Figures
1.1Frontispiece and title page, The Secrets of Nature Revealed, c. 1832.
1.2Illustration and title page, William Dugdale’s edition of Charles Knowlton, Fruits of Philosophy, 1838.
1.3Advertisements for French letters and medical works, Ward’s New Catalogue of Parisian Novelties, c. 1850.
1.4Holywell Street publishers’ advertisements. The Era, June 2, 1844.
1.5Frontispiece and title page, Aristotle’s Master-Piece; or, Every Woman’s Book, c. 1830.
2.1Title pages for English, French, and Spanish editions of J. L. Curtis, Manhood: The Causes of Its Premature Decline, 1850s.
2.2Plate 10, illustrating childbirth, in Horace Goss, Woman: Her Physiology and Functions, 1853.
2.3Different copies of the same illustration in 1850s editions of I. A. Jacques, The Secret Preceptor, Samuel La’Mert, Self-Preservation, and John A. Lewis, Controul of the Passions.
2.4Advertisement for Perry & Co’s The Silent Friend. Shrewsbury Chronicle, September 7, 1849.
3.1“Next door” advertisements for regular and irregular medical works in Bell’s Life in London, February 14, 1858, 2.
4.1Title page with disclaimer, Revised Edition of the Works of Aristotle, 1857.
5.1Frontispiece depicting a nude male with syphilis, Alfred Cooper, Syphilis, 1895.
6.1Handbill by Henry Cook, proclaiming “A Book Revolution in Sims’s Alley!”
6.2Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh on the front page of the Illustrated Police News, June 30, 1877.
6.3Advertisements for contraceptive devices and freethought literature in Annie Besant, The Law of Population, 1887.
7.1Title page for Jacobus X, Untrodden Fields of Anthropology, 1898.
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