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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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Materials & Techniques
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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
307
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
4,653
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
4
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20701
Hamilton, Anthony, Count, ca. 1646–1720
Memoirs of Count Grammont
1809
20702
Harrison, Stephen (Joiner and architect)
The arch's of triumph erected in honor of the high and mighty prince, Iames, the first of that name, King, of England, and the sixt of Scotland
1604
20703
Heath, James, 1757–1834
[Series of plates illustrating the works of Shakespeare]
1802-1804.]
20704
Raucourt, colonel (Antoine), 1799–1841
A manual of lithography, or, Memoir of the lithographical experiments made in Paris, at the Royal School of the Roads and Bridges
1820
20705
Kerr, John, -1849
Series of views in the island of Saint Helena ...
[1822?]
20706
Woodcuts from books of the 15th century shown in original specimens
1929
20707
Lane, Theodore, 1800–1828
Theatrical pleasures
[1830]
20708
Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817–1894
Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
1853
20709
Holland, Peter, 1757–1812
Select views of the lakes in Cumberland, Westmoreland & Lancashire
1792
20710
Middleton, Charles, 1756–approximately 1818
Picturesque and architectural views for cottages, farm houses, and country villas
1795
20711
Plans, elevations and sections;
1735
20712
White, George Henry Parlby, 1802–1881
Four views on the River Dart, Devon
[1830?]
20713
Crunden, John, ca. 1745–1835
The joyner and cabinet-maker's darling, or, pocket director
1765
20714
Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773–1835
Engravings from ... Joshua Reynolds
1820
20715
Dwyer, Francis
On seats and saddles
1869
20716
Smith, Charles Hamilton
The ancient costume of Great Britain and Ireland
1815
20717
Swarbreck, S. D. (Samuel Dukinfield)
Sketches in Scotland
June 1st, 1839
20718
Jerrold, Douglas, 1803–1857
Cakes and ale
1842
20719
Jerrard, Paul
Fruit and flowers
1852
20720
Tighe, Robert Richard
Letter to the right honourable earl of lincoln...on the...Parks and grounds of Windsor Castle."
1845]
20721
Koorbezarg, Yrneh
Lights along the line
1855
20722
23 chromolithographs of Biblical scenes
1865?]
20723
Vegetius Renatus, Flavius
Vegecivs De re miltari
[1511 or 1512?]
20724
Weale's quarterly papers on architecture
1845
20725
[The coronation of George the Fourth]
[1841]
20726
Wood, William, 1769–1810
An essay on national and sepulchral monuments
1808
20727
Parentalia, or, Memoirs of the family of the Wrens
1750
20728
The Chester guide and handbook to Eaton Hall
[186-?]
20729
Oxford Architectural & Historical Society
A guide to the architectural antiquities in the neighborhood of Oxford
1846
20730
Gilliland, Thomas
The trap
1808
20731
Mayhew, Horace, 1816–1872
Whom to marry and how to get married
[1848]
20732
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
The exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts
20733
Muldoon, Paul
New selected poems, 1968-1994
c1996
20734
Billings, Robert William, 1813–1874
The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland
[1845-1852]
20735
French, Gilbert J. (Gilbert James), 1804–1866
Hints on the arrangement of colours in ancient decorative art
1850
20736
Van Horn, Erica
Scraps of an aborted collaboration
1994
20737
Sackett, Colin
Abrv
1996
20738
Van Horn, Erica
Gumigas zimogs
1996
20739
White, Kenneth, 1936–
Lettre de la mer noire =
1997
20740
Peinture mécanique des citoyens Boninger et compagnie
[1800?]
20741
Brett, Wilford, 1824–1901
Hints on bivouac & camp life
[1855]
20742
Porter, Whitworth
Views in the island of Dominica
1849
20743
Kieran, John, 1892–
The story of the Olympic games, 776 B.C.-1936 A.D.,
1936
20744
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837–1909
Atalanta in Calydon
1894]
20745
Siltzer, Frank
The story of British sporting prints,
[1925]
20746
The Book-collector's quarterly
[1930-1935]
20747
Monge, Gaspard, 1746–1818
Description de l'art de fabriquer les canons
an 2 de la République française [1794]
20748
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
Poems, plays and essays
[between 1881 and 1889]
20749
Bisset, J. (James), 1762?-1832
Descriptive guide of Leamington Priors
1816
20750
Moore, Thomas, 1779–1852
Lalla Rookh
1860
20751
Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805–1864
Handley Cross, or, Mr. Jorrocks's hunt
[1888]
20752
Lyne, Michael, 1912–1989
The Michael Lyne sketch book
1979
20753
Croker, Thomas Crofton, 1798–1854
Specimen of the catalogue of the great sale at Gooseberry Hall
[1842]
20754
Daniell, William, 1769–1837
A series of views consisting of forty-two engravings
[1820?]
