Items matching bookplates, greyscale (results page 5)

Title Page, The Lost Boy The Lost Boy (1913)

Title page from “The Lost Boy”

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-16

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Early Victorian Border from Book Cover Gems by the Way-Side: An Offering of Purity and Truth (1878)

This Victorian decorative border is taken from the cover of the book; it features flowers and berries. Note that it is made from eight separate pieces that you could move around if you wanted: for ex [...]

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Added: 2010-01-28

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Title Page, Chambaud’s Dictionary Dictionnaire (1815)

This is a fairly typical title page for a reference work from the period (in this case, 1815) and is somewhat cluttered. In its favour the list of London-based booksellers and publishers at the foot o [...]

Keywords: title pages, french language, typography, page images, greyscale

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Added: 2018-09-17

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Inigo Jones The Lives of British Architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)

Inigo Jones, along with Sir Christopher Wren, is surely one of the most famous of architects in England.“Inigo Jones was born on July 15, 1573, in the Parish of St. Bartholemew’s Smithfield, and was c [...]

Keywords: portraits, architecture, people, architects, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-28

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Title Page from Royal Children of English History Royal Children of English History (1904)

Royal Children of English HistoryFrom Alfred the Great to Edward SeventhTold for boys and girlsA True and Instructive Story of England’s Royal Princes Who Became Famous. A History of Nearly One Thous [...]

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Added: 2012-09-08

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Title Page, The Brothers Dalziel Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

The Brothers DalzielA Record of fifty years’ work in conjunction with many of the most distinguished artists of the period 1840—1890With selected pictures by, and autograph lettersfrom Lord Leighton, [...]

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Added: 2006-11-09

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Printer’s Mark: Gryphon Die Kirchliche Baukunst des Abendlandes (1884)

The printer’s mark from the title page is in the form of a winged lion with the head of a bird,en passent, one paw raised, standing on a plinth on whic is inscribed a date,MSCSL, which is, 1690, presu [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, printers marks, gryphons, greyscale

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Added: 2014-03-21

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Boy thumbing his nose out of a window Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843)

The frontispiece shows Jean-Paul Choppart, the boy the book is about, looking out of a circular stone window and thumbing his nose, or perhaps pretending to play the flute. He has curly hair.I am not [...]

Keywords: boys, people, windows, cartoons, gestures, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-07

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Titlepage from Works of Goethe Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

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Added: 2009-10-18

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Bookplate for 1581 Geneva Bible Geneva Bible Scans (1581)

The dot screening tells me this isn’t actually a very old book-plate (ex libris). My guess would be early 1900s. It is a crest with the name Huss, surmounted with the closed helmet of a lesser knight [...]

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Added: 2007-06-06

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Bookplate from Leland’s Itinerary Vol I The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary (1745)

My copy has this book-plate (ex libris) pasted inside the front cover. It has a family crest with the motto “Pour Y Parvenir” (just do it) and the nameLouisa Julia Mannersbeneath it. This is the crest [...]

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Added: 2007-05-20

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Title Page The Life Of Anthony à Wood (1772)

Title page from volume I:The Life of Anthony à WoodFro the Year 1632 to 1672,Written by Himself, and Published byMr. Thomas Hearne.Now Continued to the Time of his Death from Authentic Materials.The w [...]

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Added: 2006-03-11

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Title page, Oxford Pictured by Haslehust, described by How Oxford (1910)

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Added: 2006-10-19

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Bookplate History of Wales (1853)

A book-plate, or “ex libris” as they are sometimes called, from my copy of The History of Wales. I bought this book in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, America, so it’s no surprise that the bookplate say [...]

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Added: 2007-06-15

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Title Page, Art In England Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart PeriodsWritten by Aymer Vallance, With a Note on the First Century of England Engraving by Malcolm C. Salaman. Illustrations after drawings by Wilfrid [...]

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Added: 2006-10-09

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Title Page, Memorials of Old Hampshire Memorials of Hampshire. (1906)

MEMORIALS OF OLD HAMPSHIREEdited by G. E. Jeans, M.A., F.S.A.Vicar of Shorwell and Rector of Mottiston, Isle of WightFellow of Hertford College, OxfordAuthor and Editor of“Murray’s Handbooks for Linco [...]

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Added: 2006-10-11

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White Pawn (Alice) to play, and win in eleven moves. Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

This is a diagram of a chess-board, the sort one finds printed in newspapers as puzzles, with a summary of the “game” that also serves as a table of contents for the book.I will add the table of conte [...]

Keywords: games, chess, puzzles, diagrams, illustrations for children, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-19

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Aunt Silvia in her Domain Look at the Bright Side (1883)

A small girl plays with a toy horse, dolls, a doll-house and a sheep on wheels; she crouches on the floor. Behind her a boy holds a stick. An older girl talks to the servant, who is dark-skinned, and [...]

Keywords: people, children, women, slavery, slaves, interiors, greyscale

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Added: 2007-06-18

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Title Page Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

Bill Nye’s History of EnglandFrom the Druids to the Reign of Henry VIII.Illustrated by W. M. Goodes and A. m. RichardsPhiladelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company1900There is a drawing of a king scratching [...]

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Added: 2006-06-10

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Title Page A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1737)

Title Page from John Ray’s book of English proverbs.a compleatCOLLECTIONofEnglishProverbs;alsoThe most CelebratedProverbsof theScotch,  Italian, French, Spanish,and other Languages.The whole methodica [...]

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Added: 2007-07-31

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