The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times (1884)

The Golfer’s Rubáiyát and other 20th-Century Parodies

The Unicorn Tapestries (1495–1505)

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (1843)

Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany (1871–77)

Optics Illustrations from the Physics Textbooks of Amédée Guillemin (1868/1882)

Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921)

The False Young Man (1937)

The Language of Flowers: An Alphabet of Floral Emblems (1857)

Through the First Antarctic Night (1900)

The Beast of Gévaudan (1764–1767)

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John Martin’s Illustrations of Paradise Lost (1827)

Agnes Catlow’s Drops of Water (1851)

Bob’s Electrical Theatre (1906)

Jan van Kessel’s Signature of Caterpillars and Snakes (1657)

My Diary in a Chinese Farm (1894)

Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)

John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books (1685)

The Joys of Young Werther (1775)

Abide With Me (1914)

Plants and Their Application to Ornament (1896)

August Strindberg’s Celestographs (1893–4)

The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Art (1460–1921)