The cask of Amontillado.
I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones.
Byam Shaw, From "Selected Tales of Mystery" by Edgar Allan Poe, London: 1909 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cask-amontillado/
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Puss comforts his owner.
Felician von Myrbach-Rheinfeld, from "Le Chat Botté" by Charles Perrault, Paris: Albert Quantin, n.d. #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/puss-comforts-owner/
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Hundreds of peacocks of gorgeous plumes came to the embankments to eat the khai.
Warwick Goble, from "Folk-Tales of Bengal" by Lal Behari Day, London: 1912 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/hundreds-peacocks/
There's an old woman dwells upon Tappington Moor.
Arthur Rackham, from "The Ingoldsby legends" by Thomas Ingoldsby (Richard Harris Barham), London, New York: 1907 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/old-woman-dwells/
Umbrella squid.
From "Mollusques vivants et fossiles" by Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny, Paris: 1845 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/umbrella-squid/
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Mercury and the woodman.
Ernest Griset, from "Æsop's fables" revised and re-written by Joseph Benjamin Rundell, London, New York: [1869?] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/mercury-woodman/
"I shall not touch it I assure you," said she.
Virginia Frances Sterrett, from "Tanglewood Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Philadelphia: 1921 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/not-touch-it/
Mad Atterleigh's last ride.
Charles Kerr, from "The Witch's Head" by Henry Rider Haggard, London: n.d. #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/last-ride/
Interior view of the mosque at Córdoba.
James Cavanah Murphy, from "The Arabian Antiquities of Spain" by Thomas Hartwell Horne, London: 1813 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cordoba-mosque/
"What is it?" asked Jason.
Virginia Frances Sterrett, from "Tanglewood Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Philadelphia: 1921 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/jason-asked/
Musky octopus.
From "Mollusques vivants et fossiles" by Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny, Paris: 1845 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/eledone-moschata/
Titi.
Paul Gavarni, from "Le bal Chicard," Paris: [1840?] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/titi/
The cat, the weasel, and the young rabbit.
J.-J. Grandville, from "Fables de La Fontaine," vol. 1 by Jean de La Fontaine, Paris: 1838 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cat-weasel-rabbit/
The voyagers examined the web of cloth.
Virginia Frances Sterrett, from "Tanglewood Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Philadelphia: 1921 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/voyagers-web-cloth/
Bellerophon at the fountain.
Walter Crane, from "A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys" Boston: 1892 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/bellerophon-fountain/
Nudity
When buds are breaking and birds singing merrily, dance with me.
From "Dream Boats and Other Stories" written & illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker Garden City, New York: 1920 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/merrily-dance/
Perseus & the gorgons.
Walter Crane, from "A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys" Boston: 1892 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/perseus-gorgons/
Whoever wears a sapphire will know no fear.
Léon Carré, from "Au jardin des gemmes" by Léonard Rosenthal, Paris: [1924] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/sapphire-fear/
The Tortworth chestnut.
From "Sylva Britannica," written & illustrated by Jacob George Strutt, London: 1826 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tortworth-chestnut/
The robber hung from a beam while the blind men felt all round the room with their sticks.
Louis Rhead, from "The Arabian Nights' Entertainments," New York: [1916?] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/robber-hung/
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Departure of a transatlantic balloon.
From "Le vingtième siècle" written & illustrated by Albert Robida, Paris: 1883 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/transatlantic-balloon/
The life still there, upon her hair—the death upon her eyes.
Frederick Richard Pickersgill, from "The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe," New York: 1858 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/life-hair/
She drew out a silver travelling-flask. One glance at the name engraved on it told him the terrible truth.
Amédée Forestier, from "Blind love," vol. 1, by Wilkie Collins, London: 1890 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/travelling-flask/
The huntress Dian.
Arthur Rackham, from "Comus" by John Milton, London, New York: [1921?] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/huntress-dian/
Hippopotamus.
