The Public Domain Review

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.

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.

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.

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

Frances Wilson review's our project for a feature in this week's Times Literary Supplement

These designs capture a period of cultural change in Japan, when the kimono became increasingly associated with national mythmaking and tradition.

Mellan's pièce de résistance: an engraving of Christ incised with a single, spiralling line.

William Baillie-Grohman’s text on the art of hunting reproduces 243 illustrations and 400 years of arcane knowledge related to the pursuit of animals.