Death and the Maiden XXVI

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My original tumblr post was here. Another apparent bookplate by Alphonse Inoue. Original text:

 

Death and the Maiden XXV

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My original tumblr post was here.  This image also appears to be an Alphonse Inoue bookplate.  Original text:

Death and the Maiden XXXI

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My original tumblr post was here.  Original text:

Death and the Maiden XXIV

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My original tumblr post was here.  This image appears to be a bookplate attributed to Alphonse Inoue.  Original text:

Death and the Maiden XXIII

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My original tumblr post was here.  Image is a bookplate with the text “Ex Libris K. Shimamura.” Original text:

Death and the Maiden XXII

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My original tumblr post was here. Original text:

Death and the Maiden XXI

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My original tumblr post was here.  This is a drawing by the French painter and sculptor Alphonse Legros 1837-1911).    Original text:

Source: deathandthemaiden

 

Death and the Maiden XX

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My original tumblr post was here.  This figure is readily recognizable as Orcus, Lord of the Undead, from various Dungeons and Dragons editions.   Original text:

Death and the Maiden XIX

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My original tumblr post was here.  This image is Eros et Thanatos by the French illustrator Édouard Chimot (1880-1959).  Original text:

Source: deathandthemaiden

 

Death and the Maiden XVIII

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My original tumblr post was here.  This is an interior illustration by Virgil Finlay.  It bears the legend “The New Atom by Stanley C. Weinbaum (Amazing -1943).  Original text: