Items matching book covers (results page 1)

Front CoverConjuring Tricks (1890)

Keywords: book covers, page images, colour

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Added: 2010-06-03

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Front Cover, Moderne Kunst Vol IModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band I (1895)

The front cover of this huge book is a dark red; in the picture i have brightened it, thinking it probably faded over time. We have an ornate scrollwork border round the outside; we have angels with l [...]

Keywords: book covers, front covers, colour, borders, angels, cherubs

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Added: 2019-02-13

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Front CoverThe Defence of Guenevere (1904)

This copy of “The Defence of Guenevere” is bound in light brown suede with gold foil stamping.

Keywords: book covers, foil stamping, gold, brown, frames, colour

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Added: 2025-06-16

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Front CoverRed Book Of York (1901)

Red cloth with stamped gold.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2004-04-25

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Front CoverOratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

The front cover; my copy has a quarter-leather binding and marbled boards, as you can see.

Keywords: colour, book covers

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Added: 2006-05-28

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Front Cover, Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and MercyWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

This tiny book is bound in full leather.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2006-10-28

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Front Cover Vol 64Little Folks Magazine Vol 64 (1906)

The front cover for Volume 64 (1906) has a full-page illustration in colour of a large stork wearing hiking boots and walking down a country path with a girl alongside it. The girl wears a red coat. I [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, people, illustrations for children, children

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Added: 2016-10-31

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Front Cover, El Mundo IlustradoEl Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

This magazine was originally sold in fortnightly issues, with 26 of them (I think) bound into one volume; the copy I have lost its covers before I bought it (which is why I could afford it!) so what y [...]

Keywords: ruins, title pages, book covers, page images, greyscale

Places shown: Borghetto sul Mincio; Valeggio sul Mincio; Verona; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2018-08-22

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Front Cover of Evers’ ‘Steam and the Steam Engine’Steam and the Steam Engine (1880)

The front cover says that the book is part of Collins’ Advanced Series.

Keywords: book covers, titles, railways, colour

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Added: 2006-02-06

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Front Cover, Fry’s PantographiaPantographia (1799)

This unpreposessing volume contains the most fabulous examples of alphabets made with eighteenth century fonts and engravings.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2006-11-02

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front cover, Allegories and EmblemsAllegorien und Embleme, Vol II (1882)

The front cover of the second volume of Allegorien und Embleme has a quarter-leather binding and gilt-stamped decoration with black and red printing that includes a woman and an heraldic shield.

Keywords: book covers, lettering, people, typography, colour, heraldry

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Added: 2018-09-02

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Front cover in red and goldPeter Parley’s Annual (1856)

The front cover of this 1856 children’s book seems to have had something happen to it as some point to wear the gold off the bottom half.

Keywords: book covers, front covers, red, gold, colour

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Added: 2025-07-06

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Front Cover, Biography of ShakespeareWilliam Shakspere Biography (1841)

The front cover of this book has the wrong title, “The Works of Shakspere” instead of “William Shakspere: A Biography.”

Keywords: book covers, victoriana, colour

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Added: 2010-09-22

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Front Cover With AliceAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

The front cover of the copy of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland that i have features a gold design of Alice holding the baby/pig. The copy is dated 1939, and is inscribed “To Eric, from Sidney Quin;” [...]

Keywords: book covers, alice, gold, red, colour

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Added: 2025-05-15

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Front CoverRome (1905)

The text reads “ROME: Painted by Alberto Pisa Text by M. A. R. Tuker & Hope Malleson. SPQR” The SPQR here is a reference to Senatus Populusque Romanus, which is Latin for the Senate and People of Rom [...]

Keywords: colour, book covers

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Added: 2006-02-09

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Front Cover, Moderne Kunst 14Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XIV (1900)

The cover for the year’s collected issues of this 1900 magazine is roughly A3 sized (11.5 by 16.5 inches or so), and features a drawing of a topless woman holding a branch of what appears to be a thor [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, women, nudity, cherubs, sunrise, romance

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Added: 2022-05-21

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Book cover of The Mother Goose, with tape repairThe Real Mother Goose (1919)

The front cover of this children’s book has been repaired with heavy binding tape at some point.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2014-01-22

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Front CoverGreat Races of Mankind Vol III (1893)

This book was rebound, possibly for a library, and has a hand-written title on the cover. The cover is black; the label has red underlines for the races. Great Races of Mankind West Aryans, Semites, [...]

Keywords: book covers, covers, front covers, greyscale

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Added: 2024-08-24

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Front cover, Out to Old Aunt Mary’sOut to Old Aunt Mary’s (1904)

The front cover of this small book for children is green, with a gray oval insert showing a picture of Aunt Mary herself. The lettering is in gold.

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Added: 2007-06-21

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Front Cover from La Vita NuovaLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

There is also a rather plain dust jacket, not shown here.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2005-11-16

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