William Roscoe.
Wendell Phillips.
Constantin Chasseoeuf, French philosopher
Henry Peter Brougham
Lord Sumption.
FELIX DAHN (1834-1912).
John Greenleaf Whittier
Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
A scene from 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'.
Coventry Patmore.
Print of Leonardo da Vinci's sketch for an ornithopter.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Joaquin Costa Martinez.
Elizabeth Browning, English poet
Sir Walter Scott
Victor Jacquemont, French botanist and geologist
John Selden, English humanist polymath
Amos Eaton
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer and politician
Title page of 'Physiology of taste', 19th century
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Thomas Hughes.
Photographic portrait of Sir Robert Laird Borden
Cope Whitehouse, US archaeologist
Ernest Renan.
Joshua Reed Giddings, 1795 1864
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
Lucy escaping 'whence no fugitive can be brought back' by jumping overboard from the steamer.
HORACE WALPOLE (1717-1797).
John Donne, from the frontispiece to Death's Duel, 1632
Tomb Of Chateaubriand
William Roscoe
Sir Walter Besant.
John Donne, 1572 -1631
Johann von Goethe, German author
Mr. C.f. Adams
Bernardus Paludanus, Dutch physician
Wilmatte Porter Cockerell, US botanist and entomologist
Reverand George Croly.
Thomas Babbington Macaulay,
DANIEL B. LUCAS (1836-1909).
James Bindley, British antiquarian
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), African-American Abolitionist, Portrait, circa 1874
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), Abolitionist, Portrait
Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), American Abolitionist, Portrait, circa 1885
John Brown
Capture Of John Brown In The Engine House. John Brown Was An American Abolitionist Who Believed Armed Insurrection Was The Only Way To Overthrow The Violent System Of Slavery In The United States
The Death Of Marmion. (scott.) Painted By Edward Armitage. Marmion Is An Epic Poem By Walter Scott About The Battle Of Flodden Field (1513).
Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet
Samuel Parr.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, 1759 1805
Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller
John Addington Symonds
Friedrich Von Schiller
Bonawentura Niemojowski.
Rafael Wenceslao Nunez Moledo, 1825 1894
William Wilberforce.
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand.
Jointed wings.
Thomas Attwood.
Ferdinand de Rothschild.
Portrait of Charles Lyell
Frederick Douglass 1864
Andrew Ducarel, British antiquarian
Song dynasty (960 1279)
Charlotte Forten Grimke, American anti-slavery activist
Thomas Craig, Scottish legal scholar
Facsimile of frontispiece of William Curtis (1746-1779) Flora Londinensis From a print dated 1802
ABOLITIONIST SONG, c1843.
Benedetto Croce, 1866 1952
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, 1800 1859
Dr. Archibald Alison
Sallust, Roman historian
Jean Jacques Regis de Cambaceres.
Benjamin Butler.
Portrait Of Sojourner Truth
JAMES BRYCE (1838-1922).
Olaudah Equiano.
Henry Dundas
Sir Walter Besant
John Donne, aged 44
Baron Bernhard August von Lindenau (1780 1854) was a German lawyer
The parting of Sir Thomas More and his daughter before his execution for high treason, 6 July 1535
Edwin McMasters Stanton, 1814 1869
Jeremy Bentham, English social reformer
The execution of Charles J. Guiteau.
Portrait of Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Voltaire, French author
Count Stanislaw Kostka Potocki.
John Clark Ridpath (1840-1900), American Educator, Historical and Editor, Portrait, Illustration, Cyclopaedia of Universal History, Volume 1, The Ancient World, by John Clark Ridpath, the Jones Brothers Publishing Company, 1885
Washington Irving
Thomas Carlyle
Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist and author
William Wilberforce
John Greenleaf Whittier 1889
BAUDELAIRE: SPLEEN, 1857.
Mary Howitt.
Ernest Daudet
Amos Eaton, American botanist, geologist
Voltaire, French philosopher
Medicinal plant, illustration
Fern (Polypodium sp.), illustration
Asplenium trichomanes, illustration
Fern, 16th century illustration
Bret Harte's poem 'Little Nell'.
Edmond Rostand.
James Boswell
Preston Smith Brooks
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), American Abolitionist, Portrait
SIR WALTER SCOTT
SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832).
SCOTT/ABBOTSFORD FAMILY.
ELIZABETH F. ELLET
NORTH-SIDE VIEW OF SLAVERY.
Benjamin Franklin.
SOJOURNER TRUTH
Robert Burns.
Thomas Parnell.
Title page from Alexander Pope's 'The Dunciad'.
Nikolay Karamzin.
Francois Arago, French physicist
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), Abolitionist, Freed Slave
Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), American Abolitionist
John Brown (1800-1859), American Abolitionist, Portrait, circa 1859
John Brown, 1800 1859
Harriet Tubman (c1820-1913)
Frederick Douglass (c1818-1895,born Frederick Augustus Washing Bailey, a slave)
JEAN BRILLAT-SAVARIN
Enric Prat de la Riba.
William Wilberforce (1759-1833)
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Thomas Nuttall, English botanist
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
HUGH HENRY BRACKENRIDGE
Francesco Petrarca.
Edward Gibbon, English historian
Francis Bacon
William Prynne
Lawyer depicted reading a book on Libel Law.
The Courting.
ALEXIS de TOCQUEVILLE
JUSTIN McCARTHY (1830-1912).
Portrait of Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
THOMAS NELSON PAGE
James Boswell, Scottish author
PIERRE de NOLHAC (1859-1936).
Harriet Beecher Stowe, US abolitionist
Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865) .
A scene from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Title page for an illustrated version of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
A scene from Macbeth.
A scene from King John.
Birr Castle.
Edmund John Millington Synge.
A scene from Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'.
FRANK LOCKWOOD (1846-1897). British lawyer and politician. Photograph by W. & D. Downey, c1890.
John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst.
DANIEL WEBSTER (1782-1852).
DANIEL WEBSTER
STEPHEN TRIGG LOGAN
THADDEUS STEVENS
BENJAMIN K. PHELPS (1832-1880).
CHARLES PELHAM VILLIERS
German Gamazo y Calvo, 1840 - 1901
Sir John Eldon Gorst, 1835 1916
John Marshall Harlan.