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  • Ribonuclease A with bound inhibitor
  • A Chinese man imprisoned with bound hands and feet is reclining on a bench. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • A man, bound at the stake, is disemboweled by a Chinese man with a sword. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Martyrdom of three saints, bound to a post and tortured with hooks. Woodcut.
  • A Chinese prisoner with bound hands and feet and head covered is slowly strangled by two executioners with rope. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A Chinese man with bound feet is tied to a stump by the neck with a chain and a tube of bamboo. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • A Chinese man with bound feet being led to execution by two Chinese men holding swords. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • Astronomy: an anthropomorphic comet, with a tail composed of earth-bound objects. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • A Chinese man with his hands bound in a wooden grid, kneeling on the ground, is tortured by two men holding a long stick and a man with a rope. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • Ecclesiastes, chapter XII, on old age. From a family Bible, bound with the Book of Common Prayer, 1607.
  • Two Chinese girls with bound feet are making love on a mattress. Lithograph by J.B. Mauzaisse, 1829.
  • Two Chinese girls with bound feet are making love on a mattress. Lithograph by J.B. Mauzaisse, 1829.
  • A seated female figure with bound mouth holding a palette and a mahl stick and supporting an oval male portrait, with a second female figure handing a pair of dividers to a boy, with other boys drawing and supporting a blank sheet. Red chalk drawing.
  • Bound feet of a Chinese lady compared with the unbound feet of a working Chinese woman. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood.
  • Two Chinese opium smokers reclining in a booth watched by a woman with bound feet. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • A young man walking to left, facing right, supporting a yoke on his right shoulder, with both ankles bound and attached to a ball; representing joyful servitude. Collotype after an engraving attributed to A. Scultori (Ghisi).
  • Prometheus bound to a rock, his liver eaten by an eagle and his torch dropped from his hand. Engraving with etching.
  • Two Chinese prisoners with their ankles bound to a metal bar, squat on the ground. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A Chinese man with his hands bound behind his back and two red flags on his head is being whipped with wooden sticks, as he is led to trial by a man beating a gong. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • A bonesetter, A.E. Kennard, at work in St Katherine Cree church, London: a small boy with a bound leg sits on his lap while patients wait in the pews; a nurse and a vicar look on. Photograph, ca. 1925.
  • A bonesetter, A.E. Kennard, at work in St Katherine Cree church, London: a small boy with a bound leg sits on his lap while patients wait in the pews; a nurse and a vicar look on. Photograph, ca. 1925.
  • A Chinese man with bound hands, surrounded by a guard holding a chain and a guard holding a stick, is kneeling before a magistrate seated at his desk and his two assistants. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • Five prisoners in Persia walking around a yard bound together by chains, a guard with a sword walks nearby. Process print by C. Hentschel after F. Dadd.
  • A girl receives three gifts from three young women: a painting from a woman seted at an easel, a leather-bound book from a woman dressed in outdoor clothes, and a model of a chalet from a woman with scissors and a knife. Engraving.
  • Above, a bookseller is chained to the stake and burnt with books bound around his neck; below, the martyr John Calas, a French Protestant, is tortured on the wheel. Engraving with etching, 1812.
  • Boer War: the deck of a homeward-bound hospital ship about to depart, with two wounded soldiers shaking hands. Gouache painting by W. Small, c. 1900, after D. Gunn.
  • Fourteen male prisoners in Persia sitting on the ground in a group bound together at the neck by chains, with an armed guard. Wood engraving, 1873, after Evelyn H. Ellis.
  • The practice of physick, in seventeen several books / ... by N. Culpeper, A. Cole and W. Rowland. Being chiefly a translation of the works of L. Riverius ... With these books is bound a physical dictionary explaining hard words.
  • The practice of physick, in seventeen several books / ... by N. Culpeper, A. Cole and W. Rowland. Being chiefly a translation of the works of L. Riverius ... With these books is bound a physical dictionary explaining hard words.
  • Martyrdom of a French bookseller in Avignon: tied to the stake with books bound around his neck a man raises his hands toward heaven while a priest attends to him and a man stokes the fire of the pyre. Etching after D. Dodd, 1765.