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1. British clubs / Bernard Darwin ; with 8 plates in colour and 20 illustrations in black & white.

Creator:: Darwin, Bernard, 1876–1961
Date:: 1943
Physical Description:: 47, [1] p. : ill. (some col.), port. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

2. Women & hats : vintage people on photo postcards / Tom Phillips.

Creator:: Phillips, Tom, born 1937
Date:: 2010
Physical Description:: 112 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

3. Correspondence of Sarah Spencer, Lady Lyttelton, 1787-1870. Edited by her great-granddaughter, the Hon. Mrs. Hugh Wyndham. With portraits

Creator:: Lyttelton, Sarah Spencer Lyttelton, Baroness, 1787–1870
Date:: 1912
Physical Description:: xxiv, 444 p. illus. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

4. James Holmes and John Varley / by Alfred T. Story.

Creator:: Story, Alfred Thomas, 1842–1934
Date:: 1894
Physical Description:: x, 303 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

5. Catalogue of a collection of drawings illustrating a century and a half of English humourous art from Hogarth to the present day [microform] / with a prefatory note by Joseph Greco ; exhibited at the Fine Art Society's [Galleries], 148 New Bond Street, October, 1896.

Date:: 1979
Physical Description:: 1 microfiche ; 11 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

6. A book for a rainy day; or, Recollections of the events of the years 1766-1833.

Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:: 1861
Physical Description:: iv, 315 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

7. Orientalism transposed : the impact of the colonies on British culture / edited by Julie F. Codell and Dianne Sachko Macleod.

Date:: c1998
Physical Description:: xiii, 249 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

8. The horse, a bibliography of British books, 1851-1976 : with a narrative commentary on the rôle of the horse in British social history, as revealed by the contemporary literature / Anne Grimshaw.

The horse, a bibliography of British books, 1851-1976 : with a narrative commentary on the rôle of the horse in British social history, as revealed by the contemporary literature / Anne Grimshaw.

Creator:: Grimshaw, Anne
Date:: c1982
Physical Description:: xxxiv, 474 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

9. Catalogue of a collection of water-colour drawings by Thomas Rowlandson and John Downman, A.R.A [microform] / with a prefatory note by Joseph Grego ; exhibited at the Fine Art Society's 148 New Bond Street, London, Jan. 1895.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: 1979
Physical Description:: 1 microfiche : illustrations ; 11 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

10. English men and manners in the eighteenth century : an illustrated narrative / by A. S. Turberville.

Creator:: Turberville, Arthur Stanley, 1888–1945
Date:: 1929
Physical Description:: xxiii, 539 p. : ill., maps, facsims. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

11. London society [microform] : two hundred drawings by George Du Maurier, R.W.S. / exhibited at the Fine Art Society's, 148 New Bond Street, London.

Creator:: Du Maurier, George, 1834–1896
Date:: 1979
Physical Description:: 1 microfiche : 1 illustration ; 11 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

12. Events in Britain : a complete guide to annual events in Britain / Bernard Schofield with illustrations by the author.

Creator:: Schofield, Bernard
Date:: 1981
Physical Description:: 250 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

13. The Hamwood papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Mrs. G. H. Bell (John Travers)

Creator:: Bell, Eva Mary Hamilton, "Mrs. G. H. Bell,", 1878–
Date:: 1930
Physical Description:: 417 p. illus. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

14. Gossip in the first decade of Victoria's reign, by John Ashton.

Creator:: Ashton, John, 1834–1911
Date:: 1903
Physical Description:: xvi, 315 p. illus. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

15. Gossip of the century; personal and tradional memories -- social, literary, artistic, &c, by the author of Flemish interiors," "De omnibus rebus," &c.

Creator:: Byrne, Wm. Pitt, Mrs., 1819–1894
Date:: 1892
Physical Description:: 2 v. illus. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

16. Splendour at court : dressing for royal occasions since 1700 / Nigel Arch and Joanna Marschner.

Creator:: Arch, Nigel
Date:: 1987
Physical Description:: 128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

17. An eighteenth-century journal : being a record of the years 1774-1776 / Compiled by John Hampden.

Creator:: Hampden, John, 1898–1974
Date:: 1940
Physical Description:: 405 p. : ill., facsim., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

18. Diary, 1767-1788. Edited by Basil Cozens-Hardy.

Creator:: Neville, Sylas
Date:: 1950
Physical Description:: xvi, 357 p. ports., facsims. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19. The impact of Italy : the Grand Tour and beyond / edited by Clare Hornsby.

