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Indra, God of Atmosphere
The Keep, Walmer
Title Page
11. Seal of Gusion.
The Stocks. Monkton
Niccolò Paganini on the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death
The Engraver
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green
The Painter
The Novel
Front cover in red and gold
Sir Isaac Newton
The Counsel (a Scotch Terrier)
Frontispiece: Don’t Cry
Tortured with feet to the fire
53.8.—IHS
Zeus and Europa
Poppies and Tiger Lillies
Menu Card 1: Court Jester
Dark Passion Flowers
Menu Card 3: Celler Master
Menu Card 2: Chef
Menu Card 4: Waitress
Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version
Initial Letter I With Art Nouveau Swirls
Venus danced for Apollo
Chapterhead with Boy’s Head
Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue
Sacrificial Rites of the Ancient British Druids
English Manufacturing
Helen and Paris
clipart: initial letter S from late 15th century printed book
That wall of stone
Title page, The Defence of Guenevere
Front Cover
Full-page border with hearts and moons
Jesus and Moses
145.—Leading a Horse
Foliated initial capital letter S, coloured
Floriated initial capital letter  “S”
Oval frame, scalloped
Tailpiece with peacock
Front Cover With Alice
Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves
Foliated Initial Letter S
Tailpiece of hunting paraphernalia
Convolvulus Tricolor
The Magical Circle of King Solomon
70.—Border of cherubs climbing in trees
Classical full-page border with goddess
Simon de Montfort: Knight on his Horse
Scrollwork Border from page 227
Buckingham Palace
Heralds’ College
Indian Civet, Fossa, Genet
Names of Angels and Days (overview)
The old tollbooth in Canongate, Edinburgh
The Cow Doctor
Gold endpaper
2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.
Vintage endpaper border with flowering vine
Mephistophiles
Faust
Portrait of King Henry the Eighth
Faust, detail from title page
Thought Icon
Frontispiece: A bride’s dream
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White
On the Terrace
Usk Bridge
Usk Bridge, Monmouth, Coloured from aon old painting
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter R from XIV. Century  No. 1
733.—Oxford Cathedral.
Mount Edgcombe
Our Father Who Art In Heaven
The Virgin Mary
clipart: initial letter O from late 15th century printed book
clipart: initial letter P from late 15th century printed book
Fig. 37. — Tunnel in the Catacombs of Rome
Free clip-art: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels
Fig 36. — A staircase of the catacombs
One Bay of the “Angel Choir,” Interior, Lincoln Cathedral
Initial letter I with Transitional Capital
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown
Title Page
Portrait of Ebeneezer Sibly, M.D>, F.R.H.S.
The white horse carried the earth king’s son and the princess over the sea
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter B from XIV. Century  No. 1
Front Cover
Her mirror was the smooth water of the tide pool
Front Cover
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter N from XIV. Century  No. 1
Franciscan Monk Going Down Staircase
God and my Divine Right: Royal Crest
Endpaper: gold leaf with central British royal coat of arms
Free clip-art: Victorian border of brown twigs and green leaves
An Egyptian Priest and Scribe
An Owl in the Pope’s Council
Wooden Church, Greenstead, Essex, A.D. 1013 (as it was in 1748)
Decorative initial (drop cap) D
A Display of Manuscripts on Reading Desks.
Title Page
Summary of the Law, in gold
Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border
A genteel wheelchair in Paris
Cherub with grin and cloven hoofs
Plate XVIII.—Stylized Chinese Dragon
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter D from XIV. Century  No. 1
Fig. 86.—Curves.
Title Page
Plate XIV—Chinese Dragon
Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)
Front Cover, Art of Decorative Design
Plate XXIV.—Knowledge Is Power
And then began a murder, grim and great
Early Victorian Border from Book Cover
Gibeon
Cupid with a Butterfly
December Night (Dezembernacht)
[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia
The Irmin Column in the Cathedral of Hildesheim
Taymouth Castle
Rustic postcard border of interleaved twigs and vines
Victorian vine-leaf page border
Old Bologna (1850s)
Isaak Newton [Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton]

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