Collection: (Un)usually Illustrated

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

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)

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

"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)

The Owls Are Not What They Seem: Jules Verne - Les Indes Noires (1877)

Cats, dogs, & Natural History: René Richard Castel - Histoire naturelle de Buffon (1799)