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Title page of Henry V based on the Convent Garden prompt book. Bell's edition.

Layamon's Brut. The St Alban's Chronicle. 15th century. A reference to Goneril, one of Lear's daughters, is seen around the middle of the page.

First page of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia

The page recounting the story of Brute

An illustration and reference to Leir in Holinshed's Chronicles

Engraving depicting the burial of King Richard III at Grey Friars

Pages of an English translation

Front page of Florio's translation of Montaigne's Essays

First page of Montaigne's essay 'On the cannibals'.

The first page of a contemporary English translation of Erasmus’s ‘Handbook of the Christian soldier’. Image