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)

The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897)

Giovanni Battista Bracelli’s Bizzarie di Varie Figure (1624)

Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814)

Leave it to Psmith (1923)

Women at Work during World War I

The Private Life of a Cat (ca. 1945)

Ogawa Kazumasa’s Hand-Coloured Photographs of Flowers (1896)

The Fourth Dimension and the Bible (1922)