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![[picture: Front Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Leyland-ThamesIllustrated/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-399x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
Pictures from The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (Richmond to Hampton Court) by John Leyland (1897).
The British Library catalogue says John Leyland was “of Forest Hill” but I have no more information than that.
The edition I have could be either 1897 or 1901. I am only guessing that he died no later than 1937, and that hence the images are out of copyright, but it seems likely.
Title: The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford
Published by: Geo. Newnes Ltd. Southampton St. W.C.
City: London
Date: 1897
Total items: 11
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Mediaeval Border from Title Page]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Leyland-ThamesIllustrated/wm/big/000-Title-Page-detail-medieval-border-q90-157x200.jpg "[picture: Mediaeval Border from Title Page]")
Mediaeval Border from Title Page
This 1890s Victorian book has an arts-and-crafts-inspired Mediaeval/medieval-style calligraphic title page drawing, a design based on manuscript books and early printed books. The full-page border includes “green man” heads (sometimes also called jack-in-the-green) and vines. The heavy top left area is intended to be a decorative initial letter “T” [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Medmenham Abbey]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Leyland-ThamesIllustrated/wm/big/159-Medmenham-Abbey-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Medmenham Abbey]")
Medmenham is among the prettiest places on the Thames, and the Abbey, bogus structure though it really is, makes a picturesque feature upon the bank. Here was a Cistercian House colonised, the second time in 1212, by monks from Citeaux, [...]. In the beginning of the 16th century, [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: typographic ornament: flower pointing left]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Leyland-ThamesIllustrated/wm/big/000-Title-Page-Detail-Flower-Left-q90-273x200.jpg "[picture: typographic ornament: flower pointing left]")
typographic ornament: flower pointing left
A calligraphic flower (a sort of predecessor to a printer’s flower) used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book. [more...] [$]
![[picture: typographic ornament: flower pointing right]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Leyland-ThamesIllustrated/wm/big/000-Title-Page-Detail-Flower-Right-q90-318x200.jpg "[picture: typographic ornament: flower pointing right]")
typographic ornament: flower pointing right
A calligraphic flower (a sort of predecessor to a printer’s flower) used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book. [more...] [$]
![[picture: The Thames Illustrated: Title Page]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Leyland-ThamesIllustrated/wm/big/000-Title-Page-q75-150x200.jpg "[picture: The Thames Illustrated: Title Page]")
The Thames Illustrated: Title Page
The title page has a decorative border containing flowers, vines, and the face of a man with oak leaves for his beard, presumably intended as a reference to the Green Man of British folklore. [more...] [$]
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