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Title Page, Le Musée Artistique et LittéraireMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2012-03-31

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Music book and wreathsFamous Composers and their Music (1901)

Sheet music (score) with wreaths, perhaps of laurel leaves to signify victory; this is a detail from the musical border from the title page.

Keywords: music, sheet music, wreaths, xmas, christmas, page elements, ornaments, colour

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Added: 2010-11-15

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Title page, English CathedralsEnglish Cathedrals (1910)

ENGLISH CATHEDRALS Canterbury · Peterborough · Durham Salisbury · Lichfield · Lincoln · Ely · Wells Winchester · Gloucester · York · London by Mrs. Schuyler van Renssalaer, author of “Henry Hobson Ric [...]

Keywords: title pages, typography, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2020-10-16

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Back coverThe Leisure Hour (1896)

Even the back of this book has a floral decoration, in black against the blue cloth.

Keywords: book covers, flowers, colour

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Added: 2012-06-25

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Title Page (Natural History of Selborne)The Natural History of Selborne (1879)

The title page of the 1879 edition is as follows: The “Chandos Classics.” The Natural History of Selborne, and The Naturalist’s Calendar. By the Rev. Filbert White, A.M. A new edition, edited with not [...]

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Added: 2005-11-08

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Full-page arts and craft movement borderThe Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [William Morris, Kelmscott Press] (1896)

This ful-page border, frame, or surround is made with an intricate design of grape leaves and swirling vines and includes bunches of grapes. It’s taken from the title page of the William Morris editio [...]

Keywords: foliated borders, borders, arts and crafts movement, arts and crafts, grapevines, grapes, vines, leaves, surrounds, frames, full-page borders, greyscale

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Added: 2018-09-08

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Border of Peace from Front Cover.Fabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887)

The front cover of the book includes a border in gold and black on a red background; there are five florets containing symbols of peace, love and Christianity, as well as a vase of wheat and grasses a [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, religion, peace, decoration, symbols, christianity, christmas, xmas

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Added: 2013-12-07

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Bible Animals Title PageBible Animals (1877)

Wood’s Bible Animals. A description of the habits, structure, and uses of every living creature mentioned in the scriptures, from the ape to the coral; and explaining all those passages in the old and [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

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Added: 2010-07-07

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Goblin Market Title PageGoblin Market (1933)

The title page of Goblin Market uses hand lettering by an uncredited artist, and also includes two woodcuts, one showing goblins with bowls of fruit after Arthur Rackham’s painted illustrations, and t [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2010-05-11

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Goblins with bowls of fruitGoblin Market (1933)

This woodcut from the title page shows several goblins bearing fresh fruit, probably from a drawing by Arthur Rackham.

Keywords: goblins, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2010-05-11

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Printer’s Ornament, bunch of grapesGoblin Market (1933)

This woodut of a bunch of grapes was taken from the title page of the book; it is sketched in the style of the other illustrations in this children’s book, but is used as if it were a printer’s flower [...]

Keywords: ornaments, greyscale

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Added: 2010-05-11

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Frontispiece 3: Capt. E. J. SmithWreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

Keywords: people, portraits, beards, uniforms, costumes, titanic, greyscale

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Added: 2007-09-25

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Title page from A Child’s Garden of VersesA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A small boy kneels next to a watering-can and a (dangerously) upturned rake; he holds a flower to examine. On either side of him, two tall stalks grow with flowers; perhaps they are hollyhocks. The [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour, flowers, children

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Added: 2011-06-26

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Garden boyA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A curly-haired child, a boy, is on one knee; he wears a white shirt, blue dungarees (with a well-worn knee), white socks and brown shoes. He holds a flower and smiles at it. At his feet a watering ca [...]

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

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Added: 2011-06-26

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The Bishop of St. Praxed’s Orders his Tomb.A Painter’s Anthology (1924)

In the picture, which is a colour reproduction of a watercolour painting it seems, the elderly Bishop is in bed. He has very pale skin. The bed is a four-poster and the surroundings are richly decorat [...]

Keywords: death, illness, people, bedrooms, interiors, candlesticks, curtains, wealth, religion, old age, colour, purple, gold

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Added: 2015-03-23

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Title page for Circling the YearThe Circling Year (1870)

The title page for ‘Circling the Year”for 1870 has a leafy border framing two large flowers at the top, and representations of the year beneath: spring with flowers; summer with warmth from a starry s [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, spring, summer, autumn, winter, greyscale

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Added: 2018-02-18

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Border of Roses and ThornsDays With the Victorian Poets (1910)

A decorative oval border or roses and thorns that was around a chapter title in this book.

Keywords: borders, frames, romance, greyscale

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Added: 2012-06-23

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Title Page from Treasury of VerseA Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

This title page includes a peacock and two little children reading books. A TREASURY of VERSE for LITTLE [heart] CHILDREN SELECTED BY M G EDGAR Illustrated by Willy Pogany The macmillan Compay: New Yo [...]

Keywords: colour, title pages, page images

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Added: 2011-08-04

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General Grant’s signaturePersonal Memoirs of U. S. Grant (1885)

This was underneath the frontispiece showing the young Grant at the age of 21.

Keywords: handwriting, greyscale

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Added: 2008-01-07

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Frontispiece: Alice and the White KnightThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“It was a glorious victory, wasn”t it?’ said the White Knight, as he came up panting. “I don’t know,” Alice said doubtfully. “I don’t want to be anybody’s prisoner. I want to be a Queen.” “So you will [...]

Keywords: knights, alice, horses, armour, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-19

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