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1229x1224, 201x200, 376x375, 737x734, 983x979 | White Pawn (Alice) to play, and win in eleven moves.Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871) This is a diagram of a chess-board, the sort one finds printed in newspapers as puzzles, with a summary of the “game” that also serves as a table of contents for the book. I will add the table of cont [...] Keywords: games, chess, puzzles, diagrams, illustrations for children, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-02-19 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1059x717, 1412x956, 295x200, 794x538 | Frontispiece: Lâon, View From the PlainCathedral Cities of France (1907) The Cathedral of Lâon, or Laon, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon, was built in the 12th century. “Voillet-le-Duc, in his review of the cathedral of Lâon, says that it has a certain ring of democracy and [...] Keywords: colour, cityscapes, views, cathedrals, sheep, hills, trees Places shown: Lâon; Picardy; France Added: 2006-06-29 + S K L R N |
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130x200, 1314x2023, 526x809, 657x1012 | Aunt Silvia in her DomainLook at the Bright Side (1883) A small girl plays with a toy horse, dolls, a doll-house and a sheep on wheels; she crouches on the floor. Behind her a boy holds a stick. An older girl talks to the servant, who is dark-skinned, and [...] Keywords: people, children, women, slavery, slaves, interiors, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-06-18 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1166x1708, 136x200, 341x500, 492x720, 656x961, 875x1281 | Frontispiece: She clipped a precious golden lockGoblin Market (1933) Laura snips off a lock of her golden hair to give to the goblin fairy folk, so that she can buy something to eat and drink. But sweet-tooth Laura spoke in haste: “Good folk, I have no coin; To take w [...] Keywords: goblins, people, trees, forests, colour, illustrations for children Places shown: none Added: 2010-05-10 + S K L |
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111x200, 1835x3295, 209x375, 413x741, 72x130, 918x1647 | Ornate rococo baroque capital letter MMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880) A rococo decorative initial letter “M” taken from the title page. It is repeated on page 66 as a drop cap (drop capital), where it is given this caption: Lettre tirée d’un livre italien du commenceme [...] Keywords: letterm, initials, floriated initials, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-05-06 + S K L |
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1176x932, 253x200, 882x699 | Title Page, Round The CoastRound The Coast (1895) ROUND THE COAST AN album of pictures from photographs of the chief seaside places of interst in Great Britain and Ireland. George Newness Limited Southampton Street, and exeter Street Strand, London, [...] Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-11-28 + S K L |
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1122x1483, 151x200, 605x800, 841x1112 | Frontispiece, Judges V. 20.Astrology (1806) The engraving opposite the title page of this erly 19th century (1806) book on Astrology clearly tries to place a Biblical and Christian veneer over the proceedings. It falls perhaps a little wide of [...] Keywords: astrology, temples, people, zodiac, spooky, christmas, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-08-23 + S K L |
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1146x1718, 133x200, 467x700, 859x1289 | Title Page from Electric Lighting for Marine EngineersElectric Lighting for Ships (1892) Electric Lighting for Marine Engineers or How to light a ship by the electric light / and how to keep the apparatus / in order With 103 illustrations By Sidney F. Walker M.I.E.E., M.I.M.E., Assoc. M.I [...] Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-10-06 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 154x200, 630x820, 840x1093 | Title Page from The Charm of OxfordThe Charm of Oxford (1920) THE CHARM OF OXFORD by J. Wells, M.A.
Warden of Wadham College, Oxford Illustrated by
W. G. Blackall Simpkin, marshall, Hamilton,
Kent & Co. Ltd., 4 Stationers’ Hall Court : : London, E.C.4 Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-01-14 + S K L |
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138x200, 1728x2500, 518x750, 864x1250 | Title Page, Kelmscott ChaucerThe Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [William Morris, Kelmscott Press] (1896) The title page from the Kelmscott edition of the works of Chaucer is, unusually, printed on a verso (i.e. the left-hand page of a double-page opening), which is why the outer border is wider on the le [...] Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, arts and crafts, arts and crafts movement, foliated borders, leaves, vines, william morris, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2018-09-08 + S K L |
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141x200, 1589x2258, 528x750, 794x1129 | Frontispiece: St. Paul’s Catheral from Cheapside.English Cathedrals (1910) St. Paul’s Cathedral in London replaced a much older building that was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1666. It was designed by Sir Christopher Wren. In the foreground a boy with a dustpan and trowel i [...] Keywords: churches, cathedrals, domes, buildings, roads, street scenes, children, horses, carriages, carts, trees, greyscale Places shown: London; Longon; England Added: 2020-10-15 + S K L R N |
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141x200, 141x200, 2521x3572, 565x800, 840x1191 | Frontispiece: A Dream: Tertiary Man.Paris Avant l’Histoire (1885) A naked man sits in a tree hugging his knees, his bare feet dangling. Behind him is a lake or river with elephants grazing. A bird wades through a marsh in the foreground. The man has short hair and a [...] Keywords: people, nudity, bare feet, trees, elephants, animals, rivers, water, birds, greyscale Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France Added: 2014-01-21 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1057x1437, 147x200, 476x647, 634x862, 846x1150 | 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 + S K L |
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