From Una and the Red Cross Knight and Other Tales from Spenser's Faery Queene, 1905, illustrated by T. H. Robinson.

From The Bab Ballads, written and illustrated by William Schwenck Gilbert, 1898.

Here's an ornament from Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery, 1914.

"The sense of death is most in apprehension," from For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant, 1889.

From Washington and Lee University's Calyx yearbook, 1907.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From Cossack Fairy Tales and Folktales by Robert Nisbet Bain and illustrated by H. W. Mitchell, 1902.

From Absolutely True, written and illustrated by Irving Montagu, 1893.

This illustration seems to be saying that if we hurry on to Filthytown, we can beat the germs from Cleanville.  From Healthy Living by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, 1917.

What is a jester hiding beneath his comedy mask?  You guessed it.  From The Withered Jester by Arthur Patchett Martin, 1895.

From The Select Works of Bret Hartte in Prose and Poetry, 1872.

"A sort of animated door-mat," from Wanderings of a War Artist, written and illustrated by Irving Montagu, 1889.

From Journeys through Bookland by Charles Herbert Sylvester, 1922.