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The good Samaritan tending to a wounded man while a priest and a Levite walk on by. Line engraving by T. Cook, 1809, after W. Hogarth.

Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: the ceremony of immersion. Pencil drawing by R. Cleaver.

Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.

Golden Temple, Amritsar. Coloured transfer lithograph.

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: the shrine and sacred well. Wood engraving by H. Lanos.

Serbo-Turkish War: series of sketches including the convalescent hospital, the Chapel at Lazare and prisoners of war. Wood engraving.

Mademoiselle de La Vallière reading from the Bible to a sick paralysed woman, another prays while a dog welcomes the encouraging Saint Anselm. Coloured stipple engraving by L.C. Ruotte, 17--, after J.F. Schall.

The family prayer-book: or, prayers to be used in families every morning and evening. To which are added some distinct forms for more special and extraordinary occasions.

Double picture: Durga slaying the buffalo demon, Shri Deri; Shri Dattatreya with a cow, two worshippers and dog. Transfer lithograph.

Tomb of the Virgin, Jerusalem. Chromolithograph by H. Clerget and J. Gaildrau after François Edmond Pâris, 1862.

A collection of forms of prayer for every day in the week. The sixth edition. Published by John Wesley, M.A. Fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford.

The sick man visited; and furnish'd with instructions, meditations, and prayers, suitable to his condition, for putting him in Mind of his Change, for supporting him under his Distemper, and for preparing him for, and carrying him through his last Conflict with Death. By N. Spinckes, A Presbyter of the Church of England.

Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian. Woodcut and letterpress.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin). Etching.

Certain necessary directions, as well for the cure of the plague, as for preventing the infection with many easie medicines of small charge, very profitable to His Majesties subjects / Set downe by the Colledge of Physicians by the Kings Majesties speciall command. With sundry orders thought meet by His Majestie, and his Privie Councell for prevention of the plague. Also certaine select statutes ... Together with His Majesties proclamation for further direction therein and a decree in Starre-Chamber. Concerning buildings and in-mates.

Oracion contra la peste : O mi Señor Jesucristo! Dios justo: Dios immortal: tened piedad de nosotros y de todo el género humano ... Amen.

Orders, thought meete by Her Maiestie, and her privie Councell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague ... Also, an advise set downe ... by the best learned in physicke ... contayning sundry good rules and easie medicines.

The Virgin of Health in the church of St. Catherine of Strada Maggiore at Bologna. Photogravure.

Orders, thought meete by Her Maiestie, and her priuie Councell, to be executed throughout the counties of this realme, in such townes, villages, and other places, as are, or may be hereafter infected with the plague, for the stay of further increase of the same. Also, an aduise set downe vpon Her Maiesties expresse commaundement, by the best learned in physicke within this realme, contayning sundry good rules and easie medicines. Without charge to the meaner sort of people, aswell for the preseruation of her good subiects from the plague before infection, as for the curing and ordring of them after they shalbe infected.

The triumphant Christ Child standing on the Jesuit monogram, above instruments of the Passion; surrounded by cherubim. Engraving.

Croce : Li San Zaccaria vescovo di Gerusalemme, al quale facendo orazione a pro quella città devastata della peste, fu inspirato il presente mistero col quale restò placata sua Divina Maestà facendo cessare il sopraccennato castigo.

A short collection of prayers, formerly annexed to the liturgy of the Church of England to which are added prayers suited to the holy communion selected from the Manual of Bishop Kenn. Re-Published by Basil Woodd, A. M. Minister of Bentinck Chapel, St. Mary-li-Bone, Lecturer of St. Peter's, Cornhill; and Chaplain to the Right Hon. The Earl of Leicester.

Some short and plain directions for the spending of one day well; by which (if every day carefully observed) a man may be much enabled, (through God's grace) to spend his whole life well. By the author of The answer to all excuses and pretences for not coming to the Holy Communion.

Pious breathings: being the meditations of St. Augustine, in four books. Viz. I. On the Sufferings of Christ; with the Pious Soul's Application of his Death to herself by Faith. II. On the Love of God; with his Discourses of Regeneration and the Communication of divine Grace. III. His private Contemplations on the Misery of unregenerate Men; the Almighty Power of God and his Methods of Grace in our Sanctification and Salvation. IV. Meditations on the Excellency of the Divine Perfections, and the Happiness of the Blessed in a future State of Glory. To which is added, the meditations of St. Anselm and St. Bernard, on the Crucifixion of Christ, the Treachery of Judas, the Resurrection of Jesus from the Dead; with Devout Prayers, Meditations, and Contemplations suitable to each particular Subject. Translated into English, by George Stanhope, D. D. late Dean of Canterbury. Adorn'd with cuts.

A plain and serious address to the master of a family, on the important subject of family-religion. By P. Doddridge, D.D.

The great worth of scripture knowledge; with some general directions, or rules, for the right understanding of the Holy Scriptures. To which is added, a comment on the Lord's Prayer. By Francis Roberts, D. D. Rector of the Church at Wrington, in the County of Somerset, Abridged by John Tift.

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Some short and plain directions for the spending of one day well; by which (if every day carefully observed) a man may be much enabled, (through God's grace) to spend his whole life well. By the author of The answer to all excuses and pretences for not coming to the Holy Communion.

A plain and serious address to the master of a family, on the important subject of family-religion. By P. Doddridge, D.D.

The great worth of scripture knowledge; with some general directions, or rules, for the right understanding of the Holy Scriptures. To which is added, a comment on the Lord's Prayer. By Francis Roberts, D. D. Rector of the Church at Wrington, in the County of Somerset, Abridged by John Tift.