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1. Lear in Sicily : twenty line drawings by Edward Lear illustrating a tour made in May-July 1847 in the company of John Joshua Proby with a coloured frontispiece signed by both the travellers and a full introduction by Granville Proby.

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: 24 pages, [21] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 x 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

2. Moments of fancy and whim / by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 14 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 29 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Qualified horses and unqualified riders, or, The reverse of sporting phrases taken from the work entitled Indispensable accomplishments ... / Ben Tally Ho.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1815]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 28 x 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Applied sciences, or, Sciences applied.

Date:: 1849
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([16] leaves) : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Out for a holiday.

Creator:: G. C. T
Date:: 1880, August 10-1881, August 15
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([31] leaves) : ill. ; 15 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The Royal Victoria : an album of essays, romance, poetry, anecdote, &c. : embellished with twenty-six chalk drawings.

Date:: [ca. 1840]
Physical Description:: 26 pt. in 1 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. George Cruikshank's omnibus : illustrated with one hundred engravings on steel and wood ... / edited by Laman Blanchard, Esq.

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: [2], vi, [2], 300 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

8. [My wife]

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: 1818?]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Shadows : second series / by Charles Bennett.

Creator:: Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829–1867
Date:: [between 1858 and 1860]
Physical Description:: [37] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Horse accomplishments.

Creator:: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760–1809
Date:: [1799]
Physical Description:: 12 prints : aquatint ; 27 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Arliss's funny library, of wit, satire, and humour : containing, facetiae, under the heads of pasquinades, anecdotes, jeu d'esprits, witticisms : mornings at Bow Street, new punning songs, broad grins, maxims, irish bulls, conundrums, anagrams, enigmas, bon mots, whims, tid bits, curious epitaphs, brevities, yarns, miseries, long bows, puzzles, &c., &c., : embellished with forty-eight numerous wood engravings by the most eminent artists.

Date:: 1832
Physical Description:: 128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Tit-bit's / selected by H. Heath.

Creator:: Heath, Henry, active 1824–1850
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: 6 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Commonplace book, with verse, newspaper clippings and prints.

Date:: circa 1812-1816
Physical Description:: 1 volume (approximately 350 pages) illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. 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

15. The book of shadows.

Date:: [1882]
Physical Description:: [iii], 32, [3] p. : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. A cockney's shooting season, in Suffolk / by Henry Alken ; containing the remarkable adventures that actually occurred to a young cit on a visit to his friends in that county.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 16 p., [6] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. London out of town, or, The adventures of the Browns at the seaside / by Luke Limner, esq.

Creator:: Leighton, John, 1822–1912
Date:: [1847]
Physical Description:: xvi leaves : chiefly ill. ; 11 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Progress of inebriety.

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

19. Hints to emigrants, or, Incidents in the emigration of John Smith of Smith-town / designed & etched by Percy Cruikshank.

Creator:: Cruikshank, Percy
Date:: [1849]
Physical Description:: 9 prints in 1 volume : etchings ; sheets 15 x 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Tutors assistant / Hy. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: [6] leaves of plates : all col. ill. ; 28 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. [Collection of prints].

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:: 18--]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Sloane Griswold, Yale BA 1937

22. 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

23. The comic astronomy, or, Moonshine for sunstruck people [graphic] / by J.B. Rowbotham.

Creator:: Rowbotham, J. B
Date:: [1850]
Physical Description:: 12 pictures on 3 joined sheets : hand-colored lithographs ; sheets end-to-end 15 x 170 cm, accordion folded to 15 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. Funny folks album : the artist's sorrows.

Date:: 187-]
Physical Description:: 1 panorama (8 p.) : col. ill. ; 7 cm. x 80 cm., folded to 7 cm. x 12 cm., in wrappers 7 cm. x 12 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. Studies from the stage, or The vicissitudes of life

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:: [1823]
Physical Description:: [23] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. Hunting in hard times / by G. Bowers.

Creator:: Bowers, G. (Georgina)
Date:: [1889]
Physical Description:: 20 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 22 x 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. The St. Trinian's story / the whole ghastly dossier compiled by Kaye Webb ; with contributions by Siriol Hugh-Jones, Malcolm Arnold, Johnny Dankworth, Sidney Gilliat, James Laver, G.W. Stonier, Bertolt Brecht, Michael Flanders, Robert Graves, C. Day Lewis, Donald Swann, D.B. Wyndham Lewis and Ronald Searle.

