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	<title>Words and Pictures From Old Books</title>
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	<description>Recently added pictures scanned from old books</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	    <title>Words and Pictures From Old Books</title>
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	    <title>Presented with the passport, from A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1885), added on 3rd Sept 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/pages/147a-presented-with-the-passport/</link>
	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/pages/147a-presented-with-the-passport/"&gt;&lt;img
      src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/tn/147a-presented-with-the-passport-q85-500x313.jpg" width="120" height="75"
      alt="Presented with the passport"
      title="Presented with the passport, from A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1885), added on 3rd Sept 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="extract"&gt;&lt;p&gt;the Count de B—— entered, with my passport in his hand. (p. 147)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;Two men, dressed in eighteenth-century costume, with wigs and ruffs and frilly cuffs and silk stockings, stand in a room with ornate French furiture (including chairs and a writing-desk); one man, with embroidery on his jacket, is holding out a piece of paper to the other: the passport.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sterne-SentimentalJourney/pages/147a-presented-with-the-passport/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>Victorian book with border, open, from above, from Pictures of old books (2003), added on 2nd Sept 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/pages/img%5f8011-looking-down-on-book/</link>
	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/pages/img_8011-looking-down-on-book/"&gt;&lt;img
      src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/tn/img_8011-looking-down-on-book-q90-500x333.jpg" width="119" height="79"
      alt="Victorian book with border, open, from above"
      title="Victorian book with border, open, from above, from Pictures of old books (2003), added on 2nd Sept 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I took a photograph of this Victorian book (1860) looking almost straight down from above; I have taken away the background, but kept the shadows.  You could easily remove the text from th right-hand page and replace it. The book is also featured &lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; together with some of the Victorian borders and mediaeval initials therein.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/pages/img%5f8011-looking-down-on-book/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>Victorian book on leather couch, from Pictures of old books (2003), added on 1st Sept 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/pages/img%5f8014-book-on-chair/</link>
	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/pages/img_8014-book-on-chair/"&gt;&lt;img
      src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/tn/img_8014-book-on-chair-q90-500x313.jpg" width="120" height="75"
      alt="Victorian book on leather couch"
      title="Victorian book on leather couch, from Pictures of old books (2003), added on 1st Sept 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A large, thick Victorian book with an ornate gilt binding lies closed on a leather couch; in the background, wooden floorboards give a warm glow in the evening sunlight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/pages/img%5f8014-book-on-chair/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>Open Book with Victorian Border and Blank Page, from Pictures of old books (2003), added on 28th Aug 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/pages/img%5f8008-open-book-with-blanked-page/</link>
	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/pages/img_8008-open-book-with-blanked-page/"&gt;&lt;img
      src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/tn/img_8008-open-book-with-blanked-page-q90-500x317.jpg" width="120" height="76"
      alt="Open Book with Victorian Border and Blank Page"
      title="Open Book with Victorian Border and Blank Page, from Pictures of old books (2003), added on 28th Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Victorian picture-book open to a page with a red floral border on old yellow paper; I have blanked out the text on the page so that you can put your own text in there. (Hint: GIMP users can use the Perspetive Tool, e.g. in "reverse corrective mode", to make a text layer look like it was printed on the page).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The 1860s book has a Web page where you can see some more of the borders: &lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/"&gt;Tymms Illuminating...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/pages/img%5f8008-open-book-with-blanked-page/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>1251.---Storming a Fort. (Haeleian M.S. 4379.), from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 24th Aug 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/1251-Storming-a-Fort/</link>
	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/1251-Storming-a-Fort/"&gt;&lt;img
      src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/tn/1251-Storming-a-Fort-q75-500x435.jpg" width="120" height="104"
      alt="1251.&amp;#x2014;Storming a Fort. (Haeleian M.S. 4379.)"
