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A traveller being entranced by a witch disguised as a beautiful woman in the Alps. Engraving by T. Stocks after F. Meadows.

Two couples in a dance position. Ink drawing.

It floats : Swan Soap : train up a child in the way it should go / Lever Brothers Limited.

Shukra and Rambha. Chromolithograph by R. Varma, 1894.

A sculpture yard filled with copies of Greek and Roman sculptures, together with contemporary people and objects. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1753.

Venus at her toilet; she sits on the lap of a female attendant, another attendant combs her hair and two cherubs hold a mirror in which she admires her own beauty. Engraving by M. Dorigny, 1651, after S. Vouet.

Apsara with pet deer. Watercolour drawing.

Furniture in human and animal forms. Coloured etching by S. de Wilde, 1807, after "Sylvester Scrutiny".

A country dance in a long hall; the elegance of the couple on the left contrasts with the ridiculous poses of the more rustic figures beyond representing "unidealized" humanity; straight, angular and round shapes. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1753.

Kallos : a treatise on the scientific culture of personal beauty and the cure of ugliness / by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Letters to a young nobleman.

On ugliness / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.

A letter to H. Repton, Esq. on the application of the practice as well as the principles of landscape-painting to landscape-gardening: intended as a supplement to the Essay on the picturesque. By Uvedale Price, Esq. To which is prefixed, Mr. Repton's letter to Mr. Price.

The human eros : eco-ontology and the aesthetics of existence / Thomas M. Alexander.

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Kallos : a treatise on the scientific culture of personal beauty and the cure of ugliness / by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Letters to a young nobleman.

On ugliness / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.

A letter to H. Repton, Esq. on the application of the practice as well as the principles of landscape-painting to landscape-gardening: intended as a supplement to the Essay on the picturesque. By Uvedale Price, Esq. To which is prefixed, Mr. Repton's letter to Mr. Price.

The human eros : eco-ontology and the aesthetics of existence / Thomas M. Alexander.