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  • To J. H. Clark : inventor and patentee : the practical game foods & medicines manufacturer : game and poultry biscuit meals and dog & puppy biscuit manufacturers and pheasant breeder.
  • To J. H. Clark : inventor and patentee : the practical game foods & medicines manufacturer : game and poultry biscuit meals and dog & puppy biscuit manufacturers and pheasant breeder.
  • Game and hunting, six separate images: a stricken pheasant falling to the ground; a dead grouse (?); an injured snipe (?); a dead hare; a stricken rabbit; two huntsmen on foot carrying rifles and accompanied by dogs, with a covered horse-drawn wagon full of dead game. Etching after E.H. Landseer, 1820/1848.
  • Adonis vernalis L. Ranunculaceae. Pheasant's eye, the golden flowered spring (or vernal) Adonis, is named in memory of Adonis, the Greek god of plants, who disappeared into the earth in the winter and reappeared in the spring. The flowers were said to have sprung from his blood when he was gored to death by a wild boar, but this plant must have been the blood red Adonis aestivalis, the summer Adonis. Distribution: Eurasia to Spain and Sweden. Gerard (1633) recommends it for renal stone and intestinal colic. Lewis & Elvin Lewis (2003) note it is poisonous, containing cardiac glycosides (adonitoxin, cymarin, K-strophanthin) and flavonoids. The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)) bans its use for ingestion 'no dose permitted' but allow it to be prescribed by a herbal practitioner on a one-to-one consultation. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A title page (right) embellished with illustration of people ascending steep cliffs and a book plate (left) of four birds. Engravings by S. Davenport, ca. 1821.
  • Ask for Spratt's Patent meat fibrine vegetable dog cakes with beetroot.
  • Ask for Spratt's Patent meat fibrine vegetable dog cakes with beetroot.
  • Separate pictures of garden fruit, flowers, vegetables, birds, dogs and two monkeys dressed as gardeners. Coloured etchings, 18th century.
  • Top left, gamebirds watching in safety while hunters and poachers shoot each other; top right, a graveyard for colonial institutions in Africa; bottom left, spoonbills (birds) made of teapots and spoons; bottom centre, two men talking about a hen and some ducklings; bottom right, a weather vane in the form of a man holding a gun. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1831.
  • A disguised fox is peering through a vault into a yard, trying to beguile the birds in the enclosure. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • Kossolian blood salt for poultry...
  • Trade card: Spratt's Patent Poultry Meal
  • Spratts patent "pure fibrine" poultry meal & poultry appliances / [Spratt's Patent]
  • Spratts patent "pure fibrine" poultry meal & poultry appliances / [Spratt's Patent]
  • Huntsmen opening gates to release dogs to chase after fowl. Etching by W. S. Howitt.
  • Bot. of E. & A. Purser , purveyors of English meat, fish, game, poultry & provision stores : 127, & 129, High Street, Slough : Windsor & Maidenhead : proprietors of dairies ... / E. & A. Purser.
  • Whitmore's fish, game and poultry : 168 High Street, West Bromwich ... / G.E. Whitmore.
  • Twelve British wild flowers with their common names. Coloured engraving, c. 1861, after J. Sowerby.
  • Making him a better dog... / Spillers Victoria Foods Ltd.
  • Making him a better dog... / Spillers Victoria Foods Ltd.
  • A white pony in a stable. Engraving by F. Bromley after A. Cooper, 1836.
  • Liebig "Company's" extract of beef : J. Liebig: this signature on each jar [of the] finest meat flavouring stock for soups, sauces and made dishes / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Ltd.
  • Liebig "Company's" extract of beef : J. Liebig: this signature on each jar [of the] finest meat flavouring stock for soups, sauces and made dishes / Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Ltd.
  • Chinese woodcut, food incompatibilities
  • R. Bertin in character as Mademoiselle Foscolo. Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.
  • R. Bertin in character as Mademoiselle Foscolo. Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.