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Front Cover The Old Peabody Pew (1907)

The front cover of “The Old Peabody Pew” includes a picture from a scene in the story, along with a christmas wreath and various borders. Thechristmas wreathmotif of holly berries and leaves is availa [...]

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Added: 2011-01-06

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Front Cover Elements of Geography, Ancient and Modern (1825)

Front cover of this 1820s schoolbook; it was once quarter-leather, probably with marbled paper pasted down, but two hundred years have taken their toll.

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Added: 2016-11-12

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Front Cover Craftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

Front cover from “The Craftsman’s Plant-Book.”

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Added: 2011-04-12

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Front Cover The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

Brown cloth binding with gold foil and colour printing. The illustration on the cover depices water lillies in flower.

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Added: 2006-01-19

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Front Cover, Family Book Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

The copy of this book that i have is bound is bound in black, with gold lettering on the spine. The size i have given is approximate.

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Added: 2021-02-21

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Front Cover Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

The book has been bound in an older (printed) music manuscript.

The book did not fit on my older scanner, but now I am able to show the entire cover.

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Added: 2006-03-15

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Front Cover of the 1770 Encylopædia Britannica Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

My copy is actually a fac-simile bound in full leather. Well, let’s say it’s full leather...

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Added: 2012-08-03

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Front Cover, Grose’s Antiquities of England and Wales, Vol I The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

My copy of volume I is bound in full leather, but the boards are detached. I have Volumes one and three (and vol. three is missing the maps).

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Added: 2006-11-22

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Front Cover Jugend [German art magazine] (1900)

The front cover of Jugend from 1900 is a sort of German Industrial design that forshadows the next thirty or more years. A gianr Janu, or two-faced statue, draped with garlands, is inscribed with the [...]

Keywords: book covers, art deco, statuary, statues, people, colour

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Added: 2012-05-23

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Bookplate with Crest The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

This bookplate seems to have had the owner’s name cut off, perhaps when the book was sold. It features an heraldic crest with a fleur-de-lys and a chief ermine in a bearing with a lion en passant (or [...]

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Added: 2011-10-09

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Ornament The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A printer’s ornament from the end of a chapter or section. This one shows a knight’s helmet with a sword and arrows.

Keywords: weapons, ornaments, greyscale

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Added: 2004-06-15

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Jugend Endpaper Jugend [German art magazine] (1900)

The end-papers of this bound collection of German art magazines from 1900 is a surreal natural scene with fruit, nuts, berries, pine cones, flowers and I think snow, by an unknown artist.

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Added: 2012-05-23

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book cover The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Showing the binding with intricate gold tooling.

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Added: 2004-08-01

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Printer’s Ornament with harp and vine The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A printer’s ornament from the end of a chapter or section. This one shows a lyre or harp together with vine.

Keywords: ornaments, music, christmas, musical instruments, harps, greyscale

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Added: 2004-06-15

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Half Title: The Art of Illumnating The 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 TimesNote that this 1860 book was not printed wit [...]

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Added: 2012-07-06

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Title Page, Antiquities of England and Wales The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

The Antiquities of England and WalesBy 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 Southamp [...]

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Added: 2006-11-22

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Knight and Hermit The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A knight in armour carrying a shield is on foot, leading his horse. He stands by a tree in front of a church or monastery door. A bearded monk beckons him in, pointing towards the open door. In a nic [...]

Keywords: castles, trees, hills, towers, knights, animals, horses, monks, armour, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

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Added: 2004-02-20

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Title Page Art-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 sarcoph [...]

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Added: 2015-09-24

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Dedication page With Cartouche Art-Journal (1850)

The dedication page comes after the title page and imprint page. Here it uses a giant circular frame or cartouche of gems or diadems to enclose the text.At the foot of the page, under the text, and su [...]

Keywords: page images, cartici, frames, borders, circular, statuary, art, heraldry, greyscale

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Added: 2015-09-24

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Oval or Elliptical Victorian Frame Art-Journal (1850)

This giant elliptical (oval) frame or cartouche is taken from thededication pageof the magazine. The giant circular frame or cartouche of gems or diadems enclosed the text.At the foot of the page, und [...]

Keywords: frames, cartici, borders, crowns, heraldry, royalty, sculpture, statuary, art, greyscale

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Added: 2015-09-24

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