Friday, December 8, 2017

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

The Shape of the Head Is Clearly Remarkable (1865)

J.G. Wood, The Illustrated Natural History, Engraved by the brothers Dalziel (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1865), 411.

Sunday, December 3, 2017

And Bird and Beast in Covert Rest (1865)

Deane’s Illustrated Family Almanack (London: Deane and Company, 1865), 71.

Saturday, December 2, 2017

Friday, December 1, 2017

A Mood (1915)

“A Mood,”Kindergarten Review 25 (February 1915), frontispiece.

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.

Saturday, April 15, 2017

It Had Draped Arms Extended (1914)

E.W. Hornung, “One Possessed: The Crime Doctor Solves the Mystery of the Brown Devils,” Illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele, Everybody’s Magazine 30 (February 1914): 281.

Friday, April 7, 2017

A Ghost Story (1903)

Florence M. Cronise and Henry W. Ward, Illustrations by Gerald Sichel, Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider, and the Other Beef: West African Folk Tales ( London: Swan Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1903), frontispiece.

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Indisputable Materializations (1875)

Henry Steel Olcott, People from the Other World, Illustrated by Alfred Kappes and T.W. Williams (Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1875), 73.