Items matching borders, colour (results page 15)

Full-page holly and ivy border, US Letter sizedThe Circling Year (1870)

This leafy border features ivy with some holly thwoen in for good measure: it’d be great at Christmas but could be used at other times too. It surrounds the titlepage of the book. This version is prop [...]

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Added: 2018-02-20

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Contents heading with children looking inside a chestA Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

In this line drawing the artist Willy Pogany has drawn a big old chest or trunk, with a boy and a girl looking inside while a cat (with a bow tie) mews at the boy. The chest illustrates (in a visual p [...]

Keywords: chests, contents, children, boys, girls, cats, investigating, searching, colour

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Added: 2017-11-14

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Title PageHolman Family Bible (1875)

The title page of this huge and lavish Victorian family bible. The Holy Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated out of the Original Tongues, with the Apocrypha, Concordance and Psalm [...]

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Added: 2025-01-26

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Title PageThe Table Book of Art (1880)

Usually i scan title pages in black and white (greyscale), but here i wanted to keep the red. You can also see the paper is somewhat buckled, i think as a result of an overly tight binding. The Table [...]

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Added: 2025-03-29

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Holy Court Book decorated leather spineThe Holy Court (1663)

It’s an antique! This leather-bound book was produced in 1663, although it has for sure been rebound more than once in the meantime. Here is the spine of the book, with gold lettering and tooled deco [...]

Keywords: book covers, spines, lettering, colour, pictures of books, books

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Added: 2011-01-30

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Title Page, New TestamentBible Pictures and Stories (New Testament) (1892)

The title page has a floriated border full of wild flowers (including thorns), a pair of nesting birds (possibly partridges?) and flowers. There’s some decorative Victorian type, too. There is a vers [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, greyscale

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Added: 2013-10-01

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Imprint PageThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

The imprint page shows the printing and copyright information; it also has a coloured design that I have made into a separate image, Fox and Goose.

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Added: 2009-01-27

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Hoy Court leather-bound spine gold decorationsThe Holy Court (1663)

Detail from the spine of the book (the back edge with the writing on it): I collected the five hand-tooled gold decorations together.

Keywords: ornament, decoration, book covers, colour, pictures of books

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Added: 2011-01-30

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Irregular border of flowers, birds and natureBible Pictures and Stories (New Testament) (1892)

This border of wild berries, thorns, flowers, leaves, and even has a pair of nesting birds in it. It came from the title page of the second half of this book. There is also a version of the border col [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, cartici, floriated borders, floral, wild flowers, decoration, page elements, spring, greyscale

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Added: 2013-10-01

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Fox and Goose Decoateive ElementThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A decorative motif, or page element, from the imprint page, shpwing a fox and a goose (or a duck maybe) reading a book.

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Added: 2009-01-27

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Green floriated borderBible Pictures and Stories (New Testament) (1892)

This border of wild berries, thorns, flowers, leaves, and even has a pair of nesting birds in it. It came from the title page of the second half of this book. The original was a black and white floral [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, frames, cartici, floriated borders, floral, wild flowers, decoration, page elements

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Added: 2013-10-01

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Bible Symbols Title PageBible Symbols (1908)

Some people say that a good title page should contain an odd number of clumps of text; here there are five, so this must be good, right? I have also made a separate image out of the purple border arou [...]

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Added: 2010-06-21

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Purple Victorian Vine-leaf BorderBible Symbols (1908)

This vine-leaf border is characteristic of the late Victorian era; although this book was printed in 1908, it was first published in 1904, and is on the cusp between Victorian and Edwardian. It is pr [...]

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Added: 2010-06-21

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BookplateThe Holy Court (1663)

This bookplate, or “ex libris” as they are sometimes called, is pasted inside the cover of “The Holy Court.” The pencil writing at the top right is a bookseller’s annotation from the 1980s and is mode [...]

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Added: 2007-06-21

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Title PageThe Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1897)

The title page has a red border with Maltese Cross ornaments at the corners. There is a stamp at the bottom, English Book Exchange, 333 Florida 333, Buenos Aries although I bought the book in St. Cath [...]

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Added: 2018-07-09

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Victorian vine-leaf page borderRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

A border for a title-page, made from vine leaves with fruits. The engraving has a lot of small dots that might be ink spots from overly fast or careless printing, or might be part of the design.

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, leaves, vines, grapes, fruit, twigs, greyscale

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Added: 2008-07-28

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Cover of the bookOud Nederland (1927)

Transcription of the text:

OUD-NEDERLAND

EEN VERZAMELING DER
BELANGRIJKSTE GEZICHTEN,
STEDEN, DORPEN EN KASTEELEN
UIT VROEGER EEUWEN

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Added: 2005-10-14

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The book cover for “The Story of Some English Shires”The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

Green and gold book cover.

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Added: 2005-06-20

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Front CoverCuriosities of the Church: Studies of Curious Customs, Services and Records (1891)

Showing the front cover of the book.

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Added: 2006-05-28

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Front Cover (Ebers Egypt Vo. I)Pictureseque Egypt Vol I (1878)

These are large books, measuring some eleven or twelve inches wide and maybe fifteen high (see Size for metric version), and the covers are decorated with gold and black to show a decorative sunken ga [...]

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Added: 2006-02-10

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