No, I Don’t Believe in You Any More, but You May Leave the Things (1909)

William S. Walsh, “St. Nicholas in Europe,” Drawing by J.R. Shaver, The Story of Santa Klaus: Told for Children of All Ages from Six to Sixty (New York: Moffat, Yard, and Company, 1909), 204.

Christmas Joy (1851)

Thanksgiving Night: or, Tales Told in Cold Weather (Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1851), frontispiece.

Christmas Dinner in the Boy’s Hall (1905)

“Christmas at ‘The Foundling,’” The Quiver Annual Volume (1905): 100.

Say ‘Now I Lay Me,’ and the Angels Will Hear You, and Who Knows but That a Santa Claus May Come (1892)

Table Talk 7 (December 1892): frontispiece.

Winter (1877)

G.H. Boughton, Winter, “Contemporary Art in England,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 54 (January 1877): 161.

Over Snowfields, Waste and Pathless (1904)

Walter Aikman, engraving on wood after a painting by J. Farquharson, Ellen M. Cyr, Cyrs Advanced First Reader (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1904), 95.

A Bright Fire Was Kindled, and Then Some Warm Tea Was Made, Which the Poor Creature Drank Gratefully (1884)

M.E. Winchester, The Cabin on the Beach (London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884), 262.

The Moon Is Up and Gives Us Light (1884)

“Lesson XLIII,” Christian Brother’s New Series Primer (New York: De La Salle Institute, 1884), 37.

The Strange Physician (1873)

“The Strange Physician,” Petersen’s Magazine 64 (August 1873): 155.

The Rifle Belonging to Hopalong Never Missed—and Besides, He Had Made His Wish (1912)

Clarence Edward Mulford and John Wood Clay, Buck Peters, Ranchman: Being a Story of What Happened When Buck Peters and Hopalong Cassidy, and Their Bar-20 Associates Went to Montana, Illustrations by Maynard Dixon (Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1912), 250.

The Cold Blooded Murder Was Noticed by Fifty Persons at Least and There Arose from the Crowd a Universal Cry of Horror and Indignation at the Bloody Deed (1854)

T.B. Thorpe, The Hive of “The Bee Hunter,” a Repository Sketches including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854), 164.
  

A Man in the Dark Narrow Passage Attempted to Trip Me as I Ran (1905)

William Le Queux, The Cxar’s Spy: A Story of a Matter of Millons, Illustrated by T.H. Robinson (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1905), frontispiece.

I Had a Full View of the Race (1883)

Meshach Browning, Forty-four Years of the Life of a Hunter: Being Reminiscences of Meshach Browning, a Maryland Hunter, Roughly Written Down by Himself , Revised and Illustrated by E. Stabler (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1883), 144.

Love in the Foothills (1908)

W.C. Morrow, “Love in the Foothills,” Success Magazine 11 (September 1908): 560.

Pressed Against the Rail, His Lank Body Leaning Far Forward, One Lean Arm Extended and Holding a Smoking Pistol, Was the Gaut Grim Figure of a Man (1914)

Hugh Johnson, “The Octoroon, ” Illustrated by Maynard Dixon, Sunset 33 (July 1914): 88.

The Combatants Cut and Slashed with Savage Fury (1895)

Howard Pyle, The Story of Jack Ballister's Fortunes;  being the narrative of the adventures of a young gentleman of good family, who was kidnapped in the year 1719 and carried to the plantations of the continent of Virginia; where he fell in with that famous pirate Captain Edward Teach, or Blackbeard; of his escape from the pirates and the rescue of a young lady from out their hands (New York: The Century Company, 1895), 383.

If You Sound an Alarm I Shall Shoot (1914)

Grant Carpenter, “Tales of Old Chinatown, II. The Boy Girl,” Illustrated by Arthur Cahill, Sunset 33 (November 1914): 939.

She Waves Her Hand to the Attendant Raven, & with a Rush that Sends a Spirtle of Bright Sparks up from the Embers, She Is Away—up the Chimney through the Overhanging Branches, through the Ragged Clouds, & far on Her Journey under the Stars (1908)

Oliver Madox Hueffer, The Book of Witches, (London: Eveliegh Nash, 1908): frontispiece.

[Curator's note; this is from a poor quality scan and normally it would not have been collected here, but I found the image so compelling even with the degradation—or perhaps because of it—that I did what I could to soften the worst of compression noise and went forward.]

She Smiled as She Looked Down (1912)

"The Witch," Cassell's Little Folks 75 (January 1912): 96.

The Ride Through the Murky Air (1882)

William Harrison Ainsworth, The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest, Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), 325.

"Fetch Money," said the Witch. "You Will See Three Doors."(1897)

Hans Christian Andersen. Stories and Fairy Tales, translated by H. Oskar Sommer with 100 pictures by Arthur J. Gaskin (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1897), 326.

This Daughter of the Puritans Danced Alone in the Moonlight (1903)

Marvin Dana, The Puritan Witch, Illustrated by  P.R Andibert (New York: The Smart Set Publishing Company, 1903), 21.

First Round the Sun, Then Round the Moon (1878)

Kate Greenaway, Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children, Printed and Engraved by Edmund Evans (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1878), 35.

At the Witch's Door (1901)

Francis Marion Crawford, The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale (London: MacMillan and Company, Limited, 1901), 15.

