Vintage Problems

I have a small collection of old chess books, and I was recently going through one called "The Chess Problem, Text-Book With Illustrations." I have the 1899 1st edition copy, but it was originally published in 1887 and mainly consists of difficult mating puzzles. I was really impressed by the quality of the positions and that back in the 1800s, without any software like Chessbase or Lichess to engine check their solutions, people were coming up with original and aesthetic puzzles. I was also surprised to see that the book is quite unknown. When searching for it online, there were very few results, but I did manage to find This Page which has the full book in PDF form. I also wanted to check how well-known the actual puzzles were, so I checked on Chessbase's online engine feature, where you can see how many times a position has been viewed by other users, and for all the positions I put in, there was only 1 visit, which was me.

Here are some nice examples from the book, mate in 2, 3 and 4.