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.

A man tugged one way by a prostitute and the other way by a religious lady. Mezzotint, 1773.

A voluptuary surprised by death. Oil painting by Frans Francken II.

13 unnumbered pages, 718 pages, 1 leaf of plates.

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.

Principles of politeness, and of knowing the world  by the late Lord Chesterfield. Methodised and digested under distinct heads, with additions, by the Rev. Dr. John Trusler: containing every instruction necessary to complete the gentleman and man of fashion, to teach him knowledge of life, and make him well received in all companies. For the improvement of youth; yet not beneath the attention of any.

The Guide, or Counsellor of human life , containing miscellaneous pieces, on a variety of useful and entertaining subjects. Calculated to improve the understanding;--rectify the will;--purify the passions;--form the manners, and direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and instructing them in the ways of a moral, civil and religious life. Treated in a manner suited to the taste of ingenious readers.--All that variety of thought; all that fineness and briskness of fancy, which renders them as delightful as useful, is herein curiously wrought. The whole closed with an exhortation, addressed, first, to the young, second, to those advanced in years. [Three lines of Scripture texts] By the editor, Preceptor of youth's education.

The great evil and danger of profuseness and prodigality . In a letter to a friend. By the Reverend Mr. John Kettlewell, Late a Presbyter of the Church of England.

Human prudence  or, the art by which a man may raise himself and his fortune to grandeur. Corrected and very much enlarged.

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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.

The great evil and danger of profuseness and prodigality . In a letter to a friend. By the Reverend Mr. John Kettlewell, Late a Presbyter of the Church of England.

Human prudence or, the art by which a man may raise himself and his fortune to grandeur. Corrected and very much enlarged.

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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.

The great evil and danger of profuseness and prodigality . In a letter to a friend. By the Reverend Mr. John Kettlewell, Late a Presbyter of the Church of England.

Human prudence or, the art by which a man may raise himself and his fortune to grandeur. Corrected and very much enlarged.

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