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1. London : a brief account of its many beautiful and interesting sights.

Date:: [approximately 1951]
Physical Description:: 74, [6] pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Old Humphrey's walks in London : and its neighbourhood.

Creator:: Old Humphrey, 1787–1854
Date:: [1843?]
Physical Description:: viii, 355 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Ambulator, or, A pocket companion in a tour round London : within the circuit of twenty-five miles : describing whatever is most remarkable for antiquity, grandeur, elegance, or rural beauty : including new catalogues of pictures, and illustrated by historical and bibliographical observations : to which are prefixed a concise description of the metropolis, and a map of the country described.

Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: [4], 312 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. London : the City and the East End.

Date:: [1871]
Physical Description:: 48 p., [12] cards : ill. ; 11 x 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

5. Ambulator, or, A pocket companion in a tour round London : within the circuit of twenty-five miles : describing whatever is most remarkable for antiquity, grandeur, elegance, or rural beauty : including new catalogs of pictures, and illustrated by historical and biographical observations : to which are prefixed concise description of the metropolis, and a map of the country described ...

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: ix, [1], 324 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. New remarks of London or, A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, of Southwark, and part of Middlesex and Surrey, within the circumference of the bills of mortality. Containing the situation ... of each church; the value of the rectory ... Likewise, an alphabetical table of all the streets, courts, lanes ... Collected by the Company of Parish-Clerks ...

Creator:: Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks
Date:: 1732
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 410 [i.e., 412] p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The original picture of London : enlarged and improved : being a correct guide for the stranger, as well as for the inhabitant, to the metropolis of the British empire : together with a description of the environs.

Creator:: Feltham, John, fl. 1797–1799
Date:: [1829?]
Physical Description:: liv, 498 p., [30] leaves of plates (2 fold.) : ill., map, plan ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Hohenzollern-Schlaberg-Hughes Collection, Gift Thomas Lowe Hughes, Yale JD 1952

8. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

Creator:: Leigh, Samuel
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: vi, [iii]-iv, 524, 36 p. fold. front., fold. plates, fold. map, fold. plan. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

Creator:: Leigh, Samuel
Date:: 1820
Physical Description:: vi, [iii]-iv, iv p., 1 leaf, 524, 36 p. plates (part col., part fold.) fold. map, fold. plan. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. London / illustrated by Sarah McMenemy.

Creator:: McMenemy, Sarah
Date:: 2011
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (32 unnumbered panels) : color illustrations, 2 color maps ; 11 x 160 cm, folded to 11 x 10 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

11. New picture of London, or, A view of the political, religious,medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis : presenting a luminous guide to the stranger, on all subjects connected with general information, business, or amusement, to which is subjoined, a description of the environs.

Creator:: Leigh, Samuel
Physical Description:: viii, 496 p., [33] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. London : illustrated by twenty bird's-eye views of the principal streets : also a map showing its chief suburbs and environs : and by a street-map of central London by Herbert Fry.

Creator:: Fry, Herbert, 1830–1885
Date:: 1889
Physical Description:: xviii, 286, viii, [22] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Leigh's new picture of London, or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis : presenting a luminous guide to the stranger, on all subjects connected with general information, business, or amusement, to which is subjoined, a description of the environs.

Creator:: Leigh, Samuel
Date:: 1825-5
Physical Description:: vii, 520, 35 p., [40] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. How to enjoy London, or, The elegant economist : showing the various means of enjoying London on incomes of from 25 to 500 a year : adapted equally to the married and the single / arranged with great care according to the existing state of the metropolis, and the present modes of life by the author of the "Book of economy".

Date:: 1836
Physical Description:: 36 p. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The picture of London for 1807 : being a correct guide to all the curiosities, amusements, exhibitions, public establishments, and remarkable objects, in and near London : with a collection of appropriate tables, two large maps, and several views.

Date:: [1807]
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 420 p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The Langham Hotel guide to London / prepared for the use of visitors to that establishment by James M. Sanderson.

Creator:: Sanderson, James M
Date:: 1867
Physical Description:: 132, 87 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Tallis's illustrated London : in commemoration of the Great exhibition of all nations in 1851 : forming a complete guide to the British metropolis and its environs : illustrated by upwards of two hundred steel engraving from original drawings and daguerreotypes / with historical and descriptive letterpress by William Gaspey, Esq. Vol. I <-II>.

Creator:: Gaspey, William, 1812–1888
Date:: <1851-52>
Physical Description:: 2 v. (vii, <1>, 320 p., <74> leaves of plates (1 folded); vii, <1>, 304 p., <86> leaves of plates (2 folded)) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. London and its environs : including excursions to Brighton, the Isle of Wight, etc. : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker.

