Portal:Literature/Selected picture archive/2010 archive
This is an archive of images that have appeared in the Selected picture section of Portal:Literature in 2010. For past archives, see the complete archive page.
William Tyndale (c. 1494 – 1536), Protestant reformer and Bible translator.
Image: Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Cover (page A1r) of Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652), a compilation of alchemical poems in English by Elias Ashmole.
Original illustration (1865) by John Tenniel (28 February 1820 - 25 February 1914), of the novel by Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice trying to play croquet with a flamingo.
Image: John Tenniel
Great English writers previous to the eighteenth century. Geoffrey Chaucer, Ben Jonson (top), Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser (middle), John Dryden, Francis Bacon (bottom).
Image: The New Student's Reference Work, 5 volumes, Chicago, 1914
Book cover designed by Alfred Garth Jones for the first hardback publication of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1902.
Image: Alfred Garth Jones
Printing press from 1811.
Image by: Matthias Kabel
The 16-volume English collection The Complete Works of Honoré de Balzac, including the entirety of La Comédie humaine
Image by: Scartol
Grave of poet E. E. Cummings, located at Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Image by: Midnightdreary
Hungarian writer's Ferenc Wathay's statue in Székesfehérvár, Hungary.
Sculptor: Elek Lux, in 1937
Portal:Literature/Selected picture archive/October 2010
Hungarian writer's Ferenc Wathay's statue in Székesfehérvár, Hungary.
Sculptor: Elek Lux, in 1937
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, English edition. Seen in the Bristol Central Library.
Image: Rob Brewer