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  • The English poor in the eighteenth century : a study in social and administrative history / by Dorothy Marshall.
  • Life & letters at Bath in the xviijth century / by A. Barbeau ; with a preface by Austin Dobson.
  • Life & letters at Bath in the xviijth century / by A. Barbeau ; with a preface by Austin Dobson.
  • Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day / edited by H.D. Traill and J.S. Mann.
  • The plague in Shakespeare's London / by F.P. Wilson.
  • The plague in Shakespeare's London / by F.P. Wilson.
  • The plague in Shakespeare's London / by F.P. Wilson.
  • London in the nineteenth century / by Sir Walter Besant.
  • A bangle maker and his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A cowherd and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A wraith-like figure emerges 'cured' from the hospital. Coloured lithograph by Mantoux, c. 1830.
  • A domestics couple of low caste. Gouache drawing.
  • A Jain bringing money home to his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • The Italian social fabric symbolised by a chain of social types, with all relations of dependence ultimately relating back to the devil. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, 1691.
  • Two doctors fight over which method to use on a patient; dramatising the conflict between allopathy and homoeopathy. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A Jain holding a harness accompanied by his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Brahman merchant couple. Watercolour drawing.
  • Hot Baths at Leuk, Switzerland: interior showing patients bathing. Process print after A. Forestier.
  • A snake charmer with three snakes and attendant. Gouache drawing.
  • A Jain farmer and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • An arrangement of different castes including snake charmer, brick-layer, basket-maker, potter and wives. Gouache drawing.
  • A British administrator and retired physician driving a carriage at high speed, accompanied by an Indian servant. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker after Captain G.F. Atkinson.
  • A fiery demon representing the chaos of the Paris Commune and more generally, the infernal results of the ideals of the French Revolution. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1871.
  • Men of different classes and nationalities smoking in different ways. Coloured lithograph.
  • Men of opposing social classes in a game of boules; illustrating the faculty of weight and resistance in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Four men whose distorted shadows are cast on the wall:a an apothecary casting the shadow of a clyster, a censor casting the shadow of a devil, a hereditary peer casting the shadow of a pig, and a Jesuit casting the shadow of a turkey. Coloured lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • Transplanting of teeth.
  • A chemist gives a demonstration involving arsenic to an audience. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier, 1841.
  • In a crowded salon, a wigmaker fits wigs according to occupation; representing the character stereotyping of Gall's phrenology. Coloured etching by J.E. Marcus after J. Smies, c. 1810.