Items matching borders, colour (results page 6)

Front Cover, Architecture: Gothic and RenaissanceArchitecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

The book was bound with quarter-leather at one time.

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Added: 2006-08-08

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Front CoverThe Land and the Book (1894)

Thomson’s “The Land and the Book” is bound, in this edition, in an earthy green buckram with gold lettering on the front cover and spine, on a black printed background.

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Added: 2025-11-15

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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 [...]

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Added: 2009-03-07

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The Thames Illustrated: Title PageThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

The title page has a decorative border containing flowers, vines, and the face of a man with oak leaves for his beard, presumably intended as a reference to the Green Man of British folklore. The Tham [...]

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Added: 2006-01-19

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Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (black version)Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This is the ornate decorative border from the title page of this book; it features cherubs or putti (naked boys with wings) holding up giant urns or vases; mermaids and mermen; angels, vines, flowers [...]

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, inhabited borders, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2010-01-03

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Mediaeval Border from Title PageThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

This 1890s Victorian book has an arts-and-crafts-inspired Mediaeval/medieval-style calligraphic title page drawing, a design based on manuscript books and early printed books. The full-page border in [...]

Keywords: borders, calligraphy, lettert, inhabited borders, floriated borders, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-20

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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 [...]

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Added: 2020-11-16

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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 [...]

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Added: 2011-08-17

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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.

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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. [...]

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Added: 2007-02-26

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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 [...]

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Added: 2008-03-04

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

This is a version of the red border from Page 27 in black and white (actually grayscale, desaturated and darkened). There are also a green and a brown version. To make your own version of this old pag [...]

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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 [...]

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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

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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

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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 [...]

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Added: 2025-04-27

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

This woodcut features a scroll-work oval cartouche or frame, with a wide-brimmed hat on top of it. Two cherubs, or winged putti, one on either side, hold multi-tassled rope. I don’t know the significa [...]

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

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Added: 2013-04-19

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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: 2020-12-12

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