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This is a small selection of our inventory of antique Literacy & Writers prints for sale. Additional inventory is available. Contact us with your request. 1-800-879-6277

001wri:
Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Includes 9 pages of Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle Tom" at home in Kentucky. 1897.
6 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. $60

002wri:
Portrait(s) & 5 page story "The Shakspeare Tercentenary." 1864 Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Wood engraving.
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 in. $50

003wri:
Steel engraved portrait of Noah Webster surrounded by decorative vignettes. c.1855.
7 x 10 5/8 in. $30

004wri:
Edgar Allan Poe. Portrait featured in the issue of 1875 Harper's Weekly. Wood engraving.
4 3/4 x 7 in. $40

005wri:
7 vignettes of American Authors (G.W. Curtis, Bryant, Prescott, Longfellow, etc.) 1855 Ballou's Pictorial. Hand colored, wood engraving.
7 3/4 x 10 in. $60
(b/w: $40)

006wri:
Oliver Wendell Holmes. American Physician and author is best known for his poems "Old Ironsides" and "The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay." 1886 Harper's Weekly. Wood engraving.
11 x 15 7/8 in. $30

007wri:
Victor Hugo. The French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. 1874 Harper's Weekly. Wood engraving.
10 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. $30

008wri:
Charles Dickens, The Popular english author. 1867 Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Wood engraving.
10 1/2 x 15 3/4 in. $40

009wri:
Portrait Charles Dickens. Print also shows paupers, the subject of many Dickens' novels. A quote by him appears at the bottom relating to the equal virtues of the poor and rich. 1870 Harper's Weekly. Wood engraving.
10 1/8 x 15 3/8 in. $40

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010wri:
The Late Alfred Lord Tennyson. He was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. Supplement to the Graphic.
11 1/8 x 15 3/4 in. $30

011wri:
Lord Tennyson at Home. 1884 Harper's Weekly. Wood engraving.
11 x 16 in. $30

012wri:
"For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angles name Lenore -- Nameless here for everyone." from Poe's "Raven." 1884 Harper's Weekly. Wood engraving.
11 x 15 1/2 in. $40

013wri:
Some Poets of the Day. Portraits of the great writers Kipling, Watson, Morris, Tennyson, etc. c.1890 Supplement to the Graphic. Offset print.
15 5/8 x 22 3/4 in. $80

014wri:
Mr. Pickwick's Reception: Sam Weller introduces to Mr. Pickwick the leading characters in Mr. Dicken's Novel. 1870 Every Saturday. Hand colored, wood engraving. *Bottom center has been archivally mended.
14 1/4 21 1/4 in. $80

016wri:
Portrait of Bret Harte. 1871 Every Saturday. Wood engraving.
11 x 14 in. $40

017wri:
1870 Rare Every Saturday showing a portrait of Victor Hugo. Hand colored wood engraving.
10 ½ x 15 in. $80

018wri:
1870 Don Quixote and Sancho Plaza. Wood engraving published in Every Saturday. Shows the two having a conversation.
11 x 16 in. $60

019wri:
Two hand colored engravings showing the interior and exterior of Printing Offices. Published in 1880, top image is captioned Times Office San Bernardino, Cal. John Isaac Proprietor. Lower image captioned, interior view of Index Office, Daily & Weekly. Warren Wilson, Proprietor.
10 x 13 ½ in. $60

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