Date:: 2000
Physical Description:: xi, 260 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

20. Horse and man in early modern England / Peter Edwards.

Creator:: Edwards, Peter (Peter Roger)
Date:: 2007
Physical Description:: xii, 340 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

21. Notes by Mr. Henry James on a collection of drawings by Mr. George Du Maurier [microform] / exhibited at the Fine Art Society's [Galleries], 148 New Bond Street, 1884.

Creator:: Du Maurier, George, 1834–1896
Date:: 1979
Physical Description:: 1 microfiche : 1 illustration ; 11 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

22. Park Place, Berkshire. A short history of the place and an account of the owners and their guests. Ed. and arranged by Percy Noble. 1905. For private circulation only.

Creator:: Noble, Percy
Date:: [1905]
Physical Description:: 7 p. l., 192 p. front., plates, ports., facsims. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

23. A calendar of country customs. / [by Ralph Whitlock.

Creator:: Whitlock, Ralph
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: 168 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

24. Life and work of the people of England: a pictorial record from contemporary sources, by Dorothy Hartley & Margaret M. Elliot.

Creator:: Hartley, Dorothy
Date:: [1926-31]
Physical Description:: 6 v. illus., music, plates. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

25. The Edwardian house : the middle-class home in Britain 1880-1914 / Helen C. Long.

Creator:: Long, Helen C., 1958–
Date:: c1993
Physical Description:: xv, 208 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

26. England and the English in the eighteenth century, chapters in the social history of the times.

Creator:: Sydney, William Connor
Date:: [1891]
Physical Description:: 2 v. illus.
Collection:: Reference Library

27. The diary of John Baker, barrister of the Middle Temple, solicitor-general of the Leeward islands; being extracts therefrom, transcribed and edited with an introduction and notes by Philip C. Yorke ... a record of life, family history and society, 1751-1778, in England (mostly in Sussex and London) and the Leeward islands, and of two travels abroad.

Creator:: Baker, John, 1712–1779
Date:: [1931]
Physical Description:: xvii, 517, [1] p. incl. geneal. tables. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

28. The memoirs of Susan Sibbald (1783-1812) edited by her great-grandson, Francis Paget Hett; with forty illustrations.

Creator:: Sibbald, Susan Mein, 1783–1866
Date:: [1926]
Physical Description:: xxiii, 339 p. front., plates, ports. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

29. Chronicles of the eighteenth century, founded on the correspondence of Sir Thomas Lyttelton and his family, by Maud Wyndham ...

Creator:: Wyndham, Maud Mary Lyttelton, Hon., Mrs., 1880–
Date:: 1924
Physical Description:: 2 v. pl., ports., plans. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

30. Memoirs of an eighteenth-century footman, John Macdonald: Travels (1745-1779) with an introd. by John Beresford.

Creator:: MacDonald, John, b. 1741?
Date:: [1927]
Physical Description:: xxiv, 256 p. viii pl. (incl. front.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

31. The household book of Lady Grisell Baillie, 1692-1733, ed., with notes and introduction, by Robert Scott-Moncrieff, W.S.

Creator:: Baillie, Grizel, Lady, 1665–1746
Date:: 1911
Physical Description:: lxxx, 443 p. incl. tables. front., plates, ports. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

32. The country house : material culture and consumption / edited by Jon Stobart and Andrew Hann.

Date:: 2016
Physical Description:: ix, 214 pages : illustrations (some color), color map, plans (some color) ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

33. Exquisite threads : English embroidery 1600s - 1900s.

Date:: 2015
Physical Description:: 93 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

34. Memories of ninety years / by Mrs. E.M. Ward ; edited by Isabel G. McAllister.

Creator:: Ward, E. M. (Edward Matthew), Mrs., 1832–1924
Date:: [1925]
Physical Description:: xxiv, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

35. Early Victorian England, 1830-1865.

Date:: 1934
Physical Description:: 2 v. fronts., 1 illus., plates, plan, facsims. (part double) 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

36. A foreign view of England in the reigns of George I and George II; the letters of Monsieur César de Saussure to his family. Translated and edited by Madame Van Muyden.

