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comment by ghostoffuffle

When I was a kid I used to sit around staring at this:

https://www.amazon.com/Fantasy-Golden-Age-Fantastic-Illustration/dp/0823016358

Given what you posted, you'd dig a lot of the styles. Could probably just google a bunch of the illustrations. The stories behind the illustrators are pretty nuts, too. Aubrey Beardsley, for instance, kicked around with Oscar Wilde and may or may not have gotten his own sister pregnant.