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

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