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1038x645, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1200, 2076x1289, 2560x1600, 322x200, 5120x3200, 750x466 | Frontispiece: Restormel Castle Steam Locomotive, GWRBritish Locomotives Illustrated (1933) 4-6-0 four-cylinder express engine No. 5010, “Restormel Castle,” G.W.R. [Great Western Railway] [. . .] Designed primarily to avoid double heading with trains weighing up to 360 tons, on the heavy ban [...] Keywords: railways, transport, engines, steam engines, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2014-01-26 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 133x200, 649x975, 865x1300 | Warwick Castle from the RiverWarwick and Leamington (1920) The towers of Warwick Castle are silhouetted against a sunset; smoke from the chimneys of two thatched cottages rises up against trees in autumn foliage. In the foreground, a solitary boatsman punts d [...] Keywords: castles, towers, colour, water, boats, people, houses, sunsets, trees Places shown: Warwick; Warwickshire; England Added: 2003-11-09 + S K L R N |
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| 1158x1859, 125x200, 467x750, 579x930 | Title Page, OsteographiaOsteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones (1733) The title page includes an engracing of three gentlemen discussing and examining a skeleton, I think human, with just the rib cage, neck, skull, remaining, suspended upside=down from a wooden tripod. [...] Keywords: title pages, anatomy, skeletons, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2023-02-21 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1178x1368, 172x200, 663x770, 884x1026 | Title page detail: heraldic scrollworkGeneva Bible Scans (1581) The concordance title page includes this cartouche with a boar’s head (rather like a chess-piece, on a crowned brick base, formally a “mural crown”) with a scroll coming from its mouth and at the bott [...] Keywords: borders, inscriptions, heraldry, sheep, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-06-18 + S K L |
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126x200, 507x808, 676x1078, 902x1437 | Book Plate: Sproatt and RolphOld English Country Cottages (1906) Sproatt and Rolph was a firm of architects based in Toronto; the bookplate (Ex Libris) is dated 1915. It shows a woman kneeling with a blueprint or plan of a building which is being constructed behin [...] Keywords: bookplates, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-11-09 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 148x200, 1485x2012, 553x750, 743x1006 | Title Page, La France IlustréeLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878) The words La France appear in very large writing on this page, the F and E perhaps 5 inches / 12.5cm tall, in bold uneaven script that says 1880s France; beneath that ILUSTRÉE is in sans-serif type, [...] Keywords: title pages, page images, rustic borders, borders, lettering, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2020-10-31 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1248x875, 2496x1750, 285x200, 750x526 | Frontispiece: Alnwick CastlePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (1870) A colour engraving, printed using multiple plates (or stones) each engraved for a different colour. We see in the foreground a stone bridge over a river, with a tomb of, or monument to, a dog on it. T [...] Keywords: towers, castles, bridges, battlements, turrets, trees, parks, people, fishing, stately homes, manors, buildings, exteriors, colour Places shown: Alnwick; Northumberland; England Added: 2023-02-24 + S K L R N |
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131x200, 485x743, 647x990, 863x1321 | Title Page, In Search of ScotlandIn Search of Scotland (1929) The date is actually on the reverse of this leaf, which I have not scanned. I have the fourth edition; all four are dated 1929. Keywords: title pages, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2008-01-13 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 148x200, 554x750, 939x1272 | Front CoverGreat Races of Mankind Vol III (1893) This book was rebound, possibly for a library, and has a hand-written title on the cover. The cover is black; the label has red underlines for the races. Great Races of Mankind West Aryans, Semites, [...] Keywords: covers, front covers, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2024-08-24 + S K L |
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144x200, 480x664, 640x885, 853x1180 | Half-Title PageMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880) The half-title page features an ornate decorative initial "M" available as a separate image. I have not cleaned up this scan at all; let’s have some antique paper! Le Musée Artistique et Littéraire, 1 [...] Keywords: page images, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-03-31 + S K L |
Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required | 138x200, 1548x2253, 436x634, 581x845, 774x1127 | 1. Castor, Northamptonshire, from the South-West. A Norman Church with alterations and additions of each succeeding style.Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936) Early Norman [church] towers sometimes recieved an additional stage within a brief space. Castor (Fig. 1) is a magnificent example of this, and here the upper stage was certainly not contemplated whe [...] Keywords: churches, norman architecture, towers, church architecture, greyscale Places shown: Castor; Northamptonshire; England Added: 2010-10-12 + S K L R N |
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1033x701, 2065x1402, 295x200, 4130x2804, 750x509 | Edinburgh from Calton HillNorthland Journeys, Part I (1881) Edinburgh von Calton Hill aus gesehen This is a view of Edinburgh fromCalton Hill, but predates a lot of more recent building. Edinburgh Castle is in the far background. Keywords: cityscapes, views, castles, towers, greyscale Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland Added: 2020-03-17 + S K L R N |
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