Items matching flowers (results page 1)

Front Cover in GreenFamiliar Wild Flowers (1906)

The front cover features ornate gilt lettering and a picture of some flowers. The binding is green cloth.

Keywords: book covers, colour, flowers

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Added: 2017-01-15

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Front CoverMy Friends’ Birthdays (1885)

The front cover of this Victorian desk-book features a floral design with a gilt scroll bearing the title.

See the whole book cover

Keywords: book covers, victoriana, colour, flowers

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-08

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Front CoverFarm Weeds (1906)

The illustration is Lesser Burdock, which is also shown in Plate 27. The text reads, Farm Weeds, Department of Agriculture, Canada, 1906.

Keywords: flowers, page images, colour, book covers, pictures of books, wild flowers, weeds

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Added: 2006-01-14

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typographic ornament: rosetteThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

A decorative rosette of oak leaves in a circle, used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book. full title page - detail: the decorative rosette - detail: the right-pointing flower - det [...]

Keywords: ornaments, flowers, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-17

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typographic ornament: flower pointing rightThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

A calligraphic flower (a sort of predecessor to a printer’s flower) used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book. full title page - detail: the decorative rosette - detail: the right-p [...]

Keywords: ornaments, typography, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-17

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typographic ornament: flower pointing leftThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

A calligraphic flower (a sort of predecessor to a printer’s flower) used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book. full title page - detail: the decorative rosette - detail: the right-p [...]

Keywords: ornaments, flowers, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-17

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Title Page Detail: Basket of FlowersCraftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

This woodcut of a basket or tub of chrysanthemums and I think roses is in a mediaeval style, and appeared as a page decoration on the title page of the book.

Keywords: flowers, ornaments, roses, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-04-12

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The Great Court, Trinity CollegeCambridge (1920)

“The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, though inheriting much from the earlier college—King’s Hall—which was set up by Edward II and his son Edward III, owes almost everything to King Henry V [...]

Keywords: colour, towers, flowers, colleges

Places shown: Trinity College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-21

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Vintage border with peacock-feather styilized flowersThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This full-page Victorian engraved border features flowers that are drawn with lines to shade them and with tendrils that give an effect reminding me of the “eyes” in a peacock’s tail feathers. I also [...]

Keywords: borders, victoriana, flowers, floriated borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-05-28

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Vintage border with peacock-feather style flowers, in blueThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This is a blue version of the Victorian vinatege full-page floral border.

Keywords: borders, victoriana, flowers, floriated borders, colour, blue

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Added: 2015-05-28

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Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (green/brown version)Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This is the ornate decorative border from the title page of this book; it features cherubs or putti (naked boys with wings) holding up giant urns or vases; mermaids and mermen; angels, vines, flowers [...]

Keywords: borders, cherubs, mythical creatures, flowers, colour

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Added: 2010-01-03

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Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (red version)Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This is the ornate decorative border from the title page of this book; it features cherubs or putti (naked boys with wings) holding up giant urns or vases; mermaids and mermen; angels, vines, flowers [...]

Keywords: borders, cherubs, flowers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-03

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

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

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-29

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Title PageChatterbox Annual (1916)

The ornate title page from the 1916 Chatterbox annual. There are pictures of a girl with straw on her head, a group of children reading, or perhaps singing, to a lady I take to be their teacher; a boy [...]

Keywords: title pages, children, illustrations for children, leaves, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-08

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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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Back coverThe Leisure Hour (1896)

Even the back of this book has a floral decoration, in black against the blue cloth.

Keywords: book covers, flowers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-24

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Title page from A Child’s Garden of VersesA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A small boy kneels next to a watering-can and a (dangerously) upturned rake; he holds a flower to examine. On either side of him, two tall stalks grow with flowers; perhaps they are hollyhocks. The [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour, flowers, children

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-06-26

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Garden boyA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A curly-haired child, a boy, is on one knee; he wears a white shirt, blue dungarees (with a well-worn knee), white socks and brown shoes. He holds a flower and smiles at it. At his feet a watering ca [...]

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-06-26

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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

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

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-29

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Rosa LutescensChristian Parlor Magazine Vol III (1847)

Rosa Lutescens is also known as Rosa hispida. The blooms are white with a faint tinge of yellow, so it might be that the colouring is a little too strong here. In english, it’s a sort of rose. The te [...]

Keywords: flowers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-06-01

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