Firefly Diamonds
Illuminated copper engraving, 1705, by Maria Sibylla Merian. Wikimedia Commons.
The traveling bug lover, in the earliest days of insect study, brought back from foreign...
“An Orgy of Candy Gluttony”
A Cup of Chocolate (1844), by Charles Beranger
© Christie's Images / Bridgeman Images
At nine o’clock the next morning his servant came in with a...
Strange Dialogue: Picture and Prose
Springtime (when fancies turn to thoughts of love) is high time to swap that dog-eared, fly-specked, bookworm-infested copy of The Hobbit you’ve been carting...