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Oddities & Curiosities Coloring Book
A Coloring Journey Through the Weird and Wonderful - More than 100 pages to color
Series: Chartwell Coloring Books
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Colour your way through a cabinet of curiosities, where the strange is beautiful and the unusual is worth celebrating. Oddities & Curiosities Coloring Book invites you into a world of macabre elegance and exquisite detail. Inspired by vintage specimen collections, apothecary shelves, anatomical drawings, and other...
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Peer inside the weird and macabre world with Oddities & Curiosities Coloring Book-featuring over 100 pages to color and enjoy.
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Description
Colour your way through a cabinet of curiosities, where the strange is beautiful and the unusual is worth celebrating.
Oddities & Curiosities Coloring Book invites you into a world of macabre elegance and exquisite detail. Inspired by vintage specimen collections, apothecary shelves, anatomical drawings, and other fascinating relics of the past, each page offers a chance to slow down, look closer, and colour outside the ordinary.
From delicately preserved insects to mysterious skulls under glass, this collection is perfect for fans of oddities, dark academia, and the quietly uncanny. Whether you're drawn to the gothic or just crave something beautifully unexpected, this book transforms the strange into something meditative and meaningful.
Open the luxurious, foil-accented cover to find:
- Over 100 richly detailed illustrations of vintage curios, scientific oddities, and arcane treasures
- Elegant line art featuring skulls, jars, bones, botanical specimens, and Victorian ephemera
- A beautifully illustrated full-colour introduction
- Intricate patterns to colour on the back of each page
Step away from the ordinary and into a world where the curious becomes calming, and beauty is found in the most unexpected places. Perfect for quiet evenings, moody mornings, or whenever you crave a little creative magic on the darker side.
Chartwell Coloring Books is the ultimate colouring book series, encompassing designs of every kind. From intriguing abstract patterns to beautiful pictures from the natural, technological, and fantasy worlds, each of these colouring books will soothe the mind and inspire the inner creative in anyone. With so many variations of complex, beautiful designs in each book, you'll have plenty of pages to bring to life. Whether young or old, creative or not, this series has something for you.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780785848738
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 May 2026
Country: United States
Imprint: Chartwell Books Inc.,U.S.
Illustration: illustrations to color
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 216.0mm
Height: 241.0mm
Weight: 458g
Pages: 128
About the Author
Publishing and supplying books to wholesalers, mail order companies, and retail stores for over 60 years, Chartwell Books publishes across a wide range of subjects, including history, craft, home reference, puzzles and games, music, art instruction, transportation, and more.
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