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

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