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Pictures

All the pictures used here are in the public domain. They were found through the Public Domain Image Archive, a project of The Public Domain Review.

• Poliphilus alone, writing to his beloved Polia, from the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Venice, 1499.
• Hands with Numbers to Make a Table of Contents, from the Schatzbehalter, Nuremberg, 1491.
• Thomas Rowlandson, Doctor Syntax with the Bookseller, 1813.
• Mr. Stops reading to Robert and his sister, from Punctuation Personified, 1824.
• Totoya Hokkei, View of Enoshima, 1821.
• Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, View of the south coast of Java, from the Java-Album, 1854.
• Veyssier, Xavier de Maistre in an armchair, from A Journey Round My Room, 1860.
• Reading Wheel Desk, from Gaston Tissandier’s Scientific Amusements, 1883.
• Henri Rivière, From the Quai de Passy, in the Rain, from Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower, 1888–1902.
• Henri Rivière, From Rue Rochechouart, from Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower, 1888–1902.
• Henri Rivière, From the Trocadéro Gardens, Autumn, from Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower, 1888–1902.
• Theresa Babb, Grace and Mary at Ipswich Beach, 1900.
• Mori Yūzan, wave designs from Hamonshū, 1903.

Texts

The quotations from Thoreau and Emerson are from public-domain editions. The book links point to Project Gutenberg, where all five of the winter books can be read for free.