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1. Proposals of a new model for rebuilding the city of London : with houses, streets and wharfs, to be forthwith set out by His Majesty's and the city surveyors : with the advantages that will accrue by the building the same accordingly, viz. I. The owners satisfied for their ground, the builder for building, and the poor inhabitants their losses by the fire. II. The city built stately with large streets, the houses not in danger of fire, and the ground all put to the best profit. III. The people will walk easy and dry, the houses-of-office and streets kept sweet and clean; and goods delivered much cheaper. IV. Convenient houses, shops, warehouses and wharfs not dear. V. Advanced to His Majesty by fines 372670 l. VI. A revenue for ever settled upon the crown of per ann. 223517 l. 10 s.

Creator:: Knight, Val. (Valentine)
Date:: [1666]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 29 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. London, or, Interesting memorials of its rise, progress and present state / by Sholto & Reuben Percy ...

Creator:: Percy, Sholto, 1788–1852
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill., port., map ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Costume of the lower orders of London : painted and engraved from nature / by T.L. Busby.

Creator:: Busby, Thomas Lord
Date:: [1820]
Physical Description:: iv, [24] p., [24] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A journey from Ecton, through London, to Bath, and from there, back again, through Cirencester, and Banbury, to Daventry, and Northampton : from August the 3d to October the 12th, 1785.

Creator:: Orlebar, Mary, 1730–1821
Date:: 1785
Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Black's map of environs of London / drawn & engraved by J. Bartholomew, Edinr. F.R.G.S. ; W.H. McFarlane, lithogr., Edinburgh.

Creator:: Bartholomew, John, 1831–1893
Date:: [1885?]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 39 x 57 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. 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

7. Zoological Society's gardens, Regent's Park. Saturday, August 21st, 1897. Admit one.

Creator:: Zoological Society of London
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: 1 admission ticket ; 70 x 80 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A new and compleat history and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent : from the earliest accounts, to the beginning of the year 1770 ... / by a society of gentlemen ; revised, corrected, and improved by Henry Chamberlain ...

Date:: [1769]
Physical Description:: [2], 682, [10] p., [68] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., ports., map, plans ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Felix Summerly's hand-book for Westminster Abbey.

Creator:: Cole, Henry, Sir, 1808–1882
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: 35 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A description of the Colosseum as re-opened in M.DCCC.XLV. under the patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, and H.R.H. Prince Albert. With numerous illustrations, and eight coloured sections of the panorama of London, embossed by messrs. Dobbs, Bailey, & Co. This catalogue has been prepared for the proprietor by messrs. Kronheim and Skirving, engravers and designers, and the illustrations and letter-press are printed from stereotype plates cast by the patent process of messrs. Kronheim & Co., 3, Earl-street, Blackfriars.

Date:: 1845
Physical Description:: 24 p. ill., 21 plates (part col.) 20 x 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, on the subject of the intended new docks to be established at Wapping.

Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: iv, [5]-46 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A panorama of London [graphic] / taken from nature by R. Havell, Jun.

Creator:: Havell, Robert, -1832
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 1 print on 6 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 9 x 420 cm, rolled (in wooden case) to 9 x 6 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. On the construction and decoration of the shop fronts of London : illustrated with eighteen coloured representations exhibiting the varied styles of the present period, for the use of builders, carpenters, shopkeepers, &c. / by N. Whittock ; forming an appendix to The decorative painter and glazier's guide, by the same author.

Creator:: Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791–1860
Date:: 1840
Physical Description:: [4], 12, 4 p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. 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

15. An historical description of the tower of London and its curiosities : giving an account 1. Of its foundation, gradual increase, and present state. 2. Of its government, customs, and privileges. 3. Of its antiquities, records, and curiosities. 4. Of the lions, and other wild beasts kept there. 5. Of the spoils of the Spanish Armada, with the history of the Spanish Invasion in 1588. 6. Of the small armory, in which are arms for 100,000 men. 7. Of the Royal Train of Artillery, comprehending a variety of cannon, mortars, &c. &c. 8. Of the horse armory; with a concise history of the Kings fitting there on horseback, in full armour, from William the Conqueror to George II. 9. Of the Jewel-Office, and the regalia used at coronations, with a full account of Colonel Blood's attempt to steal them. 10. Of the mint, and the manner of stamping money : written principally to direct the attention of strangers to what is most curious in this Repository, and to enable them afterwards to describe what they have seen.

