Nineteenth-Century Textspeak
Poems from the Victorian era and before which anticipated 21st-century textspeak….more
Books
East of the Sun and West of the Moon, illustrated by Kay Nielsen (1922 edition)
Book of Norwegian fairytales and one of the finest creations to emerge from the golden age of illustration….more
Spells Against the Evil Spirits of Babylonia (1903)
Babylonian and Assyrian incantations against various demons, ghouls, vampires, hobgoblins, ghosts, and evil spirits….more
The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century (1825)
Guide to astrology and the occult by the mysterious “Raphael”….more
Pepys’s Ghost (1899)
In this strangest of diaries, the author and adventurer Edwin Emerson Jr voices one year in his life through the mouth of Samuel Pepys….more
Ye Butcher, Ye Baker, Ye Candlestick-Maker (1908)
In the style of an 18th-century ballad chapbook, a comic look at various professions and there roles both old and new….more
Hamonshu: A Japanese Book of Wave and Ripple Designs (1903)
Wonderful selection of wave and ripple designs which would have acted as a kind of go-to guide for Japanese craftsmen looking to adorn their wares with wave and rip…more
The Tragedy of the Seas (1841)
Colourful compendium of 37 nautical catastrophes that took place in bodies of water around the world between 1803 and 1840….more
Bon-Mots of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (1897)
Compilation of some of the best conversational witticisms of the 18th and 19th centuries, including Joseph Addison, Samuel Johnson, Oscar Wilde, and Lord Byron, and…more
Scrapbook of Hand-Coloured Juvenile Woodcut Emblems
The pages of this unique book have had pasted onto them a collection of cut out emblems featured in such juvenile literature….more
The Sexual Life of our Time in its Relations to Modern Civilization ([1906] 1909)
Encyclopaedic survey of sexual knowledge exploring topics ranging from spiritual love to wild love, traditional marriage to foot fetish, erotic painting to morning …more
1970: A Vision of the Coming Age (1870)
A vision of the world hundred years in the future, in which societies have been transformed into Quakerly perfection….more
