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From the site: "An English curate and the author of several books on religious subjects, Edward Topsell is best remembered for The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes and The Historie of Serpents. Born in 1572, Topsell attended Cambridge before becoming a clergyman in the Church of England. He published The Reward of Religion in 1596, and Time's Lamentation in 1599. In 1604 Topsell became curate of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, a position he held until his death. In 1607, Topsell published his magnificent illustrated work Historie of Foure-footed Beastes, Describing the True and Lively Figure of Every Beast. The book was closely based on the Historiae Animalium of Swiss author Conrad Gesner. In 1608 he followed it with The Historie of Serpents; Or the Second Booke of Living Creatures, which also drew on Gesner's Historiae. The woodcuts for both of Topsell's books came directly from Gesner's pages. Topsell authored one more religious work in 1610 called The Householder. He served as vicar and chaplain in various areas of England until his death in about 1638."

A description of Albers book of prints from 1972. If you move your mouse over the upper left of the main image - you'll get the controls for a slideshow that shows some of the images from the book.

A Flickr set of book illustrations from the Center for Jewish History.  Includes 9 illustrations from Gustav Meyrinck's Der Golem.

Art made from old, unused books.

Xie He's Six Laws of Painting as laid out in Gardner's Art Through the Ages. This is a Google Books link.

Comic book covers from the 60s.

Books and their illustrations from Leonard Baskin and his publishing venture, The Gehenna Press.

Book and media covers for Nabokov's Lolita spanning 54 years and 33 countries.

A more obscure selection of book covers, illustrations and graphic design surrounding literature.

Islamic book arts from the Indiiana University Collection

This image is older than God by now, but since Elastic Press [link] has recently asked me to format this image for use as a book cover, I've done some more touch-ups to the background and I thought I'd share.

A large selection of early anatomical books and images.

Absolutely gruesome.

A link to articles and resources mentioned in David Berman's book, Do Good Design.

Beardsley's illustrations including Le Morte d'Arthure, Salome and Yellow Book.

Henry Darger's obsessive and detailed writings on the weather.

Graphic Novel adaptation of Bradbury's famous book - officially sanctioned by the Bradbury estate.

Images of each page from the Voynich Manuscript - an anonymously written, indecipherable book from the 15th or 16th century.