A man consuming many antidotes to the plague during the Great Plague of London. Etching by J. Franklin, 1841.

People strolling and buying plague antidotes in old St Paul's Cathedral, London. Etching by J. Franklin.

An alchemist's laboratory: a young man drinks an elixir of life while the alchemist is incapacitated. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.

The highwayman Dick Turpin, on horseback, arrives at a tree from which two bodies have been hanged. Lithograph by W. Clerk, ca. 1839.

The giant Gog extricating the dwarf Xit from a bear in the Lions Tower at the Tower of London, watched by Queen Mary I. Etching by George Cruikshank.

The horse of Dick Turpin, Black Bess, dies of exhaustion after Turpin tries to escape from his pursuers. Lithograph by W. Clerk, 1839.

A barber's shop near Lincoln's Inn, London: a man answering an advertisement for the barber's assistant points to the advertisement in The times newspaper. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.

1 print : etching, with aquatint ; image 9.7 x 14.1 cm

1 print : wood engraving ; image 12.9  x 10.7 cm

Bentley's miscellany

2 unnumbered leaves, 434 pages, 1 unnumbered bl. leaves : illustrations, frontispiece, plates ; (8vo)

Old Saint Pauls. A tale of the plague and the fire / by William Harrison Ainsworth.

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People strolling and buying plague antidotes in old St Paul's Cathedral, London. Etching by J. Franklin.

A barber's shop near Lincoln's Inn, London: a man answering an advertisement for the barber's assistant points to the advertisement in The times newspaper. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.

Bentley's miscellany

Old Saint Pauls. A tale of the plague and the fire / by William Harrison Ainsworth.

Bentley's miscellany

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