Items matching colour, book covers (results page 4)

Front Cover, Fabiola Fabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887)

The front cover of this book is pinted in black with gold foil on red cloth. There’s a picture of a man in a Roman gown and bare feet standing in an arena looking up at the emperor Diocletian (identif [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, peace, christians, lions, sacrifice, coliseum, ancient rome

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2018-01-17

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Front Cover Elements of Geography, Ancient and Modern (1825)

Front cover of this 1820s schoolbook; it was once quarter-leather, probably with marbled paper pasted down, but two hundred years have taken their toll.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2016-11-12

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Front Cover Craftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

Front cover from “The Craftsman’s Plant-Book.”

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-04-12

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Front Cover The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

Brown cloth binding with gold foil and colour printing. The illustration on the cover depices water lillies in flower.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-19

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Front Cover, Family Book Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

The copy of this book that i have is bound is bound in black, with gold lettering on the spine. The size i have given is approximate.

Keywords: front covers, book covers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-02-21

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Front Cover Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

The book has been bound in an older (printed) music manuscript.

The book did not fit on my older scanner, but now I am able to show the entire cover.

Keywords: page images, book covers, music, colour, typography, lettering, book covers

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-15

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Front Cover of the 1770 Encylopædia Britannica Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

My copy is actually a fac-simile bound in full leather. Well, let’s say it’s full leather...

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-08-03

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Front Cover, Grose’s Antiquities of England and Wales, Vol I The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

My copy of volume I is bound in full leather, but the boards are detached. I have Volumes one and three (and vol. three is missing the maps).

Keywords: colour, book covers

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-22

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Front Cover Jugend [German art magazine] (1900)

The front cover of Jugend from 1900 is a sort of German Industrial design that forshadows the next thirty or more years. A gianr Janu, or two-faced statue, draped with garlands, is inscribed with the [...]

Keywords: book covers, art deco, statuary, statues, people, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-05-23

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Bookplate with Crest The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

This bookplate seems to have had the owner’s name cut off, perhaps when the book was sold. It features an heraldic crest with a fleur-de-lys and a chief ermine in a bearing with a lion en passant (or [...]

Keywords: bookplates, heraldry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-10-09

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Jugend Endpaper Jugend [German art magazine] (1900)

The end-papers of this bound collection of German art magazines from 1900 is a surreal natural scene with fruit, nuts, berries, pine cones, flowers and I think snow, by an unknown artist.

Keywords: endpapers, nature, plants, nuts, fruit, snow, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-05-23

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book cover The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Showing the binding with intricate gold tooling.

Keywords: colour, book covers, pictures of books

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-08-01

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Half Title: The Art of Illumnating The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This ornately engraved coloured design is on the page before the title page, and says:The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe From the Earliest TimesNote that this 1860 book was not printed wit [...]

Keywords: calligraphy, colour, title pages

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-07-06

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Ruins of Lindisfarne Priory The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

The caption reads,History Preserving the Monuments of Antiquity. The side View of Lindisfarne, or Holy Island Monastery, Northumberland. Pub. 25 May 1781 by S. HooperThe image is signed, S. Spurrow sc [...]

Keywords: abbeys, castles, windows, arches, ruins, people, clouds, bare feet, nudity, colour

Places shown: Lindisfarne; Northumberland; England

Added: 2003-02-28

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Knight and Hermit The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A knight in armour carrying a shield is on foot, leading his horse. He stands by a tree in front of a church or monastery door. A bearded monk beckons him in, pointing towards the open door. In a nic [...]

Keywords: castles, trees, hills, towers, knights, animals, horses, monks, armour, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-02-20

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Decorative initial letter T with cherubs hanging a wolf Fabrica... (1543)

A decorative initial letter “T” used as a drop cap on the introduction to the “Epitome;” this version is coloured in red and blue and yellow (or gold) and comes from a copy at the University of Cambri [...]

Keywords: lettert, initials, cherubs, children, nudity, historiated initials, inhabited initials, bare feet, animals, wolves, punishments, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-11-24

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Front Cover Hand-book of The Useful Arts (1852)

A simple binding with the title in gold on the spine.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-04-04

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Front Cover, Venice Venice (1907)

The book has (or had when I started) its original binding, blue with gold lettering stamped in place.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-04-12

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Front Cover, Benson Stock Images Stock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

This catalogue was issued in a green cover with gold foil-stamped lettering to impress possible customers.STOCK DESIGNSPage Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display PagesBenson Printing Co. Na [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, green, gold, lettering, printing

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-11-16

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Front Cover Farm Weeds (1906)

The illustration is Lesser Burdock, which is also shown in Plate 27. The text reads, Farm Weeds, Department of Agriculture, Canada, 1906.

Keywords: flowers, page images, colour, book covers, pictures of books, wild flowers, weeds

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-14

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