Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, de Diverses Couleurs, 1719, Louis Renard.

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No one walks there now;
Except in the white moonlight
The white ghosts walk in a row

Illustration by Florence Harrison, from Early poems of William Morris, New-York, 1914.

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Headpiece vignette to scene XXV of Faust, by J. W. von Goethe, illustrated by Harry Clarke. New York, not dated.

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Frontispiece to Old French Fairy Tales, by the Comtesse de Ségur. Philadelphia, 1920.

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"From Le japon, ou moeurs, usages et costumes des habitans (sic) de cet empire (Japan, or mores customs and costumes of the inhabitants of this empire), by Breton de la Martinière, Paris, 1818."

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"She tied my boat to the north star, so I would not grow up while she was gone."