“Chinese Arabesques” by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Anne Allen (ca. 1790–99)

The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)

Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)

Manhattan’s Last Arcadia: Estate Plans from the Index of American Design (1936)

Fraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)

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

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

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

Cycling Art, Energy, and Locomotion (1889)

Designs from Kimono Pattern Books (ca. 1902)

Astronomia Playing Cards (1829)

Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)

Visualizing History: The Polish System

Joseph-Balthazar Sylvestre’s Alphabet Album (1843)

The Geometric Landscapes of Lorenz Stoer (1567)

Augustus Jansson’s Queen City Ink Adverts (1903–1907)

Plants and Their Application to Ornament (1896)

Medieval Pattern Poems of Rabanus Maurus (9th Century)

The Art of Book Covers (1820–1914)

The Tomb and the Telephone Box: Soane’s Mausoleum (1816)

Hamonshu: A Japanese Book of Wave and Ripple Designs (1903)

Albert Racinet’s L’Ornement Polychrome (1869–73)

Ernst Haeckel’s Jellyfish

George Mayerle’s Eye Test Chart (ca. 1907)