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Something Wicked This Way Comes: Vintage Halloween Cards

Something Wicked This Way Comes: Vintage Halloween Cards

Do you know the tale of 'Stingy' Jack O'Lantern? Come close. Closer... ...
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Japanese Artist Itsuo Kobayashi Draws Every Meal He’s Eaten for Over 30 Years – Food Is Love

Japanese Artist Itsuo Kobayashi Draws Every Meal He’s Eaten for Over 30 Years – Food Is Love

For decades chef Itsuo Kobayashi has been drawing his food diaries, creating a visual record of an enduring love ...
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The Illustrated Bicycling For Ladies And 41 Rules For Women Cyclists (1896)

The Illustrated Bicycling For Ladies And 41 Rules For Women Cyclists (1896)

  The American civil rights leader, Susan B Anthony (1820 - 1906) was a fan ...
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Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer’s ‘Dance of Death’ from 1540

Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer’s ‘Dance of Death’ from 1540

In the Late Middle Ages, there were illustrated books called Danse Macabre or the Dance of Death which were used to focus the mind on life's short stretch. ...
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The Complete Erotic Fantaisies Parisiennes, 1880 by Frédillo (NSFW)

The Complete Erotic Fantaisies Parisiennes, 1880 by Frédillo (NSFW)

Frédillo (or Fredillo) was a French cartoonist and illustrator working in the late 19th Century. ...
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Buy Prints Dark Arts: Kawanabe Kyōsai’s Illustrations for ‘The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons’

Dark Arts: Kawanabe Kyōsai’s Illustrations for ‘The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons’

Something caught his foot. He stumbled. Looking down Kyōsai saw a man's severed head. The concept of structure and order no longer made sense. ...
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Buy Prints Gustave Doré Illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – 1877

Gustave Doré Illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – 1877

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the ...
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Buy Prints Cecil Beaton’s War Drawings

Cecil Beaton’s War Drawings

It was the Queen who recommended Beaton to the Ministry of Information, where he was employed as a War Photographer. It was a great relief to Beaton who felt: …frustrated and ashamed. This war, as far as I can see, is something specifically designed to show up my inadequacy in every possible capacity. ...
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Murder by the Book: Tom Adams’ Brilliant Agatha Christie Covers

Murder by the Book: Tom Adams’ Brilliant Agatha Christie Covers

You can judge a book by its cover, it just depends on the talents of the artist and their understanding of the book they are illustrating. ...
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Here Be Monsters: Richard Doyle’s Illustrations for ‘Jack and the Giants’

Here Be Monsters: Richard Doyle’s Illustrations for ‘Jack and the Giants’

Jack and the Giants was a variation on the book Jack the Giant Killer, which some of us had read or seen on Sunday afternoon television. ...
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‘Humours of London’ by Tony Sarg: Wonderful Illustrations of the City From Above (1914)

‘Humours of London’ by Tony Sarg: Wonderful Illustrations of the City From Above (1914)

This series of 13 colour illustrations by Tony Sarg (April 21, 1880–March 7, 1942) take ...
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Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’

Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’

Aubrey Beardsley's artistic career began with schoolboy doodles in the margins of text books and ended in near poverty drawing erotica for private collectors. ...
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