Witches, walruses, doomsdays, death masks, utopias, enormous hair, unlikely Aztecs, telepathic dreams, a dictionary of demons, and the art of hiding in taxidermied cows.
Full colour with more than 100 illustrations, all printed on sumptuous 70lb paper.
Adam Green
Introduction
Natalie Lawrence
Decoding the Morse: The History of 16th-Century Narcoleptic Walruses
Jon Crabb
Woodcuts and Witches
Jason Pearl
Defoe and the Distance to Utopia
Dominic Janes
A Queer Taste for Macaroni
Kevin Duong
Flash Mob: Revolution, Lightning, and the People’s Will
Sujaan Mukherjee
W. B. O’Shaughnessy and the Introduction of Cannabis to Modern Western Medicine
Rhys Griffiths
Brief Encounters with Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck
Ed Simon
Defining the Demonic
Alicia Puglionesi
Lofty Only in Sound: Crossed Wires and Community in 19th-Century Dreams
D. Graham Burnett
Out From Behind This Mask
Carl Abbott
Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly
Bernd Brunner
Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath
Eva Moreda Rodríguez
Inventing the Recording
John Bevis
Stuffed Ox, Dummy Tree, Artificial Rock: Deception in the Work of Richard and Cherry Kearton