Illustrations
Reading edition
Facing Page
Title Page of the Celebrated First Folio Edition of ShakespeareTitle
A Page from the Gutenberg Bible (Mayence, 1455)4
A Page from the Coverdale Bible, being the First Complete English Bible14
Chandos' Portrait of Shakespeare16
Shakespeare's Birthplace at Stratford-on-Avon before the Restoration22
The Anne Hathaway Cottage22
Bust of Homer in the Museum of Naples32
Portrait of Virgil, taken from a Bust by L. P. Boitard34
Plato, after an Antique Bust36
Edmund Dulac's Conception of Queen Scheherezade, who told the "Arabian Nights" Tales40
The Jinnee and the Merchant—A Vignette Woodcut by William Harvey42
Portrait of St. Augustine by the Famous Florentine Painter, Sandro Botticelli50
A Page from St. Augustine's "La Cite de Dieu"54
Portrait of Cervantes, from an Old Steel Engraving58
Don Quixote Discoursing to Sancho Panza62
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 Color78
One of the Gilbert James Illustrations of the "Rubá'iyát"80
Portrait of Dante, by Giotto di Bondone84
Page from "Dante's Inferno," printed by Nicolo Lorenzo near the Close of the Fifteenth Century88
Portrait of Milton, after the Original Crayon Drawing from Life by William Faithorne, at Bayfordbury, Herts100
Milton Dictating to his Daughters—After an Engraving by W. C. Edwards, from the Famous Painting by Romney104
Portrait of John Bunyan, after the Oil Painting by Sadler108
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 Boswell116
Portrait of James Boswell, after a Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds—Engraved by E. Finden118
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 Street122
Portrait of Daniel Defoe, from an Old Steel Engraving124
Illustration of "Robinson Crusoe" by George Cruikshank126
Frontispiece to the First Edition of "Gulliver's Travels"—A Portrait Engraved in Copper of Captain Lemuel Gulliver of Redriff128
Facsimile of the Title Page of the First Edition of "Gulliver's Travels," issued in 1726130