Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)

Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)

Distortions and Grimaces: Jean de Bosschère’s Weird Islands (1921)

Tom Seidmann-Freud’s Book of Hare Stories (1924)

Unwashed Furry Masses: Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats (1928)

Downhill from Here: The Slant Book (1910)

Fearful Symmetry: Inkblot Books (1857–1915)

Knowledge by the Pound: The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread (1768)

Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921)

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Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) — Cats and Captions before the Internet Age

The First Shape Book: Little Red Riding Hood (1863)

The Wise Boys: or, The Entertaining Histories of Fred Forethought, Matt Merrythought, Luke Lovebook and Ben Bee (ca. 1842)

The Strange Adventures of a Pebble (1921)

The Death and Burial of Cock Robin

The Merry Cobler and His Musical Alphabet (ca. 1800)

Caw! Caw! or The Chronicle of Crows (ca. 1848)

The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog (1819)

Dame Talkative’s Old Sayings (ca.1824)

The Adventures of Cinderella (ca.1810)

Mister Fox (1870)

The Funny Alphabet (ca.1850)

Nursery Lessons in Words of One Syllable (1838)

The Blossoms of Morality (1806)