Items matching colour, maps (results page 11)

Frontispiece: She clipped a precious golden lock Goblin Market (1933)

Laura snips off a lock of her golden hair to give to the goblin fairy folk, so that she can buy something to eat and drink.But sweet-tooth Laura spoke in haste:“Good folk, I have no coin;To take were [...]

Keywords: goblins, people, trees, forests, colour, illustrations for children

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Added: 2010-05-10

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Title Page, American Animals American Animals (1902)

American AnimalsA popular guide to the mammals of North America north of Mexico, with intimate biographies of the more familiar speciesBy Witmer Stone and William Everett CramNew YorkDoubleday, Page & [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

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Added: 2006-11-13

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Title Page from Famous Musicians Famous Composers and their Music (1901)

The title page has a border surrounding it printed in green, yellow, blue and black, which I have made available as amusical border.There is also a small picture from the top of the border,an open mus [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, colour

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Added: 2010-11-14

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Spine of the book The Leisure Hour (1896)

This bound edition ofThe Leisure Hourhas a luxurious blue and gold cover.

Keywords: book covers, spines, lettering, victoriana, books, colour

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Added: 2012-06-24

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Sitting in the pew The Old Peabody Pew (1907)

This detail from thefront coverof the book shows five people sitting in a row during a church service. They are wearing old-fashioned clothing. A floral border of mistletoe surrounds the image.

Keywords: people, churches, religion, interiors, costumes, christmas, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-01-06

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Title Page Elements of Geography, Ancient and Modern (1825)

Elements of Geography,ancient and modern:with an atlas.By J. E. Worcester, A.M.Stereotype Edition.Boston: Published by Cummings, Hilliard & Co., 134washington-street.And sold by booksellers generally. [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, typography, colour

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Added: 2017-05-05

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End Papers: children playing in the garden A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

The end-papers inside the front and back cover of the book are printed with a repeating design of children playing at being gardeners. I have made the individual images available too.

Keywords: colour, illustrations for children, children, trees

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Added: 2010-06-03

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Boy with Trowel A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A red-haired boy kneels with a trowel in his hand, ready to play at working in the garden. His shorts are held up by braces, and he wears shoes and white socks; he faces away from us.This is a detail [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, boys, children, colour, gardening

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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Girl Watering Tree A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A girl wearing a spotted dress crouches down to water a tree using a watering can. She has a ribbon in her hair.

This is a detail taken from theend papersof the book.

Keywords: illustrations for children, girls, children, colour, garening

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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Girl with flower in flowerpot A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A girl wearing a straw boater hat sits and examines a flower growing in a flower-pot.

This is a detail taken from theend papersof the book.

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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Girl digging with spade A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

This girl is facing away from us and bending down to dig in the garden with her spade. We can see her petticoat.

This is a detail taken from theend papersof the book.

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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Tree A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

A stylized drawing of a tree.

This is a detail taken from theend papersof the book.

Keywords: trees, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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Title Page, Venice Venice (1907)

Venice, title page, with the publisher’s mark.

The book was also published in the US in the same year, by Dodd, Mead & Co.

Keywords: title pages, colour, page images

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Added: 2006-04-12

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fore-edge The Holy Court (1663)

The fore-edge of the book: you’re looking at the front of the book, the opposite to the spine. It ismarbled, a decoration that also served to seal the edges of the pages so that the book can be dusted [...]

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

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Added: 2012-05-14

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Frontispiece: Too Old for a Stocking Chatterbox Annual (1916)

The frontispiece to theChatterbox1916 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 carrying [...]

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: London London; England

Added: 2018-01-20

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Title Page Days 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

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Added: 2008-07-25

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Frontispiece: Denchworth Quiet 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 cottages streets, colour, christmas

Places shown: Denchworth; Berkshire; England

Added: 2006-01-27

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

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

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-11

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Two Bookplates The Life Of Anthony à Wood (1772)

Two bookplates, one seeming older than the other:Ex Libris Jack NorrisAnd, probably older, one with an heraldc shieldAzure on a chevron enshrined between three Unicorns’ hads erased or, three crescent [...]

Keywords: bookplates, colour, heraldry

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-10-20

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