The Public Domain Review

Robert Fludd's alphabet of correspondences, where each letter and number is paired with an object which echoes its shape.

Perhaps the closest thing the 19th century ever got to Google Street View, a book to guide the journeyer along the major roads of England and Wales.

Angus Trumble on Dante Gabriel Rossetti and company's curious but longstanding fixation with the furry oddity that is the wombat — that "most beautiful of God's creatures" which found its way into their poems, their art, and even, for a brief while, their homes.

A superb series of photographs found in exercise manual by American author Harrie Irving Hancock.

Hogarth's pictorial defence against claims his art was more about caricatures than characters.

Our top pick of those whose works on 1st January 2019 enter the public domain in many countries around the world, including Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Sergei Eisenstein and Martin Luther King Jr.

Born of the temperance movement, this poem dramatises the ills of drinking schnapps, through one man’s bloody battle with thousands of intoxicated demons.

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.

Hokusai's five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari [One Hundred Ghost Stories].

James Nasymth's images of intricate models of the lunar surface.