Items matching title pages (results page 1)

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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Title Page, OsteographiaOsteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones (1733)

The title page includes an engracing of three gentlemen discussing and examining a skeleton, I think human, with just the rib cage, neck, skull, remaining, suspended upside=down from a wooden tripod. [...]

Keywords: title pages, anatomy, skeletons, greyscale

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Added: 2023-02-21

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Title PageThe Art of Decorative Design (1862)

The main title is spaces out similarly to the gap between the other items on the page, giving five strong elements and a horizontal rule. Having an odd number of elements on a title page is preferred [...]

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Added: 2025-01-14

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Front Cover, El Mundo IlustradoEl Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

This magazine was originally sold in fortnightly issues, with 26 of them (I think) bound into one volume; the copy I have lost its covers before I bought it (which is why I could afford it!) so what y [...]

Keywords: ruins, title pages, book covers, page images, greyscale

Places shown: Borghetto sul Mincio; Valeggio sul Mincio; Verona; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2018-08-22

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Title pageA History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1851)

The title page is somewhat damaged. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature. By Oliver Goldsmith. With an Introductory View of the Animal Kingdom, Translated from the French of Baron Cubier, and co [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2018-07-16

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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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Title Page, In Search of ScotlandIn Search of Scotland (1929)

The date is actually on the reverse of this leaf, which I have not scanned. I have the fourth edition; all four are dated 1929.

Keywords: title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2008-01-13

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Half Title: The Art of IllumnatingThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This ornately engraved coloured design is on the page before the title page, and says: The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe From the Earliest Times Note that this 1860 book was not printed w [...]

Keywords: calligraphy, colour, title pages

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Added: 2012-07-06

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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 [...]

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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

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Added: 2015-09-24

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Title PageFarm Weeds (1906)

Dominion of Canada Department of Agriculture Branch of the Seed Commissioner Farm Weeds of Canada by George H. Clark, B.S.A. and James Fletcher, LL.D., F.R.S.C., F.L.S. with illustrations by Norman Cr [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, colour

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Added: 2006-01-14

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Title PageDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

The title page has been printed in two colours, and includes an ornate decorative border, which I also made available as separate images in green-brown (most like the original), black (easiest to re-u [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour, typography

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Added: 2009-03-07

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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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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 [...]

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Added: 2006-04-04

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

The titlepage has the title and imprint information, the number 141 indicating a limited number of copies were made, and a subtle decorative border with lumps of dog vomit around the edges. Stock Des [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, typography, borders, colour

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Added: 2020-11-16

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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 [...]

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Added: 2006-05-13

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Title Page, Architecture: Gothic and RenaissanceArchitecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

Architecture Gothic and Renaissance By T. Roger Smith, F.R.I.B.A. Professor of Architecture at University College, London. London Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited St. Dunstan’s House, Fetter [...]

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Added: 2006-08-08

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Title Page, Cosmography and AstrologyThe Gentleman’s Recreation (1686)

The title page to the section of The Gentleman’s Recreation is well-known for having the misspelling Cosmgrarhy at the top left. What is more interesting about it is the way Cosmography and Astronomy [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour, graphic design, trees, diagrams, astrology, people, women, angels, heraldry

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Added: 2020-12-12

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Title Page, Craftsman’s Plant BookCraftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

The Craftsman’s Plant-Book: or, Figures of Plants Selected fromthe herbals of the sixteenth century, and exhibiting the finest examples of plant-drawing found in those rare works, whether executed in [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, typography, greyscale

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Added: 2021-07-16

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Cambridge: Title PageCambridge (1920)

“CAMBRIDGE Described by Noel Barwell / Pictured by E. W. Haslehust

Blackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow”

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-21

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