Liquorice Collection

Liquorice Allsorts

Basset's Liquorice Allsorts Advertisement
A wartime advertisement for Basset's, promoting their original Liquorice Allsorts, The Sweets Of Victory! Date: circa 1940

Wild licorice, Astragalus glycyphyllos (Sweet milk-vetch or wild liquorice, Astragalus glyciphyllos). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1794

Peony, Paeonia officinalis, and licorice, Glycyrrhiza glabra. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Liquorice or licorice, Glycyrrhiza glabra. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Liquorice and carob tree
Liquorice or licorice, Glycyrrhiza glabra 1, and carob tree and St John s-bread, Ceratonia siliqua 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Indian liquorice or gunja, Abrus precatorius. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Licorice or liquorice, Glycyrrhiza glabra. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Curtis British Entomology Plate 208
Coleoptera: Coccinella ocellata = Anatis ocellata (Ocellated Lady-bird) [Plant: Astragalus glycyphyllos (Wild Liquorice)] Date: 1824-39

Leaves and delicate white florets of the licorice-root plant (lovage). Ligusticum acutilobum.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu

Large brown root and thick striped stem of licorice root. Ligusticum acutilobum.. Color-printed woodblock engraving by Kan en Iwasaki from Honzo Zufu, an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, 1884

Prickly headed liquorice, Glycirrhiza echinata.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn by John Curtis and engraved by Weddell from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, 1820, Samuel Curtis, Walworth, London

Silky leaved liquorice, Glycirrhiza lepidota.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn by John Curtis and engraved by Weddell from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, 1820, Samuel Curtis, Walworth, London

Thessaloniki - Itinerant Liquorice Water Seller Date: circa 1910s

Glycyrrhiza echinata, liquorice
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Glycyrrhiza glabra, liquorice
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Allens shoe leather advert
Allens shoe leather 1892 Date: 1892

Liquorice room at a sweet factory, London
Women at work in the Liquorice room at the sweet manufacturers Clarke, Nickolls and Coombs, at Hackney Wick, London. The firm also made Clarincos chocolates

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