'Do Your Bit - Save Food', food economy poster, First World War Size:S: 45 x 30cm John Gilpin about to mount

John Gilpin about to mount his horse in Cheapside

showing their horned heads and examples of the fore and hind limbs of each

)' An Indian elephant juggles Palmerston (top left) and Disraeli (top right)

Engraving of Tycho Brahe's triangular astronomical sextant for the determination of distances ('Sextans astronomicus trigonicus pro distantiis rimandis')

evidence came to light of attempts

'Do Your Bit - Save Food', food economy poster, First World War Size:S: 45 x 30cm John Gilpin about to mount'Do Your Bit Save Food', food economy poster, First World War, 1917, (c1920). A British sailor exhorts civilians not to waste the food that he risks his life to supply. Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914 1918, seventh edition, (The Swarthmore Press Ltd, London, c1920).