Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.

Volume 2. Charles Lamb : Imperfect sympathies ; All-Fools' Day ; Mrs. Battle's opinions on whist ; Dream children: a reverie --
Walter Savage Landor : Petition of the thugs for toleration ; The benefits of Parliament --
William Hazlitt : The sick chamber ; Of persons one would wish to have seen --
Leigh Hunt : The world of books ; Deaths of little children --
Thomas de Quincey : Conversation (first essay) ; Conversation (second essay) --
Percy Bysshe Shelley : A defence of poetry --
Thomas Carlyle : On history --
Thomas Babington Macaulay : Machiavelli ; Milton --
Douglas Jerrold : Recollections of Guy Fawkes --
William Makepeace Thackeray : Nil nisi bonum --
Arthur Helps : On the art of living with others --
James Anthony Froude : The science of history --
John Ruskin : Painting, a language ; The sublime in architecture ; Man's use and function --
Charles Kingsley : My winter garden --
Herbert Spencer : The collective wisdom ; Gracefulness --
Matthew Arnold : Sweetness and light --
Edward Augustus Freeman : Race and language --
Thomas Henry Huxley : Science and culture --
Sir John Lubbock : Love ; Ambition.

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