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Rosalie saw before her eyes a tree of marvellous beauty.
Virginia Frances Sterrett, from "French Fairy Tales" by comtesse de Ségur, Philadelphia: n.d. [ca. 1920] #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tree-marvellous-beauty/

King Zeyn conducts the Queen Mother to the vault.
John Tenniel, from "Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainments" London: [1865] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/king-zeyn-queen-mother/

Winnower in the Pontine marshes.
Rudolf Lehmann, from "L'Artiste," vol. 4, Paris: 1845 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/winnower/

Undine—illustrated endpapers.
Arthur Rackham, from "Undine" by Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué, London, New York: 1909 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/undine-endpapers/

The lion and the mouse.
Ernest Griset, from "Æsop's Fables" London, New York: [1869?] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/lion-mouse/

He found a rocket snugly hid
Beneath the window casement.
From "The Rocket Book" written & illustrated by Peter Newell, New York: 1912 #art #illustration #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/found-rocket/

Tolled the sweets from all the rosy lips of the country around.
Cecil Aldin, from the "Old Christmas" by Washington Irving, London: 1908 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tolled-sweets/

At the sound of his voice the bark was changed into a yelp of delight.
Cecil Aldin, from the "Old Christmas" by Washington Irving, London: 1908 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/yelp-delight/

New terror I conceived at the steep plunge.
Gustave Doré, from "Dante's Inferno" by Dante Alighieri, New York: n.d. #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/new-terror/

Exotic butterflies.
Heinrich Morin, From "Brehms Tierleben," vol. 9 by Alfred Edmund Brehm, Leipzig, Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1900 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/butterflies/

Opening illustration.
Harry Clarke, from "Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, New York: Arden Book Company, n.d. #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/opening-faust/

Metal-turning lathe.
From "Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics," vol. 2 edited by Park Benjamin, New York: 1880 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/metal-turning-lathe/

Little jumping Joan.
Kate Greenaway, from "Mother Goose: or, The Old Nursery Rhymes," London, New York: n.d. #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/little-jumping-joan/

Past and present.
From "The Argosy," vol. 47, London: 1889 #art #illustration https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/past-present/

They met near the gondola.
Jules Férat, from "L'île mystérieuse" by Jules Verne, Paris: n.d. #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/near-gondola/

An attack on a galleon.
From "Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates" written & illustrated by Howard Pyle, London, New York: n.d. #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/attack-galeon/

Aubrey Beardsley, front cover of the "Yellow Book," vol. 3, Boston, London: 1894 #art #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/yellow-book-3-cover/

The knight with that old dragon fights
Two days incessantly.
Walter Crane, from "Spenser's Faerie Queene," vol. 1 by Edmund Spenser, London: 1894 #Illustrations #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/knight-old-dragon/

But there was no voice throughout the vast, illimitable desert.
Harry Clarke, from "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" by Edgar Allan Poe, London, New York: n.d. #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/illimitable-desert/

The hand of glory.
John Tenniel, from "The Ingoldsby legends" by Thomas Ingoldsby, (Richard Harris Barham), New York: [1848?] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/hand-glory/