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![[picture: The Book Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SchwabSagen/tn/000-cover-q67-356x500.jpg "[picture: The Book Cover]")
Images from Die schönsten Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (the most beautiful legends of classical antiquity) by Gustav Schwab, 1888.
At least part of this book seems to be online at www.sagen.at. If you don’t speak read German, you can enter the URL into the Google search bar and get a machine translation of the pages.
Title: Sagen des Klassischen Altertums
Published by: J. M. Gebhardt's Berlag
City: Leipzig
Date: 1882
Total items: 10
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Crumbling elegance: floriated tailpiece with criblé background]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SchwabSagen/wm/big/101-tailpiece-q75-320x200.jpg "[picture: Crumbling elegance: floriated tailpiece with criblé background]")
Crumbling elegance: floriated tailpiece with criblé background
This typographic decoration was printed as a tail-piece at the end of a chapter. The stippled white dots on a black background are called a criblé effect; this style was popular in the sixteenth century, and it’s possible that the wood-engraving for this ornament was old, although more likely it’s a nineteenth-century German copy. It has vine leaves and a [...] [more...]
[$]![[picture: The Book Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SchwabSagen/wm/big/000-cover-q67-142x200.jpg "[picture: The Book Cover]")
![[picture: Chapterhead with urns and winged lions]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SchwabSagen/wm/big/101-chapterhead-cleaned-q85-1418x200.jpg "[picture: Chapterhead with urns and winged lions]")
Chapterhead with urns and winged lions
This chapterhead piece features winged lions (griffins, or gryphons), leaves and vines, and a central device that might be suggestive of a Medusa figure. It was used at the [...] [more...]
[$]![[picture: The title page]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SchwabSagen/wm/big/000-title-page-q75-137x200.jpg "[picture: The title page]")
Images from Die schönsten Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (the most beautiful legends of classical antiquity) by Gustav Schwab, 1888.
At least part of this book seems to be online at www.sagen.at. If you don’t speak read German, you can enter the URL into the Google search bar and get a machine translation of the pages.
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![[picture: Perseus und Andromeda.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SchwabSagen/wm/big/001-frontispiece-Perseus-and-Andromeda-q75-123x200.jpg "[picture: Perseus und Andromeda.]")
