The Public Domain Reviewさんのイラストまとめ

Andrew Lang's Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897) — Containing 78 weird happenings, from a demon strangling Devonian farmers in 1682 to a poltergeist terrorising a contemporary Chinese couple. Read it here: https://t.co/YnroEdalIf

The Phenakistoscope — a popular Victorian parlour toy, generally marketed for children — is widely considered to be among the earliest forms of animation and the precursor to modern cinema: https://t.co/OseucqGE7B

Spectropia; or, Surprising Spectral Illusions (1865), a wonderful book of Victorian hi-tech ghost conjuring which allows the reader to summon, as the sub-title proclaims, “ghosts everywhere and of any colour”. More here: https://t.co/YYiBLUsnKy

Happy #Halloween! Some of the great vintage Halloween cards held by the @NYPL. More here: https://t.co/x1CVwawb9Z

Some of the many wonderful shapeshifting "monsters" from Japanese folklore featured on a painted scroll known as the Bakemono zukushi (18th or 19th century). See more here of its ghoulish delights here: https://t.co/RMpIPPH5iu

Bound into three exquisitely colored volumes, Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods (1860–1902) features hundreds of species, collected across 42 years by a female mycologist named M. F. Lewis:
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Print from 1556 published by Hieronymus Cock , designed by Cornelis Floris II and engraved by Johannes or Lucas van Doetecum.

More of these highly elaborate ornament prints, mostly in the grotesque style, from the collection of the Rijksmuseum here: https://t.co/NyL4jgZGSL

Print from 1556 published by Hieronymus Cock , designed by Cornelis Floris II and engraved by Johannes or Lucas van Doetecum.

More of these highly elaborate ornament prints, mostly in the grotesque style, from the collection of the Rijksmuseum here: https://t.co/NyL4jgZGSL