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*Clavis Artis* by “Zoroaster”

Tuesday 30 November 2021 at 14:47

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

Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/clavis-artis


William Wells Brown, Wildcat Banker

Wednesday 24 November 2021 at 09:46

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.

Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/william-wells-brown-wildcat-banker


Joseph Perry’s Medical Illustrations of Miscarriage (1834)

Tuesday 23 November 2021 at 07:44

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

Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/perry-miscarriage


Last Order Dates for Christmas 2021

Thursday 18 November 2021 at 12:45

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

Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/11/last-order-dates-for-christmas-2021


28 New Prints Up On Our Online Shop

Wednesday 17 November 2021 at 18:31

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

Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/11/new-prints-nov-21


Imaging Inscape: *The Human Soul* (1913)

Wednesday 17 November 2021 at 07:33

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.

Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/baraduc-soul


Theresa Babb’s Photographs of Friendship (ca. 1898)

Tuesday 16 November 2021 at 07:23

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

Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/babb-photographs


Laughter in the Time of Cholera

Wednesday 10 November 2021 at 11:48

Political instability, popular unrest, and an impending pandemic? Welcome to France in the early 1830s. Vlad Solomon explores what made Parisiens laugh in a moment of crisis through the prism of a vaudeville play.

Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/laughter-in-the-time-of-cholera


Reborn Into a New Form (1849)

Wednesday 10 November 2021 at 11:47

A second life? To live again? Fyodor Dostoevsky survived the uncanny pantomime of his own execution to be “reborn into a new form”. Here Alex Christofi gives these very words a kind of second life, stitching primary source excerpts into a “reconstructed memoir” — the memoir that Dostoevsky himself never wrote.

Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/reborn-into-a-new-form


Aspirated Aspirations: Alfred Leach’s *The Letter H* (1880)

Tuesday 9 November 2021 at 14:39

In The Letter H, Alfred Leach passionately defends the aspirated aitch in words like "herb".

Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-letter-h