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Front Cover Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

The book has been bound in an older (printed) music manuscript.

The book did not fit on my older scanner, but now I am able to show the entire cover.

Keywords: page images, book covers, music, colour, typography, lettering, book covers

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Added: 2006-03-15

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Title Page Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

The title page has been printed in two colours, and includes an ornate decorative border, which I also made available as separate images in green-brown (most like the original), black (easiest to re-u [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour, typography

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Added: 2009-03-07

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Printer’s Flower from Title Page Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

Ths ornament is on the title page.

Keywords: ornaments, typography, greyscale

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Added: 2009-03-07

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typographic ornament: rosette The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

A decorative rosette of oak leaves in a circle, used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book. full title page - detail: the decorative rosette - detail: the right-pointing flower - det [...]

Keywords: ornaments, flowers, typography, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-17

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typographic ornament: flower pointing right The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

A calligraphic flower (a sort of predecessor to a printer’s flower) used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book. full title page - detail: the decorative rosette - detail: the right-p [...]

Keywords: ornaments, typography, flowers, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-17

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typographic ornament: flower pointing left The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

A calligraphic flower (a sort of predecessor to a printer’s flower) used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book. full title page - detail: the decorative rosette - detail: the right-p [...]

Keywords: ornaments, flowers, typography, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-17

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Front Cover with Gryphon Spécimen Album (1900)

The front cover of this typeface and engraving specimen features a gryphon (griffin) in gold, standing on the catalogue...

I also made a black and gold Victorian Goth version of this cover.

Keywords: book covers, mythical creatures, typography, colour

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Added: 2012-04-25

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Title Page from Peck’s Desiderata Desiderata (1779)

The title page from this collection of random fascinating articles by Fracis Peck in 1779. I have left it in colour to give a feel for the yellowed paper. The book is over twelve by nine inches in siz [...]

Keywords: title pages, typography, page images, colour

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Added: 2012-06-03

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half-title Oratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

Keywords: page images, alphabets, typography, colour

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Added: 2000-09-18

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1.—Alphabet After Serlio, Reconstructed by Albert R. Ross. Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

Constructed capitals: diagram showing how to draw letters with rulers and compasses against a grid. “An excellent model for constructing the Roman capitals in a standard form will be found in the beau [...]

Keywords: alphabets, lettering, typography, greyscale

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Added: 2006-02-22

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2.—Alphabet After Serlio. Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

See the notes for Fig. 1 for this figure. I have also split out the individual letters.

The alphabet is (by modern standards) incomplete; for J and U you will have to use I and V, and for W use VV.

Keywords: alphabets, lettering, typography, greyscale

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Added: 2006-02-22

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4.—9th Century. From an Anglo-Saxon MS. Battel Abbey. Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

Today called Battle Abbey. Someone made a font from a Dover reprint of this alphabet—Rob Anderson, I think. There is no coyright statement on the font, which was probably originally a PostScript Type [...]

Keywords: initials, alphabets, lettering, fonts, typography, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-03

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