https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/188-explore-the-dungeon/

From a version of The Pied Piper of Hamelyn by Wolff, Julius: “Der Rattenfänger von Hameln: Eine Aventiure” (1890).

Here Lorenz goes down into the castle cellar to confront the ghosts - but they turn out to be rats.

Drawn by Paul Thumann & engraved by Richard Brend’amour.

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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/pages/108-seaside/

A setting for a poem (see link) about keeping a sense of childish joy and wonder as we grow older.

Everyone on this beach is fully clothed, including shoes and socks, which suggests to me a somewhat restrained sense of joy and wonder.

No artist or engraver credited. And is that a seagull eating a squirrel at upper left?

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