The Library of the late David Harrison: 17th-19th Century Literature & the Arts

[Aglionby (William)] Painting Illustrated in Three Diallogues...together with the Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, from Cimabue, to the time of...

[Amhurst (Nicholas) & others], "Caleb d'Anvers". The Craftsman, 14 vol., vol.1-7 with engraved frontispieces, titles in red & black with engraved ...

[Ancillon (Charles)] Eunuchism Display'd. Describing all the different Sorts of Eunuchs, [translated by Robert Samber], first English edition, app...

Ariosto (Lodovico) Opere, vol.1 only (of 2) comprising 'Orlando Furioso', half-title, general title with engraved pictorial border, individual tit...

Armstrong (John) Miscellanies, 2 vol., first collected edition, O3 & O7 cancels, Graham Pollard's copy with his book-label, also engraved bookplat...

Art of Drawing (The), and Painting in Water-Colours..., second edition, woodcut illustration, rather browned and stained in parts, modern half cal...

[Astell (Mary)] An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex, third edition, engraved frontispiece of 'The Compleat Beau', with name "Asgill" supplied in...

Bacon (Francis) The Works, 4 vol., first collected edition, engraved frontispieces (mostly portraits), titles in red and black with engraved vign...

Baglione (Giovanni) Le Vite de' Pittori Scultori et Architetti, dal Pontificato di Gregorio XIII del 1572. In sino a'tempi di Papa Urbano Ottavo n...

Bardwell (Thomas) The Practice of Painting and Perspective made easy...The Art of Painting in Oil, with the Method of Colouring, first edition, wi...

Baretti (Joseph) An Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy, 2 vol., 2 engraved sheets of music (browned), engraved bookplates of George Simon...

Barri (Giacomo) The Painters Voyage of Italy, first edition in English, with Directions to Binder leaf and licence leaf at beginning, etched alleg...

Barry (James) A Letter to the Dilettanti Society, respecting the Obtention of certain Matters essentially necessary for the Improvement of Public ...

[Bayardi (Ottavio Antonio, editor)] The Antiquities of Herculaneum, translated by Thomas Martyn and John Lettice, first English edition, list of s...

Bolingbroke (Henry St.John, Viscount) The Works...Published by David Mallet, Esq., 5 vol., engraved bookplate of Wm. Constable Esq. F.R.S. & F.S.A...

Brathwait (Richard) The English Gentleman; and the English Gentlewoman..., third edition, additional engraved title by W.Marshall, lacking both f...

Brathwait (Richard) The English Gentleman; and the English Gentlewoman..., third edition, additional engraved title by W.Marshall, one folding ta...

[Bromley (William)] Remarks in the Grande Tour of France & Italy. Lately Perfomed by a Person of Quality, first edition, half-title, errata slip p...

[Bromley (William)] Remarks in the Grande Tour of France & Italy..., second edition, contemporary sprinkled sheep, a little rubbed and scuffed, fo...

Brown (Edward) A Brief Account of some Travels in divers parts of Europe...with some Observations on the Gold, Silver, Copper, Quick-silver Mines ...

[Brown (Thomas)] Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, with B7 cancel, a little soiled and stained, title and few...

Browne (Alexander) Ars Pictoria: or an Academy treating of Drawing, Painting, Limning, Etching..., 2 parts in 1, second edition, engraved portrait...

Browne (Thomas) Pseudodoxia Epidemica...Urn-Buriall...Garden of Cyrus, fourth edition, with 'longitudinal' leaf bound before title to 'Hydriotaphi...

Buckland (Rev. William) Reliquiae Diluvianae; or, Observations on the Organic Remains contained in Caves, Fissures, and Diluvial Gravel..., second...

Burnet (Gilbert) Some Letters. Containing, an Account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy, &c. written...to T[he] H[onourable] R[...

Burney (Charles) The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces, 2 vol., first edition, errata leaf in vol.2, 1773; ...

Burney (Charles) An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey, and the Pantheon...in Commemoration of Handel, first edition, 8 engr...

[Burney (Fanny)] Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress, 5 vol., first edition, vol.1 with Advertisement leaf misbound at end rather than following tit...

Cabala, Mysteries of State, in Letters of the great Ministers of K.James and K.Charles..., lacking initial blank and 8pp. advertisements at end, w...

[Chapone (Mrs Hester)] Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, addressed to a Young Lady, 2 vol., first edition, contemporary ink inscription "Jam...

