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Portal:Literature/Selected picture archive/2010 archive

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This is an archive of images that have appeared in the Selected picture section of Portal:Literature in 2010. For past archives, see the complete archive page.


January 2010


William Tyndale (c. 1494 – 1536), Protestant reformer and Bible translator. Image: Foxe's Book of Martyrs


February 2010


Cover (page A1r) of Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652), a compilation of alchemical poems in English by Elias Ashmole.



March 2010


Original illustration (1865) by John Tenniel (28 February 1820 - 25 February 1914), of the novel by Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice trying to play croquet with a flamingo.

Image: John Tenniel



April 2010


Great English writers previous to the eighteenth century. Geoffrey Chaucer, Ben Jonson (top), Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser (middle), John Dryden, Francis Bacon (bottom).

Image: The New Student's Reference Work, 5 volumes, Chicago, 1914


May 2010


Book cover designed by Alfred Garth Jones for the first hardback publication of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1902.

Image: Alfred Garth Jones


June 2010


Printing press from 1811.
Image by: Matthias Kabel




July 2010


The 16-volume English collection The Complete Works of Honoré de Balzac, including the entirety of La Comédie humaine
Image by: Scartol




August 2010


Grave of poet E. E. Cummings, located at Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Image by: Midnightdreary




September 2010


Hungarian writer's Ferenc Wathay's statue in Székesfehérvár, Hungary.
Sculptor: Elek Lux, in 1937


October 2010

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November 2010


Hungarian writer's Ferenc Wathay's statue in Székesfehérvár, Hungary.
Sculptor: Elek Lux, in 1937


December 2010


The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, English edition. Seen in the Bristol Central Library.
Image: Rob Brewer