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Ornate and Pretentious Title PageUniversal Classic Manuscripts Vol II (1901)

The title page of Universal Classic Manscripts is made to look like an alabaster funeral monument on the wall of a cathedral, with ornater fed and gold filigree work topped by a coat of arms of the UK [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, engravings, colour, lettering, coats of arms, heraldry

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Added: 2017-09-27

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front cover, Allegories and EmblemsAllegorien und Embleme, Vol II (1882)

The front cover of the second volume of Allegorien und Embleme has a quarter-leather binding and gilt-stamped decoration with black and red printing that includes a woman and an heraldic shield.

Keywords: book covers, lettering, people, typography, colour, heraldry

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Added: 2018-09-02

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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

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Added: 2020-10-31

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Front Cover, PortfolioFamous Scenes and Cities (1894)

The front cover of the book is brown with “Famous Scenes and Cities” in gold embossed capital letters onthe front.

Keywords: book covers, front covers, embossing, lettering, brown, gold, colour

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Added: 2020-09-19

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Front cover for Home WordsHome Words for Heart and Hearth (1888)

The front cover for the collected issues of Home Words for 1888 is blue with gilt decoration and lettering. It bears the text, “The Heart has many a dwelling place But only once a Home.”

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Added: 2016-07-14

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Front Cover, National Portrait GalleryNational Portrait Gallery, The (1888)

The front cover of this thinnish volume is red, with a black Victorian floral border and ornate gold lettering.

Keywords: book covers, colour, victoriana, lettering

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Added: 2010-07-28

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Front CoverHolman Family Bible (1875)

The Holman Family Bible is an impressive volume. The cover is closed with a brass clasp, and there is gold lettering on the front cover. The dark parts round the edges are sculpted (actually made out [...]

Keywords: books, book covers, colour, gold, lettering, typography

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Added: 2025-02-24

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Front CoverLegends of the Seven Seas (1929)

The front cover of this book of fairy tales is in blue buckram with gold lettering.

Keywords: book covers, lettering, colour

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Added: 2025-03-06

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Front Cover for English CathedralsEnglish Cathedrals (1910)

This copy of the book is bound in blue buckram cloth with gold (foil-stamped) lettering: ENGLISH CATHEDRALS BY Mrs. Schvyler Van Rensselar With Illustrations bu Joseph Pennell. The writing (after the [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, blue, lettering

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Added: 2020-10-15

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Front CoverEccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

The book has been bound in an older (printed) music manuscript.

The book did not fit on my older scanner, but now I am able to show the entire cover.

Keywords: page images, book covers, music, colour, typography, lettering, book covers

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Added: 2006-03-15

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Front Cover, Benson Stock ImagesStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

This catalogue was issued in a green cover with gold foil-stamped lettering to impress possible customers. STOCK DESIGNS Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages Benson Printing Co. [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, green, gold, lettering, printing

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Added: 2020-11-16

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Front Cover, Northland JourneysNorthland Journeys, Part I (1881)

The text on the bright red cover reads as follows, in gold letters (the title filled in with blue): Nordland-Fahrten Malerische Wanderungen / durch / Norwegen, Schweden, Irland und Schottland. That is [...]

Keywords: book covers, front covers, red, lettering, gold, waterfalls, log cabins, crosses, colour

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Added: 2020-03-17

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Title Page, Family Book Vol 5Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

The title page has at least five different lettering styles, and also includes a vignette, a small illustration, a Paddle steamer on stormy seas. Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, lettering, vinettes, greyscale

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Added: 2021-02-21

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Bible Symbols CartoucheBible Symbols (1908)

A detail from the front cover of the “Bible Symbols” book, with the words Bible Symbols in gold. If you want to replace the ettering, first clone out the existing lettering, or use the resynthesizer p [...]

Keywords: colour, cartouches, lettering

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Added: 2010-06-21

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Title Page, Mansions of EnglandThe Mansions of England in the Olden Time (1906)

THE MANSIONS OF ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME By Joseph Nash [sigil] NEW EDITION Edited by CHARLES HOLME With an Introduction by C. HARRISON TOWNSEND OFFICES OF ‘THE STVDIO’, LONDON PARIS, AND NEW YORK [...]

Keywords: title pages, lettering, typography, colour

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Added: 2020-10-15

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Spine of the bookThe Leisure Hour (1896)

This bound edition of The Leisure Hour has a luxurious blue and gold cover.

Keywords: book covers, spines, lettering, victoriana, books, colour

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Added: 2012-06-24

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Faust, detail from title pageIllustrations fo Goethe’s Fause (1871)

Faust, or, the Lucky One. This illustration is from the title page of the book of Konewka’s ilustrations to Goethe’s Faust, and shows silhouettes of Faust (left) bargaining with Mephistophiles, or the [...]

Keywords: faust, silhouettes, people, men, lettering, socks, thistles, birds, leaves, greyscale

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Added: 2025-04-26

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Holy Court Book decorated leather spineThe Holy Court (1663)

It’s an antique! This leather-bound book was produced in 1663, although it has for sure been rebound more than once in the meantime. Here is the spine of the book, with gold lettering and tooled deco [...]

Keywords: book covers, spines, lettering, colour, pictures of books, books

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Added: 2011-01-30

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Front CoverOrnamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

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Added: 2006-03-29

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Front CoverChild Classics of Prose (1893)

The front cover of Child Classics of Prose features a picture of a Victorian child who is wearing a coat and riding hat, carrying a horse whip (possibly a toy one) and is surrounded by five dogs. The [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, borders, children, animals, dogs, lettering

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Added: 2018-07-14

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