In the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Philipp Moritz — from the peace of Lake Biel to the rugged Peaks — Seán Williams considers the connection between walking and writing.
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In the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Philipp Moritz — from the peace of Lake Biel to the rugged Peaks — Seán Williams considers the connection between walking and writing.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/rambling-reflections-on-summers-in-switzerland-and-sheffield
Hokusai's five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari [One Hundred Ghost Stories].
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hokusai-s-ghost-stories-ca-1830
James Nasymth's images of intricate models of the lunar surface.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/photographs-of-models-of-the-moon-1874
Proto science fiction fantasy romance of an English castaway and a remote race of flying humans.
Meiji era copies (ca. 1900) of original designs by Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800), a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period notable for his striking modern aesthetic.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/polychrome-woodblocks-of-ito-jakuchu-birds
Book featuring a hundred real or real-ish tales of ingenious, loyal or otherwise extraordinary animals.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/anecdotes-of-animals-1905
Benjamin Franklin, magnetic trees, and erotically-charged séances — Urte Laukaityte on how a craze for sessions of "animal magnetism" in late 18th-century Paris led to the randomised placebo-controlled and double-blind clinical trials we know and love today.
Poems from the Victorian era and before which anticipated 21st-century textspeak.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nineteenth-century-textspeak
Photographs for official army panoramas that offer, a century after their strategic function has passed, an unusual and haunting portrait of WW1.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/landscapes-of-the-western-front-1914-1918
Book of Norwegian fairytales and one of the finest creations to emerge from the golden age of illustration.