Date:: 1959
Physical Description:: 117, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961.

28. The pleasures of human life : investigated cheerfully, elucidated satirically, promulgated explicitly, and discussed philosophically : in a dozen dissertations on male, female, and neuter pleasures. Interspersed with various anecdotes, and expounded by numerous annotations / by Hilarius Benevolus, & co., fellows of the "London literary society of Lusorists." Embellished with five illlustrative etchings, and two head-pieces.

Creator:: Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:: 1807
Physical Description:: xvi, 223, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. A kettle of fish / by Flibbertigibbet.

Date:: [1825]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. A compendious treatise on modern education : in which the following interesting subjects are liberally discussed : the nursery, private schools, public schools, universities, gallantry, duelling, gaming, suicide / by the late Joel M'Cringer , D.D., F.R.S., A.S.S. Rector of the United Parishes of Pigworth, Goosebridge, and Honeytown, in Middlesex ; Vicar of Cornsteadcum-Haybury, in the same county ; Prebendary of St. Glebemore ; Whitehall preacher, and domestic chaplain to the Right Honourable Lord Trainwell ; to which also are added coloured designs both characteristic and illustrative ; delineated by J.B.W. Esq. and etched by Thomas Rowlandson.

Creator:: M'Cringer, Joel
Date:: 1802
Physical Description:: 34 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm. x 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are / drawn by M.E. Esq.

Creator:: Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [23] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Lumps of pudding [graphic] / H.W. Bunbury Esqr. delin. ; etch'd by W. Heath.

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:: [15 August 1811]
Physical Description:: 1 print on 5 sheets : etching ; sheets 34 x 51 cm or smaller
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. English society / sketched by George Du Maurier.

Creator:: Du Maurier, Gerald, Sir, 1873–1934
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: [4], 9, [3] pages, [90] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 24 x 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

34. The sayings of the ancients : illustrated by the doings of the moderns, in twenty-four caricatures.

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:: [1831]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

35. Portraits of the Spruggins family / arranged by Richard Sucklethumkin Spruggins, Esq.

Creator:: Sneyd, Walter, 1809–1888
Date:: MDCCCXXIX [1829]
Physical Description:: 41 leaves, [43] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

36. Involuntary thoughts.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1823-1824
Physical Description:: [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Things not generally seen, or, Funny phenomena [graphic].

Date:: [1860]
Physical Description:: 12 pictures on 3 joined sheets : hand-colored lithographs ; sheets end-to-end 15 x 160 cm, accordion folded to 15 x 13 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

38. New readings of old authors.

Creator:: Seymour, Robert, 1798–1836
Date:: [1830-1835]
Physical Description:: 26 volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

39. The works of James Gillray, the caricaturist : with the story of his life and times / edited by Thomas Wright ; with over four hundred illustrations.

Creator:: Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:: [1873]
Physical Description:: [2], 376 p., [81] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

40. The Far Tottering & Oyster Creek Railway .

Date:: [approximately 1951]
Physical Description:: 1 postcard : color illustrations ; 10 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

41. Fashion and folly, or, The buck's pilgrimage [graphic]

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:: [1822]
Physical Description:: 24 pictures on 1 joined sheet : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 617 cm, in cylindrical case 16 cm x 7 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

42. English society at home : from the collection of "Mr. Punch" / by George du Maurier.

Creator:: Du Maurier, George, 1834–1896
Date:: 1881
Physical Description:: [8] p., 63 leaves, [63] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

43. Panorama of the Franco Prussian War [graphic] / painted by P.C. from the sketches of Messrs. Smith, Brown, Jones & Robinson.

Creator:: Cruikshank, Percy, active 1840–1860
Date:: [1871?]
Physical Description:: 37 pictures on 7 joined sheets : hand-colored lithographs ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 329 cm, accordion folded to 13 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

44. How Pippins enjoyed a day with the foxhounds / by Phiz.

Creator:: Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815–1882
Date:: [1863]
Physical Description:: 12 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 39 x 56 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

45. The christening procession of Prince Taffy.

Creator:: Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
Date:: 1842
Physical Description:: 24 pictures, on 12 leaves : lithographs ; 13 x 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

46. The complete collection of Randolph Caldecott's contributions to the "Graphic" printed by Edmund Evans / with a preface by Arthur Locker ...

Creator:: Caldecott, Randolph, 1846–1886
Date:: 1888
Physical Description:: 339, [1] p. : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John E. Hankins

47. Marriage a-la-mode.

Creator:: Onwhyn, Thomas, 1814–1886
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (10 p.) : ill. ; 15 x 150 cm., folded to 15 x 15 cm., attached to boards 16 x 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

48. Progress of sobriety.

Creator:: Wilson, T. C
Date:: ca. 1830]
Physical Description:: [2] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

49. Specimens of riding near London / drawn from life by Henry Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1821
Physical Description:: [3] pt. : all ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

50. Military misreadings of Shakspere / by Major Seccombe ; printed in colours by Edmund Evans.

Creator:: Seccombe, Thomas S. (Thomas Strong), 1840–1899
Date:: [1880]
Physical Description:: 103 leaves, [24] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

51. Illustrations of time / by George Cruikshank.

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:: [1827]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

52. The rising generation : a series of twelve drawings on stone / by John Leech ; from his original designs in the gallery of Mr. Punch.

Creator:: Leech, John, 1817–1864
Date:: [1848]
Physical Description:: [12] leaves of coloured plates : chiefly ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

53. The foreign tour of the Misses Brown, Jones, and Robinson : being the history of what they saw & did at Biarritz & in the Pyrenees / by Miss Brown.

Creator:: Loch, Catharine Grace, 1854–1904
Date:: [approximately 1877]
Physical Description:: [1], 49 leaves : illustrations ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

54. The passions, humourously delineated / by Timothy Bobbin, Esq. author of the Lancashire Dialect : containing twenty-five plates, with his portrait, title plate, and poetical descriptions.

Creator:: Bobbin, Tim, 1708–1786
Date:: [1810]
Physical Description:: [34] p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

55. Four hundred humorous illustrations / by George Cruikshank ; with portrait and biographical sketch.

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:: [190-?]
Physical Description:: 416 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. port. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

56. Sketchbook, with copies of work by George Cruikshank, Tony Johannot, and other artists.

Creator:: Roget, John Lewis, 1828–1908
Date:: 1840-1841
Physical Description:: 1 volume (67 drawings) : pen and black ink ; volume 12 x 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

57. The fiddle faddle fashion book and beau monde à la française : enriched with numerous highly coloured figures of lady-like gentlemen / edited by the author of The comic Latin grammar ; the costumes and other illustrations by John Leech.

Creator:: Leigh, Percival, 1813–1889
Date:: [1840]
Physical Description:: 12 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

58. Progress of intemperance.

Date:: ca. 1830]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

59. Mrs. Caudle in crinoline.

Creator:: Jerrold, Douglas, 1803–1857
Date:: 1858
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet (10 p.) : ill. ; 15 x 150 cm., folded to 15 x 15 cm., attached to boards 16 x 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Sporting notions / by H. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1831-1833]
Physical Description:: 6 pt. : all col ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. My Lord Mayor's album, or, Cockney sports : the first of September.

Creator:: Heath, Henry, active 1824–1850
Date:: [1835]
Physical Description:: [27] leaves : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Indispensable accomplishments, or, Hints to city gentleman : four plates, exquisitely coloured.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: IV leaves of plates : all ill. 30 x 44 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

63. The Far Tottering & Oyster Creek Railway : Battersea Pleasure Gardens.

Date:: [approximately 1951]
Physical Description:: 1 postcard : color illustrations ; 10 x 14 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

64. The works of James Gillray, from the original plates, with the addition of many subjects not before collected.

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756–1815
Date:: [1851]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 65 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. A political alphabet [graphic].

Creator:: Grant, Charles Jameson, active 1830–1852
Date:: Jany 1837
Physical Description:: 25 pictures on 4 sheets : hand-colored lithographs ; 12 x 250 cm, accordion folded to 12 x 10 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

66. The caricatures of Gillray : with historical and political illustrations, and compendious biographical anecdotes and notices.

Creator:: Gillray, James, 1756–1815
Date:: [between 1824 and 1827]
Physical Description:: 164 p., [81] leaves of plates (some folded) : etchings, hand-colored ; 22 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

67. "All the world's a cheese!" : and all the men and women merery [sic] maggots : they have their crummy and their crusty bits : and one in his time eats much blue mould : a caseous cosmos of caricatures and characters : comic cheese parings with sketches of mites and maggots / G. A. Sala.

