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

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