-1756
11592
Spreat, W
Five sketches of the church of St. Mary, Ottery, Devon
[1840?]
11593
Strange, Robert
Collection of historical prints
[1790]
11594
Sulpitius Verulanus, Joannes, active 15th century
De arte grammatica, sive, De octo partibus orationis
[circa 1495]
11595
Vitruvius Pollio
The architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
MDCCCXXVI [1826]
11596
Voyage pittoresque de Moscou aux frontieres de la Chine
1819
11597
Willyams, Cooper
Selection of views in Egypt, Palestine, Rhodes, Italy, Minorca, and Gibraltar
1822
11598
Marshall, R
Four engraved sheets representing painting, poetry, sculpture, and architecture
ca. 1780
11599
Switzer, Stephen, 1682?-1745
An introduction to a general system of hydrostaticks and hydraulicks, philosophical and practical
1729
11600
Now exhibiting at the large exhibition room near the foot of Waterloo Bridge, a small distance from the Coburg theatre, the ancient vessel
[18--]
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