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  • Saint Symphorian of Autun. Wood engraving by A.F. Pannemaker.
  • Hydropathic establishment, Dunblane, Perthshire, Scotland: perspective view. Wood engraving by Nisbet, 1881?.
  • A bathing kiosk. Wood engraving.
  • Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London, in 1841. Wood engraving.
  • A Jewish man with a lisp trying to disclaim his religion. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1883.
  • Franco-Prussian War: wounded German soldiers on their way home from France. Wood engraving.
  • A couple stand on a platform where a large stone is suspended on a chain and a great crowd of people are watching the event. Wood engraving.
  • Grace Darling rowing out to sea in a furious storm. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after C.J. Staniland.
  • A man in a soldier's uniform and a woman in a bridal gown are recoiling from a man in a top hat and evening dress who is making fire come from a small container in his hands. Wood engraving by H. Furniss.
  • The British Museum: the Etruscan Room, with visitors. Wood engraving, 1847.
  • Technology: a Russian padlock and key. Wood engraving.
  • Four slaves in East Africa chained at the neck carrying brushwood fuel; other slaves chained at the neck working in rice fields. Wood engraving or process print after J.B. Zwecker after J.A. Grant.
  • Arthur Trehern Norton. Wood engraving by Charles Roberts.
  • Saul collapses as the witch of Endor conjures Samuel from the dead. Wood engraving after J. Schnorr von Carolsfeld.
  • The Mechanics' Institute and School of Science and Art, Keighley, Yorkshire. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin after Lockwood and Mawson.
  • Geography: glaciers. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Franco-Prussian War: French wounded being treated at Metz. Wood engraving by J.W.B.
  • Serbo-Bulgarian War: wounded Russian soldiers begging ambulance men to be taken away from the battlefield. Wood engraving.
  • A female servant holds a small child while its fashionably dressed mother touches its face on her way out. Wood engraving by J. Thompson, 1840, after D. Wilkie.
  • The Physic Garden, Chelsea: men botanizing in the garden, near the statue of Sir Hans Sloane, 1750. Wood engraving by T. W. Lascelles after H. G. Glindoni, 1890.
  • Two men discovering a dead woman in the street during the great plague of London. Wood engraving by J. Jellicoe after H. Railton.
  • The distillery of Deacon Giles seen as the work of the Devil. Coloured wood-engraving after G. B. Cheever, ca. 1835.
  • Henry Bence Jones. Wood engraving by R. & E. Taylor, 1873, after T.D. Scott.
  • Orphan Asylum, New York. Coloured wood engraving by L. Casing-Barrett.
  • Mansel Lacy National Schools, Herefordshire, England: with a floor plan. Wood engraving by Laing after Nicholson.
  • Institution for the Blind, Sheffield, Yorkshire. Wood engraving.
  • David Livingstone, suffering from fever, carried above water on the shoulders of one of his men. Wood engraving after J.B. Zwecker.
  • The Deaf and Dumb institution, Cabra, Ireland. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin after C. Geoghegan.
  • A Scottish doctor informing a northen farmer of the perils of consulting a southern doctor including recommending red wine rather than whiskey. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1885.
  • An ideal landscape of the Miocene period, with elephants rummaging through a forest. Wood engraving by Riou after Cazat.