What follows are some crude scans of the illustrations which appear in
Varney the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood. So far, only the
images from the first 19 chapters are presented. While there are
certainly more illustrations from later chapters, they did die off
long before the conclusion of the story and became rarer and rarer
as the saga progressed. Someday it is hoped that all of the images
can be done and presented in a form which better indicates how they
fit into both the story and presentation.
These scans were done from the 1970 Arno facsimile reprint edition.
It is believed that the 1972 Dover edition is a better print and
would give better scans of the images. I believe that the bulk of
the text and illustrations in both editions came from one of the
1847 collected reprints. It is noted with the Arno edition, however,
that the Cover Page came from 1853. From the appearance of that page,
it seems that the reprinting in 1853 may have been a re-issuing of
the story in serial form, rather than a collected reprint.
An additional feature of many of the early chapters was a drop
capital for the character of the first paragraph. I hope to
someday present these as well, but as they look to be stock images
and not directly related to the Varney story, they are not a high
Each image file is in JPEG format. There is not enough room in the 50megs.com free website to store multiple versions of all images. It is also not possible using the free website hosting package to have files larger than 1/4 megabyte.
--------- | JPEG Cover Page (from 1853 reprint, I believe.
Probably a reissue of the serial, based on the text at the top.)