      title="1251.&amp;#x2014;Storming a Fort. (Haeleian M.S. 4379.), from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 24th Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="extract"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Afew words by way of appendage to this part of our subject may here be devoted to the subject of our engravings, representing the storming of a fort (Fig. 1251), the siege of a town (Fig. 1252), and the chief machines used on such occasions, namely, the breaching and the moveable towers (Figs. 1253 and 1274).  Cannon we see were now in constan use.  The art of attacking fortified places was greatly advanced by the english during the period under review [1389&amp;#160;&amp;#x2013; 1485], as the French found to their cost when Henry V. was among them.  Every town that he attacked he took; a fact that forms a striking conrtast to the state of things but a few years before, when, for instance, Edward III. was kept for a whole twelvemonth before Calais, wasting his resources and losing his temper.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/1251-Storming-a-Fort/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>1315.---Weston Church., from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 23rd Aug 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/1315-Weston-Church/</link>
	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/1315-Weston-Church/"&gt;&lt;img
      src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/tn/1315-Weston-Church-q87-500x313.jpg" width="120" height="75"
      alt="1315.&amp;#x2014;Weston Church."
      title="1315.&amp;#x2014;Weston Church., from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 23rd Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An English village church, with an unusually short tower. Probably the building shown here dates from the fourteenth and fifteenth cenuries; it was extensively restored in the 1890s, some fifty or more years after this engraving was published, and looks a little different today.  Or maybe I have not found the right place. Outside the church, in the foreground, is a funeral. The vicar is reading the burial service, and a group of mourners stands around the freshly-dug grave, dressed in black. A child stands nearer, perhaps having lost a parent or sibling. The engraving is signed Jackson.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/1315-Weston-Church/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>1250.---Archers. (From various MSS. of the 14th Century.), from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 22nd Aug 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/1250-Archers-14th-century/</link>
	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/1250-Archers-14th-century/"&gt;&lt;img
      src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/tn/1250-Archers-14th-century-q85-500x375.jpg" width="120" height="90"
      alt="1250.&amp;#x2014;Archers. (From various MSS. of the 14th Century.)"
      title="1250.&amp;#x2014;Archers. (From various MSS. of the 14th Century.), from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 22nd Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Three archers, or bowmen, pose for us: the leftmost carries a bow and a shield, or possible a quiver, slung around his waist and hanging at his right hip; the middle archer has a sword and a bow,; the rightmost archer carries a longbow, and wears a metal helmet and shirt.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/1250-Archers-14th-century/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>Art Nouveau Ornament 2, from Sheet Music and Covers (1910), added on 20th Aug 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-SheetMusic/pages/MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-detail-2-ornament/</link>
	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-SheetMusic/pages/MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-detail-2-ornament/"&gt;&lt;img
      src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Various-SheetMusic/tn/MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-detail-2-ornament-q91-500x302.jpg" width="119" height="72"
      alt="Art Nouveau Ornament 2"
      title="Art Nouveau Ornament 2, from Sheet Music and Covers (1910), added on 20th Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Another typographic ornament from the &lt;a href="MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-cover"&gt;cover page&lt;/a&gt; of &amp;#x201C;Country Life&amp;#x201D; by Ernest Newton.  It was originally printed in the same blue as the &lt;a href="MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-art-nouveau-border"&gt;decorative page border&lt;/a&gt;, which is in the Art Nouveau style.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-SheetMusic/pages/MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-detail-2-ornament/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>Art Nouveau Ornament 1, from Sheet Music and Covers (1910), added on 20th Aug 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-SheetMusic/pages/MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-detail-1-ornament/</link>
	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-SheetMusic/pages/MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-detail-1-ornament/"&gt;&lt;img
      src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Various-SheetMusic/tn/MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-detail-1-ornament-q90-290x500.jpg" width="119" height="206"
      alt="Art Nouveau Ornament 1"
      title="Art Nouveau Ornament 1, from Sheet Music and Covers (1910), added on 20th Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A typographic ornament from the &lt;a href="MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-cover"&gt;cover page&lt;/a&gt; of &amp;#x201C;Country Life&amp;#x201D; by Ernest Newton.  It was originally printed in the same blue as the &lt;a href="MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-art-nouveau-border"&gt;decorative page border&lt;/a&gt;, which is in the Art Nouveau style.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-SheetMusic/pages/MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-detail-1-ornament/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>104. Dutch Ceramic Tiles, from The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915), added on 19th Aug 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/pages/104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles/</link>