Cibber (Colley) An Apology for the Life...,engraved portrait by G. Vander Gucht after Vanloo, lacking final blank, spotted at beginning and end, b...

Cochin (Charles Nicolas) Voyage d'Italie, ou Recueil de Notes sur les Ouvrages de Peinture & de Sculpture, 3 vol., lightly browned, attractive con...

Collection of Poems (A)...by Several Hands, 6 vol. with 4 vol. continuation by G.Pearch, together 10 vol., half-titles, engraved title-vignettes, ...

[Combe (William)] The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque, second edition, engraved title with hand-coloured vignette and 30 hand-...

Congreve (William) The Works, 3 vol., engraved portrait and plates, some foxing, contemporary calf, gilt, spines gilt with red morocco labels, joi...

[Corraro (Angelo)] Rome exactly Describ'd, as to the Present State of it, under Pope Alexandre the Seventh in Two Curious Discourses, 2 parts in 1...

Coryate (Thomas) Coryat's Crudities...to which are now added, his Letters from India, &c..., 3 vol., lacking half-titles, with engraved additional...

Darly (M[ary]) A Book of Caricaturas, on 59 Copper Plates, with ye Principles of Designing, in that Droll & pleasing manner..., engraved throughou...

Denon (Dominique Vivant) Voyage en Sicile, first edition, half-title, folding engraved plan of Syracuse, approbation leaf at end, ex-British Museu...

[Dossie (Robert)] The Handmaid to the Arts, 2 vol., first edition, Ff signature in vol.1 with only 7ff. but apparently complete, advertisement lea...

Du Fresnoy (Charles-Alphonse) De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, translated by Dryden, first English edition, title in red & black with contem...

Edwards (Edward) Anecdotes of Painters...in England, engraved portrait and plates including 2 folding after Gainsborough, one hand-coloured, with ...

Elsum (John) The Art of Painting after the Italian Manner, with Practical Observations on the Principal Colours, first edition, lightly browned, D...

Evelyn (John) Sculptura; or, the History and Art of Chalcography, and Engraving in Copper, second edition, engraved portrait, plate and folding me...

[Felibien (André)] The Tent of Darius Explain'd: or the Queens of Persia at the feet of Alexander, translated by Col.Parsons, first edition, half-...

Fielding (Henry) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, 6 vol., second edition with vol.I Contents extended to c8 recto instead of errata leaf, wi...

Fielding (Henry) An Inquiry into the Causes of the late Increase of Robbers, second edition, half-title, 3pp. 'To the Public' at end, A.Millar, 17...

Fougasses (Thomas de) The Generall Historie of the Magnificent State of Venice, translated by W.Shute, 2 vol. in 1, first edition in English, tit...

Fugitive Pieces, on Various Subjects, 2 vol., half-titles, advertisement leaf at end of vol.2, J.Dodsley, 1765 § Chesterfield (Philip Dormer, Earl...

Gay (John) Fables, 2 vol., first editions, titles with engraved vignette and contemporary ink signature at head, vol.1 with 51 engraved illustrati...

Gay (John) The Miscellaneous Works, 6 vol., engraved frontispiece in vol.2, 5pp. advertisements at end of vol.5 and errata leaf at end of vol.6, l...

Gentleman's Library (The), containing Rules for Conduct in all Parts of Life, first edition, engraved frontispiece, lacking N2-11 (pp. 267-286), a...

Gerard (Alexander) An Essay on Taste, first edition, contemporary ink inscription "Sutherland 1759" at head of title, marginal water-staining to a...

[Gilpin (William)] An Essay on Prints, containing Remarks upon the Principles of Picturesque Beauty..., first edition, contemporary ink inscriptio...

[Gilpin (William)] Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales, &c. relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty..., 15 hand-tinted ...

Greville (Charles C.F.) The Greville Memoirs, Parts I-III in 8 vol., Part I (3 vol.), fifth edition, the rest first editions, engraved Rangemore b...

[Grosley (Pierre Jean)] New Observations on Italy and its Inhabitants, translated by Thomas Nugent, 2 vol., first English edition, half-title in v...

Grosley (Pierre Jean) A Tour to London; or, New Observations on England, and its Inhabitants, translated by Thomas Nugent, 2 vol., first English e...

Gwynn (John) London and Westminster Improved, first edition, 4 folding engraved plans of Hyde Park, Leicester Square & Covent Garden, Mansion Hous...

Hayley (William) The Triumphs of Temper; a Poem, first edition, lacking half-title, light spotting, small stain to lower margin of final leaf, con...