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Hills & Laport : preservers of milton native oysters, milk, cream, bottled fruits, pickles &c. : no. 48, Eastcheap, London : Herring, anchovy & other pastes.

Fisher-folk and their methods of catching oysters. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.

A man buys an oyster from a woman behind the counter in a London oyster saloon. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.

Four specimens of tufa from the quarries near the Grotto of Posillipo. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

A poor patient telling his doctor that he wants to stay alive because oysters will be cheap again. Wood engraving after C. Keene.

An inexperienced student doctor taking the pulse of a patient in his bed. Coloured etching by A.M. Mills, 1806.

A woman selling oysters at night. Wood engraving by H. Linton after H. Morland.

People are crowded around a table on which there is a large dish of oysters, a waterman with an oar looks on, and a boy is emptying more oysters out of a donkey's panniers. Engraving by William Greatbach after A. Fraser.

Dr. H. Timbrell Bulstrode's report to the Local Government Board upon alleged oyster-home enteric fever and other illness following the mayoral banquets at Winchester and Southampton, and upon enteric fever occurring simultaneously elsewhere and also ascribed to oysters.

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Dr. H. Timbrell Bulstrode's report to the Local Government Board upon alleged oyster-home enteric fever and other illness following the mayoral banquets at Winchester and Southampton, and upon enteric fever occurring simultaneously elsewhere and also ascribed to oysters.

Hills & Laport : preservers of milton native oysters, milk, cream, bottled fruits, pickles &c. : no. 48, Eastcheap, London : Herring, anchovy & other pastes.

People are crowded around a table on which there is a large dish of oysters, a waterman with an oar looks on, and a boy is emptying more oysters out of a donkey's panniers. Engraving by William Greatbach after A. Fraser.

Four specimens of tufa from the quarries near the Grotto of Posillipo. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

Fisher-folk and their methods of catching oysters. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.