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Four illustrations from Pride and Prejudice (orig. pub. 1813 ) by Jane Austen. Artist = Charles E. Brock. From an edition published by Macmillan & Co. in 1895. #Austenite #Janeite #Victorian
Gulliver Between Gnomes (1910) by Maximilian Pirner (Czech, 1853-1924). Is he tall - or are they tiny? Perhaps that's what they are debating. #Giant #Fantasy #BookIllustrationOfTheDay
Three illustrations from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (orig. published 1892). #BakerStreet #CrimeFiction #DetectiveFiction
From 'One Thousand and One Nights' (Aladdin, I assume). The folktale was not part of the original Arabic text, it was added in the 1700s by a Frenchman who said it was told him by a Syrian storyteller. Illustrated here by Edmund Dulac in 1907. #ArabianNights #MagicLamp
Four illustrations from a 1884 edition of 'The Life And Strange Surprising Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe Of York, Mariner' by Daniel Defoe (c.1660–1731). Published by T. Fisher Unwin. #RobinsonCrusoe
Illustration by Charles Doudelet (French, 1861–1938). #MiddleAges #Horses #Dogs #BookIllustration
Easter illustration from Jack and Betty’s Magazine (April 1916). The illustrator is George Alfred Williams. #EasterBunny #BookIllustrationOfTheDay
Three Wise Men (1972) by Richard Hook from 'Look and Learn' magazine. "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem ... "