Encyclopaedia Collection

Workshop handmade candles. 18th century. Engraving in Encyclopedie by Diderot et d Alembert. Engraving

Grasshoppers, Zurich Football Team who played Millwall FC at The Den in New Cross, SE London, in 1932 Date: 1932

FA Cup Final, West Bromwich Albion v Birmingham City, at Wembley Stadium in 1931 Date: 1931

Football pitch at Crystal Palace, South London, where the FA Cup Finals were played from 1895 to 1914 Date: circa 1910s

Scotland International Football team, 1933 Date: 1933

Manchester City FC team, FA Cup winners in 1934 Date: 1934

Hampden Park Football Ground, Glasgow, Scotland Date: 1934

Huddersfield Town FC team, 1932 Date: 1932

Everton FC team, 1932, winners of the League Championship and Division Two Championship (1931) in successive seasons. Date: 1932

England v Scotland International Football at the Oval, 1879 Date: 1879

England International Football team, 1933 Date: 1933

Crowd invading pitch, FA Cup Final, Wembley, 1923
Crowd invading the football pitch at the FA Cup Final, Wembley Date: 1923

Bolton Wanderers team, FA Cup winners in 1929
Bolton Wanderers football team, FA Cup winners in 1929 Date: 1929

The Inca and His Queen Date: 1823

Cotton Spinning Mill Equipment Date: circa 1898

Chronometers Date: circa 1898

Coffee, Coffea arabica, plant showng flowers, berries and bean. Handcoloured lithograph from the National Encyclopaedia, W. Mackenzie, London, 1880

CAXTON AND HIS PRESS
The printer William Caxton checking a proof. Printed the first English illustrated book, the encyclopaedia The Myrrour of the worlde in 1481. Date: circa 1475

Atelettes -- food on decorative skewers, including shellfish, vegetables, crystallised fruit, truffles and jelly. circa 1890

Maya palace of Palenque. Engraving 19th c
Mayan Civilization. Palenque Palace, built in the Late Classic period (600-900 AD). Reconstruction by R. Cant󠩮 M鸩 co a trav鳠 de los siglos, 1884. Litography

Picnic Cakes with sports decorations -- lawn tennis, coaching, cricket, boating, football, polo. circa 1890

Artistic Jellies, in a range of shapes and colours. circa 1890

Crystallized Fruit
Artistic Stands containing Crystallized Fruit. circa 1890

Artificially Served Ices, in a range of shapes and colours. circa 1890

Encyclopaedia of Sport - Tickling the Dugong
VII. Tickling for Dugong on the plains of Oudh. Another unusual and fanciful sport from the imagination of William Heath Robinson. Date: 1914

Encyclopaedia of Sport - Luring Wild Lap-Dogs
IV - Luring wild lap-dogs by the Mull of Cantire. Another wacky sport from the imagination of William Heath Robinson. Date: 1914

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

Illustration from Encyclopaedia Metropolitam c 1845
Illustration from Encyclopaedia Metropolitam, circa 1845

Arthur Mee
Portrait of Arthur Mee (1875-1943), editor of The Childrens Encyclopaedia Date: 1927

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

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