Creator:: Sala, George Augustus, 1828–1895
Date:: 1851
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([7] p. : ill. ; 17 cm. x 189 cm. folded to 17 cm. x 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

68. My sketch book ... [vol. 1] / Geo. Cruikshank.

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:: [1833-36]
Physical Description:: [9] pts. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

69. How to qualify for a Meltonian : addressed to all would-be Meltonians.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1819
Physical Description:: [3] leaves, 6 leaves of plates : col ill. ; 25 x 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

70. Characters at the west end of the town / drawn and etched by Richard Dighton.

Creator:: Dighton, Richard, 1795–1880
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [46] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

71. [The essayists]

Creator:: Lisle, Joe
Date:: [1828-1830]
Physical Description:: [8] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

72. Cupid and crinoline [graphic] / T. Onwhyn delt.

Creator:: Onwhyn, Thomas, 1814–1886
Date:: Oct. 20th, 1858
Physical Description:: 12 pictures on 2 sheets : hand-colored etchings ; full image 162 x 15 cm, accordion folded to 16 x 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

73. The foreign tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson : being the history of what they saw and did in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, & Italy / by Richard Doyle.

Creator:: Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
Date:: 1854
Physical Description:: [2], 80 p. [i.e. 79], [1] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

74. Points of humour : illustrated by the designs of George Cruikshank.

Date:: 1823-1824
Physical Description:: 2 pt. : ill. 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

75. The melange of humour : a series of fifty coloured engravings, comprising a great variety of comic subjects / by the most popular artists of the present day.

Date:: [1824?]
Physical Description:: [1] leaf, [50] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

76. Crinoline : its difficulties & dangers, mechanical, natural, artificial / twenty illustrations, by "Quiz" ; dedicated to the ladies.

Creator:: Quiz
Date:: [185-?]
Physical Description:: [20] p. : chiefly ill. ; 13 cm. x 260 cm., folded to 13 cm. x 20 cm., in covers 14 cm. x 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

77. Fifty caricatures / by Max Beerbohm.

Creator:: Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872–1956
Date:: MCMXIII [1913]
Physical Description:: vii, [1] p., [50] leaves of plates, [4] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

78. Journal of a landsman from Portsmouth to Lisbon : on board His Majesty's ship.

Date:: 1831
Physical Description:: [2], 26 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

79. Symptoms of being amused. Vol. 1 / by Hy. Alken.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: 1822
Physical Description:: 1 unnumbered leaf, 42 unnumbered leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 27 x 36 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

80. Pictures of life and character : from the collection of Mr. Punch / by John Leech.

Creator:: Leech, John, 1817–1864
Date:: [between 1872 and 1890?]
Physical Description:: 5 volumes : illustrations ; 32 x 46 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

81. Griset's grotesques, or, Jokes drawn on wood / with rhymes by Tom Hood ; one hundred quaint designs by Ernest Griset ; engraved by the brothers Dalziel.

Creator:: Griset, Ernest Henry, 1844–1907
Date:: 1867
Physical Description:: 151, [4] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

82. Airy nothings, or, Scraps and naughts, and odd-cum-shorts : in a circumbendibus hop, step, and jump / by Olio Rigmaroll ; drawn and written by M.E. Esq. ; engraved by Geo. Hunt.

Creator:: Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [2], 73, [1] p., [23] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

83. The nuisances of London / drawn and etched by Richard Dighton ; six coloured plates.

Creator:: Dighton, Richard, 1795–1880
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: 6 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

84. Illustrations of popular works : Part I / by George Cruikshank.

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:: [1830]
Physical Description:: [10] leaves, [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

85. £300 a year, or, Single and married life : dedicated to all young bachelors.

Creator:: Onwhyn, Thomas, 1814–1886
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: 1sheet (10 p.) : ill. ; 15 x 140 cm., folded to 15 x 14 cm., attached to boards 15 x 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

86. The foreign tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson : being the history of what they saw, and did in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, & Italy / by Richard Doyle.

