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Heart For Art’s Sake: 17th Century Emblems Of Virtue And Sin

Vices and virtues in life and how shape your bleeding heart - emblems from a 17th Century German book to living well ...

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A Beautiful Guide To Blending And Making Colours from 1692

An illustrated 900-page book of 700 paint colours and how to prepare, mix and blend them ...

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William Blake’s Illustrations for Milton’s Paradise Lost – 1808

The Butts Set of Blake's illustrations for Paradise Lost ...

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Comets, Meteors and Other Stars of Wonder

Comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars are signs of God's love, portents of doom, fretful conversations with the divine, divine illumination, wonderful and full of mystery. ...

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Cartographies of Time: A Gorgeous Visual History of the Timeline

How do you illustrate time? These remarkable illustrations answer the question beautifully ...

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A Hundred Fables by Jean La Fontaine Illustrated by Percy J Billinghurst – 1900

Fontaine's 239 fables are a composite blend of Western and Eastern stories adapted into French free verse ...

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Johann Bayer’s 12 Maps Of The Zodiac – 1603

Hand-coloured engravings from Johann Bayer's star atlas 'Uranometria Omnium Asterismorum' ...

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Revisiting the French Werewolf Epidemic and the Beast of Gévaudan

The period between roughly 1520 and 1630 saw “France’s version of Europe’s witch trials and executions, but with werewolves ...

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Kissing On A Rainy Beach: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs of 1960s Britain

"I was free to encounter life. I was open and didn't have any agenda. There ...

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The Story Of ‘Punk’

The rotten etymology of Punk - a word used to describe music for centuries ...

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All Good Things From Stephen Ellcock – A Book Of Visual Delights

Stephen Ellcock's brilliant book shows us all the things we should see in a sparkling ride through the ages filled with visual wonder ...

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Michelangelo’s Brilliantly Drawn 16th-Century Grocery List

“The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis” - Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose ...

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