	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/pages/104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles/"&gt;&lt;img
      src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/tn/104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles-q80-360x500.jpg" width="120" height="166"
      alt="104. Dutch Ceramic Tiles"
      title="104. Dutch Ceramic Tiles, from The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915), added on 19th Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A collage made of Dutch &amp;#x201C;Delftware&amp;#x201D; ceramic tiles, probably from the eighteenth century. I have also made separate low-resolution 500-pixel images of the individual tiles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/pages/104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>Dutch Delft ceramic tile 23, from The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915), added on 19th Aug 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/pages/104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles-tile-23/</link>
	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/pages/104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles-tile-23/"&gt;&lt;img
      src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/tn/104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles-tile-23-500x500.jpg" width="120" height="120"
      alt="Dutch Delft ceramic tile 23"
      title="Dutch Delft ceramic tile 23, from The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915), added on 19th Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This small tile picture shows a person, perhaps a young man, standing up, holding a cane in one hand; he wears a har and stockings, and carries a sword at his left side.  There are fleur-de-lys signs in the corners of the tile. It is taken from &lt;a href="104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles"&gt;plate 104, Dutch ceramic tiles&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/pages/104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles-tile-23/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>Dutch Delft ceramic tile 35, from The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915), added on 19th Aug 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/pages/104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles-tile-35/</link>
	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/pages/104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles-tile-35/"&gt;&lt;img
      src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/tn/104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles-tile-35-500x500.jpg" width="120" height="120"
      alt="Dutch Delft ceramic tile 35"
      title="Dutch Delft ceramic tile 35, from The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915), added on 19th Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This small tile picture has part of a rococo-style border, and a smal laurel wreath. It is taken from &lt;a href="104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles"&gt;plate 104, Dutch ceramic tiles&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Speltz-HistoryOfOrnament/pages/104-Dutch-ceramic-tiles-tile-35/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>Music Cover: Country Life by Ernest Newton, from Sheet Music and Covers (1910), added on 17th Aug 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-SheetMusic/pages/MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-cover/</link>
	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-SheetMusic/pages/MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-cover/"&gt;&lt;img
      src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Various-SheetMusic/tn/MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-cover-q85-353x500.jpg" width="119" height="169"
      alt="Music Cover: Country Life by Ernest Newton"
      title="Music Cover: Country Life by Ernest Newton, from Sheet Music and Covers (1910), added on 17th Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The cover of &amp;#x201C;Country Life&amp;#x201D; by Ernest Newton. Shet music, such as for a piano and singer, has for many years been published with the title page on the front cover; this is because it is most convenient to play sheet music from a double-page spread, so the music starts inside the front cover.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-art-nouveau-border"&gt;decorative border&lt;/a&gt; is also available as a separate image.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-SheetMusic/pages/MusicCovers-Newton-CountryLife-cover/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>To The Reader: guide to reading early modern music, from Geneva Bible Scans (1581), added on 15th Aug 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Geneva/pages/Psalms-Hopkins-1581-000-obverse/</link>
	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Geneva/pages/Psalms-Hopkins-1581-000-obverse/"&gt;&lt;img
      src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/Geneva/tn/Psalms-Hopkins-1581-000-obverse-q85-374x500.jpg" width="120" height="160"
      alt="To The Reader: guide to reading early modern music"
      title="To The Reader: guide to reading early modern music, from Geneva Bible Scans (1581), added on 15th Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is printed on the back of the title page of the Psalms, from 1581. It shows two staves with different clefs and the nmes of the notes that were in use in the sixteenth century (Ut, Re, My, Fa, So, La, etc.).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Geneva/pages/Psalms-Hopkins-1581-000-obverse/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>Caerphilly Castle from the South., from Castles (1926), added on 13th Aug 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/pages/176-Caerphilly-Castle-from-the-south/</link>
	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/pages/176-Caerphilly-Castle-from-the-south/"&gt;&lt;img
      src="http://tn.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/tn/176-Caerphilly-Castle-from-the-south-q90-500x313.jpg" width="120" height="75"
      alt="Caerphilly Castle from the South."
