Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley

Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association

“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)

A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)

Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)

The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)

Birth of the Pearl (1901)

The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)

A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)

Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)

The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)

Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)

Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)

Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)

The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle

Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)

The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)

The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)

Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)

Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)

Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)

Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)