Showing posts with label 1840. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1840. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

The April Fool (1840)

Burton's Gentlemen's Magazine and American Monthly Review. 6 (April 1840).

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Raven & Dove (1840)

Henry and Eliza discovering the Raven

Henry tying Eliza to a Tree
Mrs. Cameraon. The Raven and the Dove. (London: Houlston and Co., 1840).

Friday, October 19, 2012

Spade-like Hands of the Mole (1840)

William Charles L. Martin. A Natural History of Quadrupeds, and Other Mammiferous Animals. (London: Whitehead and Company, 1840).

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Thick & Irregular Arm Bones (1840)

Skeleton of the Chlamyphorus
William Charles L. Martin. A Natural History of Quadrupeds, and other Mammiferous Animals. Illustrations by William Harvey. (London: Whitehead and Company, 1840)

Friday, June 8, 2012

Desert Island (1840)

Wreck of the long boat

The desert island--vignette
The Shipwreck or The Desert Island: A Moral Tale. Illustrations by Johnson. (Philadelphia: James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1840).

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Old Ironside (1840)

Old Ironside: the story of a shipwreck title page
Old Ironside--illustration of overturned lifeboat
John H. Amory. Old Ironside: the Story of a Shipwreck. (Boston: James B. Dow, 1840).