Geoffrey Chaucer. Frontispiece for The Canterbury Tales, 1478 (?), by William Caxton. The British Library.
Terrifying 1906 Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ ‘The War of the Worlds’ [Flavorwire]
Martian Emerges. Image from Flavorwire.
Artwork by Henrique Alvim Corrêa.
Carmilla is a vampire tale. It was initially serialized in a magazine in the early 1870s.
The full text is available for free.
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Illustration by David Henry Friston, 1872.
An illustration of Liza Kalitina, a character from Home of the Gentry:
Home of the Gentry: Liza Kalitina. The illustration is from circa 1880.
“Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.”-Willa Cather
Willa Cather My Antonia Library Card Catalog Pendant by Parker’s Porch. $27.00
Children’s books from the late nineteenth century have the best illustrations. Here’s why:
They are charming.
From Round the Hearth [and other verses], 1889.
They are nonsensical.
From Lilliput Lyrics. Illustrated by Chas. Robinson, 1899.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, was born on 27 January 1832.
Lewis Carroll, 1863. We probably don’t want to know what he was thinking.
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”
A Mad Tea-Party by Sir John Tenniel.
This is brilliant…
Illuminated “Heart of Darkness,” lavishly illustrated by Matt Kish [courtesy boing boing]
Be sure to come back and let me know what you think!
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 