Public reading posters & prints

Charles Dickens giving a public reading, 1858 Robert Hannah

Handbook of the New Public Library Poster Joseph Linden Smith

The First Public Reading of the Declaration of Independence Howard (after) Pyle

Main reading room, the New York Public Library, c.1910-20 Detroit Publishing Co.

A labourer reads a book in a library Anonymous

Underground 3, 2013 Barbara Hoogeweegen

Breathing Spaces for London, Clissold Park, Stoke Newington, Open to the Public on Sundays Anonymous

Charles Dickens James Bacon

The Public Library of the city of Boston, Boston Public Library Anonymous

Public Letter-writers Anonymous

On the Omnibus, 1880 Maurice Delondre

Sunny Newspaper, DC, 2006 James Galloway

Girl Reading on Bench Anonymous

A bookshop in Charing Cross Road, London McLeish

'Mark Twain', The greatest of all American humorists Rischgitz Collection

Newgate Prison, London Anonymous

1970s elderly man reading newspaper on porch in a rocker Anonymous

The Ketch Public House Sarah Smith

'John Masefield', English Poet Foulsham and Banfield

Mother Reading to Daughter Anonymous

Mother Reading Book to Children Anonymous

'Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve', French 19th Century Critic Anonymous

Public Dinners George Cruikshank

The Ruins of Babylon on the East Bank of the Euphrates David Charles Read

The Publishing Officers and Editor's Quarters of 'News of the Camp', c.1880-81 English Photographer

Walter Scott Edwin Henry Landseer

Woman Walks Over Hot Plowshares Anonymous

'The Flask' ale house, Highgate Village, London McLeish

A Good Read Etienne Adolphe Piot

Please Check the front of the Train, 1998 Ellen Golla

First issue of 'The Tatler, 1709 English School

Demonstration by the Independent Labour Party, ca.1893 Anonymous

1950s Businessman On Railroad Station Platform Reading Newspaper Waiting For Train Anonymous

Seated Woman Reading Bible Anonymous

Robert Browning Rischgitz Collection

Bookstalls of the Farringdon Road market, London Walter Benington