Items matching colour, book covers (results page 11)

John Carroll D..D., Portrait and SignatureMy Boy Life (1882)

A portrait of the author, Dr. John Carroll, and a reproduction of his signature.

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, signatures, handwriting, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-09-02

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Frontispiece: A Girl’s Face, after GreuzeCassell’s Family Magazine (1889)

This portrait, an engraving printed in red ink with a border in a delicate pale green, illustrates a poem by J. R> Eastwood: A GIRL’S face where, the budding rose Of youthful beauty blooms and grow [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, girls, children, faces, poems, poetry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-02-18

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Title page from National Portrait GalleryNational Portrait Gallery, The (1888)

The title page appears at first quite ordinary, but on closer inspection is in fact very startling. The reason is that the yellow colour has been printed! To be sure there is also foxing and brownin [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour, borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-07-29

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Title Page, The British Isles (Vol 1)The British Isles (1905)

“The British Isles Depicted by pen and camera With thirty-nine coloured plates and siz Rembrandt photogravures Special Edition Volume I.—Section I. Cassel and Company Limited, London, Paris, New York [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-07-05

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Frontispiece: Beata BeatrixDays With the Victorian Poets (1910)

Beata Beatrix . . . Tate Gallery From a painting by Rossetti. Because mine eyes can never have their fill Of looking at my lady’s lovely face,         I will so fix my gaze That I may become bless’d, [...]

Keywords: people, romance, poetry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-25

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Frontispiece: What the sun looks like when it’s asleepA Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

A small boy kneels between two trees in a dark forest; behind him is a brown house. In front of him and beneath him is a great cave, brightly lit by the sleeping sun, who has taken the formof a man ly [...]

Keywords: people, children, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, sleep, poetry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-25

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Frontispiece: Why has your tree no flowers while ours are pink?The Sun’s Babies (1910)

The sun shone brightly, the air was clear and warm, and the apple fairies came up from their workrooms for their spring dance on the young clover-leaves. “But where is our little sister?” they asked. [...]

Keywords: fairies, wings, gnomes, mythological creatures, illustrations for children, trees, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-05-25

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Frontispiece: Dinant, Showing Old Castle and CathedralThe Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

The building with the elongated dome structure is the main church, the thirteenth century Notre Dame de Dinant. When we fared forth into the streets of Dinant the morning after our arrival, we found a [...]

Keywords: views, cityscapes, churches, mountains, rivers, water, colour, art, buildings, houses, rooves

Places shown: Dinant; Wallonia; Namur; Belgium

Added: 2018-08-24

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Title PageQuiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)

The text reads: QUIET ROADS and SLEEPY VILLAGES By ALLAN FEA, Author of “Old World Places,” “Nooks and Corners of Old England,” &c. New York McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY 1914 The printing is in black and r [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-30

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Bookplate for 1581 Geneva BibleGeneva Bible Scans (1581)

The dot screening tells me this isn’t actually a very old book-plate (ex libris). My guess would be early 1900s. It is a crest with the name Huss, surmounted with the closed helmet of a lesser knight [...]

Keywords: bookplates, crests, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-06-06

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Victorian Retro-Goth Book Cover With Gryphon and Gold BorderSpécimen Album (1900)

This is a dark version of the book cover of a 1900 French catalogue of type and engravings.

Keywords: mythical creatures, victoriana, goth, borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-04-26

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BookplateHistory of Wales (1853)

A book-plate, or “ex libris” as they are sometimes called, from my copy of The History of Wales. I bought this book in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, America, so it’s no surprise that the bookplate say [...]

Keywords: bookplates, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-06-16

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-29

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Inscription in the bookFamiliar Wild Flowers (1906)

My copy of the book has my father’s signature, Eric A. Quin, on the inside of the cover and, opposite, this inscription. This book belonged to Mrs. Wilson of River’s Lodge. Given to Mrs. Hull for the [...]

Keywords: handwriting, inscriptions, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-01-15

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Frontispiece: “Yes, there he sat, on the back of the winged horse!”Myths Every Child Should Know (1914)

“At length—not that he was weary, but only idle and luxurious—Pegasus folded his wings, and lay down on the soft green turf. But, being too full of aërial life to remain quiet for many moments togeth [...]

Keywords: mythology, mythical creatures, people, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-07-29

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Frontispiece: Lâon, View From the PlainCathedral Cities of France (1907)

The Cathedral of Lâon, or Laon, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon, was built in the 12th century. “Voillet-le-Duc, in his review of the cathedral of Lâon, says that it has a certain ring of democracy and [...]

Keywords: colour, cityscapes, views, cathedrals, sheep, hills, trees

Places shown: Lâon; Picardy; France

Added: 2006-06-30

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Victorian Border, Red on White.Christian Parlor Magazine Vol III (1847)

This Victorian Floral Border is taken from the front cover. Gold border on a black background. Red border on a white background. Black border on a white background. Moody silver border on a black back [...]

Keywords: borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-09

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Spine from Our village bookOur Village (1893)

The spine of “Our Village” by Miss Mitford; it is a dark greenish colour with gold flowers and gilt lettering.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-09-24

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Photograph of the BookPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

A photograph of the “Picturesque Views” book showing the red moroccan leather cover and the gold tooling. In the background are some other antique books, and a brown leather-bound antiquarian book fr [...]

Keywords: pictures of books, books, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-06-11

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Title Page, Mansions of EnglandThe Mansions of England in the Olden Time (1906)

THE MANSIONS OF ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME By Joseph Nash [sigil] NEW EDITION Edited by CHARLES HOLME With an Introduction by C. HARRISON TOWNSEND OFFICES OF ‘THE STVDIO’, LONDON PARIS, AND NEW YORK [...]

Keywords: title pages, lettering, typography, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-10-16

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