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This is the title page from William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. This is from the 1826 copy in the Library of Congress, known as "Copy Z".

This is William Blake's sketch of the frontispiece to Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories from Real Life (1791). It is a wash drawing that has been digitally restored. Rotated and cropped. Dirt removed. Various localized color balances to correct…

Title page from the first edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813.

The frontispiece to the 1831 edition of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein showing Victor Frankenstein's horror and disgust at his creation. The steel engraving was done by Theodor von Holst.

Title page from John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. The text was originally published in 1690. This is the title page from the fourth edition, published in 1700.

First page of the poem "The Mouse's Petition" by Anna Laetitia Barbauld published in 1773.