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Cairo, from the East
Inside a feudal castle hall
Harvest Time
11. Seal of Gusion.
Field Worker
891.—Trapeze artist walking a tightrope or high wire
Portrait of Włodzimierz Czacki
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green
Drawn Picture Frame
Schoolwork
Cherub with paintbrush
Sir Isaac Newton
Cherub Facing Right
Spring Song, Frühlingslied
Portrait of Ludwig Knaus
53.8.—IHS
Collared Peccary (Tayassin tayassu)
Front Cover
Alchemy Full Page Border
Dark Passion Flowers
Title Page, Musaeum Hermeticum
Naked angel with caduceus
Alchemical dragons fighting
Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version
49.—St. Sebald’s Church at Nuremberg.
84.—The Alcazar at Toledo (Begun 1548)
60.—Doorway from Church at Batalha (Begun 1385)
Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue
Haigha and Hatta
The Battle
Give me a Ham Sandwich
clipart: initial letter S from late 15th century printed book
Map XVII. british Isles; Showing places of greatest Historical Interest.
Map XIX. Ireland
Hymn to the Seasons
Full-page border with hearts and moons
Bless the Lord O My Soul
The front cover, with gold foil
Initial letter capital V with mountain rescue
Floriated initial capital letter  “S”
Helmsman on a Vltava steamer
Title Page
157.—Uncial Gothic Letters. 14th Century.
Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves
Front Cover
The Storming of Jerusalem by Titus
Buddhist Priest of Annam—TYPE
The Magical Circle of King Solomon
Chaldean Slaves
A Christmas-Box From China
Decorative initial letter C with holly and icicles and snow
Scrollwork Border from page 227
Indra, God of Atmosphere
The Keep, Walmer
The Stocks. Monkton
Names of Angels and Days (overview)
Title Page
Niccolò Paganini on the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death
The Engraver
2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.
The Painter
The Novel
Front cover in red and gold
Portrait of King Henry the Eighth
The Counsel (a Scotch Terrier)
Frontispiece: Don’t Cry
Tortured with feet to the fire
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White
Zeus and Europa
Poppies and Tiger Lillies
Menu Card 2: Chef
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter R from XIV. Century  No. 1
Menu Card 3: Celler Master
Menu Card 1: Court Jester
Menu Card 4: Waitress
The Virgin Mary
Initial Letter I With Art Nouveau Swirls
Venus danced for Apollo
Chapterhead with Boy’s Head
Free clip-art: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels
Sacrificial Rites of the Ancient British Druids
English Manufacturing
Helen and Paris
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brown
That wall of stone
Front Cover
Title page, The Defence of Guenevere
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter B from XIV. Century  No. 1
Jesus and Moses
145.—Leading a Horse
Foliated initial capital letter S, coloured
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter N from XIV. Century  No. 1
Oval frame, scalloped
Tailpiece with peacock
Front Cover With Alice
Free clip-art: Victorian border of brown twigs and green leaves
Foliated Initial Letter S
Tailpiece of hunting paraphernalia
Convolvulus Tricolor
Decorative initial (drop cap) D
70.—Border of cherubs climbing in trees
Classical full-page border with goddess
Simon de Montfort: Knight on his Horse
Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border
Buckingham Palace
Heralds’ College
Indian Civet, Fossa, Genet
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter D from XIV. Century  No. 1
The old tollbooth in Canongate, Edinburgh
The Cow Doctor
Gold endpaper
Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)
Vintage endpaper border with flowering vine
Mephistophiles
Faust
Early Victorian Border from Book Cover
Thought Icon
Faust, detail from title page
Frontispiece: A bride’s dream
[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia
On the Terrace
Usk Bridge
Usk Bridge, Monmouth, Coloured from aon old painting
Victorian vine-leaf page border
733.—Oxford Cathedral.
Mount Edgcombe

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