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![[picture: Front Cover, Lucille]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/tn/000-Front-Cover-q85-389x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Lucille]")
Images and short extracts from Lucille (1882) by Owen Meredith; this was actually a nom de plume for Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, PC (1831–-1891). The poems were very popular in the late Victorian era, and have a melancholy gothic feel.
Title: Lucille
Published by: James R. Osgood and Company
Date: 1882
Total items: 14
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Dedication: art deco scroll in floral border]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/wm/big/000-dedication-q75-514x200.jpg "[picture: Dedication: art deco scroll in floral border]")
Dedication: art deco scroll in floral border
The word Dedication, in an art deco or even art nouveau-adjacent typeface, set diagonally in a scroll within a border crammed with flowers and leaves and swirls, originally at the head of the Dedication Page in this 1881 goth [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Front Cover, Lucille]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q85-156x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Lucille]")
The front cover of this book has a border with dark flowers, and a gold-leaf inset for the title; this was an expensive edition. [$]
![[picture: Crossed Swords with Snake]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/wm/big/122-crossed-swords-q90-800x200.jpg "[picture: Crossed Swords with Snake]")
![[picture: Ruins and tombs and withred grass]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/wm/big/123-ruins-and-tombs-q75-334x200.jpg "[picture: Ruins and tombs and withred grass]")
Ruins and tombs and withred grass
Stone crosses of graves on a hill, with some trees or perhaps a ruined church to the right, and hills in the background. This melancholy sketch was at the end of a a chapter in this gothic novel. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Through the Forest]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/wm/big/126-through-the-forest-q85-538x200.jpg "[picture: Through the Forest]")
![[picture: Borders with posies of flowers on either side.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/wm/big/126-border-with-posies-q85-537x200.jpg "[picture: Borders with posies of flowers on either side.]")
Borders with posies of flowers on either side.
This border, with bunches of flowers on either side, was used to surround a woodcut of a forest. [more...] [$]
![[picture: The Old Ruined Abbey]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/wm/big/127-the-old-ruined-abbey-q75-201x200.jpg "[picture: The Old Ruined Abbey]")
![[picture: King Ixion naked on the burning wheel]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/wm/big/215-wheel-of-ixion-q75-156x200.jpg "[picture: King Ixion naked on the burning wheel]")
King Ixion naked on the burning wheel
King Ixion took advantage of Zeus’ mercy by trying to seduce Hera, who was that god’s wife. The king was punished by being bound to a wheel that would spin and burn forever in the underworld. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Exterior of a German Inn]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/wm/big/241-horse-carriage-inn-nighttime-q60-204x200.jpg "[picture: Exterior of a German Inn]")
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![[picture: Dark Passion Flowers]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/wm/big/160-thick-passion-flowers-q90-358x200.jpg "[picture: Dark Passion Flowers]")
![[picture: He Led Her With Him]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/wm/big/258-he-led-her-with-him-q90-174x200.jpg "[picture: He Led Her With Him]")
