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| 1024x768, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Photograph of the BookPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870) A photograph of the “Picturesque Views” book showing the red moroccan leather cover and the gold tooling. In the background are some other antique books, and a brown leather-bound antiquarian book fr [...] Keywords: pictures of books, books, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour Places shown: none Added: 2007-06-10 + S K L |
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Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required | 1020x889, 1360x1186, 1813x1581, 229x200, 765x667 | Children with their teacherChatterbox Annual (1916) A group of boys and girls surround a grown-up woman, perhaps their grandmother or perhaps their teacher, or perhaps both. The children are holding books; perhaps it is a reading lesson, or perhaps the [...] Keywords: children, people, books, illustrations for children, greyscale, christmas Places shown: none Added: 2007-12-08 + S K L |
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164x719, 219x960, 292x1280, 389x1706, 46x200 | 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 + S K L |
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1236x1356, 182x200, 695x762, 927x1017 | Title page detail: Scholarly KingBill Nye’s History of England (1900) In this detail from the title page, a king (wearing a crown) sits at a table with a pen and an open book, and is also consulting a dictionary. He sratches his head, obviously baffled. Keywords: cartoons, scholars, books, royalty, humour, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-06-10 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 115x280, 154x375, 1759x4288, 250x609, 330x804, 440x1072, 82x200 | From Her BoyA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905) The picture shows a boy holding a large book open, as if to read, or to offer the book to someone. He has his head cocked to one side as if listening, or perhaps asking for permission. The book’s ded [...] Keywords: illustrations for children, children, boys, people, books, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-03-08 + S K L |
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100x628, 133x838, 177x1117, 32x200 | Holy Court Book decorated leather spineThe Holy Court (1663) It’s an antique! This leather-bound book was produced in 1663, although it has for sure been rebound more than once in the meantime. Here is the spine of the book, with gold lettering and tooled deco [...] Keywords: book covers, spines, lettering, colour, pictures of books, books Places shown: none Added: 2011-01-30 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 100x100, 1191x1182, 1588x1576, 200x200, 893x887 | Fox and Goose Decoateive ElementThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905) A decorative motif, or page element, from the imprint page, shpwing a fox and a goose (or a duck maybe) reading a book. Keywords: ornaments, animals, birds, books, colour Places shown: none Added: 2009-01-27 + S K L |
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148x200, 1933x2605, 556x750, 966x1303 | Frontispiece: Portrait of Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1897) Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley engraved by Francis Holl after a miniature in the possession of Shelley’s son. Keywords: portraits, people, men, writers, poets, authors, youth, books, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2018-07-09 + S K L |
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1522x1539, 198x200, 741x750 | Corner Bookcase OrnamentTypo Ornamenty (1990) This vignette or round image could ba a tailpiece, an ornament at the end of a chapter, or a decoration for an article about books or reading, perhaps, or a private secret place where we love to go, w [...] Keywords: ornaments, books, pictures of books, decoration, tailpieces, round, circular, bookcases, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2022-09-20 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 142x200, 482x680, 643x907, 857x1209 | folio 4/recto, illumination, woman writingWorks, BL Harley MS 4431 (1414) A woman is writing in a book; perhaps she is a scribe, or a nun in a monastery. She is wearing mediaeval [medieval]-style blue dress and a white headdress. She is seated at a table with a small open b [...] Keywords: illumination, people, books, writing, colour Places shown: none Added: 2010-08-05 + S K L |
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148x200, 469x636, 625x847, 937x1271 | 5.—The Book RevealedFirst Book of Urizen (1794) Urizen (?) holds a giant open book inscribed with strange symbols; the text is as follows: In living creations appear’d In the flames of eternal fury. 3. Sund’ring, dark’ning, thund’ring! Rent away wi [...] Keywords: occult, people, beards, books, pictures of books, poetry, colour Places shown: none Added: 2007-11-17 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1210x1232, 150x150, 196x200, 681x693, 908x924 | Initial Capital Letter “A” With ScholarsArt in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908) This historiated decorative initial “A” was used as a drop cap, or dropped capital, at the start of a chapter. It shows two people wearing hats and robes and I think soft turned-down boots, reading bo [...] Keywords: lettera, initials, scholars, books, hats, people, costumes, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-06-26 + S K L |
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292x750, 618x1590, 78x200 | Wandering MinstrelModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898) This youth has a lute strapped to his back and holds an open manuscript book in his left hand in his right, a quill pen. Perhaps he is writing a song, although he won’t get far without an inkwell. He [...] Keywords: minstrels, people, music, musical instruments, song-writing, books, pens, men, medieval, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2023-12-10 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 189x200, 230x243, 307x324, 614x647, 818x863 | Miniature painting of a scribe writing at a deskBook of Hours, Rosenwald MS. 10 (1533) A Mediæval (OK, Medieval in America) miniature painting taken from a Latin book of hours. A bearded scribe uses a quill pen to write in a book that rests on a wooden writing desk. He wears a blue gow [...] Keywords: colour, scholars, people, books, angels, christmas Places shown: none Added: 2006-03-01 + S K L |
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