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Pink box containing the quote "...A poisonous book, the atmosphere of which is heavy with the mephitic odours of moral and spiritual putrefaction..." - Critic's review of The Picture of Dorian Gray in the Daily Chronicle, 1890

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A green book with decorative gold foiling of leaf motifs and geometric borders.

A book with illustrations of animals. On the left is a pig like animal with scales, and three eyes on its side. On the right is a walrus climbing rocks while being attacked by hunters.

A book with an illustration of a crowd of small, bearded men with pointed hats, torches and pickaxes in a tunnel.

A book with illustrations of animal skulls which have a long straight tusk emerging from a socket on one side.

In a room full of books and plaster heads, a man with a bulbous, red, freshly shaved head sits in a chair. A tall man measures the sitters head with callipers and a ruler, focusing intently. A barber with a razor and bowl of water leaves the room, looking at the scene with incredulity.

A large stone head with a wrinkled brow and snout. It sticks its tongue out of its monstrous mouth.

A bearded mans face wearing a helmet with a naked woman in the background. Carved in relief from a red material.
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