From Works of Charles Dickens, New Illustrated Library Edition.

Here are revealed the roots of introversion and extroversion, from the Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the 21st Session of the Legislature of the State of California, Vol. 3, 1875.

From The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1897.

From Community English by Mildred Flagg, 1921.  The text on the tree reads, "Japanese reading and writing books are odd[ly] printed.  Read from right to left.  First page is at back.  Lines run up and down.  Address is backward.  Words are painted with brushes."

From Review of Reviews and World's Work, 1890.

Here's a precious secret of immortality: train a peach tree to spell "Davie," and you'll not only live forever but also enjoy luscious peaches.  This we learn in The Peach and Nectarine by David Taylor Fish, 1879.  But note in the text that only immortality is guaranteed, and the peaches are a mere "perhaps."

"I fell at the foot of one of the large trees," from Phantastes by George MacDonald, 1894.

From The Choice Works of Thomas Hood, 1881.

"Sam, please, I have no more time to be a Christmas tree": a moment from the classic sitcom Bewitched.

From Voyage aux Pyrénées, Troisième édition by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine and illustrated by Gustave Doré, 1860.

"Other branches swooped down, coiling around him."  From The Deviltree of El Dorado by Frank Aubrey, 1896.

From Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk by John Ross Browne, 1864.

A person disguised as a Christmas-type tree, from Die Deutschen Kolonieen by Carl Hessler (1889).  The caption reads: "Dud=Dud."

"The Devil Tree": an illustration from an 1883 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.

An illustration from a 1909 issue of Putnam's magazine.  The caption reads: "'Keep us under your shadow,' she whispered."

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

"To read is to risk making one's self vulnerable, to risk encountering what Wayne Booth has called 'the otherness that bites.'" —Megan O'Neill, Popular Culture (2001)