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A portfolio of Aubrey Beardsley’s drawings illustrating Salomé by Oscar Wilde.

Aubrey Beardsley

London : John Lane, 1906, 1920Shelfmark: K.T.C.120.b.12.

The Nursery Alice, containing twenty coloured enlargements from Tenniel’s illustrations to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with text adapted to nursery readers by Lewis Carroll.

Lewis Carroll (author), John Tenniel (illustrator)

London : Macmillan & Co, 1890Shelfmark: Cup.410.g.74.

Musei Leveriani explicatio, Anglica et Latina (containing select specimens from the museum of ... Sir A. Lever), etc.

George Shaw (author), Charles Reuben Ryley (artist), James Fittler (artist)

London: Impensis Jacobi Parkinson, 1792, 96. Shelfmark: General Reference Collection 40.e.15.

Journal des dames et des modes. [With coloured plates.] Année 1-3. no. 1-79. A juin 1912-1 août 1914.

Gerda Wegener (artist)

Paris, 1912–14Shelfmark: General Reference Collection P.P.5242.dc.

Cinderella (Ashenputtel) from Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

Brothers Grimm (author), Arthur Rackham (artist).

London : William Heinemann, [1925] Shelfmark: General Reference Collection 12410.r.7.

Beatus of Liébana, Commentary on the Apocalypse (The ‘Silos Apocalypse’)

Beatus of Liébana, Dominico (scribe/illuminator), Munnio (scribe/illuminator), Petrus (scribe/illuminator)

Spain, 1091–1109 Shelfmark: Add MS 11695

Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, of te verandering der Surinaamsche insecten, waar in de Surinaamsche Rupen en worm en met alle des zelfs veranderingen na het leven afgebeeld en beschreeven worden, zynde elk geplaast op die gewassen, bloemen en vruchten, daar sy op gevonden zyn; waar in ook de generatie der kikvorschen ... slangen, spinnen en Mieren werden vertoond en beschreeven, alles in America na het leven en levens groote geschildert en beschreeven.

Maria Sibylla Merian (author)

Amsterdam, [1705] Shelfmark: General Reference Collection 74/649.c.26.

A Curious Herbal containing five hundred cuts of the most usefulplants, which are now used in the practice of physick, to which isadded a short description of ye plants and their common uses inphysick.

Elizabeth Blackwell (author and artist)

London : Samuel Harding, 1737. Shelfmark: General Reference Collection 34.I.12–13

Dis ist das buch der Cirurgia Hantwirckung der wund artzney. [With woodcuts.]

Hieronymus Braunschweig (author)

Durch Hannsen Schönsperger: Augspurg, im deceber, [14]97. Shelfmark: General Reference Collection IB.6373.

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