| Caricature of Two Great Victorians | FrontispieceinColor |
| 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” | 12 |
| Page of Original MS. of Hardy’s “Far from the Madding Crowd” | 14 |
| Bernard Quaritch | 14 |
| Title of MS. of “Lyford Redivivus” | 16 |
| Bernard Alfred Quaritch | 16 |
| Samuel Johnson | 20 |
| Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds about 1770, for Johnson’s Step-Daughter, Lucy Porter. Engraved by Watson |
| Page of Prayer in Dr. Johnson’s Autograph | 23 |
| Title of Keats’s Copy of Spenser’s Works | 24 |
| Portrait of Tennyson Reading “Maud” to the Brownings, by Rossetti | 26 |
| Dr. Johnson’s Church, St. Clement Danes | 31 |
| From a pen-and-ink sketch by Charles G. Osgood |
| Inscription to Mrs. Thrale in Dr. Johnson’s Hand | 32 |
| Inscription to General Sir A. Gordon in Queen Victoria’s Hand | 35 |
| George D. Smith | 36 |
| Photographed by Genthe |
| Autograph MS. of Lamb’s Poem, “Elegy on a Quid of Tobacco” | 40 |
| Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach | 42 |
| Photographed by Genthe |
| Title of “Robinson Crusoe.” First Edition | 45 |
| Title of “Oliver Twist” | 47 |
| Presentation Copy to W. C. Macready |
| Original Illustration for “Vanity Fair” | 48 |
| 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 elaborated |
| Specimen Proof-Sheet of George Moore’s “Memoirs of My Dead Life” | 50 |
| Title of George Moore’s “Pagan Poems” | 51 |
| Presentation Copy to Oscar Wilde |
| Title of Blake’s “Marriage of Heaven and Hell” | 52 |
| Charles Lamb’s House at Enfield | 54 |
| Inscription by Joseph Conrad in a Copy of “The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’” | 56 |
| The Author’s Book-Plate | 60 |
| Henry E. Huntington | 72 |
| Stoke Poges Church | 74 |
| 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| Specimen page of an unpublished manuscript of Charlotte BrontË |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: BoËthius’s “De Consolatione PhilosophiÆ” | 90 |
| 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 M—— at Hastings” | 105 |
| Inscription to Swinburne from Dante Rossetti | 106 |
| Autograph Inscription by Stevenson, in a Copy of his “Inland Voyage” | 109 |
| Title of a Unique Copy of Stevenson’s “Child’s Garden of Verses” | 110 |
| New Building of the Grolier Club | 114 |
| Inscription to Charles Dickens, Junior, from Charles Dickens | 116 |
| Illustration, “The Last of the Spirits,” by John Leech For Dickens’s “Christmas Carol” | 116 |
| From the original water-color drawing |
| Autograph Dedication to Dickens’s “The Village Coquettes” | 118 |
| Title of Meredith’s “Modern Love,” with Autograph Inscription to Swinburne | 121 |
| Inscription by Dr. Johnson in a Copy of “Rasselas” | 125 |
| Inscription by Woodrow Wilson, in a Copy of his “Constitutional Government of the United States” | 126 |
| Inscription by James Whitcomb Riley | 128 |
| Charles Lamb | 130 |
| Frances Maria Kelly | 132 |
| Miss Kelly in Various Characters | 136 |
| MS. Dedication of Lamb’s Works to Miss Kelly | 137 |
| Autograph Letter of Lamb to Miss Kelly | 139 |
| Charles and Mary Lamb | 144 |
| James Boswell of Auchinleck, Esqr. | 146 |
| Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by John Jones |
| Samuel Johnson in a Tie-Wig | 150 |
| Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by Zobel |
| Inscription to Rev. William J. Temple, from James Boswell | 159 |
| Title of Mason’s “Elfrida.” First Edition | 163 |
| MS. of Boswell’s Agreement with Mr. Dilly, reciting the Terms agreed on for the Publication of “Corsica” | 167 |
| MS. Indorsement by Boswell on the First Paper drawn by him as an Advocate | 168 |
| Dr. Johnson in Traveling Dress, as described in Boswell’s “Tour” | 174 |
| Engraved by Trotter |
| Inscription to James Boswell, Junior, from James Boswell | 176 |
| Samuel Johnson | 184 |
| Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by Heath |
| Inscription to Edmund Burke, by James Boswell | 185 |
| Mrs. Piozzi | 186 |
| Engraved by Ridley from a miniature |
| Extract from MS. Letter of Mrs. Thrale | 191 |
| Title of Miss Burney’s “Evelina.” First Edition | 199 |
| Mrs. Thrale’s Breakfast-Table | 200 |
| Samuel Johnson. The “Streatham Portrait” | 204 |
| Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by Doughty |
| MS. Inscriptions by Mrs. Thrale | 206 |
| Title of “The Prince of Abissinia” (“Rasselas”). First Edition | 207 |
| MS. of the Last Page of Mrs. Thrale’s “Journal of a Tour in Wales” | 219 |
| Miss Amy Lowell, of Boston | 222 |
| Samuel Johnson | 225 |
| William Godwin, the Ridiculous Philosopher | 227 |
| Charles Lamb’s Play-Bill of Godwin’s “Antonio” | 236 |
| MS. Letter from William Godwin | 241 |
| Anthony Trollope | 250 |
| From a photograph by Elliot and Fry |
| Temple Bar as it is To-day | 268 |
| Old Temple Bar: Demolished in 1666 | 276 |
| Temple Bar in Dr. Johnson’s Time | 280 |
| Temple Bar | 291 |
| First Page of Dr. Johnson’s Petition to the King on Behalf of Dr. Dodd | 306 |
| Mr. Allen’s Copy of the Last Letter Dr. Dodd sent Dr. Johnson | 312 |
| Caricature of Oscar Wilde | 319 |
| From an original drawing by Aubrey Beardsley |
| “Our Oscar” as he was when we loaned him to America | 326 |
| From a contemporary English caricature |
| MS. Inscription to J. E. Dickinson, from Oscar Wilde | 342 |
| Harry Elkins Widener | 344 |
| Title of Stevenson’s “Memoirs of Himself” | 349 |
| Printed for private distribution only, by Mr. Widener |
| Beverly Chew | 350 |
| Henry E. Huntington among his Books | 352 |
| Photographed by Genthe |
| Harry Elkins Widener’s Book-Plate | 355 |
