OBI Scrapbook Blog

James Tissot, frontispiece to Ballads and Songs of Brittany by Théodore Hersart de La Villemarqué, Cambridge, London: 1865.

London about me gazed at me spectrally. The windows in the white houses were like the eye sockets of skulls. Henrique Alvim Corrêa from La guerre des mondes by Herbert George Wells, Brussels: 1906.

Rubber dam applied to four lower incisors. From Lehrbuch und Atlas der konservierenden Zahnheilkunde by Gustav Preiswerk, Munich: 1912.

Pale isabella kissed it and low moan'd. Robert Anning Bell from Poems by John Keats London, New York: 1897.

Part 3, plate 36. From Album du moyen-âge by Jean Midolle, Strasbourg: 1836.

More like this here.

The submarine boat "Argonaut" on a wrecking expedition. From The Boy's Book of Inventions; Stories of the Wonders of Modern Science by Ray Stannard Baker, New York: 1899.

... Closer still she crept, Holding the lamp aloft, until his breath Was hot upon her cheek.... Arthur Boyd Houghton from North Coast, and Other Poems by Robert Williams Buchanan, London, New York: 1868.

More like this here.

Colossal lion, Great Entrance (Nimroud). From A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard, London: 1853.

Cardona — the salt mountains. F. J. Pargerisa from Recuerdos y Bellezas de España by L. Pi y Margall, 1850.

The gnarled monster. Gustave Doré from The Days of Chivalry, or the Legend of Croquemitaine by Ernest L'Épine, London, New York, Paris: n.d.

More like this here.

All now was songless, empty, and forlorn. edmund H. Garrett from The Closing scene by Thomas Buchanan Read, philadelphia, 1887.

Gripsholm Castle. Auguste Mayer from Voyages en Scandinavie, en Laponie, au Spitzberg et aux Feröe (Atlas, vol. 2) under the direction of Paul Gaimard, Paris: [1852].

A snare of vintage. Aubrey Beardsley from Lucian's True History by Lucian of Samosata, london: 1902.

Sloth bear. Gustav Mützel from Brehms Tierleben vol. 2, Leipzig: 1893.

Merlin der Wilde. Adolf Ehrhardt from Deutsches Balladenbuch, collective work, Leipzig: 1852.

Colossal figures in front of the Great temple of Abu Simbel. David Roberts from Egypt & Nubia vol. 1, by William Brockedon & George Croly, london: 1846.

More like this here.

Cutting away the masts. Clarkson Stanfield from The pirate, and The three cutters by Frederick Marryat, london: 1861.