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Editorial A true account and declaration of the horrid conspiracy against the late king, His present Majesty, and the government: as it was order'd to be published by His late Majesty : Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.
Editorial PITY.
Editorial Horrid Visions of Nappy Napp'd at Last.
Editorial The rock of Scylla, once a beautiful young woman, lover of the sea-god Glaukos. The magician Kirke was jealous and changed her into the horrid monster, the Skylla, with six heads and three rows of teeth in every one.
Editorial PITY.
Editorial Portrait of William Davidson. William Davidson (d. 1820) was one of the men arrested for involvement in the Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820. The conspirators had planned to assassinate the entire British cabinet, but were arrested at their hideout in Ca...
Editorial Arthur Thistlewood. An authentic History of the Cato-Street Conspiracy. Thomas Kelly: London, 1820. Arthur Thistlewood (1770-1820). English conspirator. Portrait. Instigator of the Cato Street Conspiracy, a plot to assassinate Viscount Castlereagh and ...
Editorial Interior view. An authentic History of the Cato-Street Conspiracy. Thomas Kelly: London, 1820. Interior view'. The capture of the Cato Street conspirators. Image taken from An authentic History of the Cato-Street Conspiracy; with the trials at large o...
Editorial Massacre of the whites. An Authentic Narrative of the Seminole War; and of. Providence, U.S., 1836. Massacre of the whites by the indians and blacks in Florida'. 'The above is intended to represent the horrid massacre of the whites in Florida, in Decem...
Editorial Execution scene. An authentic History of the Cato-Street Conspiracy. Thomas Kelly: London, 1820. The execution of the Cato Street conspirators May 1, 1820'. Arthur Thistlewood and four others were convicted of high treason and hanged. They were also de...
Editorial PITY.
Editorial Horrid Visions of Nappy Napp'd at Last.
Editorial Horrid alecto, Alecto horrida (nomen dubium). Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leach's Zoological Miscellany, McMillan, London, 1815.
Editorial Rubble crab or horrid parthenope, Parthenope horrida. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leach's Zoological Miscellany, McMillan, London, 1815.
Editorial Horrid elbow crab, Daldorfia horrida (Crested crab, Cancer cristatus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1802.
Editorial Decapoda crabs and shrimps: horrid elbow crab, Daldorfia horrida, sentinel crab, Podophthalmus vigil, Gibb's sea spider, Pisa armata, angular crab, Goneplax rhomboides, Solenolambrus tenellus, banded coral shrimp, Stenopus hispidus, common prawn, Palae...
Editorial The rock of Scylla, once a beautiful young woman, lover of the sea-god Glaukos. The magician Kirke was jealous and changed her into the horrid monster, the Skylla, with six heads and three rows of teeth in every one.
Editorial " Basiliskenhaus", a gothic building, present facade 1740. The house-sign, a " basilisk", was a fabulous animal whose poisonous breath killed. A plucky Viennese youth held a mirror towards the dragon, which died when it saw its own ...