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  • Newspaper illustrations of harvesters and Earl Spencer, President of the Royal Agricultural Society, accompanied by a ballad and article about the RAS Meeting. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1844.
  • Factory-farming of eggs. Engraving, 17--.
  • Ceres, at night, drinking from a flask provided by an old woman, while her young son mocks. Etching by W. Hollar, 1646, after A. Elsheimer.
  • Agriculture: peasants gathering manna from trees in Sicily and packing it in boxes marked "Herring Brothers London". Lithograph, c.1850.
  • Agriculture: a combined plough-share and drill. Engraving, c.1820.
  • Oxford: distant view of the city from a farmhouse. Etching by Letitia Byrne.
  • Genetically engineered food : a serious health risk / Natural Law Party.
  • Sheep are sheared and wheat is reaped; representing summer. Etching, 17--, after F.G. Bassano the younger.
  • Maison rustique, or the covntrey farme / compiled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens and John Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Svrflet ... Also a short collection of the hunting of the hart, wilde bore, hare, fox, gray, cony; of birds and faulconrie.
  • An allegory of agriculture: Ceres reclining amidst a collection of farm implements, she holds a sheaf of wheat and a scythe. Engraving by W. Bromley, 1789, after a sculptural panel by Mrs E. Coade.
  • An advertisement for Thorley's cattle food. Coloured lithograph.
  • Art de faire éclorre et d'élever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques de toutes especes, soit par le moyen de la chaleur du fumier, soit par le moyen de celle du feu ordinaire / Par M. de Reaumur.
  • Factory-farming of eggs. Engraving, 17--.
  • Bibby's "Milk cakelettes" : the handiest and most successful calf feed... : no farmer who rears his own calves should be without them / J. Bibby & Sons, Ltd.
  • Agriculture: schoolboys variously employed ploughing, digging, and raking earth. Engraving, 1783.
  • Oxford: the river with a glimpse of the city behind. Etching by S.W. Reynolds.
  • A ploughman guides his plough across the field helped by a boy. Engraving by Hemsley after W.(?) Craig.
  • Apiculture: an advertising flyer for a patent beehive. Engraving after Knight & Thompson.
  • Ceres, at night, drinking from a flask provided by an old woman, while her young son mocks. Etching by W. Hollar, 1646, after A. Elsheimer.
  • People harvesting a field of corn: one of the harvesters appeals to a mounted overseer, who disregards his plea and indicates the work. Etching by G. Giampiccoli after M. Ricci.
  • Cybele wearing a turreted crown and holding a sceptre; in the background men work on the land; representing Earth, one of the four elements. Engraving by J. Sadeler, 1587, after D. Barendsz.
  • The knowledge of good and evil, and the consequences of that knowledge, with Adam and Eve and the serpent. Engraving by J. Sadeler, 1583, after M. de Vos.
  • Apiculture: scenes of bee-keeping and honey-gathering. Wood engraving, 1885.
  • Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs: symbolising the element earth. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1796, after F. Albani.
  • Maison rustique, or the covntrey farme / compiled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens and John Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Svrflet ... Also a short collection of the hunting of the hart, wilde bore, hare, fox, gray, cony; of birds and faulconrie.
  • Woodmen driving an ox-cart carrying baulks of timber. Etching by F. Bracquemond after A. DuBuisson.
  • Maison rustique, or, the countrey farme / compyled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Surflet ... Now newly reuiewed, corrected, and augmented, with diuers large additions, out of the works of Serres his Agriculture, Vinet his Maison champestre, French, Albyterio [i.e. the 'Libro de albeyteria' of F. de la Reyna] in Spanish, Grilli [i.e. Gallo?] in Italian, and other authors. And the husbandry of France, Italie, and Spaine reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: by Geruase Markham.
  • Maison rustique, or the covntrey farme / compiled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens and John Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Svrflet ... Also a short collection of the hunting of the hart, wilde bore, hare, fox, gray, cony; of birds and faulconrie.
  • Various agricultural scenes of woodmen at work. Etching by W.H. Pyne after himself, 1802, with aquatint by J. Hill.
  • The fall; expelled from Eden, Adam and Eve raise a family and set to work. Engraving by Scotin, c. 1765.