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A young woman (Miss Jones) reading. Mezzotint, 17--, after Catherine Read.
Read, Catherine, 1723-1778.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 27964i- Books
Owners, annotators and the signs of reading / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote.
Date: [2005], ©2005
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Saint Mary Magdalen. Engraving by L.M. Halbou after Molenchon after A. van der Werff.
Werff, Adriaen van der, 1659-1722.Date: [1805]Reference: 6653iPart of: Musée français.
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Abel Beechcroft, while reading in the library of his house in Lambeth, is disturbed when Hilda Scarve is led into the room by his butler Jukes. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1842.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1842Reference: 35750i- Pictures
A man checking a book out of a public library gains the equivalent of going on holiday. Pen and ink drawing by Steve Simpson and Robert D. Dangoor, 2012.
Dangoor, Robert D., 1953-Date: [2012]Reference: 824349i