Items matching pictures of books (results page 1)

book cover The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Showing the binding with intricate gold tooling.

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Added: 2004-08-01

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Front Cover Farm Weeds (1906)

The illustration is Lesser Burdock, which is also shown in Plate 27. The text reads, Farm Weeds, Department of Agriculture, Canada, 1906.

Keywords: flowers, page images, colour, book covers, pictures of books, wild flowers, weeds

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Added: 2006-01-14

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Photograph of the Book Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (1870)

A photograph of the “Picturesque Views” book showing the red moroccan leather cover and the gold tooling. In the background are some other antique books, and a brown leather-bound antiquarian book fr [...]

Keywords: pictures of books, books, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

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Added: 2007-06-10

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fore-edge The Holy Court (1663)

The fore-edge of the book: you’re looking at the front of the book, the opposite to the spine. It is marbled, a decoration that also served to seal the edges of the pages so that the book can be duste [...]

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Added: 2012-05-14

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Holy Court Book decorated leather spine The Holy Court (1663)

It’s an antique! This leather-bound book was produced in 1663, although it has for sure been rebound more than once in the meantime. Here is the spine of the book, with gold lettering and tooled deco [...]

Keywords: book covers, spines, lettering, colour, pictures of books, books

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Added: 2011-01-30

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Hoy Court leather-bound spine gold decorations The Holy Court (1663)

Detail from the spine of the book (the back edge with the writing on it): I collected the five hand-tooled gold decorations together.

Keywords: ornament, decoration, book covers, colour, pictures of books

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Added: 2011-01-30

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Back cover Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900)

The back cover of this bound collection of Jugend magazine for 1900 shoes a bearded man resting his arms on a large closed book. Perhaps it’s Jugend and he just finished reading it. The red garland at [...]

Keywords: book covers, pictures of books, people, beards, colour

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Added: 2012-05-23

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Front Cover Travels In The Far East (1909)

The front cover of the book is green and gold. The countries listed are Egypt, India, Burma, Ceylon, Java, Siam, China, Manchuria and Korea.

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Added: 2005-03-04

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Front Cover Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century (1929)

The front cover of the book.

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Added: 2005-07-08

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Frontispiece Curiosities of the Church: Studies of Curious Customs, Services and Records (1891)

Chained Bible in Cumnor Church

Keywords: books, old books, pictures of books, greyscale

Places shown: Cumnor; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-01-17

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The Book Cover Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

The cover of the book is red and black with gold foil.

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Added: 2005-06-14

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Front Cover, Sibly Astrology Book Astrology (1806)

This two-volume 1810 book on the Occult Sciences (astrology) is bound in leather.

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Added: 2006-07-11

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