The Blood Collages of John Bingley Garland (ca. 1850–60)

Trimalchio in Newburyport: Timothy Dexter’s A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1848)

Howard Pyle's The Mermaid (1910)

Phantom Bouquets: Two Books on the Art of Skeleton Leaves (1864)

Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)

Peter Fabris’ Illustrations for William Hamilton’s Campi Phlegraei (1776–79)

It Started with Muybridge (1964)

Agnes Giberne’s The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars (1898)

Shores of the Polar Sea (1878)

Unai no tomo: Catalogues of Japanese Toys (1891–1923)

The Discarnates: Thomas Carlyle in the Spirit-World (1920)

Portrait of Charlotte du Val d’Ognes (1801)

Fearful Symmetry: Inkblot Books (1857–1915)

Filippo Balbi’s Testa Anatomica (1854)

Alexander in the Bathysphere

Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1757–95)

Jan Luyken’s Frontispiece for Osteologia (1680)

Orra White Hitchcock’s Scientific Illustrations for the Classroom (1828–40)

“A Sword was Seen in the Sky”: A True and Wonderful Narrative (1763)

The Stream of Time (1803–58)

Ostentatio Genitalium in Renaissance Art

“The Rainbow for their Guide”: Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808)

A Vanishing Nova: Uranographia Britannica (ca. 1749)

Knowledge by the Pound: The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread (1768)