Useful Cookery Hints for Every Joint (1920)

Cuts of Meat and How to Use Them (Montreal: Stanford’s Limited, 1920), cover.

Men May Almost Be Said to Be “Walking Bumps,” or More or Less Perfect Living Exponents of Each of the Prominent Phrenological Organs (1870)

Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, new series 1 (March 1870): cover.

A Collection of Tried Receipts (1905)

The Hebrew Day Nursery, Pots, Pans, and Pie Plates & How to Use Them: A Collection of Tried Receipts (Baltimore: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1905), cover.

At Last the Worm Uncoiled Itself, Snorted Its Last Foam of Blood and Fire, and Rolled Dying into the River, and Was Never Seen More (1894)

Joseph Jacobs, ed., “The Lambton Worm,” More English Fairy Tales, Illustrated by John D. Batten (London: David Nutt, 1894), 202.

“No,” Says the Bull Calf, “I’m Going across the Field, into the Wild-Wood Wilderness Country, Where There’ll Be Tigers, Leopards, Wolves, Monkeys, and a Fiery Dragon, and I’ll Kill Them All except the Fiery Dragon, and He’ll Kill Me.” (1894)

Joseph Jacobs, ed.,“The Little Bull-Calf,”  More English Fairy Tales, Illustrated by John D. Batten (London: David Nutt, 1894), 174.

The Dragon, Being Quite Intoxicated, Threw Himself on the Ground, and Fell Fast Asleep (1847)

Fortunio, Illustrated by J.W. (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1847), 14.

In Order to Bring the Combat to a Speedy Conclusion, Bogoris Aimed a Powerful Stroke at the Heads of the Monster, Which Would Assuredly Have Separated Both from the Trunk, and so Have Extirpated the Sorcerer and All Remembrance of Him from the Earth, if the Sylant, at the Very Moment the Stroke Fell, Had Not Soared into the Air (1850)

Anthony Reubens Montalba, “The Dragon Giant and His Stone Steed” Fairy Tales from All Nations. Twenty-four Illustrations by Richard Doyle (New York: Harper and Brother, 1850), 144. 

The Savage Fairies Set Their Dragon on the King, and It Devoured Him before My Very Eyes (1892)

The Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy, Newly Done Into English With an Introduction by Ann Thackery Ritchie, Illustrated by Clinton Peters (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1868), 373.

Grasping a Branch Which Overhung the Edge, the Brave Young Champion Stooped Down and Kissed the Hideous Monster (1884)

Alfred C. Fryer, Book of English Fairy Tales from the North-Country (London: W. Swan. Sonnenschein & Company, 1884), 91.

And at One Sup / He Eat Them Up / As One Should Eat an Apple (1878)

Llewellynn Jewett, “The Dragon of Wantley and the Family of Moore,” Illustration is a facsimile of original woodcut from the broadsheet “An Excellent Ballad of that most Dreadful COMBATE FOUGHT Between Moore of Moore hall and the Dragon of Wantley To a Pleasant Tune much in Request,”  The Reliquary 18 (April 1878): plate 16.