Discover historical illustrations by subject, artist and book.
Creation and rebellion in Blake’s illuminated plates.
Norwegian fairy tales illustrated by Kay Nielsen.
Four colour drawings from a 1908 Gnostic text.
From the dark wood to Paradise with Gustave Doré.
Ethelwynne Quail’s visions of the spirit world.
Art Deco studies of fear by John Vassos.
37 illustrations
A ring of changing moons surrounds a four-part interior containing small symbolic figures.
Small narrative scenes occupy a great circular field around a central disk.
Four dark panels contain blue curved forms with red trails, green triangles, blue crosses and a blue ring around a red centre.
A six-pointed arrangement of triangles surrounds a human face, an eagle, a bull and a lion.
A small square labelled Being stands between Spirit and Force above, Matter and Form below.
Four rows align principle, cause, effect and ultimate with Tao, God, Creation and Use.
Rows beginning with the same letters become shorter until only one character remains.
A long ruled design with small crosses appears above several lines of mixed letters and words.
Small hand diagrams and isolated line patterns form a numbered and lettered comparison.
Two circular charts carry numbered traces and legends explaining the start and stop of a registering needle.
A dark palm impression records finger pads, creases and irregular areas of contact with the page.
Two simplified human forms appear above circular diagrams marked C and D, with dots and rays indicating their internal arrangements.
A long wand, candles, a circular band and an inscribed disc share a framed page of annotated implements.
A faint upright person stands within an oval of blue, red, green and pale gold.
A large concentric pentacle bears Alpha et Omega at its centre beneath a heading naming the Sun and Sunday.
A large lettered pentacle occupies the upper half of a manuscript page headed for Mars and Tuesday.
A concentric pentacle is headed for Mercury and Wednesday, with Alpha et Omega written across its centre.
A large pentacle headed for Venus and Friday stands above two smaller lettered circles.
The Earth sits at the centre of twelve radial compartments, with zodiac signs around the outer circle.
Two opposed sets of cones are divided by horizontal lines carrying historical dates and bracketed phase numbers.
Small groups of circles, crossed lines, stars and spirals are arranged as paired diagrams.
Nine small diagrams compare spots, sister lines, forked endings and tangled endings.
Six separate diagrams arrange funnels, globes and small internal patterns within contrasting external shapes.
Four numbered diagrams combine oval internal groups with very different outer silhouettes.
The upper diagram overlaps three vertical circles while the lower places a dark sphere within several larger circular fields.
A standing nude occupies one small framed panel beside a circular diagram filled with divisions and signs.
A great fierce head looks over a rectangular frame divided into many small narrative compartments.
A great circular wheel is divided into densely populated compartments beneath a monster’s head.
Bands of letters, crosses and numerals surround a narrow central table of numbers.
A man with arms stretched above his head stands at the centre of a square crossed by diagonals.
Six numbered arrangements range from full squares to narrow L-shaped borders.
Six numbered grids contain short letter sequences along their edges and within small central fields.
Two large semicircular diagrams face opposite directions around a vertical centre line.
A large Union Jack spreads in folds from a slender staff.
Five upright loop diagrams compare separate rings, linked rings, a long loop and a knotted-looking result.
A pale inverted body fills a narrow dark panel beside rows of signs, small diagrams and letter-like shapes.
Two pointed blade sections appear above a magnified metallic texture and small cross-sectional diagrams.
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