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Hoy Court leather-bound spine gold decorationsThe Holy Court (1663)

Detail from the spine of the book (the back edge with the writing on it): I collected the five hand-tooled gold decorations together.

Keywords: ornament, decoration, book covers, colour, pictures of books

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Added: 2011-01-30

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Chapter head: cherubs playing gamesDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

Cherubs playing games with hoops and a spear or arrow, in a chain-link border. Used as a page decoration at the start of the foreword of the book.

Keywords: chapterheads, cherubs, borders, ornament, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-02

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Ornate Early Victorian BorderOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Strictly speaking this border is from 1840 or earlier so pre-Victorian, and shows the transition from natural to stylized ornament.

The border is taken from Fig. 254, Emblems for July.

Keywords: borders, circles, ornate, ornament, greyscale

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Added: 2022-05-24

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Crumbling elegance: floriated tailpiece with criblé backgroundSagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

This typographic decoration was printed as a tail-piece at the end of a chapter. The stippled white dots on a black background are called a criblé effect; this style was popular in the sixteenth centu [...]

Keywords: ornament, tailpieces, typography, criblé, greyscale

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Added: 2014-01-04

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Courtyard of an Egyptian HouseLa Civilizacion (1881)

This could almost be the atrium of a modern hotel, but it’s a drawing (speculatively, presumably) of an ancient Egyptian house built to surround a central courtyard that seems perhaps to have a glass [...]

Keywords: ancient egypt, interiors, people, statuary, decoration, ornament, pillars, yellow, bare feet, colour

Places shown: Egypt

Added: 2018-07-18

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Tailpiece with grotesque gargoyle figureMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1881)

This ornate end-of-chapter ornament, or tail-piece, includes a grotesque horned head with a hollow mouth, as for a drain-spout of a gargoyle.

Keywords: tailpieces, gargoyles, grotesques, mouths, mythical creatures, ornament, greyscale

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Added: 2020-08-19

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Decorative initial capital letter “L” by BlinMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

A decorative initial “L” used as a drop cap, and attributed to Blin, whom I take to be Jean-Baptiste Belin De Fontenay, an 17th and early 18th century French artist known as Blin.

Keywords: letterl, initials, floriated initials, ornament, greyscale

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Added: 2009-12-14

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Full-page gold and coloured medieval borderThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

It’s easy to imgine that interest in medieval borders, calligraphy and decoration started with William Morris and Edward Johnston in the 1880s, but this book was produced in 1860 and includes such bea [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, birds, ornament, illuminated manuscripts, frogs, floriated borders, vines, colour

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Added: 2012-06-30

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