Items matching colour, book covers (results page 14)

The Bishop of St. Praxed’s Orders his Tomb.A Painter’s Anthology (1924)

In the picture, which is a colour reproduction of a watercolour painting it seems, the elderly Bishop is in bed. He has very pale skin. The bed is a four-poster and the surroundings are richly decorat [...]

Keywords: death, illness, people, bedrooms, interiors, candlesticks, curtains, wealth, religion, old age, colour, purple, gold

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Added: 2015-03-23

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Title Page from Treasury of VerseA Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

This title page includes a peacock and two little children reading books. A TREASURY of VERSE for LITTLE [heart] CHILDREN SELECTED BY M G EDGAR Illustrated by Willy Pogany The macmillan Compay: New Yo [...]

Keywords: colour, title pages, page images

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Added: 2011-08-04

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Frontispiece, Denchworth, hand colouredQuiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)

This is a version of the Frontispiece sepia-tinted photograph of Denchworth that I coloured using The Gimp.

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

Places shown: Denchworth; Berkshire; England

Added: 2006-01-28

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Sheldonian Theatre from Title PageThe Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary (1745)

The engraving of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford where the book was printed. The engraving appears on the title page of each volume.

Keywords: buildings, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-11-11

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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

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

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-29

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Victorian Border, Silver on Black.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

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Added: 2010-05-09

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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

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Added: 2006-10-10

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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: 2024-12-05

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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

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Added: 2010-11-15

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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

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Added: 2013-12-09

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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

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Added: 2017-11-15

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Title PageHolman Family Bible (1875)

The title page of this huge and lavish Victorian family bible. The Holy Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated out of the Original Tongues, with the Apocrypha, Concordance and Psalm [...]

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

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2025-01-27

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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

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Added: 2025-03-29

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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

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Added: 2011-01-31

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Imprint PageThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

The imprint page shows the printing and copyright information; it also has a coloured design that I have made into a separate image, Fox and Goose.

Keywords: page images, colour

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Added: 2009-01-28

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Hoy Court leather-bound spine gold decorationsThe Holy Court (1663)

Detail from the spine of the book (the back edge with the writing on it): I collected the five hand-tooled gold decorations together.

Keywords: ornament, decoration, book covers, colour, pictures of books

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Added: 2011-01-31

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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: 2009-01-28

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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

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Added: 2013-10-01

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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

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Added: 2010-06-22

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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

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Added: 2010-06-22

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