Showing posts with label 1854. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1854. Show all posts

Friday, April 28, 2017

There Is the Nocturnal Visitor Whom You Have so Long Taken for the Ghost of Your Mother (1854)

 “The Ghost of Larneville,”  Engraving from the designs of Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Ghost Stories: Collected with a Particular View to Counteract the Vulgar Belief in Ghosts and Apparitions, (Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1854), frontispiece.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

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.
  

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Teeth of the Wolf Fish (1855)

Teeth of the Wolf-fish
Richard Owen, The Principal Forms of the Skeleton and the Teeth (Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1854), 246.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Skeleton of the Tortoise (1855)

Skeleton of the European Tortoise
Richard Owen, The Principal Forms of the Skeleton and the Teeth (Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1854), 123.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Neither Hands Nor Talons (1854)

Skeleton of a Cobra
Richard Owen, The Principal Forms of the Skeleton and the Teeth (Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1854), 74.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

*G*enius (1854)

John Leighton. The Royal Picture Alphabet. (London: Ward and Lock, 1854).