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Title Page Image (detail) Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

A knight in armour [US: armor] rides a horse. He carries a lance, wears a sword, and fights a dragon; presumably this is St. George, patron saint of England. In the background is a castle or tower on [...]

Keywords: knights, horses, animals, people, dragons, battles, mythical creatures, armour, greyscale

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Added: 2006-08-08

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Title Page The Land and the Book (1894)

The Land an the Book; or,Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery ofTHE HOLY LANDBy W. M. Thomson, D.D>,Thirty years missionary in Syria and Palestine.[image] [...]

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Added: 2021-01-11

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Titlepage Illustration: The Faithful Guardian. The People’s Gallery of Engravings (1844)

A small child, presumably a little girl, wearing a frilly lace bonnet, a dress, white stockings and tiny slippers, sits or half-kneels on the floor clutching a small dog—a puppy judging by the size of [...]

Keywords: children, infants, animals, dogs, cute, affection, christmas, colour

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Added: 2015-12-13

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Title Page Detail: Basket of Flowers Craftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

This woodcut of a basket or tub of chrysanthemums and I think roses is in a mediaeval style, and appeared as a page decoration on the title page of the book.

Keywords: flowers, ornaments, roses, greyscale

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Added: 2011-04-12

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Victorian border around page 49 (detail, coloured) The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

I coloured this detail from aVictorian borderto give a better idea of the detail, and to show something that could be done with it. If you have used one of these borders, use the Comment link below t [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, floriated borders

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Added: 2010-02-24

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Victorian border - floral The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A Victorian border (from 1860); the book has these borders printed around each page in the introduction, with several different borders used in sequence. I combined the borders for the left and right [...]

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, greyscale

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Added: 2010-02-24

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Victorian floral border, red The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A version of a printedfloral Victorian borderused to surround the page of an 1860 book. This version is coloured red like the original. Like many late nineteenth-century designs, this border is clear [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, floriated borders

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Added: 2010-02-24

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Paddle steamer on stormy seas Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

This vignette, with irregular sides, is engraved on thetitle page. It shows a steam-powered paddle-boat that’s also fitted with masts for sails, funnel belching smoke, with a amaller sailing boat in t [...]

Keywords: ships, boats, storms, waves, water, lighthouses, greyscale

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Added: 2021-02-21

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Types of Armour The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Explanation of the Plate of ArmourNo. 1. A Shield called a Roundel.No. 2. A Target.No. 3. A Leaden Mallet, used by the archers, mentioned in the military part of the preface.No. 4. An Iron Mace used b [...]

Keywords: armour, weapons, knights, shields, helmets, swords, spears, colour

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Added: 2004-02-22

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Religious Orders The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A note on page 90 reads: The names of the orders delineated in the annexed plate, follow in the same succession in which the figures stand; beginning with the nun on the left, and reckoning towards th [...]

Keywords: monks, cathedrals, churches, interiors, colour

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Added: 2004-02-20

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Clip-art: Victorian Floriated Border The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils!The original (this version) was black; there are alsobrown and green borderversion, and asidways, or portra [...]

Keywords: borders, floral, floriated borders, decoration, floriated borders, greyscale

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Added: 2011-02-17

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Clip-art: Victorian Floriated Border in Green and Brown The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils!This is the original portrait version but coloured, with the leaves and flowers in green and the stems in b [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, frames, floral, floriated borders, decoration

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Added: 2011-02-17

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Clip-art: Victorian Floral Border, Landscape Version The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils!This is the original portrait version but coloured, with the leaves and flowers in green and the stems in b [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, frames, floral, floriated borders, decoration

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Added: 2011-02-17

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Book cover, Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This ornamental book cover, with its baroque border, is marked Munich (München) 1922; presumably the book was either rebound or reissued in 1922.

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Added: 2011-03-01

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Front cover, Gems by the Wayside Gems by the Way-Side: An Offering of Purity and Truth (1878)

Buckram or cloth with stamped pattern, with a gold inlay. I have made a separate image for theVictorian borderformed by the stamped gold.

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Added: 2010-01-28

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Front Cover The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

A Victorian binding.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2008-08-19

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Front Cover, Sussex Sussex Painted (1906)

By 1906 most books were being sold already bound, and cover designs were very much part of attracting sales. This book is bound in dark green cloth, with greenish-yellow writing and designs that might [...]

Keywords: colour, book covers

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Added: 2006-09-19

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Bible Symbols Cartouche Bible Symbols (1908)

A detail from the front cover of the “Bible Symbols” book, with the words Bible Symbols in gold. If you want to replace the ettering, first clone out the existing lettering, or use the resynthesizer p [...]

Keywords: colour, cartouches, lettering

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Added: 2010-06-21

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Front Cover Paris Avant l’Histoire (1885)

My copy ofParis avant l’Historireis bound in quarter-leather with marbled boards.

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Added: 2014-01-21

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Frontispiece: The Right Hon. Lord Penzance. National Portrait Gallery, The (1888)

A colour portrait of Mr. James Plaisted Wilde, the fourth son of Edward Archer Wilde, Esq., born in 1816. He became Judge of the Court of Probate and Judge Ordinary of the Divorce Court in 1863; he wa [...]

Keywords: portraits, colour, people

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Added: 2010-07-28

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