Punctuation Personified (1824)

“Though Silent, I Speak”: A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903)

Ellen Harding Baker's “Solar System” Quilt (1876–ca. 1883)

Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874)

Phantom Bouquets: Two Books on the Art of Skeleton Leaves (1864)

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

Festooned: Martin Gerlach’s Decorative Groupings (1897)

Solid Objects: 16th-Century Geometric and Perspective Drawings

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

French Silk Sample Book (ca. 1900)

Serviette Sculptures: Mattia Giegher’s Treatise on Napkin Folding (1629)

Joseph-Balthazar Sylvestre’s Alphabet Album (1843)

The Geometric Landscapes of Lorenz Stoer (1567)

Photographs of Japanese Sword Guards (1916)

John Margolies’ Photographs of Roadside America

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)

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

The “Salad Oil Style” of Jan Toorop

The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596)