strange illustrations

"The Colon :", an 1824 illustration by <n>Mr. Stops</n> from <n>Punctuation Personified</n>, featuring <n>William Shakespeare</n>.

Illustration from <n>The alchemical herbarium of Ulisse Aldrovandi</n> (1605) by <n>Ulisse Aldrovandi</n>.

An illustration of The Paragraph (¶) from <n>Mr. Stops</n>'s 1824 book, <n>Punctuation Personified</n>.

Illustration from the 13th-century treatise <n>The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence</n> by <n>Zakariyā ibn Muhammad al-Qazwīnī</n>.

An 1824 illustration by <n>Mr. J. V. B.</n> from the series <n>Punctuation Personified</n>.

Plate VII from <n>Spectropia; or, Surprising Spectral Illusions</n> (1863), designed by <n>J. H. Brown</n>.