Creator:: Doyle, Richard, 1824–1883
Date:: 1860
Physical Description:: 80 leaves : chiefly illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

87. Rowlandson's characteristic sketches of the lower orders : intended as a companion to the New picture of London : consisting of fifty-four plates neatly coloured.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: [1840?]
Physical Description:: iv pages, [54] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 x 30 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

88. Progress of intemperance.

Creator:: Wilson, T. C
Date:: ca. 1830]
Physical Description:: [6] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

89. The London and Paris picture book : for all young people / with an illustrative verse for every picture by Uncle George.

Creator:: Pardon, George Frederick, 1824–1884
Date:: [1856]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 35 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

90. Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are / drawn by M.E. Esq.

Creator:: Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: 1 folded leaf ([16] p.) : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

91. Nautical dictionary / drawn & etched by H. Heath.

Creator:: Heath, Henry, active 1824–1850
Date:: [1829]
Physical Description:: 6 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

92. Nothing to wear : a poem of transatlantic origins : now especially edited for the ladies of England : with twelve illustrations.

Creator:: Butler, William Allen, 1825–1902
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: [4], 23, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

93. City characters / drawn and etched by Richard Dighton.

Creator:: Dighton, Richard, 1795–1880
Date:: 1824
Physical Description:: [40] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

94. Drury Lane comic history of England / written by Harry Nicholls ; drawn by Wallis Mackay ; and exhibited by Augustus Harris.

Creator:: Nicholls, Harry, 1852–1926
Date:: [1883?]
Physical Description:: [40] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

95. Alfred Crowquill's Comic history of the kings and queens of England : from William the Conqueror to the present time : containing 36 illustrations.

Creator:: Crowquill, Alfred
Date:: [ca. 1850]
Physical Description:: 1 folded sheet ([18] p.) : ill. ; 14 x 252 cm, folded to 14 x 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

96. Portraits of the Spruggins family / arranged by Richard Sucklethumkin Spruggins, Esq. ... MDCCCXXIX.

Creator:: Sneyd, Walter, 1809–1888
Date:: 1829
Physical Description:: 1 v. ([96] p.) : ill. ; 33 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

97. The necessary qualifications of a man of fashion : twelve plates / designed and etched by D. T. Egerton.

Creator:: Egerton, Daniel Thomas, 1797–1842
Date:: 1823
Physical Description:: 12 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 26 x 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

98. Catalogue of Gillray's caricatures.

Date:: circa 1830
Physical Description:: 1 v. (46 p.) ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

99. The bachelor's own book : being the progress of Mr. Lambkin, (gent.) in the persuit of pleasure and amusememt [sic] : and also in search of health and happiness / designed, etched & published by George Cruikshank ; August 1st 1844.

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:: [1844]
Physical Description:: [1], 12 leaves : illustrations ; 14 x 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

100. Sporting discoveries, or, The miseries of driving / by Ben Tally Ho.

Creator:: Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:: [1817]
Physical Description:: [7] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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1. Lear in Sicily : twenty line drawings by Edward Lear illustrating a tour made in May-July 1847 in the company of John Joshua Proby with a coloured frontispiece signed by both the travellers and a full introduction by Granville Proby.

2. Moments of fancy and whim / by Henry Alken.

3. Qualified horses and unqualified riders, or, The reverse of sporting phrases taken from the work entitled Indispensable accomplishments ... / Ben Tally Ho.

4. Applied sciences, or, Sciences applied.

5. Out for a holiday.

6. The Royal Victoria : an album of essays, romance, poetry, anecdote, &c. : embellished with twenty-six chalk drawings.

7. George Cruikshank's omnibus : illustrated with one hundred engravings on steel and wood ... / edited by Laman Blanchard, Esq.

8. [My wife]

9. Shadows : second series / by Charles Bennett.

10. Horse accomplishments.

12. Tit-bit's / selected by H. Heath.

13. Commonplace book, with verse, newspaper clippings and prints.

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

15. The book of shadows.

16. A cockney's shooting season, in Suffolk / by Henry Alken ; containing the remarkable adventures that actually occurred to a young cit on a visit to his friends in that county.

17. London out of town, or, The adventures of the Browns at the seaside / by Luke Limner, esq.

18. Progress of inebriety.

19. Hints to emigrants, or, Incidents in the emigration of John Smith of Smith-town / designed & etched by Percy Cruikshank.

20. Tutors assistant / Hy. Alken.

21. [Collection of prints].

