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152x200, 614x806, 818x1074 | Dustjacket: rearDictionary of Proverbs (1917) The back of this little book had adverts on the dust jacket for some other books produced by Yale University Press: three books by Paul Claudel, Minister Plenipotentiary of France to Brazil: The Hosta [...] Keywords: page images, colour Places shown: none Added: 2006-10-09 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 149x200, 561x750, 852x1140 | Title Page, Bohemia Part TwoBohemia Volume 2: Vltava (1884) The title page shows some foxing, usually caused by iron or other minerals in the paper reacting with moisture making rust, or in some cases mold or mildew. ČECHY SPOLEČNOU PRACÍ SPISOVATELŮV A UMĚLCŮ [...] Keywords: title pages, colour, typography, bohemia Places shown: Bohemia Added: 2024-12-04 + S K L |
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135x200, 520x772, 693x1029, 924x1372 | Musical BorderFamous Composers and their Music (1901) This musical border features Greek or Roman busts at the corners, musical scores, laurel wreaths, musical instruments including violins, trumpets and horns, and is printed mostly in green and black. I [...] Keywords: borders, colour, musical instruments, music Places shown: none Added: 2010-11-14 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1077x1169, 184x200, 800x868 | Chi-rho symbol (Px) in red, black ad gold from front cover.Fabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887) The Chi-Rho, or Chiro, symbol is a PX monogram from te first two letters of the Greek word for Christ. This gold and christian Px symbol is set in a gold circle surrounded with flowers on a black fiel [...] Keywords: symbols, crosses, religion, christianity, colour, floriated borders, easter, geometric borders Places shown: none Added: 2013-12-08 + S K L |
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| 1852x836, 443x200, 750x339, 926x418 | 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 Places shown: none Added: 2017-11-14 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 148x200, 1557x2109, 554x750, 779x1055 | 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 [...] Keywords: title pages, page images, typography, colour Places shown: none Added: 2025-03-29 + S K L |
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100x628, 133x838, 177x1117, 32x200 | 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 Places shown: none Added: 2011-01-30 + S K L |
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100x100, 1191x1182, 1588x1576, 200x200, 893x887 | 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. Keywords: ornaments, animals, birds, books, colour Places shown: none Added: 2009-01-27 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 151x200, 1570x2080, 566x750, 785x1040 | 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 Places shown: none Added: 2013-10-01 + S K L |
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1062x1429, 149x200, 531x715 | 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 [...] Keywords: title pages, page images, colour Places shown: none Added: 2010-06-21 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1124x1511, 149x200, 2248x3021, 562x755 | 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 [...] Keywords: borders, colour Places shown: none Added: 2010-06-21 + S K L |
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139x200, 1760x2532, 521x750, 880x1266 | The First LessonGodey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine (Vol LXXXI January to June) (1870) A duotone in black and turquiose. A lady with a cap tilted forward to her eyebrows, a fur-edged top, a long dreass, skating boots, is on the ice outdoors with a man in a bowler had with a checked wais [...] Keywords: skating, people, men, women, victorian costumes, winter, outdoors, romance, xmas, christmas, colour Places shown: New Haven; MA; USA Added: 2025-11-11 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1175x1378, 170x200, 661x775, 881x1033 | 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 [...] Keywords: bookplates, colour, handwriting Places shown: none Added: 2007-06-21 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 166x200, 704x850, 938x1133 | Cover of the bookOud Nederland (1927) Transcription of the text: OUD-NEDERLAND EEN VERZAMELING DER
BELANGRIJKSTE GEZICHTEN,
STEDEN, DORPEN EN KASTEELEN
UIT VROEGER EEUWEN Keywords: book covers, colour Places shown: none Added: 2005-10-14 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested |
