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115x118, 1275x1303, 155x158, 1700x1737, 196x200, 206x210, 275x281, 367x375, 65x66, 717x733, 86x88, 956x977 | Initial Letter T WoodcutA Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1737) A decorative initial letter “T” used as a drop cap (drop capital). It features palm trees and buildings in the background, perhaps intended to be evocative of the Holy Land. Keywords: initials, lettert, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-07-31 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1393x1803, 155x200, 579x750, 871x1127 | Full-page holly and ivy border, US Letter sizedThe Circling Year (1870) This leafy border features ivy with some holly thwoen in for good measure: it’d be great at Christmas but could be used at other times too. It surrounds the titlepage of the book. This version is prop [...] Keywords: borders, xmas, christmas, foliated borders, vinles, leaves, full page, surrounds, frames, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2018-02-20 + S K L |
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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 |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1123x270, 2246x539, 750x180, 833x200 | Rococo headpieceMy Boy Life (1882) This chapterhead, or headpiece, is an ornament from the top of the first page of a chapter (in this case, the table of contents). It features curly vines with syilized leaves surrounding a central cir [...] Keywords: chapterheads, ornaments, pouring water, aquarius, floriated borders, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2015-09-01 + S K L |
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1256x1664, 151x200, 2512x3328, 604x800, 906x1200 | Irregular border of flowers, birds and natureBible Pictures and Stories (New Testament) (1892) This border of wild berries, thorns, flowers, leaves, and even has a pair of nesting birds in it. It came from the title page of the second half of this book. There is also a version of the border col [...] Keywords: borders, frames, cartici, floriated borders, floral, wild flowers, decoration, page elements, spring, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2013-10-01 + 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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1752x422, 3504x844, 812x200 | Ornate chapter headpiece with vignette of curled-up boyMy Boy Life (1882) This chapterhead, or headpiece, is an ornament from the top of the first page of a section of the book. It features diamond knotwork branching into grape vines with rococo stylized leaves, but the pro [...] Keywords: chapterheads, sadness, grief, boys, people, headpieces, ornaments, bare feet, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2018-08-20 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1268x1699, 149x200, 2535x3398, 634x850 | Bookplate detail: family crestThe Holy Court (1663) The coat of arms from the bookplate. it is surmounted by a dragon’s head, and there is a bird, perhaps a falcon, in the coat of arms itself. This is a detail from the Bookplate image. Keywords: bookplates, heraldry, dragons, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-06-21 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1046x1558, 134x200, 572x852, 763x1137 | Title Page, the Leisure HourThe Leisure Hour (1896) Title page from “The Leisure Hour”—this was a monthly magazine, and this book is all of the issues for the year 1896, bound together. The engraving is signed J.H. Hipsley. The Leisure Hour 56 Paterno [...] Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-12-14 + S K L |
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133x200, 408x613, 545x818, 726x1091, 968x1454 | The front cover or title page of “Good Words” from 1872Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901) GOOD WORDS FOR 1872 The border was engraved by one or other of the Dalziel brothers, and I suspect for this reason was placed inside my copy of their autobiography. I also made a version of this image [...] Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2008-07-28 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 126x200, 1311x2087, 553x880, 737x1174, 983x1565 | Victorian vine-leaf page borderRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901) A border for a title-page, made from vine leaves with fruits. The engraving has a lot of small dots that might be ink spots from overly fast or careless printing, or might be part of the design. Keywords: borders, floriated borders, leaves, vines, grapes, fruit, twigs, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2008-07-28 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested |
1296x1175, 221x200, 259x235, 2591x2350, 750x680 | Bishopric of St. AsaphThe Grammar of Heraldry (1718) A woodcut of two vintage keys (skeleton keys), crossed one over the other, their handles towards the bottom, taken from an heraldic shield. St. Asaph is a city in Denbigh in Wales, and is one of the s [...] Keywords: heraldry, keys, symbols, bishops, greyscale Places shown: St. Asaph; Flint; Wales Added: 2019-01-19 + S K L R N |
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155x200, 701x905, 935x1207 | FrontispieceLaws and History of the New Forest (1811) At the edge of a clearing in the forest stands a tall tree; a knight’s sword, shield and stirrup hang from the tree, and two hunting dogs are tied to it. A richly dressed man stands talking to a wood- [...] Keywords: forests, trees, people, weapons, water, animals, christmas, greyscale Places shown: New Forest; Hampshire; England Added: 2005-07-13 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 157x200, 549x700, 940x1200 | Title PageChild Classics of Prose (1893) Unusually, this title page has an even number of text blocks; the wide spacing of the two lines of the main title might have been thought enough to split the title into two and create a fifth block or [...] Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2018-07-14 + S K L |
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