Books Collection (page 4)

Hiawatha / Minnehaha Dies
Hiawatha mourns the death of Minnehaha: " Seven long days & nights he sat there."

Peter Pan / Michael & Nana
Michael rides on the back of the dog Nana

Wizard Oz / Dorothy / Toto
Dorothy and Toto are caught up by the tornado : she manages to save him by catching him by the ear

Flashman and Tom

Gulliver in Brobdingnag
He is tormented by the Kings jester, who is jealous of his small size

Hardy / Jude the Obscure
Jude at the mile-stone

Malleus Maleficarum
The Hammer of witches, authored by Dominicans Jakob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer, is the most influential book promoting the real existence of the witchcraft heresy

Jungle Book. Mowgli. Baloo
Baloo the bear, with Mowgli seated on his back, runs with wolves whilst Shere Khan the tiger watches in the background

Ghost Delivers Warning
A spectral figure materialises in a candlelit room where two men are roused from their books. The older man points ahead while the ghost points upwards. A ghostly warning?

THE SCARLET LETTER
Hawthornes classic story of morality and hypocrisy in puritan New England

Lear / Quangle-Wangle / C19
THE QUANGLE WANGLEs HAT The Quangle Wangles 200ft. ornamented hat, on top of the Crumpetty Tree

Lear / Jumblies / Nonsense
THE JUMBLIES The Jumblies go to sea in a sieve on a stormy day

Hiawatha / Longfellow
Hiawathas departure: Hiawatha sails Westward into the sunset

Knights Tale, Joust
Palamon desireth to slay his foe Arcite

Alice / Hatter Sings
The Hatter sings

Alice Pulls Curtain
ALICE Alice draws back the curtain to reveal a little door

St Bernard of Clairvaux
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX French religious who established the monastery at Clairvaux

Sher. Holmes Thinking
THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN Sherlock Holmes studies the case at his desk

Carroll / Alice / Caterpilla
Alice and the Caterpillar

Carroll / Alice & Croquet
Alice Plays Croquet with the Duchess Using a Flamingo

Alice and the Cheshire Cat -- We re all mad here, said the Cat. I m mad. You re mad

The Flying Saucer As I Saw It, book cover
THE FLYING SAUCER AS I SAW IT, by Kenneth Arnold, containing his own account. This copy is signed by the author

Gutenbergs press, with books
Gutenbergs press, reconstructed from what was left of it, and housed in the Deutsche Buchgewerbehaus at Leipzig, Germany

Don Quixote and the sheep
A scene from Cervantes novel Don Quixote -- the hero of the title encounters a flock of sheep and thinks they are an approaching army

Three Musketeers / C19Th
At the bastion of Saint- Gervais

Ballad / Twa Corbies
THE TWA CORBIES Two crows plan to dine on the body of a new-slain knight, then o er his white banes, when they are bare, the wind sall blaw for evermair. Date: traditional

Lear / Nonsense / Tring
There was an Old Person of Tring, who embellished his nose with a ring; He gazed at the moon, every evening in June, that ecstatic Old Person in Tring

Pilgrims Progress 26
The Man with the Muck-Rake, who could look no way but down

Mary in Secret Garden
Mary explores the gardens of Misselthwaite Manor

THANK YOU JEEVES
more glorious fooling by P. G. Wodehouse

Wilde / The Selfish Giant
The little boy he had loved

Thomas Hardy / Library
THOMAS HARDY Thomas Hardys home at Max Gate - the Library

Jack London / Call of Wild
Buck, sitting on the porch of Judge Millers house

Austen / Brandon & Dashwoo
Colonel Brandon visits Marianne Dashwood

MAYs COOKERY BOOK 1685
The Accomplished Cook, or the art and mystery of Cookery : a seventeenth century guide to success in the kitchen by Robert May

Alice / Walrus & Carpenter
Walrus & Carpenter address the oysters

Bacchus / Dionysus / Wine
Honouring Bacchus

Sherlock Holmes / Villan
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST Holmes gets his man: he spun round with a scream & fell upon his back

Carroll / White Rabbit
Alice & the White Rabbit

Hoffmann / Johnny Head-Air
THE STORY OF JOHNNY HEAD-IN- AIR Johnny falls into the river, much to the bewilderment of the fish

PROFESSOR MORIARTY
THE FINAL PROBLEM The evil professor Moriarty; named by Holmes the Napoleon of Crime'. Date: First published: 1893

Frontispiece illustration from Frankenstein
Frontispiece illustration from Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. Date: first published 1818

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Jack and Jill. Within four miles of London, the friends see the sun rising over St Pauls Cathedral. Date: 1914

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Tatters chasing the car
Illustration by Cecil Aldin -- Tatters, a wire-haired fox terrier, not wishing to be left behind, chasing his masters car on hearing the horn sounding. Date: 1927

A Reader in cigar factory, Tampa, Fla. He reads books and newspapers at top of his voice all day long. This is all the education many of these workers receive

Evening in Soho
Men stroll and gaze into shop windows on an early evening in St Annes Court, Soho, London Date: 1960s

Dickens / Christmas Carol
Mr Fezziwig invites Mrs Fezziwig to dance Date: First published: 1843-44

The Choristers by Muriel Dawson
Two sweet little girls stand together and sing from song books, accompanied by chirping birds on a tree branch behind them

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