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1406x2000, 141x200, 527x750, 703x1000 | Title page, The Defence of GuenevereThe Defence of Guenevere (1904) The title page includes a hint of the owl design from the front cover, with a woman in a long trailing dress standig in an archway of roses. This is the title page from the 1979 fac simile, so it has [...] Keywords: title pages, borders, frames, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2025-06-16 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1038x645, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1200, 2076x1289, 2560x1600, 322x200, 5120x3200, 750x466 | Frontispiece: Restormel Castle Steam Locomotive, GWRBritish Locomotives Illustrated (1933) 4-6-0 four-cylinder express engine No. 5010, “Restormel Castle,” G.W.R. [Great Western Railway] [. . .] Designed primarily to avoid double heading with trains weighing up to 360 tons, on the heavy ban [...] Keywords: railways, transport, engines, steam engines, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2014-01-26 + S K L |
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1158x1859, 125x200, 467x750, 579x930 | Title Page, OsteographiaOsteographia, or the Anatomy of the Bones (1733) The title page includes an engracing of three gentlemen discussing and examining a skeleton, I think human, with just the rib cage, neck, skull, remaining, suspended upside=down from a wooden tripod. [...] Keywords: title pages, anatomy, skeletons, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2023-02-21 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1178x1368, 172x200, 663x770, 884x1026 | Title page detail: heraldic scrollworkGeneva Bible Scans (1581) The concordance title page includes this cartouche with a boar’s head (rather like a chess-piece, on a crowned brick base, formally a “mural crown”) with a scroll coming from its mouth and at the bott [...] Keywords: borders, inscriptions, heraldry, sheep, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-06-18 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 126x200, 507x808, 676x1078, 902x1437 | Book Plate: Sproatt and RolphOld English Country Cottages (1906) Sproatt and Rolph was a firm of architects based in Toronto; the bookplate (Ex Libris) is dated 1915. It shows a woman kneeling with a blueprint or plan of a building which is being constructed behin [...] Keywords: bookplates, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-11-09 + S K L |
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148x200, 1485x2012, 553x750, 743x1006 | Title Page, La France IlustréeLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878) The words La France appear in very large writing on this page, the F and E perhaps 5 inches / 12.5cm tall, in bold uneaven script that says 1880s France; beneath that ILUSTRÉE is in sans-serif type, [...] Keywords: title pages, page images, rustic borders, borders, lettering, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2020-10-31 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 131x200, 485x743, 647x990, 863x1321 | Title Page, In Search of ScotlandIn Search of Scotland (1929) The date is actually on the reverse of this leaf, which I have not scanned. I have the fourth edition; all four are dated 1929. Keywords: title pages, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2008-01-13 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 144x200, 480x664, 640x885, 853x1180 | Half-Title PageMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880) The half-title page features an ornate decorative initial "M" available as a separate image. I have not cleaned up this scan at all; let’s have some antique paper! Le Musée Artistique et Littéraire, 1 [...] Keywords: page images, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-03-31 + S K L |
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138x200, 1548x2253, 436x634, 581x845, 774x1127 | 1. Castor, Northamptonshire, from the South-West. A Norman Church with alterations and additions of each succeeding style.Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936) Early Norman [church] towers sometimes recieved an additional stage within a brief space. Castor (Fig. 1) is a magnificent example of this, and here the upper stage was certainly not contemplated whe [...] Keywords: churches, norman architecture, towers, church architecture, greyscale Places shown: Castor; Northamptonshire; England Added: 2010-10-12 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1276x736, 170x98, 1701x981, 340x196, 347x200, 714x412, 957x552 | Printer’s Ornament with harp and vineThe 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 Places shown: none Added: 2004-06-15 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 142x200, 1906x2689, 635x896 | Title PageArt-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 sarcop [...] Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2015-09-24 + S K L |
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