EditorialA burst of flame and on either side a lion salient before a wall, and two scrolls ('The mouth of the Collorick beware' and 'Heare is the last of the red stone and the beginning to put away the dead the elixir vita'). A sun above a crowned male Bird of ...
EditorialA crescent moon, being bitten by a large brown dragon, beneath, standing on a winged mappa mundi -style orb upon which droplets of blood are falling from the dragon's belly. - verses, in four stanzas. - a waving male figure in peasant dress, holding a ...
EditorialPoem of John Dryden. England [London]; 1659. [Whole folio] Autograph fair copy of Dryden's first major poem 'Heroic Stanzas'; an elegy on the death of Oliver Cromwell Originally published/produced in England [London]; 1659. . Source: Lansdowne 1045, f...
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...