Items matching borders, greyscale (results page 10)

Title Page The 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 Ariesalthough I bought the book in St. Catheri [...]

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-07-09

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Ornate chapter headpiece with vignette of curled-up boy My Boy Life (1882)

This chapterhead, or headpiece, is an ornament from the top of the first page of a section of the book. It features diamond knotwork branching into grape vines with rococo stylized leaves, but the pro [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, sadness, grief, boys, people, headpieces, ornaments, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-08-20

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Bookplate detail: family crest The Holy Court (1663)

The coat of arms from the bookplate. it is surmounted by a dragon’s head, and there is a bird, perhaps a falcon, in the coat of arms itself. This is a detail from theBookplateimage.

Keywords: bookplates, heraldry, dragons, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-06-21

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Title Page, The Sun’s Babies The Sun’s Babies (1910)

A fairly plain title page but with the title in a box, and a double line border around the whole page.

Keywords: title pages, typography, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-05-25

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Title Page, the Leisure Hour The Leisure Hour (1896)

Title page from “The Leisure Hour”—this was a monthly magazine, and this book is all of the issues for the year 1896, bound together. The engraving is signed J.H. Hipsley.The Leisure Hour56 Paternost [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-14

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The front cover or title page of “Good Words” from 1872 Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

GOOD WORDSFOR 1872The border was engraved by one or other of the Dalziel brothers, and I suspect for this reason was placed inside my copy of their autobiography. I also made a version of this image t [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-28

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Victorian vine-leaf page border Record 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

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-28

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Title Page Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

Wreck and Sinkingof theTITANICThe Ocean’s Greatest DisasterA Graphic and Thrilling Account of the Sinking of the greatest Floating Palace ever built, carrying down to watery graves more than 1,500 sou [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-24

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Title Page, Pentateuch of Printing Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges (1891)

Two stern figures hold up an ornate title page.The Pentateuch of Printing with a Chapter on Judges.Biblia Sacra Psalterium Moguntianumby William Blades, TypographerGutenberg Zell Aldus VerardCoster ma [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2006-07-01

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Front Cover Child Classics of Prose (1893)

The front cover ofChild Classics of Prosefeatures a picture of a Victorian child who is wearing a coat and riding hat, carrying a horse whip (possibly a toy one) and is surrounded by five dogs.The pic [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, borders, children, animals, dogs, lettering

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-07-14

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Vintage ornate border Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

A Victorian border taken from thebook coverof this vintage book of alphabets and lettering.The centre is actually textured, so watch for that if you edit the image. If you add text, use colours that a [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds, victoriana, decoration

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-11-29

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Vintage shabby-chic ornate full-page border Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

A shabby-chic Victorian border taken from thebook coverof this vintage book of alphabets and lettering.The 200 pixel thumbnail for this image has some text in it, but the others are plain.It’s a neste [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds, victoriana, decoration, frames, cartici

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-12-03

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Bishopric of St. Asaph The Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

A woodcut of two vintage keys (skeleton keys), crossed one over the other, their handles towards the bottom, taken from an heraldic shield. St. Asaph is a city in Denbigh in Wales, and is one of the s [...]

Keywords: heraldry, keys, symbols, bishops, greyscale

Places shown: St. Asaph; Flint; Wales

Added: 2019-01-19

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Back Cover Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

The back cover of this Victorian book has a geometric border and a floral ornament.

Keywords: colour, borders, book covers

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2006-03-29

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Frontispiece Curiosities of the Church: Studies of Curious Customs, Services and Records (1891)

Chained Bible in Cumnor Church

Keywords: books, old books, pictures of books, greyscale

Places shown: Cumnor; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-01-17

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Frontispiece Laws and History of the New Forest (1811)

At the edge of a clearing in the forest stands a tall tree; a knight’s sword, shield and stirrup hang from the tree, and two hunting dogs are tied to it. A richly dressed man stands talking to a wood- [...]

Keywords: forests, trees, people, weapons, water, animals, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: New Forest; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-07-13

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Title Page Child Classics of Prose (1893)

Unusually, this title page has an even number of text blocks; the wide spacing of the two lines of the main title might have been thought enough to split the title into two and create a fifth block or [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-07-14

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Chapter head: cherubs playing games Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

Cherubs playing games with hoops and a spear or arrow, in a chain-link border. Used as a page decoration at the start of the foreword of the book.

Keywords: chapterheads, cherubs, borders, ornament, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-02

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Antique/Vintage Chain-link Border (coloured) Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This full-page border is made up of circles linked together like a chain, with a woodcut engraved shaded background. I used orange red and black; theoriginal woodcutis printed in plain black, with no [...]

Keywords: borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-04

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Foliated chapter-head with geometric border Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

An Egyptian-inspired geometric border containing a fleur-de-lys in a circle between two vine branches. It was at the head of the first index page. The border style was popular in the nineteenth centur [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, borders, fleurs de lys, vines, geometric borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-07-09

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