Works consisting of photographs, prints, drawings, portraits, plates, diagrams, facsimiles, maps, tables, or other representations or systematic arrangements of data designed to elucidate or decorate the contents of a publication. (From The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983, p114)
    

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The revival of art in craft.

Jacob Bigelow's American medical botany, 1817-1821 : an examination of the origin, printing, binding, and distribution of America's first color plate book, with special emphasis on the manner of making and printing its colored plates / by Richard J. Wolfe.

Bibliography of British book illustrators, 1860-1900 : "being an attempt to classify the first editions of books by illustrator" / edited by Charles Baker ; with the compilations of Henry Allard ... and others ; colour photography by Camfield H. Wills.

The art of illustration : englische illustrierte Bücher des 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Dr. Ulrich von Kritter eine Austellung im Zeughaus der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel 1. Dezember 1984 bis 21. April 1985 / [Ausstellung und Katalog, Regine Timm ; mit Beiträgen von David Bindman and others].

Written texts--visual texts : woodblock-printed media in early modern Japan / edited by Susanne Formanek and Sepp Linhart.

Anatomical drawing: the five viscera, front and back, Chinese

White bryony (Bryonia dioica): flowering plant. Woodcut.

Theory of diseases treated with da qinglong tang, Chinese

Opium lettuce (Lactuca virosa): entire flowering and fruiting plant. Coloured etching by C. Pierre, c. 1865, after P. Naudin.

A plant (Salvia patens): flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1842, after Miss Drake.

C19 Chinese ink drawing: 'Mountain root' and elbow boils

Anatomy of the bladder in ancient Chinese medicine, woodcut

Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases

A pied oyster-catcher. Etching with engraving.

A plant (Sisymbrium sophia) related to hedge mustard: flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1801.

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C19 Chinese ink drawing: 'Mountain root' and elbow boils

Anatomy of the bladder in ancient Chinese medicine, woodcut

Early C20 Chinese Lithograph: 'Fan' diseases

A pied oyster-catcher. Etching with engraving.

A plant (Sisymbrium sophia) related to hedge mustard: flowering stem and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1801.