Creator:: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Date:: 1878
Physical Description:: x, 366 p., [5] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., maps ; 17 cm.+ [1] folded map (73 x 94 cm, folded to 15 x 10 cm.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

19. The A B C guide to London : Chas. Baker & Co.'s large pocket map of London, in 15 sections : with alphabetical list of places of interest in and near London &c.

Date:: [1887?]
Physical Description:: 58 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The curiosities of London and Westminster : described in four volumes : embellished with elegant copper plates.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 4 v. : ill. ; 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. All about the Diamond Jubilee : with large-scale plan of London : fully illustrated.

Date:: [1897]
Physical Description:: [2], 77, [1] p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Dicken's dictionary of London, 1879 : an unconventional handbook.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1837–1896
Physical Description:: 352 p. : maps, plans ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. The British metropolis in 1851 : a classified guide to London, so arranged as to show, in separate chapters, every object in London interesting to special tastes and occupations.

Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: xx, 299, 16, [14] p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Straker's route and guide book to London & suburbs : showing how to get to and from all streets, theatres, places of amusement, public buildings, parks, gardens, monuments, &c without the aid of maps : by rail, tram, bus, or boat, together with times, &c : the whole arranged in alphabetical and numerical order : list of cab fars from all railway stations and theatres.

Date:: [187-?]
Physical Description:: xvi, 269, [48] p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A hand-book to Hampton Court : with illustrations and a complete catalogue of the pictures / by Felix Summerly (Sir Henry Cole, K.C.B.) ...

Creator:: Cole, Henry, Sir, 1808–1882
Date:: 1887
Physical Description:: 108 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

26. London : what to see, and how to see it : with numerous illustrations.

Date:: 1857
Physical Description:: 208 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A companion to all the principal places of curiosity and entertainment in and about London and Westminster ...

Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 202 p. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Bacon's large print map of London and suburbs [cartographic material].

Creator:: G.W. Bacon & Co
Date:: [ca. 1910?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : col. ; 69.2 x 85.6 cm, folded in cover 19 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. Metro-land : British Empire Exhibition number : containing a general description of the British Empire Exhibition, how to get about London, and a comprehensive & descriptive review of the various districts served by Metropolitan Tailway.

Date:: 1924?]
Physical Description:: 118 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The picture of London for 1815 : being a correct guide to all the curiosities, amusements, exhibitions, public establishments, and remarkable objects in and near London : with a collection of appropriate tables, two large maps, and various other engravings.

Date:: [1814]
Physical Description:: x, 458 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., plans, maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. London in 1850-1851 : from the geographical dictionary of J.R. McCulloch.

Creator:: McCulloch, J. R. (John Ramsay), 1789–1864
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 132 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The picture of London for 1802 : being a correct guide to all the curiosities, amusements, exhibitions, public establishments and remarkable objects, in and near London : with a collection of appropriate tables for the use of strangers, foreigners, and all persons who are not intimately acquainted with the British metropolis.

Date:: [1802]
Physical Description:: xii, 420 p., [4] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., maps ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Pigot & Co.'s metropolitan guide & book of reference : to every street, court, lane, passage, alley and public building : in the cities of London & Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and their respective suburbs.

Creator:: J. Pigot & Co
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 154 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

34. The panorama of London, or, Visitor's guide / by T. Allen ; with numerous engravings.

Creator:: Allen, Thomas, 1803–1833
Date:: 1828]
Physical Description:: 318 p., [32] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., map ; 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The Ambulator, or, A pocket companion for the tour of London and its environs : within the circuit of twenty-five miles : descriptive of the objects most remarkable for grandeur, elegance, taste, local beauty, and antiquity : illustrated by anecdotes, historical and biographical, and embellished with fourteen elegant engravings and a correct map.

Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: [8], 310, [6] p., [14] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Guide du voyageur à Londres et dans ses environs : précédé d'un itinéraire topographique des diverses routes de Paris à Londres : et comprenant, 1 ̊une notice détaillée de Londres ... 2 ̊l'indication complète des hôtels, messageries, voitures de cette capitale, 3 ̊toutes les lignes de chemins de fer ... / par Lake ; revu et corrigé par Richard.

Creator:: Lake, J. W
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: 563 p., [5] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., col. maps ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Routledge's guide to London and its suburbs : comprising description of all its points of interest : with original illustrations, a map, and index.

