Beautiful Century

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Art by Edmund Dulac (1915) from THE PICTURE BOOK FOR THE ‘RED CROSS’ during the first World War.

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Twelfth journey. Moon rise above the clouds. 8 o’clock in the evening (altitude 2 400 m)

A Tissandier, from Histoire de mes ascensions (Story of my balloon ascents), by Gaston Tissandier, Paris, 1880.

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Art by W. Heath Robinson, 1909, from the book, Song Of The English.

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Austin Osman Spare “Ascension of the Ego from Ecstasy to Ecstasy” 

The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): Psychology of Ecstasy (1913)

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“Old King Cole” - illustrated by Grace G. (Wiederseim) Drayton (1916) by docarelle on Flickr.

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“Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose” illustrated by Grace G. (Wiederseim) Drayton, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916.

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“Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose” - illustrated by Grace G. (Wiederseim) Drayton (1916) by docarelle on Flickr.

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“Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose” illustrated by Grace G. (Wiederseim) Drayton, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916. Ms.

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Victorian Gateaux and Tennis Cakes by glen.h on Flickr.

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Illustrations from a professional bakers guide published about 1900. From “The Book of Victorian Cakes”

“The Folk in Green” - W. Graham Robertson (1907) by docarelle on Flickr.

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“Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh” by W. Graham Robertson, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907.

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“The Lord of the Garden” - W. Graham Robertson (1907) by docarelle on Flickr.

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“Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh” by W. Graham Robertson, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907.

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n64_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

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Illustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes), to serve as an atlas to the “Handbook of British Fungi”..
LondonWilliams and Norgate1881-91.
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