Date:: 1806
Physical Description:: 60 p. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A chart illustrating the architecture of Westminster Abbey / by F. Bedford.

Creator:: Bedford, Francis, 1816–1894
Date:: [1840?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet : chiefly ill. ; 56 x 44 cm., folded to 20 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Centre of Western Section, Canadian Pavilion : Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908.

Date:: [1908]
Physical Description:: 1 postcard : color ; 9 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Reports relating to the entertainment of Her Majesty the Queen, in the Guildhall of the City of London on Lord Mayor's Day, 1837.

Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: [4], 35, [3], 7, [1], 79, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. 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.

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

20. Sunday in London / illustrated in fourteen cuts by George Cruikshank ; and a few words by a friend of his ; with a copy of Sir Andrew Agnew's bill.

Creator:: Wight, J. (John)
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: iv, 105, [1] pages, [11] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

21. Sweet Thames.

Creator:: Chasseaud, Peter
Date:: MMXI [2011]
Physical Description:: 1 print : letterpress, color ; 66 x 52 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Pierce Egan's Finish to the adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, in their pursuits through life in and out of London / illustrated by the pencil of Mr. Robert Cruikshank, in 36 scenes from real life, & enriched with several designs on wood by the same artist ; dedicated to His Most Gracious Majesty King George the Fourth.

Creator:: Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: xvi, 368 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. 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

24. Survey of the country around London : to the distance of thirty-two miles from St. Paul's.

Creator:: Laurie, Richard Holmes
Date:: 1852
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 61 x 80 cm., folded to 22 x 13 cm., in case 23 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Platte grondt der Vebrande Stadt London / by Marcus Williamsz Doornick.

Creator:: Doornick, Marcus Williamsz
Date:: 1666
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 30 x 54 cm., on sheet 50 x 58 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Cruchley's New plan of London : shewing all the new and intended improvements to the present time.

Creator:: Cruchley, G. F
Date:: [1834]
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 45 x 62 cm., folded to 15 x 11 cm., in case 15 x 11 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. A series of views in Islington and Pentonville : from original drawings, made in the year 1818 / by Augustus Pugin ; with a description of each subject, by Edward Wedlake Brayley.

Creator:: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773–1854
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [2], 21, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Answer to objections against the London-docks.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:: 1796
Physical Description:: 21 p. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. London in 1842 : taken from the summit of the Duke of York's column.

Date:: [1843]
Physical Description:: 1 print : wood engraving ; 91 x 133 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. [Billheads of Edward Petty and William Wood, grocers, of London, for purchases made by Colonel Alexander Campbell, 1822]

Creator:: Edward Petty & William Wood, (Grocers)
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 3 sheets ; 17 x 21 cm, 13 x 21 cm, and 11 x 17 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Londres / par Louis Énault ; illustré de 174 gravures sur bois par Gustave Doré.

Creator:: Enault, Louis, 1824–1900
Date:: 1876
Physical Description:: [4], 434 p. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Diary of Charles Leathley.

Creator:: Leathley, Charles
Date:: circa 1833
Physical Description:: 1 v. (16, 30 p.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. 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

34. A day's journal of a sponge / by Peter Pasquin [pseud.].

Creator:: Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769–1843
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. The grand procession of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert : accompanied by the civic authorities, to the opening of the Royal Exchange, on Monday, October 28th, 1844.

Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: 1 print on 5 joined sheets : hand-colored lithograph ; sheets end-to-end 11 x 365 cm, accordion folded to 11 x 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

Creator:: Grosley, Pierre Jean, 1718–1785
Date:: 1772
Physical Description:: 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. A brief description of the cities of London and Westminster : the public buildings, palaces, gardens, squares, &c. : with an alphabetical list of all the streets, squares, courts, lanes, and alleys, &c. within the bills of mortality : to which are added some proper cautions to the merchants, tradesmen and shop-keepers ... / by Sir John Fielding ...

Creator:: Fielding, John, Sir, 1721–1780
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: xxxiii, [3], 161, 90 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. Some account of the hospital and parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex / by John Parton ...

Creator:: Parton, John, d. 1821
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: xi, [1], 427, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates (one folded) : ill., map, plan ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. Ichnographia urbis Londinii : post magnum et fatale incendium ano. Dni. MDCLXVI, cum idea novæ urbis qualem tunc temporis / ex cineribus renatam esse designibat clarissimus vir Dns. Christophorus Wren = A plan of the city of London : after the great fire, in the year of our Lord 1666, with the modell of the new city / according to the design and proposal of Sr. Christopher Wren ... for rebuilding thereof.

Creator:: Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632–1723
Date:: 1724
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 35 x 70 cm., on sheet 49 x 72 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. A prospect of the city of London from the south east in the year 1945 : shewing its architecture, the destruction caused by the King's enemies during the previous five years, and some of the means whereby the safety of the citizens was maintained : 1939-1945 / Cecil Brown delineavit.

Creator:: Brown, Cecil, 1903–1983
Date:: 1949
Physical Description:: 1 view ; 38 x 53 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. 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

42. Report from the Committee on petition of the Ministers, Churchwardens and vestry of St. Margaret's, Westminster.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Date:: [1813]
Physical Description:: 10 p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. The universal British directory of trade and commerce ; : comprehending lists of the inhabitants of London, Westminster, and borough of Southwark; ... with the mails, and other coaches, stage-waggons, hoys, packets, and trading vessels. ... : To which is added, a genuine account of the drawbacks and duties chargeable at the custom-house on all goods and merchandize ... with a particular of the public houses of every denomination ... with the whole body of liverymen, and places of residence, together with an historical and particular detail of the trade, polity, and manufactures, of each city, town, and village ...

Creator:: Barfoot, Peter
Date:: MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:: 5 v. ; 22 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. The antiquities of St. Peter's, or, The abbey-church of Westminster : containing all the inscriptions, epitaphs, &c. upon the tombs and grave-stones : with the lives, marriages and issue of the most eminent personages therein reposited and their coats of arms truly emblazon'd : adorn'd with draughts of the tombs, curiously engraven ...

Creator:: Crull, Jodocus, -1713?
Date:: 1713
Physical Description:: [10], 351, [15] p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. [Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of ... engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions ...

Creator:: Storer, James, 1771–1853
Date:: 1804-5]
Physical Description:: 2 v. 12 ill., 60 plates. 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. A month in London; or, Some of its modern wonders described. By Jefferys Taylor ...

Creator:: Taylor, Jefferys, 1792–1853
Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 3 p. ., 182 p. front., plate. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

47. 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

48. Horizon : a review of literature and art.

Date:: 1940-1950
Physical Description:: 20 v. : ill., plates (part col.) ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Black and white,

Creator:: Maude, Robert
Date:: 1991
Physical Description:: [12] p. : ill. ; 13 x 13 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

Creator:: Noorthouck, John, 1746?-1816
Date:: 1773
Physical Description:: 2 v. in 1 ([4], viii, [4], 902, [42] p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded)) : ill., map, plans ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. A new pocket plan of the cities of London and Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1812.

Creator:: Faden, William, 1749–1836
Date:: 1812
Physical Description:: 1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 46 x 92 cm., folded to 16 x 12 cm., in case 16 x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

52. 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

53. Lilliput the pocket magazine for everyone.

Date:: [1937?]-
Physical Description:: volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. A popular account of St. Paul's Cathedral : including a brief history and description of the old and new cathedral : with explanations of the monumental designs and other interesting particulars.

Creator:: Hackett, Maria, 1783–1874
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: 104 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. 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

56. The new album of London.

Date:: [ca. 1882?]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([12] p.) : all ill. ; 17 x 163 cm, folded to 17 x 14 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

57. History and description of the parish of Clerkenwell, embellished with numerous engravings, by J. & H. S. Storer. The historical department by T. Cromwell ...

Creator:: Cromwell, Thomas, 1792–1870
Date:: [1828]
Physical Description:: 2 p. ., [iii]-viii, 448, v p. front., plates, fold. maps. 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Report from the committee appointed to inspect Lords journals, respecting the improvements in Westminster.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: 4 p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Londinum feracissimi Angliae Regni metropolis.

Creator:: Hogenberg, Frans, approximately 1539–1590
Date:: [1574]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 32 x 48 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

60. R. Ackermann's series [graphic]

Creator:: Picken, Thomas, -1870
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 10 prints : hand-colored lithographs ; image 20 x 29 cm, on sheet 28 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. The Connoisseur. By Mr. Town, critic and censor-general.

Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 4 v. front. (port.), plates. 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Description de Londres et de ses édifices, avec un précis historique et des observations sur le caractère de leur architecture, et sur les principaux objects d'art et de curiosité qu'ils renferment; par J.-B. Barjaud, et C.P. Landon ...

Creator:: Barjaud, Jean Baptiste Benoît, 1785–1813
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: 1 p.., [v]-viii, 239, 4 p. : front. (fold. map) plates, ports. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. 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

64. Progress of inebriety.

Creator:: Wilson, T. C
Date:: ca. 1830]
Physical Description:: [10] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. I love London : 30 assorted latex free children's plasters.

Date:: [not after 2013]
Physical Description:: 1 tin box (30 plasters) ; 7 x 10 x 2 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

66. Site-unseen.

Creator:: Smith, Terry
Date:: 1997
Physical Description:: [46] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. Barnaby Rudge : a tale of the riots of 'eighty / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard.

Creator:: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:: [1874]
Physical Description:: x, 322 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

68. The East London line : an elegaic meta-landscape / Peter Chasseaud.

Creator:: Chasseaud, Peter
Date:: 2010
Physical Description:: 31 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 48 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. Tlaloc.

Date:: 1964-1970
Physical Description:: 22 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Views in London : consisting of the most remarkable buildings : with an historical description of each.

Date:: [1820?]
Physical Description:: 26, 11 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. Illustrations of the public buildings of London : with descriptive accounts of each edifice : supplement : containing the new subjects and descriptions incorporated in the second edition / by W.H. Leeds.

Creator:: Leeds, W. H. (William Henry), 1786–1866
Date:: 1838
Physical Description:: xii, 136 p., [18] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Report from the Committee appointed to inspect the several houses and other buildings immediately adjoining to Westminster Hall, and the two Houses of Parliament, and the offices thereto belonging : (July 22d, 1789.) : Ordered to be printed 16th February 1790.

Creator:: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Date:: Printed in the year MDCCXC [1790]
Physical Description:: 9, [1] p. ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The "District Railway" miniature map of London [cartographic material].

Creator:: W.J. Adams & Sons
Date:: [ca. 1887?]
Physical Description:: 1 map : col. ; 17.7 x 25.3 cm., folded in cover 14.1 x 9.2 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

74. Souvenirs de Londres.

Creator:: Lami, Eugène Louis, 1800–1890
Date:: 1826
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 24 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

75. The pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities : illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others : and a new complete map, engraved by Lowry.

Creator:: Weale, John, 1791–1862
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: 910 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. An historical description of Westminster Abbey, its monuments and curiosities : designed chiefly as a guide to strangers.

Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: 189, [4], [1], [2] p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. 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

78. Striking likenesses, handsomely framed, only 1s. each, taken at 114, Strand, opposite Exeter 'Change.

Date:: [approximately 1820?]
Physical Description:: 1 trade card : portrait ; 81 x 45 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. The life of a nobleman.

Creator:: Dawe, George, 1781–1829
Date:: [ca. 1825]
Physical Description:: [9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. The cries of London; exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times. Copied from rare engravings, or drawn from the life. With a memoir and portrait of the author.

Creator:: Smith, John Thomas, 1766–1833
Date:: 1839
Physical Description:: xv, 99 p. plates, port. 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Crumpled city London / design, Emanuele Pizzolorusso.

Date:: 2011
Physical Description:: 1 map : color ; 57 x 71 cm, on sheet 58 x 88 cm, folded to 15 x 12 cm, in box 16 x 12 x 3 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman

82. Jane Foster's London.

Creator:: Foster, Jane, 1970–
Date:: 2017
Physical Description:: [22] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. London's gratitude: or, An account of such pieces of sculpture and painting as have been placed in Guildhall at the expense of the city of London. To which is added, A list of those distinguished persons to whom the freedom of the city has been presented for public services since the year MDCCLVIII. With engravings of the sculptures, & c.

Date:: 1783
Physical Description:: 50 p. plates (incl. port., coats of arms) 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Children's map of London / John Bartholomew and Son.

Creator:: John Bartholomew and Son
Date:: [approximately 1939]
Physical Description:: 1 map : color ; 52 x 72 cm, folded to 19 x 10 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

85. The survey of London : contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe : with a memoriall of those famouser acts of charity, which for publike and pious uses have beene bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors, as also all the ancient and moderne monuments erected in the churches, not onely of those two famous cites, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) foure miled compasse / begunne first by the paines and industry of Iohn Stow, in the yeere 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the yeere 1618 ; and now completely finished by the study and labour of A.M. ; H.D., and others, this present yeere 1633, whereunto, besides many additions (as appeares by the contents) are annexed divers alphabeticall tables, especially two ; the first, an index of things ; the second, a concordance of names.

Creator:: Stow, John, 1525?-1605
Date:: 1633
Physical Description:: [16], 534, 527-652, 655-770, 773-939, [29] p. : illustrations 35 cm (fol.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. The official illustrated guide to the London and South-Western, North and South Devon, Cornwall, and West Cornwall railway : including descriptions of some of the most important manufactories in the towns on the lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with 280 engravings and map.

Creator:: Measom, George S
Date:: [1864]
Physical Description:: lii, 475, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

Creator:: Saunders, George, 1762–1839
Date:: MDCCXC [1790 ]
Physical Description:: x, [4], 94 p., XIII leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Centre section of the 9 sheet master plan of London.

Creator:: Geographers' A-Z Map Company
Date:: [1995]
Physical Description:: 1 map : color ; 74 x 99 cm, on sheet 77 x 102 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. Further report and memorials of the commissioners for executing the Act 46 Geo. III. c. 89 : for improvement of streets and places near to Westminster-Hall and the two Houses of Parliament : to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's treasury.

Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: 48, [2] p. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. On wet docks, quays, and warehouses, for the port of London; with hints respecting trade. Pt. I.

Creator:: Vaughan, William, 1752–1850
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: 2 p.., 27 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex : which are not described in the Environs of London / by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S & F.S.A.

Creator:: Lysons, Daniel, 1762–1834
Date:: MDCCC [1800]
Physical Description:: [2], viii, [2], 316, [2] p., [17] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : ill., plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Johnstone's London commercial guide, and street directory: in four parts ...

Date:: 1817
Physical Description:: [v]-xxxii p., 956 columns, 957-1114, 151, [1] p. : 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. Stanford's map of central London.

Creator:: Edward Stanford Ltd
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: 1 map : color ; 64 x 93 cm, folded to 19 x 12 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Resolutions of the Associated Architects : with the report of a committee by them appointed to consider the causes of the frequent fires and the best means of preventing the like in future.

