Brown cloth binding with gold foil and colour printing. The illustration on the cover depices water lillies in flower.
[$]The Thames Illustrated: Title Page
The title page has a decorative border containing flowers, vines, and the face of a man with oak leaves for his beard, presumably intended as a reference to the Green Man of British folklore. [more...]
[$]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...]
[$]typographic ornament: flower pointing right
A calligraphic flower (a sort of predecessor to a printer’s flower) used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book. [more...]
[$]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...]
[$]94.—The norm Tower (Wallpaper remix)
A hand-coloured version of The Norman Tower cropped for use as a desktop background or wallpaper. [more...]
[$]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...]
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