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Hercules between Virtue and Vice. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.

M. de Mélincourt is happy that his wife is painting flowers, his sister is playing music, his elder son is learning to fence and is younger son is playing with the dog. Engraving.

Six fashionable young men after a drinking session, all with girls in their arms. Engraving, c. 1796.

A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.

Six vignettes on a design for a fan illustrating how to lead a moral and happy life. Stipple engraving, 1797.

A naked man is sitting on a box containing masks and leans on a globe, above him a winged figure blowing the trumpet is surrounded by sleeping, fighting, copulating, masturbating and hard working figures; representing a dream. Engraving by F. van der Steen after N. van Hoey after Michelangelo.

The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.

Four groups of figures in conversation. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, ca. 1800.

Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life : being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues / written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle.

History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne / William Edward Hartpole Lecky.

Left, a poem illustrated with vignettes of naked male figures; right, a man wearing a black cloak is standing on a naked body lying on the ground; a naked woman next to him; two cloaked men in the background. Line block by the "Arc" Engraving Co. after A.O. Spare, 1904.

How to maintain and improve the race / by the Lord Bishop of Birmingham [and others].

How to develop emotional health / Oliver James.

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Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life : being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues / written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle.

History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne / William Edward Hartpole Lecky.

Left, a poem illustrated with vignettes of naked male figures; right, a man wearing a black cloak is standing on a naked body lying on the ground; a naked woman next to him; two cloaked men in the background. Line block by the "Arc" Engraving Co. after A.O. Spare, 1904.

How to maintain and improve the race / by the Lord Bishop of Birmingham [and others].

How to develop emotional health / Oliver James.