Books & posters & prints

The Gutenberg Bible, 1454 Anonymous

Title page to 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' by Thomas Hardy, edition published in 1892 English School

Second title page for The Roman Eulenspiegel Philip Verbeek

Title Page for 'Certaine Bokes Copyled by Mayster Skelton' by John Skelton, published c.1550 English School

Charles Dickens Barnaby Rudge 1841 Anonymous

Devotional booklet. Westphalia, Germany, 14th century Anonymous

Bookstalls of the Farringdon Road market, London Walter Benington

Engagements during the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-95. Japan, late 19th century Unknown

David Copperfield Anonymous

Title page of the First Shakespeares Folio, 1623 Martin Droeshout

Sir Hudson Lowe comming in the study of Napoleon I on the island of St. Helena without announcing himself French School

Title page of Theophan Prokopovich's treatise 'Truth about the Monarch's Will', 1722 School Russian

Book cover from a Shaiva manuscript Nepalese School

Book of Marvels Anonymous

Molière Pierre Mignard

Title page and Frontispiece to 'The Emigrant's Guide to Australia', by Eneas Mackenzie published by Clarke, Beeton & Co., 1853 English School

Detail from a Buddhist manuscript cover Nepalese School

The Library of the Royal Institution, Albemarle Street Thomas Rowlandson

Aristotle. From: Commentarium magnum Averrois in Aristotelis De Anima libros Anonymous

Illustration from 'The Ladies Delight in choice experiments & curiosities' by Hannah Woolley, 1672 English School

Porters in Tibet Fox

Uzbek girls Anonymous

Detail from a Buddhist manuscript cover Nepalese School

1940s Grandfather On Porch Reading To Grandson Anonymous

Illustration To "Little Women" Anonymous

Frontispiece illustration to 'The Compleat Gamester' by Charles Cotton, c.1700 English School

Monument to Alexandre Dumas Pere, the readers, 1883 Gustave Dore

Interior View of Reading Room at Vatican Library Anonymous

Wukon Jawa, MS 41 p.60, image 30, 1830 Malay Malay

Title page of Schildtberger's Travels c1554 Unknown

Navigators using an astrolabe in the Indian Ocean, c.1410-12 Boucicaut Master

Little Dorrit Mr. Sparkler Under a Reverse of Circumstances Anonymous

Swiss Guards, Vatican City, Rome Donald McLeish

Mr. B. finds Pamela writing Joseph Highmore

Music Book; Le Cahier de Musique, 1922 Juan Gris

Le Grimoire du Pape Honorius, 1760 Anonymous