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Article describing the benefits of a girdle, available for purchase, which you wear under your bathing suit to look thinner

Title page of Boadicia, A Tragedy by Richard Glover

Cover of Photoplay magazine

Article focusing on the fitness habits of Hollywood stars

Monster Times cover image

Cover of Famous Monsters of Filmland's yearly "yearbook" highlighting the previous year's work

Heading of a call for submissions to the literary supplement.

Photograph of the house and the grounds of Old Sleningford Hall, from Duncan Renewables website

Photograph of Anne Elizabeth Burmester Staveley's Memorial Plaque and Grave Marker

Portrait miniature of Sir Walter Ralegh done by Nicholas Hilliard in 1585

Marginalia by two owners on page 89 of Evelina by Miss Burney within a book containing A Marriage in High Life, by Lady Charlotte Bury, and Evelina, by Miss Burney

Portrait of Prince Henry Frederick done by Robert Peake the Elder in about 1610-1612. Oil on canvas.

Marginalia by reader on page 192-193 of Evelina by Miss Burney within a book containing A Marriage in High Life, by Lady Charlotte Bury, and Evelina, by Miss Burney

Cropped image from the Agas Map from the Map of Early Modern London depicting the proximity of the Tower of London to the Thames.

Marginalia by reader on page 211 of Evelina by Miss Burney within a book containing A Marriage in High Life, by Lady Charlotte Bury, and Evelina, by Miss Burney

Header of the "To the Reader" section of Sir Walter Ralegh's History of the World. Printed on folio-sized, rag-based paper.

Handwritten frontispiece to Walter Ralegh's History of the World meant to replace the extracted woodcut by Renold Elstracke.

Marginalia by reader on page 22-23 of Evelina by Miss Burney within a book containing A Marriage in High Life, by Lady Charlotte Bury, and Evelina, by Miss Burney

Final page of Sir Walter Ralegh's History of The World. The Section shown details Ralegh's mention of the death of Prince Henry Fredrick followed by an evocation of Job and lastly the 'Finis.'