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Zeus and Europa
Poppies and Tiger Lillies
Menu Card 2: Chef
11. Seal of Gusion.
Menu Card 4: Waitress
Menu Card 1: Court Jester
Menu Card 3: Celler Master
Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique green
Initial Letter I With Art Nouveau Swirls
Venus danced for Apollo
Chapterhead with Boy’s Head
Sir Isaac Newton
Sacrificial Rites of the Ancient British Druids
English Manufacturing
Helen and Paris
53.8.—IHS
Title page, The Defence of Guenevere
Front Cover
That wall of stone
Dark Passion Flowers
Jesus and Moses
145.—Leading a Horse
Foliated initial capital letter S, coloured
Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version
Oval frame, scalloped
Tailpiece with peacock
Front Cover With Alice
Historiated decorative initial capital letter M in Blue
Foliated Initial Letter S
Tailpiece of hunting paraphernalia
Convolvulus Tricolor
clipart: initial letter S from late 15th century printed book
70.—Border of cherubs climbing in trees
Classical full-page border with goddess
Simon de Montfort: Knight on his Horse
Full-page border with hearts and moons
Buckingham Palace
Heralds’ College
Indian Civet, Fossa, Genet
Floriated initial capital letter  “S”
The old tollbooth in Canongate, Edinburgh
The Cow Doctor
Vintage endpaper border with flowering vine
Free clip-art: Victorian border of twigs and leaves
Gold endpaper
Mephistophiles
Faust, detail from title page
The Magical Circle of King Solomon
Faust
Thought Icon
Frontispiece: A bride’s dream
Scrollwork Border from page 227
On the Terrace
Usk Bridge, Monmouth, Coloured from aon old painting
Usk Bridge
Names of Angels and Days (overview)
733.—Oxford Cathedral.
Mount Edgcombe
Our Father Who Art In Heaven
2.—Stonehenge. – Restored Plan.
clipart: initial letter P from late 15th century printed book
clipart: initial letter O from late 15th century printed book
Fig. 37. — Tunnel in the Catacombs of Rome
Portrait of King Henry the Eighth
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, Black and White
Title Page
Portrait of Ebeneezer Sibly, M.D>, F.R.H.S.
Her mirror was the smooth water of the tide pool
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter R from XIV. Century  No. 1
The white horse carried the earth king’s son and the princess over the sea
Front Cover
Front Cover
The Virgin Mary
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: Eighteenth-century Border from Figures pour les Missels
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 clip-art Victorian border, antique brown
A Display of Manuscripts on Reading Desks.
Title Page
Summary of the Law, in gold
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter B from XIV. Century  No. 1
A genteel wheelchair in Paris
Cherub with grin and cloven hoofs
Fig. 86.—Curves.
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter N from XIV. Century  No. 1
Plate XIV—Chinese Dragon
Front Cover, Art of Decorative Design
Plate XXIV.—Knowledge Is Power
Free clip-art: Victorian border of brown twigs and green leaves
Plate XVIII.—Stylized Chinese Dragon
Title Page
And then began a murder, grim and great
Decorative initial (drop cap) D
Gibeon
Cupid with a Butterfly
December Night (Dezembernacht)
Purple Victorian Vine-leaf Border
The Irmin Column in the Cathedral of Hildesheim
Taymouth Castle
Rustic postcard border of interleaved twigs and vines
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter D from XIV. Century  No. 1
Old Bologna (1850s)
Isaak Newton [Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton]
Battle in the Sacred Linden Groves
Knight, Death and the Devil (1513)
Initial letter V with a mermaid
Front Cover, Bohemia Part Two
Title Page, Bohemia Part Two
Early Victorian Border from Book Cover
Battle of Knights
Full-page border of repeated vine leaves
Votivkirche, Vienna
[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia
Avenue of Sighs
Christmas Still Life
The Seranade
Victorian vine-leaf page border
A schoolroom in Tunisia
Llanthony Priory, Valley of the Honddu

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