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An inn at Bristol: people having breakfast before taking the stage coach. Stipple print after E.V. Rippingille, 1824.

Three squares of red, green and yellow representing panels from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt with figures in silhouette; advertising an exhibition of sections of the quilt. Colour lithograph, 1989.

Towards reading Freud : self-creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud / Mark Edmundson.

City of health, fields of disease : revolutions in the poetry, medicine, and philosophy of Romanticism / Martin J. Wallen.

Wordsworth and the geologists / John Wyatt.

A foppish medical student smoking a cigarette; denoting a cavalier attitude. Wood engraving by J. Orrin Smith after J. Kenny Meadows.

The case of seduction: being an account of the late proceedings at Paris, as well ecclesiastical as civil, against the Reverend Abbée [sic] Claudius Nicholas de Rues for committing rapes upon 133 virgins. Containing I. The Canon and Civil-Law relating to ... rapes ... II. The ... depositions ... against M. des Rues: and his defence / Translated from the French ... by Mr. Rogers.

The poetical works of Wordsworth / with introductions and notes, edited by Thomas Hutchinson.

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A foppish medical student smoking a cigarette; denoting a cavalier attitude. Wood engraving by J. Orrin Smith after J. Kenny Meadows.

The poetical works of Wordsworth / with introductions and notes, edited by Thomas Hutchinson.