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OrnamentThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A printer’s ornament from the end of a chapter or section. This one shows a knight’s helmet with a sword and arrows.

Keywords: weapons, ornaments, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-06-15

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Printer’s Ornament with harp and vineThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A printer’s ornament from the end of a chapter or section. This one shows a lyre or harp together with vine.

Keywords: ornaments, music, christmas, musical instruments, harps, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-06-15

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Knight and HermitThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A knight in armour carrying a shield is on foot, leading his horse. He stands by a tree in front of a church or monastery door. A bearded monk beckons him in, pointing towards the open door. In a nic [...]

Keywords: castles, trees, hills, towers, knights, animals, horses, monks, armour, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-02-20

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Title Page, Antiquities of England and WalesThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

The Antiquities of England and Wales By Francis Grose, Esq. F.A.S. Vol. I. New Edition. [picture of a tomb in a ruined castle or abbey] London Printed for S. Hooper, No. 212, High-Holburn, facing Sout [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2006-11-22

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Title PageArt-Journal (1850)

The title page of the collected issues of the Art-Journal for the year 1850. The title page is mostly taken up with a drawing (engraved) of a group of three topless women standing on an ancient sarcop [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-09-24

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Ornate Rectangular FrameArt-Journal (1850)

This ornate rectangular frame or cartouche surrounded the volume number of the magazine on the title page. I liked the flourishes on the top and inside, with a hint of acanthus leaves. I have made sep [...]

Keywords: frames, borders, cartici, acanthus, greyscale

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2015-09-24

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Cartouche with Sculpture, Art and ArchitectureArt-Journal (1850)

This is the main engraving from the title page of the 1850 Art-Journal, without the writing. A group of three topless women stand on an ancient sarcophagus; the women represent sculpture (with a hamme [...]

Keywords: cartici, frames, borders, art, architecture, sculpture, painting, people, statuary, circular, sarcophagi, greyscale

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2015-09-24

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Dedication page With CartoucheArt-Journal (1850)

The dedication page comes after the title page and imprint page. Here it uses a giant circular frame or cartouche of gems or diadems to enclose the text. At the foot of the page, under the text, and s [...]

Keywords: page images, cartici, frames, borders, circular, statuary, art, heraldry, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-09-24

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Oval or Elliptical Victorian FrameArt-Journal (1850)

This giant elliptical (oval) frame or cartouche is taken from the dedication page of the magazine. The giant circular frame or cartouche of gems or diadems enclosed the text. At the foot of the page, [...]

Keywords: frames, cartici, borders, crowns, heraldry, royalty, sculpture, statuary, art, greyscale

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Added: 2015-09-24

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Frontispiece: Francis Peck, A.M.Desiderata (1779)

The engraving was taken from life and shows Francis Peck standing, holding some of his own books, and wearing perhaps an academic gown. The inscription says (in Latin) that he was born on the 4th May [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, frontispieces, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-03

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Frontispiece: Clerk ColvillSome British Ballads (1919)

The young man clutches his hat with one hand and with the other holds aloft a sword as he kneels at the edge of a pond. From that same pond a mermaid rises up, arms raised, breasts bare. This beautifu [...]

Keywords: people, trees, water, swords, mermaids, colour

Places shown: Slane; County Meath; Ireland

Added: 2006-05-13

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The Thames Illustrated: Title PageThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

The title page has a decorative border containing flowers, vines, and the face of a man with oak leaves for his beard, presumably intended as a reference to the Green Man of British folklore. The Tham [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, greyscale

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Added: 2006-01-19

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Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (black 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, floriated borders, inhabited borders, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-03

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Mediaeval Border from Title PageThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

This 1890s Victorian book has an arts-and-crafts-inspired Mediaeval/medieval-style calligraphic title page drawing, a design based on manuscript books and early printed books. The full-page border in [...]

Keywords: borders, calligraphy, lettert, inhabited borders, floriated borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-20

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Title PageHand-book of The Useful Arts (1852)

Putnam’s Home Cyclopedia Hand-book of the useful arts; including agriculture, architecture, domestic economy, engineering, machinery, manufactures, mining, photogenic and telegraphic art: being an exp [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-04-04

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Printer’s Flower from Title PageDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

Ths ornament is on the title page.

Keywords: ornaments, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-03-07

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Detail from title pageCambridge (1920)

A line drawing of a castle tower with leaves in the foreground.

Keywords: sketches, castles, towers, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-06-21

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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: 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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Title PageSome British Ballads (1919)

“Some British Ballads Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Dodd Mead & Co. New York.” There is a picture, in the style of a woodcut, of a young man and woman kneeling in front of trees or bushes; the youth i [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-13

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