Love and the Witches (1891)

Mary E. Wilkins, "Love and the Witches," Drawn by F.S. Church, Engraved by F.S. King, Century 42 (June 1891): 286.

The Witch Comes Home with a Dough-Trough on Her Back (1897)

Andrew Lang, ed., "The White Dove," Illustration by H.J. Ford, The Pink Fairy Book (Longmans, Green, and Company, 1897), 239.

The Lion's Revenge (1891)

J.Erskine Clark, ed., Chatterbox (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1891), 1. 

The Weight of the Jaguar Bore Down the Serpent (1893)

Book News 11 (March 1893): 316.

The Furious Animal Stands Over His Prey Licking It with His Rough Tongue 'till He Strips Off the Skin. (1822)

Maria Hack, Stories of Animals: Intended for Children Between Five and Seven Years Old, 2nd edition (London: Harvey and Darton, 1822), 9.

When Merely Wounded, He Is Ferocious and Bears Down All Opposition Before Him (1882)

Alexander F. Murison, The Globe Readers: Book IV (London: MacMillan and Company, 1882), 84. 

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With a Long and Light Spring It Broke Out of the Canes (1874)

Frederick Marryat. The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet: In California, Sonora, and Western Texas (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874), 314.

The Shark Continued for a Long Time to Agitate the Waters of the Roadstead (1839)

"The Shark II," The Saturday Magazine (December 28, 1839): 245.

It Was Moving, Almost Imperceptibly, Towards Me (1906)

W.B. Northrup. "An Accidental Deity." The English Illustrated Magazine 34 (January 1906): 351.

As Though Startled by Her Cry, the Immense Creature Sank Out of Sight Again (1915)

Dewey Autin Cobb, "On the Edge of the Amazon," Illustration by Paul Bransom, St. Nicholas 42 (July 1915): 779.

A Critical Moment (1903)

The Boy's Own Annual 26 (October 3, 1903): 37.

We Desire to Excel in the Work of Our Craft (1922)

The Inland Printer 22 (January 1922): 481.

The Bark of the Willow, the Beech, the Aspen, the Hawthorn, and the Lime, Have Been Made into Tolerable Paper (1833)

"The Commercial History of a Penny Magazine," Monthly Supplement of The Penny Magazine (August 31, 1833): 377.

Reflex Blue (1892)

The American Bookmaker 15 (September 1892): xi.

The Beautiful Greek Works of the Stephani Are Especially Valued for Their Correctness (1861)

Five Black Arts: A Popular Account of the History, Processes of Manufacture, and Uses of Printing, Pottery, Glass, Gas-Light, Iron (Columbus: Follett, Foster, and Company, 1861), plate 2.

It Is a Remarkable Thing That the Only Art That Can Record All Others Should Have Forgotten to Record Its Own History (1896)

Walter Jerrold, The Triumphs of the Printing Press (London: S.W. Patridge and Company, 1896), v.

Printing Inks (1892)

The American Bookmaker 15 (November 1892): xi.

The Northern End of the Composing Room Has Been Railed Off and Neatly Finished for the Accommodation of the Proof Readers and Night Editors (1867)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The New Ledger Building (1867), 12.

The New Invention Was Soon Taken Up in America (1896)

Walter Jerrold, The Triumphs of the Printing Press (London: S.W. Patridge and Company, 1896), cover.

These Piles of Dull Lead, These Casks of Sparkling Antimony, This Copper, and This Tin, Go to Form the Grand Amalgam of Which Type Is Made (1871)

Thomas MacKellar, The American Printer: A Manual of Typography, Containing Complete Instructions for Beginners, as Well as Practical Directions for Managing Every Department of a Printing Office. With Several Useful Tables, Numerous Schemes for Imposing Forms in Every Variety, Hints to Authors, Etc. (Philadelphia: MacKellar, Smiths, and Jordan, 1871), 29.

By the Ingenious and Intelligent Manipulation of a Vacuum and Compressed Air, the Machine Is Almost Human in Its Workings (1899)

"Leiger Automatic Paper-Feeding Machine," The Inland Printer 23 (April 1899): 105.

Schemes of Various Other Irregular Sizes Might Have Been Introduced but They Could Answer No Other Purpose than That of Pleasing the Fancy by Exhibiting the Possibility of Folding a Sheet of Paper into so Many Different Forms (1828)

John Johnson, An Abridgment of Johnson's Typographia: or the Printer's Instructor; with an Appendix (Boston: C.L. Adams, 1828), 194.

Pleasing and Appropriate Design Used on the First Number of the House Organ Published by the Victor Printing Company, Inc. (1921)

The American Printer 73 (August 5, 1921): 23.

The Combination of Levers Which Give Motion to the Screw Diminish the Labour of the Workman (1833)

"The Commercial History of a Penny Magazine." Monthly Supplement of The Penny Magazine. (November 30, 1833): 504.

Hereby Tongues Are Known, Knowledge Groweth, Judgement Increaseth, Books Are Dispersed, the Scripture is Read, Stones Be Opened, the Times Compared . . . (1896)

Walter Jerrold, The Triumphs of the Printing Press (London: S.W. Patridge and Company, 1896), cover.

The Compositor's Lower Case (1828)

John Johnson, An Abridgment of Johnson's Typographia: or the Printer's Instructor; with an Appendix (Boston: C.L. Adams, 1828), 119.