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The Asylum for Female Orphans, Lambeth: the interior of the dining room. Coloured aquatint by Hill, 1808, after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.

A Greenwich Pensioner sits at table, eating soup, attended [?] by three others: all are disabled in various ways. Lithograph.

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.

A family sit around a table eating their Christmas meal and greet the arrival of the plum pudding which is being carried in on a large tray. Colour process print after Cecil Aldin.

Three types of hyena and many vultures surrounding a kill on the African plains. Coloured lithograph by W C Harris.

A crane inserts its beak into the mouth of a wolf; illustrating Aesop's fable. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

A donkey carries wood while people shelter and eat near a fire; representing winter. Etching, 17--, after F.G. Bassano the younger.

Practical gastronomy and culinary dictionary, being a valuable guide to cooks and others interested in the art of cookery, containing sketches and quotations of culinary literature : a complete menu compiler and register of most known dishes in English and French, with practical observations on the same / by Charles Herman Senn.

The handbook of dining, or, Corpulency and leanness scientifically considered : comprising the art of dining on correct principles consistent with easy digestion, the avoidance of corpulency, and the cure of leanness, together with special remarks on these subjects / by Brillat-Savarin ; translated by L.F.

Buon appetito, your holiness / Mariangela Rinaldi and Mariangela Vicini ; translated from the Italian by Adam Victor.

Essays, moral, philosophical, and stomachical, on the important science of good-living / By Launcelot Sturgeon.

Histoire de l'alimentation et de la gastronomie depuis la préhistoire jusqua'à nos jours : Illus. documentaires / [Alfred Gottschalk].

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Buon appetito, your holiness / Mariangela Rinaldi and Mariangela Vicini ; translated from the Italian by Adam Victor.

Essays, moral, philosophical, and stomachical, on the important science of good-living / By Launcelot Sturgeon.

Histoire de l'alimentation et de la gastronomie depuis la préhistoire jusqua'à nos jours : Illus. documentaires / [Alfred Gottschalk].