Pictures from English Literature ... With twenty illustrations, by J. C. Horsley, E. M. Ward, W. F. Yeames, etc
A Victorian gift anthology of scenes from English literature, published in London in 1870 with text by John Francis Waller and twenty plates engraved after Royal Academy painters including J. C. Horsley, E. M. Ward and W. F. Yeames. Ornamental headpieces frame author portraits in medallions with foliage, banners and birth-and-death dates; full-page etched scenes show costumed figures in landscape and interior settings.













































