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  • Certifcate: indenture by which E.M. Grace was apprenticed to his father to learn of surgeon and apothecary, Bristol
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, a small loom for child apprentice weavers to learn on. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Caricature: Faraday giving his card to Father Thames. 'And we hope the Dirty Fellow will consult the learned Professor.'
  • Textiles: a child-sized loom for apprentice weavers to learn tapestry weaving on, elevation (top), section (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Kitchen folk, athletic folk, old folk, young folk, fair folk, fighting folk, learned folk, high folk, low folk, good folk all keep an eye on Bovril.
  • A learned physician with a library of Latin books writes a prescription but cannot save his patients from death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700.
  • Kitchen folk, athletic folk, old folk, young folk, fair folk, fighting folk, learned folk, high folk, low folk, good folk all keep an eye on Bovril.
  • Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.
  • A boy learns from an older man about AIDS; an advertisement for AIDS education by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Michael Taubenheim and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • The idiot in four books. The first and second of wisdome. The third of the minde. The fourth of statick experiments, or experiments of the ballance / By the famous and learned C. Cusanus.
  • The idiot in four books. The first and second of wisdome. The third of the minde. The fourth of statick experiments, or experiments of the ballance / By the famous and learned C. Cusanus.
  • The idiot in four books. The first and second of wisdome. The third of the minde. The fourth of statick experiments, or experiments of the ballance / By the famous and learned C. Cusanus.
  • A learned treatise of the plague: wherein ... whether the plague be infectious, or no: and whether, and how far it may be shunned of Christians, by going aside? are resolved / [Théodore de Bèza].
  • The side of a building with the question "One day, when all diseases will be overcome, shall we finally learn how to live", referring to AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Jochen Gerz, 1993.
  • How I lived on threepence a day and what I learned from it : with chapters on the A. B. C. of cheap and good foods, their cost and comparative value / F. J. Cross.
  • The royal pharmacopoea, Galenical and chymical, according to the practice of the most eminent and learned physitians of France. And publish'd with their several approbations / By Moses Charas ... Faithfully englished. Illustrated with several copper plates.
  • The royal pharmacopoea, Galenical and chymical, according to the practice of the most eminent and learned physitians of France. And publish'd with their several approbations / By Moses Charas ... Faithfully englished. Illustrated with several copper plates.
  • A man sleeps by a hot stove; a devil blows evil thoughts into his ear; Venus gestures towards the stove, and Cupid learns to walk on stilts in the foreground. Engraving by A. Dürer, ca. 1497-1498.
  • Dear Janet, We were recently amazed to learn that a group of supporters of London Lighthouse had quietly been putting together a remarkable limited edition book exclusively for the benefir of the centre / Jason Clapperton, Fundraising Department.
  • The royal pharmacopoea, Galenical and chymical, according to the practice of the most eminent and learned physitians of France. And publish'd with their several approbations / By Moses Charas ... Faithfully englished. Illustrated with several copper plates.
  • The royal pharmacopoea, Galenical and chymical, according to the practice of the most eminent and learned physitians of France. And publish'd with their several approbations / By Moses Charas ... Faithfully englished. Illustrated with several copper plates.
  • The royal pharmacopoea, Galenical and chymical, according to the practice of the most eminent and learned physitians of France. And publish'd with their several approbations / By Moses Charas ... Faithfully englished. Illustrated with several copper plates.
  • The royal pharmacopoea, Galenical and chymical, according to the practice of the most eminent and learned physitians of France. And publish'd with their several approbations / By Moses Charas ... Faithfully englished. Illustrated with several copper plates.
  • A man sleeps by a hot stove; a devil blows evil thoughts into his ear; Venus gestures towards the stove, and Cupid learns to walk on stilts in the foreground. Engraving by A. Dürer, ca. 1497-1498.
  • A man sleeps by a hot stove; a devil blows evil thoughts into his ear; Venus gestures towards the stove, and Cupid learns to walk on stilts in the foreground. Engraving by A. Dürer, ca. 1497-1498.
  • A warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers: faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others : with above one hundred and twenty sad and dreadful examples of Gods severe judgements upon notorious drunkards ... To which is added His Majesties proclamation against vicious ... persons ... Also some cautions of a learned doctor of physick [i.e. Everard Maynwaring], declaring how intemperate drinking destroyes our bodily health and strength.
  • A warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers: faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others : with above one hundred and twenty sad and dreadful examples of Gods severe judgements upon notorious drunkards ... To which is added His Majesties proclamation against vicious ... persons ... Also some cautions of a learned doctor of physick [i.e. Everard Maynwaring], declaring how intemperate drinking destroyes our bodily health and strength.
  • A warning-piece to all drunkards and health-drinkers: faithfully collected from the works of English and foreign learned authors of good esteem, Mr. Samuel Ward and Mr. Samuel Clark, and others : with above one hundred and twenty sad and dreadful examples of Gods severe judgements upon notorious drunkards ... To which is added His Majesties proclamation against vicious ... persons ... Also some cautions of a learned doctor of physick [i.e. Everard Maynwaring], declaring how intemperate drinking destroyes our bodily health and strength.
  • The rear view of two teddies seated with their arms wrapped around each other and the message in French 'Love is blind. AIDS: Learn, Protect yourself!'; with contact details for the Aids Info SIDA in Brussels. Colour lithograph by René Demarets, ca. 1997.
  • Phrenological propensities: philoprogenitiveness, amativeness, self-love, individuality, number; illustrated by a huge and happy family, an apothecary making advances on his maidservant, a dandy admiring his reflection, Seurat the human skeleton, Toby the learned pig. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826, after himself.