You didn't think we would forget about #sharkweek, did you?
This illustration is from a juvenile book published in 1814, though it does not skimp on gruesome details (Can bite you clean in half! Six rows of enormous teeth!)
Also, what it lacks in dorsal fins it makes up with some swoon-worthy block printed wrappers.
The History of fish. (New-York: Samuel Wood, 1814.)












