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• Poems attempted in the style of Milton. (Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, and T. Lownds in Fleet-Street., 1762), by John Philips, Thomas Lowndes, Richard Tonson, Jacob Tonson, Anthony Walker, and George Sewell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marmora Oxoniensia. (E typographeo Clarendoniano, impensis Academiae, 1763), by University of Oxford, John Miller, Richard Chandler, and Oxford University Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of architecture, containing designs of buildings and ornaments. (London, 1728), by James Gibbs, George Vertue, James Mynde, Elisha Kirkall, Henry Hulsbergh, John Harris, and Bernard Baron (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the original genius and writings of Homer : with a comparative view of the ancient and present state of the Troade : illustrated with engravings (Printed by H. Hughs for T. Payne, at the Mews Gate, and P. Elmsly, in the Strand, 1775), by Robert Wood, Thomas Payne, William Pars, Thomas Major, Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, Henry Hughs, Peter Elmsley, Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Giovanni Battista Borra, James Basire, and Francesco Bartolozzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage around the world in the years 1740, 1, 2, 3, 4 (Printed for the author by John and Paul Knapton ..., 1749), by Richard Walter, Paul Knapton, John Knapton, John Wood, Richard William Seale, John Miller, James Mason, George Anson, and Benjamin Robins (page images at HathiTrust)
• London and its environs described. Containing an account of whatever is most remarkable for grandeur, elegance, curiosity or use, in the city and in the country twenty miles round it. Comprehending also whatever is most material in the history and antiquities of this great metropolis. Decorated and illustrated with a great number of views in perspective, engraved from original drawings, taken on purpose for this work. Together with a plan of London, a map of the environs, and several other useful cuts. In six volumes. (Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1761), by Robert Dodsley, James Dodsley, and Samuel Wale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description of the house and gardens of the most noble and puissant prince, Richard Grenville Nugent Chandos Temple, Marquess of Buckingham (Printed and sold by J. Seeley: sold also by L.B. Seeley, 169 Fleet Street, London, 1817), by Thomas Medland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history and antiquities of Croyland-Abbey, in the county of Lincoln. (Printed by and for J. Nichols ..., 1783), by Richard Gough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliothecae Bridgesianae catalogus (Printed by J. Tonson and J. Watts, and to be sold at most booksellers in town and country, 1726), by Mr. Cock, Andrew Motte, and John Bridges (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new book of designs for girandoles and glass frames in the present taste (Published by I. Taylor in Holborn near Chancery Lane, 1775), by Benedetto Pastorini and Isaac Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whole body of arts regularly digested (Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, in Pater-noster-Row :, 1758), by John Barrow, Lacy Hawes, Charles Hitch, John Devoto, and W. H. Toms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Count Caylus's method of painting in the manner of the ancients (Printed for the author, and A. Webley, at the Bible and Crown near Chancery Lane, Holborn, 1760), by Jean-Henri Müntz, A. Webley, and Anne Claude Philippe Caylus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compleat view of the manners, customs, arms, habits, &c. of the inhabitants of England. (Sold by Benjamin White, at Horace's head, in Fleet-Street, 1775), by Joseph Strutt, Walter Shropshire, and Benjamin White (page images at HathiTrust)
• 7 tabulae Raphaelis Urbin (1722), by Elisha Kirkall, Carlo Maratti, and Raphael (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drawing made easy (Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, map and print-sellers, (No. 53) Fleet-street, 1794), by Carington Bowles, John Bennett, and Robert Sayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emblems, for the entertainment and improvement of youth : containing hieroglyphical and enigmatical devices, relating to all parts and stations of life : together with explanations and proverbs in French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin, alluding to them and translated into English : the whole curiously engrav'd on 62 copper plates. (Sold by R. Ware at the Bible and Sun in Warwick Lane at Amen Corner, 1735), by Richard Ware (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1767 : in a letter to the Earl of Morton, President of the Royal Society (Royal Society, 1768), by William Hamilton and Royal Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &c. in the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII (Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, 1764), by Edward Wright, Gerard Van der Gucht, and Andrew Millar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Easy and familiar method for the improvement of youth in the practice of that useful art (Printed for John Bowles, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, and Carington Bowles, in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1764), by Gérard de Lairesse, Antoine Watteau, François Vivarès, Carle Vanloo, Paul van Somer, Henry Roberts, Charles Joseph Natoire, Wenceslaus Hollar, Sebastian Franck, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, Carington Bowles, John Bowles, and François Boucher (page images at HathiTrust)
