41 results filtered with: Books and reading
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A young woman (Miss Jones) reading. Mezzotint, 17--, after Catherine Read.
Read, Catherine, 1723-1778.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 27964i- Books
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Letters to a young nobleman.
Date: 1763- Books
Owners, annotators and the signs of reading / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote.
Date: [2005], ©2005- Pictures
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Saint Mary Magdalen. Engraving by L.M. Halbou after Molenchon after A. van der Werff.
Werff, Adriaen van der, 1659-1722.Date: [1805]Reference: 6653iPart of: Musée français.- Pictures
A man checking a book out of a public library gains the equivalent of going on holiday. Pen and ink drawing by Steve Simpson and Robert D. Dangoor, 2012.
Dangoor, Robert D., 1953-Date: [2012]Reference: 824349i- Books
The case for books : past, present, future / Robert Darnton.
Darnton, Robert.Date: [2009], ©2009- Books
Bio auto graphic. Sitting ruminations issue / by Michael C. Nicholson.
Nicholson, Michael C. (Michael Christopher), 1962-Date: 2006- Books
Le livre d'enfance et de jeunesse en France / sous la direction de Jean Glénisson et Ségolène Le Men.
Date: 1994- Pictures
A seated woman in a tall hat reading a book: the Libyan sibyl. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 178-, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
Guercino, 1591-1666.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 2804069i- Pictures
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A young shepherdess reading an improving book while looking after her flock. Line engraving by C. Mellan, 1680.
Mellan, Claude, 1598-1688.Date: [1680]Reference: 672373i- Pictures
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A woman reads a book during her toilet and does not concentrate on what she is doing. Aquatint.
Reference: 30689i- Pictures
A man wearing night-dress reading a play. Etching by R. Brichet, 1783, after J.F. de Göz.
Goez, Joseph Franz, Freiherr von, 1754-1815.Date: [1784?]Reference: 2957116i- Pictures
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Dr. Marsh. Photograph by Maull & Co.
Reference: 13190i- Pictures
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A man who is trying to read being disturbed by a family in conversation. Wood engraving by Swain after F. Barnard.
Barnard, Frederick, 1846-1896.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 27072i- Books
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Excursions in Libraria : being restrospective reviews and bibliographical notes / by G.H. Powell.
Powell, G. H. (George Herbert), 1856-1924.Date: 1895- Pictures
A man in nightclothes yawning from reading a volume of 'Sleepy sermons'. Mezzotint, ca. 1771.
Date: [1771?]Reference: 2168634i- Pictures
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An old man is reading while his valets are attending to his toilet. Aquatint by F. Goya, 1812/1888.
Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828.Date: 1812/1888Reference: 567187i- Pictures
An ancient oak tree in Gianicolo, Rome, associated with Torquato Tasso and Saint Philip Neri. Etching by J.G. Strutt, 1842.
Strutt, Jacob George, 1790-1864.Date: [1842?]Reference: 2939736i- Pictures
Saint Mary Magdalen. Lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl after A. Allegri, il Correggio.
Correggio, 1489?-1534.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 2489339i- Books
A view of the pleasures arising from a love of books: in letters to a lady / By the Rev. Edward Mangin.
Mangin, Edward, 1772-1852.Date: [1814]- Pictures
A pool surrounded by a rocky embankment thickly wooded with trees, in which a monk reads from a book and another monk stands in front of him. Engraving by W. Woollett and W. Ellis, 1778, after R. Wilson.
Wilson, Richard, 1713-1782.Date: 4 June, 1778Reference: 3162958i- Books
Writer and public in France : from the Middle Ages to the present day / by John Lough.
Lough, John.Date: 1978- Books
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Elements of natural philosophy. By John Locke, Esq; to which is added, some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman, by the same author.
Locke, John, 1632-1704.Date: M.DCC.LIV. [1754]- Books
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A method of study: or, an useful library. In two parts. Part I. Containing short directions and a catalogue of books for the study of several valuable parts of learning, viz. geography, chronology, history, classical learning, natural philosophy, &c. Part II. Containing som directions for the study of divinity, and prescribing proper Books for that Purpose. By John Boswell, A. M. Vicar of Taunton St. Mary Magdalen, and Prebendary of the Church of Wells.
Boswell, John, 1698-1757.Date: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]-43- Pictures
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An old woman falling asleep over reading a book. Etching by F. Novelli after Rembrandt van Rijn.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.Reference: 16081i