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Frontispiece: Beata Beatrix
Days With the Victorian Poets (1910)
Beata Beatrix . . .Tate GalleryFrom a painting by Rossetti.Because mine eyes can never have their fillOf looking at my lady’s lovely face, I will so fix my gazeThat I may become bless’d, behol [...]
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people, romance, poetry, colour
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Added: 2008-07-25
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Frontispiece: What the sun looks like when it’s asleep
A Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)
A small boy kneels between two trees in a dark forest; behind him is a brown house. In front of him and beneath him is a great cave, brightly lit by the sleeping sun, who has taken the formof a man ly [...]
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people, children, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, sleep, poetry, colour
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Added: 2007-08-24
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Frontispiece: Why has your tree no flowers while ours are pink?
The Sun’s Babies (1910)
The sun shone brightly, the air was clear and warm, and the apple fairies came up from their workrooms for their spring dance on the young clover-leaves. “But where is our little sister?” they asked. [...]
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fairies, wings, gnomes, mythological creatures, illustrations for children, trees, colour
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Added: 2022-05-25
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Frontispiece: Dinant, Showing Old Castle and Cathedral
The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)
The building with the elongated dome structure is the main church, the thirteenth century Notre Dame de Dinant.When we fared forth into the streets of Dinant the morning after our arrival, we found a [...]
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views, cityscapes, churches, mountains, rivers, water, colour, art, buildings, houses, rooves
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Dinant; Wallonia; Namur; Belgium
Added: 2018-08-24
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Title Page
Quiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)
The text reads:
QUIET ROADS and SLEEPY VILLAGES
By ALLAN FEA, Author of “Old World Places,” “Nooks and Corners of Old England,” &c.
New York
McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY
1914
The printing is in black and red.
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page images, title pages, colour
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Added: 2006-01-29
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Bookplate for 1581 Geneva Bible
Geneva Bible Scans (1581)
The dot screening tells me this isn’t actually a very old book-plate (ex libris). My guess would be early 1900s. It is a crest with the name Huss, surmounted with the closed helmet of a lesser knight [...]
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bookplates, crests, colour
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Added: 2007-06-06
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Bookplate
History of Wales (1853)
A book-plate, or “ex libris” as they are sometimes called, from my copy of The History of Wales. I bought this book in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, America, so it’s no surprise that the bookplate say [...]
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bookplates, colour
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Added: 2007-06-15
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Inscription in the book
Familiar Wild Flowers (1906)
My copy of the book has my father’s signature, Eric A. Quin, on the inside of the cover and, opposite, this inscription.This book belonged to Mrs. Wilson of River’s Lodge.Given to Mrs. Hull for the us [...]
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handwriting, inscriptions, colour
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Added: 2017-01-15
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Frontispiece: “Yes, there he sat, on the back of the winged horse!”
Myths Every Child Should Know (1914)
“At length—not that he was weary, but only idle and luxurious—Pegasus folded his wings, and lay down on the soft green turf. But, being too full of aërial life to remain quiet for many moments togeth [...]
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mythology, mythical creatures, people, illustrations for children, colour
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Added: 2006-07-29
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Frontispiece: Lâon, View From the Plain
Cathedral 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 is [...]
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colour, cityscapes, views, cathedrals, sheep, hills, trees
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Lâon; Picardy; France
Added: 2006-06-29
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Victorian Border, Red on White.
Christian Parlor Magazine Vol III (1847)
This Victorian Floral Border is taken from the front cover.Gold border on a black background.Red border on a white background.Black border on a white background.Moody silver border on a black backgrou [...]
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borders, colour
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Added: 2010-05-08
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Spine from Our village book
Our Village (1893)
The spine of “Our Village” by Miss Mitford; it is a dark greenish colour with gold flowers and gilt lettering.
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book covers, colour
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Added: 2010-09-23
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Photograph of the Book
Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (1870)
A photograph of the “Picturesque Views” book showing the red moroccan leather cover and the gold tooling. In the background are some other antique books, and a brown leather-bound antiquarian book fr [...]
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pictures of books, books, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour
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Added: 2007-06-10
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1095x1291, 170x200, 616x726, 821x968
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A Siege of the Fifteenth Century
Castles (1926)
From a manuscript belonging to EdwardIV., now in Sir John Soan’s Museum.The [castle] walls, having ben breached by the artillery, are being stormed through the breaches; the stormers are covered by th [...]
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castles, colour, people, weapons, soldiers, towers
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Added: 2010-08-13
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Title Page from Peck’s Desiderata
Desiderata (1779)
The title page from this collection of random fascinating articles by Fracis Peck in 1779. I have left it in colour to give a feel for the yellowed paper. The book is over twelve by nine inches in siz [...]
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title pages, typography, page images, colour
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Added: 2012-06-03
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Dustjacket flaps from Proverbs book
Dictionary of Proverbs (1917)
The dust-jacket of the fac-simle had adverts on the front and back flaps for other books by Yale University Press, includingThere’s Pippins and Cheese to Come,Journeys to Bagdad,Les TrophéesandThe Div [...]
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advertisements, book covers, colour
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Added: 2006-10-09
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