First edition posters & prints

La Traviata: first edition of the original version, 1854 Anonymous

Cover page of first edition of the Grande Valse Nouvelle in A-flat Major, Op. 42, 1840 Anonymous

Opera Falstaff: first edition of the original version, 1893 Anonymous

Cover of the First Issue of The Crisis Anonymous

Titlepage of the first edition of 'Les Miserables' by Victor Hugo French School

Loves Labours Lost English School

Facsimile of the frontispiece from the first German edition of Marco Polo's Book, Nuremberg German School

The First Book of Urizen; 'As the stars are apart from the earth', 1794 William Blake

Titlepage of the first edition of Blackwood's Magazine, 1817 English School

La clemenza di Tito. The first edition of the vocal score, 1795 Anonymous

A City Thoroughfare Gustave (after) Dore

Title page of the first edition of The Musical Offering by Johann Sebastian Bach, 1747 Anonymous

Title page of Principia philosophiae by Rene Descartes, 1644 Dutch School

Cover page of the first German edition of the Trois Valses Brillantes, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1838 Anonymous

Cover of first edition of Camera Work Alfred Stieglitz

The Fight in the Queen's Ante-Chamber Anonymous

The potteries Edgar & Winifred Ward

The Witch gives Advice as to Sir Tristram's Wound Anonymous

Illustration to the first edition of Experimenta Nova von Otto von Guericke, 1672 Anonymous

Cover to the first edition of the Libretto of opera Simon Boccanegra by Giuseppe Verdi, 1881 Anonymous

Old Testament text page from the first edition of the Tyndale Bible English School

Un caballero espanol en plaza quebrando rejoncillos sin auxilio de los chulos Francisco de Goya

A man eating, Mukden (Shenyang), China Wide World Photos

Sir Galahad is brought to the Court of King Arthur Anonymous

A page from one of the only two copies known to exist of the first printing of Handel's Messiah in... English School

The Victory of Buddha Rabindranath Tagore

Over London - By Rail Gustave (after) Dore

Cover of the first edition of the vocal score of opera Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi, 1852 Anonymous

Then they went to Sir Galahad Dora Curtis

Illustration to the first edition of Experimenta Nova von Otto von Guericke, 1672 Anonymous

Echan perros al toro Francisco de Goya

Revelation 20:18 Key of the bottomless pit German School

Billingsgate - Early Morning Gustave Dore

Cover of the first edition of the vocal score of opera Giovanna dArco by Giuseppe Verdi, c. 1846 Anonymous

A Game of Croquet Gustave (after) Dore

Off Billingsgate, view of Harrow Alley Gustave Dore