Twelve Years a Slave (1859)

The British Library’s “Mechanical Curator” million

Edward Lear’s Walk on a Windy Day (1860)

Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type and Borders (1874)

Robert Cornelius’ Self-Portrait: The First Ever “Selfie” (1839)

W. F. Hooley reads Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (1898)

Paintings in Proust (Vol. 1, Swann’s Way)

Wear Celluloid Collars and Cuffs (ca.1870)

Flowers and Pictures of the Holy Land

Ernst Haeckel’s Radiolaria (1862)

Engravings from a French Ice-Skating Manual (1813)

The Wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson (1904)

A Selection from The Getty’s Open Content Program

Nursery Lessons in Words of One Syllable (1838)

The Belly of a Horse (1820)

The Life and Adventures of James F. O’Connell, the Tattooed Man (1845)

The Book of Wonderful Characters (1869)

Pollen Up Close (1837)

The Blossoms of Morality (1806)

The Baby’s Own Aesop (1908)

Conversations with Lord Byron (1824)

A Closer Look at Richard Wagner’s Manuscripts

Texts in Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn

Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions (1897)