The three walked across the main intersection of the museum, headed for another gallery at a slight angle from the entry to the Mesopotamian collection. As they walked through the doors, they saw a number of long tables with glass cases on top. In the cases were a variety of books, opened to sample pages. Copperplate printing shared space with black and white as well as color illustrations. The first case they came to contained an open Alice in Wonderland, with Old Father William screaming into the Young Man's ear. Next to it was a first edition of Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows, featuring a bucholic illustration of Ratty and Mole drifting down the Test in a rowboat, complete with picnic lunch. Jordan spoke:
Lewis Carroll had it right when he had Alice ask what the use of a book is without pictures and conversations in it. Illustrations, well drawn and well imagined, makes the difference between a child staying with a book and abandoning it. Sometimes the illustrations help the book stay with a child with memorable lines or a symphony of colors."