The well-dressed cyclops

Another relic of the Gazetteer is this example of the sort of spoof newspaper ads were were going to use to evoke the Mirabilis world:

That path has been well-trodden in everything from Extraordinary Gentlemen to Larklight, but eleven or twelve years ago it still had a slightly fresh whiff about it. I like this one anyway - and that is not vanity speaking, because art and text are both by Leo.