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

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