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Ornate and Pretentious Title PageUniversal Classic Manuscripts Vol II (1901)

The title page of Universal Classic Manscripts is made to look like an alabaster funeral monument on the wall of a cathedral, with ornater fed and gold filigree work topped by a coat of arms of the UK [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, engravings, colour, lettering, coats of arms, heraldry

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Added: 2017-09-27

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Shepherd BoyA Painter’s Anthology (1924)

A young man, a shepherd, wears a broad-brimmed hat and a ragged animal skin, spotted like that of a tiger; he appears to be barefoot in long grass, although the effect is that of a hooved satyr. He is [...]

Keywords: shepherds, people, engravings, animals, sheep, pastoral scenes, musical instruments, pipes, trees, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2015-03-23

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Engraving detail: stripy feetThe Works of Shakspere, with notes by Charles Knight (1873)

A detail from There Sleeps Titania showing the engraving technique. It is actually the knight’s feet, in his quasi-medieval shoes. There is a series of three books about the Heath family of engravers [...]

Keywords: engravings, feet, abstract, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

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Added: 2009-10-22

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La Loi: Le faible trouve sa force dans la loi qui le protègeVictor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881)

The title means, The Law: The weak find strength in the law that protects them. This image was used as a filler at the end of chapter twenty-two in a section on Victor Hugo’s banishment from France. T [...]

Keywords: engravings, law, justice, protection, nudity, bare feet, people, men, women, children, weapons, swords, attacks, greyscale

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Added: 2017-10-27

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