Front cover from L’Exposition universelle de 1889 (The 1889 Paris world fair) vol. 3, by Émile Monod, Paris, 1890.
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Walter Crane, front cover from Beauty and the beast, London, New York, 1875.
(This cover isn’t from the same edition as the previous illustrations: this version is shorter - it contains only Beauty and the Beast - and is not as lavishly illustrated. It has a nicer cover, though)
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Margaret and/or Helen Maitland Armstrong, front cover from The day of the dog, by George Barr McCutcheon, New York, 1904.
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The path to the moon.
William T. Horton, front cover from A book of images, introduced by W. B. Yeats, London, 1898.
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Front cover from The magnet stories for summer days and winter nights, collective work, London, not dated (between 1845-1879?).
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Front cover from Les plus belles fables de La Fontaine (The finest fables of La Fontaine), illustrated by Félicien Philippe, Lausanne, circa 1921.
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Henry Gerbault, front cover from Les éreintés de la vie (Life’s shattered ones), by Félicien Champsaur, Paris, 1888.
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Henry Gerbault, back cover from Les éreintés de la vie (Life’s shattered ones), by Félicien Champsaur, Paris, 1888.
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