Items matching colour, book covers (results page 13)

Frontispiece: Too Old for a StockingChatterbox Annual (1916)

The frontispiece to the Chatterbox 1916 Annual shows a boy sitting in bed, wearing striped pyjamas, looking at another younger boy in his dressing-gown and slippers who has entered the bedroom carryin [...]

Keywords: christmas, children, people, illustrations for children, santa claus, interiors, bedrooms, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-09

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Frontispiece: The Snow Sweepers (1865)The Circling Year (1870)

A man in boots and tall hat, scarf, jacket and rolled-up trousers, stands on the steps of a grand front porch with stone columns while two faces peer out of a window in this city scene. A boy on the s [...]

Keywords: winter, street scenes, snow, people, cities, pillars, children, boys, men, snow shovels, victorian costume, top hats, colour

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2018-01-21

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Title PageDays With the Victorian Poets (1910)

The title page is decorated as if one is looking at a monument in front of a castle.

Keywords: title pages, colour, page images

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-25

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Frontispiece: DenchworthQuiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)

“Denchworth [...] is one of the prettiest villages hereabouts. What little there is of it consists of one short street lined mostly with timber framed and straw-thatched cottages. As one advances from [...]

Keywords: streets, villages, houses, thatched cottagesstreets, colour, christmas

Places shown: Denchworth; Berkshire; England

Added: 2006-01-28

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Title Page, Leland’s ItineraryThe Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary (1745)

The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary. In Nine Volumes. The Second Edition: Collated and Improved from the Original MS. With the Addition also of a General Index. OXFORD: Printed at the Theatre; [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-11

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Two BookplatesThe Life Of Anthony à Wood (1772)

Two bookplates, one seeming older than the other: Ex Libris Jack Norris And, probably older, one with an heraldc shield Azure on a chevron enshrined between three Unicorns’ hads erased or, three cresc [...]

Keywords: bookplates, colour, heraldry

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-10-20

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

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

Cropped version suitable for screen background, lightened

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-31

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Title Page, The River DeeThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

THE RIVER DEE ITS ASPECT AND HISTORY By J. S. HOWSON, D.D. dean of chester. With ninety-three illustrations on wood / from drawings by A;fred Rimmer London Virtus, Spalding, & Co., 26, Ivy Lane Patern [...]

Keywords: title pages, colour, page images

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-11

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Title Page, Wild Flowers Series OneFamiliar Wild Flowers (1906)

FAMILIAR WILD FLOWERS. figures and described by F. Edward Hulme, F.L.S., F.S.A. “When forth I go upon my way, a thousand joys are mine, the clusters of dark violets, the wreaths of the wild vine; My j [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-03-04

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TItle PageMy Friends’ Birthdays (1885)

The title page from “My Friends’ Birthdays” includes a picture of a vase or urn with an artist’s easel, pallette and brushes, a Victorian border for a Victorian scrapbook!

Keywords: art, title pages, page images, colour, esaels, vases, paint, pallettes, borders, victoriana

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-09

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Title Page from Cathedral Cities of FranceCathedral Cities of France (1907)

Cathedral Cities of France, by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S. and Hester Marshall With sixty illustrations in colour by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S.

Toronto

The Musson Book Co. Limited, 1907

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-30

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Frontispiece: Jester and MonkThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A woman in a red jester’s outfit, including a jester’s hat with bells, and a black-robed monk wearing sandals, and with a black hood, hold hands as if preparing to dance.

Keywords: people, jesters, monks, sketches, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-26

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Title pageArchidoxes of Magic: Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature (1656)

PARACELSUS[:] Of the Supreme Mysteries or Nature. Of The Spirits of the Planets. Of Occult Philosophy. The Magical, Sympathetical, an Antipathetical Cure of Wounds and Diseases. The Mysteries of the [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-03-15

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Title Page, ProverbsDictionary of Proverbs (1917)

DIVERS PROVERBS With their explication & illustration Compiled and Methodically Digested as well for the Entertainment of the Curious as the Information of the Ignorant and for the Benefit of Young St [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-10

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Music book and wreathsFamous Composers and their Music (1901)

Sheet music (score) with wreaths, perhaps of laurel leaves to signify victory; this is a detail from the musical border from the title page.

Keywords: music, sheet music, wreaths, xmas, christmas, page elements, ornaments, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-11-15

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Back coverThe Leisure Hour (1896)

Even the back of this book has a floral decoration, in black against the blue cloth.

Keywords: book covers, flowers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-25

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Border of Peace from Front Cover.Fabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887)

The front cover of the book includes a border in gold and black on a red background; there are five florets containing symbols of peace, love and Christianity, as well as a vase of wheat and grasses a [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, religion, peace, decoration, symbols, christianity, christmas, xmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-12-07

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Bible Animals Title PageBible Animals (1877)

Wood’s Bible Animals. A description of the habits, structure, and uses of every living creature mentioned in the scriptures, from the ape to the coral; and explaining all those passages in the old and [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-07-07

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Garden boyA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A curly-haired child, a boy, is on one knee; he wears a white shirt, blue dungarees (with a well-worn knee), white socks and brown shoes. He holds a flower and smiles at it. At his feet a watering ca [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, children, people, flowers, gardening, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-06-26

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Title page from A Child’s Garden of VersesA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A small boy kneels next to a watering-can and a (dangerously) upturned rake; he holds a flower to examine. On either side of him, two tall stalks grow with flowers; perhaps they are hollyhocks. The [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour, flowers, children

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-06-26

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