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.
12 illustrations
A six-pointed arrangement of triangles surrounds a human face, an eagle, a bull and a lion.
A large hexagram encloses the name Michael beneath a Hebrew inscription.
Three labelled implements occupy a comparative page: a mounted crystal, an inscribed hexagram pentacle and a long dark wand.
A circular boundary encloses four hexagrams around an open centre.
A long wand, candles, a circular band and an inscribed disc share a framed page of annotated implements.
A table pairs spirit names with Hebrew forms and numbered references above a large ceremonial circle.
A large ringed pentacle for Jupiter and Thursday appears above two smaller devices.
A hexagram encloses a square of letters within interlaced circular bands.
Two interlocking triangles form a six-pointed star inside a circle.
Four letters H and two letters O are distributed through the points of interlocking triangles.
The Sun’s circular sign sits at the centre of a six-pointed star.
Four circles join into a vertical geometric arrangement with a hexagram above and a pentagram below.
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