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  • Chang and Eng the Siamese twins, one holding a book. Lithograph.
  • A book cover designed as a board game about safer sex risks. Colour lithograph by the Walraven Book Cover Company, 1992.
  • A seated man holding a large book. Lithograph by H. Singleton, 1803.
  • A Japanese physician reading a book. Lithograph by Hanhart after C. Wirgman.
  • A girl looking at a picture book. Lithograph by Helen Hyde, 1902.
  • A naval physician in uniform studying books at a large table. Coloured lithograph, 1829.
  • A doctor who writes books of sexual advice talking to his cynical publisher. Coloured lithograph, 1852.
  • Oliver Caswell and Laura Bridgman reading embossed letters from a book. Lithograph by W. Sharp, 1844, after A. Fisher.
  • Saint Francis of Sales holding the Sacred Heart and his book Introduction to the devout life. Colour lithograph, ca. 1900.
  • A foppish medical student smoking a cigarette, a tankard is on top of his medical books; denoting a cavalier attitude. Lithograph, 1854.
  • Children hold a book up to a personified water droplet: sanitation campaign in Morocco. Colour lithograph by Moroccan Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A classroom with children sitting at long tables and a teacher standing with a book in her hand. Lithograph by J.B. Sonde.
  • A teacher points to a book two boys are reading: National campaign against drug abuse in Kenya. Colour lithograph by NACADA, ca. 2000.
  • An American sailor looking at a prostitute with a warning to use a condom as a protection against sexually transmitted diseases. Lithographic match-book cover.
  • A young woman pressing a half-open book to her heart, her eyes raised upwards, as she undergoes a religious revelation. Colour lithograph after James Sant.
  • Smiling black and white youths holding up different childrens' books; a two-sided advertisement for the Macmillan Boleswa AIDS Awareness Programme. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996 (?).
  • Smiling black and white youths holding up different childrens' books; a two-sided advertisement for the Macmillan Boleswa AIDS Awareness Programme. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996 (?).
  • Children are rushing out of school to play on the see-saw, their books and caps are on the ground. Coloured lithograph by Stannard & Son.
  • An elderly woman reading a novel by the fire asks her maid to change her library books, with a preference for romantic fiction. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • A hand holding saving account book from the Wise People's Bank: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Nigerian Educational Research & Development Council , ca. 1990.
  • A man in leggings sits looking at a book on the floor advertising L'Androgyne, an organisation dedicated to gay and lesbian literature in Montréal, Quebec. Lithograph.
  • Christ's Hospital, London: one of the boys standing beside a table, his hand on some books, the exterior of the New Hall behind. Colour lithograph after J. Cristall.
  • A black man and a white woman sitting on a striped sofa smiling as they read a book together; representing "buddies" who befriending people with AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • A man reading a book on human anatomy next to warning signs about alcohol and drug abuse: National campaign against drug abuse in Kenya. Colour lithograph by NACADA, ca. 2000.
  • A sick man seated in an armchair is turning his head away from a book illustrated with a skeleton; doctor on the left, two servants in the background. Lithograph, ca. 1860.
  • A man leans against some lockers holding two books with a warning about the connection between sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
  • A woman asleep in an armchair: her book is slipping out of her hand, the rest of the room is in disarray; representing oblivion. Lithograph by H. Bertremieux after G.S. Newton.
  • Smiling black and white youths holding up different childrens' books; a two-sided advertisement for the Macmillan Boleswa AIDS Awareness Programme in KwaZulu-Natal Schools supported by Mazda. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996 (?).
  • A physiognomist whose body is entirely made up of faces, sitting at a table diagnosing people's physiognomic characteristics with the help of a book. Coloured lithograph by G.E. Madeley after G. Spratt, 1831.
  • A singer of tales called Rinaldo, performing to an audience of men seated around him: he reads the story from a book and makes gestures with a stick. Coloured lithograph by Gatti & Dura after Gaet. Dura.