20755
Speed, John, 1552?-1629
A map of New England and New York
[1676]
20756
Townshend, Barbara Anne
Groups of figures from cuttings in black paper
1808
20757
Patton, Emily S
Japanese topsyturvydom
[1896]
20758
Album of pressed botanical specimens from the county of Suffolk
circa 1830-1831
20759
Hogan, Eileen, 1946–
Of chairs and shadows
2000
20760
The art of modelling flowers in paper to imitate nature
[ca. 1870?]
20761
Freud, Lucian, 1922–2011
Encore
2003]
20762
Words & pictures
[1996]
20763
Musaeus, Grammaticus
Hero & Leander
1949
20764
Ferrières, Henri de, fl. 1377
Cy commance le livre du roy Modus et de la royne Racio
[20 Oct. 1486]
20765
Hockley, Edgar, 1860–1938
Edgar Hockley collection,
1886-1924,
20766
Cameron, L. (Ludovick)
Rhymes of sport
1926
20767
University of Pennsylvania. Library. Jean Austin DuPont Library
The Fairman Rogers Collection on the horse and equitation
1975
20768
Harewood, Henry George Charles Lascelles, Earl of, 1882–1947
... Flat racing,
[1940]
20769
Hull, Denison Bingham, 1897–1988
Thoughts on American Fox-Hunting ... With illustrations by the author, etc
20770
Moorhouse, Edward
The romance of the Derby
1908
20771
Myers, A. Wallis (Arthur Wallis), b. 1878
Lawn tennis, its principles & practice
1930
20772
Puleston, Theophilus Henry Gresley, Sir, bart., 1821–1896
A history of fox-hunting in the Wynnstay country and part of Shropshire
1893
20773
Walker, Alan Yuill
Thoroughbred studs of Great Britain
c1991
20774
Lamont-Fisher, Pauline
Walking a found map
2010
20775
Worsley's little drawing book
[between 1845 and 1852]
20776
Folio Society (London, England)
Prospectus, 1965
1965
20777
King, Ronald, 1932–
Matisse's model
[1996]
20778
Diary and account book of a military officer and cricket player
1854-1855
20779
[Transforming head
[circa 1830]
20780
Hargreaves, James
She cost me seven-and-sixpence
1904
20781
Leigh, Fred W
The horse the Missis dries the clothes on
[190-?]
20782
Mullen, J. B. (James B.)
Under a panama
[England?] :
20783
Watson, J. Michael
Hop o' my thumb
[190-?]
20784
Hordern, Francis
[Billhead of Francis Hordern, chemist, druggist, and grocer, of Cheadle, for purchases made by Thomas Honeyborne, 1823]
Nov. 17, 1823
20785
A set of 4 fox huntings which are in the highest repute
[between 1771 and 1785]
20786
Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry), 1809–1854
Footsteps of Our Lord and His apostles in Syria, Greece, and Italy
1852
20787
Hay, Ian
The lighter side of school life
1914
20788
Fairfax-Blakeborough, J. (John), 1883–
Hunting in Dumfriesshire
[ca. 1936]
20789
Williams, Moyra
Horse psychology
[1957]
20790
Cadfryn-Roberts, John
London, old and new
1960
20791
Martin, Charles William, 1850–1895
Drawings by Charles William Martin
1866
20792
Ball, Heidi
The devil's noose
[2014]
20793
Bartholomew, John, 1831–1893
Black's plan of London
[1871?]
20794
Stith, William, 1707–1755
The history of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia
1753
20795
Talbot, Katherine, active approximately 1870
First course of maps
approximately 1870
20796
Hobson, Edward, 1782–1830
A collection of specimens, of British mosses and Hepaticae
1818-1822
20797
Nash, David William, 1809 or 1810–1876
The fox's prophecy
[1914]
20798
Horton, Westley, 1846–1910
Illustrations to The rime of the ancient mariner
1891
20799
John Walker & Co
The Farringdon colour box
[1880?]
20800
A List of the horses, &c. enter'd to run at Doncaster
[1740]
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