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Front Cover, The Gnome King of OzThe Gnome King of Oz (1927)

The Gnome King of Oz, By Ruth Plumly The
Founded on and Continuing The Famous Oz Storied by L. Frank Baum
Illustrated by Jno. R. Neill.

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Added: 2007-01-08

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Front CoverTurrets Towers and Temples (1899)

The front cover is green with gold foil.

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Added: 2004-03-20

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Front Cover, The Leisure HourThe Leisure Hour (1896)

Blue cloth with black and gold printing; a fine cover for this collection of The Leisure Hour from 1896.

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Added: 2006-12-14

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Title PageThe Leisure Hour (1904)

The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading. Volume: 1904 – 5. 4 Bouverie St., London E.C. Atists in this volume: Barraud, Allan Copping, Harold Dunlop, M. P. Forestire, A. Finnemore, [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2006-05-13

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Front cover from Electric Lighting for Marine EngineersElectric Lighting for Ships (1892)

A dark red cover with an illustration of a battleship in black; in gold, a beam of light from the ship’s mast illuminates a smaller, distant, floating ship or submarine. The crescent moon and the let [...]

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Added: 2006-10-06

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Front Cover, The Charm of OxfordThe Charm of Oxford (1920)

One of the more interesting book covers I’ve seen from this period.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2007-01-14

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Front Cover, Gilbert White’s SelbourneThe Natural History of Selborne (1879)

Light brown with green florets, and “Natural History of Selbourne” in blakc on a gold foil background.

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Added: 2006-08-29

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Holly WreathThe Old Peabody Pew (1907)

This detail from the front cover of the book is a green holly wreath with red berries, a symbol of Christmas.

Keywords: christmas, wreaths, borders, colour

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Added: 2011-01-06

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Frontispiece 1: A Titan of the polar sea lazily drifting with the currentWreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

A photograph of an iceberg; it is not, I think, the one that sunk the Titanic; there is a photograph of that iceberg elsewhere in the book.

Keywords: icebergs, water, greyscale

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Added: 2007-09-24

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Railway Trains in SpaceThe Book of Knowledge Volume 1 (1911)

Ten passenger trains, each with five carriages pulled by a steam locomotive, are heading for the sun, the moon, the nearest star, and for each of the other planets in this steam-punk Vctorian illustra [...]

Keywords: humour, space, trains, railways, steam engines, steampunk, retro, vintage, planets, solar system, diagrams, infographics, colour

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Added: 2018-02-13

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Summary of the Law, in goldHolman Family Bible (1875)

A full-page setting of a biblical quote, with a gilt (gold) page background and red, blue, green, black inks, with scrollwork, a border with crowned seraphs at the codners, and a sidebar in a frame an [...]

Keywords: typography, page images, commandments, religion, biblical texts, bibles, colour

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Added: 2025-01-25

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Machines of War and Castle DiagramThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

The entire plate. The other images here are all details from this plate, but at much higher resolution. These are all described as weapons used in attacking (or defending) castles. There is also an an [...]

Keywords: castles, diagrams, weapons, siege engines, colour

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Added: 2004-01-19

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Ballista (Balista)The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A ballista together with darts for the ballista and a winch for bending the ballista. This is taken from Machines of War.

Keywords: siege engines, weapons, diagrams, colour

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Added: 2004-01-19

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Machines of War overviewThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

This is the bottom half of the diagram shown in the Machines of War plate. The individual machines are in separate illustrations here.

Keywords: diagrams, weapons, colour

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Added: 2004-01-19

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Moveable Tower with Bridge and Battering Ram.The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

This is taken from Machines of War.

Keywords: siege engines, weapons, diagrams, colour

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Added: 2004-01-19

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Castle DiagramThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Diagram showing the various parts of the battlements of a castle. The text, under the heading References, lists 1. The Barbican, 2. The Ditch of Moat, 3. Wall of the outer Ballium [now called the out [...]

Keywords: castles, siege engines, diagrams, colour

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Added: 2004-01-19

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Catapulta [Catapult]The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

The lettered parts are explained in the text of the book. This is taken from Machines of War.

Keywords: siege engines, weapons, diagrams, colour

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Added: 2019-03-02

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Vintage border with peacock-feather styilized flowersThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This full-page Victorian engraved border features flowers that are drawn with lines to shade them and with tendrils that give an effect reminding me of the “eyes” in a peacock’s tail feathers. I also [...]

Keywords: borders, victoriana, flowers, floriated borders, greyscale

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Added: 2015-05-28

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Vintage border with peacock-feather style flowers, in blueThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This is a blue version of the Victorian vinatege full-page floral border.

Keywords: borders, victoriana, flowers, floriated borders, colour, blue

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Added: 2015-05-28

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Rosalind. In an Old Monastery Garden.The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

This painting of a young lady, Rosalind, in a (sketched) garden shows the young woman wearing brown dress, cloak and boots, and looking very much a product of 1914. She has red lips.

Keywords: people, women, gardens, art, colour

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Added: 2011-08-17

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