Items matching heraldry (results page 1)

Dragon! Geneva Bible Scans (1581)

An heraldic dragon from the Geneva Bible New Testament Title Page.

Keywords: dragons, heraldry, mythical creatures, greyscale

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Added: 2012-06-17

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Title page detail: heraldic scrollwork Geneva Bible Scans (1581)

The concordance title page includes this cartouche with a boar’s head (rather like a chess-piece, on a crowned brick base, formally a “mural crown”) with a scroll coming from its mouth and at the bott [...]

Keywords: borders, inscriptions, heraldry, sheep, greyscale

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Added: 2012-06-18

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Red Dragon! Geneva Bible Scans (1581)

An heraldic dragon from the Geneva Bible New Testament Title Page. I coloured this one a nice bright red. You could also start with the black-and-white dragon picture and use the Colour tab to get a r [...]

Keywords: dragons, heraldry, mythical creatures, wings, colour

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Added: 2012-06-19

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Bookplate with Crest The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

This bookplate seems to have had the owner’s name cut off, perhaps when the book was sold. It features an heraldic crest with a fleur-de-lys and a chief ermine in a bearing with a lion en passant (or [...]

Keywords: bookplates, heraldry, colour

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Added: 2011-10-09

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Bookplate (ex libris) from Volume III The Antiquities of England and Wales (Vol III) (1783)

A bookplate (ex libris) from inside the front cover of Volume III of Grose’s Antiquities. People who collected books would often have these printed onto labels that they would paste inside the covers [...]

Keywords: bookplates, heraldry, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-14

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Bookplate (ex libris) from Volume III, colour version The Antiquities of England and Wales (Vol III) (1783)

This is a lower-resolution scan of the bookplage.

Keywords: bookplates, colour, heraldry

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Added: 2007-05-14

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Bookplate from Leland’s Itinerary Vol I The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary (1745)

My copy has this book-plate (ex libris) pasted inside the front cover. It has a family crest with the motto “Pour Y Parvenir” (just do it) and the name Louisa Julia Manners beneath it. This is the cre [...]

Keywords: bookplates, heraldry, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-20

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Victorian floral border from title page National Portrait Gallery, The (1888)

The title page of “National Portrait Gallery” is surrounded by this ornate and intricate floral border. The border contains four inset designs: the three lions of England, the rampant lion (i.e. side [...]

Keywords: borders, heraldry, victoriana, decorative elements, greyscale

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Added: 2010-07-28

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Two Bookplates The Life Of Anthony à Wood (1772)

Two bookplates, one seeming older than the other: Ex Libris Jack Norris And, probably older, one with an heraldc shield Azure on a chevron enshrined between three Unicorns’ hads erased or, three cresc [...]

Keywords: bookplates, colour, heraldry

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Added: 2012-10-20

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Bookplate detail: family crest The Holy Court (1663)

The coat of arms from the bookplate. it is surmounted by a dragon’s head, and there is a bird, perhaps a falcon, in the coat of arms itself. This is a detail from the Bookplate image.

Keywords: bookplates, heraldry, dragons, greyscale

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Added: 2007-06-21

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Bookplate, R. B. Colvin Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

It seems that my copy of this book once belonged to one B. B. Colvin, probably Beale Blackwell Colvin (1809 – 1865), of Monkham’s Hall, Waltham, Essex; he was the high sheriff of Essex in 1848. The mo [...]

Keywords: bookplates, heraldry, colour

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Added: 2011-08-15

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Heraldic chapter head The New World (1671)

This woodcut was at the start of a chapter. It features two mermen, I think ,holding a shield bearing an armorial crest.

Keywords: chapterheads, ornaments, heraldry, greyscale

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Added: 2008-04-16

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