Items matching colour, maps (results page 12)

Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent Old 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 Dee The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

THE RIVER DEEITS ASPECT AND HISTORYBy J. S. HOWSON, D.D.dean of chester.With ninety-three illustrations on wood / from drawings by A;fred RimmerLondonVirtus, Spalding, & Co., 26, Ivy LanePaternoster R [...]

Keywords: title pages, colour, page images

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-11

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Title Page, Wild Flowers Series One Familiar Wild Flowers (1906)

FAMILIARWILD 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 jewels [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-03-03

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TItle Page My 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: 2012-06-08

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Title Page from Cathedral Cities of France Cathedral 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: 2006-06-29

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Frontispiece: Jester and Monk The 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: 2007-05-25

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Title page Archidoxes 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 AntipatheticalCureof Wounds and Diseases.The Mysteries of the twelve [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-03-15

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Title Page, Proverbs Dictionary of Proverbs (1917)

DIVERSPROVERBSWith their explication & illustrationCompiled and Methodically Digested as well for the Entertainment of the Curious as the Information of the Ignorant and for the Benefit of Young Stude [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-09

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Music book and wreaths Famous Composers and their Music (1901)

Sheet music (score) with wreaths, perhaps of laurel leaves to signify victory; this is a detail fromthe musical borderfrom thetitle page.

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-11-14

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Back cover The 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: 2012-06-24

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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 Page Bible Animals (1877)

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

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-07-06

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Garden boy A 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 Verses A 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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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

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-03-23

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

This title page includes a peacock and two little children reading books.

Keywords: colour, title pages, page images

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-08-04

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Frontispiece, Denchworth, hand coloured Quiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)

This is a version of the Frontispiece sepia-tinted photograph ofDenchworththat I coloured usingTheGimp .

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

Places shown: Denchworth; Berkshire; England

Added: 2006-01-27

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

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

Keywords: buildings, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-11-11

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent Old 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 backgrou [...]

Keywords: borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-08

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