Rebecca Baumannさんのイラストまとめ

Fold-out frontispieces from 19th-century chapbooks. #NewAcq for @IULillyLibrary from @JarndyceBooks

The anti-ghost ghost story book, 1823. #NewAcq for @IULillyLibrary from Antiquates. The author, Rudolph Ackermann, was an inventor who was partly responsible for gas lighting. These stories are meant to counteract the Gothic excesses of popular literature. 🧵

Rader was unquestionably one of the greatest of the late pulp era artists. I really feel that the book world lost a lot when we stopped investing in horny oil painters.

The Spiritualists knew how to party. #SaturdayLibrarian #NewAcq @IULillyLibrary from Rootenberg Rare Books

Somehow monster erotica is the only subgenre of romance currently doing cover art right.

@BiblioDeviant Just don’t ask what happens if you take them off

More gorgeous work from Gaughan. The perfect blend of detail and abstraction to spark the reader’s imagination.

Victor Gadido, one of the all time great paperback cover artists, did these amazing Camel ads in 2000. I just got gayer from looking at these too long—it’s like gazing into the gay sun

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, Arthur Rackham, Bernie Wrightson, Harry Clarke

HEY LOOK! A new (and incredibly stupid) entry in the long history of using Frankenstein’s monster to represent the dominant colonial culture’s fear of the oppressed Other. I say “CRIME GOOD.”