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A Squire trap, by Jove!

Henry  Alken, from Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., by Nimrod (Charles James Apperley), London, 1900.

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A Squire trap, by Jove!

Henry Alken, from Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., by Nimrod (Charles James Apperley), London, 1900.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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Mytton on “Baronet” clears nine yards of water.

Henry  Alken, from Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., by Nimrod (Charles James Apperley), London, 1900.

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Mytton on “Baronet” clears nine yards of water.

Henry Alken, from Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., by Nimrod (Charles James Apperley), London, 1900.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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What! Never upset in a gig?

Henry  Alken, from Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., by Nimrod (Charles James Apperley), London, 1900.

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What! Never upset in a gig?

Henry Alken, from Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., by Nimrod (Charles James Apperley), London, 1900.

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
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Horse market, Cairo (a hot bargain).

F. A. Bridgman,  from The magazine of art, London, 1888.

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Horse market, Cairo (a hot bargain).

F. A. Bridgman, from The magazine of art, London, 1888.

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Monday, April 1, 2013
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He sigh’d as he look’d at her. 

George Du Maurier, from Lucile, by Owen Meredith, London, 1868.

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He sigh’d as he look’d at her.

George Du Maurier, from Lucile, by Owen Meredith, London, 1868.

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Thursday, March 28, 2013
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Palamon desireth to slay his foe Arcite.

Walter Appleton Clark, from The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, modern rendition by Percy MacKaye, New York, 1914.

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Palamon desireth to slay his foe Arcite.

Walter Appleton Clark, from The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, modern rendition by Percy MacKaye, New York, 1914.

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Sunday, February 17, 2013
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He died with the rushing wind on his face.

From Puck on Pegasus, by  Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, illustrated by John Leech, John Tenniel et al, London, 1868.

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He died with the rushing wind on his face.

From Puck on Pegasus, by Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, illustrated by John Leech, John Tenniel et al, London, 1868.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
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He sorrowed o’er the expiring horse.

Charles Edmund Brock, from The lady of the lake, by Walter Scott, London, 1904.

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He sorrowed o’er the expiring horse.

Charles Edmund Brock, from The lady of the lake, by Walter Scott, London, 1904.

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Sunday, October 28, 2012