Collection: (Un)usually Illustrated

"Many years ago there lived an Emperor": Hans Christian Anderson, The Silver Shilling [n.d.]

"There was once a wicked prince": Hans Christian Anderson, The Darning Needle [n.d.]

American Arthuriana: Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)

Jules Verne with Publisher’s Error: Jules Verne - Survivors of the Chancellor & Martin Paz (1876)

Emphemeral Look at the Seed of Europe's Crises: Benjamin Vaughn - The Concert of Princes (1793)

A Golden Prosthetic: Thomas Hood- Miss Kilmansegg & Her Precious Leg (1870)

Art Nouveau & Orientalism: John Kettelwell & Hugh Walpole, Aladdin & the Wonderful Lamp (1918)

Parisian Modernism: Roger Chancel - Terra Park (1947)

Aesthetically Aubrey Beardlsey-Adjacent: Robert Louis Stevenson - Fables (1914)

Goblins, Ravens, Cats, & Magic: Heath Robinson - Book of Goblins (1934)

A Surrealist Union of French and German: Max Ernst & Andre Breton, La femme 100 têtes (1962)

Get your trumpets out for King Edward VII (and Charles III): Duncan Tovey - Coronation Picture Books (ca. 1902)

William Morris' Medievalism & Fantasy: William Morris - Wood Beyond the World (First American Edition, 1895)

Having it all and wanting more: The Brothers Mayhew - The Greatest Plague of Life (1847)

A Journey from Water to the Desert of India: Charles Kingsley & A.E. Jackson - Water Babies (1920)

Up the Nile (Without One Plate): W. H. Bartlett - The Nile Boat (1862)

Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for Land-Babies (First edition, 1864)

Journeying to the Middle East in the 19th Century: William Henry Bartlett - Forty Days in the Desert (1848)

"The thousand mixed recollections that hallow the ground": Bulwer Lytton - Pilgrims of the Rhine (1843)

A Facsimile Fit for an Emperor: Rudolf von Em's "Weltchronik" (World Chronicle) and Stricker's epic of Karl der Große (Charlemagne) (14th c./ 1980)

Vaguely Erotic Illustrations & A Ship-to-Shore Mystery: Alexandre Kuprin - Sulamith (1928)

"Where my arrow falls there dig me a grave": Henry Gilbert & Walter Crane - Robin Hood and the Men of the Green Wood (1912)

Witches & Fairies: Walter de la Mare - Down-Adown-Derry (1922)

Inspiring the Imagination that Inspired Neil Gaiman: W. W. Tarn - The Treasure of the Isle of Mists (1919)