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Nine illustrations following the sequence of events of a date between Yves and Pascale which results in sex with a condom; the illustrations include a car, a chef holding up a restaurant menu, a cinema ticket, a car, a bottle of wine and 2 glasses, 2 cigarettes in an ash tray and a condom packet; an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph by P. Petit-Roulet.

A young woman leans against a tree while she waits for her lover. Lithograph after H. Decaisne.

How much would you tell on a first date? : no-one tells everything about themselves ... / Terrence Higgins Trust.

A chaperone introduces a young dancer or actress in costume to an elderly man in top hat and tails; he chucks the young woman under the chin, and the chaperone leaves them. Process print after A. Guillaume.

How much would you tell on a first date? / Terrence Higgins Trust.

1 print : lithograph, printed in blue, black and white ; sheet 60 x 50.5 cm

6 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 11 cm

I hope this mini zine makes you laugh while in quarantine : a zine filled with cheesy pick up lines from Tinder / AJ Smith.

Shapely ankle preferr'd : a history of the lonely hearts ad / by Francesca Beauman.

1 print : lithograph ; image 19.1 x 15.1 cm

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I hope this mini zine makes you laugh while in quarantine : a zine filled with cheesy pick up lines from Tinder / AJ Smith.

A chaperone introduces a young dancer or actress in costume to an elderly man in top hat and tails; he chucks the young woman under the chin, and the chaperone leaves them. Process print after A. Guillaume.

Shapely ankle preferr'd : a history of the lonely hearts ad / by Francesca Beauman.

A young woman leans against a tree while she waits for her lover. Lithograph after H. Decaisne.

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I hope this mini zine makes you laugh while in quarantine : a zine filled with cheesy pick up lines from Tinder / AJ Smith.

A chaperone introduces a young dancer or actress in costume to an elderly man in top hat and tails; he chucks the young woman under the chin, and the chaperone leaves them. Process print after A. Guillaume.

Shapely ankle preferr'd : a history of the lonely hearts ad / by Francesca Beauman.

A young woman leans against a tree while she waits for her lover. Lithograph after H. Decaisne.

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