Date:: [1871]
Physical Description:: xvi, 202 p., [17] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Cruchley's picture of London : comprising the history, rise and progress of the metropolis to the present period : with a full description of Windsor Castle, Hampton Court, Woolwich, Greenwich, Chelsea, and other places in the environ, useful to the visitor : the whole embellished with fifty-nine engravings of public buildings : a route for viewing the whole in seven days : to which is annexed a new and superior map, with references to the principal streets, omnibus routes, railway stations, etc.

Creator:: Cruchley, G. F
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: xii, 294, 14, [1] p. : ill., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Cruchley's picture of London : comprising the history, rise, and progress of the metropolis to the present time : embellished with numerous engravings of public buildings, ground plans of St. Paul's Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey, with its chapel, aisles, etc. : descriptions of Windsor Castle, Hampton Court, Kew Gardens, Greenwich, Woolwich, Gravesend, etc. : to which is annexed a superior coloured map of London : with references to the principal streets, omnibus routes, railway stations, etc.

Creator:: Cruchley, G. F
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: vii, [xix]-xxiv, 324, [12] p., [1] folded leaf of plate : ill., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Hand-book of London : past and present / by Peter Cunningham.

Creator:: Cunningham, Peter, 1816–1869
Date:: 1850
Physical Description:: liv, 602 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Robin's panoramic excursion from London-Bridge to Ramsgate [graphic] : including Greenwich, Woolwich, Gravesend, Sheerness, Herne Bay, Broadstairs, and Margate : with every other place, or object of interest, to be seen during the voyage : the whole extending to twelve feet in length.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: [1839]
Physical Description:: 1 print on 20 joined sheets : hand-colored lithograph ; sheets end-to-end 8 x 320 cm, accordion folded to 8 x 16 cm + 1 pamphlet (8, [24] pages ; 9 x 16 cm)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. The popular post card wallet guide to London : containing plan of London and 12 photogravure postcards of the principal places of interest : the Daily news series.

Date:: 1925?]
Physical Description:: 31 p. ; 17 cm. + 14 post cards and 1 folded map.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Collins' Standard map of London [cartographic material].

Date:: 1874
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 62 x 84 cm, folded in covers 18 x 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. A companion to every place of curiosity and entertainment in and about London and Westminster ... : to which is added a new large and elegant map of London, Westminster, and Southwark ... designed for strangers to choose such objects as suit their convenience, and to enable them to describe what they have seen.

Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: x, 191 p. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. Bartholomew's plan of London [cartographic material] / John Bartholomew & Co.

Creator:: John Bartholomew & Co
Date:: [ca. 1907?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : col. ; 55.5 x 80.5 cm, folded in covers 19.5 x 10.0 cm + accompanying booklet.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. Fores's new guide for foreigners, containing the most complete and accurate description of the cities of London and Westminster, and their environs, that has yet been offered to the public ... In French and English, with or without a map of London ...

Creator:: Fores, Samuel William, 1761–1838
Date:: [179-?]
Physical Description:: [2], vii, vii, vii, vii, 131, 131 p. fold. map. 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. London and its environs : a practical guide to the metropolis and its vicinity : illustrated by maps, plans, and views.

Date:: 1862
Physical Description:: xv, 391, 16 p., [13] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Kidd's new guide to the "lions" of London, or, The stranger's directory to the Tower, ST. Paul's, the parks, the theatres, the bazaars, the diorama, the colosseum, Thames tunnel, the Zoological gardens, Regent's park, the Surrey zoological gardens, Westminster abbey, etc. etc. : with numerous illustrations of the different places and objects, designed and engraved by G.W. Bonner.

Creator:: Kidd, William, 1803–1867
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 70, 8 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. The new picture of London : being a complete guide & hand-book to all that can amuse, interest, and instruct in this vast metropolis : and a useful and entertaining companion to the exhibitions and public buildings, sights and amusements, for the stranger, resident, and visitor.

Date:: [1841]
Physical Description:: xii, 276 p., [11] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. A guide to the public buildings, parks, gardens, and riverside : illustrated with nineteen maps, five photographs, and a series of street drawings.

Date:: 1924
Physical Description:: 157 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Bacon's large print map of London and suburbs [cartographic material].

Creator:: G.W. Bacon & Co
Date:: [ca. 1910?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : col. ; 69.2 x 86 cm, folded in cover 19 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. Le guide nouveau et universel dans les villes de Londres et de Westminster, le bourg de Southwark, et leurs environs. Par Jean Mazzinghy, M.L.

Creator:: Mazzinghi, Giovanni
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 303 p. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. Excursions in the vicinity of London : by which either resident or stranger may visit and view all the chief object of attraction in nature and art : within a circle of from forty to fifty miles in diameter : in eight excursions.

Date:: [1845]
Physical Description:: 64 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A handbook for London : past and present / by Peter Cunningham.

