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  • Rivalry between newspapers; caricatured by two men squirting printing ink at one another from either end of a table. Lithograph.
  • Printing: men working at a printing press, proofing copy, inking, and setting type. Wood engraving after a woodcut.
  • Printing: equipment for inking the type, etc. Engraving by R. Bénard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • The human brain, divided according to Bernard Hollander's system of phrenology. Process print with pen and ink, c. 1902.
  • Men working at a printing press, proofing copy, inking, and setting type. Wood engraving. 18--, after Stradanus, ca.1580.
  • Joints of the human body: annotated illustrations, with proportions marked. Pen and ink, probably copied from a printed book, 1830/1850.
  • Printing: inking the type and operating the press (above), plan of the press (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Printing engravings from copper plates: two men inking the plates, another operating the press (top), equipment (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Proportions of the human body: annotated illustrations of the human face, body, hands and feet, with proportions marked. Pen and ink, probably copied from a printed book, 1830/1850.
  • Proportions of the human body: annotated illustrations of the human body, with proportions marked, comparing the lengths of the arm and leg. Pen and ink, probably copied from a printed book, 1830/1850.
  • The Pasteur Institute Hospital, Kasauli, India: Indian patients receiving their daily financial allowance for food; an illiterate patient (right) has his thumb inked to provide a thumb-print receipt. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Printing: cleaning formes (top), and the equipment used (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Printers working at a printing press, and setting type. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Allegory of civilisation and AIDS in the character of Richard II. Ink drawing by N. Garland, 1988.
  • Herbarium / [Apuleius].
  • Herbarium / [Apuleius].
  • Herbarium / [Apuleius].
  • Anti-AIDS advert by Infoshare International
  • A naked woman and a suited man reach towards a condom packet as a man dressed in a long black cloak and hat holding a cat looms up behind with the moon beyond; a safe sex and anti-AIDS advertisement by Infoshare International. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • Cupiss' laxative balls : (a purgative and diuretic ball for horses) : as prepared by the late Francis Cupiss, M.R.C.V.S., Diss. / Francis Cupiss Ltd.
  • Cupiss' laxative balls : (a purgative and diuretic ball for horses) : as prepared by the late Francis Cupiss, M.R.C.V.S., Diss. / Francis Cupiss Ltd.
  • Hunting: a man stalking partridges (?) (top), a trap for catching ground-feeding birds. Engraving, c.1762 by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Seamen's Hospital Society [letter head] : ("Dreadnought"), Greenwich, S.E. 10.
  • To the Middlesex Laboratory of Glandular Research Ltd., 21 Farringdon Avenue, London, E.C.4.... : order form.
  • Prepared peat moss litter ... : a useful, comfortable, and health-promoting bedding for dogs and birds ... /cLiverine Limited.
  • An apothecary weeping at the grave of his late most prosperous and prevalent patient. Coloured aquatint by G.M. Woodward, 1801.
  • A cleansing drench and certain restorative for cows, after bad calvings : to be given fasting, in three pints of gruel, sweetened with a quarter of a pound of treacle or brown sugar.
  • County of Wilts. : the contagious diseases (animals) act, 1878 : the animals order : notice is hereby given that a pigstye situate at Studley, in the Parish of Bremhill, in the county of Wilts, in the occupation of Mrs. Eliza Chivers, is, by the Local Authority for the purposes of the above act, ordered, determined, and declared to be a place infected with SWINE FEVER, and that the limits of such pigstye are the limits of such infected place... / by order, R.W. Merriman.
  • Sea vegetables : delicious, nutritious food from the ocean... / Clearspring Ltd.
  • County of Wilts. : the contagious diseases (animals) act, 1878 : the animals order : notice is hereby given that the pigstye situate at Foxham, in the parish of Christian Malford, in the county of Wilts., in the occupation of Henry Freegard, is, by the Local Authority for the purposes of the above act, ordered, determined, and declared to be a place infected with swine fever... / by order, R.W. Merriman.