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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

oldbookillustrations: I espied a little before me a cave, where two giants, pope and pagan, dwelt. G. Woolliscroft Rhead, from The pilgrim’s progress from this world to that which is to come, by John Bunyan, New York, 1898. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

I espied a little before me a cave, where two giants, pope and pagan, dwelt.

G. Woolliscroft Rhead, from The pilgrim’s progress from this world to that which is to come, by John Bunyan, New York, 1898.

(Source: archive.org)

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oldbookillustrations: They perceived several men walking up and down the tombs that were there. G. Woolliscroft Rhead, from The pilgrim’s progress from this world to that which is to come, by John Bunyan, New York, 1898. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

They perceived several men walking up and down the tombs that were there.

G. Woolliscroft Rhead, from The pilgrim’s progress from this world to that which is to come, by John Bunyan, New York, 1898.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations: … One of the shepherds bid us beware of the Inchanted ground. G. Woolliscroft Rhead, from The pilgrim’s progress from this world to that which is to come, by John Bunyan, New York, 1898. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

… One of the shepherds bid us beware of the Inchanted ground.

G. Woolliscroft Rhead, from The pilgrim’s progress from this world to that which is to come, by John Bunyan, New York, 1898.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations: The gate, as it opened, made such a creaking, that it waked Giant Despair G. Woolliscroft Rhead, from The pilgrim’s progress from this world to that which is to come, by John Bunyan, New York, 1898. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

The gate, as it opened, made such a creaking, that it waked Giant Despair

G. Woolliscroft Rhead, from The pilgrim’s progress from this world to that which is to come, by John Bunyan, New York, 1898.

(Source: archive.org)