22. The life of a nobleman.

23. The comic astronomy, or, Moonshine for sunstruck people [graphic] / by J.B. Rowbotham.

24. Funny folks album : the artist's sorrows.

25. Studies from the stage, or The vicissitudes of life

26. Hunting in hard times / by G. Bowers.

29. A kettle of fish / by Flibbertigibbet.

31. Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are / drawn by M.E. Esq.

32. Lumps of pudding [graphic] / H.W. Bunbury Esqr. delin. ; etch'd by W. Heath.

33. English society / sketched by George Du Maurier.

34. The sayings of the ancients : illustrated by the doings of the moderns, in twenty-four caricatures.

35. Portraits of the Spruggins family / arranged by Richard Sucklethumkin Spruggins, Esq.

36. Involuntary thoughts.

37. Things not generally seen, or, Funny phenomena [graphic].

38. New readings of old authors.

39. The works of James Gillray, the caricaturist : with the story of his life and times / edited by Thomas Wright ; with over four hundred illustrations.

40. The Far Tottering & Oyster Creek Railway .

41. Fashion and folly, or, The buck's pilgrimage [graphic]

42. English society at home : from the collection of "Mr. Punch" / by George du Maurier.

43. Panorama of the Franco Prussian War [graphic] / painted by P.C. from the sketches of Messrs. Smith, Brown, Jones & Robinson.

44. How Pippins enjoyed a day with the foxhounds / by Phiz.

45. The christening procession of Prince Taffy.

46. The complete collection of Randolph Caldecott's contributions to the "Graphic" printed by Edmund Evans / with a preface by Arthur Locker ...

47. Marriage a-la-mode.

48. Progress of sobriety.

49. Specimens of riding near London / drawn from life by Henry Alken.

50. Military misreadings of Shakspere / by Major Seccombe ; printed in colours by Edmund Evans.

51. Illustrations of time / by George Cruikshank.

52. The rising generation : a series of twelve drawings on stone / by John Leech ; from his original designs in the gallery of Mr. Punch.

53. The foreign tour of the Misses Brown, Jones, and Robinson : being the history of what they saw & did at Biarritz & in the Pyrenees / by Miss Brown.

54. The passions, humourously delineated / by Timothy Bobbin, Esq. author of the Lancashire Dialect : containing twenty-five plates, with his portrait, title plate, and poetical descriptions.

55. Four hundred humorous illustrations / by George Cruikshank ; with portrait and biographical sketch.

56. Sketchbook, with copies of work by George Cruikshank, Tony Johannot, and other artists.

57. The fiddle faddle fashion book and beau monde à la française : enriched with numerous highly coloured figures of lady-like gentlemen / edited by the author of The comic Latin grammar ; the costumes and other illustrations by John Leech.

58. Progress of intemperance.

59. Mrs. Caudle in crinoline.

60. Sporting notions / by H. Alken.

61. My Lord Mayor's album, or, Cockney sports : the first of September.

62. Indispensable accomplishments, or, Hints to city gentleman : four plates, exquisitely coloured.

63. The Far Tottering & Oyster Creek Railway : Battersea Pleasure Gardens.

64. The works of James Gillray, from the original plates, with the addition of many subjects not before collected.

65. A political alphabet [graphic].

66. The caricatures of Gillray : with historical and political illustrations, and compendious biographical anecdotes and notices.

67. "All the world's a cheese!" : and all the men and women merery [sic] maggots : they have their crummy and their crusty bits : and one in his time eats much blue mould : a caseous cosmos of caricatures and characters : comic cheese parings with sketches of mites and maggots / G. A. Sala.

68. My sketch book ... [vol. 1] / Geo. Cruikshank.

69. How to qualify for a Meltonian : addressed to all would-be Meltonians.

70. Characters at the west end of the town / drawn and etched by Richard Dighton.

71. [The essayists]

72. Cupid and crinoline [graphic] / T. Onwhyn delt.

73. The foreign tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson : being the history of what they saw and did in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, & Italy / by Richard Doyle.

74. Points of humour : illustrated by the designs of George Cruikshank.

75. The melange of humour : a series of fifty coloured engravings, comprising a great variety of comic subjects / by the most popular artists of the present day.

76. Crinoline : its difficulties & dangers, mechanical, natural, artificial / twenty illustrations, by "Quiz" ; dedicated to the ladies.

77. Fifty caricatures / by Max Beerbohm.

78. Journal of a landsman from Portsmouth to Lisbon : on board His Majesty's ship.