| Facing
Page |
| Title Page of the Celebrated First Folio Edition of Shakespeare | Title |
| A Page from the Gutenberg Bible (Mayence, 1455) | 4 |
| A Page from the Coverdale Bible, being the First Complete English Bible | 14 |
| Chandos' Portrait of Shakespeare | 16 |
| Shakespeare's Birthplace at Stratford-on-Avon before the Restoration | 22 |
| The Anne Hathaway Cottage | 22 |
| Bust of Homer in the Museum of Naples | 32 |
| Portrait of Virgil, taken from a Bust by L. P. Boitard | 34 |
| Plato, after an Antique Bust | 36 |
| Edmund Dulac's Conception of Queen Scheherezade, who told the "Arabian Nights" Tales | 40 |
| The Jinnee and the Merchant—A Vignette Woodcut by William Harvey | 42 |
| Portrait of St. Augustine by the Famous Florentine Painter, Sandro Botticelli | 50 |
| A Page from St. Augustine's "La Cite de Dieu" | 54 |
| Portrait of Cervantes, from an Old Steel Engraving | 58 |
| Don Quixote Discoursing to Sancho Panza | 62 |
| Thomas À Kempis, the Frontispiece of an Edition of "The Imitation of Christ" | 64 |
| The Best-Known Portrait of Edward FitzGerald, Immortalized by his Version of the "RubÁ'iyÁt" | 74 |
| A Page from an Ancient Persian Manuscript Copy of the "RubÁ'iyÁt" with Miniatures in Color | 78 |
| One of the Gilbert James Illustrations of the "RubÁ'iyÁt" | 80 |
| Portrait of Dante, by Giotto di Bondone | 84 |
| Page from "Dante's Inferno," printed by Nicolo Lorenzo near the Close of the Fifteenth Century | 88 |
| Portrait of Milton, after the Original Crayon Drawing from Life by William Faithorne, at Bayfordbury, Herts | 100 |
| Milton Dictating to his Daughters—After an Engraving by W. C. Edwards, from the Famous Painting by Romney | 104 |
| Portrait of John Bunyan, after the Oil Painting by Sadler | 108 |
| Facsimile of the Title Page of the First Edition of "The Pilgrim's Progress" | 112 |
| Portrait of Dr. Johnson, from the Original Picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds, owned by Boswell | 116 |
| Portrait of James Boswell, after a Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds—Engraved by E. Finden | 118 |
| Facsimile of the Title Page of the First Edition of Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson" | 120 |
| Painting by Eyre Crowe of Dr. Johnson, Boswell and Goldsmith at the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street | 122 |
| Portrait of Daniel Defoe, from an Old Steel Engraving | 124 |
| Illustration of "Robinson Crusoe" by George Cruikshank | 126 |
| Frontispiece to the First Edition of "Gulliver's Travels"—A Portrait Engraved in Copper of Captain Lemuel Gulliver of Redriff | 128 |
| Facsimile of the Title Page of the First Edition of "Gulliver's Travels," issued in 1726 | 130 |
