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The War of the WorldsTHE WAR OF THE WORLDS The Martian fighting-machines in the Thames Valley
Hoffmann / Augustus / SoupTHE STORY OF AUGUSTUS WHO WOULD NOT HAVE ANY SOUP "...& on the fifth day he was dead!"
Seaton, Devon, viewed from West Cliff - Painted by artist Frank E Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J
Good jobs. Good money. Good times. Colour photolithograph recruiting poster published by Her Majesty?s Stationery Office, 1973. Printed by Impress Limited, 1973
Bomb Disposal - Join the Territorials now! Colour photolithograph recruiting poster, 1990 (c).Published by Armed Forces Careers Office. Date: circa 1990
Victorian flower fairiesFlower fairy dancing on a bed of poppies and lilies from a postcard published by Raphael Tuck Date: 1900
The Satanic BiblePopular edition of self- anointed High Priest Anton Laveys Satanic Bible, a dubious mish-mash of occult rituals, pseudo-magic and popular diabolism
Charles Dickens, by Andre Gill, 1868Engraved caricature of Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the English writer, produced by the French artist, Andre Gill, first published in 1868
German Armoured Vehicles; Second World War, 1944Illustration showing a selection of German armoured vehicles used during the Battle for Normandy in 1944. The vehicles shown include Panther and Tiger tanks (left foreground)
Isabella Mary Beeton (1836-1865)Photographic portrait of Isabella Mary Beeton, nee Mayson, the English cookery writer, pictured c.1856. Beetons Book of Household Management, first published in 1859, made her name a household word
The Elephants ChildTHE ELEPHANTs CHILD Kiplings tale of how the elephant got his trunk. A crocodile tugs at the elephants nose, and thus he develops a trunk!
Photo of the Loch Ness Monster?An enlarged photograph taken by a tourist of what was believed to be the Loch Ness Monster. A series of photographs were published during this period as the hunt for the mysterious Loch Ness Monster
Wizard of Oz / PoppiesDorothy and Toto fall asleep in the deadly poppy field
Jane Eyre & GipsyJane and the gipsy
Scrooge at his DeskOld Scrooge sat busy in his counting house
Scrooge Sees GraveThe Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come shows Scrooge his gravestone
Chaucer, Wife of BathThe Wife of Bath on her pilgrimage
Jorrocks and the BullHANDLEY CROSS; OR MR JORROCKSs HUNT Jorrocks on the wrong side of a bull
Racial / Iroquois FishingHiawatha goes fishing in his canoe; " Take my bait, O king of fishes! "
Hiawatha / Minnehaha DiesHiawatha mourns the death of Minnehaha: " Seven long days & nights he sat there."
Peter Pan / Michael & NanaMichael rides on the back of the dog Nana
Wizard Oz / Dorothy / TotoDorothy and Toto are caught up by the tornado : she manages to save him by catching him by the ear
Flashman and Tom
Gulliver in BrobdingnagHe is tormented by the Kings jester, who is jealous of his small size
Hardy / Jude the ObscureJude at the mile-stone
Malleus MaleficarumThe 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. BalooBaloo the bear, with Mowgli seated on his back, runs with wolves whilst Shere Khan the tiger watches in the background
Acupuncture in 17th CentTravellers in the East bring back accounts of different medical processes : this Chinese diagram of acupuncture points is published in a German scientific journal
THE SCARLET LETTERHawthornes classic story of morality and hypocrisy in puritan New England
Hiawatha / LongfellowHiawathas departure: Hiawatha sails Westward into the sunset
Knights Tale, JoustPalamon desireth to slay his foe Arcite
Alice / Hatter SingsThe Hatter sings
Alice Pulls CurtainALICE Alice draws back the curtain to reveal a little door
Sher. Holmes ThinkingTHE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN Sherlock Holmes studies the case at his desk
Carroll / Alice / CaterpillaAlice and the Caterpillar
Carroll / Alice & CroquetAlice 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
Don Quixote and the sheepA 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 / C19ThAt the bastion of Saint- Gervais
LacrosseA run up the field. From a postcard published by CW Faulkner Date: 1903
Lear / Nonsense / TringThere 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 26The Man with the Muck-Rake, who could look no way but down
Mary in Secret GardenMary explores the gardens of Misselthwaite Manor
THANK YOU JEEVESmore glorious fooling by P. G. Wodehouse
Wilde / The Selfish GiantThe little boy he had loved
Jack London / Call of WildBuck, sitting on the porch of Judge Millers house
Austen / Brandon & DashwooColonel Brandon visits Marianne Dashwood
Alice / Walrus & CarpenterWalrus & Carpenter address the oysters