The Public Domain Review

A new section on the site dedicated to celebrating works entering the public domain.

An odd little book about frogs and fishes raining down from the sky and the reasons why they do so.

Our End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Ink.

Alchemical images from a 17th- or 18th-century manuscript that claims to be much older: a direct translation from Zoroaster himself.

A cottage industry, yes, but a barbershop bank? Ross Bullen plots how a story told by William Wells Brown — novelist, historian, playwright, physician, and escaped slave — circulated, first through his own works, and then abroad, as a parable of American banking gone bad.

Compiled over the course of roughly six years, Granville’s medical text, features 12 coloured plates by Joseph Perry.

The recommended cut-off dates to order from our shop by to ensure delivery in time for Dec 25th.

New delights for your walls, including works by Blake, Grandville, Redon, Hiroshige, and lots of stunning Japanese firework illustrations.

Hippolyte Baraduc’s book recounts his invention of a photography-like process in which his subjects directly transmitted their soul’s vibrations onto a chemical plate.

Theresa Babb's turn of the century photographs let us glimpse into a personal world of female friendship.