From Watch Out! by Norah Smaridge, 1965.

When a book cover takes no chances on a reader knowing the reference.  From Pribbles and Prabbles by Patrick Maxwell, 1906. 

From Bulfinch's The Age of Fable.

From The Life of the Butterfly by Friedrich Schnack, 1932.

From The Fairyland of Science by A. B. Buckley (via Rachel Deering).

From Half-Gods by Murray Sheehan, 1927.

From The Neck of the Giraffe: Where Darwin Went Wrong by Francis Hitching, 1982.

From Salem College's 1996 yearbook.

From Piedmont Bible College's 1975 yearbook.

From Bowman Gray School of Medicine's 1972 yearbook.

From The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs, 1921.

From The Fairy Green by Rose Fyleman, 1919.

Disappointingly, this is not a treatise on the age-old connection between fairies and chimneys.  From Fairies and Chimneys by Rose Fyleman, 1934.

From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.

From Living in the Age of Machines by Wilson, Wilson & Erb, 1937.

From Singing Wheels by Mabel O'Donnell, 1940.

From Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith, 1950.

From The Doctor Wears Three Faces by Mary Bard, 1957.

From Guilford College's 1997 yearbook.

From The Night Moths of New England, How To Determine Them Readily by Edward Knobel, 1895.