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"https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-adventures-and-experiences-of-the-first-slovak-novel", "published_at": "2025-10-08T12:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df4-ae57-718f-8358-b7b0f4222f90", "title": "Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)", "url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/travels-in-the-air", "published_at": "2025-10-07T09:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df4-ae57-718f-8358-b7b0f4cc6a15", "title": "Birth of the Pearl (1901)", "url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/birth-of-the-pearl", "published_at": "2025-09-30T14:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df4-ae57-718f-8358-b7b0f589259e", "title": "The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5", "url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/09/now-and-then-5", "published_at": "2025-09-25T10:48:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df4-ae57-718f-8358-b7b0f5bc62b3", "title": "The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)", "url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/origins-of-painting", "published_at": "2025-09-24T14:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df4-ae57-718f-8358-b7b0f602f8cd", "title": "“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess", "url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-carleton-counterfeit-princess", "published_at": "2025-09-17T12:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df4-ae57-718f-8358-b7b0f66d6bf3", "title": "A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)", "url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/curious-bequests", "published_at": "2025-09-17T12:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df4-ae57-718f-8358-b7b0f6e71452", "title": "Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)", "url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/aivazovsky-miniature-seascapes", "published_at": "2025-09-11T13:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df4-ae57-718f-8358-b7b0f7dcc1db", "title": "The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)", "url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tamra-maew", "published_at": "2025-09-10T13:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df4-ae57-718f-8358-b7b0f8584f58", "title": "Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura", "url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-early-modern-camera-obscura", "published_at": "2025-07-31T14:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df4-ae57-718f-8358-b7b0f949a460", "title": "Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)", "url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/manifesto-antropofago", "published_at": "2025-07-31T14:55:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df4-ae57-718f-8358-b7b0f9d331c4", "title": "Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)", "url": "https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/christening-of-lady-elisabeth-of-hesse", "published_at": "2025-07-30T16:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07df4-ae57-718f-8358-b7b0fa36bc53", "title": "Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and 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2026

In Company Style: Illustrations from James Skinner’s Kitāb-i tashrīḥ al-aqvām (1825)original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Veronese's Dogsoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
It’s “A Cat-astrophe”! (1919)original ↗
15 Sept 2026
Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (early 19th century)original ↗
10 Sept 2026
The Ties that Bind: Central Asian Ikat (ca. 19th century)original ↗
8 Sept 2026
The Proper Art of Writingoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2026
Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledgeoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2026
Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920)original ↗
29 Jul 2026
“The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892)original ↗
28 Jul 2026
Lantern Slides of Norway (ca. 1910)original ↗
25 Jul 2026
Archie G. Norcross’ Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)original ↗
14 Jul 2026
“Worthless Idiot, Donkey Head”: Parodies of Pedantry on the Renaissance Stageoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2026
Peruvianizing Peru: Covers from Amauta Magazine (1926–30)original ↗
8 Jul 2026
Choice Notes on History from Notes and Queries (1858)original ↗
7 Jul 2026
Diagrams for Travel from the Qanoon-e-Islam (1832)original ↗
30 Jun 2026
Louis Pope Gratacap, A Curator in Lost Worldsoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2026
The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)original ↗
17 Jun 2026
Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Artoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2026
Genevieve Stebbins’ Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression (1886)original ↗
10 Jun 2026
The Launch of Our Mid-Year Fundraiser!original ↗
9 Jun 2026
Covers from Cerîde-i Adliye, a Turkish Law Journal (1924–26)original ↗
3 Jun 2026
Animal, Vegetable, Lamb: The Zoophyte from Tartaryoriginal ↗
28 May 2026
Harold A. Taylor’s Autochromes of California Flowers (early 20th century)original ↗
26 May 2026
The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (1877)original ↗
21 May 2026
“Plaything of the Gods”: Photographs of Pushball (early 1900s)original ↗
19 May 2026
Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotypeoriginal ↗
13 May 2026
Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683)original ↗
13 May 2026
Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition)original ↗
13 May 2026
Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911)original ↗
30 Apr 2026
Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occultoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2026
Pulex irritans: The Attack of the Monster (1885)original ↗
22 Apr 2026
“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)original ↗
16 Apr 2026
Introducing PDR Press Minisoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2026
Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)original ↗
9 Apr 2026
Songs from the Commons: A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Projectoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2026
The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britainoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2026
Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)original ↗
1 Apr 2026
“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition)original ↗
26 Mar 2026
Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)original ↗
25 Mar 2026
Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its Historyoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2026
Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)original ↗
11 Mar 2026
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)original ↗
5 Mar 2026
Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919)original ↗
3 Mar 2026
The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlinoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2026
Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)original ↗
17 Feb 2026
Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition)original ↗
17 Feb 2026
Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)original ↗
11 Feb 2026
Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)original ↗
4 Feb 2026
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpiecesoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2026
Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)original ↗
3 Feb 2026
Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)original ↗
27 Jan 2026
Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watchoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2026
Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)original ↗
21 Jan 2026
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)original ↗
20 Jan 2026
Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)original ↗
13 Jan 2026
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!original ↗
1 Jan 2026

2025

Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025original ↗
28 Dec 2025
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichioriginal ↗
10 Dec 2025
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)original ↗
10 Dec 2025
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)original ↗
4 Dec 2025
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)original ↗
2 Dec 2025
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!original ↗
2 Dec 2025
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)original ↗
25 Nov 2025
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902)original ↗
25 Nov 2025
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Paintingoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2025
Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)original ↗
20 Nov 2025
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop!original ↗
20 Nov 2025
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revivaloriginal ↗
12 Nov 2025
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025original ↗
12 Nov 2025
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsleyoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2025
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Associationoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2025
PDR's Halloween Readeroriginal ↗
29 Oct 2025
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)original ↗
28 Oct 2025
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Scienceoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2025
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)original ↗
21 Oct 2025
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)original ↗
16 Oct 2025
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)original ↗
15 Oct 2025
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Noveloriginal ↗
8 Oct 2025
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)original ↗
7 Oct 2025
Birth of the Pearl (1901)original ↗
30 Sept 2025
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5original ↗
25 Sept 2025
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)original ↗
24 Sept 2025
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princessoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2025
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)original ↗
17 Sept 2025
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)original ↗
11 Sept 2025
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)original ↗
10 Sept 2025
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscuraoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2025
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)original ↗
31 Jul 2025
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)original ↗
30 Jul 2025
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4original ↗
30 Jul 2025
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)original ↗
17 Jul 2025
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenshiporiginal ↗
9 Jul 2025
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circleoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2025
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)original ↗
1 Jul 2025
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)original ↗
24 Jun 2025
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotographyoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2025
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11original ↗
18 Jun 2025
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)original ↗
18 Jun 2025
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)original ↗
12 Jun 2025
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)original ↗
11 Jun 2025
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