An illustration from Le Louvre et Son Histoire by Albert Babeau (1895).

For fans of the game Clue/Cluedo, here's a precursor to "Col. Mustard in the drawing room with the candle stick," from Illustrated Penny Tales From the Strand Library, 1894.

"Terror": an illustration from Otto of the Silver Hand, written and illustrated by Howard Pyle (1888).

The title page to Robert Greene's "Groundwork to Coney Catching," reproduced in The Highway of Letters by Thomas Archer (1893).

Here are some vintage mock moons from American Explorations in the Ice Zones by Joseph Everett Nourse (1884).

"Kerblinkity-blunk": an illustration from B. C. 1887: A Ramble in British Columbia by James Arthur Lees (1889).

David Levin has said that "The real contest is how we play against ourselves.  There's always that other side of each of us, pulling us down."

The caption of our illustration reads, "He was annihilated every game."  It's from A Ramble Round the Globe by Baron Dewar, 1894.

An illustration from At the Rising of the Moon by Frank James Mathew (1893).  The caption reads: "Dark Andy and the headless man."

What was the Vitruvian Man's animal familiar?  You guessed it — the Vitruvian Giraffe.  (Our illustration is from Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford, 1894).

An illustration from A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille (1888).  The caption reads: "'This,' said Layelah, 'is the way we have of escaping.'"

An illustration from Bill Nye's History of the United States (1894).  The caption reads: "Oil the gearing of the solar system."

Here's a "strokhr" (small geyser) disguised as a Christmas tree in The Land of Thor, written and illustrated by J. Ross Browne, 1867.

Here's a precursor to Menke Katz's line about how "Even time is tired here of night and day" ("Old Manhattan," Rockrose, 1970).  This tired Father Time appears in Illustrated Poems and Songs for Young People, edited by Lucy Sale Barker, 1885.

An illustration from Through the Year (1887).  The caption reads: "Small clouds are sailing.  Blue sky prevailing."

An illustration from Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat (1896).  The caption reads: "Mr. Easy was busy with a plaster cast of a human head."

An illustration from The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1888).  The caption reads: "'Now,' cried I, holding up my children, 'now let the flames burn on, and all my possessions perish.'"

An illustration from an 1881 issue of The Quiver magazine.  The caption reads: "I find such quantities of strange toys about the house."

An illustration from an 1841 issue of Punch magazine.  The caption reads: "Don't mention it I beg."

An illustration from a 1922 issue of Scribner's magazine.  The caption reads: "It was in the night, in the moonlight, in the road ... or the forest—it was everywhere!"