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The War of the Worlds
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS A Martian fighting-machine is destroyed by a hit from a shell

Ubu Roi / Alfred Jarry
Front cover of Ubu Roi, depicting Pere Ubu & the spiral adorning his belly

Military Badge
Ulster impressions.Photolithograph after Joan Wanklyn, 1976.Published by Headquarters Northern Ireland, 1976.Shows 18 vignettes of the British Army on operations in Northern Ireland

Death of Sir John Moore, 17 Jan 1809. Aquatint by T Sutherland, after W Heath, published by J Jenkins, 2 Jan 1815. At the Battle of Corunna, Peninsular War (1808-1814)

The War of the Worlds
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road

The Cat that Walked by Himself
THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF Walking by his wild lone through the Wet Wild Woods & waving his wild tail

Christopher Hatton Turnor, 1840-1914, author of Astra Castra: experiments and adventures in the atmosphere published in 1865

The Last Stand of the Imperial Guards at Waterloo. General Hill calling on upon the Enemy to Surrender.Print by Riddle and Goughman after the painting by Robert Hillingford

WW2 poster, activities of 52 (Lowland) Division
Screen-print poster, published circa 1950, showing the activities of the 52nd Lowland Division during the Second World War, with a map of Northern Europe, and unit badges along the top and bottom

Peter Pan & Wendy Flying
Peter Pan and Wendy float away over the city

All that was left of them, 17th Lancers near Modderfontein, 17 September 1901.Chromolithograph after Richard Caton Woodville (1856-1927)

Brudenell Magna Carta
The Brudenell Magna Carta, document on vellum, dated 12 October 1297, with a substantial fragment of the Great Seal of Edward I. The original Magna Carta was issued in Latin in 1215

Treasure Island Map
A map of the island

Treasure Island Map / Col
A map of Treasure Island

Pan & Wendy Fly / Postcard
Peter Pan and Wendy fly to Never-Never Land

Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty struggle
THE FINAL PROBLEM The death of Sherlock Holmes; Holmes & Moriarty struggle at the Reichenbach Falls: apparently, both are killed. Date: First published: 1893

Hobbes / Leviathan / Frontis
LEVIATHAN : Frontispiece to the first edition, representing the spiritual and temporal power united in the person of the King, and ruling over the whole earth

Map of Purgatory / Dante
A map of Purgatorio, in Dantes La Divina Commedia

Map of Wessex
A map of the Wessex of the novels

Colour / Walrus / Carpenter
The Walrus and the Carpenter

Wodehouse / Jeeves / Wooster
Front cover of Piccadilly Jim, showing a couple playing footsie beneath the dining table

Lovecraft / Colour / Space
A shapeless stream of unplaceable colour - scene from The colour out of space

Jeeves and Wooster
In Thank You Jeeves!, Jeeves gives notice when Bertie Wooster, his employer, insists on playing the banjolele

Bill Sykes (Barnard)
Bill Sykes sits at a table with a bottle of booze while his dog Bullseye cowers against the wall, afraid of being hit

Jeeves & Wooster / Book
When the jolly old storm clouds rolled up, Bertie Wooster turned instinctively to his man Jeeves...Jeevess judgment was infallible; likwise his taste in neckwear

Vision of Angels / Dante
Dante and Beatrice, standing on a cloud, watch the angels as they circulate in Paradise

Sport / Boxing / Rules / 1743
The first rules of boxing, published August 16th, 1743

Ulysses / James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce

Holmes Smoking Pipe
THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP Holmes ponders the problem

Sri Lanka - Ceylon. Her tea and other industries
A larger version of this uncommon pictorial poster map was originally published by the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board in 1933

Battle of Omdurman, Friday, September 2, 1898. Chromolithograph, after A Sutherland, published by G W Bacon and Company Limited, 127 Strand, London, 1900 (c)

Struwwelpeter Cover
Struwwelpeter The cover of the book

The Pooters
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pooter and their son Lupin

Lacrosse
A run up the field. From a postcard published by CW Faulkner Date: 1903

Scrooge Sees Marley Face
Scrooge is startled to see Marleys face on his door, instead of the knocker

Dickensian Party
Mrs Fezziwigs Ball - shown to Scrooge by the Ghost of Christmas Past

Bob Cratchit & Tiny Tim
Happy at the prospect of a hearty Christmas dinner, due to the generosity of the reformed Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit carries his son Tiny Tim on his shoulder!

