From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.

Here's a precursor to the film Dark City (1998).  It's Instant Cities by Gunther Paul Barth, 1988.

A sphinx drawn from memory.  From The World's Best Conundrums and Riddles of All Ages by James Gilchrist Lawson, 1924.

From An Artist Sees Alaska by Henry Varnum Poor.

From The Cave of Gold by Everett McNeil, 1911.

From Dictionary of Ancient History, edited by P. G. Woodcock.

From Mythologies of the Ancient World, edited by Samuel Noah Kramer.

From O, Those Extraordinary Women by Seon Manley and Susan Belcher.

From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

From Man of Molokai by Ann Roos.

From Mary Magdalene by R. L. Bruckberger.

You've heard of letters of apology, but there are also letters of mythology.  From Letters Concerning Mythology by Thomas Blackwell, 1748. 

Apparently, there was a time when the world went very well.  From The World Went Very Well Then by Walter Besant, 1887.

From DePauw University's 1928 yearbook.

So much more elegant to drop the colon to the second line.  From the rare Faith: Its Nature and Meaning, edited by Paul Surlis.

From Canadian Children's Own Readers: Fun and Frolic by Mary Elizabeth Pennell, et al. and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 1900.

From Olio of Isms, Ologies and Kindred Matter by E. S. Metcalf, 1899.

From Man and the Renaissance by Andrew Martindale.

From I Had to Know by Gladys Baker.

From the rare Camonica Valley: A Depiction of Village Life in the Alps from Neolithic Times to the Birth of Christ, As Revealed by Thousands of Newly Found Rock Carvings by Emmanuel Anati.