Items matching colour, maps (results page 10)

Frontispiece: Beata Beatrix Days With the Victorian Poets (1910)

Beata Beatrix . . .Tate GalleryFrom a painting by Rossetti.Because mine eyes can never have their fillOf looking at my lady’s lovely face,         I will so fix my gazeThat I may become bless’d, behol [...]

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 asleep A 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: 2007-08-24

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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 Cathedral The 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 Page Quiet 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 red.

Keywords: page images, title pages, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-29

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Bookplate for 1581 Geneva Bible Geneva 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 Border Spécimen Album (1900)

This is a dark version of thebook coverof 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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Bookplate History 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: 2007-06-15

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent Old 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 book Familiar 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 us [...]

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 Plain Cathedral 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 is [...]

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

Places shown: Lâon; Picardy; France

Added: 2006-06-29

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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 backgrou [...]

Keywords: borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-08

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Spine from Our village book Our 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: 2010-09-23

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Photograph of the Book Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (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: 2007-06-10

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

THE MANSIONS OF ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIMEBy Joseph Nash[sigil]NEW EDITIONEdited byCHARLES HOLMEWith an Introduction byC. HARRISON TOWNSENDOFFICES OF ‘THE STVDIO’, LONDON PARIS, AND NEW YORK MCMVIThe [...]

Keywords: title pages, lettering, typography, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-10-15

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Title Page: Bailey’s Universal Etymological Dictionary Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1736)

The title page of the dictionary:

title page transcription

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-30

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A Siege of the Fifteenth Century Castles (1926)

From a manuscript belonging to EdwardIV., now in Sir John Soan’s Museum.The [castle] walls, having ben breached by the artillery, are being stormed through the breaches; the stormers are covered by th [...]

Keywords: castles, colour, people, weapons, soldiers, towers

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-08-13

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Title Page from Peck’s Desiderata Desiderata (1779)

The title page from this collection of random fascinating articles by Fracis Peck in 1779. I have left it in colour to give a feel for the yellowed paper. The book is over twelve by nine inches in siz [...]

Keywords: title pages, typography, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-03

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Dustjacket flaps from Proverbs book Dictionary of Proverbs (1917)

The dust-jacket of the fac-simle had adverts on the front and back flaps for other books by Yale University Press, includingThere’s Pippins and Cheese to Come,Journeys to Bagdad,Les TrophéesandThe Div [...]

Keywords: advertisements, book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-09

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