Creator:: Cunningham, Peter, 1816–1869
Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (933 pages) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Scott Wilcox.

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1. London : a brief account of its many beautiful and interesting sights.

2. Old Humphrey's walks in London : and its neighbourhood.

4. London : the City and the East End.

7. The original picture of London : enlarged and improved : being a correct guide for the stranger, as well as for the inhabitant, to the metropolis of the British empire : together with a description of the environs.

8. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

9. Leigh's new picture of London: or, A view of the political, religious, medical, literary, municipal, commercial, and moral state of the British metropolis ...

10. London / illustrated by Sarah McMenemy.

12. London : illustrated by twenty bird's-eye views of the principal streets : also a map showing its chief suburbs and environs : and by a street-map of central London by Herbert Fry.

15. The picture of London for 1807 : being a correct guide to all the curiosities, amusements, exhibitions, public establishments, and remarkable objects, in and near London : with a collection of appropriate tables, two large maps, and several views.

16. The Langham Hotel guide to London / prepared for the use of visitors to that establishment by James M. Sanderson.

18. London and its environs : including excursions to Brighton, the Isle of Wight, etc. : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker.

19. The A B C guide to London : Chas. Baker & Co.'s large pocket map of London, in 15 sections : with alphabetical list of places of interest in and near London &c.

20. The curiosities of London and Westminster : described in four volumes : embellished with elegant copper plates.

21. All about the Diamond Jubilee : with large-scale plan of London : fully illustrated.

22. Dicken's dictionary of London, 1879 : an unconventional handbook.

23. The British metropolis in 1851 : a classified guide to London, so arranged as to show, in separate chapters, every object in London interesting to special tastes and occupations.

25. A hand-book to Hampton Court : with illustrations and a complete catalogue of the pictures / by Felix Summerly (Sir Henry Cole, K.C.B.) ...

26. London : what to see, and how to see it : with numerous illustrations.

27. A companion to all the principal places of curiosity and entertainment in and about London and Westminster ...

28. Bacon's large print map of London and suburbs [cartographic material].

29. Metro-land : British Empire Exhibition number : containing a general description of the British Empire Exhibition, how to get about London, and a comprehensive & descriptive review of the various districts served by Metropolitan Tailway.

30. The picture of London for 1815 : being a correct guide to all the curiosities, amusements, exhibitions, public establishments, and remarkable objects in and near London : with a collection of appropriate tables, two large maps, and various other engravings.

31. London in 1850-1851 : from the geographical dictionary of J.R. McCulloch.

33. Pigot & Co.'s metropolitan guide & book of reference : to every street, court, lane, passage, alley and public building : in the cities of London & Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and their respective suburbs.

34. The panorama of London, or, Visitor's guide / by T. Allen ; with numerous engravings.

37. Routledge's guide to London and its suburbs : comprising description of all its points of interest : with original illustrations, a map, and index.

40. Hand-book of London : past and present / by Peter Cunningham.

41. Robin's panoramic excursion from London-Bridge to Ramsgate [graphic] : including Greenwich, Woolwich, Gravesend, Sheerness, Herne Bay, Broadstairs, and Margate : with every other place, or object of interest, to be seen during the voyage : the whole extending to twelve feet in length.

42. The popular post card wallet guide to London : containing plan of London and 12 photogravure postcards of the principal places of interest : the Daily news series.

43. Collins' Standard map of London [cartographic material].

45. Bartholomew's plan of London [cartographic material] / John Bartholomew & Co.

46. Fores's new guide for foreigners, containing the most complete and accurate description of the cities of London and Westminster, and their environs, that has yet been offered to the public ... In French and English, with or without a map of London ...

47. London and its environs : a practical guide to the metropolis and its vicinity : illustrated by maps, plans, and views.

49. The new picture of London : being a complete guide & hand-book to all that can amuse, interest, and instruct in this vast metropolis : and a useful and entertaining companion to the exhibitions and public buildings, sights and amusements, for the stranger, resident, and visitor.

50. A guide to the public buildings, parks, gardens, and riverside : illustrated with nineteen maps, five photographs, and a series of street drawings.

51. Bacon's large print map of London and suburbs [cartographic material].

52. Le guide nouveau et universel dans les villes de Londres et de Westminster, le bourg de Southwark, et leurs environs. Par Jean Mazzinghy, M.L.

53. Excursions in the vicinity of London : by which either resident or stranger may visit and view all the chief object of attraction in nature and art : within a circle of from forty to fifty miles in diameter : in eight excursions.

54. A handbook for London : past and present / by Peter Cunningham.