Publication Collection (page 9)

Guy Dollman with small-scale elephant model, 1927
Captain Guy Dollman (seated), Assistant Keeper of Zoology, designed this model scene for an innovative, full-sized display in one of the bays in the Central Hall which opened in July 1927

Statue from the main entrance of the Natural History Museum
A statue, commonly assumed to be Adam, originally stood at the apex of the main entrance. It was removed during the war and later disappeared in mysterious circumstances

Book spine of Darwins Researches
Spine of Researches in Geology and Natural History (1839) by Charles Darwin

General concepts of Horticulture Ornament
Plate 52 from Le Regne Vegetal. Atlas, Vol 14. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Piranga rubra, summer tanager
Plate 56, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Mark Catesbys Natural History... Title Page
Title page from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Australasia book cover
Front cover of Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace, 1893

Rubus idaeus, raspberry
Illustration from Traite des Arbres Fruitiers &c. Volume 3 by Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782). Illustration entitled Framboisier a fruit blanc

Rubus ulmifolius, blackberry
Illustration from Traite des Arbres Fruitiers, &c. Volume 3 by Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau, held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Beauty of the Quadrumana
Figures 73 to 76 showing Head of Semnopithecus comatus, head of Cebus capucinus, head of Ateles marginatus and head of Cebus vellerosus. From Darwin, C

On the Origin of the Pallas Iron and Others Similar to it
The title page of Ernst Chladnis book On the Origin of the Pallas Iron and Others Similar to it, and on Some Associated Natural Phenomena, which was published in 1794

Front page of The Gardeners Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, Saturday 12 May 1860, issue number 19

Letter from Patrick Matthew in The Gardeners Chronicle 12 M
Letter from Patrick Matthew in The Gardeners Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, Saturday 12 May 1860, issue number 19 on page 433

Page 54 from the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Volume 3, 1858

On Naval Timber and Arboriculture by Patrick Matthew - title
Title page from On Naval Timber and Arboriculture; with critical notes on authors who have recently treated the subject of planting by Patrick Matthew

Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - title pa
The title page from Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Volume 3, 1858

Page 53 from the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Volume 3, 1858

Woodward Bernard Barham (1853-1930)
Mr Woodward Bernard Barham, a librarian (seated right) and his staff. Barham worked in the General Library at the Natural History Museum, London. 1909

Illustrated books
A collection of illustrated books from the library of the Natural History Museum

Page 217 from Herbarium (1532) by Otto Brunfels
Herbarum vivae eiconeb (1532) by Otto Brunfels (1488-1534). Illustrations by Hans Weiditz the Younger (1495 Freiburg im Breisgau - c1537 Bern). Tom I, 2nd edition

Homo sapiens skeleton
An illustration showing a male human skeleton, page 40 from Histoire de la Nature by P Belon, 1555. In the publication this is ompared with skeleton of a bird on page 41. (See image 6887)

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Title Page of On The Origin of Species by means of natural selection, or, the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life (1859) by Charles Darwin

Spain (1910). Solidaridad Obrera, publication
" Spain (1910). " Solidaridad Obrera", publication of the Labour Societies. Cover with the news of the Labour National Congress (Barcelona, 4th November 1910)."

Various advertisements
Advertisements for the Glasgow & South Western Railway, The Argus newspaper, The Australasian journal, The Sketcher monthly publication

Clarendon Printing Office, Oxford
The Clarendon Printing Office, Oxford Date: 1821

Frontispiece to Dodds Discourses
The frontispiece to a publication by William Dodd, an English forger and cleric. Date: 19th Century

Orbis Pictus, Farming
Two pages from the 17th century publication Orbis Pictus on husbandry, with a selection of agricultural scenes. Date: 1658

Title page, Account of the Kingdom of Caubul
Title page, An account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its dependencies in Persia Tartary, and India; comprising a view of the Afghaun nation, and a history of the Dooraunee Monarchy

House of the Free Press, Bucharest, Romania
View of the House of the Free Press (or Press Freedom House) in Bucharest, Romania, the headquarters of various newspapers and media publications. It was built between 1952 and 1956

Cover design for The Poster, July 1900, Number 24, Volume IV. A large man takes aim at a golf ball while his caddy looks on

Cover design for The Poster, June 1898
Cover design for The Poster, An Illustrated Monthly Chronicle, June 1898, Volume I, Number I, price sixpence. A young woman with luxurious ginger hair holds a flower and looks dreamy

Cover design for The Poster, August 1899, Number XIII, Volume III, price sixpence. A young woman sits at a cafe table watching a couple walk by

Poster advertising Adam Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Poster advertising Adam Illustrated, the monthly magazine for men, price one shilling

An advertisement for The Sketch Book and Winters Pie, by
A colour illustration by artist Lawson Wood showing a bear photographing two little monkeys up on a tree branch. The picture originally appeared in Winters Pie, a charitable publication

Crowd outside the London Gazette Office, London, 1854
Engraving showing the crowd that gathered outside the offices of the London Gazette Newspaper upon the publication of a Crimean War Gazette Extraordinary, 1854

Sketches of the evictions in Ireland
These sketches show scenes of evictions, trial, and Irish Land League activity in south west of Ireland. In the first sketch, the special artist of this publication is misunderstood by the crowd

The Graphic Xmas no
Front cover of The Graphics Jubilee Christmas number, celebrating 50 years of publication from 1869-1919. The image shows a theatre audience watching a magical scene with a fairy centre stage

An anaglyph of a seaside scene
On Kentish Sands; a seaside anaglyph. Although invented some seventy years earlier, the Illustrated London News was the first publication to print 3-dimensional anaglyphs in 1924

Read by the World: The Illustrated London News overseas
Series of images by A. Forestier showing readers of the Illustrated London News around the world, a reflection of the papers immense popularity both home and abroad

In the editors room: a special artists drawing is brought
A photograph showing the editors office of the Illustrated London News with editor Bruce Ingram, seated, assessing a a drawing submitted for publication by one of the ILN special artists

Agatha Christie, 1923
AGATHA CHRISTIE soon after the publication of her first Poirot novel

Dives and the Pauper
DIVES AND THE PAUPER LAZARUS illustration in Wynkyn de Wordes 1496 publication Diues et Pauper

British Bomber Booklet
BOMBER COMMAND A British government publication chronicling the activities of British bombers in action against targets in Continental Europe

Revolutionary Printing
Revolutionaries compel printers to print their clandestine publication

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