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The town and a changing civilisation / by David V. Glass.
David GlassDate: [1935]
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Headspace : the psychology of city living / Paul Keedwell.
Keedwell, PaulDate: [2017]
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People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957.Reference: 24007i
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The streets of London : from the great fire to the great stink / edited by Tim Hitchcock and Heather Shore ; forword by Roy Porter.
Date: 2003
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The lonely city : adventures in the art of being alone / Olivia Laing.
Olivia LaingDate: 2016
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Palazzo Durazzo-Pallavicini, Genoa: the façade on Via Balbi. Etching by G.L. Guidotti after G. Torricelli after A. Giolfi.
Antonio GiolfiDate: [1769?]Reference: 2924466i
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The Aventine hill, Rome, seen from the Capitol. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
Bartolomeo PinelliDate: 1825Reference: 2922172i
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Chaucer's London / Brian Spencer.
Brian SpencerDate: 1972
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The Viminal hill, Rome, seen from the slopes of the Quirinal. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
Bartolomeo PinelliDate: 1825Reference: 2922178i
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A musician playing the clarinet outside a town-house is given threepence by a footman and asked to move on, but the musician asks for more money. Steel engraving after R. Seymour.
Robert SeymourDate: 1800-1899Reference: 32005i
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The Esquiline hill, Rome, seen from the Colosseum. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
Bartolomeo PinelliDate: 1825Reference: 2922175i
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Hospitals and urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500 / by Carla Keyvanian.
Keyvanian, CarlaDate: [2015]
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The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.
William HogarthReference: 20634i
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No more (cruel) optimism / editors: Linda Zagidulina, Pietra Galli, Debbie Poon, Sandy Hoonjan.
Date: [2023]
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An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with two assistants and a monkey, selling his wares to an excitable crowd. Coloured wood engraving by J. Oortman.
Reference: 20933i
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Three episodes about horticultural abnormalities and one episode about a young doctor on a visit. Letterpress and wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1865.
George du MaurierDate: 1865Reference: 15683i
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A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.
Reference: 16529i
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Health prospects for young citizens of the north west : a special report for the Regional Director of Public Health 1998 / edited by Sandra Barrett.
Date: 1998
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The urban working class in Britain, 1830-1914 / edited by Andrew August.
Date: 2013
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The Quirinal hill, Rome, seen from the Palatine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
Bartolomeo PinelliDate: 1825Reference: 2922177i
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Russo-Japanese War: a street scene in Tokyo with wounded Japanese sitting in a cart. Pen and ink drawing by D. MacPherson, 1904.
MacPherson, Douglas, 1871-1951.Date: 1904Reference: 23864i
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A Bombay square: some men carry sedan chairs and others smoke. Coloured aquatint after R.M. Grindlay, 1826.
Robert Melville GrindlayDate: 1826Reference: 25407i
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The English town / Mark Girouard.
Mark GirouardDate: 1990
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A bath-house containing six men and an onlooker, perhaps an allegory of the four humours and five senses. Photolithograph after A. Dürer, c. 1496.
Albrecht DürerDate: 1800-1899Reference: 18228i
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The angel of death (a winged skeletal creature) drops some deadly substances into a river near a town; representing typhoid. Watercolour, 1912, after R. Cooper.
Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957.Reference: 24010i

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The town and a changing civilisation / by David V. Glass.

Headspace : the psychology of city living / Paul Keedwell.

People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

The streets of London : from the great fire to the great stink / edited by Tim Hitchcock and Heather Shore ; forword by Roy Porter.

The lonely city : adventures in the art of being alone / Olivia Laing.

Palazzo Durazzo-Pallavicini, Genoa: the façade on Via Balbi. Etching by G.L. Guidotti after G. Torricelli after A. Giolfi.

The Aventine hill, Rome, seen from the Capitol. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

Chaucer's London / Brian Spencer.

The Viminal hill, Rome, seen from the slopes of the Quirinal. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

A musician playing the clarinet outside a town-house is given threepence by a footman and asked to move on, but the musician asks for more money. Steel engraving after R. Seymour.

The Esquiline hill, Rome, seen from the Colosseum. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

Hospitals and urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500 / by Carla Keyvanian.

The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.

No more (cruel) optimism / editors: Linda Zagidulina, Pietra Galli, Debbie Poon, Sandy Hoonjan.

An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with two assistants and a monkey, selling his wares to an excitable crowd. Coloured wood engraving by J. Oortman.

Three episodes about horticultural abnormalities and one episode about a young doctor on a visit. Letterpress and wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1865.

A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a fashionable and rich lady, while his black assistant and her white maid attend. Etching.

Health prospects for young citizens of the north west : a special report for the Regional Director of Public Health 1998 / edited by Sandra Barrett.

The urban working class in Britain, 1830-1914 / edited by Andrew August.

The Quirinal hill, Rome, seen from the Palatine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

Russo-Japanese War: a street scene in Tokyo with wounded Japanese sitting in a cart. Pen and ink drawing by D. MacPherson, 1904.

A Bombay square: some men carry sedan chairs and others smoke. Coloured aquatint after R.M. Grindlay, 1826.

The English town / Mark Girouard.

A bath-house containing six men and an onlooker, perhaps an allegory of the four humours and five senses. Photolithograph after A. Dürer, c. 1496.

The angel of death (a winged skeletal creature) drops some deadly substances into a river near a town; representing typhoid. Watercolour, 1912, after R. Cooper.