Creator:: Saussure, César de, 1705–1783
Date:: 1902
Physical Description:: xi, 384 p. illus. 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

37. The country house : how it worked / John Vince.

Creator:: Vince, John Norman Thatcher
Date:: 1991
Physical Description:: 143 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David A. Richards.

38. The Torrington diaries : containing the tours through England and Wales of the Hon. John Byng (later fifth viscount Torrington) between the years 1781 and 1794 / edited, with an introduction, by C. Bruyn Andrews and with a general introduction by John Beresford.

Creator:: Torrington, John Byng, 5th Viscount, 1742?-1813
Date:: 1934-38
Physical Description:: 4 volumes : illustrations, plates, portraits, facsimiles, folded genealogical table ; 22 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

39. Good Queen Anne : or, men and manners, life and letters in England's Augustan age / by W.H. Davenport Adams.

Creator:: Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828–1891
Date:: 1886
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

40. Society at royal Tunbridge Wells in the eighteenth century--and after, by Lewis Melville [pseud.] Illustrated from rare prints and portraits in the collection of A. M. Broadley.

Creator:: Benjamin, Lewis Saul, 1874–1932
Date:: 1912
Physical Description:: xvi, 17-314, [1] p. 1 l. front., plates. ports. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

41. Old country life, by S. Baring Gould. With illus. by W. Parkinson, F.D. Bedford, and F. Masey.

Creator:: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834–1924
Date:: 1895
Physical Description:: viii, 358 p. illus. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

42. Life in Britian, by J.D. Scott. With a chapter on the English way of law, by Henry Cecil.

Creator:: Scott, J. D. (John Dick), 1917–
Date:: [1956]
Physical Description:: xiii, 273 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

43. Private correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Samuel Pepys, 1679-1703.

Creator:: Pepys, Samuel, 1633–1703
Date:: 1926
Physical Description:: 2 v. illus. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

44. A history of London life [by] R.J. Mitchell and M.D.R. Leys.

Creator:: Mitchell, R. J. (Rosamund Joscelyne), 1902–1963
Date:: [c1958]
Physical Description:: xii, 302 p. illus. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

45. The yeomen of the guard : their history from 1485 to 1885, and a concise account of the tower warders / by Thomas Preston.

Creator:: Preston, Thomas, 1834–1901
Date:: [1885?]
Physical Description:: 198, [1] p, [19] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

46. The Grand tour and its influence on architecture, artistic taste and patronage : a series of essays derived from a conference held in Edinburgh in conjunction with the Royal Society of Edinburgh in September 2007 / editor, Lester Borley.

Date:: 2008
Physical Description:: 156 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. British clubs / Bernard Darwin ; with 8 plates in colour and 20 illustrations in black & white.

2. Women & hats : vintage people on photo postcards / Tom Phillips.

3. Correspondence of Sarah Spencer, Lady Lyttelton, 1787-1870. Edited by her great-granddaughter, the Hon. Mrs. Hugh Wyndham. With portraits

4. James Holmes and John Varley / by Alfred T. Story.

5. Catalogue of a collection of drawings illustrating a century and a half of English humourous art from Hogarth to the present day [microform] / with a prefatory note by Joseph Greco ; exhibited at the Fine Art Society's [Galleries], 148 New Bond Street, October, 1896.

6. A book for a rainy day; or, Recollections of the events of the years 1766-1833.

7. Orientalism transposed : the impact of the colonies on British culture / edited by Julie F. Codell and Dianne Sachko Macleod.

8. The horse, a bibliography of British books, 1851-1976 : with a narrative commentary on the rôle of the horse in British social history, as revealed by the contemporary literature / Anne Grimshaw.

