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

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