Whistle and I ll Come 2
Oh, whistle, and I ll come to you ! The thing in Parkinss hotel room

THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL One of the greatest of best- sellers, the cover shows Leslie Howard in the best of the film versions, produced in 1935

Lovecraft / Aliens / 1936
THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME (H P Lovecraft) - Peaslee encounters the Great Race

The Pardoners Tale
The three rogues search in the woods for death

Peter Pan / Theatre Poster
Peter Pan and Wendy fly over the rooftops in a poster to advertise the stage show

Oliver Twist / Title Page
Title page

Gulliver in Lilliput
Gulliver is tied down by the people of Lilliput

Dickens / Christmas Carol
Scrooge receives a visit from the ghost of Jacob Marley, his former business partner

Seaton, Devon, viewed from West Cliff - Painted by artist Frank E Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Scotland Forever. Photolithograph, coloured, by Lady Elizabeth Southerden Butler (as Mrs William Butler), 1881, published by Leeds City Art Galleries, 1980 (c)

Scrooge and Marley Ghost
Scrooge receives a visit from the ghost of Jacob Marley, his former business partner

Hercule Poirot
HERCULE POIROT the Belgian detective, hero of many of Christies books

Hardy / Tess D urbervilles
Tesss first encounter with Alec D Urberville

Jeeves & Wooster
Bertie Woosters imperturbable gentlemans gentleman is looked to for counsel & help on all sides

Cheshire Cat / Tree
CHESHIRE CAT " I growl when I m pleased, and wag my tail when I m angry"

Jane Eyre & Rochester
Mr. Rochester declares his love for Jane

Sherlock Holmes / Strand
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LADY FRANCES CARFAX Title page of the Strand Magazine

Pride and Prejudice
Mr Darcy finds Elizabeth Bennet tolerable

Jabberwock Colour
" The jabberwock, with eye of flame, came whiffling through the tulgey wood"

Alice / Rabbit as Herald
The White Rabbit in heralds costume

Alice with the Flamingo
CROQUET Alice with the flamingo

Alice: dormouse in Teapot
The Hatters Mad Tea Party The Hatter and the Hare put the Dormouse in the tea-pot

Alice and Humpty Dumpty
" If he smiled much more the ends of his mouth might meet behind, " she thought

Holmes & Watson / Train
SILVER BLAZE Holmes and Watson in a railway compartment

Holmes / Footprints
THE SIGN OF FOUR Holmes, pipe between his teeth, examines footprints

Sherlock Holmes / Watson
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES Holmes and Watson watch the fearful hound

Don Quixote riding with Sancho Panza
A scene from Cervantes novel Don Quixote -- the hero of the title rides with his companion Sancho Panza along a mountain pass

The Royal Bride - Queen Elizabeth II portrait - Published in the Illustrated London News November 29 1947 1947

Quixote & Windmill
Don Quixote attacks the windmill

Summoned to Waterloo - Brussels, 1815
SUMMONED TO WATERLOO - BRUSSELS, 1815. Chromolithograph after Robert Hillingford, published 1898 (c). Officers leaving the Duchess of Richmonds ball, with Wellington in a carriage

Foot guards at Battle of Waterloo
Up, Guards, and at them!.Colour oleolithograph after Richard Caton Woodville.Published as a Supplement to Holly Leaves the Christmas Number of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

Tango. Watercolor by Marcel Vertes (1895-1961) published in l Illustration on November 26, 1925. Watercolour

Anna Karenina / Portrait
Illustration of Leo Tolstoys fictional character Anna Karenina

Pride and Prejudice
I have not an instant to lose says Elizabeth Bennet to Mr Darcy

Pride and Prejudice
Mr Darcy enters a room in which Elizabeth Bennet is seated at her writing desk

Alice / Griffin Asleep
The Griffin asleep

Holmes / Hound / Baskerville
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES Holmes shoots the sinister hound: " Holmes emptied five barrels of his revolver into the creatures flank"

Steady the Drums and Fifes, 1811. Colour photolithograph after Lady Butler, published 1960 (c). Associated with 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot, Battle of Albuera, 1811

Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, No possible doubt whatever
Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, No possible doubt whatever, published in the Bystander, 1916. Date: 1916

6 Bruce Bairnsfather postcards
Set of 6 Bruce Bairnsfather postcards, Series 9. Published by The Bystander - in original brown envelope. Commemorative Art

Black Beauty 1967
Front cover design by Roger Hall, for a 1967 edition of Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, originally published in 1877

Pip & Miss Havisham
Pip and Miss Havisham

Dante / Map of Paradise
Schematic plan of Paradise, visited by Dante Alighieri in company with Beatrice

Religio Medici
RELIGIO MEDICI Title page from the first edition of Thomas Brownes book

Hiawatha / Wedding / Bride
Hiawatha with his bride, Minnehaha, walking hand in hand

Holmes in a Fight / C20Th
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST Holmes engages in fisticuffs against a slogging ruffian

Anti-Mau Mau poster, caricature of a Mau Mau rebel, 1952 (c).Inscribed: ?THE MAU MAU WANT YOUR GUN! SEE THAT THEY DON?T GET IT

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