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Original Antique and Vintage Prints of Literary Subjects

Scenes from Shakespeare, Dickens, Cervantes, Dumas and other famous authors and poets as well as delightful illustrations from vintage children's books and nursery rhymes

	Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra Original copperplate engravings over 265 years old from The Life and Exploits Of the ingenious gentleman DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA Translated from the original Spanish of Cervantes by Charles Jarvis [more correctly, Jervas] Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand and R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, London, 1742 See also William Hogarth Don Quixote prints here
	Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Bleak House David Copperfield Dombey & Son Little Dorrit Martin Chuzzlewit Nicholas Nickleby Our Mutual Friend Pickwick Papers Character Sketches from Charles Dickens Portrayed by Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke) Some Well-Known Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens Illustrations by Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke)
	Alexandre Dumas *The Works of Alexandre Dumas* (Nine volumes, 1893) Vol. 1: The Count of Monte Cristo Vol. 2: The Three Musketeers Vol. 3: The Vicomte de Bragelonne, PART1 Vol. 4: The Vicomte de Bragelonne, PART 2 Vol. 5: Marguerite de Valois and Chicot, the Jester Vol. 6: The Forty-five Guardsmen, The Conspirators, and The Regent's Daughter Vol. 7: The Memoirs of a Physician Vol. 8: The Queen's Necklace and Taking the Bastille Vol. 9: The Countess de Charney and The Chevalier de Maison Rouge
	Daniel Defoe 150+-year-old original chromolithographs from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe... published by Knight and Son, London (1869)
	William Shakespeare Prints of Shakespearean Scenes from Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare J. & J. Boydell, London: 1803 (original publisher) Shearjashub Spooner, New York: 1852 (restorer and republisher)
	The Dramatic Works of William Shakspere [sic]... Henry Stebbing London, 1848
	The Complete Works of Shakespeare... James Orchard Halliwell London & New York, 1850
	The Works of Shakspere [sic] [Shakespeare] Charles Knight, editor circa 1860-1870
	The Tempest by William Shakespeare 1908
	Shakespeare plays miscellaneous sources
	Finden's Gallery of the Graces 1837
	The Poetical Works of Allan Ramsay with Selections from the Scottish Poets Before Burns 1866
	The Poetical Works of Lord Byron 1867
	Antique British Humour, Illustrations from Literature, Cartoons, etc. illustrations by Tenniel, Thackeray, Leech, and others from miscellaneous 19th-century sources
	The Library Shakespeare Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert, George Cruikshank and Robert Dudley London, circa 1870s-1880s
	A Book of Old Ballads Beverley Nichols, Editor Henry Matthew Brock, Illustrator (1934) Illustrations of old ballads that define the British spirit
	Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens J.M Barrie, author Arthur Rackham, illustrator Rackham illustrations
	Mother Goose nursery rhymes Illustrations by Ruth E. Newton (1943) Mother Goose
	Berta and Elmer Hader's Picture Book of Mother Goose Illustrations by Berta Hader (1944) Mother Goose
	Nursery rhyme illustrations Illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky (1945) Nursery rhyme illustrations
	Mother Goose Nursery Pictures Illustrations by Leonard Weisgard (1957) Mother Goose Nursery Pictures
	Children's book animal illustrations Unknown publication (circa 1940s)
	Nursery room serigraphs Unknown publication (circa 1920s-1940s)

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Original Antique and Vintage Prints of Literary Subjects

Character Sketches from Charles Dickens Portrayed by Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke)

Some Well-Known Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens Illustrations by Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke)