Showing posts with label broom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label broom. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Here Are Two Marbles for Eyes (1906)


Clarence Franklin Carroll and Sarah Catherine Brooks, The Brooks Primer (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1906), 63.

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

A Succession of Camps Should Be Made All the Way to the Pole with a Lamp in the Kitchen Window Constantly Burning as a Beacon for Belated Explorers (1882)

William Livingston Alden, “A Road to the Pole,” The Comic Liar: A Book Not Commonly Found in Sunday Schools (New York: G.W. Carleton & Company, 1882), 61.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

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.]

Thursday, October 23, 2014

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.

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

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.