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Front Cover Conjuring Tricks (1890)

Keywords: book covers, page images, colour

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Added: 2010-06-03

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Ornate and Pretentious Title Page Universal Classic Manuscripts Vol II (1901)

The title page of Universal Classic Manscripts is made to look like an alabaster funeral monument on the wall of a cathedral, with ornater fed and gold filigree work topped by a coat of arms of the UK [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, engravings, colour, lettering, coats of arms, heraldry

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Added: 2017-09-27

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Frontispiece: Restormel Castle Steam Locomotive, GWR British 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 banks [...]

Keywords: railways, transport, engines, steam engines, greyscale

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Added: 2014-01-26

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Title Page, Old England Alt-England (1888)

Alt-England: Eine Studienreise durch London und die Grafschaften zwischen Kanal und Piktenwallvon Adolf Brennecke Gänzliche Neubearbeitung der 2 und 3 Abteilung der Nordlandfahrten.Which is, Old Engla [...]

Keywords: titel pages, colour, typography, page images

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Added: 2022-06-03

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Title Page, Osteographia Osteographia, 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

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Front Cover, El Mundo Ilustrado El Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

This magazine was originally sold in fortnightly issues, with 26 of them (I think) bound into one volume; the copy I have lost its covers before I bought it (which is why I could afford it!) so what y [...]

Keywords: ruins, title pages, book covers, page images, greyscale

Places shown: Borghetto sul Mincio; Valeggio sul Mincio; Verona; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2018-08-22

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Dragon! Geneva Bible Scans (1581)

An heraldic dragon from theGeneva Bible New Testament Title Page.

Keywords: dragons, heraldry, mythical creatures, greyscale

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Added: 2012-06-17

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Title page detail: heraldic scrollwork Geneva 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

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Added: 2012-06-18

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Title page A History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1851)

The title page is somewhat damaged.A History of the Earth and Animated Nature.By Oliver Goldsmith.With an Introductory View of the Animal Kingdom, Translated from the French of Baron Cubier,and copiou [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2018-07-16

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Architecture fig. 1a, Column from Lindisfarne The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

This engraving of a fluted column is taken fromArchitecture, and is one of several columns in that picture that are taken from Lindisfarne Priory, built in (or slightly after) A.D. 1093.The columns No [...]

Keywords: columns, norman architecture, greyscale

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Added: 2014-09-01

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Title page The Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

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Added: 2003-02-26

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Book Plate: Sproatt and Rolph Old 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

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Added: 2007-11-09

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Title Page, La France Ilustrée La 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

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Added: 2020-10-31

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Title Page, In Search of Scotland In 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

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Added: 2008-01-13

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Half-Title Page Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

The half-title page features anornate 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, 1880d [...]

Keywords: page images, greyscale

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Added: 2012-03-31

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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

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Edinburgh from Calton Hill Northland Journeys, Part I (1881)

Edinburgh von Calton Hill aus gesehen

This is a view of Edinburgh fromCalton Hill, but predates a lot of more recent building. Edinburgh Castle is in the far background.

Keywords: cityscapes, views, castles, towers, greyscale

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2020-03-17

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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.

Keywords: front covers, book covers, greyscale

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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.

Keywords: page images, book covers, music, colour, typography, lettering, book covers

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Added: 2006-03-15

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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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