Spenser’s Works
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| Portrait of Tennyson Reading “Maud” to the Brownings, by Rossetti |
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| Dr. Johnson’s Church, St. Clement Danes |
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From a pen-and-ink sketch by Charles G. Osgood
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| Inscription to Mrs. Thrale in Dr. Johnson’s Hand |
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| Inscription to General Sir A. Gordon in Queen Victoria’s Hand |
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| George D. Smith |
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Photographed by Genthe
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| Autograph MS. of Lamb’s Poem, “Elegy on a Quid of Tobacco” |
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| Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach |
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Photographed by Genthe
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| Title of “Robinson Crusoe.” First Edition |
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| Title of “Oliver Twist” |
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Presentation Copy to W. C. Macready
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| Original Illustration for “Vanity Fair” |
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Becky Sharp throwing Dr. Johnson’s “Dixonary” out of the carriage window, as she leaves Miss Pinkerton’s School
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From the first pen-and-ink sketch, by Thackeray, afterwards elaborated
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| Specimen Proof-Sheet of George Moore’s “Memoirs of My Dead Life” |
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| Title of George Moore’s “Pagan Poems” |
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Presentation Copy to Oscar Wilde
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| Title of Blake’s “Marriage of Heaven and Hell” |
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| Charles Lamb’s House at Enfield |
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| Inscription by Joseph Conrad in a Copy of “The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’” |
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| The Author’s Book-Plate |
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| Henry E. Huntington |
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| Stoke Poges Church |
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A fine example of fore-edge painting
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| Title of Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and Experience” |
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| “A Leaf from an Unopened Volume” |
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Specimen page of an unpublished manuscript of Charlotte Brontë
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| Title of the Kilmarnock Edition of Burns’s Poems |
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| Fifteenth-Century English MS. on Vellum: Boëthius’s “De Consolatione Philosophiæ” |
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| Title of George Herbert’s “The Temple.” First Edition |
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| First Page of a Rare Edition of “Robinson Crusoe” |
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| Autograph MS. of a Poem by Keats—“To the Misses M—— at Hastings” |
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