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

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