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Helen and Paris
That wall of stone
Title page, The Defence of Guenevere
11. Seal of Gusion.
Front Cover
Jesus and Moses
145.—Leading a Horse
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green
Foliated initial capital letter S, coloured
Oval frame, scalloped
Tailpiece with peacock
Sir Isaac Newton
Front Cover With Alice
Foliated Initial Letter S
Tailpiece of hunting paraphernalia
53.8.—IHS
Convolvulus Tricolor
70.—Border of cherubs climbing in trees
Classical full-page border with goddess
Dark Passion Flowers
Simon de Montfort: Knight on his Horse
Buckingham Palace
Heralds’ College
Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version
Indian Civet, Fossa, Genet
The old tollbooth in Canongate, Edinburgh
The Cow Doctor
Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue
Vintage endpaper border with flowering vine
Gold endpaper
Mephistophiles
clipart: initial letter S from late 15th century printed book
Faust, detail from title page
Faust
Thought Icon
Full-page border with hearts and moons
Frontispiece: A bride’s dream
On the Terrace
Usk Bridge
Floriated initial capital letter  “S”
Usk Bridge, Monmouth, Coloured from aon old painting
733.—Oxford Cathedral.
Mount Edgcombe
Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves
Our Father Who Art In Heaven
clipart: initial letter P from late 15th century printed book
clipart: initial letter O from late 15th century printed book
The Magical Circle of King Solomon
Fig 36. — A staircase of the catacombs
Fig. 37. — Tunnel in the Catacombs of Rome
One Bay of the “Angel Choir,” Interior, Lincoln Cathedral
Scrollwork Border from page 227
Initial letter I with Transitional Capital
Title Page
Portrait of Ebeneezer Sibly, M.D>, F.R.H.S.
Names of Angels and Days (overview)
Front Cover
The white horse carried the earth king’s son and the princess over the sea
Her mirror was the smooth water of the tide pool
2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.
Front Cover
Franciscan Monk Going Down Staircase
God and my Divine Right: Royal Crest
Portrait of King Henry the Eighth
Endpaper: gold leaf with central British royal coat of arms
An Egyptian Priest and Scribe
An Owl in the Pope’s Council
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White
Wooden Church, Greenstead, Essex, A.D. 1013 (as it was in 1748)
A Display of Manuscripts on Reading Desks.
Title Page
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter R from XIV. Century  No. 1
Summary of the Law, in gold
A genteel wheelchair in Paris
Cherub with grin and cloven hoofs
The Virgin Mary
Plate XXIV.—Knowledge Is Power
Front Cover, Art of Decorative Design
Plate XIV—Chinese Dragon
Free clip-art: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels
Fig. 86.—Curves.
Title Page
Plate XVIII.—Stylized Chinese Dragon
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown
And then began a murder, grim and great
Gibeon
Cupid with a Butterfly
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter B from XIV. Century  No. 1
December Night (Dezembernacht)
The Irmin Column in the Cathedral of Hildesheim
Taymouth Castle
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter N from XIV. Century  No. 1
Rustic postcard border of interleaved twigs and vines
Old Bologna (1850s)
Isaak Newton [Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton]
Free clip-art: Victorian border of brown twigs and green leaves
Initial letter V with a mermaid
Battle in the Sacred Linden Groves
Front Cover, Bohemia Part Two
Decorative initial (drop cap) D
Title Page, Bohemia Part Two
Battle of Knights
Full-page border of repeated vine leaves
Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border
Votivkirche, Vienna
Avenue of Sighs
Christmas Still Life
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter D from XIV. Century  No. 1
The Seranade
A schoolroom in Tunisia
Llanthony Priory, Valley of the Honddu
Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)
Adrift from The Snow Queen
Dark brown fantasy watercolour border
The giants tore up trees
Early Victorian Border from Book Cover
initial letter R with small girl
Leicester Hospital, Warwick
Scheuerfest - Spring Cleaning
[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia
Banner with ribbons and Snitch
Title Page
Mellon’s Baby Food with baby and roses
Victorian vine-leaf page border
Monroe Colliery Co.
Land of the Semites. Desert and Caravan.

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