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A Dream: Tertiary man (Ultra HD TV version)Paris Avant l’Histoire (1885)

A detail cropped to a widescreen format from the Frontispiece showing the naked youth sitting in a nest in a tree, with the river and elephants behind him.

Keywords: backgrounds, wallpaper, widescreen, people, prehistory, nudity, bare feet, trees, elephants, animals, rivers, water, birds, greyscale

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Added: 2014-01-21

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Children with their teacherChatterbox Annual (1916)

A group of boys and girls surround a grown-up woman, perhaps their grandmother or perhaps their teacher, or perhaps both. The children are holding books; perhaps it is a reading lesson, or perhaps the [...]

Keywords: children, people, books, illustrations for children, greyscale, christmas

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Added: 2007-12-08

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Full-page oak-leaf borderThe Select Works of John Bunyan (1864)

This engraved border of oak leaves and acorns would be ideal for an invitation to a sacred druidical confluence, but it’d also make a great frame for a wedding invitation or a certificate relating to [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, leaves, oak leaves, acorns, surrounds, full-page borders, greyscale

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Added: 2018-03-13

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Boy with TrowelA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A red-haired boy kneels with a trowel in his hand, ready to play at working in the garden. His shorts are held up by braces, and he wears shoes and white socks; he faces away from us. This is a detail [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, boys, children, colour, gardening

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Added: 2010-06-03

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Alchemy Full Page BorderThe Hermetic Library (1678)

The title page of this compilation of occult books represents the journey towards the Great Work of alchemy, that is, of creating the Philosopher’s Stone, a stone that grants immortality (as well as t [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, inhabited borders, alchemy, occult, symbols, mythological creatures, greyscale

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Added: 2025-08-21

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Girl Watering TreeA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A girl wearing a spotted dress crouches down to water a tree using a watering can. She has a ribbon in her hair.

This is a detail taken from the end papers of the book.

Keywords: illustrations for children, girls, children, colour, garening

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Added: 2010-06-03

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Girl with flower in flowerpotA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A girl wearing a straw boater hat sits and examines a flower growing in a flower-pot.

This is a detail taken from the end papers of the book.

Keywords: illustrations for children, girls, children, colour, people, gardening

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Added: 2010-06-03

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Girl digging with spadeA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

This girl is facing away from us and bending down to dig in the garden with her spade. We can see her petticoat.

This is a detail taken from the end papers of the book.

Keywords: illustrations for children, children, girls, gardening, colour, people

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Added: 2010-06-03

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TreeA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A stylized drawing of a tree.

This is a detail taken from the end papers of the book.

Keywords: trees, illustrations for children, colour

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Added: 2010-06-03

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Title Page, VeniceVenice (1907)

Venice, title page, with the publisher’s mark.

The book was also published in the US in the same year, by Dodd, Mead & Co.

Keywords: title pages, colour, page images

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Added: 2006-04-12

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Title Page, Old EnglandAlt-England (1888)

Alt-England: Eine Studienreise durch London und die Grafschaften zwischen Kanal und Piktenwall von Adolf Brennecke Gänzliche Neubearbeitung der 2 und 3 Abteilung der Nordlandfahrten. Which is, Old Eng [...]

Keywords: titel pages, colour, typography, page images

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Added: 2022-06-04

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Title Page from My Boy LfeMy Boy Life (1882)

MY BOY LIFE, PRESENTED IN A SUCCESSION OF TRUE STORIES, BY JOHN CARROLL, D.D. “The child is father to the man” – Wordsworth. A BOOK FOR OLD OR YOUNG [ornament] TORONTO: / WILLIAM BRIGGS, / 78 & 80 Ki [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2015-09-02

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Victorian floral border from title pageNational Portrait Gallery, The (1888)

The title page of “National Portrait Gallery” is surrounded by this ornate and intricate floral border. The border contains four inset designs: the three lions of England, the rampant lion (i.e. side [...]

Keywords: borders, heraldry, victoriana, decorative elements, greyscale

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Added: 2010-07-29

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fore-edgeThe Holy Court (1663)

The fore-edge of the book: you’re looking at the front of the book, the opposite to the spine. It is marbled, a decoration that also served to seal the edges of the pages so that the book can be duste [...]

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

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Added: 2012-05-14

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Title PageThe Lives of British Architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)

This title page is interesting in that the pieces of metal used to create spacing between the letters have in some places dropped down and carried ink, in the name of the publisher.

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-28

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Frontispiece: Too Old for a StockingChatterbox Annual (1916)

The frontispiece to the Chatterbox 1916 Annual shows a boy sitting in bed, wearing striped pyjamas, looking at another younger boy in his dressing-gown and slippers who has entered the bedroom carryin [...]

Keywords: christmas, children, people, illustrations for children, santa claus, interiors, bedrooms, colour

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Added: 2007-12-09

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Frontispiece: A bride’s dreamDas Buch für Alle [the book for everyone] (1890)

Traum einter Braut. Mit Genehmigung der Photographischen Gesellschaft in Berlin. Which is, A Bride’s Dream, with permission of the Photographic Society of Berlin. Here there bride rests her head on [...]

Keywords: romance, love, marriage, women, people, cherubs, putti, nudity, bare feet, dreams, trees, fantasy, greyscale

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Added: 2025-04-19

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Title PageDays With the Victorian Poets (1910)

The title page is decorated as if one is looking at a monument in front of a castle.

Keywords: title pages, colour, page images

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Added: 2008-07-25

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Title PageLes Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843)

Title page from “Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille” by Frédéric Goupil. Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart Par Louis Desnoyers Illustrées par Gérard-Ség [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2025-08-02

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Title Page Detail: Angel With WhipLes Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843)

This vignette, or little scene, is on the title page. A winged angel stands amidst two groups of little children. One group, clad in white, have wreaths of flowers round their heads and are praying. [...]

Keywords: children, boys, angels, people, whips, punishments, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-07

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