9. Catalogue of a collection of water-colour drawings by Thomas Rowlandson and John Downman, A.R.A [microform] / with a prefatory note by Joseph Grego ; exhibited at the Fine Art Society's 148 New Bond Street, London, Jan. 1895.

10. English men and manners in the eighteenth century : an illustrated narrative / by A. S. Turberville.

11. London society [microform] : two hundred drawings by George Du Maurier, R.W.S. / exhibited at the Fine Art Society's, 148 New Bond Street, London.

12. Events in Britain : a complete guide to annual events in Britain / Bernard Schofield with illustrations by the author.

13. The Hamwood papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Mrs. G. H. Bell (John Travers)

14. Gossip in the first decade of Victoria's reign, by John Ashton.

15. Gossip of the century; personal and tradional memories -- social, literary, artistic, &c, by the author of Flemish interiors," "De omnibus rebus," &c.

16. Splendour at court : dressing for royal occasions since 1700 / Nigel Arch and Joanna Marschner.

17. An eighteenth-century journal : being a record of the years 1774-1776 / Compiled by John Hampden.

18. Diary, 1767-1788. Edited by Basil Cozens-Hardy.

19. The impact of Italy : the Grand Tour and beyond / edited by Clare Hornsby.

20. Horse and man in early modern England / Peter Edwards.

21. Notes by Mr. Henry James on a collection of drawings by Mr. George Du Maurier [microform] / exhibited at the Fine Art Society's [Galleries], 148 New Bond Street, 1884.

22. Park Place, Berkshire. A short history of the place and an account of the owners and their guests. Ed. and arranged by Percy Noble. 1905. For private circulation only.

23. A calendar of country customs. / [by Ralph Whitlock.

24. Life and work of the people of England: a pictorial record from contemporary sources, by Dorothy Hartley & Margaret M. Elliot.

25. The Edwardian house : the middle-class home in Britain 1880-1914 / Helen C. Long.

26. England and the English in the eighteenth century, chapters in the social history of the times.

28. The memoirs of Susan Sibbald (1783-1812) edited by her great-grandson, Francis Paget Hett; with forty illustrations.

29. Chronicles of the eighteenth century, founded on the correspondence of Sir Thomas Lyttelton and his family, by Maud Wyndham ...

30. Memoirs of an eighteenth-century footman, John Macdonald: Travels (1745-1779) with an introd. by John Beresford.

31. The household book of Lady Grisell Baillie, 1692-1733, ed., with notes and introduction, by Robert Scott-Moncrieff, W.S.

32. The country house : material culture and consumption / edited by Jon Stobart and Andrew Hann.

33. Exquisite threads : English embroidery 1600s - 1900s.

34. Memories of ninety years / by Mrs. E.M. Ward ; edited by Isabel G. McAllister.

35. Early Victorian England, 1830-1865.

36. A foreign view of England in the reigns of George I and George II; the letters of Monsieur César de Saussure to his family. Translated and edited by Madame Van Muyden.

37. The country house : how it worked / John Vince.

38. The Torrington diaries : containing the tours through England and Wales of the Hon. John Byng (later fifth viscount Torrington) between the years 1781 and 1794 / edited, with an introduction, by C. Bruyn Andrews and with a general introduction by John Beresford.

39. Good Queen Anne : or, men and manners, life and letters in England's Augustan age / by W.H. Davenport Adams.

40. Society at royal Tunbridge Wells in the eighteenth century--and after, by Lewis Melville [pseud.] Illustrated from rare prints and portraits in the collection of A. M. Broadley.

41. Old country life, by S. Baring Gould. With illus. by W. Parkinson, F.D. Bedford, and F. Masey.

42. Life in Britian, by J.D. Scott. With a chapter on the English way of law, by Henry Cecil.

43. Private correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Samuel Pepys, 1679-1703.

44. A history of London life [by] R.J. Mitchell and M.D.R. Leys.

45. The yeomen of the guard : their history from 1485 to 1885, and a concise account of the tower warders / by Thomas Preston.

46. The Grand tour and its influence on architecture, artistic taste and patronage : a series of essays derived from a conference held in Edinburgh in conjunction with the Royal Society of Edinburgh in September 2007 / editor, Lester Borley.