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Faerie Queene
pictures from a 1609 collection of Edmond Spensers The Faerie Queene.
Gerarde's Herball
Title Page
Illustrations of Aesop's Fables: the Bear and the Honey
These images were drawn by etcher Wenceslaus Hollar, and subsequently used in John Ogilby’s Aesop Fables. Each drawing was given a title and morally focused story that encouraged readers to learn from the past to move forward. These stories were…
Illustrations of Aesop's Fables: the Fox and the Cat
These images were drawn by etcher Wenceslaus Hollar, and subsequently used in John Ogilby’s Aesop Fables. Each drawing was given a title and morally focused story that encouraged readers to learn from the past to move forward. These stories were…
Illustrations of Aesop's Fables: the Husbandman and the Serpent
These images were drawn by etcher Wenceslaus Hollar, and subsequently used in John Ogilby’s Aesop Fables. Each drawing was given a title and morally focused story that encouraged readers to learn from the past to move forward. These stories were…
Illustrations of Aesop's Fables: the Stag and the Pool
These images were drawn by etcher Wenceslaus Hollar, and subsequently used in John Ogilby’s Aesop Fables. Each drawing was given a title and morally focused story that encouraged readers to learn from the past to move forward. These stories were…
Issac Newton's Opticks title page
Opticks: or, a Treatise of the reflecions, refractions, inflections and colours of Light also two Treatises of the species and Magnitude of Curvilinea Figures.
John Locke
Portrait of John Locke