From "Brehms Tierleben," vol. 3 by Alfred Edmund Brehm, Leipzig, Vienna: 1900 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/hippopotamus/
These balls were nothing less than planets.
J.-J. Grandville, from "Un autre monde" by Taxile Delord, Paris: 1844 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/balls-planets/
The rebuke.
John Leech, from "Colin Clink," vol. 1 by Charles Hooton, London: 1841 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/rebuke/
The beggar's oak.
From "Sylva Britannica," written & illustrated by Jacob George Strutt, London: 1826 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/beggars-oak/
He wants to catch up with her, he searches for her with his mind's eye.
J.-J. Grandville, from "Un autre monde" by Taxile Delord, Paris: 1844 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/transformations/
Roll the devilish eyes wrathfully in thy head!
Harry Clarke, from "Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, New York: n.d. [after 1925] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/devilish-eyes/
The Tutbury wych elm.
From "Sylva Britannica," written & illustrated by Jacob George Strutt, London: 1826 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tutbury-wych-elm/
We... fought it out in the middle region of the air.
Tony Johannot, from "Le diable boiteux" by Alain-René Lesage, Paris: 1840 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/devils-fighting/
Lifting the perforated paper, he placed it delicately over the page which contained the unintelligible writing.
Amédée Forestier, from "Blind love," vol. 1, by Wilkie Collins, London: 1890 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/unintelligible-writing/
Had they intended to make a jest of all music, they could not have succeeded better.
Tony Johannot, from "Le diable boiteux" by Alain-René Lesage, Paris: 1840 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/singing-cantatas/
A frenzied hare attacked a lioness.
J.-J. Grandville, from "Un autre monde" by Taxile Delord, Paris: 1844 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/hare-attacked-lioness/
How the prince arrived at the city of immortality.
Henry Justice Ford, from "The Crimson Fairy Book" by Andrew Lang, Bombay, London, New York: 1903 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/city-immortality/
Poker.
Félix Vallotton, from "Félix Vallotton; biographie" by Julius Meier-Graefe, Berlin, Paris: 1898 #art #woodcut https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/poker/
Cricket.
Joseph Martin Kronheim (?), from "British Sports & Games," Glasgow: n.d. #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cricket/
Crowd in Paris.
Félix Vallotton, from "Félix Vallotton; biographie" by Julius Meier-Graefe, Berlin, Paris: 1898 #art #woodcut https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/paris-crowd/
A tight spot.
Félix Vallotton, from "Félix Vallotton; biographie" by Julius Meier-Graefe, Berlin, Paris: 1898 #art #woodcut https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tight-spot/
This diminutive monster had goat's legs.
Tony Johannot, from "Le diable boiteux" by Alain-René Lesage, Paris: 1840 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/lame-monster/
Morality, tranquility, and bliss — phone wooing.
From "Le vingtième siècle" written & illustrated by Albert Robida, Paris: 1883 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/morality-tranquillity/
Nudity
Front cover of "British Sports & Games," Glasgow: n.d. (possibly Joseph Martin Kronheim for the main motif) #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/british-sports/
Football (probably not).
Joseph Martin Kronheim (?), from "British Sports & Games," Glasgow: n.d. #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/football/
Various Subspecies of Mammillaria heyderi.
Paulus Roetter, from "The Botanical Works of the Late George Engelmann" (volume of plates) Cambridge, MA: 1887 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/mammillaria-meiacantha/
The telephonoscopic news.
From "Le vingtième siècle" written & illustrated by Albert Robida, Paris: 1883 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/telephonoscopic-news/
Cour des miracles.
From "Notre-Dame de Paris" by Victor Hugo, Paris: 1844 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cour-miracles/
Cucumber, pumpkin, melon.
From "Die Pflanze in Kunst und Gewerbe," vol. 2 by Anton Seder, Vienna: [1886?] #art #illustration https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cucumber-pumpkin-melon/