George Wither’s Emblem Book (1635)

A Relation of an Extraordinary Sleepy Person (ca.1698)

The Funny Alphabet (ca.1850)

Twelve Years a Slave (1859)

Letters to My Sister of our Experiences on Our First Trip to Europe, 1913

Account of a Very Remarkable Young Musician (1769)

The Chinese Fairy Book (1921)

Phenomena of Materialisation (1923)

Jap Herron: A Novel written from the Ouija Board (1917)

An Account of a Chinese Cabinet (1753)

Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1785)

A Pamphlet on Verdi (1901)

Frederick Whitney’s Blackboard Sketching (1909)

That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die (1580)

The Wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson (1904)

Nursery Lessons in Words of One Syllable (1838)

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

The Book of Wonderful Characters (1869)

The Blossoms of Morality (1806)

The Baby’s Own Aesop (1908)

Conversations with Lord Byron (1824)

How I Killed the Tiger (1902)

Through the Eye to the Heart: Bible Symbols (1908 edition)

Texts in Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn