click image for close-up This portrait of Olaudah Equiano was used as the frontispiece (illustration opposite a book's title page) of his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of ...

was painted from life for the frontispiece of her autobiographical book, Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee... The portrait shows Lee seated and simply dressed, with a quill in ...

Believed to be a third edition print, the book had an engraved portrait frontispiece, a full gilt tooled calf with marbled end papers and gilt edges from the bookbinders. Raunchy poetry by John Donne ...