This is a scarce little book.  Full of many of the standard fairy tales from various sources, 19th century and earlier, it also boasts a wonderful collection of overlooked illustrations by the likes of Richter and Pletsch. Most books with Pletsch's work are in German, and I have not seen another copy of this particular work.  He was fairly prolific in the late 1800's.  Typically, books included four to ten full page color illustrations, with many smaller cuts distributed throughout the text.  This book is typical in this regard. Ludwig Richter was another prolific German illustrator, with archetypal period illustrations appearing in many children's books and fairy tales as well as other media.   He was influential in the use of woodcut illustrations at the time.  With this current book it is not always easy to tell who executed which illustration, nor the identities of the "other" referred to on the title page. While I have not seen this book other than the copy I have in hand, it is referenced in various ads from scanned books from the same publisher at Google Books, such as HERE. Title: Wonder-World:  A Collection Of Fairy Tales, Old and New Author: Translated from the French, German and Danish Artist: L. ...

It may seem rather monomaniacal to scan so many maps and battle plans, especially as they are not in and of themselves especially significant or noteworthy.  I like this old school atlas, though, and although they plates may be simplistic, I enjoy the quick overview of 1500 years of English history provided by the set as a whole. There is no text at all in this book other than a 2 page preface and a list of maps and plans.  The plates are printed single sided, so the quality is very good and there is no bleeding or show-through from other maps.  Flip through the pages, and you get a sense of the ebb and flow of English and British power and empire up until the end of the Victorian era. I have placed some representative images below, all linked to the GALLERY.  The full list is viewable there.   Complete title list is at bottom of this post. Title: A School Atlas of English History - A Companion Atlas to "The Student's History of England" Author: Samuel Rawson Gardiner, M.A., LL.D. Artist: unattributed Publisher: Longmans, Green, and CO. Date Published: 1892 Click a thumbnail to visit the gallery page for the image where it can be downloaded in ...

In 1838 and 1839, Roberts spent eleven months traveling and sketching throughout Egypt from Alexandria to Abu Simbel and through Sinai to Petra, Jerusalem, Palestine, and Lebanon. The 247 lithographs that Belgian engraver Louis Haghe then produced at the rate of one a month from the drawings executed during Roberts' trip were published in six volumes as "The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia" (1842-1846) and "Egypt and Nubia" (1846-1849). While these are available elsewhere, they are not usually very large or in an easy to use format (or they cost money).  These are from the Library of Congress, which has them in unedited TIF files.  I have cropped them , edited them, cleaned up any glaring dirtiness, and converted them to JPEG for easy download in the GALLERY. Title: Egypt and Nubia Author: David Roberts Artist: David Roberts / lithographed by Louis Haghe Publisher: F.G. (Francis Graham) Moon Date Published: 1846-1849 Click an image to visit the gallery page where it is available in different sized for free download. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="200" caption="Dancing Girls at Cairo"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="200" caption="Mosque of Sultan Hassan from the Great Square of the Rumeyleh "][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="200" caption="Cairo"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="134" caption="Tombs of the khalifs, Cairo"][/caption] [caption id="" ...

Woodroffe made these illustrations in the late 19th century.   The text is straight Shakespeare, selected and edited by Rhys.  The initial scans came through quite age toned.  It was difficult to correct, as some of the detail kept getting lost, so I have included both the raw scans as well as the edited versions in the GALLERY for this book. Woodroffe was a prolific illustrator of the period.  His work included a lot of Shakespeare, Bible stories, children's books, and the like. I have put the accompanying text with some of the illustrations. The book, including lower resolution scans of these pictures, is fully digitzed HERE. Title: Songs from the Plays of Shakespeare Author: William Shakespeare, Ernest Rhys (editor) Illustrator: Paul Woodroffe Publisher: The Guild of Women-Binders Date Published: 1901 The Images below all link to the gallery where they are available for free download in many high resolution sizes of JPEG files. YOU spotted snakes, with double tongue, Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen; Newts and blind-worms do no wrong, Come not near our fairy Queen! Weaving spiders, come not here; Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence! Beetles black, approach not near; Worm nor snail, do no offence. Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby, Lulla, lulla, lullaby: Never harm Nor spell nor charm Come our lovely lady nigh: So, ...