Image source: A Series of Anatomical Plates by Jones Quain, Sir Erasmus Wilson, and Joseph Pancoast, 1843.
The Dream Stalls
Round and About the Dream-Stalls
Speculation about the contents of the stalls is a worthless ambition.
The “value” of a stall lies over the workaday threshold
into the realm of curiosity.
Source: Round and About the Book-Stalls. : A Guide for the Book-Hunter by John Herbert Slater and Benno Loewy, 1891.
Below the Surface
Source: Part of a Man’s Life by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1905.
Sometimes I Go to the Emporium
Source: Mary and I go to Europe by H. Lyle Smith, 1898.