A Bestiary of Loss

The Tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt (ca. 1924)

A Pantomime and Masquerade: Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716)

Floating Phantoms: A. G. Mayer’s Medusae of the World (1910)

Wheels Within Wheels: The “Flammarion Engraving” (ca. 1888)

Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874)

Playing Indian: Cummings’ Indian Congress at Coney Island (1903)

Synaesthesia’s Colour Debut (1883)

Etteilla’s Livre de Thot Tarot (ca. 1789)

Black Bibliography: Daniel Murray’s Preliminary List (1900)

Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods (1860–1902)

“Mother Will Be Pleased”: How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900)

Evrard d'Espinque’s Illuminations of De Proprietatibus Rerum (ca. 1480)

The Turns of the Turnverein: Heinrich Hamann’s Gymnastic Photographs (ca. 1902)

The Kumatologist: Vaughan Cornish’s Wave Studies (1910–14)

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)