Items matching book covers, colour (results page 6)

Title PageDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

The title page has been printed in two colours, and includes an ornate decorative border, which I also made available as separate images in green-brown (most like the original), black (easiest to re-u [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour, typography

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-03-07

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Frontispiece: The Horses of San Marco, Looking North.Venice (1907)

Bronze (or painted) statues of horses in strong sunlight. The printed colours or this painting do not reproduce well on the screen. There is a caption, “By permission of the Hon. John Collier.”

Keywords: statuary, pillars, animals, horses, colour

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-04-12

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Title Page, Benson Stock ImagesStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

The titlepage has the title and imprint information, the number 141 indicating a limited number of copies were made, and a subtle decorative border with lumps of dog vomit around the edges. Stock Des [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, typography, borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-11-17

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End Paper: the young mad read to her from a small book.The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

The end-papers (inside the covers) are printed with an untitled design signed by the author. The picture shows a mediaeval scene: a young lady on an ornate seat in front of a log fire; behind her is a [...]

Keywords: romance, love, people, fire, fireplaces, books, reading, colour

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Added: 2011-08-18

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Book InscriptionCraftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

Opposite the bookplate there is a hand-written inscription:

There is a monogram, HTB I think.

Keywords: handwriting, calligraphy, colour

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Added: 2011-05-21

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Red border from Page 27The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

The first chapter of the book has a decorative border around each page. This is a floral red border. You could use it as a photo border, although you might want to change the colour if you do that. [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, decorative elements

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-27

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Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique greenThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This is a version of the red border from Page 27 coloured green. There are also a brown and a black and white version. To make your own coloured version of this old page border, see the notes for the [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, decorative elements, frames, cartici, victorian borders, turquoise, teal

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Added: 2008-03-04

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Decorative clip-art Victorian border, antique brownThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This is a version of the red border from Page 27 coloured a sepia brown. There are also a green and a black and white version. To make your own coloured version of this old page border, see the notes [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, decorative elements

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-03-04

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Dedication PageEccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

This page has been repaired at some point in the past four or five hundred years, both with a small hole in the page and by reattaching to the binding. In the transcription here, the Latin came from G [...]

Keywords: page images, colour

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Added: 2013-04-23

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Gold endpaperNorthland Journeys, Part I (1881)

The endpapers of a book hold the cover to the body of the book. Older books, leather-bound, often have ridges on the spine; this is where string is threaded through to hold the signatures, the folded [...]

Keywords: endpapers, book binding, colour, vines, leaves, patterns, borders, page images, full-page borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-04-27

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Shabby-Chic Cartouche!Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

This cartouche or frame is supported by two winged cherubs or putti, each holding rope with many tassels that connects to a broad-brimmed hat surmounting the frame. There is also a small cross. You ca [...]

Keywords: ornaments, frames, cartici, borders, cherubs, bare feet, nudity, wings, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-18

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Vintage endpaper border with flowering vineNorthland Journeys, Part I (1881)

This elegant border is taken from the endpapers of a deluxe printed book from 1881. It features stylized flowers and seed pods on a vine. The middle is solid white; if you want to ake it transparent i [...]

Keywords: full-page borders, borders, floriated borders, foliated borders, good, yellow, colour

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Added: 2025-04-27

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Title Page, Cosmography and AstrologyThe Gentleman’s Recreation (1686)

The title page to the section of The Gentleman’s Recreation is well-known for having the misspelling Cosmgrarhy at the top left. What is more interesting about it is the way Cosmography and Astronomy [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour, graphic design, trees, diagrams, astrology, people, women, angels, heraldry

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Added: 2020-12-13

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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

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-12-13

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The Great Court, Trinity CollegeCambridge (1920)

“The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, though inheriting much from the earlier college—King’s Hall—which was set up by Edward II and his son Edward III, owes almost everything to King Henry V [...]

Keywords: colour, towers, flowers, colleges

Places shown: Trinity College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-21

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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 a Victorian border to 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 [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, floriated borders

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Added: 2010-02-24

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

A version of a printed floral Victorian border used 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 cle [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, floriated borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-02-24

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Types of ArmourThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Explanation of the Plate of Armour No. 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 us [...]

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-02-22

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Religious OrdersThe 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

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-02-20

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Clip-art: Victorian Floriated Border in Green and BrownThe 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 [...]

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-02-18

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