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Front cover The front cover; the book is bound in plain buckram, with a cute design on the front of a gnome or pixie curled up reading a book, done in red and black with goild [...]detail of front cover. [more...] |
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Front Cover detail: jester reading a book A man in a red jester’s mediaeval outfit reads a book. At first I thought he was a gnome or pixie, but in fact a jester is more appropriate for the cover of this humorous book! [more...] |
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Title Page Bill Nye’s History of England [more...] |
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Title page detail: Scholarly King In this detail from the title page, a king (wearing a crown) sits at a table with a pen and an open book, and is also consulting a dictionary. He sratches his head, obviously baffled. [more...] |
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Bust of Cæsar. Cæsar (Caesar) here has a laurel wreath, a long nose and a rather unhappy face. |
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The Discovery of Tin in Britain A cartoon illustrating how the Romans discovered that Britain had... er... tin. |