      title="Caerphilly Castle from the South., from Castles (1926), added on 13th Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="extract"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Caerphilly&lt;/b&gt;&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This is one of the largest, the most imposinng, and the most scientifically constructed castle in all Wales.  It must also have been one of the most striking in situation, so long as its great lake encircled it, and its vast towers seemed to rise directly from the water. (p. 176)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;The castle was built in 1267.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/pages/176-Caerphilly-Castle-from-the-south/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	    <title>A Siege of the Fifteenth Century, from Castles (1926), added on 13th Aug 2010</title>
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	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/pages/000-Frontispiece-siege-fifteenth-century/"&gt;&lt;img
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      alt="A Siege of the Fifteenth Century"
      title="A Siege of the Fifteenth Century, from Castles (1926), added on 13th Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="extract"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;From a manuscript belonging to EdwardIV., now in Sir John Soan&amp;#x2019;s Museum.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The [castle] walls, having ben breached by the artillery, are being stormed through the breaches; the stormers are covered by the fire of hand-gun-men, crossbowmen and archers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/OmanCastles/pages/000-Frontispiece-siege-fifteenth-century/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>The Mastiff, from Wood Engravings by Thomas Bewick (1947), added on 12th Aug 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ThomasBewick-WoodEngravings/pages/35-the-mastiff/</link>
	    <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ThomasBewick-WoodEngravings/pages/35-the-mastiff/"&gt;&lt;img
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      alt="The Mastiff"
      title="The Mastiff, from Wood Engravings by Thomas Bewick (1947), added on 12th Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A male mastiff stands with tail curled upwards; in the background, many other dogs are playing (and fighting); beyond them we see farm buildings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ThomasBewick-WoodEngravings/pages/35-the-mastiff/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>Chester Cathedral Tower from St. John's Street, from The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875), added on 12th Aug 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/pages/085-Cathedral-Tower-from-St-Johns-Street/</link>
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      alt="Chester Cathedral Tower from St. John&amp;#x2019;s Street"
      title="Chester Cathedral Tower from St. John&amp;#x2019;s Street, from The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875), added on 12th Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A narrow cobbled street with black-and-white half-timbered buildings, an overhanging turret with a percariously-mounted lamp, a heavily-laden cart pulled by two horses, and in the background, with birds wheeling about it, the tower of Chester cathedral. Perhaps this street had not changed so very much in several hundred years.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This image might look well on a christmas card, or to illustrate a story by Charles Dickens or some other eighteenth (or even earlier) writer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/pages/085-Cathedral-Tower-from-St-Johns-Street/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
	    <author>liam&#64;holoweb.net (Liam Quin)</author>
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	    <title>Decorative initial ``L'' with wild flowers and weeds, from The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875), added on 11th Aug 2010</title>
	    <link>http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/pages/104-initial-letter-l-thistle/</link>
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      title="Decorative initial &amp;#x201C;L&amp;#x201D; with wild flowers and weeds, from The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875), added on 11th Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A decorative initial capital letter &amp;#x201C;L&amp;#x201D; used at the start of a chapter. This one featuers thistles, clover (or shamrock), and a flower that could be a daisy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/pages/104-initial-letter-l-thistle/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	    <title>Chapter-head: Greek or Egyptian Frieze, from The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875), added on 11th Aug 2010</title>
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      title="Chapter-head: Greek or Egyptian Frieze, from The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875), added on 11th Aug 2010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This Victorian border, ornament or frieze is in the style of a frieze from a classical Greek temple, a style that was also imitated in Roman and (later) Egyptian decoration. It was printed above the start of chapter 8 in the book&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The design is strong and bold, and would benefit well from being colourd.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Howson-RiverDee/pages/104-chapterhead-border/"&gt;(read more...)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
	    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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