Items matching book covers, colour (results page 12)

End Papers: children playing in the gardenA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

The end-papers inside the front and back cover of the book are printed with a repeating design of children playing at being gardeners. I have made the individual images available too.

Keywords: colour, illustrations for children, children, trees

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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Boy with TrowelA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A red-haired boy kneels with a trowel in his hand, ready to play at working in the garden. His shorts are held up by braces, and he wears shoes and white socks; he faces away from us. This is a detail [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, boys, children, colour, gardening

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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Girl Watering TreeA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A girl wearing a spotted dress crouches down to water a tree using a watering can. She has a ribbon in her hair.

This is a detail taken from the end papers of the book.

Keywords: illustrations for children, girls, children, colour, garening

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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Girl with flower in flowerpotA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A girl wearing a straw boater hat sits and examines a flower growing in a flower-pot.

This is a detail taken from the end papers of the book.

Keywords: illustrations for children, girls, children, colour, people, gardening

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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Girl digging with spadeA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

This girl is facing away from us and bending down to dig in the garden with her spade. We can see her petticoat.

This is a detail taken from the end papers of the book.

Keywords: illustrations for children, children, girls, gardening, colour, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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TreeA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A stylized drawing of a tree.

This is a detail taken from the end papers of the book.

Keywords: trees, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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Title Page, VeniceVenice (1907)

Venice, title page, with the publisher’s mark.

The book was also published in the US in the same year, by Dodd, Mead & Co.

Keywords: title pages, colour, page images

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-04-12

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Title Page, Old EnglandAlt-England (1888)

Alt-England: Eine Studienreise durch London und die Grafschaften zwischen Kanal und Piktenwall von Adolf Brennecke Gänzliche Neubearbeitung der 2 und 3 Abteilung der Nordlandfahrten. Which is, Old Eng [...]

Keywords: titel pages, colour, typography, page images

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-06-03

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fore-edgeThe Holy Court (1663)

The fore-edge of the book: you’re looking at the front of the book, the opposite to the spine. It is marbled, a decoration that also served to seal the edges of the pages so that the book can be duste [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, pictures of books, books

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-05-14

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Frontispiece: Too Old for a StockingChatterbox Annual (1916)

The frontispiece to the Chatterbox 1916 Annual shows a boy sitting in bed, wearing striped pyjamas, looking at another younger boy in his dressing-gown and slippers who has entered the bedroom carryin [...]

Keywords: christmas, children, people, illustrations for children, santa claus, interiors, bedrooms, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-09

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Frontispiece: The Snow Sweepers (1865)The Circling Year (1870)

A man in boots and tall hat, scarf, jacket and rolled-up trousers, stands on the steps of a grand front porch with stone columns while two faces peer out of a window in this city scene. A boy on the s [...]

Keywords: winter, street scenes, snow, people, cities, pillars, children, boys, men, snow shovels, victorian costume, top hats, colour

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2018-01-20

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Title PageDays With the Victorian Poets (1910)

The title page is decorated as if one is looking at a monument in front of a castle.

Keywords: title pages, colour, page images

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-25

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Frontispiece: DenchworthQuiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)

“Denchworth [...] is one of the prettiest villages hereabouts. What little there is of it consists of one short street lined mostly with timber framed and straw-thatched cottages. As one advances from [...]

Keywords: streets, villages, houses, thatched cottagesstreets, colour, christmas

Places shown: Denchworth; Berkshire; England

Added: 2006-01-27

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Title Page, Leland’s ItineraryThe Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary (1745)

The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary. In Nine Volumes. The Second Edition: Collated and Improved from the Original MS. With the Addition also of a General Index. OXFORD: Printed at the Theatre; [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-11

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Two BookplatesThe Life Of Anthony à Wood (1772)

Two bookplates, one seeming older than the other: Ex Libris Jack Norris And, probably older, one with an heraldc shield Azure on a chevron enshrined between three Unicorns’ hads erased or, three cresc [...]

Keywords: bookplates, colour, heraldry

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-10-20

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Cropped version suitable for screen background, lightened

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-31

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Title Page, The River DeeThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

THE RIVER DEE ITS ASPECT AND HISTORY By J. S. HOWSON, D.D. dean of chester. With ninety-three illustrations on wood / from drawings by A;fred Rimmer London Virtus, Spalding, & Co., 26, Ivy Lane Patern [...]

Keywords: title pages, colour, page images

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-11

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Title Page, Wild Flowers Series OneFamiliar Wild Flowers (1906)

FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS. figures and described by F. Edward Hulme, F.L.S., F.S.A. “When forth I go upon my way, a thousand joys are mine, the clusters of dark violets, the wreaths of the wild vine; My j [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-03-03

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TItle PageMy Friends’ Birthdays (1885)

The title page from “My Friends’ Birthdays” includes a picture of a vase or urn with an artist’s easel, pallette and brushes, a Victorian border for a Victorian scrapbook!

Keywords: art, title pages, page images, colour, esaels, vases, paint, pallettes, borders, victoriana

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-08

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Title Page from Cathedral Cities of FranceCathedral Cities of France (1907)

Cathedral Cities of France, by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S. and Hester Marshall With sixty illustrations in colour by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S.

Toronto

The Musson Book Co. Limited, 1907

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-29

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