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Front CoverConjuring Tricks (1890)

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Added: 2010-06-03

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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 [...]

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Added: 2017-09-27

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Front Cover, Moderne Kunst Vol IModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band I (1895)

The front cover of this huge book is a dark red; in the picture i have brightened it, thinking it probably faded over time. We have an ornate scrollwork border round the outside; we have angels with l [...]

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Added: 2019-02-13

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Front CoverRed Book Of York (1901)

Red cloth with stamped gold.

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Added: 2004-04-25

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Frontispiece: Restormel Castle Steam Locomotive, GWRBritish Locomotives Illustrated (1933)

4-6-0 four-cylinder express engine No. 5010, “Restormel Castle,” G.W.R. [Great Western Railway] [. . .] Designed primarily to avoid double heading with trains weighing up to 360 tons, on the heavy ban [...]

Keywords: railways, transport, engines, steam engines, greyscale

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Added: 2014-01-26

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Front CoverOratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

The front cover; my copy has a quarter-leather binding and marbled boards, as you can see.

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Added: 2006-05-28

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Front Cover, Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and MercyWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

This tiny book is bound in full leather.

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Added: 2006-10-28

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Front Cover Vol 64Little Folks Magazine Vol 64 (1906)

The front cover for Volume 64 (1906) has a full-page illustration in colour of a large stork wearing hiking boots and walking down a country path with a girl alongside it. The girl wears a red coat. I [...]

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Added: 2016-10-31

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Front CoverMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

The front cover of the book is green and gold.

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Added: 2005-10-27

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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 of Evers’ ‘Steam and the Steam Engine’Steam and the Steam Engine (1880)

The front cover says that the book is part of Collins’ Advanced Series.

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Added: 2006-02-06

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Front Cover, Fry’s PantographiaPantographia (1799)

This unpreposessing volume contains the most fabulous examples of alphabets made with eighteenth century fonts and engravings.

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Added: 2006-11-02

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Dragon!Geneva Bible Scans (1581)

An heraldic dragon from the Geneva Bible New Testament Title Page.

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Added: 2012-06-17

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Red Dragon!Geneva Bible Scans (1581)

An heraldic dragon from the Geneva Bible New Testament Title Page. I coloured this one a nice bright red. You could also start with the black-and-white dragon picture and use the Colour tab to get a r [...]

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Added: 2012-06-19

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Title page detail: heraldic scrollworkGeneva Bible Scans (1581)

The concordance title page includes this cartouche with a boar’s head (rather like a chess-piece, on a crowned brick base, formally a “mural crown”) with a scroll coming from its mouth and at the bott [...]

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Added: 2012-06-18

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Cartouche or frame from title page of ConcordanceGeneva Bible Scans (1581)

This is the frame around the device (or trade-mark) of the printer Christopher Barker that was on the 1581 title-page of the Geneva Bible. It features trees and scroll-work and an oval central space. [...]

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Added: 2012-06-18

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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.

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Added: 2018-09-02

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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 [...]

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Added: 2018-07-16

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Architecture fig. 1a, Column from LindisfarneThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

This engraving of a fluted column is taken from Architecture, and is one of several columns in that picture that are taken from Lindisfarne Priory, built in (or slightly after) A.D. 1093. The columns [...]

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Added: 2014-09-01

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