Stories
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Book design, dissected
Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Eels and feels
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.
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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
Catalogue
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Serpents' venom : artificial and natural immunity : antidotal properties of the blood-serum of immunized animals and of venomous serpents / by Thomas R. Fraser.
Date: 1895- Pictures
Men visiting the Fountain of Serpents. Coloured etching with aquatint, 1810.
Date: 1810Reference: 36009i- Books
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An Act to prevent the throwing or fireing of squibs, Serpents, and other Fire-Works.
Ireland.Date: 1731- Books
Catalogue of North American reptiles in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Pt. I, Serpents / by S.F. Baird and C. Girard.
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887.Date: [1853]- Books
Flu and you / Nigel J. Saunders.
Saunders, Nigel J.Date: 2009