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

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