Items matching borders, colour (results page 2)

Title pageThe Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

Keywords: page images, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2003-02-26

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Front Cover, Biography of ShakespeareWilliam Shakspere Biography (1841)

The front cover of this book has the wrong title, “The Works of Shakspere” instead of “William Shakspere: A Biography.”

Keywords: book covers, victoriana, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-09-22

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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

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Frontispiece: Magdalen Tower.Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From an Etching by R. Kent Thomas.

Keywords: colleges, bridges, boats, people, trees, towers, colour

Places shown: Magdalen College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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Front Cover With AliceAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

The front cover of the copy of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland that i have features a gold design of Alice holding the baby/pig. The copy is dated 1939, and is inscribed “To Eric, from Sidney Quin;” [...]

Keywords: book covers, alice, gold, red, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-05-15

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Front CoverRome (1905)

The text reads “ROME: Painted by Alberto Pisa Text by M. A. R. Tuker & Hope Malleson. SPQR” The SPQR here is a reference to Senatus Populusque Romanus, which is Latin for the Senate and People of Rom [...]

Keywords: colour, book covers

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-09

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Front Cover, Moderne Kunst 14Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XIV (1900)

The cover for the year’s collected issues of this 1900 magazine is roughly A3 sized (11.5 by 16.5 inches or so), and features a drawing of a topless woman holding a branch of what appears to be a thor [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, women, nudity, cherubs, sunrise, romance

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-05-21

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Frontispiece: Alnwick CastlePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 2 (1870)

A colour engraving, printed using multiple plates (or stones) each engraved for a different colour. We see in the foreground a stone bridge over a river, with a tomb of, or monument to, a dog on it. T [...]

Keywords: towers, castles, bridges, battlements, turrets, trees, parks, people, fishing, stately homes, manors, buildings, exteriors, colour

Places shown: Alnwick; Northumberland; England

Added: 2023-02-24

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Frontispiece: Auld ReekieIn Search of Scotland (1929)

Auld Reekie, or Edinburgh; in the distance the castle, but everywhere there is smoke.

Keywords: cityscapes, colour

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2008-01-12

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Book cover of The Mother Goose, with tape repairThe Real Mother Goose (1919)

The front cover of this children’s book has been repaired with heavy binding tape at some point.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-01-22

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Front cover, Out to Old Aunt Mary’sOut to Old Aunt Mary’s (1904)

The front cover of this small book for children is green, with a gray oval insert showing a picture of Aunt Mary herself. The lettering is in gold.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-06-21

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Front Cover from La Vita NuovaLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

There is also a rather plain dust jacket, not shown here.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-16

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Front CoverDie Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild (1888)

The front cover of this late 1880s book is ornately decorated: it’s a dark blue-green with black printing and gold foil-stamping.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-09-18

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Front CoverA Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1885)

The front cover of “A Sentimental Journey in France and Italy” has gold lettering (stamped, I think, because it feels indented) and illustrations from the book.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-02-07

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Front Cover, PortfolioFamous Scenes and Cities (1894)

The front cover of the book is brown with “Famous Scenes and Cities” in gold embossed capital letters onthe front.

Keywords: book covers, front covers, embossing, lettering, brown, gold, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-09-19

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Front CoverMonumental Architecture (1910)

The front cover of this 1910 collection of 50 plates reproduced from photographs. The individual plates are not bound together: the cover makes a stiff envelope to hold them,.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-09

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Front CoverThe Brass Bowl (1907)

My copy of this novel is bound in green cloth with paper stuck on the front printed with the title and an illustration of a woman, in Edwardian dress, holding a golden or brass bowl in one hand.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-10-03

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Front cover for Home WordsHome Words for Heart and Hearth (1888)

The front cover for the collected issues of Home Words for 1888 is blue with gilt decoration and lettering. It bears the text, “The Heart has many a dwelling place But only once a Home.”

Keywords: book covers, colour, lettering

Places shown: none

Added: 2016-07-14

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Front CoverLynton, Lynmouth, Exmoor, Minehead and the Land of Lorna Doone (1910)

Front cover.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-01

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Front Cover, World’s Best MusicWorld’s Best Music (1900)

A marbled cover with quarter-leather binding. There are some moiré effects in some sizes because of the interaction between the textured boards of the book and the digital images.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-24

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