LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS CARICATURE OF TWO GREAT VICTORIANS. Frontispiece in Color W. M. Thackeray and Charles Dickens TITLE OF "PARADISE LOST." First Edition 6 TITLE OF FRANKLIN'S EDITION OF CICERO'S "CATO MAJOR" 9 LETTER OF THOMAS HARDY TO HIS FIRST PUBLISHER, PAGE OF ORIGINAL MS. OF HARDY'S "FAR FROM THE 12 14 Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds about 1770, for Johnson's Step- PORTRAIT OF TENNYSON READING "MAUD" TO THE BROWN- DR. JOHNSON'S CHURCH, ST. CLEMENT DANES From a pen-and-ink sketch by Charles G. Osgood 26 31 INSCRIPTION TO MRS. THRALE IN DR. JOHNSON'S HAND 32 47 48 AUTOGRAPH MS. OF LAMB'S POEM, "ELEGY ON A QUID OF TOBACCO". DR. A. S. W. ROSENBACH Photographed by Genthe TITLE OF "ROBINSON CRUSOE." First Edition TITLE OF "OLIVER TWIST" Presentation Copy to W. C. Macready ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION FOR "VANITY FAIR" Becky Sharp throwing Dr. Johnson's "Dixonary" out of the carriage window, as she leaves Miss Pinkerton's School. From the first pen-and-ink sketch, by Thackeray, afterwards SPECIMEN PROOF-SHEET OF GEORGE MOORE'S "MEMOIRS TITLE OF GEORGE MOORE'S "PAGAN POEMS' Presentation Copy to Oscar Wilde. TITLE OF BLAKE'S “MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL" INSCRIPTION BY JOSEPH CONRAD IN A COPY OF "THE NIGGER 50 51 52 STOKE POGES CHURCH A fine example of fore-edge painting. TITLE OF BLAKE'S "SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE "A LEAF FROM AN UNOPENED VOLUME" Specimen page of an unpublished manuscript of Charlotte Brontë TITLE OF THE KILMARNOCK EDITION OF BURNS'S POEMS 85 FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH MS. ON VELLUM: BOETHIUS'S "DE CONSOLATIONE PHILOSOPHIE" TITLE OF GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE." First Edition 97 FIRST PAGE OF A RARE EDITION OF "ROBINSON CRUSOE" 102 AUTOGRAPH MS. OF A POEM BY KEATS "TO THE MISSES 105 INSCRIPTION TO SWINBURNE FROM DANTE ROSSETTI . . 106 TITLE OF A UNIQUE COPY OF STEVENSON'S "CHILD'S GAR- NEW BUILDING OF THE GROLIER CLUB INSCRIPTION TO CHARLES DICKENS, JUNIOR, FROM CHARLES ILLUSTRATION, "THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS," BY JOHN LEECH From the original water-color drawing. 109 110 . 114 116 116 AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION TO DICKENS'S "THE VILLAGE TITLE OF MEREDITH'S "MODERN LOVE," WITH AUTOGRAPH 118 INSCRIPTION BY DR. JOHNSON IN A COPY OF "RASSELAS". 125 INSCRIPTION BY WOODROW WILSON, IN A COPY OF HIS "CON- INSCRIPTION BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY . 126 128 MS. DEDICATION OF LAMB'S WORKS TO MISS KELLY AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF LAMB TO MISS KELLY 47 48 AUTOGRAPH MS. OF LAMB'S POEM, "ELEGY ON A QUID OF TOBACCO". DR. A. S. W. ROSENBACH Photographed by Genthe TITLE OF "ROBINSON CRUSOE." First Edition TITLE OF "OLIVER TWIST" Presentation Copy to W. C. Macready ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION FOR "VANITY FAIR" Becky Sharp throwing Dr. Johnson's "Dixonary" out of the carriage window, as she leaves Miss Pinkerton's School. From the first pen-and-ink sketch, by Thackeray, afterwards SPECIMEN PROOF-SHEET OF GEORGE MOORE'S "MEMOIRS TITLE OF GEORGE MOORE'S "PAGAN POEMS' Presentation Copy to Oscar Wilde. TITLE OF BLAKE'S “MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL" INSCRIPTION BY JOSEPH CONRAD IN A COPY OF "THE NIGGER THE AUTHOR'S BOOK-PLATE 50 51 STOKE POGES CHURCH A fine example of fore-edge painting. TITLE OF BLAKE'S "SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE" 80 "A LEAF FROM AN UNOPENED VOLUME" Specimen page of an unpublished manuscript of Charlotte Brontë FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH MS. ON VELLUM: TITLE OF GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE." First Edition 97 FIRST PAGE OF A RARE EDITION OF "ROBINSON CRUSOE" 102 AUTOGRAPH MS. OF A POEM BY KEATS "TO THE MISSES 109 AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY STEVENSON, IN A COPY OF HIS TITLE OF A UNIQUE COPY OF STEVENSON'S "CHILD'S GAR- NEW BUILDING OF THE GROLIER CLUB 110 114 INSCRIPTION TO CHARLES DICKENS, JUNIOR, FROM CHARLES ILLUSTRATION, "THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS," BY JOHN LEECH From the original water-color drawing. AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION TO DICKENS'S "THE VILLAGE 116 116 118 TITLE OF MEREDITH'S "MODERN LOVE," WITH AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY DR. JOHNSON IN A COPY OF "RASSELAS". 125 INSCRIPTION BY WOODROW WILSON, IN A COPY OF HIS "CON- INSCRIPTION BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY . 126 128 AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF LAMB TO MISS KELLY |