Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)

The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)

Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)

Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)

Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)

Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s 391 Review (1917–1924)

Christoph Jamnitzer’s Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610)

Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896)

Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)

Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)

Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)

“Chinese Arabesques” by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Anne Allen (ca. 1790–99)

The Little Journal of Rejects (1896)

Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and their Gardens (1904)

Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ Passio Verbigenae (ca. 1580)

A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)

The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905)

Sheet Music Covers for the Gotham-Attucks Company, ca. 1905–1911

Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork Prints

The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)

Chromolithographs of Paper Lanterns (ca. 1880)

The “Madame B Album” (ca. 1870s)

Specimens of Fancy Turning (1869)

Punctuation Personified (1824)