• History and art of engraving (Printed for J. Marks, in St. Martin's Lane, 1770), by James Marks and Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of a rich illuminated missal executed for John Duke of Bedford, regent of France under Henry VI, and afterwards in the possession of the late Duchess of Portland. (Printed by J. Nichols, for T. Payne ..., 1794), by Richard Gough, Thomas Payne, and John Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• History and art of ingraving (Printed for S. Harding, on the pavement in St. Martin's-Lane, 1747), by S. Harding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stowe, a description of the magnificent house and gardens of the Right Honourable George Grenville Nugent Temple, Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham, one of the four tellers of His Majesty's Exchequer : embellished with a general plan of the gardens, and also a separate plan of the house, and of each building, with perspective views of the same ... (Printed and sold by B. Seeley ;, 1780), by B. Seeley, G. L. Smith, T. Hodgkinson, W. Fairchild, and Fielding and Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stowe, a description of the magnificent house and gardens of the Right Honourable Richard, earl Temple ... : embellished with a general plan of the gardens, and also a separate plan of each building, with perspective views of the same. (Printed for John Rivington in St. Paul's Church-yard, B. Seeley in Buckingham, and T. Hodgkinson at the New Inn at Stowe, 1763), by B. Seeley, George Vertue, Gerard Van der Gucht, G. L. Smith, John Rivington, John Sebastian Miller, T. Hodgkinson, and W. Fairchild (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nothing irregular in nature (Printed and sold by J. Wyatt ... and by the pamphlet sellers of London and Westminster, 1734), by E. Hemskirk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rudiments of drawing : collected from the designs of the most approved masters : on 26 copper plates. (Printed for Laurie and Whittle, no. 53, Fleet Street, 1799), by Laurie & Whittle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquities of Great-Britain : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing (Printed by James Phillips in George-Yard, Lombard-Street, and published by the proprietors T. Hearne and W. Byrne, 1786), by Thomas Hearne, James Phillips, and William Byrne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gentleman's and builder's repository, or, Architecture display'd : containing the most useful and requisite problems in geometry ... (Printed for C. Hitch ... J. Hodges ... and B. Cole, 1748), by E. Hoppus, James Hodges, Charles Hitch, and Benj Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Workman's general assistant (Printed for I. Taylor at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, 1774), by William Pain and Isaac Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on design : including proposals for erecting a public academy to be supported by voluntary subscription (till a royal foundation can be obtain'd) for educating the British youth in drawing, and the several arts depending thereon. (And sold by Ino. Brindley, bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in New Bond Street, S. Harding on ye. pavemt. in St. Martin's Lane & M. Payne at the White Hart in Pater-Noster Row, 1749), by John Gwynn, M. Payne, Samuel Harding, John Brindley, Jacob Bonneau, Edward Rooker, Charles Grignion, and Samuel Wale (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new voyage to Italy : with curious observations on several other countries, as Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, Geneva, Flanders, and Holland : together with useful instructions for those who shall travel thither. (Printed for J. and J. Bonwick, C. Rivington, S. Birt, T. Osborne, E. Comyns, E. Wicksteed, C. Ward, and R. Chandler, and J. and R. Tonson, 1739), by Maximilien Misson, Charles Jephson, and J. and J. Bonwicke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stowe, a description of the magnificent house and gardens of the Right Honourable Richard Grenville Temple, Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham ... : embellished with a general plan of the gardens, and also a separate plan of each building, with perspective views of the same. (Printed for J. and F. Rivington in St. Paul's Church-yard, B. Seeley in Buckingham, and T. Hodgkinson at the New Inn at Stowe, 1768), by B. Seeley, G. L. Smith, John Rivington, John Sebastian Miller, T. Hodgkinson, and W. Fairchild (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of some of the finest prospects in Italy, with short remarks on them by R. Venuti antiquarian to the Pope, and fellow of the Royal Society of London (Sold by J. Nourse opposite Catherine-street in the Strand, bookseller in ordinary to His Majesty, 1762), by Ridolfino Venuti, J. Nourse, Nicole, Peter Stephens, and James Forrester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The marble antiquities, The Right Honble. the Earl of Pembrokes, at Wilton are too many to be drawn by but several hands there being statues, bustos, bass-reliev's and miscellanies ... (They may be had of me Cary Creed at the Jarr between Cecil and Salisbury streets in the Strand, and Mr. Prevost the bookseller near it has some of me and so may any other, 1731), by Cary Creed (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of a series of pictures, in the great room of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, at the Adelphi (Printed for the author, by William Adlard ... :, 1783), by James Barry, T. Cadell, William Adlard, and Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on architecture, consisting of rules founded upon harmonick and arithmetical proportions in building ... (Printed for R. Sayer, at the Golden Buck, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street, 1759), by Robert Morris, Robert Sayer, B. Cole, and W. H. Toms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vues de toutes les englises cathederalles d'Angleterre et de Galle &c. proprement gravée (Sold by Henry Overton at ye White Horse without Newgate London, 1715), by Henry Overton, Henry Beighton, and John Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drawings of some ruins and colossal statues at Thebes in Egypt : with an account of the same in a letter to the Royal Society. (s.n.], 1741), by Frederik Ludvig Norden (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical account of the twelve prints of monasteries, castles, antient churches, and monuments, in the county of Suffolk ([J. Kirby], 1748), by John Joshua Kirby and W. Craighton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland (Printed for R. Blamire ..., 1786), by William Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• New hypothesis of the universe (Printed for the author, and sold by H. Chapelle ..., 1750), by Thomas Wright and Henry Chapelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Academical costumes (n.p., 1760), by Charles Grignion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Numismata antiqua in tres partes divisa : collegit olim et aeri incidi vivens curavit Thomas Pembrochiae et Montis Gomerici comes. (Prelo demum mandabantur, 1746), by Joseph Ames (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage around the world in the years 1740, 1, 2, 3, 4 (Printed for the author by John and Paul Knapton ..., 1748), by Richard Walter, Paul Knapton, John Knapton, John Wood, Richard William Seale, John Miller, James Mason, George Anson, and Benjamin Robins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Camion prysmatique de Mr. de Perronet (De l'imprimerie de G. Bigg ... et se trouve chez l'auteur, 1781), by Le Turc and Jean-Rodolphe Perronet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description des fermes, sur lesquelles on ceintre actuellement en France, les grandes arches des ponts (De l'imprimerie de G. Bigg ... et se trouve chez l'auteur ..., 1781), by Le Turc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description des machines employées en Hollande pour boucher les chambres situées dans l'ame des canons : suivie d'un procédé nouveau, pour empêcher la formation des chambres lors de la fonte des pieces (De l'imprimerie de G. Bigg ... et se trouve chez l'Auteur ..., 1781), by Le Turc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description des procédés méchaniques en usage en Flandre pour construire des fontaines jaillissantes et perpétuelles (Imprimé par T. Spilsbury ... et se trouve chez l'auteur ..., 1781), by Le Turc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Floor-decorations of various kinds, both in plano & perspective. Adapted to the ornamenting of halls, rooms, summerhouses, &c. in XXIV copper plates. A work intirely new, & as serviceable to gentlemen & workmen by the perspective-views in ye several head-pieces as entertaining to the ladies in colouring them. (J. Carwitham, 1739), by J. Carwitham (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Antiquities and views in Greece and Egypt. Parts 1-2] ([R. Dalton], 1751), by Richard Dalton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gothic architecture decorated : consisting of a large collection of temples, banqueting, summer and green houses, gazebo's, alcoves, faced, garden and umbrello'd seats ... many of which may be executed with pollards, rude branches and roots of trees : being a taste entirely new : likewise designs of the Gothic orders, with their proper ornaments, and rules for drawing them : the whole engraved on twelve copper plates (Printed for the author, and sold by Henry Parker and Elirabeth [sic] Bakewell, opposite Birchin Lane, Cornhill; H. Piers and Partner, at the Bible and Crown, near Chancery-Lane, in Holborn, 1759), by Paul Decker, H. Piers, Elizabeth Bakewell, and Henry Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imitations of ancient and modern drawings, from the restoration of the arts in Italy to the present time : together with a chronological account of the artists, and strictures on their works, in English and French (Printed for the author, Thayer-Street, Manchester Square, 1798), by C. M. Metz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man of taste : occasion'd by an epistle of Mr. Pope's on that subject (Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1733), by James Bramston, John Wright, Gerard Van der Gucht, Alexander Pope, and Lawton Gilliver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. (Printed for R. Dodsley, in Pall-mall, 1753), by Thomas Gray, James Dodsley, Charles Grignion, John Miller, R. Bentley, and Horace Walpole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Designs in architecture, for garden chairs, small gates for villas, park entrances, aviarys, temples, boat houses, mausoleums, and bridges : with their plans, elevations, and sections, accompanied with scenery, &c. (Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. :, 1800), by William Robertson, Thomas Rowlandson, and George Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of the ancient sculpture and painting now remaining in this kingdom, from the earliest period to the reign of Henry ye VIII : consisting of statues, bassorelievos, brasses &c., paintings on glass and on walls, &c. : a description of each subject, some of which by gentlemen of leterary [sic] abilities, and well versed in the antiquities of this kingdom, whose names are prefixed to their essays : this work is designed to shew the rise & progress of sculpture and painting in England, to explain obscure and doubtful parts of history, and to preserve the portraits of great and eminent personages (Published as the act directs by John Carter, Wood St. Westminster, 1780), by John Carter and Thomas Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in ten books (A presso Tommaso Edlin, 1739), by Leon Battista Alberti, Thomas Edlin, Giacomo Leoni, and Cosimo Bartoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets (Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1755), by Joseph Spence, George Vertue, Isaac Whood, Camillo Paderni, Louis-Philippe Boitard, and R. and J. Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish : ... the whole correctly engraved on 92 folio copper-plates, containing upwards of seven hundred designs ... (Printed for Robert Sayer ..., 1769), by William Pain and Robert Sayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. Kent. (Published by John Vardy, 1744), by Inigo Jones, John Vardy, and William Kent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plagiarism of the heathens detected (Printed by S. and F. Farley, and sold by J. Leake: M. Lewis, in Bristol: W. Innys, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; C. Hitch, in Pater-Noster-Row; R. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; J. Pine, in Old-Bond-Street; and J. Brindley, in New-Bond-Street, London, 1741), by John Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hungarian and highland broad sword (Published as the Act directs Feby. 12th 1799 by H. Angelo ..., 1799), by Thomas Rowlandson, Henry Angelo, and John Hill (page images at HathiTrust)

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