The Domestic Labour of Reading in Milton’s Areopagitica

A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837)

Liquid Bewitchment: Gin Drinking in England, 1700–1850

The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century (1825)

The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)

The Works of Mars (1671)

Travelling Tales: Kalīlah Wa-Dimnah and the Animal Fable

Thomas Smillie’s Photographic Survey of the Smithsonian (1890–1913)

Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx (2013)

Hokusai’s Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (1836)

The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (2011)

Radioactive Fictions: Marie Corelli and the Omnipotence of Thoughts

The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man (2016)

Specimens of Fancy Turning (1869)

“Those Disturbers of My Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)

Analogical Diagram from Tobias Cohen’s Ma’aseh Tuviyah (1708)

Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Wonder and Pleasure in the Oude Doolhof of Amsterdam

In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913)

The Black Dandy of Buenos Aires

The Art of Making Debts: Accounting for an Obsession in 19th-Century France

Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons

Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851)

The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris

Indian Sign Talk (1893)

Punctuation Personified (1824)

Chaos Bewitched: Moby-Dick and AI

Troubled Waters: Reading Urine in Medieval Medicine

C. P. Cranch’s Literal Illustrations of Emerson’s Nature (ca. 1837–39)

The City That Fell Off a Cliff

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