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, "OLD TINSLEY" PAGE OF ORIGINAL MS. OF HARDY'S "FAR FROM THE BERNARD QUARITCH TITLE OF MS. OF "LYFORD REDIVIVUS" BERNARD ALFRED QUARITCH. SAMUEL JOHNSON 12 14 Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds about 1770, for Johnson's Step- 24 TITLE OF KEATS'S COPY OF SPENSER'S WORKS DR. JOHNSON'S CHURCH, ST. CLEMENT DANES From a pen-and-ink sketch by Charles G. Osgood INSCRIPTION TO MRS. THRALE IN DR. JOHNSON'S HAND 26 31 32 INSCRIPTION TO GENERAL SIR A. GORDON IN QUEEN VIC- AUTOGRAPH MS. OF LAMB'S POEM, "ELEGY ON A QUID OF 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" CHARLES LAMB'S HOUSE AT ENFIELD. 48 50 51 52 . 54 INSCRIPTION BY JOSEPH CONRAD IN A COPY OF "THE NIGGER TITLE OF BLAKE'S "SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE" 80 "A LEAF FROM AN UNOPENED VOLUME" 82 Specimen page of an unpublished manuscript of Charlotte Brontë TITLE OF THE KILMARNOCK EDITION OF BURNS'S POEMS FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH MS. ON VELLUM: BOETHIUS'S "DE CONSOLATIONE PHILOSOPHIE 85 90 TITLE OF GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE." First Edition 97 FIRST PAGE OF A RARE EDITION OF "ROBINSON CRUSOE" 102 AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY STEVENSON, IN A COPY OF HIS "INLAND VOYAGE" TITLE OF A UNIQUE COPY OF STEVENSON'S "CHILD'S GAR- NEW BUILDING OF THE GROLIER CLUB 109 110 INSCRIPTION TO CHARLES DICKENS, JUNIOR, FROM CHARLES ILLUSTRATION, "THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS," BY JOHN LEECH From the original water-color drawing. 116 116 AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION TO DICKENS'S "THE VILLAGE 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 STITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES" 126 AUTOGRAPH MS. OF LAMB'S POEM, "ELEGY ON A QUID OF 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" CHARLES LAMB'S HOUSE AT ENFIELD. INSCRIPTION BY JOSEPH CONRAD IN A COPY OF "THE NIGGER . 50 51 . 54 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" 82 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 90 TITLE OF GEORGE HERBERT'S "THE TEMPLE." First Edition 97 FIRST PAGE OF A RARE EDITION OF "ROBINSON CRUSOE" AUTOGRAPH MS. OF A POEM BY KEATS "TO THE MISSES INSCRIPTION TO SWINBURNE FROM DANTE ROSSETTI AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY STEVENSON, IN A COPY OF HIS "INLAND VOYAGE" 102 105 . 106 TITLE OF A UNIQUE COPY OF STEVENSON'S "CHILD'S GAR- NEW BUILDING OF THE GROLIER CLUB 109 € 110 . 116 INSCRIPTION TO CHARLES DICKENS, JUNIOR, FROM CHARLES From the original water-color drawing. 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 MS. DEDICATION OF LAMB'S WORKS TO MISS KELLY. |