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  • Trinity School, Reading: with a floor plan. Wood engraving by Laing after B. Sly after J. Billing.
  • Huntley & Palmers biscuits : produced as an export showcard for our esteemed customer / Huntley & Palmers Ltd.
  • Huntley & Palmers biscuits : produced as an export showcard for our esteemed customer / Huntley & Palmers Ltd.
  • Huntley & Palmers breakfast biscuits : the latest product in scientific baking : crisp, unsweetened, nutritious, digestive : better than toast or bread.
  • The British Museum: the Additional Library, in the north wing of the museum, looking from west to east towards the reading rooms. Engraving by Radclyffe after L. Jewitt.
  • The Royal Institution, Albemarle Street: the library. Coloured aquatint by J. C. Stadler, 1800, after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
  • A sheet with the materials, tools and diagrams for weaving? a braille pad. Line engraving.
  • The British Museum: the interior of the reading room, in use. Wood engraving by G. F. Sargent.
  • School of the London Society for Teaching the Blind to Read, Avenue Road, London: seen from the road. Coloured lithograph by E. T. Dolby after H. E. Kendall, 1838.
  • A London hair-dresser's shop: a barber shaves a man; a young woman who is having her hair cut recognizes another customer; and a man who rents the upper part reads the Sunday newspaper. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • Astronomy and mathematics: Samuel Vince reading in his rooms at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, by the light of a shaded lamp. Aquatint by F. Jukes with engraving by J. K. Baldrey after R. C. Chilton, c.1784.
  • Several Chelsea Pensioners gathered around, one of whom is reading from a copy of Shurey's illustrated paper. Colour lithograph after S. Lewin.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: the men's ward of the infirmary. Wood engraving by F. Vizetelly, 1860.
  • The British Museum: the interior of the reading room, in use. Wood engraving by [I.C.] after C. Gregory, 1874.
  • Huntley & Palmers Tribrek : the British breakfast food for universal use.
  • Huntley & Palmers Tribrek : the British breakfast food for universal use.
  • Huntley & Palmers Tribrek : the British breakfast food for universal use.
  • Huntley & Palmers Tribrek : the British breakfast food for universal use.
  • A butcher's boy, reading to improve his mind, is so absorbed in his book that his delivery of meat is stolen by a passer-by. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, 1826.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner reading from a book to a small boy, both sitting on the balustrade at the Royal Naval Hospital. Wood engraving.
  • Chelsea Pensioners and others hearing the news of Wellington's victory at Waterloo. Etching.
  • Chelsea Pensioners hearing the news of the battle of Waterloo, outside the Duke of York public house. Engraving by W. Greatbach after D. Wilkie, [between 1822 and 1894].
  • A monkey wearing spectacles reads the Times newspaper, with the Examiner under his arm, sitting beside a globe. Etching by T. Landseer, 1827.
  • Pensioners of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, and others, celebrating the destruction of the Russian navy. Coloured lithograph, 1855.
  • Mrs John Webb, being nursed when sick in bed with "a dead palsey, and ... convulsion in the nerves", before being cured by Sir William Read. Engraving by M. Burghers, ca. 1700.
  • Chelsea Pensioners hearing the news of the battle of Waterloo, outside the Duke of York public house. Engraving by J. Burnet, 1831, after D. Wilkie, 1822.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.
  • The healer.