Three Museum book titles and four packs selected from our range of postcards and greetings cards are available by mail order from:
Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Sales)
1 Lambeth High Street
London SE1 7JN
To place an order for books or cards, please print off the order form supplied here and send with your remittance to the address given.
Click here for the Museum mail order sales form.
We regret we are currently unable to process internet
sales. All prices apply to both UK and overseas orders and include
2nd class postage and packing costs. For further details please contact
the Museum Office:
Tel: 020 7572 2210
e-mail: museum@rpsgb.org
Jacob Bell A useful and honourable life to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of Jacob Bell, founder of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, an illustrated booklet is available. Written by Briony Hudson, Keeper of the Museum Collections, and June Bridgeman of the Friends of Woodbury Park Cemetery, the 28 page booklet explores Victorian health and medicine, Bell’s life, and a detailed account of his final days in Tunbridge Wells.
Click here to transfer to the Friends of Woodbury Park Cemetery website for more details and information about buying the booklet.
S W F Holloway's Royal Pharmaceutical Society
of Great Britain 1841-1991: a political and social history traces
the professional and legislative history of British pharmacy through
the years leading up to and since the formation of the Pharmaceutical
Society in 1841. The pharmacists' story is set firmly in its social
and historical context, giving an illuminating picture of 150 years
of medicine and commerce.
The Bruising Apothecary: images of pharmacy
and medicine in caricature is a comprehensive, well illustrated
catalogue of the Museum's fine collection of 18th and 19th century
caricature prints with a medical theme.
Pharmacy history: a pictorial record draws
on the Society's archive of some 7,000 historic photographs to include
engaging portraits of the founding members, late 19th century views
of the Society's "house" at Bloomsbury and a splendidly evocative
rangeof period shops.
The Museum has produced an attractive new range of 24 postcards and four greetings cards. All the images have been chosen from the Museum's unique collections and every card gives a fascinating glimpse into pharmacy history.
There are sharply satirical 19th century caricatures poking fun at medics and their patients, fine botanical bookplates, beautifully illustrated pages from wholesaler's trade catalogues, photographs of traditional pharmacy shops and workshops and splendid drug storage jars and dispensary tools from the Museum's collections.
One of the selection of cards
The full range of cards may be purchased at the issue desk of the Society's Library
at Lambeth. Postcards are a very reasonable 35p each, and the A6 sized, blank
greetings cards with envelopes, 80p.
Four packs are available by mail order:
We regret the Museum cannot take orders for individual cards.