Notices by Old Book Illustrations (oldbookillustrations@mastodon.social)

The merchant and the genie.
Thomas Morten, from "Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainments" London: [1865] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/merchant-genie/

Pink went two hobbies straight to hire;
Then with their steeds they gallop'd on.
From "The Dandy's Perambulations," London: 1819 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/hobbies-hire/

Idol at Copan.
From "Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan" written & illustrated by Frederick Catherwood, London: 1844 #illustration #art (detailed description at the link) https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/idol-copan/

The eagle and the crow.
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/eagle-crow/

Passiflora murucuja.
Jean-Théodore Descourtilz, from "Flore pittoresque et médicale des Antilles," vol. 1 by Michel-Étienne Descourtilz, Paris: 1821 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/passionvine/

The letter.
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, from "Album des beaux-arts" Paris: [1843?] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/letter/

...They were changed into swans, and flew away over the wood.
Warwick Goble, from "The Fairy Book" by Dinah Maria Craik, London: 1913 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/changed-into-swans/

Opening illustration for the story "The Bag of Minutes."
Charles Henry Bennett, from "The Chicken Market and Other Fairy Tales" by Henry Morley, London, New York, Paris: n.d. #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/bag-minutes/

Indian chameleon.
From "Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Wirbelthiere" by Leopold Fitzinger, Vienna: 1867 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/indian-chameleon/

Ex-libris with oil lamp.
Louis Rhead, from "A Collection of Book Plate Designs," Boston: 1907 #design #illustration #ArtNouveau https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/ex-libris-oil-lamp/

Halley's diving bell.
P. Broux, from "Les merveilles de la science," vol. 4 by Louis Figuier, Paris: 1870 #illustration #art #technology https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/halleys-diving-bell/

Thoughts, Traveller, of thee, will fill my head.
Myles Birket Foster, from "Odes and Sonnets, Illustrated," collective work, Boston: 1866 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/winter-traveler/

She whipped up the snakes and ascended high over the city.
Virginia Frances Sterrett, from "Tanglewood Tales" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Philadelphia: 1921 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/whipped-up-snakes/

All I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying.
Harry Clarke, from "The Year's at the Spring," collective work, New York: 1920 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/magic-key/

Linnaeus's mouse opossum.
Édouard Traviès, from "Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle," atlas, vol. 1 by Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny, Paris: 1849 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/marmosa-murina/

Purple heron.
Édouard Traviès, from "Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle," atlas, vol. 1 by Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny, Paris: 1849 #illustration #art #birds https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/purple-heron/

...As if impatient to be playing.
Kate Greenaway, from "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" by Robert Browning, Glasgow, London, Manchester: n.d. #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/impatient-playing/

And pipe the little songs that are inside of bubbles.
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/pipe-songs/

Oh Lord, thou knowest my foolishness, and my sins are not hid from thee.
Charles Henry Bennett & William Harry Rogers, from "Quarles' Emblems" by Francis Quarles, London: 1861 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/fulsome-idiot/

They came back very cautiously, peeping round the tree.
From "The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin," written & illustrated by Beatrix Potter, New York: [ca. 1903?] #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/peeping-round/