Creator:: Association of Architects (London, England)
Date:: [1793]
Physical Description:: [4], iii, [5]-31 p. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. An exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, with the country near ten miles round : begun in 1741, finished in 1745, and published in 1746, according to act of Parliament / by John Rocque ... ; engrav'd by Richard Parr and printed by W. Pratt ... = Urbium maxime insignium Londini et Westmonasterii nec non municipii Sudovercencis, regionumque ad decem quasi milliaria circumjacentium : delineatio ichnographica anno 1741 incohata 1745 absoluta / a Johanne Rocque ... = Carte topographique des villes de Londres, Weatminster, et bourg de Southwark et de leurs environs : levée très exactement sur les lieux, en 1741, achevée en 1745, et publieé selon un acte de Parlement en 1746 / par Jean Rocque.

Creator:: Rocque, John, -1762
Date:: [1747]
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([2], [32] leaves) : maps ; 54 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Blackout in London.

Creator:: Brandt, Bill, 1904–1983
Date:: 1939 December
Physical Description:: pages 551-558 : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. 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

98. Kemp's West London Sketcher and Theleme.

Physical Description:: 1 v. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. Gall & Inglis' pocket map of the suburbs of London [cartographic material].

Creator:: Gall & Inglis
Date:: [ca. 1897?]
Physical Description:: 1 map ; 51.3 x 63.3 cm, folded in covers 15 x 9 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

100. The Flip-Flap : Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908.

Date:: [1908]
Physical Description:: 1 postcard : b/w ; 9 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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2. London, or, Interesting memorials of its rise, progress and present state / by Sholto & Reuben Percy ...

3. Costume of the lower orders of London : painted and engraved from nature / by T.L. Busby.

4. A journey from Ecton, through London, to Bath, and from there, back again, through Cirencester, and Banbury, to Daventry, and Northampton : from August the 3d to October the 12th, 1785.

5. Black's map of environs of London / drawn & engraved by J. Bartholomew, Edinr. F.R.G.S. ; W.H. McFarlane, lithogr., Edinburgh.

7. Zoological Society's gardens, Regent's Park. Saturday, August 21st, 1897. Admit one.

8. A new and compleat history and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent : from the earliest accounts, to the beginning of the year 1770 ... / by a society of gentlemen ; revised, corrected, and improved by Henry Chamberlain ...

9. Felix Summerly's hand-book for Westminster Abbey.

11. A letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, on the subject of the intended new docks to be established at Wapping.

12. A panorama of London [graphic] / taken from nature by R. Havell, Jun.

14. London : the City and the East End.

16. A chart illustrating the architecture of Westminster Abbey / by F. Bedford.

17. Centre of Western Section, Canadian Pavilion : Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908.

18. Reports relating to the entertainment of Her Majesty the Queen, in the Guildhall of the City of London on Lord Mayor's Day, 1837.

19. 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.

20. Sunday in London / illustrated in fourteen cuts by George Cruikshank ; and a few words by a friend of his ; with a copy of Sir Andrew Agnew's bill.

21. Sweet Thames.

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

24. Survey of the country around London : to the distance of thirty-two miles from St. Paul's.

25. Platte grondt der Vebrande Stadt London / by Marcus Williamsz Doornick.

26. Cruchley's New plan of London : shewing all the new and intended improvements to the present time.

27. A series of views in Islington and Pentonville : from original drawings, made in the year 1818 / by Augustus Pugin ; with a description of each subject, by Edward Wedlake Brayley.

28. Answer to objections against the London-docks.

29. London in 1842 : taken from the summit of the Duke of York's column.

30. [Billheads of Edward Petty and William Wood, grocers, of London, for purchases made by Colonel Alexander Campbell, 1822]

31. Londres / par Louis Énault ; illustré de 174 gravures sur bois par Gustave Doré.

32. Diary of Charles Leathley.

34. A day's journal of a sponge / by Peter Pasquin [pseud.].

35. The grand procession of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert : accompanied by the civic authorities, to the opening of the Royal Exchange, on Monday, October 28th, 1844.

