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  • The funeral car of the Duke of Wellington. Wood engraving.
  • Boring operation to connect the drainage system near Grays Inn Lane to the main sewage system. Wood engraving.
  • The Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, Paris: gateway and interior. Wood engraving by C.W. Sheeres after E. Shirond.
  • A hypochondriac at home with his anxious nurse. Wood engraving.
  • Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins, in evening dress. Colour wood engraving by H.S. Miller.
  • Queen's College, Oxford: quadrangle. Wood engraving.
  • Free Schools, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing, 1848.
  • Saint Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth, viewed from the north bank of the Thames. Wood engraving.
  • The funeral ceremony of Charles Darwin at Westminster Abbey, 26 April 1882. Wood engraving.
  • Bridewell Hospital: an aerial view. Wood engraving by [W.H.].
  • A young lady, love-struck after a military ball, visited by her doctor at her mother's request. Wood engraving by John Leech, 1863.
  • Buxton, Derbyshire: the baths, with scale key. Wood engraving by B. Sly after H. Currey.
  • Parodies of pictures at the Royal Academy: a woman in the centre surrounded by candles in holders, a man (Frederic Leighton RA) with a box of collars, a goose girl, soldiers in battle and women at tables. Wood engravings by Dalziel Brothers after J.G Thomson, 1871.
  • A group of men, some with lanterns stand behind a cannon which is loaded and has one end of a very long wound rope attached to the cannon ball. Wood engraving.
  • Gardens of the Acclimatisation Society in Paris: peacocks and other birds. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Two Chinese opium smokers in a booth watched by a woman who fans herself. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • Carpentry: a lathe, with an assortment of tools and a snake (above). Engraving after L.J. Goussier.
  • Instrumenta chyrurgiae et icones anathomicae / [Ambroise Paré].
  • A bourgeois wife shows her husband the preserved foetus of her cousin. Wood engraving by F. Rouget after S.G.C. Gavarni.
  • Michael Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution: Prince Albert and his sons in the audience. Wood engraving, 1856, after A. Blaikley.
  • A father, having banished his daughter to her room, now seeks to console her. Wood engraving by J. Swain after R. Barnes.
  • Men travelling in hot-air balloons by night. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Two tapirs roaming the woods. Coloured wood engraving by J. W. Whimper.
  • Bablake Hospital, Coventry, Warwickshire: the exterior with a group of students coming out. Wood engraving.
  • Two episodes about Mr. Muff and Mr. Randle at the races and being swindled out of some money. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • A young man leans over the back of the young woman's chair and she is smiling as she holds the flower in her hand. Wood engraving by R. Bong X.A. after E. Meisel.
  • The funeral procession of the Duke of York in 1827. Wood engraving.
  • The Temple of Solomon: aerial view, with flames billowing from the sacrificial altar. Wood engraving.
  • Westminster Abbey: interior of Henry VII's chapel. Wood engraving by J. Jackson after W.F. Smallwood, 1843.
  • A boat is being tossed around off shore as men and horses with a life-boat prepare to launch a rescue attempt. Wood engraving after E. Duncan.