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The giants tore up trees
Dark brown fantasy watercolour border
Adrift from The Snow Queen
11. Seal of Gusion.
initial letter R with small girl
Leicester Hospital, Warwick
Shuerfest - stubborn stains
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green
Title Page
Monroe Colliery Co.
Banner with ribbons and Snitch
Sir Isaac Newton
Mellon’s Baby Food with baby and roses
Chaldee Woman
Land of the Semites. Desert and Caravan.
53.8.—IHS
Front Cover
Rustic floral border with trellis and grapevines
Cheerful double-page spread vintage colour border
Cheerful full-page vintage colour border
Engraving of smiling urchin boy carrying sack and vegetables
Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version
Nazareth, Palestine
Klara Küry as Maya in The Greek Slave
Full-page border with roses, black and white
Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue
The thoughts of my spirit seek you
Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam
A Reminiscence
clipart: initial letter S from late 15th century printed book
Cherub playing a grand piano
Choirboy singing from balcony pulpit
Christmas Mass
Full-page border with hearts and moons
Ornate Victorian Border
Seal of Coin of Libra
Seal of Coin of Libra (Obverse)
Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves
Seal of Coin of Leo (obverse)
Seal of Coin of Leo
Vorfrühling - Early Spring
Gods of our Saxon Ancestors.
Title Page, Error’s Chains
Ancient Druidic Worship at Stonehenge, England
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White
Front Cover
Front Cover, Morris, Picturesque Views
Frontispiece: Alnwick Castle
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter R from XIV. Century  No. 1
Cholmondeley Castle
Skeleton sitting on a tree stump and waving, from 18th century engraving
Title Page, Osteographia
The Virgin Mary
Deer Skeleton from 18th century engraving
My Dearest Child (My Love)
Angel of the New year
Free clip-art: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels
Saint Bonaventura as a Monk
Vignette: crucifix with skull and prayer book or bible
Summer Evening
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown
Sir Christopher Hatton
Atrolabe: scientist and boy
Full-page border with bird, flowers, ivy
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter B from XIV. Century  No. 1
Collection of alms at the funeral of don Álvaro de Luna
Eagle Tower, Caernarfon
They Crossed the Delaware in Safety
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter N from XIV. Century  No. 1
The figures of the Divine Letters
William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke
Corner Bookcase Ornament
Free clip-art: Victorian border of brown twigs and green leaves
The Blizzard in America; Dead Boy in the Snow
Choral Recital with the organ
Front Cover, Le Musée Artistique et Littéraire
Decorative initial (drop cap) D
Cartouche With Cherubs
Full-page portrait border with nameplate space
Monseigneur Dabart, bishop of Périgueux and of Sarlat.
Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border
Golden Sunday
German Coaching Inn
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter D from XIV. Century  No. 1
Fountains Abbey
Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)
Title Page, Old England
Front Cover
Mr. Edison’s New Phonograph
John Bunyan’s Cottage
Colophon with full-page border
[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia
The Rain Fairy
Front Cover, The SUn’s Babies
When She Saw Tinyboy she hid her face shyly in her curls
Victorian vine-leaf page border
Frontispiece: Why has your tree no flowers while ours are pink?

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