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  • Mr E. Naucke, weighing 410 lbs. Reproduction of wood engraving.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by Johnny Trundley, the Peckham Fat Boy at the Royal Standard music hall (opposite Victoria Station, London) with a bill of other acts].
  • Notice : living phenomenon ... Miss Mariette Rovari, this young lady, 22 years of age, weighs 622 lb. ...
  • William Ball, a man weighing forty stone. Wood engraving.
  • Daniel Lambert, weighing almost forty stone. Etching by A. van Assen, 1804, after J. Parry.
  • Extraordinary exhibition : Cosmorama Rooms, 290, Regent Street : The greatest lady in the world! A rival to the celebrated Daniel Lambert. This phenomen is now exhibiting each day, from 11 1-2 till 5-and 7 till 9 o'clock : Mrs. Elizabeth Armitage of the extraordinary weight of 31 stone 11 lbs. or, 445 pounds ... / Cosmorama Rooms.
  • Daniel Lambert, a very large man. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Now exhibiting for a short time, at 122, Fleet Street, City, opposite Punch's office : Just arrived from America the greatest wonder of the world. The great American prize lady, Miss C. Heenan ... heaviest female living, weighing 40 stone ...
  • A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. Coloured etching by J.P.M. Jazet after H. Heath.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Comments on corpulency. Lineaments of leanness. Mems on diet and dietetics / By William Wadd.
  • Mrs. Cadman : of Medworth, Nottinghamshire; died 1802; weighing 27 stone.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • An obese man consulting a doctor. Coloured etching.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Mr E. Naucke, weighing 410 lbs. Reproduction of wood engraving.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Arthur Sidney Matthews aged one, weighing forty pounds. Reproduction of a watercolour.
  • [Newspaper cutting about a 40 stone man, William Ball, known as John Bull who worked for the Colebrook-dale company of ironmasters. ].
  • S. Watson's Grand American Museum, 28 Oxford Street : Living curiosities from all parts of the world : Captain Alexander, the giant of giants... [etc.].
  • Everybody should go and see the beautiful child -- the giant boy, a second Daniel Lambert ... : James Paine, of London, aged 9 years, weighs the enormous weight of 19 stone and a half ...
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Edward Bright, a man weighing forty three and a half stone. Line engraving.
  • [Folded leaflet about "the life and adventures of the gigantic family" of Queen's County, Ireland. Ann O'Neal is the eldest daughter (also known as Ann O'Neill in other publications). "Gigantic" appears to mean very fat].
  • Doctor Jukes pumping the stomach of Sir W. Curtis, several other aldermen wait to be operated on; representing the gross appetites of some civic dignitaries. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1824.
  • Edward Bright, a man weighing forty three and a half stone. Wood engraving.