Items matching full-page borders (results page 1)

Gold endpaperNorthland Journeys, Part I (1881)

The endpapers of a book hold the cover to the body of the book. Older books, leather-bound, often have ridges on the spine; this is where string is threaded through to hold the signatures, the folded [...]

Keywords: endpapers, book binding, colour, vines, leaves, patterns, borders, page images, full-page borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-04-27

+ S K L

Vintage endpaper border with flowering vineNorthland Journeys, Part I (1881)

This elegant border is taken from the endpapers of a deluxe printed book from 1881. It features stylized flowers and seed pods on a vine. The middle is solid white; if you want to ake it transparent i [...]

Keywords: full-page borders, borders, floriated borders, foliated borders, good, yellow, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-04-27

+ S K L

Full-page oak-leaf borderThe Select Works of John Bunyan (1864)

This engraved border of oak leaves and acorns would be ideal for an invitation to a sacred druidical confluence, but it’d also make a great frame for a wedding invitation or a certificate relating to [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, leaves, oak leaves, acorns, surrounds, full-page borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-03-13

+ S K L

Full-page arts and craft movement borderThe Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [William Morris, Kelmscott Press] (1896)

This ful-page border, frame, or surround is made with an intricate design of grape leaves and swirling vines and includes bunches of grapes. It’s taken from the title page of the William Morris editio [...]

Keywords: foliated borders, borders, arts and crafts movement, arts and crafts, grapevines, grapes, vines, leaves, surrounds, frames, full-page borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-09-08

+ S K L

Abstract border and front cover designLa Civilizacion (1881)

This is the pattern and design from the front cover. There are two main areas for text, there’s swirly barbed wire, there’s a Grecian urn, what more could you want? Well, OK, I can also provide the va [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, templates, victoriana, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-05-20

+ S K L

Ornate Early Victorian full-page Geometric BorderLa Civilizacion (1881)

This geometric full-page border includes stylized acanthus leaves and knotwork in blackand orange. It came from the front cover of the book. The outer back border is a typographic ornament repeated. T [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, patterns, typography, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-05-20

+ S K L

Guild of Carriage-MakersAllegorien und Embleme, Vol II (1882)

This incredibly busy design is for the guild of carriage-makers (I think) in 1612. The border includes two scantily-clad women, six scantily-clad or naked small children, two gryphons, a bunch of baro [...]

Keywords: heraldry, borders, full-page borders, page images, frames, people, cherubs, nudity, women, boys, shields, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-10-30

+ S K L

Ornate baroque-stye border with herubs and gryphonsAllegorien und Embleme, Vol II (1882)

This border is from the 1612 sign for the Nurenberg Guild of Carriage-Makers made by Adolf Mießner. The border includes two scantily-clad women, six scantily-clad or naked small children, two gryphons [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, cherubs, bare feet, women, people, nudity, scrollwork, cartici, frames, inhabited borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-10-30

+ S K L

Border of wine and rosesStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

This border includes a design that i think is roses and a carafe of wine; there’s a typographic ornament repeated round the page. The ornaments are slightly irregular and wavy, which i thought went wi [...]

Keywords: borders, romance, wine, roses, full-page borders, typographic ornaments, purple, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2020-11-16

+ S K L

Art Deco Full Page BorderStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

This border, with its Art Deco swirls and architectural pillars, was printed in olive green ink. You can use the Colour tab to the side of the image to change the colour, though.

Keywords: borders, art deco, full-page borders, green, clipart, green, decoration, ornaments, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-04-30

+ S K L

Dark brown fantasy watercolour borderArthur Rackham, His Life and Work (1960)

This border of symbols, grapes, eyes, and dark daisies, was painted by Arthur Rackham to surround the battle of giants.

Keywords: borders, colour, floriated borders, foliated borders, spooky, full-page borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-09-23

+ S K L

Maenad and Faun Full Page BorderStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

In this full-page design a mænad, or female faun, part human and part goat, is sitting under a tree playing a pipe; a male faun is seated next to her playing pipes and with a laurel wreat round his ha [...]

Keywords: fauns, maenads, romance, mythological creatures, borders, full-page borders, colour, trees, musical instruments, musicians, music

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-11-16

+ S K L

Faun playing pipes to his childrenStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

An adult faun, with the legs of a goat and garlands of flowers in his hair, plays the pan pipes to three faun children. All are topless and have horns. This is a clean design that could be used in p [...]

Keywords: fauns, maenads, romance, mythological creatures, children, horns, borders, full-page borders, colour, trees, musical instruments, musicians, music

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-09-10

+ S K L

Persion ceramic tile border: flowers and vines, bright versionL’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

This is a more brightly coloured version of the Persian ceramic tile full-page border. Note that the brightness of the dark blue background may vary as the image is resized or sharpened.

Keywords: full-page borders, borders, flowers, leaves, vines, colour, blue, floriated borders, green

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-01-06

+ S K L

Fig. 57. No. 6.—Persian Ceramic Tile BorderL’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

This full-page border design is taken from ancient persian ceramic building tiles. The original tiles go from the centre of one rosette to the next, and are 10 inches (25cm) from joint to joint. There [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, floriated borders, flowers, vines, leaves, blue, green, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-01-06

+ S K L

Full-page template or border with castleStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

A two-colour illustration of a mediæval castle and a rather tall tree sit on the right-hand side of this full-page template with a grey background and white solid lines on the right edge of the page f [...]

Keywords: borders, castles, full-page borders, illustrations, fantasy, spires, battlements, trees, clouds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-11-16

+ S K L

Full-page border with roses, black and whiteIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This full-page border or page surround or frame, has roses in bloom along with insects. It was engraved with black and white lines so can reproduce very well. The engraving is signed (I think; it is a [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, roses, flowers, surrounds, frames, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-08-04

+ S K L

Full-page border with tiny vintage laurel leaves and hand-drawn boxAstrology (1806)

This full-page border comes from an engraving, so it’s slightly irregular, but only slightly, almost hand-drawn in effect. It’s made from a thin straight line around the page and, inside it, repeating [...]

Keywords: borders, foliated borders, full-page borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-07-24

+ S K L

Border of ancient skullsDie Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild (1888)

This full-page border surrounded the opening of an article on the hstory of Lower Austria. It includes carefully-drawn skulls and other bones from long-extinct creatures, presumably based on fossils. [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, skulls, fossilsnatural history, tusks, death, extinction, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-03-05

+ S K L

Cheerful full-page vintage colour borderPan Pipes (1883)

This border is made from solid colours, and has spaces for text to be inserted. Larger sizes are in PNG format and hence have transparency. There is also a single-page version with only one large text [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, full-page borders, floral borders, flowers, floriated borders, orange, banderols

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-08-13

+ S K L