Author Collection (page 14)

William Shakespeare's Will on a Christmas card -- a local habitation and a name. Date: circa 1890s

Cat and Elizabethan poet on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Mr James Willing and the Ghost
Cartoon, Mr James Willing, Jun, is busy writing another stirring drama. Our artist has caught him at that moment when the " ghost" comes in

Douglas Fairbanks, Clement Shorter and Charlie Chaplin
Clement Shorter, founder and editor of The Sphere magazine, pictured flanked by movie stars, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin during a visit to America in 1920. 1920

Dr William Beebe, deep sea explorer, Bermuda
Dr William Beebe (1877-1962), American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, author and deep sea explorer, seen here in Bermuda

Constance Smedley, founder of the Lyceum Club
Anne Constance Smedley, married name Constance Armfield, (20 June 1876 9 March 1941) British artist, playwright, author and founder of the International Lyceum Clubs. Date: 1903

Mr. E. F. Knight, war correspondent of the Morning Post
Edward Frederick (E.F.) Knight (23 April 1852 3 July 1925), English barrister, soldier, journalist, and author of 20 books, many based on his dispatches as a war correspondent

Cartoon, Oscar Wilde and William Wilde
Cartoon, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), poet and playwright, comforted by his brother William Wilde (1852-1899) in the face of American criticism of his play, Vera

18th century illustration black macaque monkey
Plate 217 of George Edwards: Gleanings of Natural History: exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants &c Printed for the author at the Royal College of Physicians

Russian Literary Giants - Chekov, Tolstoy and Gorky
Three Russian Literary Giants - (left) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Playwright and short story writer (centre) Count Lev (Leo) Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Pere Serafi (1510-1567). Catalan painter and poet. Poetical Works. Barcelona, Edited by engraver Joseph Torner, 1840. Engraving. Colored

Centaur Phyllirides. Engraving in Poeticon Astronomicon, by
Constellation Centaurus. Centaur Phyllirides. Engraving in Poeticon Astronomicon, by Gaius Julius Hyginus (ca.64 BC-17 AD). Edited in Venice, 1485. Incunable. Colored

The Host by Titus Maccius Plautus. Act I. 1518. Colored
Titus Maccius Plautus (250-184). Latin playwright. The Host (Amphitryo). Engraving. Act I. Edition of 1518. Colored

Aesop (c. 620A?i?564 BC). Ancient Greek fabulist. Aesop s
Aesop (c. 620A?i?564 BC). Ancient Greek fabulist credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesops Fables. Engraving of french edition. Paris, 1801. Colored

Critias (460-403 BC). Engraving. Colored
Critias (460-403 BC). Greek sophist. One of the Thirty Tyrants. Engraving. Colored

Karl Ludwig von Haller (1768 -1854). Was a Swiss jurist. Engraving by H. Gedam. Universal History, 1885. Colored

Felice Cavallotti (1842-1898). Engraving. Colored
Felice Cavallotti (1842-1898). Italian politician, poet and playwright. Engraving by Pla y Valor. Engraving at the Iberian Illustration, 1886. Colored

Ludovico Ariosto (1474 1533) Italian poet. Orlando Furio
Ludovico Ariosto (1474 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516). Book cover Orlando Furioso, edited in Lyon (Lugdunum), 1556

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. 35-c. 100). Roman rhetorician from Hispania. Statue. Calahorra. La Rioja. Spain

The Host by Titus Maccius Plautus. Act I. 1518
Titus Maccius Plautus (250-184). Latin playwright. The Host (Amphitryo). Engraving. Act I. Edition of 1518. Library University of Barcelona. Spain

Paradise Lost by John Milton (1608-1674)
John Milton (1608-1674). English poet. Paradise Lost, 1667. Title cover of an edition printed in London, 1727. Library of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain

Germanic bards. Colored engraving
Bard. Among the ancient Celts, a poet who composed panegyrics and songs of war, but then went on to describe the heroic or lyric poet of any age or country. Germanic bards. Colored engraving

Rafael Nunez (1825-1894). Colombian politician
Rafael Nunez (1825-1894). Colombian author, lawyer, journalist and politician. Elected President of Colombia in 1880 and in 1884. Engraving by Carretero. Colored

House of Fools of Love by Francisco Quevedo. Illustration
Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas (1580-1645). Spanish writer. House of Fools of Love. Illustration. Printed in 1895. Private collection

Cartoon, Gilbert and Sullivan, Stephens and Solomon
Cartoon, Ws Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan ignoring their rivals Henry Pottinger Stephens and Edward Solomon in the street -- We never speak as we pass by. 1882

Caricature, Oscar Wilde as Romeo
Caricature, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) in the role of Romeo -- an American newspaper had recently reported that this was about to happen. 1883

Birthplace of Thomas Hardy, Higher Bockhampton, Dorset
Birthplace of the poet and novelist Thomas Hardy, a thatched cottage at Higher Bockhampton, near Dorchester, Dorset. 1912

Caricature of Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright
Caricature of Oscar Fingal O Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), Irish poet, novelist, essayist and playwright. 1881

John Galsworthy Photo
JOHN GALSWORTHY Author of The Forsyte Saga and other novels, and of Loyalties, The skin game and other plays. Date: 1867 - 1933

Lord Curzon in Robes
GEORGE NATHANIEL, first marquess CURZON of Kedleston, widely travelled diplomat and author, Viceroy of India; afflicted with chronic curvature of the spine. Date: 1859 - 1925

Baroness Emma Orczy
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozalia Maria Jozefa Borbala Emmuska Orczy de Orczi (1865-1947), Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright, writer of The Scarlet Pimpernel series. Date: 1925

Pergola at the Villa San Michele above Anacapri, Italy
Pergola at the Villa San Michele above Anacapri, Isle of Capri, Italy. The summer villa of Swedish physician and author Axel Munthe. Built on the site of an old Roman dwelling. Date: 1904

Sir Arthur Bryant
Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant, CH, CBE (18 February 1899 22 January 1985), English historian, columnist for the Illustrated London News and man of affairs

Illustration, A Song of the English, Melbourne
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine). Melbourne -- Greeting! Nor fear nor favour won us place

Illustration, A Song of the English, Bombay
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine). Bombay -- Royal and Dower-Royal, I the Queen

Illustration, A Song of the English, Barren Landscape
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

Aldous and Maria Huxley
The English author, Aldous Huxley with his wife, Maria. Date: 1930

Bible of Alba or Arragel. 1422 - 1430. Castilian translation of the Hebrew Bible by Jewish Rabbi Mose Arragel of Guadalajara, commissioned by Don Luis de Guzmᮠ Gonzᬥ z

MORITZ, Karl Phillip (1757-1793). German author. Oil on canvas. GERMANY. SAXONY-ANHALT. Halberstadt. Municipal Museum

Gaius Julius Hyginus (64 BC - 17). Latin author. Poeticon Astronomicum. The constellation of Gemini. Work attributed to Hyginus. Incunable, 15th c. Renaissance art. Engraving

ATHANARIC II II (c. 335 - 381). Visigothic King (369-381)
ATHANARIC II II (c.335 - 381). Visigothic King (369-381). Considered by the author as the first of the genealogical line of kings of Spain

William Beach Thomas, KBE, (22 May 1868 12 May 1957), British author and journalist known for his work as a war correspondent during World War I and for his writings about nature and country life

Robert Robinson with Lord & Lady St Levan, Cornwall
Robert Robinson (1927-2011), radio and TV presenter, journalist and author, with Lord John Francis Arthur St Aubyn, 4th Baron St Levan (1919-2013), and his wife Lady Susan St Levan (d 2003)

Robert Robinson, radio and TV presenter
Robert Robinson (1927-2011), radio and TV presenter, journalist and author

Portrait photograph of Maxim Gorky, Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist

Handwriting sample: Arthur Conan Doyle, 1925
The manuscript of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(1859-1930) for his short story Lot No. 249. Date: 1925

Lyall Watson, South African scientist and author
Lyall Watson (1939-2008), South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and author. Through his work he attempted to make sense of natural

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