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Gold endpaper
Thought Icon
Faust
11. Seal of Gusion.
Mephistophiles
Faust, detail from title page
Frontispiece: A bride’s dream
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green
On the Terrace
Usk Bridge, Monmouth, Coloured from aon old painting
Usk Bridge
Sir Isaac Newton
733.—Oxford Cathedral.
Mount Edgcombe
Our Father Who Art In Heaven
53.8.—IHS
clipart: initial letter P from late 15th century printed book
clipart: initial letter O from late 15th century printed book
Fig. 37. — Tunnel in the Catacombs of Rome
Dark Passion Flowers
Fig 36. — A staircase of the catacombs
One Bay of the “Angel Choir,” Interior, Lincoln Cathedral
Initial letter I with Transitional Capital
Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version
Title Page
Portrait of Ebeneezer Sibly, M.D>, F.R.H.S.
Her mirror was the smooth water of the tide pool
Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue
The white horse carried the earth king’s son and the princess over the sea
Front Cover
Front Cover
clipart: initial letter S from late 15th century printed book
Franciscan Monk Going Down Staircase
God and my Divine Right: Royal Crest
Endpaper: gold leaf with central British royal coat of arms
Full-page border with hearts and moons
An Egyptian Priest and Scribe
An Owl in the Pope’s Council
Wooden Church, Greenstead, Essex, A.D. 1013 (as it was in 1748)
Floriated initial capital letter  “S”
A Display of Manuscripts on Reading Desks.
Title Page
Summary of the Law, in gold
Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves
A genteel wheelchair in Paris
Cherub with grin and cloven hoofs
Plate XIV—Chinese Dragon
The Magical Circle of King Solomon
Title Page
Plate XXIV.—Knowledge Is Power
Plate XVIII.—Stylized Chinese Dragon
Scrollwork Border from page 227
Front Cover, Art of Decorative Design
Fig. 86.—Curves.
And then began a murder, grim and great
Names of Angels and Days (overview)
Gibeon
Cupid with a Butterfly
December Night (Dezembernacht)
2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.
The Irmin Column in the Cathedral of Hildesheim
Taymouth Castle
Rustic postcard border of interleaved twigs and vines
Portrait of King Henry the Eighth
Old Bologna (1850s)
Isaak Newton [Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton]
Initial letter V with a mermaid
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White
Battle in the Sacred Linden Groves
Title Page, Bohemia Part Two
Front Cover, Bohemia Part Two
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter R from XIV. Century  No. 1
Battle of Knights
Full-page border of repeated vine leaves
Votivkirche, Vienna
The Virgin Mary
Avenue of Sighs
Christmas Still Life
The Seranade
Free clip-art: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels
A schoolroom in Tunisia
Llanthony Priory, Valley of the Honddu
Adrift from The Snow Queen
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown
Dark brown fantasy watercolour border
initial letter R with small girl
The giants tore up trees
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter B from XIV. Century  No. 1
Leicester Hospital, Warwick
Scheuerfest - Spring Cleaning
Banner with ribbons and Snitch
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter N from XIV. Century  No. 1
Title Page
Monroe Colliery Co.
Mellon’s Baby Food with baby and roses
Free clip-art: Victorian border of brown twigs and green leaves
Rustic floral border with trellis and grapevines
Front Cover
Land of the Semites. Desert and Caravan.
Decorative initial (drop cap) D
Chaldee Woman
Peasant Girl of Pays de Vaud—Type.
Cheerful full-page vintage colour border
Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border
Cheerful double-page spread vintage colour border
Engraving of smiling urchin boy carrying sack and vegetables
Nazareth, Palestine
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter D from XIV. Century  No. 1
Klara Küry as Maya in The Greek Slave
Full-page border with roses, black and white
The thoughts of my spirit seek you
Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)
Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam
A Reminiscence
Ornate Victorian Border
Early Victorian Border from Book Cover
Banner, or Banderole
Christmas Mass
Choirboy singing from balcony pulpit
[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia
Auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt (At Christmasfest)
Cherub playing a grand piano
Seal of Coin of Libra
Seal of Coin of Libra (Obverse)

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