36. A tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants / by M. Grosley ... ; translated from the French by Thomas Nugent ...

38. Some account of the hospital and parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex / by John Parton ...

40. A prospect of the city of London from the south east in the year 1945 : shewing its architecture, the destruction caused by the King's enemies during the previous five years, and some of the means whereby the safety of the citizens was maintained : 1939-1945 / Cecil Brown delineavit.

42. Report from the Committee on petition of the Ministers, Churchwardens and vestry of St. Margaret's, Westminster.

45. [Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of ... engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions ...

46. A month in London; or, Some of its modern wonders described. By Jefferys Taylor ...

47. 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.

48. Horizon : a review of literature and art.

49. Black and white,

50. A new history of London, including Westminster and Southwark : to which is added, a general survey of the whole, describing the public buildings, late improvements, &c. ... / by John Noorthouck.

51. A new pocket plan of the cities of London and Westminster : with the borough of Southwark : comprehending the new buildings and other alterations to the year 1812.

53. Lilliput the pocket magazine for everyone.

54. A popular account of St. Paul's Cathedral : including a brief history and description of the old and new cathedral : with explanations of the monumental designs and other interesting particulars.

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

56. The new album of London.

57. History and description of the parish of Clerkenwell, embellished with numerous engravings, by J. & H. S. Storer. The historical department by T. Cromwell ...

58. Report from the committee appointed to inspect Lords journals, respecting the improvements in Westminster.

59. Londinum feracissimi Angliae Regni metropolis.

60. R. Ackermann's series [graphic]

61. The Connoisseur. By Mr. Town, critic and censor-general.

62. Description de Londres et de ses édifices, avec un précis historique et des observations sur le caractère de leur architecture, et sur les principaux objects d'art et de curiosité qu'ils renferment; par J.-B. Barjaud, et C.P. Landon ...

64. Progress of inebriety.

65. I love London : 30 assorted latex free children's plasters.

66. Site-unseen.

67. Barnaby Rudge : a tale of the riots of 'eighty / by Charles Dickens ; with forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard.

68. The East London line : an elegaic meta-landscape / Peter Chasseaud.

69. Tlaloc.

70. Views in London : consisting of the most remarkable buildings : with an historical description of each.

71. Illustrations of the public buildings of London : with descriptive accounts of each edifice : supplement : containing the new subjects and descriptions incorporated in the second edition / by W.H. Leeds.

72. Report from the Committee appointed to inspect the several houses and other buildings immediately adjoining to Westminster Hall, and the two Houses of Parliament, and the offices thereto belonging : (July 22d, 1789.) : Ordered to be printed 16th February 1790.

73. The "District Railway" miniature map of London [cartographic material].

74. Souvenirs de Londres.

76. An historical description of Westminster Abbey, its monuments and curiosities : designed chiefly as a guide to strangers.

77. 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.

78. Striking likenesses, handsomely framed, only 1s. each, taken at 114, Strand, opposite Exeter 'Change.

79. The life of a nobleman.

80. The cries of London; exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times. Copied from rare engravings, or drawn from the life. With a memoir and portrait of the author.

81. Crumpled city London / design, Emanuele Pizzolorusso.

82. Jane Foster's London.

84. Children's map of London / John Bartholomew and Son.

86. The official illustrated guide to the London and South-Western, North and South Devon, Cornwall, and West Cornwall railway : including descriptions of some of the most important manufactories in the towns on the lines / by George Measom ... ; embellished with 280 engravings and map.

87. A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders.

88. Centre section of the 9 sheet master plan of London.

89. Further report and memorials of the commissioners for executing the Act 46 Geo. III. c. 89 : for improvement of streets and places near to Westminster-Hall and the two Houses of Parliament : to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's treasury.

90. On wet docks, quays, and warehouses, for the port of London; with hints respecting trade. Pt. I.

91. An historical account of those parishes in the county of Middlesex : which are not described in the Environs of London / by the Rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A. F.R.S & F.S.A.