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Gooseberry varieties. Illustration from George Brookshaw, Pomona Britannica. Plate IV. Date: 1817

Seven coastal locations in the UK - Alderney, Portland, Plymouth, Holyhead. Wick, Aberdeen and Dover Date: 1889

Dioptric revolving lighthouse Date: 1889

Janet Hogarth at Encyclopedia Britannica dinner 1910
Janet Hogarth speaking at an Encyclopedia Britannica dinner held to celebrate the contribution of women to the recent completion of the eleventh edition

Norwegian wasp, Dolichovespula norwegica (British wasp, Vespa britannica). Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leachs Zoological

Curtis British Entomology Plate 615
Lepidoptera: Nyssia zonaria = Lycia zonaria ssp. britannica (Belted Beauty) [Plant: Veronica hederifolia (Ivy-leaved Speedwell)] Date: 1824-39

Obtaining Encyclopaedia Britannica books
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 16 larger double volumes instead 32 single volumes. General knowledge books with some colour illustrations. Small monthly payments. Date: 1925

The Raspberry
This plate represents the Red and White Antwerp, and the Common Raspberries. The White at the top, the Red at the bottom and the Common in the middle. Plate 2 from Brookshaw, G. (1817)

The Plum
Three varieties of the Plum, the upper is the Precos De Tours, on the left is the Lawrances Early Plum and on the right is the Orleans. Plate 11 from Brookshaw, G. (1817)

The Strawberry
Represents five varieties of the Strawberry. Upper is the Golden-Drop, on the right is the Hautboy, the middle is the Chili Strawberry, and the lower is the Scarlet-Flesh Pine

Modern Athenians plate 48 - Edinburgh
Charles Cuningham, City Clerk, meeting with Adam Black (1784-1874) twice Lord Provost of Edinburgh, publisher and founder of the A & C Black publishing company, publishing the 7th

James Louis Garvin / Vf 11
JAMES LOUIS GARVIN English journalist; Editor of the Observer, the Pall Mall Gazette and the Encyclopaedia Britannica

James Tytler
JAMES TYTLER Author of large portions of the second and third editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica

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