The 1714 edition of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock sold around 3,000 copies in four days. It promised readers ...
Gynaecological doctor William Acton's Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs, in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age...
This is the second edition of A Banquet of Jests, a popular jestbook (or joke book) first published in 1630. The book wa...
A beautifully bound collection of Aubrey Beardsley’s artwork, for publications including The Savoy magazine and assorted...
Medical knowledge improved steadily during the 18th century owing to a better understanding of human physiology, assiste...
William Hogarth’s A Harlot’s Progress charts the unfortunate fall of the likeable Moll Hackabout from pretty young ing&e...
Stretching from the Bahamas to the northern coast of South America the Caribbean, as we know it today, began as a dispar...
This small pamphlet was published in the mid-19th century by the Society for the Protection of Females as a warning to p...
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is...
The history of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens can be traced back to the mid 17th century, when (as the New Spring Gardens) th...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote ‘A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London’ in 1854 after her sister, Arabella, asked her...
Published in 1929, Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own is a key work of feminist literary criticism. Written after she ...
This is the cover of the first edition of E M Forster’s novel A Room with a View. It was Forster’s third novel after Whe...
A Superfluous Woman by Emma Brookes is a novel about a society woman forced into marriage with a decadent aristocrat – a...
This book tries to untangle the knotty question of marriage law in early 17th-century England. It was written by the ecc...
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