I LLUST{AT IONS Christmas card, 1940, sent from Munby at Oflag VII C to Lewis . . . . 10 Captain A. N. L. Munby, 1st Battalion Queen Victoria‘s Rifles . . . . 16 Letter from Munby to Lewis, 26 October 1941 (detail) . . . . . . 19 Relief etching with pochoir from Les Robes de Paul Poiret . . . . . . 22 Grasset. Gillotage, Musique de scène pour le drame Cléopâtre… . . . . . 26 Alphonse Mucha. Lithograph poster, Gismonda . . . . . . . . 26 Alexis Chataignier. Engraving, Ah! Quelle antiquité!!! . . . . . . 31 François Depeuille. Etching, Bains Vigier. Les bains à la mode . . . . . 31 Guillaumot, after Lacoste. Etching, Mlle. de Contades . . . . . . 36 Janet, after Lacoste. Engraving, Quelques types des merveilleuses . . . . 36 The Merveilleuses, photo postcard, London, 1906 . . . . . . . 39 Mlle. Méaly as Lodoïska in Les Merveilleuses . . . . . . . . . 39 Dammy. Colour pochoir, La Fleur Merveilleuse. Robe du soir de Doucet . . . 45 Composite of the multispectral images of the Mishnah manuscript . . . . 48 ’At last the lock yielded, and the casket stood open between us.‘ . . . . 54 ’It is safe, she called…‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 ’Ayesha turned towards it…‘ . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 ’The hand grasped the curtain, and drew it aside.‘ . . . . . . . 63 ’Next second her tall and willowy form was staggering back…‘ . . . . 63 Title page of the first edition of Frankenstein, 1818 . . . . . . . 66 The Rattle & Brine cover of Frankenstein . . . . . . . . . 70 Annotation on Frankenstein, p. 85 . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Annotation on Frankenstein, p. 156 . . . . . . . . . . 78 Les Avantures de Télémaque, edition Delaulne and Estienne, 1717, title page . . 83 Les Avantures de Télémaque, edition Hofhout and Wetstein, 1719, title page . . 84 William Beckford, lithograph after Piat Sauvage, 1797 . . . . . . 92 The Story of Al Raoui, A Tale from the Arabic, title page of the first edition, 1799 99 Attributed Portrait of Samuel Henley . . . . . . . . . . 99 Monument Erected to the Memory of William Collins . . . . . . 106 Trawl, 1966, here Panther 1968 . . . . . . . . . . 110 Christie Malry’s Own Double Entry, Collins, 1973 . . . . . . 115 Oxford Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Leo Cadogan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Cardinal Melchior de Polignac, L’anti-Lucrèce… vol. 1 . . . . . 130 Cardinal Melchior de Polignac, L’anti-Lucrèce… vol. 2 . . . . . 133 Susan Theobald, incorporating the cat by Edward Bawden . . . . 146 Bernard Breslauer at the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1992 . . . . . 171

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